Kemah Bob: Love Child review – Miss Fortunate’s follow-up is a superbly playful origin story

Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh With icky and edgy jokes, the comedian offers an authentic inquiry into her childhood in her sophomore show A standup’s debut show usually tells us who they are, then with their follow-up, they branch out. Kemah Bob has done things the other way around. After 2024’s Miss Fortunate , a wild shaggy dog story about a disastrous trip to Thailand, she now delivers that delayed “this is me” set, an open-hearted inquiry into how she got here and her origins as the child of a poor black family, the descendants of slavery, in the southern US. That inquiry is prompted by m

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