Fashion :: Deviance :: Film :: Comedy :: Review :: DVD Review 22 Aug 2008
Lindsay West: Despite its vague billing as a risque German 'gay interest' comedy, Fashion Victims is in truth a far straighter affair than the rainbow titles and sartorial subtext might first imply. Looking more like a mortgage advisor than a fashion rep, Wolfgang (...
Comedy :: Review 18 Aug 2008
Emma Lennox: Squeezing between the burly armed men of George Street's Standing Order pub, I spot a hand written sign in green marker. It is scrawled in straight forward letters: 'PBH's Free Fringe', and points to an empty room. Clearly this is no multimillion pound...
Comedy :: Feature 18 Aug 2008
Emma Lennox: The blood balloons out of the finger and is sucked into the plastic stick, it then seeps into the calculator; 6.1 it beeps. Comedian Karl Spain fiddles with his glucometre in tense competition. Finally he jabs his finger, the process begins again and t...
Comedy :: Feature 12 Aug 2008
Des Clarke: They used to say that being a Scottish performer at the Fringe was a bit like the story of Sting’s song ‘An Englishman in New York’. Basically, you stuck out like an ugly person on Hollyoaks. There’s no link now though. Well ...
Comedy :: Feature 11 Aug 2008
Diet of Worms: Braw: The delightfully odd woman who came to our show last week and cried, wailed and sniffled all the way through because apparently Rory somehow reminded her of her poodle who died the day before. "They have the same eyes." Naw: The friends of this ...
Comedy :: Feature 08 Aug 2008
Steve Mould, Gemma Arrowsmith: Problem #1: “I was walking down the Royal Mile when a sudden downpour meant my laptop is now waterlogged.“ Mould & Arrowsmith suggest... Next time this happens befriend a student from a theatre company doing avant garde Shakespeare on...
Film :: Comedy :: Review 08 Aug 2008
Kevin McHugh: 'Hairdresser assassin' sounds like it could be the perfect cut. Zohan (Sandler) is Israel’s finest undercover agent, who men want to be and woman want to, you know, bed. But his dream is moving to New York and becoming a famous stylist, so he fak...
Laura Smith: Original, inspired, staggeringly unpredictable – The Rocker is none of these things and less. Feeling like a Saturday Night Live skit stretched until it cries out in pain, the plot of a film about a slacker has-been who finds a new lease of life ...
Robert Duffin: Everyone has a George W. Bush joke. Not since a certain ex-President forgot to hand his assistant a Kleenex to dab her dress has a Commander in Chief generated such an industry of humour around his occupancy. The same goes for Tony Blair, forever cast ...
Comedy :: Preview 06 Aug 2008
Lara Moloney: Last year Frankie Boyle, Ed Byrne, Stewart Lee, Jimmy Carr and Simon Amstell - along with many other top names - appeared at the 'Stand up For Freedom' events hosted by Amnesty International. For 2008 two nights of full-on comedic entertainment are in ...
Comedy :: Feature :: Preview 04 Aug 2008
Luke Wright, Joel Stickley: F*ck! F*ck! F*ck! Cutting-edge standup from Australia's own Jim Bowdler. With material ranging from 'George Bush is stupid' to 'men and women are different in some regards', Bowdler isn't afraid to tackle the big subjects. Watch out for his infamous ca...
Comedy :: Feature 01 Aug 2008
Emma Lennox: What made you give up being a lawyer? There was no money in law, obviously! I'm writing a new show about leaving law for comedy. It's entitled What the hell was I thinking? My family are writing most of it. On top of that I was kind of tired of making ...
Comedy :: Music :: Live Review 29 Jul 2008
Jason Morton: The road to Suffolk is a long one coming from Scotland, but that's not to say Latitude Festival, now celebrating its third year, doesn't merit the miles. Billed as 'more than just music', the festival delivered on its promise: Festival goers were treat...
Comedy :: Feature 28 Jul 2008
Emma Lennox: Kristen Schaal is a horse. She is also an actress (Flight of the Conchords), a writer (South Park series 11) and a comedian (The Daily Show), but what she has proved, beyond her industry awards and TV appearances, is that she can and will dance like a ...
Film :: Comedy :: Review 18 Jul 2008
Laura Smith: Re-treading the ol’ nine month story arc familiar to knocked-up waitresses called Juno and the like, Saturday Night Live alumni Tina Fey and Amy Poehler play off each other beautifully as, respectively, a tightly-wound businesswoman who desperate...
Laura Smith: Don’t attempt to watch this film without first mentally assuming the approximate mindset of the average 14 year-old girl. Think pink and purple sparkles, sleepovers and makeovers, think squealing with gigglesome delight when the awesomest, bestes...
Comedy :: Music :: Feature 16 Jul 2008
Dave Kerr: Julian Cope - Uncut Arena (Friday) Who are you most looking forward to seeing at this year's festival? I don't go to festivals to see anyone in particular. For myself, what makes a festival great is not who you saw but who you missed, as it is eviden...
Film :: Comedy :: Review 11 Jul 2008
Paul Greenwood: The remarkable careers of Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon generated many great movies, but arguably none quite as brilliant as The Apartment, which now looks like it might be the best film of the 1960s. Eternal shnook Lemmon is CC Baxter, an office drone ...
Comedy :: Feature 07 Jul 2008
Sian Bevan: Women-only nights are now a familiar feature within comedy clubs, they offer a chance to display the talents of a minority group; like Def-Jam Comedy for ovaries. Although the idea provokes some disdain, perhaps the most compelling positive is that the...
Comedy :: Feature 04 Jul 2008
Emma Lennox: 1. Sarah Silverman - As Seen In: Her own HBO show, and courting controversy at every opportunity. She says: “I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.” 2. Kristen Schaal - As Seen In: Flight of the Conch...
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