August 16, 2025 
One4Review
There are worse problems to have at the Fringe than too many punters, and Andy Gleeks has that rare high-class headache: the room is rammed, it’s midday, and people are still filing in, shoulder to shoulder, pints in hand. Fragments hasn’t even started and already feels like an event.The opener lands with a crack: he says he’s been told he looks like Gerry Adams’s son. Half the room collapses laughing, the other half mutters “Who’s that?”—and in that instant Gleeks has them all. It’s a sly, precise move: he takes the temperature of the room in one line, and suddenly he can go wherever he likes.And where he goes is everywhere. Shark conspiracies. Classrooms full of Northern Irish chaos. The absurdities of marrying across the water, spun into a deliciously daft “Good Friday Agreement” gag. He slaloms through skydiving, dodgy self-help manuals, wellness apps that deserve deleting, and gifts nobody ever wanted. If life comes at you in scraps, Gleeks is the comic with the glue stick—and the gall—to make it fit.The divorce material could have sunk him. Instead, it’s the jewel of the hour: pain and perspective alchemised into something bracingly funny, warm, and oddly uplifting. There’s no plea for pity; instead, heartbreak is flipped into comedy with the ease of someone who’s survived the storm and come out smirking.And yes, the Northern Irish Catholic upbringing is always in the wings—the gravitational pull of the show—but never its prison. He folds it in with wryness, never tipping into cliché or sermonising. That balance between tenderness and absurdity is what makes Fragments hum.By the end, the title clicks into place: not everything in life makes sense, but the broken pieces can be stacked into a set this sharp, this human, this flat-out funny. It’s not a tidy jigsaw—it’s better.Andy Gleeks is the real deal, a talent visibly levelling up before your eyes. Fragments is no scrapbook of leftovers—it’s proof he’s got the material, the presence, and the swagger to go further. Watching where he takes it next will be half the fun. Click Here For Review