Our pick of the best debut comedy shows at the world’s biggest arts festival
The Edinburgh Fringe is where most international acts get their Brit breakthrough. At last year’s festival, South African comic Trevor Noah wowed audiences with his super-slick show, that then ran for five sell-out weeks at London’s Soho Theatre, and now he’s playing the Hammersmith Apollo in December. Not bad for someone who, before playing a sweaty room in Edinburgh, was virtually unknown in the UK.
This year’s global crop features some big-name Americans, rising Australian stars, and the odd Scandinavian. Here’s our pick of the international visitors.
