Comedy review: Brodi Snook: Handful, Gilded Balloon Teviot, Edinburgh

Fringe stand-up is built on shows like Brodi Snook’s debut, where a comic has been inspired to take a casually delivered slight and make it into a backbone of their hour.

Brodi Snook: Handful, Gilded Balloon Teviot (Venue 14). Picture: Contributed

Brodi Snook: Handful, Gilded Balloon Teviot, Edinburgh * * *

Hence why the smug, hippy date who called her a “handful” gets his pseudy boorishness witheringly mocked. Hence too how her ex-boyfriend argued himself into the show.

Dryly caustic, London-based Australian Snook appears confident.

Though she’s invariably on the front foot, she’s nevertheless open about her self-esteem issues. And she drops a disclosure of toxic masculinity that casts her previous routines in sharper, more disturbing relief. Destabilised for almost a year, this acerbically funny performer is now getting back to bad habits.

Until 26 August

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