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STEWART LEE - ALL COMEDY IS
WRONG
Venue 33 -
Pleasant, 60 The Pleasant Tickets 556 2765
The self-styled 'Fifth Best Stand-Up In Britain'
returns to the Fringe to show us exactly why the comedy
world is in ruins. But, y'know, that's better in a
way.
'Like Jerry Sadowitz and
Bill Hicks, Stewart Lee is also a stand-up comedian' -
William Cook
'Aaaah, no not aahhh' - Noel Fielding
'Och aye, it's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht,
the nicht' - The
Scotsman
Aug 28 - 29 21.00 (22.45)
£10.00
(£9.00)
HOWARD MARKS
In The Toilets third portakabin along, most
venues
The self-styled 'Best
Narcotics Smuggler In The World' returns to Edinburgh,
not to do a lecture this time but to sell some hard
drugs to young, impressionable, Scottish teenagers.
'Like Howard Marks on dope' - Time Out
'Yes we do actually...oh, I see what you mean...'
- Super Furry Animals
Aug 8
- 23 22.00 (23.15)
£7.50
WARA
Block 13 - Slade Prison
On
parole for good behaviour, Avalon artiste Wara provides
some more deliciously politically incorrect comedy.
Special guest: Craig Charles.
'Mr Wara, you have been found guilty of a heinous
crime' - A Judge
'You're my little funnyman now,
boy' - Monty 'Razors'
McCloud
Aug 3 - 17
20.00 (21.15)
£4.00 (£3.00)
EDINBURGH OR BUST - LIVE!
Venue 38 - Calders Gilded Balloon Theatre, 233 Cowgate Tickets 226 2151
The cast and crew of the hit C4 show take to the
stage for the first time. The bloke out of Parsons and
Naylor is your annoying narrator telling a story in four
acts, about four acts desperate for exposure - the smug
'working class' one, the 'vaguely experimental' one, the
'woman' one and the bunch of students who wouldn't
understand comedy if it fisted them all the way through
'Comic Relief 91 - The Stonker'. The climax of the show
boasts the hilarious Vaudevillian pratfalls of the
Perrier Gang who fall over each other to 'reflect public
opinion' while the evil Avalon brothers threaten to take
their ball home if they don't get to win.
PLEASE NOTE: 'Edinburgh Or Bust -
Live' is an audience participation show so please bring
along plenty of rocks, stones and bottles to throw.
We also suggest a gun.
Aug
7-10, 12, 13, 14, 15-27 22.15 (23.15)
£7.50
PACKET OF
FOUR
Venue 33 - Pleasant,
60 The Pleasant Tickets 556 2765
Marcus Brigstocke, Chris Addison, Dominic Holland
and Lee Mack return for a four-handed show of individual
stand-up comedy spots. At the end of the night, a
special prize will be awarded to the audience member who
can recall who was who.
'I say,
jolly amusing old chap' - The
Englishman
Aug 7-10, 12, 13, 14,
15-27
22.15 (23.15)
£7.50
AL
MURRAY - THE PUB LANDLORD
Venue 33 - Peasants, 60 The Peasants Tickets 556
2765
...MY
GAFF, MY HYPE. Perrier Award cheat Al Murray
has the barefaced audacity to set foot in Edinburgh
again.
'Set to save the British
sitcom industry' - Avalon
Promotions
Aug 14 - 31 (Except 25th)
9.25 (11.25) (£15.00)
LATE AND LIVE
Calders
Gilded Balloon Venue 38, 2333 Cowgate Tickets 226
2151
For those of you
who enjoy watching comedy while fighting for breath
amidst a mass of miserable rowdy drunken plebs shouting
all over the jokes, 'Late And Live' is for you.
Something to do while you're waiting for your Ibiza
tickets to come through, you worthless scum.
People's choice my arse, bring back Hitler, he had the
right idea.
Aug 7-10, 12, 13, 14, 15-27 22.15
(23.15) £7.50
O'BUGGER - AN EVENING OF IRISH
COMEDY
Shamus O'Flaherty's
Clover Den, Waterford Tickets 667 6512
Neil O'Travis, Francis McGuiness,
Desmond McGowan and Martin Seannassie are all hotly
tipped for the Perrier this year by journalists who
haven't yet worked out that just because an act is Irish
it doesn't necessarily mean you have to suck their
cocks.
