Sketch Show

The Motherload

The Motherload

Do you have what it takes to survive The Motherload? Crack yourself up, as MJ Miller confesses how tough it is to grow kids. 

Cosmic Twegheads

Cosmic Twegheads

We’ve all got a tweghead in our life. 

Terrarium Network

Terrarium Network

Terrarium Network: In front of a live studio audience, Terrarium Network presents all your favourite TV shows. 

Shakespeare's Mothello and Other Parodies

Shakespeare's Mothello and Other Parodies

Follow the adventures of Mothello, a mothman version of Othello, who can’t quite get his words out, as they explore the world of Shakespeare’s plays. 

Grubby Little Mitts Presents: Sketch Book

Grubby Little Mitts Presents: Sketch Book

Grubby Little Mitts presents a new material night dedicated exclusively to sketch comedy! Join the Grubbs with your favourite sketch comedians as they present a scrapbook of madnes… 

Richard Duffy is Asleep: A Retrospective

Richard Duffy is Asleep: A Retrospective

We spend one third of our lives asleep. 

Bristol Revunions Presents: All You Can Eat!

Bristol Revunions Presents: All You Can Eat!

The Bristol Revunions are back at the Edinburgh Fringe for 2024, and we’ve got some incredible new recipes! We’ll be chopping, stirring, kneading and boiling to serve you some deli… 

The Elephant in the Room: An Improvised Comedy Show

The Elephant in the Room: An Improvised Comedy Show

A family-friendly quick-fire improvised sketch show, chock full of fast-paced performing and silly short comedy sketches. 

Sketchy

Sketchy

Expect talking toothbrushes, competitive siblings and a variety of funny sketches full of heart and absurdity. 

The Half-Cocked Sketch Show

The Half-Cocked Sketch Show

‘The brains and talent behind Half-Cocked Theatre have undoubtedly carved a niche in the world of sketch comedy with their latest offering’ **** (LiveLondonPost. 

Antics Joke Show: Sketch and Improv Comedy

Antics Joke Show: Sketch and Improv Comedy

Up the Antics (as heard on BBC Radio 4 Extra) bring a showcase of some of their best sketches. 

Ajahnis Charley: Thots and Prayers

Ajahnis Charley: Thots and Prayers

Thot. 

The Dead Ducks

The Dead Ducks

Come join the University of York’s premier sketch troupe for another fantastic show of absurdist sketch comedy. 

That's... Brave

That's... Brave

That’s… Brave is a mix of sketch comedy, stand-up comedy and musical comedy, and will answer the question Laura’s parents, aunts and grandparents keep asking her: why comedy?… 

Disco Horses: A Sketch Revue

Disco Horses: A Sketch Revue

In their latest revue, American sketch duo Disco Horses presents a collection of sketches that cover everything from time travel, the 1980s, a brutal alien dictator, and much more. 

Weegie Hink Ae That?

Weegie Hink Ae That?

The Weegie boys are back! Come see what these comical dafties do best. 

One Man Arnie

One Man Arnie

Can one man recreate live on stage, the greatest Arnold Schwarzenegger movie ever? Laurence Tuck is that man. 

Mr Sleepybum

Mr Sleepybum

Nominee: Best Kids Show – Leicester Comedy Festival 2024. 

The Durham Revue: Mid-Laugh Crisis

The Durham Revue: Mid-Laugh Crisis

Durham University’s premier sketch comedy troupe is turning 50 – cue the mid-laugh crisis! With the big birthday bash looming, will the troupe conquer their 50th fears, or will t… 

Low Effort Sketches: As Described

Low Effort Sketches: As Described

Join multi award-winning sketch duo Low Effort Sketches for their highly anticipated debut hour! Alice and Andy perform silly, fourth-wall breaking sketches and deploy ‘weapons-gra… 

Hot Concrete: Too Hot (and Too Concretey) for TV

Hot Concrete: Too Hot (and Too Concretey) for TV

Join the UK’s most energetic-yet-simultaneously-downbeat double act as they record the pilot for their groundbreaking TV chat show. 

Tarot: Shuffle

Tarot: Shuffle

The best show of 2019 according to Chortle. 

Biscuit Barrel: Not Another 69-Sketch Show

Biscuit Barrel: Not Another 69-Sketch Show

‘Most reliable sketch group in the game’ **** (EdFringeReview. 

NewsRevue

NewsRevue

Multi award-winning NewsRevue returns to Edinburgh in its 45th Guinness World record-breaking year to mock politicians and celebrities alike through parodied songs and satirical sk… 

Foil Arms and Hog: Skittish

Foil Arms and Hog: Skittish

Internet sensations Foil Arms and Hog are back in the magnificent McEwan Hall to premiere their brand-new show, Skittish. 

Abi Clarke: (Role) Model

Abi Clarke: (Role) Model

Abi Clarke lived the modern-day dream. 

Mime Club

Mime Club

Sexy dads, vacuum cleaners, the German State Theatre. 

Metroland Live: The Box

Metroland Live: The Box

Sell-out cult shows in the North East; acclaimed short films; their own web series – now Metroland debut at the Edinburgh Fringe. 

Lorna Rose Treen: Skin Pigeon

Lorna Rose Treen: Skin Pigeon

A year after inexplicably winning Dave’s Funniest Joke of the Fringe, and therefore killing comedy (Sun), Lorna Rose Treen brings her sell-out debut character comedy show back to t… 

Laser Kiwi: Rise of the Olive

Laser Kiwi: Rise of the Olive

Join the world’s only surreal, award-winning sketch-comedy circus troupe on a wild ride as they bring people closer together, one olive at a time. 

Grubby Little Mitts: Eyes Closed, Mouths Open

Grubby Little Mitts: Eyes Closed, Mouths Open

Join sketch comics Grubby Little Mitts (Rosie Nicholls and Sullivan Brown) in their third magnum opus! Award-winning sketch duo Grubby Little Mitts amplifies the normal to chaotic … 

Joe & Rory: Television 1

Joe & Rory: Television 1

100 years of television in one hour. 

Sheeps: The Giggle Bunch (That's Our Name For You)

Sheeps: The Giggle Bunch (That's Our Name For You)

You learn it young. 

Tarot: Work in Progress

Tarot: Work in Progress

The best show of 2019 according to Chortle. 

Sketch Off: The Last Laugh

Sketch Off: The Last Laugh

Come and see student sketch comedy groups battle it out for the ultimate prize, power. 

Foil Arms and Hog: Hogwash

Foil Arms and Hog: Hogwash

The top selling show of 2022 is back for five nights only! Internet sensations Foil Arms and Hog return to the magnificent McEwan Hall with the full tour-length version of their 20… 

BriTANicK: Work in Progress

BriTANicK: Work in Progress

Sold-out run: Edinburgh Festival Fringe (2022). 

Great Sketchpectations

Great Sketchpectations

The Exeter Comedy Society is back after last year’s sell-out run to showcase the best and brightest in sketch performance! From a re-assessment of childhood toys, to an astrologica… 

Emma and Harry

Emma and Harry

If you like it you really shouldn’t put a ring on it because it turns out I actually hate you and want to get a divorce. 

Free Medical Advice

Free Medical Advice

An NHS staff room. 

Men Who Are Being Preserved in Oil (with Nate and Ed)

Men Who Are Being Preserved in Oil (with Nate and Ed)

Brooklyn comedians Nate and Ed vent their obsession with early 2010s masculine archetypes (but also some other stuff). 

The Duncan and Judy Murray Show

The Duncan and Judy Murray Show

After their smash-hit, sell-out debut last year, legendary tennis coach Judy Murray and her son Duncan (the other Murray brother) return with another unique show featuring special … 

War on Woke

War on Woke

You can’t say moist, you can’t assume a person’s gender or even if they identify as a person at all, maybe they’re a plant? What started off as a way to call out discrimina… 

JARUJARU: Arigato 2023

JARUJARU: Arigato 2023

World premiere of JaruJaru’s original sketch format, Two-Person Ensemble Piece Seamlessly playing Different Characters, which they have been experimenting since 2018. 

Preppers – A Comedy About the Apocalypse(s)

Preppers – A Comedy About the Apocalypse(s)

Stuart Laws (‘A one-man episode of Arrested Development’ (Fest)) and Matt Sandstorm (unreviewed) are a new two-man comedy duo. 

Very British Problems: Live

Very British Problems: Live

Do you ever feel like you’re the only one struggling with the complexities of British social etiquette? Then join us for a hilarious show that celebrates all things awkwardly Briti… 

Laura Ramoso: FRANCES

Laura Ramoso: FRANCES

With over 1 million followers and 350 million views across social media, comedian Laura Ramoso makes her highly anticipated Fringe debut! Featuring her most popular characters like… 

Femme Natale Theatre

Femme Natale Theatre

Hilariously truthful – an unapologetically comic peek into the world of parenting: what comes before, during and after in this rambunctious mix of original songs and sketches fro… 

And Now...

And Now...

Featuring songs, skits and nonsensical moments, And Now. 

Bristol Revunions presents Ready to Board

Bristol Revunions presents Ready to Board

The Bristol Revunions are back at the Fringe with a brand-new sketch show, Ready to Board! Get your passports out and get ready for the flight of your life! The Bristol Revunions a… 

Laura Ramoso: FRANCES

Laura Ramoso: FRANCES

With over 1 million followers and 350 million views across social media, comedian Laura Ramoso makes her highly anticipated Fringe debut! Featuring her most popular characters like… 

Lots of Feelings: Most Improved Award

Lots of Feelings: Most Improved Award

Washington DC’s iconic sketch duo, Lots of Feelings, finds meaning amidst the chaos of life through mouth and eye-watering sketches. 

Watch List

Watch List

If you’ve been handed a flyer for Watch List in the street, you might expect what’s written on it –a show about an insecure police officer on a journey to clean up the street… 

Egg: Absolutely Fine

Egg: Absolutely Fine

Just a fresh new show from two fresh young gals who, honestly, are absolutely fine. 

Snake Oil

Snake Oil

The Burton Brothers are Australia’s best sibling comedy duo! Hailing all the way from Melbourne, the Burton Brothers are real life brothers and sketch comedians. 

The Grand Return of the Edinburgh Revue

The Grand Return of the Edinburgh Revue

Edinburgh’s best homegrown student comedy show is back! Featuring talent from the city’s finest up and coming student comics, witness the Edinburgh Revue’s triumphant return … 

Stephen Buchanan: Charicature

Stephen Buchanan: Charicature

Award-winning comedian Stephen Buchanan (BBC New Comedy Award and Scottish Comedian of the Year) returns to the Fringe with his unique blend of stand-up, sketch and character comed… 

Paul Black: Nostalgia

Paul Black: Nostalgia

Social media star Paul Black returns to the Fringe this year with his new stand-up show, Nostalgia, a look back into his childhood as a gay wee boy growing up in Glasgow as the son… 

The Late Great Rompers x Cowtools

The Late Great Rompers x Cowtools

Sketch duos Rompers and Cowtools present a split hour of sketch comedy. 

Little Ward of Horrors

Little Ward of Horrors

Little Ward of Horrors, unfortunately, seems to somewhat fall into the category of sketch shows that sell tickets due to their name, The Malignant Humours. 

The Dead Ducks

The Dead Ducks

Coming back from their five-star run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2022, the Dead Ducks are an incredibly talented sketch comedy troupe from the University of York. 

The Dreams of You: A Volunteer Sleep Study

The Dreams of You: A Volunteer Sleep Study

One lucky audience member will see their dreams analysed onstage, thanks to October Brian’s patented Sleep-to-Sketch Technology. 

This Isn't Working

This Isn't Working

MI5 operative. 

Men Who Are Being Preserved in Oil (with Nate and Ed)

Men Who Are Being Preserved in Oil (with Nate and Ed)

Brooklyn comedians Nate and Ed vent their obsession with early 2010s masculine archetypes (but also some other stuff). 

Manchester Revue's Lonely Hearts Sketch Club

Manchester Revue's Lonely Hearts Sketch Club

The Manchester Revue’s Lonely Hearts Sketch Club is not a tribute act. 

Footlights: Leftovers

Footlights: Leftovers

Using tried and tested material from several shows (including their recent Spring Revue) and some new, bonus delights, the Cambridge Footlights present to you the cream of their co… 

The Oxford Revue Will See You Now

The Oxford Revue Will See You Now

The Oxford Revue is turning 70 years old! From Monty Python to Mr Bean to Love Actually, the alumni of Oxford’s premier comedy troupe have been polluting the UK cultural landscape … 

Charlie Vero-Martin: Picnic

Charlie Vero-Martin: Picnic

The planet is melting and life’s spinning out of control. 

Myles and Dan Just Might Break a World Record Tonight

Myles and Dan Just Might Break a World Record Tonight

Witness the impossible as Myles and Dan attempt to complete the most live comedy sketches in a single live sketch-comedy show in live sketch-comedy history. 

The Oxford Revue Did It!

The Oxford Revue Did It!

Celebrating its 70th anniversary, the Oxford Revue brings you a tightly crafted, punchy and hilarious murder mystery with a difference – the audience decide whodunnit! Did the bu… 

The Durham Revue: Death on the Mile

The Durham Revue: Death on the Mile

The Durham Revue presents: Death on the Mile. 

Sketch Up!

Sketch Up!

A smorgasbord of radio sketches, performed live. 

The St Andrews Revue

The St Andrews Revue

The St Andrews Revue presents Whatever the Hell We Want, an original sketch comedy show confronting such hot topics as seagulls, chickens and even a few non-avians. 

Burdwurld

Burdwurld

Shipwrecked, you’ve washed up on a remote island inhabited only by birds and a smattering of entertainers from other doomed cruises. 

Hooked: Mr Sister

Hooked: Mr Sister

Holly and Brooke are hooked on each other. 

Mr Sleepybum

Mr Sleepybum

Nominated: Best Kids Show Leicester Comedy Festival 2023. 

Sam's Scriptz!

Sam's Scriptz!

Sam Jacobsen is an acclaimed writer, penning award-winning scripts for the three S’s. 

Dirty Laundry: Spin Off

Dirty Laundry: Spin Off

Following their sell-out show in 2022, former Cambridge Footlights Emily, Robbie and Maddie are now also former housemates. 

Glass Crumpet's Sketch Show

Glass Crumpet's Sketch Show

From Glass Crumpet, comes an all-new Sketch Show. 

The Leeds Tealights: A Very Special Birthday Party

The Leeds Tealights: A Very Special Birthday Party

The Leeds Tealights bring joy and mirth to the Fringe this year in A Very Special Birthday Party. 

Jeromaia Detto: MUSH

Jeromaia Detto: MUSH

MUSH is an all-out journey of absurdity for anyone who loves playfulness, silliness and delightful whimsy! Jeromaia Detto (Aus) is an improvisor and Gaulier-trained clown who once … 

Pear: But Braver

Pear: But Braver

Winner – Critic’s Choice Award, Perth Fringe 2023. 

Is It Just Us?!

Is It Just Us?!

Irish female sketch-comedy duo MEELAGOOLA bring you a fast-paced, high-energy, satirical spectacle! Have we actually progressed backwards? Is wellness really that well at all? We�… 

Andy Bucks and Low Effort Sketches: Combined Effort

Andy Bucks and Low Effort Sketches: Combined Effort

Andy Bucks and Low Effort Sketches present a split hour of award-winning stand-up and sketch comedy! Both acts feature silly and nerdy humour. 

Pottervision

Pottervision

Four performers are all set to recreate a Harry Potter movie but when two of them drop out on the day (and take all the props and costumes with them), Tom and Lukas must go it alon… 

Jackman and Bones: Framed

Jackman and Bones: Framed

A lost masterpiece is being unveiled at the Jackman Art Gallery. 

