Upon enetering the auditorium, we're faced with a big exit sign from the cover of Adam Kay's new book, Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients, as well as a large heart rate monitor flashing in bright showbiz lights. Beneath them stand three pill bottle podiums – one…
Ashley Blaker doesn’t like the word normal and rightly so. After all, he’s the father of six children, three of whom have special educational needs (SEN). Some ignorant folk might term SEN kids the opposite of normal. Blaker, however…
Upon entering, Rachel Creeger hands out question cards. This is your chance to ask absolutely anything. Once filled in, drop it in the big chicken soup pot at the front of the stage and await the wisdom of the Ultimate Jewish…
At the bongs of Big Ben we hear a news reporter telling us that Hitler is dead. But “you shouldn't believe everything you hear on the radio. Ay up!” In the depths of rural Yorkshire, hides four very naughty boys – The Nazi Boys – Goebbels (Marcus Churchill), Himmler (Michael…
In this world nothing can be said to be certain in Jewish comedy, to corrupt a famous aphorism, except the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. At least until last year, when Covid put paid to the month-long festival for the first…
"I don't wanna leave: it's so nice having people here. Cooo-al!" It's approaching midnight in a miserable, drizzly Edinburgh and Liza Treyger has come to the end of her show. "So enjoy the rest of your lives. Go to therapy and then you could be here too, in a trailer." Treyger, 31…
Max, the Jewish half of this energetic black comedy, bounds on stage, somewhat startling a middle-aged woman in the front row. He immediately launches into a delightfully sardonic and uplifting funk-inspired opening number about being Jewish, complete with rhyming couplets and…
As a rule, I don't repeatedly tell 50-odd people in a moderately sized room that "I deserve salmon" on a weekday evening, but such is the force of the Fringe and Emmy Blotnick's bubbly nature that it would have been churlish not to have joined in. The 31-year-old New…
Joel Sanders, who has lived on a canal boat moored mainly in the south of England for the past decade, has two shows at the Fringe. One, called Angry Boater, is about living on a boat with hypertension, few practical skills and against the advice of his late father who told him: "Jews don't live…
