Sam Nicoresti: Baby Doomer

The old adage ‘everything good comes to London anyway’ (is this an adage? it should be) once again holds true as the winner of the main Best Show comedy award at the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe transfers to Soho Theatre in very short order. Trans comic Sam Nicoresti had sort of hovered on the fringes of the Fringe in previous years with shows too weird or not quite finished enough to click with a wider audience. But the pointedly more mainstream Baby Doomer did the trick perfectly, an eccentric but accessible meditation on the trans experience, groaning with actual jokes.