Stephen Buchanan: Charicature

Stephen Buchanan: Charicature

Award-winning comedian Stephen Buchanan (BBC New Comedy Award and Scottish Comedian of the Year) returns to the Fringe with his unique blend of stand-up, sketch and character comed… 

Jeromaia Detto: MUSH

Jeromaia Detto: MUSH

MUSH is an all-out journey of absurdity for anyone who loves playfulness, silliness and delightful whimsy! Jeromaia Detto (Aus) is an improvisor and Gaulier-trained clown who once … 

NewsRevue

NewsRevue

There are many things which conjure up the spirit of the Fringe. 

Biscuit Barrel: The 69-Sketch Show

Biscuit Barrel: The 69-Sketch Show

‘An excellent comedy show’ **** (BroadwayBaby. 

Will BF: The Last Gun

Will BF: The Last Gun

In a world with only one gun, one man stands in the way of world peace. 

Tarot: Work in Progress

Tarot: Work in Progress

The best show of 2019 according to Chortle. 

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show

For anyone who knows the first thing about the history of Edinburgh Fringe, and indeed, comedy itself, you should already be familiar with Cambridge Footlights and its roster of al… 

Jazz Or A Bucket of Blood

Jazz Or A Bucket of Blood

Yes, jazz is funny. 

Shelf: The Kids' Show

Shelf: The Kids' Show

Join best friends Rachel and Ruby for a kids’ comedy show that’s fun for all the family! Full of sketches, songs, pranks and silliness. 

Susan Riddell: Wonder Woman

Susan Riddell: Wonder Woman

Susan doesn’t think she’s “Wonder Woman” in the traditional sense, more that she wonders what she’s doing with her life. 

Bishops

Bishops

Chris and Noah aren’t real Bishops, but what they lack in divinity they make up for with sensational sketches at a ‘cracking pace’ (Chortle. 

Finlay and Joe: Past Our Bedtime

Finlay and Joe: Past Our Bedtime

Finlay and Joe are tired. 

Joe and Rory: Television 1

Joe and Rory: Television 1

National broadcaster Television 1 has been a proud British institution for 100 years and has played a prominent role in British life and culture. 

Crizards: This Means War

Crizards: This Means War

The discussion around war - especially the two world wars - is usually a very difficult and serious subject. 

On The Tiles

On The Tiles

All the way from from Abu Dhabi, the land of sun, sand and camels, an original bunch of jokes and sketches based on real-life scenarios. 

Dominique Salerno: The Box Show

Dominique Salerno: The Box Show

Dominique Solerno’s The Box Show is a well-conceived theatrical piece which sees this talented and versatile performer performing a plethora of different characters, all from wit… 

Hannah Camilleri: Lolly Bag

Hannah Camilleri: Lolly Bag

Melbourne-born and based but cosmopolitan at heart, Hannah flies to Edinburgh for the very first time to give you a taste of her funny little bag o’ sketch comedy sweets. 

Laura Ramoso: FRANCES

Laura Ramoso: FRANCES

Viral sensation Laura Ramoso does her live show FRANCES after conquering Instagram and Tiktok with her character sketches, with the highly anticipated German Mom and Italian Dad be… 

Stephen Buchanan: Charicature

Stephen Buchanan: Charicature

Award-winning comedian Stephen Buchanan (BBC New Comedy Award and Scottish Comedian of the Year) returns to the Fringe with his unique blend of stand-up, sketch and character comed… 

The Rodney Buzzard Tapes: Evidence of an Honourable Man

The Rodney Buzzard Tapes: Evidence of an Honourable Man

In 1973, aspiring serial killer Rodney Buzzard sits in his thatched bungalow apartment, skinning spuds for practice… He waits for a knock at the door but hears nothing – the No… 

Indoor Kids

Indoor Kids

Were you irreversibly damaged by Zooey Deschanel’s bangs at a young age? Were you devastated by the odd contents of your dad’s fridge after he got divorced? Were you consistent… 

Horrigan & Howell: A Sketch Too Far

Horrigan & Howell: A Sketch Too Far

Sketch comedy that encompasses the horrid, the dark, the bizarre and the stupid. 

Love in the Time of Lockdown (The New Variant)

Love in the Time of Lockdown (The New Variant)

Last year’s hit show is back with a new variant which will once again have you laughing, crying and talking about how lockdown was for you, for your neighbour and for your friends. 

Peter Fleming's Woefully Inaccurate History of the BBC

Peter Fleming's Woefully Inaccurate History of the BBC

Warped telly nostalgia from award-winning character comedian Tom Burgess. 

A Depression-Cure Show

A Depression-Cure Show

Antidepressant! Ever lost your way, your mind, or your will to live? Jonathan Winfield brings his comedy show about family trauma, mental illness and depression from his lived expe… 

A Flamingo Called Frank Presents: Five in the Pink

A Flamingo Called Frank Presents: Five in the Pink

Quintet of sketch comedians seeking fun-loving and friendly audience, interested in a short, passionate fling, and maybe more. 

Scummy Mummies

Scummy Mummies

Following their sell-out UK tour, the Scummy Mummies are back with a brand-new comedy show. 

Matt and Rosa with John Hurt as the Voice of the Dragon

Matt and Rosa with John Hurt as the Voice of the Dragon

Matt and Rosa with John Hurt as the Voice of the Dragon is the debut sketch show of Bristol Revunions alumni Matthew Wilson and Chortle Student Comedy Award finalist Rosa Richards. 

Biscuit Barrel: Xtra Comedy Tin

Biscuit Barrel: Xtra Comedy Tin

Four acts, hosted by a sketch show? Late-night comedy, celebrating different acts each night from across the Fringe! Biscuit Barrel’s twist on the comedy night, based in Bristol si… 

Eleanor Morton: Craig On Tour

Eleanor Morton: Craig On Tour

Scotland’s premier tour guide and famously upbeat man Craig welcomes you to his home town for a one-off tour of Edinburgh in all its deadpan glory. 

All About the Drama

All About the Drama

All About the Drama is an insight to the worrying mind of Jovis Hart. 

Marmalade

Marmalade

The Bristol Revunions are back in Edinburgh to showcase the best and brightest minds sketch comedy have to offer. 

Now: Shame

Now: Shame

Inept pilots. 

Exe-a-Sketch

Exe-a-Sketch

We’ve only gone and managed to turn Exeter into a sketch comedy show! Bad news: it’s no longer a place. 

Jeremy Segway: A Life Out of Balance (Presented by the Duncan Brothers)

Jeremy Segway: A Life Out of Balance (Presented by the Duncan Brothers)

From the makers of Legs and Logs. 

Flamingo City Comedy: We're All Equally Good Looking

Flamingo City Comedy: We're All Equally Good Looking

Winners of Cleveland’s Best Sketch Comedy Group in 2020 (Cleveland Comedy Awards), Flamingo City is hot off their 2022 US Midwest tour! Joe and Greg are willing to do anything sh… 

One Single Thread

One Single Thread

One Single Thread is a form-bending character and sketch “solo-ish” show written by NYC comedian Lauren Gamiel, featuring Slaney Rose Jordan. 

The Sound of Mucus

The Sound of Mucus

The hills are alive with the sound of comedy! Join us for a ward round of sketches and songs brought to you by St George’s Revue (yes, the same St George’s from 24 hours in A&E… 

Beak: Cocktail Boys

Beak: Cocktail Boys

High-energy Australian sketch-meisters Beak are bringing their fast-paced silliness to Edinburgh (Scotland) but this time, they’re hot! Since touring Australia with our last show �… 

Biscuit Barrel: Wafering Heights

Biscuit Barrel: Wafering Heights

69 sketches performed in an hour! The acclaimed hyperactive group return to Edinburgh. 

Stephen Buchanan: Charicature (WIP)

Stephen Buchanan: Charicature (WIP)

BBC New Comedy Award winner and the Scottish Comedian of the Year 2018 workshops his unique brand of sketches and characters for the very first time. 

Horrible Herstories

Horrible Herstories

Oi! You! Think you know your history? Well you’ve got it all wrong, buster! Let us show you how things really were – Churchill? Abe Lincoln? Guy Fawkes? Boring! Who you really … 

This is a Sketch Show

This is a Sketch Show

Roll up, roll up! Following last year’s sold-out show, the Manchester Revue is returning to the Fringe with a brand-new show! Bringing you the best comedy The University of Manches… 

*not even* Remotely Funny

*not even* Remotely Funny

Fast-paced, bold and hilarious. 

Dirty Laundry

Dirty Laundry

Cambridge Footlights Robbie, Emily and Maddie have been living together in harmony… well, almost. 

Sketch Up!

Sketch Up!

A smorgasbord of radio sketches, performed live. 

A Dick Called Moby

A Dick Called Moby

Thar’ she blows! Belly Up Theatre stalwartly set sail, intent on harpooning their great white whale: comedy. 

A Place Like This

A Place Like This

Screen royal, Nicole Kidman, holds an AMC audience captive while sharing some of cinema’s greatest moments. 

Free Footlights

Free Footlights

Join ‘the most renowned sketch troupe of them all’ (Independent) for an hour of stand-up, sketch, song and much more. 

Good Kids: Appetite

Good Kids: Appetite

The new award-nominated show from the lively double act – Kieran and Tom bring you the most unimportant hour of your life. 

Mother: Colleagues

Mother: Colleagues

Camp cult favourites Mother are back with an unapologetic hour – sorry, closer to 55 minutes really – of deranged characters and unhinged sketches in a live mockumentary so clo… 

Pottervision

Pottervision

Four performers are all set to recreate Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone, but when two drop out on the day (and take all the props and costumes with them), Tom and Lukas ha… 

The Durham Revue: Déjà Revue

The Durham Revue: Déjà Revue

After three years away, the group that brought you Ed Gamble, Nish Kumar, Ambika Mod, Jeremy Vine and many more, are finally back with a new troupe and 100% new material. 

No Laughing Matter

No Laughing Matter

Sick and tired of everyone laughing at them, the Revue decides to get serious. 

Richard David-Caine: Tall, Dark and Anxious

Richard David-Caine: Tall, Dark and Anxious

High-octane character comedy from one of the UK’s foremost TV sketch comedians, as seen in the BAFTA-winning series Horrible Histories, Class Dismissed and People Just Do Nothing… 

Finlay and Joe: Perpetual Hype Machine

Finlay and Joe: Perpetual Hype Machine

Watch in amazement as Finlay and Joe shovel comedy coal into the furnace of their patented content generation device: the Perpetual Hype Machine. 

Pear

Pear

You have a one in 250 chance of being an identical twin, so for Hugo and Patrick McPherson, they started life by being a bit unusual. 

The Lovely Boys

The Lovely Boys

Joe and Mikey are Lovely Boys. 

MARVELus: All the MARVEL Movies... Kind Of!

MARVELus: All the MARVEL Movies... Kind Of!

The Just Us League of Javier Jarquin and Gary Tro return with an update of their whistlestop tour of the first 3 Marvel Cinematic Universe phases (somewhat contradicting their titl… 

NDOG: Northerners Deliberating Over Gentrification

NDOG: Northerners Deliberating Over Gentrification

Cheeky Yorkshire comedian Stefan Harvey presents some very silly characters exploring a very serious topic. 

The Dead Ducks

The Dead Ducks

The Dead Ducks are back and raring to tickle your funny bone! This new generation of funny folk form York’s finest sketch comedy troupe – anyone saying otherwise is selling som… 

3am Brain

3am Brain

You think you’re fine all day, until 3am hits. And the brain has its revenge. ****½ (FourthWallMedia.wordpress.com). **** (Glamadelaide.com.au).  

Broken Record

Broken Record

Daniel Willis attempts to show his audience and his digital therapist that his life is absolutely, definitely fine, with an hour of quick, quirky comedy sketches. 

The Leeds Tealights: Imposter Syndrome

The Leeds Tealights: Imposter Syndrome

The Tealights return to the Fringe for their 15th year, bearing the gift of their brand-new show Imposter Syndrome: an hour of non-stop, nonsensical, sketch comedy. 

Sheeps: Ten Years, Ten Laughs

Sheeps: Ten Years, Ten Laughs

Has it really been 10 years since Sheeps first performed in Edinburgh? No. 

The Halls of Ridiculous: Improvised Sketch Show

The Halls of Ridiculous: Improvised Sketch Show

Join Yorkshire double act The Halls of Ridiculous as they push the boundaries of improv, sketch and character creativity to the max with their quick thinking scenes, zany special g… 

Chuck Salmon: Pool Noodles

Chuck Salmon: Pool Noodles

Dive funny-bone-first into a slip’n’slide sketch adventure in the world’s biggest leisure centre, with hilarious lifeguards and heroic comedians Chuck Salmon: the funniest whistl… 

Mudfish: Might as Well

Mudfish: Might as Well

Have you ever thought you were making a genuine difference in a broken world, when really you were just stuck down a well in an unspecified location with your bothersome twin? Us n… 

Crybabies: Bagbeard

Crybabies: Bagbeard

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the woods. 

Foil Arms and Hog – Hogwash

Foil Arms and Hog – Hogwash

Ireland’s top sketch comedy group. 

Just These Please: Honestly No Pressure Either Way

Just These Please: Honestly No Pressure Either Way

With three five star sell-out Edinburgh Fringe runs, over 60 million views online and a tendency to list things in threes, Just These Please are back with 25 brand new sketches and… 

NewsRevue

NewsRevue

NewsRevue – the world’s longest running comedy show – is as central to the Fringe experience as overpriced artisan burgers and destroying rainforests with unwanted flyers. 

Tarot: Cautionary Tales

Tarot: Cautionary Tales

Bounding onto the stage with red smeared eyes and billowing white nighties, the three performers of Tarot kick off their show Cautionary Tales bursting with enthusiastic energy and… 

Andy Field: Ideas (,) Man

Andy Field: Ideas (,) Man

Andy’s an ideas man and he’s got ideas, man. 

Siblings: Siblage

Siblings: Siblage

Character comedians and IRL sisters Maddy and Marina Bye are back and physically bigger than ever. 

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2022: Are We There Yet?

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2022: Are We There Yet?

All aboard The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2022: Are We There Yet? Buckle up as we hit the road for a tour of life itself, visiting more sketch-shaped destinations… 

The People vs The Oxford Revue

The People vs The Oxford Revue

After almost two years of silence, Oxford’s critically acclaimed student sketch troupe are making a triumphant return to the Edinburgh Fringe with The People vs. 

Weegie Hink Ae That?

Weegie Hink Ae That?

From sketches to songs aboot aw things Scottish, come see these wee comical dafties dae what they dae best. 

Stokes and Summers: Careering

Stokes and Summers: Careering

In the immortal words of Britney Spears: ‘You want a Lamborghini? Sippin’ martinis? Look hot in a bikini? You better work, bitch. 

Norris and Parker: Sirens

Norris and Parker: Sirens

Let Piscean comedy duo Norris and Parker lure you into their fever dream for a surreal hour of wild, nautical madness. 

Scottish Falsetto Socks: Eurovision Sock Contest

Scottish Falsetto Socks: Eurovision Sock Contest

Earth’s funniest footwear are back with their latest comedy hour. 

Kylie Brakeman Presents: Linda Hollywood's Big Hollywood Night

Kylie Brakeman Presents: Linda Hollywood's Big Hollywood Night

Official Selection: New York Times Great Performers List (2020). 

Business Casual: FERAL

Business Casual: FERAL

No imaginary babies are safe in Business Casual: FERAL, a slice of enjoyably daft sketch comedy from American trio Jeremy Elder, Hunter Saling, and Corey Peter Lane. 

BriTANicK

BriTANicK

BriTANick is an American sketch comedy duo made up of Brian McElhaney and Nick Koche, and they quickly assure us that their name (a combination of ‘Brian’, ‘Nick’ and ‘Ti… 

Girlboss

Girlboss

Full-time girls and part-time bosses, Dulcie and Ella discover what it takes to be ‘that’ girl. 

Hannah Pilkes: A Woman on the Verge

Hannah Pilkes: A Woman on the Verge

Hannah makes her solo debut at the Fringe and she is on the verge in more ways than one. 

Britney: Friends and Nothing More

Britney: Friends and Nothing More

Fresh from their universally adored BBC Three pilot, Charly Clive and Ellen Robertson make their long-awaited return to the Fringe with a sketch show about love. 

