Review – Neal Portenza’s Test Show. This is not a real show. Don’t even come. (Maybe do but).
Comedy’s hard, you guys, which is why Dr. Professor Neal Portenza is only doing a test run this year.
Category: Comedy
Review – Pat Burtscher’s Breaking Even
Breaking Even is about the reality of working in comedy, the reality being that the pay sucks and half the time you end up putting in more money than you get out.
Review – Spontaneous Broadway
The conceit is brilliant: the audience submit song titles, and from them the cast improvise a musical on stage. It’s panicky, messy and infinitely entertaining theatre, as the audacious and talented cast manage the feat with aplomb.
Review – My Piano And Me
Sarah is a small player at this year’s Fringe — a relative unknown, and fairly new to comedy — but her knack for these sort of quirky observations reveal her to have a mighty potential.
Review – Sticky Feet
So, this show is pretty much exactly what the Fringe is about. A group of young artists bringing audiences something off-the-wall but utterly real.
Review – This is Siberian Husky in the Misery Factory
The factory theme is appropriate, because this is a refined act; aesthetics are kept to an absolute minimum, and Dan and Simon work off each other like clockwork as they churn out the skits.
Review – DeAnne Smith: LET’S DO THIS!
DeAnne Smith is down in Australia, she’s full of energy, and she’s going to do this! She’s going to nail it!
Review – Disco Bitch
With songs about topics ranging from where your boyfriend should and shouldn’t go to the ever fantastic Bill Murray, these kids get you giggling.
Review – Steve Sheehan: Ambient Comedian
It’s a sweet, touching, hilarious show, and it’s too late to see it.
Review – Picture This!
As each comedian does their set, Hadley Donaldson doodles their stories on a projector screen. The results are often hilarious, as comic and illustrator jostle for laughs.
Review – Josh Thomas: Douchebag
In his latest show, Douchebag, Josh Thomas explores the idea of whether or not he is becoming, well, a douchebag.
Review – Where? Why? Where? and Earth: May Contain Traces of Human
A comedy show at RiAus, the Science Exchange, sounds like a recipe for sharp, topical humour on stuff like homeopathy, climate change and evolution. But we only got a little of that with these two shows, Where? Why? Where? and Earth: May Contain Traces of Human
Review – Faulty Towers: The Dining Experience
In true Basil Fawlty form, guests are commented on, mocked and snickered at, all in the snootiest, most British way possible.
Review – Bulmers Best of the Edinburgh Fest
You can’t go wrong with a ticket to the Bulmers Best of the Fest.
Review – Tommy Little: Sex, Drugs and Herbal Tea
Little is very funny. He is also very good looking but don’t be fooled by this charmer, sometimes the things that come out of his mouth make you giggle, cringe then giggle again.
