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Edinburgh Fringe reviews round-up: All the nominees for the best show award

Reviews of all six performers nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Awards best show

Evening Standard

‘I’m not even an actor – I was just grieving!’ Rising star Lara Ricote on the heartache behind her new breakup comedy

The Mexican-American comedian had just split from her boyfriend when she filmed Break Clause, about an ex-couple living together in London. She talks trading telenovelas for Edinburgh and embracing your feelings

The Guardian - UK

Whimsical shortlist announced for Edinburgh comedy award 2026

A shortlist rich in kookiness sees Lara Ricote tipped for the main prize, alongside returning nominees and a new generation of eccentric fringe acts

The Guardian - UK

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Edinburgh Fringe: Nominees announced for UK comedy's most prestigious awards

The nominations for the Edinburgh Comedy Awards best show and newcomer prize have been announced

Evening Standard

Lara Ricote: Inkling review – this fizzy standup’s smart new set is her best yet

A show about maturing and learning to listen to life’s signals doesn’t stint on tomfoolery and has some great gags

The Guardian - UK

Show me the funny: essential comedy at Edinburgh fringe 2026

Elf Lyons mixes humour and heartbreak, Frank Skinner works the crowd, Kristen Schaal returns with a secret – and one man sings the same song over and over again

The Guardian - UK

‘People are like: you’re a crackpot’: how Sam Campbell became comedy’s oddball superstar

Having enjoyed breakout fame on Taskmaster and Last One Laughing, the subversive Australian comic has been handed the reins of his own very strange sitcom. Get ready for feet animations and a character called Super-Breast …

The Guardian - UK

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Edinburgh festival 2024: the best comedy, theatre and dance already reviewed

Five-star standup, late-night debauchery, staggering circus tricks … as the arts spectacular approaches, here are some of the shows rated by our writers

The Guardian - UK

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The Hindu

Lara Ricote review – endearingly offbeat comedy of self-exploration

The fringe award-winner compares her romantic relationship to how she feels about her audience in this mildly evasive investigation of inner knottiness

The Guardian - UK

Get the joke: how live captioning lets more comedy fans enjoy every punchline

Lara Ricote is among the standups whose gags have landed with deaf and hearing people thanks to the work of stenographer Claire Hill

The Guardian - UK

Edinburgh Comedy Awards to go ahead this Fringe as sponsors step in one month before 2023 festival

Awards’ future had seemed uncertain after previous sponsor dropped out

The Independent UK

Jokes about the climate crisis? Why not! Standup champ Lara Ricote targets another taboo

The disabled Mexican-American scooped best newcomer at Edinburgh with her scathing send-up of identity politics. But can she really wring some laughs out of the end of the world?

The Guardian - UK

The best comedy shows of 2022

From dazzling comic debuts at the Edinburgh fringe to occult sketches, soul-searching standup and deeply strange revelations, it was a top year for laughing matters

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From Haiti to Redcar: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

A striking history of carnival and colonialism or the new alias of Christine and the Queens? Our critics have you covered for the next seven days

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: one hell of a dinner party in House of the Dragon

The Hightowers are squaring up against Westeros, plus Vicky McClure’s dementia choir prepare to record at Abbey Road studios. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Edinburgh festival’s funniest performers for 2022 are revealed

Young Latina whose act tackles disability is among the winners at prestigious awards ceremony

The National (Scotland)

Australian comic Sam Campbell wins top comedy award at Fringe festival

AUSTRALIAN comic Sam Campbell has won the top prize for his show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

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The Independent UK

Australian comic Sam Campbell wins top prize at Dave’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards

Campbell took the best comedy show prize, while Lara Ricote was named best newcomer.

The Independent UK

Edinburgh Comedy Awards: Sam Campbell wins Best Show of the Fringe

This year’s top prize went to an absurdist comic with sharp observations and snappy one-liners

The Guardian - UK

Sam Campbell wins comedy award at Edinburgh festival fringe 2022

Australian comedian scoops £10,000 prize as Mexican-born American Lara Ricote is named best newcomer

The Guardian - UK

A ‘love rat’, a shelf-stacker and a Fleabag spoof: Edinburgh comedy awards shortlist announced

From Liz Kingsman’s ‘messy woman’ send-up to Seann Walsh’s memories of his off-screen Strictly kiss, the 10-strong shortlist for the first Dave’s Edinburgh comedy awards is a triumph for diversity though not without glaring omissions

The Guardian - UK

‘You have to be 100 times funnier in Danish’: the pitfalls and pleasures of taking comedy across borders

Just because a joke works in one country or language doesn’t mean it will in another. Globetrotting standups talk about routines that have bombed – and the changes that saved them

The Independent UK

Lara Ricote: ‘I won the Funny Women award on a terrible day – I had gotten my hearing aids stuck in my ear’

The brilliant new stand-up is making her Fringe debut this month. She talks to Isobel Lewis about her Mexican heritage, discovering improv in Amsterdam and why she’s taking the financial risk of going to Edinburgh

The Guardian - UK

Lara Ricote review – razor-sharp goofball is an original gagster

The endearing comic’s Edinburgh debut is a riotously inventive show that blurs notions of race, gender and disability

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