The Awkward Silence's Big Break

The Awkward Silence's Big Break

Louis Voler wants his dad, Mike, out of his life – which is difficult as Mike’s just got them sent to jail. 

The Club Valentine Comedy Hour

The Club Valentine Comedy Hour

This wacky, vaudevillian comedy extravaganza takes you on a journey led by the two Irish mayors of Laughtown, USA, where you’ll find absurd characters, silly skits, dynamite music … 

The Dirty Thirty PLUS

The Dirty Thirty PLUS

A new valiant attempt to perform 30 plays in just one hour! Chaotic and courageous, gleeful and gamified, The Dirty Thirty PLUS is the live-est of live theatre exploding the conven… 

Enter the Vortex

Enter the Vortex

Award-winning sketch men The Awkward Silence present a mind-bending parade of vignettes, voices and vagabonds from beyond our reality. 

An Idiom's Guide to the Galaxy

An Idiom's Guide to the Galaxy

Son and father-in-law duo, Dave Watt and Pretty Good Nick, invite you to jump on their absurd comedy bandwagon as they explore the world of idioms. 

Grubby Little Mitts

Grubby Little Mitts

An uncomfortable stare; a shriek heard in the background of a dream; the noise a sloth makes when receiving divorce papers. 

Captain Breadbeard's Bready Brilliant Comedy Cookbook

Captain Breadbeard's Bready Brilliant Comedy Cookbook

An absurd comedy sketch show about a sailor with a beard made of bread, and his sidekick, Davy Scones. 

The Delightful Sausage: Nowt but Sea

The Delightful Sausage: Nowt but Sea

The biggest-titted Edinburgh Best Show nominees return in their darkest-ever adventure. 

Radio Moscow Roadshow

Radio Moscow Roadshow

Can’t go to Russia? Don’t worry – Russia is coming to you! The Radio Moscow Roadshow finally comes to Edinburgh as part of its UK tour. 

Captain Breadbeard

Captain Breadbeard

An absurd two-hander comedy sketch show about a sailor with a beard made of bread and his sidekick, Davy Scones. 

NewsRevue

NewsRevue

This multi-award-winning show is flawlessly delivered by four outstanding performers at lightning speed and expertly accompanied by an on-stage musical director. 

Sam and Tim Present: Behind the Fringe

Sam and Tim Present: Behind the Fringe

A series of quick-fire sketches riffing on ten years’ worth of observations on the bizarre quirks that make the Edinburgh Festival Fringe the collection of misfits and mishaps that… 

Mother: Colleagues

Mother: Colleagues

Colleague: Pronunciation: /’koli:g/. 

Scottish Falsetto Socks – Eurovision Sock Contest

Scottish Falsetto Socks – Eurovision Sock Contest

Earth’s funniest footwear are back with a new hour of songs, sketches, and Gags Sans Frontieres (with a Eurovision twist) featuring live and interactive voting. 

Could It Be Magic

Could It Be Magic

Paul Aitchison, best known to Edfringe and BBC Radio Four audiences through sketch act Mixed Doubles, returns with his unique blend of character comedy and mind-melting magic for 1… 

Free Shot On Entry!

Free Shot On Entry!

The Manchester Revue are proud to present their new sketch show, Free Shot On Entry! Bringing you the best comedy The University of Manchester has to offer, prepare to question eve… 

Scottish Falsetto Socks – Minging Detectives

Scottish Falsetto Socks – Minging Detectives

Earth’s funniest footwear revive their classic 2015 crime show for one night only! From Scandi Noir to Dixon of Dock Green, from The Sweeney to Line Of Duty, all cops and robbers g… 

John Luke Roberts: Terrible Wonderful Adaptations

John Luke Roberts: Terrible Wonderful Adaptations

Following two culturally deeply unsettling, sell-out smash-hit runs in 2018 and 2019, this mind-bogglingly awful (and disquietingly successful) idea for a comedy extravaganza retur… 

Timmy's World

Timmy's World

Timmy was in showbusiness for 28 years, he was a child actor, appeared in the 1976 movie Bugsy Malone. 

The New Scummy Mummies Show

The New Scummy Mummies Show

Following their sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2019, comedians Ellie Gibson and Helen Thorn return for an all new show – new songs, new jokes and new catsuits. 

My First...

My First...

An English adaptation of an award-winning comedy from Iceland that looks at all the firsts: first class, first place, first rate, and even love at first sight. 

Just These Please: No Worries If Not

Just These Please: No Worries If Not

Just These Please are back with 25 sketches and songs in 55 minutes. 

El Greco of Hornsey

El Greco of Hornsey

Once upon a time, there was a little girl who grew up watching her immigrant Cypriot mother work in a vibrant little hair salon in North London in the 1980s. 

Deathbed Confessions of a Hypochondriac

Deathbed Confessions of a Hypochondriac

Is that mole cancer? Is that cough coronavirus? If I’m not eligible for free prescriptions then who is? In a world where Google is the family doctor and knows you better than you… 

Captain Breadbeard's Bready Brilliant Comedy Cookbook

Captain Breadbeard's Bready Brilliant Comedy Cookbook

The only fast-paced, pun-tastic comedy sketch show about a sailor with a beard made of bread and his sidekick, Davy Scones. 

Foil Arms and Hog – Hogwash

Foil Arms and Hog – Hogwash

Irish comedy, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, you racist. 

Crybabies: Bagbeard

Crybabies: Bagbeard

Rubbish never dies. 

Police Cops: Badass Be Thy Name

Police Cops: Badass Be Thy Name

The sell-out smash-hit show returns! Following acclaimed runs in London, New York, LA and San Francisco, multi-award-winning Police Cops are back with their new and improved 90s in… 

Sleeping Trees: Christmas Special... in August

Sleeping Trees: Christmas Special... in August

Fringe favourites the Sleeping Trees are doing Christmas in Edinburgh! Offering their surreal take on the most Christmassy story of all time; The Nativity. 

The Delightful Sausage: Ginster's Paradise

The Delightful Sausage: Ginster's Paradise

Yorkshire’s finest meat-themed double act is back, in an all-new sketch comedy nightmare. 

Stout, Pale and Bitter

Stout, Pale and Bitter

A brand-new sketch show about time travel, adventure and bureaucracy. 

Free Money from the Government: A Play About a Squid

Free Money from the Government: A Play About a Squid

This show follows the journey of a team of podcasters setting out to investigate the disappearance of an iconic infomercial grifter. 

2001: A Sketch Odyssey

2001: A Sketch Odyssey

Join five intrepid kids as they stumble across the universe to find the answers to life, the universe and everything. 

Asexual Healing: Prophets of Time

Asexual Healing: Prophets of Time

Discover the secrets of the universe. 

Generation Whyyy?

Generation Whyyy?

My feet hurt. 

Trust the Teenagers

Trust the Teenagers

Trust the teenagers to fall too hard, to act too fast, to think too deep, to drink too much. 

Stand Up for Shelter

Stand Up for Shelter

Stand Up for Shelter returns for another year at the Fringe bringing you a fantastic showcase of comedy, all in aid of Shelter. 

LEGMEAT

LEGMEAT

LEGMEAT is an ill-considered yet high-concept sketch show. 

Dinner for One oder Der 90. Geburtstag

Dinner for One oder Der 90. Geburtstag

Miss Sophie has invited her four closest friends to celebrate her 90th birthday. 

Three Menopausal Maids

Three Menopausal Maids

The Three Menopausal Maids are back with their new comedy sketch show for 2019 after the 2018 sell-out success and it’s getting hot, hot, hotter! Fly away with Princess and the Pee… 

The Newcastle Revue: Tyne and Tyne Again

The Newcastle Revue: Tyne and Tyne Again

Newcastle Comedy Society have decided the one thing the Fringe is lacking is student comedy. 

How to Hide a Body in New York

How to Hide a Body in New York

As the surge of improv comedy takes over the Fringe, Sisterwives brings a classic sketch show that packs a wicked punch. 

Selling Like Hot Takes

Selling Like Hot Takes

Selling Like Hot Takes is the debut sketch show from newly-formed comedy duo, Finlay and Joe. 

An Excellent Cleanser of the Liver – Free

An Excellent Cleanser of the Liver – Free

Behold, beware, behave! A brand-new sketch show from some comedians you don’t know! Join the Sheffield Revue in an adventure in time and sketch comedy. 

In Poor Taste (in association with the Oxford Revue)

In Poor Taste (in association with the Oxford Revue)

They laughed. 

Time Flies

Time Flies

Join farmers David and Sam, as they share with you their untold adventures, full of mishaps and misfortunes. 

Radio Active: The 40th Anniversary Show

Radio Active: The 40th Anniversary Show

Angus Deayton, Helen Atkinson Wood, Michael Fenton Stevens and Philip Pope return to the Fringe to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the legendary, award-winning radio comedy at th… 

The Salon

The Salon

Vic and Bob meets French and Saunders at the Double R Diner in The Salon. 

HUB Fresh

HUB Fresh

The best place to discover new comedy on the Fringe! Join us for a changing line-up of comedians all making their Pleasance debuts this year. 

ET The Extra Testicle

ET The Extra Testicle

The Malignant Humours have written you a prescription for some medical-grade sketch comedy! Returning for their 20th year at the Edinburgh Fringe, after eight years of back-to-back… 

Rogue Two: Burns and Moore

Rogue Two: Burns and Moore

Join two of The Oxford Revue’s brightest talents as they take you through an hour of rogue, wild and laugh-out-loud comedy. 

Ice Ice Iceland

Ice Ice Iceland

Birgitta and Ester are two lovely ladies from Iceland. 

Northern Power Blouse – Touching Cloth

Northern Power Blouse – Touching Cloth

Three feisty northerners present their debut sketch hour packed with big characters, silly songs and highly flammable polyester. 

Dave Bibby: Crazy Cat Lad-y

Dave Bibby: Crazy Cat Lad-y

Dave Bibby is a multi-talented comedian who crosses into many genres, and his award nominated show (for its poster design) Crazy Cat Lad-y is something of a one-man variety perform… 

Evers, Booth and [Name]

Evers, Booth and [Name]

Evers, Booth and [Name] courageously stage their 2019 multimedia sketch show. 

Tami Stone – My Funny Bits

Tami Stone – My Funny Bits

Comedy actress Tami Stone presents her debut one-woman Edinburgh show. 

Biscuit Barrel: Double Stuffed

Biscuit Barrel: Double Stuffed

Biscuit Barrel return to the Fringe with an even naughtier 69 sketches in the space of an hour! Mercilessly outrageous; always hyperactive. 

The Wonder Jam

The Wonder Jam

Sell-out late-night comedy party! Join the ‘hilarious’ (BroadwayBaby. 

The Best Show We've Ever Done at the Edinburgh Fringe

The Best Show We've Ever Done at the Edinburgh Fringe

A year ago, the world ended. 

Fat Blast and Crackers: 101 Sketches in 50 minutes!

Fat Blast and Crackers: 101 Sketches in 50 minutes!

How many comedy sketches does it take to screw in a light bulb? 30? 50?! 100?! Well we’ve gone one better, literally. 

The Official Edinburgh Fringe Christmas Show

The Official Edinburgh Fringe Christmas Show

Richard Duffy’s been celebrating Christmas every day since the day he was born. 

The Leeds Tealights: It's Not That Serious

The Leeds Tealights: It's Not That Serious

After their five-star run (TheWeeReview. 

The Fannytasticals

The Fannytasticals

Brighton’s rude and raucous female comedy troupe finally arrive in Edinburgh! With songs, sketches, and wry musings on the female experience, their original and bold material takes… 

Emancipation

Emancipation

Lorraine attempts to break free from the confines of having a voice which always gets mistaken for being that of a man. 

Weegie Hink Ae That? Presents: Nae Bother!

Weegie Hink Ae That? Presents: Nae Bother!

The Weegie boys are back again after two consecutive sellout runs at the fringe! They can’t wait to go mental in the capital with an even bigger and bamier show than the last! From… 

Anna Nicholson: Get Happy

Anna Nicholson: Get Happy

Following her critically acclaimed debut show Woman of the Year, meet Anna’s brand-new characters and join some returning favourites all trying to Get Happy. 

Buffering

Buffering

Jenny and Pauline are buffered between their children and elderly relatives and they’re waiting for their lives to load. 

BattleActs!

BattleActs!

Winners: People’s Choice Award, Vault Festival 2017. 

Peyton and Jared Stab Each Other in the Back

Peyton and Jared Stab Each Other in the Back

These two idiots are about to sell each other out for a chance at making more money than anyone’s ever made at Fringe. 

The Greatest Theatrical Event... Ever!

The Greatest Theatrical Event... Ever!

After numerous fires and showbiz bombs, The Grand Carlysle Theatre is amazingly celebrating its 100th anniversary. 

Peter Fleming: Have You Seen?

Peter Fleming: Have You Seen?

Retired children’s TV pioneer Peter Fleming needs your help. 

Sex Shells

Sex Shells

Sex Shells is a rampant and rambunctious hour of reverie, a camp cabaret that’s exceptionally remarkable in style. 

Double Denim: Adventure Show

Double Denim: Adventure Show

Part safari party. 

The Dead Ducks: York du Soleil

The Dead Ducks: York du Soleil

The University of York’s Dead Ducks take to the Fringe with their brand-new sketch show: York du Soleil. 

The Establishment: Le Bureau de Strange

The Establishment: Le Bureau de Strange

Expert stupidity from multi award-winning comedy duo, Dan Lees and Neil Frost. 

James Hancox: 1000 Great Lives

James Hancox: 1000 Great Lives

James returns with his most ambitious show to date – an epic, thought-provoking stage spectacular celebrating the 1000 great lives that shaped history. 

Ladylikes: Top Secret House Party!

Ladylikes: Top Secret House Party!

Shh! If you’re reading this, then you’ve been invited to Ladylikes Top Secret House Party! With all our friends getting engaged, promoted, pregnant and the odd OBE award, we fe… 

Jackman and Bones

Jackman and Bones

Lanky sketch duo Jackman and Bones debut at the Edinburgh Fringe with an hour of madcap, energetic, Oscar-worthy shenanigans, answering the questions you never knew you had: Is Doc… 

Mark and Haydn: Llaugh

Mark and Haydn: Llaugh

Sketch comedy double act Mark and Haydn have been described as ‘brilliant’ by their guardian. 

Bristol Revunions: Roadtrip

Bristol Revunions: Roadtrip

The award-winning Bristol Revunions are back on the road with their latest free Fringe show, Roadtrip! It’s not just the scenery that changes as Roadtrip features a three-week rota… 

NewsRevue

NewsRevue

If you like fast-paced political satire, polished with a high degree of musical theatre and jazz hands, this is the show for you! As to be expected from the team at NewsRevue, The … 

Business Casual

Business Casual

Winner: Stamptown Newcomer Award, 2019. 

Keith Carter: Dog Man Stars

Keith Carter: Dog Man Stars

The recovering songwriter now hooked on happiness, the sketch show absurdist with an identity crisis and the deadpan(sexual), Manson Family-friendly entertainer: Keith Carter is do… 

Ed and Joz's Deleted Scenes

Ed and Joz's Deleted Scenes

Anti-comedy legend Ed Aczel and beloved nuisance Joz Norris unite onstage for the first time, launching light entertainment’s newest double act. 

Goose: Ctrl+T

Goose: Ctrl+T

One-man sketch (but good). 

Miller and Salmon: Genesis

Miller and Salmon: Genesis

The Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene of sketch comedy have arrived on the moors of ye olde Edinburgh. 

Sketch You Up!

Sketch You Up!

Sketch You Up! bills itself as “Catherine Tate meets Little Britain”, and mostly manages to replicate the character-driven performances that made Tate, Walliams and Lucas house… 

Privates: A Sperm Odyssey

Privates: A Sperm Odyssey

Attention all sperm! This is a military operation in procreation. 

