Shah delivers an immemorable, unremarkable and at times cringe-laden series of lectures in a disguised CIT Lecture Theatre at Fringe World's Noodle Palace. Alex Tate reports.

Barefaced stories: Gala edition is both unpredictable and utterly enthralling, as Michael Nield finds.

Alex Tate explores the contradictory and fraught -- but always hilarious -- stylings of Umit Bali.

Kate Prendergast discovers that Dr Professor Neal Portenza's interactive comedy show is crude, transgressive, obscene and really quite entertaining in a titillatingly traumatic kind of way.

Justine Spencer scopes out the best of UK Fringe Comedy, hoping that if the other Fringe comedy shows are just as hilarious, she'll develop abs by the end of the festival from laughing so darn hard.