Reviews & features: Brian Donaldson

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A

• 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

B

• 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

C

• 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

D

• 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

E

• 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

G

• Ginger and Black (23 Aug 2010)
  Wit and verve

H

• Helen Arney (24 Aug 2010)
  Sweet songs with a tender heart

I

• Idiots of Ants (23 Aug 2010)
  A patchy affair that works beautifully in places

J

• 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

K

• 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

L

• Laura Solon: The Owl of Steven (9 Aug 2010)
  A curious show about owls and oddballs

M

• 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

N

• 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

P

• 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

R

• 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

S

• 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

T

• 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

Y

• Your Days Are Numbered (23 Aug 2010)
  Somehow making maths funny