Free Footlights

Free Footlights

An hour of stand-up, songs, sketches and much more, from the Cambridge Footlights – alumni include Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, David Mitchell, Emma Thompson, Richard Ayoade, the ca… 

Jimmy Slim and Lewis Blomfield: Scratch and Sniff

Jimmy Slim and Lewis Blomfield: Scratch and Sniff

What’s that you can smell? It’s Lewis Blomfield and Jimmy Slim’s new droppings and ooh baby they positively stink of a great night out. 

Anna Nicholson: Woman of the Year

Anna Nicholson: Woman of the Year

‘Character comedy at its finest’ ***** (EdFestMag. 

The Oxford Revue: Switcheroo

The Oxford Revue: Switcheroo

Join the world-famous Oxford Revue as it returns to the Edinburgh Fringe for its 55th year. 

Children of the Quorn™

Children of the Quorn™

Former stars of the multi award-winning Durham Revue, ‘comedy geniuses’ (Jeremy Vine), and future Fringe legends Andrew and Ambika present a new sketch show, complete with séance. 

The Durham Revue: Unnatural Disaster

The Durham Revue: Unnatural Disaster

New year. 

Plans

Plans

So there is this man and this other man, one of them is good. 

The Improverts

The Improverts

The Fringe’s longest running improvised comedy group enters into its 30th year at its home, The Bedlam Theatre. 

Obsolete

Obsolete

After Fringe hit Speechless, Cambridge Footlights Comrie and Dan present the hyperkinetic, garish and gothic Obsolete: a sinister tech company presentation, combining the Silicon V… 

Two Little Dickheads: Kapow!

Two Little Dickheads: Kapow!

The Two Little Dickheads are back with a fresh explosion of idiocy. 

The St Andrews Revue Presents: Hot Yoghurt

The St Andrews Revue Presents: Hot Yoghurt

With an all-new line-up and fresh material, the St Andrews Revue are back at the Fringe. 

Valentine Boys: Because the Rent is Due

Valentine Boys: Because the Rent is Due

An hour of non-stop nonsense, original music and uncomfortable crowd work. 

Pottervision 2 (Work in Progress)

Pottervision 2 (Work in Progress)

The Harry Potter parody show returns with a brand-new work-in-progress hour! Join us, four full-grown men, as we celebrate and recreate the absurd scenes of those magical movies. 

SalFunni Comedy

SalFunni Comedy

The cream of the crop from the University of Salford showcasing the future faces of British comedy. 

Jasper Cromwell Jones' Alternative Book Festival

Jasper Cromwell Jones' Alternative Book Festival

Famous adventurer and posh idiot Jasper Cromwell Jones (played by award-winning comedian Joe Bor) presents an Alternative Book Festival with other weird and wonderful authors. 

Pottervision

Pottervision

Where better to perform a Harry Potter parody show than Edinburgh?Lukas Kirkby and Tom Lawrinson are back at the Fringe for their fourth year in a row with Pottervision. 

Sketch Thieves

Sketch Thieves

Comedy sketch swapping live! The hit cult show where sketch groups perform their own sketches, then each others’. 

Everyone Dropped Out of My Sketch Troupe

Everyone Dropped Out of My Sketch Troupe

An accidental one-woman show! Standing in the wreckage of a five-piece sketch troupe, one comedian is determined to keep going. 

Let’s Get Tough

Let’s Get Tough

Have you ever felt you’re not tough enough? Well two problematic fools are here to teach you how to grab life by the knackers. 

Bristol Revunions: Party

Bristol Revunions: Party

The Bristol Revunions return to Edinburgh and this time they’ve got something to celebrate. 

Foil Arms and Hog – Swines

Foil Arms and Hog – Swines

The boys are back in town and they still believe in the stag! Irish sketch comedy trio, Sean Finegan, Conor McKenna and Sean Flanagan, return for another Edinburgh Fringe run with … 

Police Cops – Badass Be Thy Name

Police Cops – Badass Be Thy Name

Gird your loins and suspend any disbelief for the weirdest, rip-roaring adventure you’ll ever experience. 

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre: Roll Up!

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre: Roll Up!

Edinburgh Fringe has a number of shows that have a real cult status among festivalgoers, and up there with the cultest of them is the self-explanatory Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet… 

Lusty Mannequins: Uncommonwealth

Lusty Mannequins: Uncommonwealth

This ‘sure to sell out act’ (NOW Magazine) has four veteran performers with over 60 years combined comedy experience. 

Briony Redman is Indecisive (or Isn't, You Decide!)

Briony Redman is Indecisive (or Isn't, You Decide!)

Life is short. 

Tarot

Tarot

When three people in white nightgowns run frantically into an attic pouring a circle of salt, you know the devil can’t be far behind. 

Goodbear: Dougal

Goodbear: Dougal

Goodbear put on a pretty spectacular routine considering they never actually show up. 

Siblings: The Siblinginging

Siblings: The Siblinginging

Following last year’s sell-out show, character comedians and IRL sisters Maddy and Marina are back and bigger than ever (at least physically). 

Giants Are Fjörd

Giants Are Fjörd

Everything about Giants Are Fjörd, the Fringe favourite duo’s new show for 2019, is exciting. 

Just These Please: Suitable

Just These Please: Suitable

Just These Please are back with their brand new show Suitable. 

Lola and Jo: Escape

Lola and Jo: Escape

Clock’s ticking. 

MARVELus: All the Marvel Movies… Kind of. 2019

MARVELus: All the Marvel Movies… Kind of. 2019

‘Their versions of the Marvel films might even be better’ ****½ (fb. 

Moon: We Cannot Get Out

Moon: We Cannot Get Out

Two provincial louts perform grotty comedy sketches. 

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2019: Look Alive!

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2019: Look Alive!

Join ‘the most renowned sketch troupe of them all’ (Independent) as they embark on another exceptional world tour, performing to over 20,000 people across two continents. 

The Death Hilarious: Razer

The Death Hilarious: Razer

The Death Hilarious: Razer starts out with a pretty solid premise: since his Fringe debut in 2017, Darren J. 

Max & Ivan: Commitment

Max & Ivan: Commitment

There ain’t no party like a Max & Ivan party, ‘cause a Max & Ivan party uses equations to guarantee participant enjoyment!The comedy duo are back at the Fringe and read… 

Felix and The Scootermen: Self-Help Yourself Famous

Felix and The Scootermen: Self-Help Yourself Famous

We’re granting you, the audience, access all areas! A-list, pop-star celebrities Felix Scoot and Lee Delamere welcome you behind the velvet rope to a self-help masterclass on how t… 

Demi Lardner: Ditch Witch 800

Demi Lardner: Ditch Witch 800

Once upon a time, in a faraway swamp, there lived an ogre named Demi Lardner (Mike Myers) whose precious solitude was suddenly shattered by an invasion of annoying fairy tale chara… 

Hunt & Murphy: Beg Borrow and Bitch

Hunt & Murphy: Beg Borrow and Bitch

80’s comedy fantasy! Cassandra Hunt and Cynthia Murphy, co-hosts of America’s No. 

Manhunt 2: Big Mood

Manhunt 2: Big Mood

Best friends Emm and Leo have made the bold artistic decision to graduate without any skills or job prospects. 

Anna and Helen: Stuck in a Rat

Anna and Helen: Stuck in a Rat

Ever found yourself stuck in a rat? Unpleasant, isn’t it? Time marches on, but you’re on the spot. 

MOTHER

MOTHER

Low-brow, high-camp sketch comedy duo MOTHER make their Fringe debut with an unapologetically hilarious hour of trashy treasure. 

It Takes Three to Tango

It Takes Three to Tango

Frenemies Amaya, Lottie and Will tried everything to get noticed, except the unimaginable: working together. 

Terra Is a Warm Gun

Terra Is a Warm Gun

When the Uber driver pulls up and asks if Terra is Hung, ‘so hung’ is usually the response. 

The Infamous Five Sketch Show

The Infamous Five Sketch Show

In a controversial move to promote classic children’s novels, publishers have released all the stories far too filthy for the page! The Infamous Five is an hour-long sketch show … 

So You Think You're Funny? Sketch

So You Think You're Funny? Sketch

Join us for the second year of the new comedy competition celebrating all things sketch! The organiser’s behind the UK’s biggest comedy newcomer competition are on the hunt for the… 

The Liverpool Revue

The Liverpool Revue

Liverpool’s acclaimed sketch comedy show hurtles back to the Fringe for its fifth year of unmistakable whimsy and Merseyside wit. 

InsTed Talks

InsTed Talks

Mark Vigil presents four characters, each delivering a Ted Talk sort of thing, ish. 

Funny Women on the Fringe

Funny Women on the Fringe

Join Funny Women for a sparkling mix of comedy including performances by special guests and the brightest new talent at the Fringe. 

Eleanor Colville: Late-Night Pick and Mix

Eleanor Colville: Late-Night Pick and Mix

A sweet late-night mix of up-and-coming sketch, stand-up and character comedy hosted by Eleanor Colville. Join the revels. ‘Catch her while you have the chance’ (BroadwayBaby.com). 

Australian Beauty

Australian Beauty

Mick Neven and Jacques Barrett are two of Australia’s strongest headline comics. 

BEASTS: Best of BEASTS

BEASTS: Best of BEASTS

Best of BEASTS is a wild and brilliant explosion of a show packed with slightly smaller explosions throughout – and I’m not talking about pyrotechnics. 

Alphabetti Cabaretti

Alphabetti Cabaretti

One hour, 26 sketches stretching chronologically through 26 letters of the alphabet. 

Happimess

Happimess

Is my happy the same as your happy? Where do we find it, and where does it go? Can we share it, fake it, keep it? Are we asking too many questions?! Devised by the company and scri… 

T2 Brainclotting

T2 Brainclotting

Choose life. 

All Hail the Rat King!

All Hail the Rat King!

The Skits, Cornell University’s original sketch comedy troupe, has crossed the Atlantic to deliver some cold, hard jokes. 

Mother

Mother

Laura Curnick and Jack Mosedale are Mother and this is their show. 

No Funny Business

No Funny Business

Simon Hall is a comedy writer, TV icon and national treasure, who finds himself arrested under suspicion of never having told a joke. 

Riverdale Live

Riverdale Live

Our story is about a town. 

Pigs in Residence

Pigs in Residence

Pigs in Residence is a comedy collective established in 2017 by comedians Arianna Beadie, Serafina Cusack and Steph Van Geete, who carefully curate line-ups to present the best and… 

Seven-Day NHS: Naughty Health Stories

Seven-Day NHS: Naughty Health Stories

The Oxford Medical Students’ Tingewick Society come fresh from a sell-out slapstick pantomime to bring an insider’s view of medical life to the Edinburgh Fringe. 

HUB Fresh

HUB Fresh

The best place to discover new comedy on the Fringe! Join us for a line-up of comedians, all making their Pleasance debuts this year. 

Croft & Pearce: Double Take

Croft & Pearce: Double Take

Stars of BBC Radio 4’s The Croft & Pearce Show and Sketchorama, winners of the Mervyn Stutter Spirit of the Fringe Award, recipients of the official Fringe Total Sell-Out Show Laur… 

The Fresh Prince of Healthcare

The Fresh Prince of Healthcare

For their 19th year at the Edinburgh Fringe, St George’s Medics’ Revue are back with a prescription for the Malignant Humours and their new fast-paced, medically based, comedy … 

Northern Power Blouse – Up Your Promenade

Northern Power Blouse – Up Your Promenade

Saunter down the promenade with Northern Power Blouse for a show full of sketches, silly songs and larger-than-life characters. 

Bristol Revunions Present: Hoops

Bristol Revunions Present: Hoops

The Bristol Revunions return to the free Fringe with their show Hoops. 

The Edinburgh Revue Is All at Sea

The Edinburgh Revue Is All at Sea

The Edinburgh Revue – the Titanic of comedy. 

Is That Right Aye?

Is That Right Aye?

The Weegies are back! This time with another new Scottish comedy spectacular! After their sold-out run last year, the boys have returned with a bigger, better and funnier show! For… 

Susan Harrison Is a Bit Weepy

Susan Harrison Is a Bit Weepy

Susan Harrison’s latest multiple-character show. 

Thea-Skot Through the Heart and You're to Blame

Thea-Skot Through the Heart and You're to Blame

Following her five-star smash-hit It’s Thea-Skot in Here (So Take Off All Your Clothes), Alison Thea-Skot brings you a sizzling explosion of chaotic character comedy. 

Three Menopausal Maids

Three Menopausal Maids

You really don’t want to miss this show. 

Brain Rinse

Brain Rinse

Entering the room for Brain Rinse, the audience are engulfed by eerie music and the lurking of an arabianesque ninja creeping about the studio. 

Tom Skelton: Blind Eye Spy

Tom Skelton: Blind Eye Spy

2023. 

The Leeds Tealights: Souls for Sale

The Leeds Tealights: Souls for Sale

After their five-star run (TheWeeReview. 

What the... Feminist?!

What the... Feminist?!

Sexism getting you down? Never fear! Join us as we dismantle the patriarchy, one song and dance at a time. 

Oxford Revue: Free

Oxford Revue: Free

The Oxford Revue returns with its celebrated Free Fringe variety bill. 

BattleActs! Improvised Comedy

BattleActs! Improvised Comedy

As heard on BBC Radio 1! Winners: VAULT Festival People’s Choice Award. 

Two Faced Bitchin'

Two Faced Bitchin'

A high octane, 80s inspired, dark comedy sketch show! Imagine if Dynasty and Desperate Housewives met on RuPaul’s Drag Race, in the 80s! Set in the power-dressed world of Cassandra… 

Present and Correct

Present and Correct

Present and Correct, the University of York’s superb sketch troupe are heading back to the Fringe with an all new smash show. 

The Lost Matriarch 2

The Lost Matriarch 2

Chuckle award runner-up (1998) Berlinda will take you on a journey to The Lost Matriarch, leaving behind all you have ever known about gender. 

That's So GCSE

That's So GCSE

Blackouts. 

The Oxford Revue: Wasted

The Oxford Revue: Wasted

The Revue return to the Fringe following an international tour with an hour of high-octane sketch and musical comedy – with an absurdist and political bent – from the best and … 

Comedy from Salford Uni

Comedy from Salford Uni

The cream of the crop from the University of Salford showcasing the future faces of British comedy. 

Pottervision

Pottervision

The Potter parody show that celebrates and highlights the absurdities of those magical movies. 

Tom and Ollie in: One and a Half Men

Tom and Ollie in: One and a Half Men

Tom and Ollie are ‘creative, witty, sketchsmiths’ with ‘a sackful of promise’ (Chortle. 

Holt and Talbot: Mansplaining Feminism

Holt and Talbot: Mansplaining Feminism

Still talking to each other after last year’s Edinburgh success with Holt and Talbot Can’t Stand The Sight Of Each Other, no one is more surprised than them. 

Sam & Tom: Interview

Sam & Tom: Interview

After reviewing your application, Sam & Tom are pleased to offer you the opportunity to interview for the position of audience in their new cult comedy show. 

Witch Hunt

Witch Hunt

An ex-SNP politico, a bible-wielding American mom and JK Rowling walk into a. 

KEITH. Presents KEVIN.

KEITH. Presents KEVIN.

‘Unbeatable comedic timing’ ***** (DurhamStudentTheatre. 

The Never Ending Cycle

The Never Ending Cycle

May Cause Mild Irritation – The Never Ending Cycle 

NewsRevue

NewsRevue

Nobody is safe. 

Tracy's Leaving Party: Hot Young Things

Tracy's Leaving Party: Hot Young Things

Christy Coysh (as seen on BBC Three) and Kat Sadler (selected for BBC New Comedy Award 2017) debut their first work-in-progress show. 

Agenda Benders: Witty Gritty Bitty Fitty Committee

Agenda Benders: Witty Gritty Bitty Fitty Committee

Agenda Benders presents Witty Gritty Bitty Fitty Committee. 

Two Little Dickheads

Two Little Dickheads

This is what happens when a cabaret clown and an improv master with a shared passion for cats spend way too much time together. 