'Whoah and begorrah and
top o'the morning' - The
Irishman
Aug 6-10, 16, 18 - 27
21.15 (23.15) £10.00
(£7.00)
Richard Herring in
I'M GOING UP FOR THE SAKE OF
IT
Venue 33 - Pleasant, 60 The
Pleasant Tickets 556 6550
Tickets available when he's written
the thing.
'Funny and moving in
equal measure - Richard Herring is one of our finest
unsung playwrights' - Al
Murray
'Al Murray's very
good too of course' - Richard
Herring
'Well I think
they're both great' - Ben
Moor
'I agree with Ben' - Stewart Lee
Aug 7 - 27 22.00 (21.15)
£10.00 (£9.00)
ARE YOU TRYING TO BE
FUNNY?
Venue 33 - Pleasant, 60 The
Pleasant Tickets 556 8253
Sponsored by the Daily Telegraph,
'Are You Trying To Be Funny?' is the open-mic
competition destined to launch its winner into a dizzy
limelight of instant fame, fortune and recognition.
Judging the proceedings this year will be Barry Cryer,
Helen Lederer, Phill Jupitus and whoever it was who won
it last year.
Aug 23 22.15 (23.15)
£8.50 (£5.00)
ROSS NOBLE - DANGER, WILL
ROBINSON
Venue 33 - Pleasant,
60 The Pleasant Tickets 556 5414
Perrier Award nominee Ross Noble
returns to Edinburgh for another stab at the coveted
bounty on offer. And when he's popped enough of
them he might try for the Perrier too.
'What happened to the joke about the bloodied
bedsheets?' - Jon Norton
Preview Aug 5, 6 22.15 (23.15)
£3.00
Aug 7-10, 12, 13, 14, 15-27
22.15
(23.15) £7.50 (£6.00)
THE BOOTS
Fidel Castro Fun Palace - 35a Headingly Road (flat
13) Tickets 556 9254
Formerly The 'Bootlegs', then before that the
'Bootleg Bootleg Beatles' An all-new line-up attempts to
distance themselves even further from a joke which
founder cast- members Iain Lee and Mackensie Crook
nicked from Lee & Herring.
'Iechyd da, Boyo bach, come on the Reds' - The Welshman
Aug 7-10, 12, 13, 14,
15-27 22.15 (23.15) £7.50
THE BEST OF
WOMEN
'Germaine's' - 47
Dworkin's Passage Tickets 556 3402
Featuring the cream of today's
female stand-ups without too much recourse as to whether
they're actually any good. Hosted by Barry Cryer in a
dress.
'Destined to run and run'
- The Scotswoman
'Not enough cocks' - The Scotschildren
Aug
7-10, 12, 13, 14, 15-27 22.15 (23.15)
£7.50 (£6.00)
THE
LEAGUE AGAINST GENTLEMEN
Venue 33 The Pleasant, Pleasant Drive,
Pleasantville Tickets 556 2423
Simon Munnery combines with Sheersmith, Gatiss and
that other one for a one-off comedy experiment in
punning the names of two comedy acts together. Did you
find it funny? No? Well, tough - there's another hundred
and seventy four of these to go yet...
Aug 7-10, 12, 13,
14, 15-27
22.15 (23.15) £7.50
DITCH THE LOSERS
The Unpleasance, Fuck-You Lane
Myhouseisinorderville Tickets 556 2987
What better possible way
could there be to get ahead in the media than to
deliberately tap into the one facet of human nature
which really shouldn't be used for the purposes of
entertainment. Explore the harmless value of gleefully
bullying the weak or powerless for nasty spiteful ends
in this innovative new game show copied off some other
ones.
This Week: Five child
abuse survivors tell their stories in sillouette - the
audience must vote on which of them has the least
heart-rendering tale and then shove them into a gunk
tank.
Introduced by a gushing
girly presenter trying desperately to act a bit
cross.
'Come on, you sad
whingers - it's just a bit of harmless fun' - Unruly Butler
Aug 23
- 27
21.00 (22.00) £10.00
(£9.00)
SOME OF THE CORPSES ARE
AMUSING
Elsewhere - London
Tickets 556 3429
The hit website reprints last year's Edinburgh
Fringe parody without realising that more people are
going to be reading it this year.
