The lights go out and the band is ghoulishly lit onstage with carnival light-bulb strings and dry ice against a circus striped background.

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Rich Hall is modern giant in comedy and this is reflected in his ability to fill up the cavernous Music Hall in the Assembly Rooms on George Street.

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There has been a recent resurgence in the popularity of ventriloquists, what with Terry Fator winning America’s Got Talent.

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Die Roten Punkte (or The Red Dots as it translates) are a brother and sister band (Otto and Astrid Rot) – she plays the drums and he plays guitar.

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Chris Cox is an enthusiastic “mind reader” that jokes and quips his way through his show with boyish enthusiasm.

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Lighter Than Air is a solo show performed by the clown Danny Schlesinger. He is not a make-up wearing clown of the Ronald McDonald variety however (which is a relief), and instead is faintly comically dressed in a pale blue suit and glasses.

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Anil Desai promises to deliver 52 impressions in 52 minutes and does just that. In a one man show, he asks the audience to suggest situations for the list of celebrities he is going to impersonate – thus improvising their dialogue too.

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Barbershopera II is simply that: another Opera (they produced a show last year) performed in Barbershop Quartet style by three guys and a girl. It may seem a bizarre concept, but it works beautifully.

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The Penny Dreadfuls are a trio of formerly Edinburgh based actors and comedians, who have previously wowed us with their Victorian based comedy sketch shows featuring Aeneas Faversham.

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Tao’s drumming is truly a spectacle to behold. From the offset the performers beat rhythms both in solo performance and in group formation with pauses honed to the millisecond.

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