Lola and Jo: Focus Groupies

Lola and Jo: Focus Groupies

Character comedians Lola and Jo (**** (List)) are pretty certain they have a revolutionary show on their hands. 

The St Andrews Revue Presents: Bears!

The St Andrews Revue Presents: Bears!

The St Andrews Revue are back for their eighth Edinburgh Fringe! This year they’re on the run from the law, and their ‘extremely funny’ (BroadwayBaby. 

Jon & Nath Like to Party

Jon & Nath Like to Party

After last year’s totally sold out Edinburgh run, Jon & Nath return with their unique style of hardcore sketch comedy mischief. 

The Biscuit Barrel

The Biscuit Barrel

Armed with 55 sketches in the space of an hour, hyperactivity is unleashed on stage in the form of The Biscuit Barrel. 

The Delightful Sausage: Regeneration Game

The Delightful Sausage: Regeneration Game

Surreal comedy from Yorkshire’s finest, meat-themed double act. 

The Newcastle Revue: Tyne of Your Life

The Newcastle Revue: Tyne of Your Life

Newcastle Comedy Society’s first foray into the Edinburgh Fringe after gaining popularity in Newcastle for hosting hilarious, chaotic shows for the student population and the pub… 

Dom O'Keefe: Free Willy from the Perspective of the Whale

Dom O'Keefe: Free Willy from the Perspective of the Whale

A massive whale escapes from prison with the help of a small child. 

Lead Pencil

Lead Pencil

Imagine the love-child of Saved by the Bell and Art Attack! That’s Lead Pencil and they’ve made a sketch show by literally sketching it. 

The Durham Revue present: Zeitgeist

The Durham Revue present: Zeitgeist

Back with a new troupe and 100% new material, come and see the renowned Durham Revue perform their own brand of ‘masterful’ (ThreeWeeks) sketch comedy! Known for their irreverent s… 

The Not So Late Show With Ross and Josh

The Not So Late Show With Ross and Josh

Join your hosts, Ross Brierley and Joshua Sadler, as they bring the UK’s finest spoof chat show and chaotic cabaret back to the Fringe. 

Speechless

Speechless

Experimental multimedia sketch show from Cambridge Footlights regulars for the fake news era. 

The Museum of Tat Roadshow

The Museum of Tat Roadshow

Welcome to the Roadshow – it’s just like your favourite antiques-based telly programme off the telly, just not on the telly, and devoted to Tat. 

Jem Brookes: Schizophonic

Jem Brookes: Schizophonic

Jem Brookes: Schizophonic is a fast-paced cacophony of characters and voices that come out of one man’s head. 

Loose Brie Solve Everything

Loose Brie Solve Everything

In real life, Loose Brie (Martin and Phil) live together in a tiny flat. 

Bread and Geller: Prime Time

Bread and Geller: Prime Time

Step aside Ricky and Bianca, there’s a new duo in town. 

Sex Shells

Sex Shells

London’s campest musical sketch comedy quartet is here to flame on your parade! Sex Shells is an explosion of original music, surreal sketches, wayward choreography and twisted rew… 

Vice Captains

Vice Captains

Vice Captains are here. 

Big Shop

Big Shop

It’s time for the Big Shop, not to be confused with your ‘bits shop’ (which you might do at the little Tesco) or your ‘big wash’ (which is like the Big Shop but that’s not what we’… 

Tessa Waters: Fully Sik

Tessa Waters: Fully Sik

Tessa Waters is an experienced Fringe act, falling into a large group of fantastically-exuberant physical comedians who enliven any number of venues from large to small over the mo… 

Dirty White Boys: Manners

Dirty White Boys: Manners

The award-winning sketch duo is back to bring their trademark high-energy nonsense to a variety of news topics. 

Sketch Thieves

Sketch Thieves

Comedy sketch swapping live! The cult hit show where sketch groups perform their own sketches, then each others’. 

The Kagools: Kula

The Kagools: Kula

Multi award-winning physical comedy duo, The Kagools, are unstoppable as they propel silent comedy into the 21st century with pure joy, anarchic buffoonery and unique 'wit and ima… 

Steen Raskopoulos: Stay

Steen Raskopoulos: Stay

The electrifying new show from the gifted character comedian and improviser. 

Bad Clowns: Hostage

Bad Clowns: Hostage

What happens when a crazed madman takes a comedy show and its audience hostage? Find out in the Bad Clowns maddest show yet. 

Paul Foxcroft: Huge If True

Paul Foxcroft: Huge If True

Paul Foxcroft (Cariad and Paul, Michael McIntyre’s Big Show) is a professional improviser who, for some reason, has decided to script an hour’s show in defiance of his many years o… 

Beach Hunks: Leg Day

Beach Hunks: Leg Day

Toned. 

Planet Caramel: Rotations in Flavour Space

Planet Caramel: Rotations in Flavour Space

Free Tunnock’s Caramel Wafer for every audience member! Scotland’s fastest, best and only sketch trio present a light-speed comedy experience like no other. 

Hot Mess: Bezzie Mates

Hot Mess: Bezzie Mates

Max and Anna filmed themselves writing silly sketches for a year to make sure they didn’t miss a trick. 

Bristol Revunions Present: Paraguay

Bristol Revunions Present: Paraguay

In 1988 the treasurer of the Bristol Revunions emptied the comedy troupe’s bank account and fled to Paraguay, leaving the society bankrupt and forcing the group to disband. 

Anna Nicholson: Woman of the Year

Anna Nicholson: Woman of the Year

Meet the nominees for Woman of the Year in Anna Nicholson’s debut character-comedy show. 

Sagar Dreamcast

Sagar Dreamcast

Fiona Sagar (Funny Women Best Show nominee 2016 and 2017, The Groundlings Comedy Theatre) returns with a new character comedy show, Sagar Dreamcast. 

Foil, Arms and Hog – Craicling

Foil, Arms and Hog – Craicling

The line of excited punters outside Nicholson Hall is long. 

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre: Superheroes

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre: Superheroes

Sock! Pow! Wham! Earth’s funniest footwear are back with their 10th new show of songs, sketches, socks and violence. 

Siblings: Acting Out

Siblings: Acting Out

Is the comedy gene something you can inherit from your parents? If so then Siblings: Acting Out sisters Maddy and Marina Bye have been blessed with it in spades. 

Egg: Richard Pictures

Egg: Richard Pictures

Brand-new sketch show from stars of award-winning Fringe favourites BattleActs (BBC Radio 1). 

Sheeps: Live and Loud Selfie Sex Harry Potter

Sheeps: Live and Loud Selfie Sex Harry Potter

Sheeps are officially back, following previous acclaim and an underground status as one of the Fringe's finest sketch groups and then a three year sebatical. 

Demi Lardner: I Love Skeleton

Demi Lardner: I Love Skeleton

Demi Lardner feels the need, at one point in their most recent show, to unveil a banner listing their previous accomplishments and awards they have won. 

Manhunt

Manhunt

Cambridge Footlights duo Leo Reich and Emm Downie do not disappoint with their hour of sketch and character comedy which focuses on the perils of of modern day dating. 

Moon

Moon

Moon is a comedy double-act by Jack Chisnall and Joshua Dolphin, two proud sons of England’s provincial backwaters. 

Josh Glanc: Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Chamedian

Josh Glanc: Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Chamedian

Winner: Best Comedy, Perth Fringe 2017. 

UCL Graters: Panopticon

UCL Graters: Panopticon

The nation’s favourite appliance-themed comedy troupe returns for the heavenliest of seventh years at the Fringe. 

Avocado: Definitely Maybe Not

Avocado: Definitely Maybe Not

After last year’s millennial-bashing debut, Avocado! are back and invite you to take a leap into the twisted little world of two twenty-something nothings for a second helping of… 

Sleeping Trees: World Tour

Sleeping Trees: World Tour

Sleeping Trees have been travelling around the world! They've been scuba-diving at the Great Barrier Reef, trekking the ancient Inca trails of Peru and gone dogging in Blackpool. 

Short & Curly: Young at Start

Short & Curly: Young at Start

Curly is convinced that appearing youthful is the answer to success and he will do whatever is necessary to get ‘youth’. 

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2018: Pillow Talk

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2018: Pillow Talk

Join ‘the most renowned sketch troupe of them all’ (Independent) as they embark on another world tour. 

Great British Mysteries: 1599?

Great British Mysteries: 1599?

After a sell out run last year the Great British Mysteries return to the Fringe with a new show set 400 years earlier, but still the containing the wit, charm, and ridiculous sense… 

Bryony Twydle: Flamingo

Bryony Twydle: Flamingo

Character comedian Bryony Twydle (BBC Radio 4’s Sketchorama, E!’s The Royals) presents her debut Edinburgh show. 

Lazy Susan: Forgive Me, Mother!

Lazy Susan: Forgive Me, Mother!

Freya Parker and Celeste Dring are back at the Fringe with a refreshingly light-hearted slice of sketch show comedy. 

Camels

Camels

Camels is a side-splittingly funny five-star sketch comedy, coming to Edinburgh after four sell-out runs in London. 

The Travelling Sisters: Toupé

The Travelling Sisters: Toupé

Masterfully combining physical comedy, characters and original music, The Travelling Sisters are ‘insane geniuses of sketch comedy’ (GreatScott. 

MARVELus: All the Marvel Movies. Kind of. 2018

MARVELus: All the Marvel Movies. Kind of. 2018

Direct from a standing room only season at Edinburgh Fringe last year, and a critically acclaimed tour of Australia this, the world's premier nerd-culture double-act, The Just Us … 

Norris & Parker: Burn the Witch

Norris & Parker: Burn the Witch

First and foremost, this is not a show for the faint-hearted. 

Stevie Martin Vol. 1

Stevie Martin Vol. 1

One third of critically-acclaimed sketch group Massive Dad, **** (Guardian), Stevie Martin presents her debut solo show. 

The Pin: Backstage

The Pin: Backstage

The Pin return to the Edinburgh Fringe with an Alan Ayckbourn type conceit: as suggested by this year’s title Backstage, the bulk of the show has performers Alex Owen and Ben Ash… 

Just These, Please

Just These, Please

Just These, Please is a sketch troupe with promise and imagination. 

Sisters: On Demand

Sisters: On Demand

After a sell-out debut show, innovative sketch duo Sisters are putting you in control of their highly anticipated second hour. 

Briony Redman: Sketch Artist

Briony Redman: Sketch Artist

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. 

Queen C*nt – Sacred or Profane?

Queen C*nt – Sacred or Profane?

Blending comedy, drag, song and the grotesque, with absurd character sketches. 

Pelican: Fisk

Pelican: Fisk

Brand-new whirlwind comedy by the critically acclaimed Pelican (makers of The Cat Man Curse). 

Forks, Sharks and Leafy Greens

Forks, Sharks and Leafy Greens

Two grown women wonder whether basking sharks eat people, whether not eating enough leafy greens during your pregnancy will cause your child to have no fashion sense and if combing… 

Would You Adam and Eve It?

Would You Adam and Eve It?

Take two funny men and ask them to create a hilarious dash through Genesis and Exodus in just under 90 minutes. 

Omar & Lee's Countercultural Comedic Cavalcade

Omar & Lee's Countercultural Comedic Cavalcade

Omar & Lee are two countercultural clowns on a mission to enlighten and entertain. 

Spank!tacular

Spank!tacular

Spank’s big sister returns with sexier hosts and more awesome comedy and cabaret – don’t miss the ‘best wild night out’ (Scotland on Sunday). 

Giants: For an Hour

Giants: For an Hour

After a sell-out debut show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe last year, Giants return with their sophomore hour. 

So You Think You're Funny? Sketch

So You Think You're Funny? Sketch

A brand-new string to the biggest and best comedy newcomer competition in its 30th anniversary year! To celebrate 30 years of nurturing and developing new comic talent – we’re on… 

Zinus

Zinus

Congratulations! You have been selected to work for Zinus Family Inc Ltd LLP. 

Zinus

Zinus

Congratulations! You have been selected to work for Zinus Family Inc Ltd LLP. 

Kids With Beards: Fandango!

Kids With Beards: Fandango!

The beardy babes are back, baby! Atop broomstick horses we ride, offering up unto you Fandango! – an hour of surreal, stupid, knee-slappin’ sketches that’ll make you scream Y… 

Tom & Ollie in Wasps

Tom & Ollie in Wasps

What do Andy Murray, Google and Bordeaux’s number one philosophizer François Fromage have in common? Yes, that’s right – wasps. 

Spectaculus

Spectaculus

2025 AD. 

Viva La Shambles

Viva La Shambles

Join anarchic makers of madness Viva La Shambles as they bring their popular monthly night of chaotic live comedy to the Fringe. 

Spank!tacular

Spank!tacular

Spank’s big sister returns with sexier hosts and more awesome comedy and cabaret – don’t miss the ‘best wild night out’ (Scotland on Sunday). 

Coates and Cooper Present: Kidnap

Coates and Cooper Present: Kidnap

Coates and Cooper have 60 minutes fully clothed to find the comedy in a “kidnap”. 

The Oxford Revue: Witch Hunt

The Oxford Revue: Witch Hunt

An American, a Scot and a woman walk into a bar – they’re three of the Oxford Revue’s finest returning to Edinburgh with an hour of character comedy. 

Stand Up for Shelter

Stand Up for Shelter

Stand Up for Shelter returns for our fourth year at the Fringe, bringing a fantastic showcase of comedy in aid of Shelter! This year’s line-up is jam-packed and will see Sara Pas… 

Uncomfortable Encounters

Uncomfortable Encounters

A Unicorn walks into a bar. 

Womb Raider

Womb Raider

Returning for their 18th show at the Edinburgh Fringe. 

Brain Rinse – Puppetry of the Audience

Brain Rinse – Puppetry of the Audience

Runner-up Best Comedy Show Buxton Fringe 2017, Brain Rinse is a bizarre madcap, interactive sketch show starring you, the audience. 

The Edinburgh Revue: Jamboreavement

The Edinburgh Revue: Jamboreavement

The Edinburgh Revue is back in black, bringing you sketch comedy straight from the horse’s mouth. 

Planet Caramel: Hot, Sexy, Kind and Desperate

Planet Caramel: Hot, Sexy, Kind and Desperate

TLB (three lovely boys) seek EP (entire planet) for friendship and maybe more. 

Northern Power Blouse

Northern Power Blouse

Three feisty northern lasses present a right good sketch show that’s full of heart, songs, larger than life characters and highly flammable 80s blouses. 

Ships

Ships

Ever made a huge mistake? Audrey did! Having realised her childhood ambition to be a doctor, Audrey makes a fatal error… quite literally. 

Galpals: Because at the End of the Day, That's What We'd Like to be Known as

Galpals: Because at the End of the Day, That's What We'd Like to be Known as

Colour coordinated galpals Emma Moran and Sarah King, explore the meaning of friendship through the mediums of poorly made hats and sketch comedy. 

Fish Finger Fridays: Fun Time Friends

Fish Finger Fridays: Fun Time Friends

Hot, new(ish) comedy trio are back in Edinburgh with a playful new sketch show. 

WMD Makes Everything Better

WMD Makes Everything Better

We all have problems in life. 

Leaf

Leaf

Mark is a chemical engineer. 

That's You Now If You Wanna Take Your Wee Card Out!

That's You Now If You Wanna Take Your Wee Card Out!

People watching is bloody brilliant, isn’t it? Let’s take a good look at those spectacular nobodies, anybodies and busybodies. 

The Intimate Strangers: Mister Bond

The Intimate Strangers: Mister Bond

The Intimate Strangers: Mister Bond is one of those shows made up from two guys (most of the time), a collection of wigs, cloaks, scarves and, guns that are mixed together with a w… 

Alex Morris – Apologies

Alex Morris – Apologies

Original, notable and deplorable characters take to the stage to apologise directly to you for their wrongdoings. 

Two Plus Ones: Huge Night In

Two Plus Ones: Huge Night In

Raucous, fraternal comedy from award-winning sketch trio. 

Steen Raskopoulos – The Coolest Kid in Competitive Chess

Steen Raskopoulos – The Coolest Kid in Competitive Chess

Steen Raskopoulos makes no effort to be cool on stage. 