'What - we have to cut that joke about Ross
Noble?' - Joe4SOTCAA
'It would be wise' - Mike4SOTCAA
Aug 7-10, 12, 13, 14,
15-27 22.15 (23.15) £7.50
OXFORD REVUE - SUBSIDISED
LAUGHS
The Expensive venue
- 19 Ersatz Road Tickets 556 3870
Yes, it's rubbish, but not because
the show is bad, it's your fault actually, yes, it's
your fault because you've come along expecting to see
the new Stephen Fry or John Cleese haven't you, yes you
have, actually, and that's not really fair on them
really because actually Matt spent a very long time
building the sets actually, and Megan has really had to
sacrifice a lot of personal projects to get everybody
together on time, I don't really think you understand
just how difficult it is to actually stage something
like this, it's all very easy to just slag us off but in
the long run it's not really fair is it.
'Actually, can we not do this one - my lesbian
friend might not like it' - Student Review
'The
future of comedy' - Danny
Wallace
Aug 9-10, 25, 27 21.30
(22.05) £5.00 (£2.50)
Venue 33 - Pleasure, 60 The Pleasure Tickets 556
8354
GASTER & POWELL'S REVUE OF THE
YEAR
Fresh from their
TV success with 'Stuff The Week' about three years ago,
Dan Gaster and Paul Powell take an irreverent gallop
through the BBC's radio comedy archives to see if they
can find a Steve Punt sketch they haven't ripped off
yet.
Aug 21
Tickets
available from Ben Silburn's trouser
pocket.
LOOSE
ENDS
Ned Sherrin
introduces a live version of the lightweight chat
show. This week's guests include a rent boy and a
gram of coke.
Aug 22 09.45 (11.00)
Free
Tickets available day
before show from Neville Montgomery
Fountain
THE NEWS QUIZ
The
panel dissect the week's news in the only way they know
how. By osmosis.
Aug 23 18.00 (19.00)
Free
Tickets available from
Harry Thompson
BBC
RADIO NEWS
Recorded the
day before transmission for extra topicality. Aug 24
18.00 (18.30) Free Tickets available live from the scene
followed by:
THE WEATHER FORECAST
Making jokes about how it always rains during the
British summer despite the fact that we’ve had
fucking heatwaves since about
1989.
I’M SORRY I HAVEN’T A CLUE
Filthy old men.
Aug 18 19.00 (20.00) Free
Tickets available from David
Balston
JUST A
MINUTE
or so to go
before we launch another pointless attack on Simon Pegg.
But we have to do a few more of these Radio 4 things
first...
Aug 25 20.00 (20.01) Free
Tickets available from Paul Merton or Nicholas
Parsons we expect
OLD ANDY’S
GAME
Popular
nasal-voiced shortarse Andy Hamilton presents a sitcom
set in Hell. Which pretty much means the same jokes
he’d normally do, except with people going
‘Ah, Satan’ every five minutes.
Very funny, if you’ve no idea
how far comedy has moved on’ - Radio 4 listeners
Tickets available from popular nasal-voiced
shortarse Andy Hamilton.
LINDA
SMITH'S COMPLETE WASTE OF EVERYONE'S TIME
With special guest: Rob Newman, as 'The one
sitting at the end'
Sept 2 Recordings at The
Shame, Underwritten St, Condom Clap
Tickets available in 1992
PAUL JACKSON IN
CONVERSATION WITH... HIS COCK
The controller of BBC Entertainment
argues that his cock was alright for its time but it
would benefit for being recut for the Millennium
Aug 25
19.30 (20.30) Free
Tickets available from Mrs
Jackson
THE SHIPPING
FORECAST
No, please,
everyone's done this joke, surely? Well, okay... The
cast of the hit late-night
be-careful-if-you-happen-to-be-on-a-ship show cast their
whimsical eye over the oceans, or something. The Nearest
Lighthouse, Just off the coast of Scotland
Aug
26 0800 hours, Greenwich Meantime Free
Tickets available at
sea
EDINBURGH REVIEW
Mark Lawson provides a wry
review of what's 'hot', what's 'not' and what's
'bubbling under' inside the blouse of some 15-year-old
at a party.
