Here are some reviews of Lucy's 2005 Edinburgh show 'Happiness':

“The cheeriest show in town … a laugh-a-minute session”
The Telegraph

“Charmingly twisted, articulate and witty”
The Sunday Times

“Measured and winning … You will be smiling constantly, laughing regularly and will leave happy”
The Independent

“The pick of the crop of emerging female comics … Lucy has the elfin charm and killer delivery of a young Felicity Kendal”
The Herald

“Petite, fresh-faced, barefoot and jolly, Porter’s inspired silliness puts a smile on everyone’s face”
The Guardian

“A tiny, cheery, permanently smiling bundle of joy … You’ll have to look long and hard to find a show as supremely structured or perfectly paced as this”
Edinburgh Evening News

“The Fringe’s pre-eminent female stand-up … Even when utter filth is tripping from her tongue – which is often – her sprightly delivery and I-can’t-stand-still-because-I’m-so-excited demeanour means she’s as cute as a six-year-old telling their mum about scoring their first goal… the comedy version of a Radox bath”
The Sunday Herald

“Possibly the most natural and most charming performer on the fringe, she has audiences in the palm of her hand … seriously funny … the most heart-warming, loveable show around”
Fest Magazine

“A perky, twinkly comedienne who has the smile of a pixie but the mouth of a docker. She also makes some unexpected, gob-smackingly libellous gags which reveal the dark intelligence beneath the bubbly surface, and her audience banter confirms just how quick on her feet she is”
The Independent on Sunday

“Lucy Porter has long had a reputation for offering a real ‘night out’ and not just a comedy show and her Happiness provides just that … the slickest hour on the fringe”
Sunday Telegraph

“An engaging hour”
The Times

“Porter is probably one of the best ‘night out’ comedians working on the fringe … she’s an unavoidably magnetic character … a sharp yet warm natural wit”
Metro

“There’s a little survey, a bit of theatre and waves of crisply delivered gags as this barefoot raconteur – anyone for the Sandie Shaw of stand-up? – explores what makes her smile. Bacon frying and seeing a hen-night party tumble like dominos down the stairs at the Comedy Store are particular delights. Motherhood, however, does not appeal to the petite thirty-something: “If I wanted to be nervous, exhausted and broke, I’d get a crack-habit.” Her act is peppered with similarly polished gems, most notably in a breathlessly witty anti-monarchy rant. Porter has plenty to be happy about here.”
The Evening Standard

Here are some quotes from the reviews of my previous Edinburgh shows, just the nice ones, obviously:

Edinburgh 2002
'A freshness of outlook, and a liveliness of intelligence that quite eclipses the majority of male counterparts.' The Daily Telegraph

'Charming, scatty and self-effacing, Lucy Porter is one of the unsung greats of this year's Fringe... Never less than utterly adorable... One of the undoubted highlights of the Festival.' Fest Magazine


Edinburgh 2003
'You have got to have talent and not a little cheek to carry off Mary Tyler Moore innocence while taking gags off into the wild blue yonder - and Porter has bags of both' The Guardian

'From the moment she bursts on, with her infectious smile and ridiculously cheery outlook, she has the audience eating out of her hand, feeling as if they've just been hit with the innocence of a doe-eyed deer.' Metro

'Lucy Porter combines a themed set about lying (especially about sexual matters) with a bouncy-girly appeal that is rather like watching a Blue Peter presenter in a porn marathon.' Financial Times

Edinburgh 2004

Her bubblegum comedy comes wrapped in a sharp and savvy wit with a dollop of smut on the side … female comedians are lucky to have a role model like Porter.
Metro

Porter is charming company, with a likeable line in audience flattery and impish self-deprecation
The Guardian

She entirely disproves the theory that aggression is the root of all stand-up and shows that women can be funny without resorting to blokey hectoring … she’s so lively and smiley that her responses to the audience seem entirely unforced and spontaneous.
The Observer

Porter’s gags are of the highest grade
The Sunday Times

Her self-deprecating wit and unbounded energy make for a truly original and delightful show
Edinburgh Evening News

Going to see Lucy Porter’s show is the comedic equivalent of slipping into a warm bath … while in the presence of other comics punters skulk in the shadows hoping to avoid getting picked on, here the audience leans into the light to be cooed at by the lovely Lucy
The Scotsman

It’s her skill to please a crowd without seeming to ingratiate, and if the gauge of a show’s worth is a question of how good you feel after it, the answer here is: much better than before.
The Herald