Laugh, Why Don’t You? A Sketch Show by Fish Pie!

Laugh, Why Don’t You? A Sketch Show by Fish Pie!

Offbeat sketchlings Fish Pie! permit you to disregard political satire, a cappella groups and men noticing things then pausing for laughter in favour of compulsory mirth. 

Cat FM

Cat FM

The zombie apocalypse rages outside, but we are relatively safe and quite warm in the last bastion of civilisation – a radio station run by two cats. 

Nobody Puts Bibby in the Corner

Nobody Puts Bibby in the Corner

A one-man variety show by award-winning comedian Dave Bibby. 

The Canon: A Literary Sketch Show

The Canon: A Literary Sketch Show

This is a very silly comedy about some very serious books (and poems and plays). 

Late Night Gimp Fight

Late Night Gimp Fight

The washed-up boy band of sketch comedy are back with their first new show in four years. 

The St Andrews Revue presents: The Big Time

The St Andrews Revue presents: The Big Time

They say fame is a fickle friend, and the St Andrews Revue have been lonely for years. 

Siân and Zoë's Sugar Coma Fever Nightmare

Siân and Zoë's Sugar Coma Fever Nightmare

Technicolour sketch hazard Siân & Zoë – ‘Truly surreal’ **** (Skinny). 

The Delightful Sausage: Cold Hard Cache

The Delightful Sausage: Cold Hard Cache

Cold Hard Cache is the debut comedy adventure from double act The Delightful Sausage – AKA Chris Cantrill, ‘Simple and bizarre punchlines with unerring skill’ ***** (EdFestMa… 

Teasing the Funny Bone: A Seminar (For Professionals, Amateurs and Anyone In-Between)

Teasing the Funny Bone: A Seminar (For Professionals, Amateurs and Anyone In-Between)

A “professional” seminar on how to rise to fame in the comedy world! Join our hosts as they stumble their way through a corporate lecture with anecdotes, lies and incorrect facts. 

Muriel: Bad Master

Muriel: Bad Master

Muriel (Janine Harouni, Meg Salter and Sally O’Leary) are multi award-winning actresses and comedy performers. 

Laughing Stock

Laughing Stock

Laughing Stock are a sketch comedy foursome who incorporate live music, dance and mime to create a narrative-driven show with hysterical characters and a quick, witty script. 

The Daddy and Beeje Chat Show

The Daddy and Beeje Chat Show

Daddy and Beeje, two self-absorbed, dysfunctional TV presenters, are getting ready for their live chat show. 

Sam & Tom: Unrectifiable

Sam & Tom: Unrectifiable

Post-sketch revival. 

Franks and Skinner Present: MindfulMess

Franks and Skinner Present: MindfulMess

Grab a morning coffee and start your (Fringe) day with a life-changing symposium (terms and conditions apply). 

We Stand Amused

We Stand Amused

A man stands accused of a heinous crime. 

The Oxford Revue: Free

The Oxford Revue: Free

The Oxford Revue present a rotating cast of the country’s brightest young comedians. 

Jon and Nath Like to Party

Jon and Nath Like to Party

Fresh from a sell-out Brighton Fringe run, a mischievous new sketch comedy show from best friends who can’t stand each other – Jon Levene and Nathan Lang. 

The Naz Show

The Naz Show

Heavyweight sketch maestro (WitTank) and award winning stand-up veteran, Naz, charges back to the Burgh to punch out his first solo sketch show. 

Pottervision

Pottervision

The Potter parody show that celebrates and highlights the absurdities of those magical movies. 

Leeds Tealights: Fix Us

Leeds Tealights: Fix Us

Winners of the 2015 Derek Award for Best Sketch Show, the Tealights are back, presenting an hour of fast-paced, absurd comedy in their brand-new show, Fix Us. 

Normal Boy Presents: Normal Boy

Normal Boy Presents: Normal Boy

‘Hysterical… Terrifyingly brilliant commitment to everything’ (TheEdgeSUSU. 

MARVELus: All the Marvel Movies in an Hour

MARVELus: All the Marvel Movies in an Hour

All the movies in the Marvel cinematic universe in one hour. 

Imaginary Radio

Imaginary Radio

Imaginary Radio is a devilishly satirical comedy, taking a darker look at American pop culture using music, sketch and beatboxing. 

We Are Not Afraid

We Are Not Afraid

These ‘improvising geniuses’ (FunnyWomen. 

Sagar Mega Drive

Sagar Mega Drive

Sagar Mega Drive is Fiona Sagar’s return to Edinburgh following her 2016 Funny Women Award nominated show Entitled. 

Present and Correct

Present and Correct

Present and Correct are back once again for another hilarious run at the Edinburgh Fringe! We return with an all-new show packed full of this year’s latest and greatest sketches … 

Sketch Thieves

Sketch Thieves

Comedy sketch swapping live! The cult hit show where sketch groups perform their own sketches, then each others’. 

Present and Correct

Present and Correct

Present and Correct are back once again for another hilarious run at the Edinburgh Fringe! We return with an all-new show packed full of this year’s latest and greatest sketches … 

Goose: Amphetawaltz

Goose: Amphetawaltz

Amphetawaltz, as a show and a title, distinguishes itself from every other sketch show in Edinburgh this year and the reason why can be found in the title itself. 

Boys & Girls

Boys & Girls

‘Men are from Earth. 

Bristol Revunions: Glass

Bristol Revunions: Glass

Bristol Revunions are a surreal, playful, energetic bunch of sketch comedians that have put together a brand-new show for you, full of original funny material. 

Lily Lovett Lovett Lovett, I'm Lovin' It Like That

Lily Lovett Lovett Lovett, I'm Lovin' It Like That

Inbetweeners star Lily Lovett brings you celebrity impressions and sketches with music and audience interaction to create her fast-paced, high-energy, hilarious debut show! Come an… 

Beach Hunks: Hog Wild

Beach Hunks: Hog Wild

Stronger. 

A Drinking Game!

A Drinking Game!

Love to watch movies? Love to drink? Come see your favourite cult movie classics read live and turned into an interactive drinking game! Featured shows include Back to the Future, … 

Hurt and Anderson: Come What May

Hurt and Anderson: Come What May

Hurt and Anderson are on the edge. 

UCL Graters: Smashing

UCL Graters: Smashing

In UCL Graters’ return to Edinburgh, even the refreshments are violent. 

Dirty White Boys: Stupid

Dirty White Boys: Stupid

Imaginative, imbalanced and imbecilic sketch duo Dirty White Boys are proud to present a brand-new show for 2017! The boys bring their trademark fast-paced idiocy to a whole new se… 

Holt and Talbot Can’t Stand the Sight of Each Other

Holt and Talbot Can’t Stand the Sight of Each Other

They haven’t got enough material for their own solo shows and nobody else will work with them, so Christian Talbot and Rosie Holt will be performing stand-up, sketches and music wh… 

Focus On: Lola and Jo

Focus On: Lola and Jo

Are you an 18 to 80-year-old employed or unemployed middle-income earner, from an urban or rural area who shops online or in store? Ambitious fame-hungry comedians Lola and Jo want… 

NewsRevue 2017

NewsRevue 2017

Guinness World Record-breaking, Fringe First-winning, Perrier finalist, news-based song and sketch show. 

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2017: Dream Sequence

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2017: Dream Sequence

When an Edinburgh Fringe virgin asks a seasoned Fringe-lover (that’s me, by the way) for show recommendations there are a number of shows I always highlight before reviews have e… 

Gein's Family Giftshop: Volume 3

Gein's Family Giftshop: Volume 3

Sketch comedy is the medium in which an original voice is most important in order to be successful. 

Foil, Arms and Hog: Oink

Foil, Arms and Hog: Oink

Irish sketch trio and social media sensations Foil, Arms and Hog are back at the Fringe after selling out shows for the last eight, (yes you read that right, eight), years. 

Salt Water: A Comedy Show

Salt Water: A Comedy Show

Bracing maritime sketch show from Eggbox Comedy. 

Daniel Nils Roberts: The Causeway

Daniel Nils Roberts: The Causeway

The year is 991 and the Vikings are coming. 

Siblings

Siblings

The art of the comedic double act is a difficult one and its success largely based on chemistry between the two performers. 

The Inane Chicanery of a Certain Adam GC Riches

The Inane Chicanery of a Certain Adam GC Riches

Don’t worry, I also had to Google most of the words in the title. 

Giants: For an Hour

Giants: For an Hour

With so many comedy double acts at the Fringe – many of whom are also middle-class white boys from London – Will Hislop and Barney Fishwick have their work cut out to stand out… 

Ben Fogg: How I Won Best Newcomer 2017

Ben Fogg: How I Won Best Newcomer 2017

A once in a lifetime opportunity to see the greatest living comic of every generation. 

Great British Mysteries?

Great British Mysteries?

Do you like mysteries? Are you the sort of person who says: ‘I wonder what that was?’. 

Maddy Anholt – Herselves

Maddy Anholt – Herselves

Character comedian Maddy Anholt returns following five-star sell-outs at the Edinburgh Fringe and the Soho Theatre with a brand spanking new and hilarious hour that delves into her… 

Goodbear

Goodbear

As their hotel receptionist alter-egos, Henry Perryment and Joe Barnes help us check into The Hotel Après Vie for an hour of horror movie-themed entertainment. 

Aunty Donna: Big Boys

Aunty Donna: Big Boys

This is Aunty Donna’s fourth Edinburgh Fringe, they have a huge following and return as popular as ever. 

Thünderbards: 4nd

Thünderbards: 4nd

Critically acclaimed sketch duo Thünderbards return to Edinburgh with their 4nd hour of gag laden comedy, filled with their trademark off-beat jokes, fast paced sketches and overw… 

Sisters: White Noise

Sisters: White Noise

In their Fringe debut comedy hour Sisters hit the ground running with a fast paced, intensely dark and gut bustingly funny show of sketches, skits, and more jokes about live stream… 

Briony Redman: Theory of Positivity

Briony Redman: Theory of Positivity

Briony Redman’s solo show revolves around a screenwriter who wants to test out her movie-in-the-making on a fresh audience. 

Colin Hoult / Anna Mann in How We Stop the Fascists

Colin Hoult / Anna Mann in How We Stop the Fascists

Anna Mann is, according to herself, the greatest actress of her generation—a quote she can now legitimately edit for future Fringe posters with no fear of censor. 

Next Best Thing: How to Be Good at Everything

Next Best Thing: How to Be Good at Everything

Being a millennial in the modern world is hard. 

Tom Skelton: Blind Man's Bluff

Tom Skelton: Blind Man's Bluff

Join visionary character comedy maverick Tom Skelton on a wild gallop through the history of blindness and his own sight loss. 

The Free Association: Jacuzzi

The Free Association: Jacuzzi

Jacuzzi may have been a random title for the Free Association to use for their improvised comedy show, but this hour is indeed relaxed, warm, and bubbly. 

Romantic Encounters in a Darkened Room

Romantic Encounters in a Darkened Room

Romantic Encounters in a Darkened Room is a thoroughly enjoyable one-man show, mixing sketches of various different formats in a bizarre outpouring from the brain of comedian Charl… 

Dates

Dates

A decidedly younger and ‘hipper’ crowd gathered around a small table at the centre of The C Royale stage. 

Josh Glanc: Manfül

Josh Glanc: Manfül

Winner: Best Comedy Perth Fringe World 2017. 

Princes of Main: New Year's Eve

Princes of Main: New Year's Eve

A sketch show based on an end of 2017 new year’s eve party, Princes of Main: New Year’s Eve might miss the mark occasionally, but if you stick with it until the bells, it will … 

Avocado!

Avocado!

In today’s climate of brunching, Instagram-obsessed millennials, and in a time where avocado-hand and avocado-shaped walkie-talkies are an actual reality, there is plenty of oppo… 

Britney in: John

Britney in: John

In 2011, Charly Clive and Ellen Robertson were women without a mission. 

Margarita Dreams

Margarita Dreams

Dave is on the beach, in Mexico, drinking margaritas. 

Douglas Walker: Zuschauer

Douglas Walker: Zuschauer

Can the audience change a show just by watching it? Douglas invites you to find out, by watching his latest concatenation of mind-searing comic absurdities. 

Double Denim

Double Denim

Double Denim haven’t made their fringe debut easy for themselves, starting their show at nearly midnight and performing in perhaps the ugliest room in any of the major venues. 

The Death Hilarious: The Scum Always Rises

The Death Hilarious: The Scum Always Rises

Bible-black Welsh comedy duo do sketches. 

Max & Ivan: The Reunion

Max & Ivan: The Reunion

This is character comedy at its finest. 

Notflix

Notflix

Six hilarious young women. 

Amusings

Amusings

“Every once in a while you come across a couple of guys who are just so goddam funny, so goddarn crazy and so godforsakenly good that you gotta just sit up and sign ’em. 

Casual Violence: The Grot In The Grotto

Casual Violence: The Grot In The Grotto

Triple award-winning sketch villains and stars of BBC Radio 4’s ‘Sketchorama’ return to Brighton with a ghoulish new nightmare blend of sketch comedy, live music and pure evi… 

The Jest

The Jest

Sketch comedy in the year 2017. 

Kitten Killers: Stallions

Kitten Killers: Stallions

Kitten Killers is a funny, sweaty, messy, political and absurd sketch trio who combine the silly and dirty with the surreal. 

The Fool, The Champ and The Bandito

The Fool, The Champ and The Bandito

The Fool, The Champ and The Bandito is “presented by BA(Hons) Acting and Creative Performance students, from the University Centre Colchester” who “in their final year of study p… 

Kids with Beards: Fandango!

Kids with Beards: Fandango!

Fandango, the Kids with Beards allege, means party. 

Goodbear: WIP

Goodbear: WIP

5-star sketch comedy duo Goodbear are back, with a show that’ll leave you questioning everything you’ve ever known. 

Spilt Milk Presents...

Spilt Milk Presents...

Spilling, dripping and leaking comedy from every angle, come and join Spilt Milk, a brand-new sketch group, for their exciting show, packed with original new comedy writing. 

Revan and Fennell: Fan Club

Revan and Fennell: Fan Club

Nominated for Funny Women’s Best Show Award, Revan and Fennell’s Fan Club is a lively, goofy and above all entertaining sketch show, starring double act Rosie Revan a… 

Dirty White Boys: Stupid

Dirty White Boys: Stupid

Imaginative, imbalanced and imbecilic sketch duo, Dirty White Boys, are back in Brighton for their 3rd year running; presenting a brand new show for 2017! The **** pairing bring… 

(Non) Violent Communication

(Non) Violent Communication

How funny is Non Violent Communication? Apparently, NVC is a way of talking which involves getting your needs met, as well as the needs of others. 

Sagar Mega Drive

Sagar Mega Drive

Fiona Sagar, (The Groundlings, Funny Women Best show nominee, Edinburgh 2016), debuts at Brighton Fringe with characters from her 2016 Edinburgh show ‘Entitled’ along with brand ne… 

A Taste of Planet Caramel

A Taste of Planet Caramel

Free caramel wafer for every audience member! A monolithic sketch comedy trio, formed when three kinds of caramel (David, Richard and Alex) collided at speed. 

Funny Women Awards: Brighton Heats

Funny Women Awards: Brighton Heats

‘The Funny Women Awards’ are back at Brighton Fringe! ‘The Funny Women Awards’ has left a massive impression on the UK comedy map, with previous winners and finalists including … 

Pelican

Pelican

‘Pelican’ is a whirlwind hour of narrative comedy that’s “wildly funny” (BroadwayBaby) and “thrives off ingenuity and playfulness” (EdFringeReview). 

Give Two Ships

Give Two Ships

Ships! a. 

The Ahhgee Crow-Barred in Material Emporium Extravaganza.org

The Ahhgee Crow-Barred in Material Emporium Extravaganza.org

The Ahhgee Crow-Barred in Material Emporium Extravaganza. 

