Sketch Comedy – FringeReview

Review: Married Without Children

Quick wit, strong rapport with audiences and sharp improv from a very funny duo.

Published August 13, 2025 by Patricia Silver

Review: Max Fulham : Full of Ham

An hour of captivating nonsense

Published August 13, 2025 by Tim Wilcock

Review: Ada and Bron: The Origin of Love

Brimming with brio and bonkers to boot

Published August 13, 2025 by Owain Rose

Review: Escape From Planet Earth

Absurdist Satire Unabashedly Tearing Apart Humanity

Published May 26, 2025 by Noah Pantano

Review: SOLOVELA, AN IMPROVISED SOLO TELENOVELA

Over-dramatic improvised telenovela action, mi amor

Published May 19, 2025 by Noah Pantano

Review: Teatro dei Gordi: Pandora

It begs questions: what couldn’t we do, if placed outside our own comfort station in life? Essential theatre. essential questions. A gem.

Published March 2, 2025March 2, 2025 by Simon Jenner

Review: Mark Tournoff: A Word With the Bird

Mark Tournoff’s an engaging and modest MC. The talent he promotes remains and makes visits worthwhile.

Published January 27, 2025January 28, 2025 by Simon Jenner

Review: Egg: Absolutely Fine

A craking feminist ode to friendship

Published August 16, 2023August 16, 2024 by Paloma Nieri

Review: This Isn’t Working

One of the best sketch comedy groups to have been seen.

Published August 11, 2023August 12, 2023 by Donald Stewart

Review: Weegie Hink Ae That?

Ye just canny whack it, sae ye cannae – pure Scottish humour that hits every funny bone you have.

Published August 13, 2022 by Donald Stewart

Review: Horrible Herstories

An attempt, in the best possible tradition to retell a history which was very much her story to tell

Published August 11, 2022 by Donald Stewart

Review: Sketch Up!

An enjoyable and wittily delivered hour of script-in-hand radio comedy

Published August 7, 2022August 7, 2022 by Paul Levy

Review: NewsRevue

Continues to set the standard for rapid-fire, topical sketch comedy.

Published August 27, 2021 by Tim Wilcock

Review: Living Newspaper #6

Like all the Royal Court’s Living Newspaper series, we need this. Watch what this does with the future

Published April 24, 2021April 26, 2021 by Simon Jenner

Review: Weegie Hink Ae That? Presents Nae Bother

Hilarious night with 4 guys, 2 guitars and a Casio.

Published August 14, 2019 by Donald Stewart

Review: Still No Idea

Laughter’s the best start to killing ignorance. See it.

Published November 7, 2018November 8, 2018 by Simon Jenner

Review: The Museum of Tat Roadshow

Homage to the joys of tat. Bring yours along and have some fun.

Published August 24, 2018 by Tim Wilcock

Review: NewsRevue

Sets the standard, year after year, for rapid-fire sketch comedy.

Published August 9, 2018 by Tim Wilcock

Review: Tits in Space

A show with a wise sweetness at its core; a brightness to cast the growing shadows out there.

Published June 5, 2018 by Simon Jenner

Review: John Finnemore’s Flying Visit

Traditional old school sketch show.

Published May 26, 2018May 27, 2018 by Sue Bradley

Review: LadyFace

A character comedy carousel from chameleon woman-host LadyFace, AKA Lucy Farrett

Published August 28, 2017 by Nicholas Collett

Review: Princes of Main: New Year’s Eve

A fantastic set piece of sketches and games that are a party of choice for the actors, and a party of desire for the rest of us

Published August 25, 2017 by Donald Stewart

Review: NewsRevue

Sets the standard, year after year, for rapid-fire sketch comedy.

Published August 14, 2017 by Tim Wilcock

Review: Leaf

Superior sketch show that is very funny almost all of the time.

Published August 13, 2017August 13, 2017 by Donald Stewart

Review: Carabet

Wonderfully wacky sketch comedy with an absurdist twist.

Published August 5, 2017August 11, 2017 by Tim Wilcock

Review: The Shakespeare Revue

A consummate delight in this now rarest of forms; a tight song-and-dance of words. New material sizzles, inserted towards the end, the whole box of Bards from Bernard Levin’s Quoting Shakespeare to McKee’s arrangement of Shakespeare lines for a musical lights-out dances on the edge of hilarity before falling headlong into it.

Published November 22, 2016November 22, 2016 by Simon Jenner

Review: A History, w Nowell Edmurnds

An uncomfortable reflection on our society’s adoration of fame.

Published September 1, 2016September 7, 2016 by Didi Craze

Review: NewsRevue

Sets the standard, year after year, for rapid-fire sketch comedy

Published August 28, 2016 by Tim Wilcock

Review: Laughing Stock

Uniquely creative sketch troupe never let the pace drop

Published August 19, 2016 by Lizzie Yates

Review: The Leeds Tealights : Tension

High energy sketch show from a quintet with bags of potential.

Published August 18, 2016 by Tim Wilcock

Review: Mixed Doubles : Fundraiser

High class sketch comedy from a talented mixed foursome.

Published August 18, 2016 by Tim Wilcock

Review: Dave Lemkin : The Village Hall

A well-constructed hour of character sketch comedy

Published August 12, 2016 by Tim Wilcock

Review: A Really Really Big Modern Telly

A re-imagining of the myth of Narcissus and a contemporary fable blending live theatre & projection, which questions what happens when the consumer becomes the consumed.

Published May 31, 2016May 31, 2016 by David Weedall

Review: Kitten Killers: Woof!

How do you make a cat go 'woof'? ...

Published August 22, 2015 by Andrew Allen

Review: Revan and Fennell: Fan Club

Hugely entertaining sketches delivered by two great performers.

Published August 17, 2015 by Josh Gardner

Review: NewsRevue

Sets the standard, year after year, for rapid-fire sketch comedy

Published August 17, 2015 by Tim Wilcock

Review: Women’s Hour

A hour with two wonderful clowns

Published August 13, 2015 by Francesca Granger

Review: Gein’s Family Giftshop: Volume 2

Finding the dark vein of comedy. Before exploding it with an errant air bubble.

Published August 12, 2015 by Andrew Allen