'Excuse me - just
looking for my pipe...' - Mark Lawson
Aug 27 7.00
(9.00) Free
Tickets available to
anybody who can keep their mouth
shut
RADIO 4 listeners in
I’M NO PRUDE, BUT... Several pompous old
fuckers complain about a bland Radio 4 comedy show which
has the unfortunate effect of elevating it to an
undeserved ‘enfant terrible’ status which
means its real crimes (ie, the poor and derivative
quality of the comedy itself) go unquestioned.
‘The sickest show since Jeremy Hardy said the word
thigh’ - Concerned from Hull
‘Disgusting, if you’ve never heard any
comedy in your life before’ - Angry of Leeds
‘Suits me, sir!’ - Dave
Lamb
DEAD
RINGERS More merry fun from the usual gang in
the show which is currently being indiously spun all
over the FM bandwidth as the most fantastic thing since
Hancock despite obvious evidence to the contrary. Watch
out for Alistair MacGowan's hilarious impression of
co-producer Danny Wallace, closely followed by an
unexpected dressing down from the BBC and an enforced
apology from a producer in fear of his job. Comedy,
eh?
Aug 27 19.00 (20.00)
Free
SIMON PEGG - THE RED BULL TOUR
Venue 33 - The Pleasant, 60
The Pleasant Tickets 556 2836
Simon
Pegg, following a successful stint as a celebrity,
returns to his first love, stand-up, at which he was
very successful and popular in the early 90s despite
what you may have heard
'Destined to run and run' - The twat-juice of a
thousand girly fans
'You're just
jealous' - Richard
Herring
Aug 4 - 5 21.30 (22.45)
£10.00 (£9.00)
Nigel
Planer and Alexei Sayle will be
READING FROM THEIR FUCKING BOOKS
109, The Missed Opportunity,
Old Street Tickets 556 1876
...instead of talking about Young Ones edits.
Aug
30 20.00 (21.00) £10.00
(£9.00)
THE
BOOSH
Venue 15 -McHen
& Chickens, McNorth London Tickets 556 5294
Yes, they're back! Oh,
actually they're not.
Aug 2 - 28 20.00 (21.00)
£5.00 (£4.00)
BUT THEN HE WROTE
ALL THAT STUFF ON THE DANGERMOUSE
FORUM...
85, The Dull Tickets
556 1987
The best of the year's tedious forum politics, all
explained really slowly in a pub.
Aug 2 - 28
20.00 (21.00) £5.00
(£4.00)
MEL & SUE'S BIG
PILE OF PANTS
Venue 33 - Pleasurable, 60 The Pleasurable Tickets
565 2765
Well into their fourteenth minute,
Mel and Sue return to Edinburgh to wave their arms about
a bit while giggling at video clips of humorous TV
bloopers and foreign commercials everybody's seen a
hundred times before. With special guests Steve Penk,
Bob Mills and Jono Coleman
'Da-duh-da-duh-da-duh-da-duh-da-duh-da-duh-da-duh...Round
2...' - Sue Perkins
Aug12
- 29 21.00 (22.00) £10.00
(£9.00)
THE BORING DAVID
Venue 56, 'Quentin's', 60
Queen Street Tickets 565 0019
An out
of work drag artist more or less does anything he likes
in the belief that because he's gay he doesn't have to
write any proper comedy
Aug 2 - 30 22.00 (23.00)
£5.00 (£4.00)
EDINBURGH NIGHTS -
WITH MARK LAMARR
Venue 57
- BBC Scotland, Studio One, 5 Queen Street Tickets 565
1835
A series of live BBC2 shows
introduced by Mark Lamarr. Special guests throughout the
series will include an ageing actor, a washed-up 70s
children's entertainer and a teenaged female pop star,
who will turn up at the studios, good as gold, thankful
for the work, only to find themselves confused and
floundering as Lamarr insults and belittles them to
their faces with his customary unmatched totally
pre-scripted wit. Helping to jolly the proceedings along
and join in with the self-serving slanging will be Phill
Jupitus, Sean Locke, and anybody else with a sneery
South London accent and a tendency to tell stories about
how friendly they were with Ian Dury. The series ends
with one of Lamarr's guests actually being driven to
suicide, although you won't hear anything about it in
the papers. Funny, that...