Laughing Stock

Laughing Stock

Laughing Stock is a character-based sketch comedy foursome “yin-yanged to perfection”(The Mumble). 

LoveHard: Murdered By Murder

LoveHard: Murdered By Murder

1934. 

BSMS Medic Revue

BSMS Medic Revue

We’re back! The Medic Revue returns for its 11th year! Written, cast and crewed solely by students at BSMS, the show will take you through an exploration of medicine and the NHS in… 

Out and About in Brighton and Beyond

Out and About in Brighton and Beyond

Comedy sketch show featuring contemporary characters in Brighton and beyond. 

Siblings

Siblings

Bound by blood and ambition, character comedians and real-life sisters Maddy and Marina Bye set sail on another adventure. 

Couples+Pairs

Couples+Pairs

Each performance of Blue Heart Theatre’s relationship based plays features five short dramas where the company chooses the first three and the audience the last two. 

Northern Power Blouse

Northern Power Blouse

Join ‘Northern Power Blouse’ for a sketch show full of heart, songs and massive, massive shoulder pads. 

How to be Good at Everything

How to be Good at Everything

Do you lack basic skills? Do you want to be good at everything? Then you should watch ‘How to be Good at Everything’. 

Princes of Main

Princes of Main

Award-nuzzling millennial sketchboys Princes of Main present a new show for 2017. 

Zach & Viggo: Dream Team

Zach & Viggo: Dream Team

Winner: Best Comedy Award, Brighton Fringe, 2016. 

The Frow Show

The Frow Show

After 3 sell-out runs in its native town of Forest Row in East Sussex, The Frow Show comes down the M23 to take the Brighton Fringe. 

Maisie Adam: Living On The Edge - LIVE

Maisie Adam: Living On The Edge - LIVE

‘Living On The Edge - LIVE’ is the new one-woman stand-up comedy show from Maisie Adam, “one of the UK’s most exciting up-and-coming young comedians” (Ditto Theatre). 

Bad Master

Bad Master

Muriel Comedy, creators of viral videos ‘If Tube Lines Were People’ and ‘The Great British Political Bakeoff’ bring you their offbeat brand of peculiar characters, political satire… 

Guy Wah: Professional Arsehole

Guy Wah: Professional Arsehole

‘Professional behaviour’: a series of actions deemed acceptable in the workplace. 

Dead Puppet Society

Dead Puppet Society

The award-winning team that brought you ‘A Puppet Named Desire’ and ‘Puppetgeist’ return with mayhem, masks, and sock monsters. 

Witt 'n' Camp

Witt 'n' Camp

‘Witt ‘n’ Camp’ brings to Brighton sixty minutes of mad vocals, dancing, joy, seduction, escapology, partial nudity and wish fulfilment. 

Double Whammy

Double Whammy

Next to Normal spin words, music, vocals and their sweet, sweet moves into sketch forms every damn day (after their day jobs). 

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre Do Shakespeare

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre Do Shakespeare

Earth’s funniest footwear return with their hit show of songs, sketches, socks and violence, taking on The Bard himself. 

The Monks of Umami: Radiodyssey

The Monks of Umami: Radiodyssey

On February 22nd 1952, 50 strangers gathered in the vaults of BBC Stoke to hear a groundbreaking new comedy act. 

Bryony Twydle: Twaddle

Bryony Twydle: Twaddle

Bryony Twydle (New Comedian of the Year 2016 semi-finalist, Funny Women 2015 semi-finalist, BBC Radio 4’s ‘Sketchorama’, one fifth of award-winning sketch group The Jest) bri… 

Jon & Nath Like To Party

Jon & Nath Like To Party

Brand new sketch comedy show from Sketchfest 2016 Finalists and best friends who can’t stand each other, Jon & Nath. 

Zach Zucker: Human Person

Zach Zucker: Human Person

Winner: Rising Star, The Media Eye, 2016. 

The Treason Show: Festival Special

The Treason Show: Festival Special

No one does satire quite like Brighton’s very own ‘The Treason Show’. 

Foil, Arms and Hog: DoomDah-ish

Foil, Arms and Hog: DoomDah-ish

Irish comedy, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, you racist. 

WMD Makes Everything Better

WMD Makes Everything Better

WMD Comedy is a three man sketch troupe with an online following for making strange and wonderful content. 

Hoo-Haa

Hoo-Haa

Two very different award-winning comedians join forces to bring you a magnificent hour of ‘Hoo-Haa’! David Jordan and Ingrid Dahle invite you to experience the pinnacle of enter… 

Fannytasticals

Fannytasticals

A bejazzled clunge? A muff, minge, vadge, landing strip or front bottom? Ah, it’s just too much fun delving in the dirty dictionary of lady slang but that’s probably enough for… 

Default Friends

Default Friends

Brother and sister duo Jack and Anna Harris bring us a stand-up comedy show using sketches inspired by their life as siblings. 

Fish Finger Fridays

Fish Finger Fridays

Big and tall sketch mates Fish Finger Fridays bring their stripped back sketches and casual musings to Brighton Fringe. 

BEASTS Present Mr Brighton 2017

BEASTS Present Mr Brighton 2017

Fresh from a hugely successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2016, Beasts bring their critically acclaimed comedy extravaganza to Brighton. 

The Establishment: Eton Mess

The Establishment: Eton Mess

Dan Lees and Neil Frost as two quintessentially English gentlemen from a bygone era, struggling to hold onto their whimsical world of cricket, tea and secret arms deals. 

What's Love Got To Do With It?

What's Love Got To Do With It?

From National Bulgarian TV to the London stage, we present a musical sketch comedy show taking a unique look at the lives of people who are either in or starting relationships, oft… 

The Intimate Strangers: Mister Bond

The Intimate Strangers: Mister Bond

Hit dark sketch comedy show featuring a host of weird and wonderful characters, culminating in a big James Bond finale. 

Joseph & Stacy: Live

Joseph & Stacy: Live

Sponsored by the Portslade Furniture Warehouse, this show sees the web’s freshest sketch comedy act revitalised on stage. 

The Hot Mess Method

The Hot Mess Method

‘Hot Mess’ is a very serious sketch comedy duo consisting of Anna Piper (Funny Women’s One to Watch 2016) and Max Levine (Radio 4 Newsjack, Cambridge Footlights). 

SALT: Sketches

SALT: Sketches

London Sketchfest and Musical Comedy Awards finalists, SALT (née Making Faces) bring their new show ‘Sketches’ to Brighton Fringe packed with new hilarious sketches, character… 

Gemma Arrowsmith: EARTHLING

Gemma Arrowsmith: EARTHLING

In 1977 NASA launched Voyagers 1 and 2 to explore the outer solar system. 

Sam and Ben: Shnozzleballers!

Sam and Ben: Shnozzleballers!

Sam and Ben fled a supernatural wizard realm 700 years ago after being challenged to a deadly game of Shnozzleball, which they were too chicken to accept. 

Big Thumb

Big Thumb

Knowing Smirk return to the Fringe, where BroadwayBaby. 

Bog Polanco

Bog Polanco

Poetry about art, love and Asia, then likeable and funny characters spill monologues on their life. All with a charming piano soundtrack. bogpolanco.tumblr.com  

You'll Never Get This Time Back

You'll Never Get This Time Back

You’ll Never Get This Time Back is a zany, absurd and irreverent hour of fun that casts a comic eye over the darker regions of the human soul. 

Amused Moose Comedy Award: Grand Final

Amused Moose Comedy Award: Grand Final

Grab your hottest Fringe tickets, to be entertained by tomorrow’s comedy stars who showcase in this prestigious final. 

Hammerton Community High Class of '75

Hammerton Community High Class of '75

1975. 

The Todd and Molly Show: Welcome to LA LA Land

The Todd and Molly Show: Welcome to LA LA Land

Join your guides, Todd and Molly, as they take you on a bespoke tour of Los Angeles, their City of Angels, or as they call it: LA LA Land. 

Aunty Donna: New Show

Aunty Donna: New Show

This Australian trio packs a punch as they whirl through an hour of weird, wacky and utterly hilarious sketch comedy like nothing else you will see at the Fringe. 

The Bear Pack

The Bear Pack

The Bear Pack is Steen Raskopoulos (BBC’s Top Coppers, Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee) and Carlo Ritchie (The Checkout). 

Kids With Beards: The Curse of the Secret Ham

Kids With Beards: The Curse of the Secret Ham

The Brighton-based beardy babes are back, baby. 

The Invention of Acting

The Invention of Acting

Sheep Soup in association with Nottingham’s BAFTA award-winning Television Workshop is back with a brand new sketch show. 

May Contain Nuts

May Contain Nuts

BroadwayBaby. 

May Contain Nuts

May Contain Nuts

BroadwayBaby. 

The Curious Case of the Doc on the Night Shift

The Curious Case of the Doc on the Night Shift

Hospitals can be surreal places at night. 

Simon Lukacs Shows His Range

Simon Lukacs Shows His Range

Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body. 

The Funny Brothers

The Funny Brothers

A ‘garden variety’ *** (Easingwold Advertiser) show with plenty of variety, and not much garden. 

Larknado!

Larknado!

Brought to you as part of freefestival. 

Ofgagged

Ofgagged

Sketch Club 7 (six schoolboys and a blow-up doll) return to the Fringe after a triumph last year (‘terrifyingly brilliant’ BroadwayBaby. 

Farewell Tim

Farewell Tim

What is it that makes Tim so different from you and I? Apart from being dead, nothing really. 

Homeopathy and Other Jokes

Homeopathy and Other Jokes

After five years of sell-out shows, the worryingly funny doctors of tomorrow are back for their 17th year at the Fringe! Catch this fast-paced sketch show before the Right Honourab… 

A Taste of Planet Caramel

A Taste of Planet Caramel

Promises Planet Caramel make to you: 1. 

Best of UCLU Comedy Club

Best of UCLU Comedy Club

UCLU Comedy Club’s sketch troupe, The Gower Line, return to Edinburgh with their brand of ‘fast paced madness’ (Pi Media), presenting their favourite new sketches from the past yea… 

I Am Wario

I Am Wario

Brand new sketch comedy from Matt Winning, ‘an attractively impish spirit’ (Guardian), and Stuart Laws, ‘chronically funny stand up’ (Time Out), plus third person yet to be… 

Horace: We Are Family

Horace: We Are Family

Brother and sister Jack (Durham Revue, So You Think You’re Funny? semi-finalist) and Anna Harris (Bristol Revunions, Fish Finger Fridays) find themselves at another bizarre family … 

Clare Plested: Flock Up

Clare Plested: Flock Up

Flock Up: def. 

Safe Places and How to Ruin Them

Safe Places and How to Ruin Them

Follow Terry’s unsupportive support group as they cope with bizarre addictions: monologuing, interpretive dance, wordplay, the internet, puns and more! The Idle Playthings return t… 

Fish Finger Fridays: A Sketch Show

Fish Finger Fridays: A Sketch Show

Big and tall sketch friends Fish Finger Fridays bring their anticipated debut to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 

Me, Myself and ISIS – Free

Me, Myself and ISIS – Free

American cop Frank Law lost his partner two days before retirement. 

It's Thea-Skot in Here (So Take Off All Your Clothes)

It's Thea-Skot in Here (So Take Off All Your Clothes)

Following last year’s five-star smash-hit Some Like It Thea-Skot, ‘comic monster’ (Chortle. 

Sisters

Sisters

Fresh from the final of the Leicester Square Theatre Sketch-Off 2016, performers, sisters, and dare we say it, friends – Christy White-Spunner and Mark Jones bring their highly a… 

Mavericks: A Sketch Show (Of Sorts)

Mavericks: A Sketch Show (Of Sorts)

Mavericks: A Sketch Show (of Sorts) is the product of talented comedy duo and Cambridge Footlights members Ruby Keane and Luisa Callander. 

Tyrannosaurus Sketch

Tyrannosaurus Sketch

The country’s only student-run theatre presents an hour of sketch comedy in the form of Tyrannosaurus Sketch! Featuring six actors fueled mostly by coffee and the desperate need … 

All in the Timing

All in the Timing

Often, first-time Festival goers arriving in Edinburgh can be paralysed by choice as a result of the sheer volume of shows on offer. 

Matchbox Theatre

Matchbox Theatre

Welcome to Matchbox Theatre! Would you please take a moment to check that all mobile phones and other electronic devices are switched on? Your calls are important to us! Photograph… 

Not Quite Write

Not Quite Write

We always strive for those eureka moments, the top 1% of ideas, but what about the other 99%? Rubbish right? Wrong. 

Pete Inskip's Return to the UK

Pete Inskip's Return to the UK

After being raised abroad, Pete Inskip has returned from the New World to his birthplace, London, in search of his true identity and ready to ask some important questions: Why is e… 

The Edinburgh Revue's Tenth Birthday Bash

The Edinburgh Revue's Tenth Birthday Bash

The Edinburgh Revue are 10 years old this year! Now we’re officially in double digits, come join us for an hour of high energy sketches and possibly some birthday cake. 

The Funny Brothers

The Funny Brothers

A ‘garden variety’ *** (Easingwold Advertiser) show with plenty of variety, and not much garden. 

The Leeds Tealights: Tension

The Leeds Tealights: Tension

Winners of the 2015 Derek award for Best Sketch Show, the Tealights return with Tension. 

Jacob Hatton: Dreams of FitzRoy and Londis

Jacob Hatton: Dreams of FitzRoy and Londis

Attention all shipping. 

Beach Hunks: Very Handsome

Beach Hunks: Very Handsome

Raucous melancholy! Human failure! A whole bunch of jokes! Strong and kind sketch group Beach Hunks are proud to present their debut hour of crushingly absurd comedy. 

James & Seaburn: Pigeon Trousers

James & Seaburn: Pigeon Trousers

James & Seaburn are back with a brand new show featuring their unique mix of sketch, stand-up, songs and general silliness. 

Call of Dudey

Call of Dudey

Fringe newcomers, Dude Looks Like A Lady, bring their award-winning sketch show to Edinburgh with heaps of enthusiasm, a fluctuating quality of comedy and an abundance of false (an… 

Revan and Fennell: Fan Club

Revan and Fennell: Fan Club

Award-winning double act, Revan and Fennell, return to the Fringe after making their critically acclaimed Edinburgh debut last year. 

The Ruff Guide to Shakespeare

The Ruff Guide to Shakespeare

Fun for parents and children alike, The Ruff Guide to Shakespeare is a brilliant introduction to Shakespeare: the man and his plays. 

Mixed Doubles: Fundraiser

Mixed Doubles: Fundraiser

Quartet, Mixed Doubles, have brought a comedy sketch show to this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, framed with four peculiar characters from the peaceful UKIP-voting Middle England villa… 

Steen Raskopoulos – You Know the Drill

Steen Raskopoulos – You Know the Drill

While acknowledging his immense talent, some reviewers have accused Steen Raskopoulos of going through the motions, trotting out the same tired routines he’s been spinning for… 

Omar & Lee Present: We Are All Idiots

Omar & Lee Present: We Are All Idiots

Witness the inner workings of the idiot as Omar & Lee invite you on an anarchic voyage through their minds, pushing their sanity and friendship to the limits. 

4 Minute Warning

4 Minute Warning

Armageddon is imminent. 

Ruby Thomas: Chick

Ruby Thomas: Chick

What do a filthy aristocrat, a gynaecologist, a vlogger, a dominatrix and you have in common? Limescale. 

Foil, Arms and Hog: DoomDah

Foil, Arms and Hog: DoomDah

Irish comedy, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, you racist. 

Best Boy

Best Boy

Double act Best Boy present an hour of sketch comedy. 

Laughing Stock

Laughing Stock

A varied sketch comedy, Laughing Stock lives up to its name, parading numerous situations of self-deprecation before us providing much hilarity. 

A Sketchy History

A Sketchy History

Huddled underground in a nuclear bunker, Three Men in a Boot attempt to recreate history as best they can whilst staving off hunger (and potentially another Ice Age). 

