Back from the ‘Burgh!! August 31, 2007

Well, what a month for comedy that was! I am almost totally incapable of laughing at anything anymore…almost….

But here I am back home and I feel the need to make a comprehensive list first and foremost of every show I saw, so that if I never actually get round to reviewing the shows in detail then at least I have them here for posterity with star ratings to remind me of what I thought of the good the bad and the ugly of Edinburgh 2007!

OK so here are the full length shows:

• Lemons Are For Emergencies Only **
• Help! **
• 40 Feathered Winks ***
• Bedside Story **
  
• Game? ***
  
• A Porthole Into The Minds Of The Vanquished *****
  
• Dye Young/Stay Pretty ****
  
• The Gently Progressive Behemoth ****
  
• The Ugly Kid **
  
• The Oxford Imps ***
  
• Jarlath Regan (Nobody Knows…) ****
  
• Andrew McClelland’s Mixtape *****
  
• Hannah Gadsby Is Wrong And Broken ***
  
• Gordon Souther: Stamp Stamp ****
  
• Murray Lachlan-Young ***
• Will Pickvance and The Cowgate Cartoon ***
  
• Puppetry Of The Penis ***
  
• Phil Kay ****
  
• Stephen K Amos Talk Show ***
  
• Doktor Cocacolamcdonalds: The One Man Rock Opera *****
  
• This Sketch Show Belongs To Lionel Richie ****
  
• Richard Herring- Oh F*ck I’m 40! **
  
• Paul Foot’s Comedy For Connoisseurs ***
• The Mitch Benn Music Club ***
  
• The Voice Of Things Toilet Paper *
  
• The Psychic Detective (And Those Disappeared) **
• Mouse ***
  
• Mark Watson: Can I Breifly Talk To You About The Point Of Life *****
• Mark Watson’s 24 Hour Jamboree To Save The Planet *****
  
• Simon Munnery’s AGM ***
  
• Benefit Gig for Palestine at The Stand (with Janey Godley, Rich Hall, Gary: Tank Commander, and Daniel Kitson) ****
  
• Daniel Kitson And Gavin Osbourne “The Ballad Of Roger And Grace” *****
  

Plus various acts at Phat Cave, Late And Live, Spank, Free Fringe, etc. including-

Mickey D, Marc Maron, Kirk Fox, Harley Breen, Liz Carr, We Are Klang, Pappy’s Fun Club, David O’Doherty, Tim Minchin, Carey Marx, Jamie Killstien, Gamarjobat , Sista She, Brendon Burns, Jackie Loeb, Alistair Barrie, Craig Campbell, Andy Zaltzman, Phil Nichol…and others she can’t remember….

I feel I’ve just been very generous with my star ratings there, so I may edit at some point and be all harsh in the manner of Kate Copstick