FRINGE: Bumper comedy line-up at Fringe
There are returns for last year’s comedy gong winners Max and Ivan, with their latest show The Reunion, and Geek Songstress Helen Arney in two shows, a reprise of Voice of an Angle, and joining real-life partner Rob Wells in Domestic Science.
Also at the Fringe are former award-winners and perennial favourites: Matt Pritchard with Extra Sensory Deception, Piff the Magic Dragon and The World’s First Conjuring Chihuahua (TM) and James Sherwood, who promises the best of his songs and musical stand-up from the last 400 years of the Fringe.
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Hide AdSunderland’s duffel-coated stand-up, Danny Pensive, is going Around the World in 80 Haways, Morgan & West have A Grand Adventure, and in Chain Letter Ben Van der Velde rediscovers the lost art of letter-writing.
In Laughrica, African comedian Daliso Chaponda puts the focus on his homeland.
The Fringe gets risque with Sugar & Vice, telling about All The Men We’ve Never Slept With through late-night songs and laughter.
For comedy improv, there’s Absolute Improv, Lights! Camera! Improvise! and The Great Exhibitionists.
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Hide AdThere are plenty of wild and wonderful characters: Boris Nicoli KGB Mind Reader is Hammered and Tickled, Ruth E Cockburn Doesn’t Even Smoke, and Alfie Moore tells the story of Viva Alf’s Vegas.
There’s two-man rock opera Total Hero Team, silly comic madness from sketch group We’ve Become Mango in Talking Limbo, and The Wells Brothers present a wry revue of Vaudevillian music and magic.
At Underground Venues, deadpan Geordie Gary Colman presents a joyous show about the crushing banality of family life, I am Happy announces Ishi Khan-Jackson in an energetic show, Amadeus Martin returns with more quirky comedy in Me Etc, Oliver Meech meddles with forces we barely understand in When Magic & Science Collide, Nathan Cassidy previews his Edinburgh show, and Wes Zaharuk is Perfectly Bananas.
And of course there is the always sold-out Barrel of Laughs in the Old Hall Hotel vaults.