Mark Olver is the warm up comedian for a host of famous television shows including ‘Deal or no Deal’ and ‘8 out of 10 cats’, supported both Russel Howard and Lee Mack on their tours, and now brings his award winning show, ‘Portrait of a serial Killer’ to the Edinburgh Festival.

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The venue for Eric’s Tales of the Sea seems to be down in the bowls of the earth. You find yourself climbing down stairs and negotiating long, dark passageways until you start to hear the metallic “ping” of a submarine.

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Fresh from a year out from the Festival circuit, Josie Long has instead focussed her energies on getting fit and reaching her core weight.

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Matt Tiller is hilarious, and just hope that, when you go and see him, you are one of a few in the audience. There is a good reason for this. If it is relatively quiet, Matt greets every member of the public that comes in to watch the show personally.

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The 80s may have been a time of bad hair and clothes, but the decade that style forgot is special to many of us in our late twenties thanks to some of the most iconic movies ever made.

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Those who have found themselves with a ‘Gomarjobat’ sized hole in their schedule as the two wacky, Japanese clowns have taken a much needed break from the Edinburgh Festival would do well to have a look at ‘Manga: The Body Tights Man Show’.

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In spite of its modest proportions, the ukulele may well be the most visible musical instrument at this year’s Fringe; in the acts of numerous stand-ups, hung in music shop windows and with its own dedicated open mic.

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The Strawberry Vanilla supremacy. Abie Philbin Bowman is a comedian who adopts a catholic (note the small c) approach to comedy. His repertoire weaves puns, which elicit knowing but good natured groans from his audience, into the more standard wider life experience and observations.

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Pippa Evans’s angsty US country rock diva alter-ego Loretta Maine returns to the Fringe armed wtih her backing band, the charmingly named ‘Dog Vagina’. With an hour-long spot, a powerful set of lungs, mean and moody (but comedic) songs about hate and an attitude that make Courtney Love look like a wall flower.

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3 days before the U.S. general election, Senator Barack Obama falls into a hope induced coma leaving his campaign team in a dilemma. Thankfully they happen upon Charlie, an actor in musical theatre with an uncanny resemblance to the Senator.

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