3.5

	Assembly @ George Street (venue website) Comedy Until 29 Aug, 10:40pm (11:40pm) Reviewed by Craig Thomson

Lesbian Bathhouse describes itself, in the programme blurb, as "a one-act comic romp".  It is well-performed and deliberately provocative, true, but in fact I fear it takes itself rather too seriously.  If anything, this leaves it a little one-note.

4

	Underbelly, Cowgate (venue website) Comedy Until 29 Aug, 4:40pm (5:40pm) Reviewed by Mathilda Gregory

Ross Sutherland's show is full of added value.  Little extra thoughts and ideas that enhance everything, and give the effect of him simply having too many clever takes on the world to fit in.

4.5

	Underbelly, Cowgate (venue website) Comedy Until 29 Aug, 9:00pm (10:00pm) Reviewed by Mathilda Gregory

In a homage to Saved by the Bell, this new show Frisky and Mannish: The College Years is really about What Frisky and Mannish Did Next.  It follows last year's smash hit, School of Pop, with its embarrassment of five-star reviews and a storming sell-out run.  So it's probably fair to say I was sitting in my wobbly chair in the packed Underbelly Belly Dancer wondering if it would be as mind-blowingly brilliant as their legendary breakthrough show.

4.5

	Just The Tonic at the Caves (venue website) Comedy Until 29 Aug, 10:15pm (11:15pm) Reviewed by Mathilda Gregory

About two-thirds of the way through this show, which tells a personal contemporary story with lots of in-jokes about 19th century literature, Grainne Maguire makes a shocking personal revelation which leaves the audience shuffling uncomfortably.  This is a comedy show, and there are some things you can't really laugh at.