Reviews & features: Brian Donaldson
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Addicted to Danger
(24 Aug 2010)
Surreal and innovative sketch affair
Alex Zane
(22 Aug 2010)
Best leave it to the professionals, fella
Alun Cochrane
(22 Aug 2010)
Making the world a cheerier place
A Perhaps-Too-Intimate Evening of Music and Hilarity
(23 Aug 2010)
Music (certainly) and hilarity (hardly)
Ava Vidal
(23 Aug 2010)
Short-lived comedy lessons
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Baby Wants Candy
(23 Aug 2010)
Unappealing coldness between performers and audience
Barry & Stuart
(16 Aug 2010)
A hell of a compelling show
Bec Hill
(12 Aug 2010)
An endearing quirkiness
Bo Burnham
(14 Aug 2010)
How can a guy with an organ be so good?
Broad Comedy
(23 Aug 2010)
Horribly laboured songs about abstinence, tampons and penis size
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Carl Donnelly
(16 Aug 2010)
Getting his stand-up craft down to a fine art
Caroline Rhea
(13 Aug 2010)
Flirting with fame and audience patience
Charlie Talbot
(22 Aug 2010)
Gag-free life of a decent man
Charlyne Yi
(15 Aug 2010)
Don’t believe the hype
Clarkson and Crouch
(23 Aug 2010)
More clever than funny
Conor O’Toole
(12 Aug 2010)
Some good joke-writing
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Daddy Ate All My Easter Eggs and Never Replaced Them
(23 Aug 2010)
One decent pun about Lidl
Dag Sørås
(16 Aug 2010)
Sørås makes hilarious hay
Damion Larkin
(11 Aug 2010)
Cuddly Loser has the feel of being hurriedly chucked-together
Daniel Rigby
(16 Aug 2010)
A ragbag of facial gymnastics and titbits about ghosts
David Quirk
(18 Aug 2010)
A worldview containing beauty and beastliness
Delete The Banjax
(13 Aug 2010)
Hyped foursome not quite there yet
Derevo - Harlekin
(9 Aug 2010)
Sinister, beautiful show from Fringe favourites
Dommett & Lapaert
(13 Aug 2010)
Material tossed aside for engaging tomfoolery
Don't Run with Scissors
(9 Aug 2010)
A Betrayal of Penguins can't quite regain of glory of 2009
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Eirlys Bellin
(16 Aug 2010)
Clichés abound and laughs fail
Everything Else You Always Wanted to Know About Life (But Didn’t Care to Ask)
(23 Aug 2010)
Largely-poor material takes us back to the mid-70s
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Jennifer Coolidge
(15 Aug 2010)
A CV full of amusing titbits
Jessica Ransom
(9 Aug 2010)
What would you do with a million?
Joe Rowntree: Peaceful Worrier
(9 Aug 2010)
Paranoia revolves around this comic’s past
John-Luke Roberts
(22 Aug 2010)
A decadent and deathly hour of brilliance
John Moloney
(22 Aug 2010)
Stand-up crooner is a little out of tune
Jonny Sweet - Let's Just Have Some Fun
(9 Aug 2010)
Derailing a show about a boat
Josh Howie
(24 Aug 2010)
A gag-happy clown tests his crowd
Justin Moorhouse
(23 Aug 2010)
A likeable show that marries invention with nostalgia
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Kai Humphries
(10 Aug 2010)
Desperately needs an injection of sharper gags
Keith Farnan: Sex Traffic
(9 Aug 2010)
Facts to gasp at and jokes to die for
Kerry Gilbert
(24 Aug 2010)
Talent is wasted on charmless creations
Kevin Eldon
(24 Aug 2010)
Where hard graft meets titting about
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Magicians
(25 Aug 2010)
Thwarted ambition and misplaced idolatry
Magnus Betnér
(9 Aug 2010)
Cult comic in the making
Mark Nelson - Offending the Senses
(13 Aug 2010)
A jolt to the comedy system
Mark Watson
(23 Aug 2010)
Playing on his own inadequacies
Matthew Hardy: Willy Wonka Explained
(13 Aug 2010)
Nostalgic trip back to a time of Veruca Salt and Everlasting Gobstoppers
Mike Newall
(23 Aug 2010)
Effortlessly likeable
Mike Wozniak
(11 Aug 2010)
A frustrated and edgy figure
Monster of the Deep 3D
(16 Aug 2010)
An amiable and tight performance
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Nathan Cassidy
(23 Aug 2010)
An over-egged, utterly boring hour
Nat Luurtsema
(24 Aug 2010)
An agreeable debut with a twist
Nick Mohammed
(11 Aug 2010)
Fantastically irritating and inappropriate
No Son of Mine
(9 Aug 2010)
Family secrets uncovered amid a heap of gags
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Paul Foot - Ash in the Attic
(9 Aug 2010)
"Comedy connoisseurs" only for divisive yet invigorating hour
The Penny Dreadfuls
(17 Aug 2010)
Hard to see exactly what the mad fuss is about
Pete Jonas
(23 Aug 2010)
Just about straddles the right side of offensiveness
Pros from Dover
(9 Aug 2010)
Sketch comedy from accomplished trio inject form with inovation
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Reginald D Hunter - Trophy Nigga
(9 Aug 2010)
Funny but familiar material
Richard Herring - Christ on a Bike
(9 Aug 2010)
A disappointing retread of past glories
Ross Sutherland - The Three Stigmata of Pacman
(9 Aug 2010)
Life’s daftness exposed via poetry and music
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Sam Simmons
(11 Aug 2010)
Somewhat lacklustre
Sara Pascoe
(24 Aug 2010)
Disappointing debut from Freud-studying comic
Seann Walsh
(16 Aug 2010)
Making the humdrum hilarious
Sex, Lies and the KKK
(23 Aug 2010)
One to keep an eye out for
Stuart Goldsmith
(11 Aug 2010)
On the road to proper glory
The Sunday Defensive
(16 Aug 2010)
Decent-enough chemistry
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Taking Liberties
(22 Aug 2010)
A witty and warped look at freedom
The Three Englishmen
(16 Aug 2010)
This might be as good as it gets
Tim Clare's Death Drive
(24 Aug 2010)
A road trip with a difference
Tommy Tiernan
(24 Aug 2010)
A passionate man taking glorious risks
Toulson and Harvey
(24 Aug 2010)
A not-so slight return for Perrier-nominated duo
Two Episodes of MASH
(10 Aug 2010)
Offbeat charm and wit


