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Colin Hoult Q&A - Edinburgh Fringe 2016
Interview with Colin Hoult.
Short Com, 21st July 2016Five fast Fringe questions with...Colin Hoult/Anna Mann
With over 3000 shows at the world's biggest arts festival, here at The Reviews Hub, we want to make the job of choosing your Edinburgh Festival Fringe shows that little bit easier. So here's Colin Hoult/Anna Mann answering our annual Five Fast Fringe Questions.
The Reviews Hub, 20th July 201620 sketch & Fringe character comedy recommendations
One of the great joys of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the chance to see an assortment of mad weirdos push comedy to new levels with inventive new characters and brilliant new sketch narratives that offer something different to the great stand-up also on offer. But who to see that is an example of the previous paragraph? Well, you're in luck because here are our picks of the best sketch and character comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe 2016.
Laugh Out London, 11th July 2016BWW Q&A - Anna Mann
BWW speaks to Anna Mann, star of stage and screen (and creation of acclaimed character comedian Colin Hoult) about her 2016 Edinburgh Fringe show A Sketch Show For Depressives.
Natalie O'Donoghue, Broadway World, 6th July 2016Meet the new inhabitants of Successville
To celebrate, the good folk at Tiger Aspect have let us in on a little more about this year's murder victims and the suspects, who is playing who, and exactly when you'll be able to see them... plus a set of exclusive images across this post of most of our regulars in action. You'll probably notice there's a distinct lack of Paul Kaye in this images, but more on that one soon... until then, here's a run-down of each episode!
The Velvet Onion, 4th June 2016Leicester Square Theatre Sketch-Off review
Something of a strange evening down in the Leicester Square Theatre, which has added to its New and Old comedian competitions this test of the up-and-comers on the UK's sketch scene. We know all about Cardinal Burns, The Pin, Massive Dad, Sheeps, Minor Delays et al, but is there strength in depth?
Paul Fleckney, Chortle, 13th April 2016Onion talking: messing with Colin Hoult
If any of you are lucky enough to have experienced Colin Hoult live, you'll know why we're getting a bit over-excited that he has a new show starting next week at Soho Theatre. Messing about with Ouija Boards is described by the theatre as "the terrifying true tale of what happened when Colin Hoult's mum made contact with the spirit world."
Mog, The Velvet Onion, 8th August 2015Ricky Gervais's inexplicably clunky "thing" about a kind man who works in a nursing home. I can find no comedy in it and it lacks the emotional truth required for a drama. It concluded last night with a 65-minute special featuring a wedding, a baby, an anecdote about a bird with a broken wing and an alcoholic's redemption, all laced with Gervais's emotion-flavoured dialogue that sounds as if it should spring from real feelings but doesn't.
Everyone looked embarrassed except Colin Hoult, one of the few good things in the last ever episode as Jeff, a self-contained side character, criminally underused. On the strength of his two or three lines, you could sense a whole life going on under the surface. It wasn't in the lines but the performance, both understated and totally eye-grabbing. I'd like to see a show called Jeff, but written by someone with less of a tin ear for sentiment.
Julia Raeside, The Guardian, 23rd December 2014The top ten comedy shows this month
Previews of Aziz Ansari, Baconface, Reggie Watts, Bill Bailey, Colin Hoult, Scott Capurro, Felicity Ward and more.
Time Out, 30th May 2013Colin Hoult - what's in your Edinburgh luggage?
It's all Norse myths and JJB Sports pants for Hoult, the Jimi Hendrix of comedy.
Colin Hoult, London Is Funny, 15th August 2011