Your Reviews

Anne Hannay, 57, housewife, Leith: "I saw Jerry Sadowitz at Underbelly's Pasture. I found him crude and disgusting. I knew early on it wasn't for me but as I was in a group I kept it to myself. It was only when he started to make jokes about the McCanns that I decided I'd had enough and walked out. There's a big difference between being satirical and just being cruel and I thought that was just cruel."

Kelly Anderson, 31, art teacher, Meadowbank: "I saw Jason Byrne at the Assembly Rooms. I'd seen him perform at the Cork Festival and he was just as funny as I remembered him. There was lots of audience participation and he did a whole Riverdance thing at the end which was hilarious. I've also seen the Tracy Emin retrospective at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. It was a huge exhibition and I was surprised by just how many works there were. Being an art teacher, I like to see the art at the festival and it's nice to see something contemporary."

Collette King, 53, nurse, Grange: "The best show I've seen so far is Motherland at the Underbelly. There's far too many cloned comedians around and it's good to see something serious which is this powerful and well performed. It's about the mothers and partners of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan in their own words. It was very professional and well produced. I'd recommend it. I did see some comedy as well. I saw Kate Robbins at the Gilded Balloon and she was very entertaining."

Suzanne Elder, 24, retail team leader, Portobello: "I've only seen one thing so far which was a sort of physical theatre thing called 21:13 at C Soco. I really enjoyed most of it but I wasn't particularly fond of the soundtrack. It suited the piece, but I just found it a bit grating. I love the physicality of shows like this, but I don't always get what they're trying to say. However, this time I understood what was happening."

David Alexander, Musselburgh: "Reginald D Hunter in No Country for Grown Men at the Pleasance Grand was very funny. He managed to control an annoying heckler with style. He really is a brilliant comedian, what a laugh we had."

Louise Ullathorn, 45, schoolteacher, Southside: "My partner and I are huge comedy fans so we've gone out and seen as much as we can in the last few days. We've seen Mark Watson, Will and Greg, Late and Live and Best of The Fest. We saw a really off-the-wall show called Zimbani which was about some guys plotting the overthrow of an African dictator. It doesn't sound it, necessarily, but it was great fun."

Alan Blackwood, 35, Salesman, Morningside: "Six of us all went to see Roy Walker's Goodbye Mr Chips at the Assembly Rooms. It was a really good night. In all honesty, we were going for the cheese factor, because we all used to watch Catchphrase as students but there was so much more to it than that. He's a top-rate, old-school comic with great timing and a slow-burn delivery that sometimes mean you take a few seconds to get the joke. There was a little bit of Catchphrase thrown in but even without it we all had a great time."

Tanya Phillips, 34, housewife, Grange: "The Expert At The Card Table at the Assembly Rooms is the fourth and easily the best show I've seen on this year's Fringe. I love going to magic shows but it was nice to see another story come into it. I liked the trick where the expert deals the suits as he wants to see them appear, that was a bit freaky. I would quite like to get a closer look at the table he was performing his tricks on."

Christina Dennis, 63, retired, Loanhead, "Britt On Britt at the Assembly Rooms: I remember seeing Britt Ekland's films all those years ago, but I always thought she looked better in photographs than on the big screen. I almost forgot Britt, above, was married to Peter Sellers as well; and going by what she said, he wasn't too much fun to be around. I suppose they were the Posh and Becks of their day, right enough. The saddest part was hearing how Peter Sellers wrote to her daughter to say how she shouldn't consider him her dad."

• Compiled by Neil McEwan