Edinburgh Fringe

DVDs for Christmas: Comedy

Monday, 12 December 2011

Tommy Tiernan Crooked Man (Pias Comedy)Tommy Tiernan is a well-kept Irish secret. He won the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe in 1998 and until recently confined his touring mostly to his native Ireland and America, but now thankfully the...

Sarah Millican, Touring

Sunday, 13 November 2011

In an age when comics are doing shows with theatrical content or presented with a degree of technological sophistication, and they appear on stage expensively coiffed and suited, it's refreshing to spend an evening in Sarah Millican's company, whose...

Russell Kane, Touring

Monday, 31 October 2011

There's nothing like winning a gong to rock your world. Last August, Russell Kane won the prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Award for his Fringe show and his level of celebrity skyrocketed. But within a few months his marriage broke down - and the...