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Funny. Twice.
By Ciaran Healy, published 10 August 2008Whoever entitled this show should be sued under the Trade Descriptions act. This is a split-set stand-up piece, 30 minutes of one comic then 30 minut...Gamarjobat: The Western
By Charlotte Mitchell, published 17 August 2008The mohicaned Japanese duo keep the surprises coming with their fantastic warm-up, comprising comedy and magic. This all comes before they even begin ...
Gavin and Gavin: It's a Long Road That Doesn't Have A Bend
By Chris McCall, published 06 August 2008Comedy is perhaps the most versatile of all performance art. You can get away with doing anything on stage, as long as the crowd are laughing. It coul...
George Orwell's Coming Up For Air
By Junta Sekimori, published 09 August 2008Seasoned actor and comedian Hal Cruttenden, who also gigs this year with his Climb Every Molehill, takes us back to the agitated Britain of 1938, wher...Ginger & Black
By Tom Crookston, published 13 August 2008It seems like the word is already out on Ginger & Black. Thanks perhaps to recent appearances on E4 and BBC3, as well as supporting Simon Amstell ...
Giselle
By Ella Hickson, published 17 August 2008Adolphe Adams’s nineteenth century ballet explores the alienation and destruction caused social hierarchy. The aristocratic Albrecht falls for t...
Glenn Wool: Goodbye Scars
By Adam Knight, published 13 August 2008Glenn Wool is recently divorced. After making clear to his audience that he has absolutely no STIs, he admits that unleashing a horny singleton on Edi...Global Warming is Gay
By Junta Sekimori, published 06 August 2008Has your carbon footprint being weighing heavy on your conscience like a dark, acidic raincloud? And have you ever rolled down your car window and not...Golden
By Jo Bedford, published 17 August 2008This show markets itself as a “political satire based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth.” You wouldn’t guess that from watching it. The...Graeme Thomas: Who do I Complain to?
By Paris Gourtsoyannis, published 17 August 2008The introduction to the Stand Fringe programme reads like a French revolutionary slogan – Unity! Quality! Affordability! Like the values of the ...
Greenstick Boy
By Junta Sekimori, published 03 August 2008“Punk is dead, they buried the corpse under the Eleanor Cross,” spills Greenstick Boy’s ebullient heroine as her reminiscences drift...
Greg Fleet: Secrets and Lies
By Ben Judge, published 06 August 2008Greg Fleet is clearly a comic who’s intimate with the phrase “when in Rome.”
Being something of a journeyman—as is to be expe...Guide to Sexual Misery
By Ella Hickson, published 02 August 2008Wolfgang Weinberger’s Guide to Sexual Misery cuts a fine line between comedy and therapy. Weinberger, an Austrian version of Des O’Connor,...Gullibility Factor
By Tom Crookston, published 06 August 2008Sometimes, in the very darkest of places, you can hear the voice of God. Perhaps it was this voice that restrained the small audience who, after the o...
Hal Cruttenden: Climb Every Molehill
By Sam Friedman, published 09 August 2008“I really want to be a hard-hitting comic,” admits Hal Cruttendon, early in tonight’s set. “But I really can’t be bother...Hand-Me-Down
By Jo Bedford, published 09 August 2008In our unconscionably selfish age, where and how does charity fit in? What are our motivations for doing charitable things? And how, in particular, do...Happy Savages
By Beth Mellor, published 17 August 2008Following two couples who lie, cheat and double-cross each other in a quest to be happy, Ryan Craig’s Happy Savages sounds more than vaguely sim...HappyLand
By Lucy Jackson, published 21 August 2008The only way this show could be saved is if the writers, midway through, had decided in a moment of pure artistic genius to metamorphose it into a kin...Harbingers
By Junta Sekimori, published 17 August 2008Directed by Cambridge Footlights' notable Ed Gamble, this revue is an ever so friendly affair that never jokes at the expense of anyone. Here are thre...Heckle Off - Dan Atkinson and Joe Wilkinson
By Hannah Thomas, published 04 August 2008Dan: Why are all your jokes about yourself? Is it because you hate your audience?
Joe: I don't hate audiences in general but here are three I do hate...