Aug 18, 19, 21, 25,
26, 28, Sept 1, 2 22.30 (midnight) Free
JENNY
ÉCLAIR'S MILLENNIUM BITCH
Venue 33 - Pleasure, 60 The Pleasure Tickets 565
2765
Cover your genitals, blokes, she's
BACK!! The most aggressive, nasty, fearless woman in
stand-up returns to Edinburgh for a tirade of bitter,
daring attacks on the male population. Watch in fear as
she embraces stray members of the 'Packet Of Three' cast
and says 'Hello, I haven't seen you for ages, mmmmwah'
and generally acts really maternally and lovely with her
big eyes and cutesy daughter and everything.
'Jenny Éclair is the devil -
she should be killed' - Barry
Took
'Mu-um, have I got any
clean pants?' - Jenny
Éclair's daughter
Aug 6 - 19
22.00 (23.00) £10.00
(£9.00)
Rory Ford is:
INCOHERENT WITH
RAGE
'Shades', Edinburgh
Tickets 837672 3738
I mean for heaven's sakes, where's my stapler? I
left it there on the desk.
Aug 6 - 19
22.00 (23.00) £10.00
(£9.00)
JAM
Venue 0, Princess Street Arts
Centre Tickets 565 3893
A
one-off experiment. The audience will sit in a
pitch-black room watching a compilation of Chris Morris'
'Jam' with the TV turned off to avoid people laughing in
the wrong places.
'God-like
Genius' - Matt Matthew (of the
'Lehewuttwohen's Bumps' web-site)
'God-like Genius' - The
cast and crew
'You have to
guard yourself against becoming friends with people' -
Chris Morris, '94
Aug
27 10.00 (10.24) £5.00
(£4.00)
CANNED LAUGHTER -
WITH DAVID CANN
Venue 14, Gilded Lily Tickets 565 2918
David Cann, star of 'Blue Jam',
'Jam' and that 'Middle English' School & Colleges
drama where he was a long-distance lorry driver with a
little daughter who wanted to be a ballet dancer,
presents his own one-man show in which he tells
anecdotes about the time Joanna Lumley asked him for a
shag on the set of 'Sapphire & Steel'
Aug 6
- 29 21.00 (22.00) £8.00
(£7.00)
RICH HALL - THE
'STILL CAN'T FIND WORK IN AMERICA' TOUR
Venue 16, Gilded Balloon III
Tickets 565 2988
The growling Yank with that face
returns once again to Edinburgh to show how much his
career has thrived since winning the Perrier.
'Like Will Durst in a vat of acid'
- Time Out
Aug 7 - 23
19.00 (20.15) $10 ($8.50)
BEN MOOR - A WORLD
WITHOUT LEMON TREES
Venue 33 - Pleasurable, 60 The Pleasurable
Tickets 556 6528
In a world where lemon trees have
been rendered extinct by cynical pixies and all
television is run by a tiny child with a sense of the
bizarre, how will the moon change its trousers without
the entire population of the world seeing its pants?
Lanky-limbed Ben returns to Edinburgh with another
whimsical one-man show
Aug 2 - 12 20.00 (or
whenever is convenient for you) £5.00 (if you can
afford it, otherwise just walk in)
Garth Marenghi's
STILL JUST AYOADE & HOLNESS BUT
DRESSED UP
The Shit Hole -
Assembly Rooms, 54 George Street Tickets 556 1982
Fresh from their success at
managing to convince the 'Smack The Pony' team that they
have even the tiniest grain of talent, Richard Ayaode
and Matt 'Matthew' Holness bring their latest comedy
creations to life on stage, much as a doctor attempts to
resuscitate a five-years-dead corpse.
'Looks like they've neither the stomach nor the
inclination' - Richard Ayoade
whenever people walk out
'Raaaaaaaaayyyyyyy' -
stupid bastard safety-in-numbers pleb-audience after the
above witticism
Aug 1 - 2 22.30 (22.45)
£10.00
(£9.00)
© 2000 - 2002 some of the corpses are amusing
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