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✽ HITLIST DR BROWN Mr Phil Burgers gets stuck into some quality hushed clowning work for his adult crowd with surprisingly tender results. See review at list.co.uk/festival. ■ Underbelly, Cowgate, 0844 545 8252, until 26 Aug (not 20), 9.05pm, £10.50—£11.50 (£9.50—£10.50).
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Shit-Faced Shakespeare Sozzled and hilarious production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. See review at list.co.uk/festival. C, 0845 260 1234, until 27 Aug, 10.20pm, £9.50–£11.50 (£7.50–£9.50).
Pappy’s Not sure whether it’s their really Last Show Ever!, but we’re pret- ty sure it’s the trio’s finest hour. See review next issue. Pleasance Dome, 556 6550, until 27 Aug, 8.20pm, £12.50–£14 (£11–£12.50). Alfie Brown Could the future of stand-up be safe? This scintillating hour suggests so. See review at list. co.uk/festival. Underbelly, Cowgate, 0844 545 8252, until 26 Aug, 6.25pm, £9.50–£10.50 (£8.50–£9.50).
Jim Jefferies Another blister- ing room-dividing
Eddie Pepitone He’s just off the plane from NYC
Trevor Noah The young South African wears his heart Nish Kumar Another new kid on the block shows
hour from the controversial Aussie, and this year we’re on the side that loves him. See review, page 33. Assembly Hall, 623 3030, until 26 Aug, 9pm, £16– £17.50 (£15–£16). and directly into our affec- tions as the comic and actor lets us dip our toes into his Bloodbath. See review at list.co.uk/festival. The Tron, 556 5375, until 26 Aug, 11.40pm, £8–£10.
on his sleeve with a lovely show about growing up as the ultimate outsider. See review, page 37. Pleasance Courtyard, 556 6550, until 27 Aug, 7.15pm, £9–10 (£8—£9). his worth with a funny hour about trying to work out who he is. See review, page 40. Underbelly, Bristo Square, 0844 545 8252, until 27 Aug, 8.20pm, £9–£10 (£8–£9).
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WHO’S ARRIVING IN TOWN THIS WEEK? Cardinal Burns The sketch duo make a triumphant return to Edinburgh after all that small- screen success with their E4 show. Among those characters which Seb Cardinal and Dustin Demri-Burns might have up their sleeves for us are cockney cab- bies Terry and Phil, the Office Flirt and a pair of camp para- normal investigators. Pleasance Dome, 556 6550, 20–25 Aug, 8.20pm, £10–£11 (£8–£9).
Terry Alderton This ever-pop- ular Essex man drops by with his crowd-pleasing voices, nois- es, physicality and, it says here, shoes. Last year, we said he gave his audience ‘wonderfully twisted internal monologues’, so there’s no reason not to expect the same again. Gilded Balloon Teviot, 622 6552, 17–26 Aug, 10.30pm, £10.50–£12 (£9–£10.50). Idiots of Ants If you’ve loved the sketchy stuff that the white- shirt-and-black-tie quartet have done over the last five years, then you’ll be in raptures as they produce a kind-of greatest hits. Yes, it’s their ANThology, obvi- ously. Pleasance Courtyard, 556 6550, 23–25 Aug, 10.30pm, £11–£12 (£10–£11).
Simon Amstell Just in case his pals Daniel Simonsen and Jessie Cave need a familiar face amid their debut Fringes, here comes one in the shape of the former Buzzcocks host. Bongo Club, 557 2827, 20–26 Aug, 8.30pm, £16.50 (£15).
School of Comedy The young comedy bucks return to Edinburgh with a bunch of sketches and characters such as a lascivious Mayor of London, a cockney tearaway called Tracey Emin, some Olympic hopefuls (oh, topical), a scatty meteorolo- gist and a teenage African dicta- tor. Assembly Hall, 623 3030, 20–26 Aug, 7.40pm, £10 (£9).
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