Today I laughed, then I laughed until I cried, then I laughed until my face ached and then I laughed til I thought it no longer possible to laugh any more. But then I did.

The first show of the day was Sammy J, who I’d seen last year doing his regular comedy stylings on the piano but his show this year is something very special; this year he’s brought over a musical puppet show for adults. Essentially it’s a darker version of a Disney tale with hilarious twists combined with brilliant songs and there was some brilliant improv work to cover up the bits that went wrong. It’s been the first show of the festival where I’ve walked out thinking ‘I want to see that again’ and I’m currently looking into making it happen. It’s truely that good.

From there we went to the Pleasance Courtyard to see Russell Kane who I remembered opened with a joke I’m sure I’ve heard another comic do but given what the show’s about, people’s flaws, it’s hardly surprising as it’s something of a common subject. He had something of a unique PowerPoint presntation, which combined with his boundless energy made him a joy to watch.

From there it was back to see Tim for the second time but this time with Alick in tow. To be honest I was more interested in how Alick would take all of it consdering he has to put up with me and how much I love Tim. Apparently he loved one song and the rest was clever but not necessarily funny. Still, I enjoyed it, but then again, I would.

Last show was Best of the Fest at Assembly Rooms cos it had a brilliant lineup. The MC was Andrew Maxwell, who I’ve never seen MC before but he was fantastic at it - it’s no wonder that Fullmooners is so popular. The first act introduced was Jon Richardson, who pleasingly for me, did a mixture of material from this show and from his last show. He also asked me what my favourite chooclate bar was and with hindsight the correct answer would have been to have thrown him the chocolate bar in the bottom of my bag. Never mind though.

The second act was the lull point of the show, Nina Conti. That’s not to say that she wasn’t funny cos she wasn’t bad but I probably wouldn’t go see her of my own accord.

The third act was arguably the highlight of the show, one Adam Hills. It was nice to see him as he doesn’t have a show here this year so he’s just doing various slots on shows like these. Consequently he didn’t have any sort of set, or at least didn’t need the one he had if he did have one, because he spent his set riffing off the audience as he had tales to tell about a fair few people in the front row as he knew them. He was just utterly brilliant.

The finale of the night was Tim, who as he came on decided to pick up Andrew Maxwell and squeeze his arse. Classy. He also seemed highly amused when he went to kick a microphone out of the way only to find that it rolled around in a circle instead of off to one side like he’d thought it’d do. Simple things amuse simple minds I spose. Aside from that, what he performed was essentially a highlights package of his full show though I do wish I’d shouted out for him to play Confessions as I do so love that song. Even The Lettuce Song would’ve been good.

So yes, a pretty full and totally hilarious day too. I think even if I went home tomorrow I could say that Ive had a brilliant Fringe experience this year. I’m not though. I still have 73 shows to go to in the coming two weeks so yay for that.