Edinburgh preview season: Kate Smurthwaite and Tiernan Douieb at the Roundtable

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Two previews. These two:

Kate Smurthwaite in Leftie Cock Womble

ThreeWeek's Editor's Choice 2013 Award winner and writer for BBC3 series The Revolution Will Be Televised, Kate is an increasingly familiar face after appearing on Question Time in January. Her new show, as you'd expect, is highbrow, left-wing, feminist, atheist and awesome. It's also free! ‘The verve with which she articulates her view on our land is monumental ... when it comes to political comedy The News At Kate really is the cream of the crop’ (BroadwayBaby.com). ‘An important and inclusive narrative on our society’ (ScotsGay). ’Comedy that cuts through the crap’ (ThreeWeeks).

and Tiernan Douieb in Read Something


What do you think about opinions? Tiernan isn’t sure, even though everyone else is keen to shout theirs. He’s starting to think it’s best not to have any at all. Which is of course, an opinion. A new hour from Douieb about the internet being too loud, politics, spiders and Icelandic noises. Cited by Mark Thomas in the Guardian as a comedian to look out for. 'Has more than enough energy to go round and he's a hugely engaging onstage presence' (British Comedy Guide). 'Gets the juxtaposition between heavy context and winning punch lines right' (Fest).