The Durham Revue: Gigglebox

The Durham Revue: Gigglebox

Come and see the renowned Durham Revue perform their own brand of ‘sublime’, ‘masterful’ (ThreeWeeks) sketch comedy, showcasing 60 minutes of student comedy at its finest. 

Vis a Vis

Vis a Vis

Why can’t they make delicious vegetables? Would a slide be better than my stairs? Who invented the zip? When can I take a bath with a dolphin? Why is water so wet? Why can’t I have… 

LoveHard: The House on the Hill

LoveHard: The House on the Hill

Perhaps one of the most entertaining shows I have seen on the Free Fringe, Lovehard consists of comedians Jacob Lovick and Tyler Harding (see what they did there?), who in what is … 

Siân and Zoë’s Luxury Cruise Through the Horrifying Vacuum of Space

Siân and Zoë’s Luxury Cruise Through the Horrifying Vacuum of Space

Alternative comedy duo Siân and Zoë are taking a ship (theatre) full of lucky cosmonauts on a relaxing mindfulness retreat. 

Drastic Measures

Drastic Measures

Southampton Spotlights are up in arms against the current state of affairs and invite you to join them for a lunchtime foray into sketches, schisms and the end of all things sacred… 

Isle of Edna: G Street

Isle of Edna: G Street

In an #upandcoming neighbourhood near you – four doors down from the betting shop, nestled between a pop-up patisserie and a pet taxidermy cafe – lies a community centre. 

Fiona Sagar: Entitled

Fiona Sagar: Entitled

‘Shift yer arse, yer lazy gett’ – Granny’s words in 1995 made a lasting impression. 

Rainbow Class

Rainbow Class

‘All my kids came to Twiddlesworth, lovely little school it was back then. 

St Andrews Revue Presents: Loop

St Andrews Revue Presents: Loop

The St Andrews Revue are back at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with their brand new sketch comedy spectacular Loop: 50 minutes of mind-blowing comedy that will make you laugh so ha… 

Babushka: A Sketch Show

Babushka: A Sketch Show

‘All hits, no misses: the litany of wit that was Babushka’ ***** (TheTab. 

The Oxford Revue: Free

The Oxford Revue: Free

The Oxford Revue present a rotating cast of the country’s brightest young comedians together with headline acts from the comedy circuit. 

Present and Correct

Present and Correct

Present and Correct returns for their fourth year at the Fringe, following a five-star show in 2015! Have you ever wondered what life is like for the stripper inside a cake? Ever w… 

Minky: A Sketch Show

Minky: A Sketch Show

Minky [mijnki] 1. 

Cook and Davies: Do Not Leave This Room

Cook and Davies: Do Not Leave This Room

Winner – Best Comedy, Moors Theatre Awards! Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off finalists! Sketch comedy duo, frequent enemies and occasional friends Cook and Davies find themsel… 

Wild at Heart – Free

Wild at Heart – Free

Devastatingly original character comedy duo Róisín and Chiara are ‘a pair of improvising geniuses’ and Ones to Watch 2016 (Funny Women). 

Komischer

Komischer

Is Komischer, starring Doug Walker, of Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised fame, too clever for it’s own good?This one-man sketch show, with a yoghurt-based theme runn… 

Dirty White Boys

Dirty White Boys

As yet undiscovered comedians, Chazz Redhead and Jack Robertson love making jokes almost as much as they hate each other. 

Bristol Revunions: Mustard

Bristol Revunions: Mustard

A brand new, deliciously free sketch show from the Bristol Revunions! For the eighth year in a row the ‘so stupid it’s genius’ (IntermissionBristol. 

UCL Graters: Immature Cheddar

UCL Graters: Immature Cheddar

The UCL Graters return to the Fringe with an hour of delicious sketch comedy with a sharp aftertaste. 

The Late Night With Boabby Roaster Show

The Late Night With Boabby Roaster Show

From award-winning character comedians Andrew McBurney (SYTYF finalist 2013) and Jack Kirwan, plus filmmaker Damien Hyde, comes a dark, original and very funny live show. 

Sketchup 2: The Reawakening

Sketchup 2: The Reawakening

It’s alive! It’s alive! From the makers of Sketchup comes Sketchup 2: The Reawakening! A sketch show that is sure to tickle your comedy tendons into turmoil and tumult! 

Bristol Revunions: Dolce Vita

Bristol Revunions: Dolce Vita

The Bristol Revunions are back at the Fringe for the eighth year running and they bring you the Dolce Vita. 

Me, Me, Me

Me, Me, Me

Life is hard, three comedians insist. 

Loose Brie Filling My Tin, With Loose Brie, Phil and Martin

Loose Brie Filling My Tin, With Loose Brie, Phil and Martin

From the team that brought you Winfamy, ‘bizarre and brilliant’ **** (EdFringeReview. 

Heavy Petting: Bad Laughing

Heavy Petting: Bad Laughing

Middlesbrough’s second-tallest sketch group return with sketches, jokes, songs and a big bag of hammers. 

The Improverts

The Improverts

The Improverts are a group of five students from the University of Edinburgh who bring hard-hitting, lightning-quick comedy to the stage. 

Sketch Thieves

Sketch Thieves

Comedy sketch swapping live! The cult hit show where sketch groups perform their own sketches and then each other’s. 

Merkin 9 to 5

Merkin 9 to 5

Bounty of Beards presents a multimedia skinny cappa frappa-cino cake of Amish Kraftwerk, axe-wielding maniacs, stick on beards and Babybel epaulettes! Let the best beards in the Fr… 

Sarah Bennetto: I Love You All and I Mean That Sincerely

Sarah Bennetto: I Love You All and I Mean That Sincerely

A new stand-up and sketch show by Sarah Bennetto. 

Egg - Static

Egg - Static

Anna and Emily. 

Floss

Floss

Floss is a brand new shiny sketch show by Eleanor, Orlando and Dillon. 

Heavy Petting: Bad Laughing

Heavy Petting: Bad Laughing

Middlesbrough’s second-tallest sketch group return with sketches, jokes, songs and a big bag of hammers. 

The Oxford Revue: Hello You

The Oxford Revue: Hello You

This is a disappointing show, mainly because the Oxford Revue don’t have that many funny sketches to perform. 

Max & Ivan: Our Story

Max & Ivan: Our Story

Max & Ivan are celebrating the anniversary of when they met – and having in recent years become a staple of the Fringe, it’s easy to understand why. 

NewsRevue 2016

NewsRevue 2016

Over the course of an hour, Canal Cafe Theatre manage to shape the politics of this year into an hour of songs and sketches that feel fun and fresh. 

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2016: Lagoon

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2016: Lagoon

The Cambridge Footlights have such a reputation that their name is practically synonymous with the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 

Short & Curly: A Curly Night In

Short & Curly: A Curly Night In

This hilarious comedy sketch follows comic-actor duo Curly (Paul F Taylor) and Short (Rebecca Shorrocks) through a night of trying to prove they can act– Curly’s laminated CV i… 

2061

2061

The year is 2061 and Tom Skelton is dead. 

Daphne's Second Show

Daphne's Second Show

After ‘threatening to be the hottest gang in town’ (List), Edinburgh Best Newcomer nominees, Daphne (Phil Wang, Jason Forbes and George Fouracres) threaten Edinburgh again with new… 

BEASTS Present Mr Edinburgh 2016

BEASTS Present Mr Edinburgh 2016

Sketch troupe BEASTS are not here to perform sketches. 

Radio Active

Radio Active

Radio Active is an 80s Radio 4 satirical sketch show, born from the Oxford Revue at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 

Good Kids: On Tap

Good Kids: On Tap

Good Kids are back, and this time they’ve had a few. 

Croft & Pearce Are Not Themselves

Croft & Pearce Are Not Themselves

The stars of BBC Radio 4’s The Croft & Pearce Show and Spirit of the Fringe award-winners return with ‘a laugh-out-loud sketch show’ (Daily Express). 

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppets Do Shakespeare

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppets Do Shakespeare

Possibly the most ridiculous show at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppets are in their ninth year and were greeted with a sell-out audience. 

This Glorious Monster: Wrong 'Uns

This Glorious Monster: Wrong 'Uns

Wrong ‘Uns is aptly titled because there is plenty of them packed into this hour of sketch comedy. 

Twins: Two Balls in a Bag

Twins: Two Balls in a Bag

Identical twins Annie McGrath and Jack Barry (as seen on ITV2’s @elevenish) return with their trademark hybrid of sketch and stand-up comedy. 

Norris & Parker: See You at the Gallows

Norris & Parker: See You at the Gallows

Dark humour isn’t in short supply this Fringe - in case you hadn’t noticed, celebrity and political news of late has had a tangible effect on performers. 

Briony Redman: Secret Show

Briony Redman: Secret Show

Shh, it’s a surprise. 

Daniel Nils Roberts: Honey

Daniel Nils Roberts: Honey

Life from a bear’s point of view is as strange and wonderful as you would expect it to be. 

Lazy Susan: Crazy Sexy Fool

Lazy Susan: Crazy Sexy Fool

Comedy twosome Freya Parker and Celeste Dring are back with more off-the-wall sketches and impeccably observed characters. 

Yeti's – Demon Dive Bar

Yeti's – Demon Dive Bar

There’s a warm and weird welcome upon arrival at Yeti’s - Demon Dive Bar. 

Princes of Main: Cool

Princes of Main: Cool

Princes of Main return with another sketch show chock-a-block with odd characters, witty one liners and silliness. 

Dyer and Whitney's Supercalifragilisticexpialisketchshow

Dyer and Whitney's Supercalifragilisticexpialisketchshow

The best kept secret in comedy Dyer and Whitney are back with their unique, original and hilarious character comedy sketches and songs! You have never seen a sketch like it. 

The Travelling Sisters

The Travelling Sisters

With wild eyes and a wicked flavour of comedy, Australian trio The Travelling Sisters serve up a gang of tragically charming misfits. 

Britney

Britney

Witty, lively and often heartwarming, Britney is a hilarious and hugely watchable production. 

Giants

Giants

Like every year, there are an awful lot of young white men who’ve arrived at this year’s Fringe, sketch show in tow. 

Switch: A Sketch Show

Switch: A Sketch Show

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Kitten Killers: Stallions

Kitten Killers: Stallions

The Foster’s Golden Jesters Award finalists and Brighton Fringe Best Comedy Show nominees are back with their hotly anticipated new show. 

Mid-Brow: The Live Show

Mid-Brow: The Live Show

The winners of Best New Sketch Act 2015 return with their highly anticipated new show. 

23, Please: The Sketch Show That Never Was

23, Please: The Sketch Show That Never Was

With a Cambridge Footlights endorsement on their flyer, this is a group already promising great things to an expectant audience. 

Goodbear

Goodbear

Strong acting, impressive tech and a relaxed conceit tie together the disparate elements of this show and imbue it with a very different vibe to the majority of the sketch shows yo… 

Kat Bond: Loo Roll / Jon Pointing: Slow Fade

Kat Bond: Loo Roll / Jon Pointing: Slow Fade

WEB LISTING ONLY 

The One-Eyed Men

The One-Eyed Men

Does anyone ever read these blurbs? Here’s an experiment: if you are actually reading this right now, text your favourite animal to Alex at 07450 846 211. 

EastEnd Cabaret: Perverts

EastEnd Cabaret: Perverts

Professional perverts Bernie and Victy are back with an utterly raucous and unashamedly risqué hour of their most salacious songs: all filth, no filler! These fringe favourites ar… 

The Treason Show: Festival Special

The Treason Show: Festival Special

Treason Show: Festival Special. 

Paul Carroll: Forty Shades of Strawberry Blond

Paul Carroll: Forty Shades of Strawberry Blond

Straight from London’s comedy duo ‘Carroll and Hodgson!’ Paul brings his absurd and sometimes downright nasty characters to life in this one hour spurt of bad language, bad d… 

Goodbear

Goodbear

A character-led sketch show which contemplates the big issues: life, death, our very existence! Join Joe Barnes and Henry Perryment for an hour of thoughtful sketch comedy that… 

Coating Under Pressure

Coating Under Pressure

The Coaterie are a collection of some of London’s finest comedy minds, brought together under a single banner. 

Gein's Family Giftshop's Trophy Collection

Gein's Family Giftshop's Trophy Collection

Best Newcomer nominees - Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Award 2014. 

Shelf

Shelf

Shelf is Rachel Watkeys Dowie and Ruby Clyde, a double act with a “winning hybrid of sketch show and stand-up” **** (EdFringe). 

Dead Man Presents: Tessa Waters: Over Promises

Dead Man Presents: Tessa Waters: Over Promises

Clown, dance and sketch collide as multi-award-winning Australian comedian, Tessa Waters, unleashes her new hour of stupidity. 

The Curiositorium

The Curiositorium

Award-winning The Dead Secrets bring you a labyrinthine sketch comedy adventure. 

Max and Ivan: Unstoppable

Max and Ivan: Unstoppable

Fringe veterans Max and Ivan bring their show Unstoppable to The Warren for this year’s Brighton Fringe. 

4 Minute Warning

4 Minute Warning

Armageddon is imminent. 

Slow Left Arm: Left

Slow Left Arm: Left

Dom and Mark were a double act. 

LoveHard

LoveHard

A family recently arrived from nearby America? Remote rural Scotland? A nice, quiet, relatively murder-free area to settle down and forget the problems they’ve left behind? Need we… 

Dirty White Boys

Dirty White Boys

After having a splendid time in their debut year, Dirty White Boys have returned with a selection of brand-new material. 

BEASTS

BEASTS

Sketch heroes BEASTS return to Brighton with a brand new hour of inspired nonsense. 

BSMS Medic Revue 2016

BSMS Medic Revue 2016

After nine sell-out years, the BSMS Medic Revue returns with its biggest show yet! Written, cast and crewed by medical students who explore life in medicine through comedy sketches… 

Mixed Doubles

Mixed Doubles

Centring around the lives of four individuals within a fictional village, the fact that the premise of the show was built around a made-up comedy charity festival instantly made th… 

Going Down

Going Down

The Sex Shells present ‘Going Down’: a glittering, twisted, all-singing, all-prancing look at gay existence in the twenty-first century. 

Kitten Killers

Kitten Killers

Brighton Fringe Best Comedy Show nominees return with their hotly-anticipated new sketch show. 

James Hamilton Is So Lonely

James Hamilton Is So Lonely

Multi award-winning creator of BBC Radio 4’s ‘Casual Violence’ (“Leading the new wave of sketch comedy” - The Sunday Times) and staff writer for Cartoon Network’s ‘The Amazing Worl… 

Joseph & Stacy: Live

Joseph & Stacy: Live

Sponsored by the Portslade Furniture Warehouse, this show sees the web’s freshest comedy sketch act revitalised on stage. 

Community Matters

Community Matters

Dave Gimmel is a local youth leader, who hopes to share his wisdom and philosophy of how to help the kids of the UK and finally fix broken Britain. 

Short & Curly: A Curly Night In

Short & Curly: A Curly Night In

Join Curly for an evening of his classic high brow solo sketches. 

Cook and Davies: 'Do Not Leave This Room'

Cook and Davies: 'Do Not Leave This Room'

Bombastic sketch duo Cook and Davies find themselves trapped in a mysterious room. 

Horace

Horace

Brother and sister, Jack (Durham Revue: So You Think You’re Funny semi-finalist) and Anna (Bristol Revunions: Fish Finger Fridays) find themselves at another bizarre family wedding… 

Jacob Hatton: Fantasist

Jacob Hatton: Fantasist

“Narnia isn’t real. 

Best Boy

Best Boy

Double act Best Boy return to Brighton Fringe with an hour of side-splitting sketches. 

Marijana's Milk Tray

Marijana's Milk Tray

Marijana (Gabby Best), the qualified yoga and pilates teacher, is a voice of reason and beauty in an otherwise mad and unkempt world. 

Casual Violence: Slow Fade To Bleak

Casual Violence: Slow Fade To Bleak

It’s Friday the 13th and I am about to be trapped inside a slightly claustrophobic metal container with an unsuspecting audience by a group who call themselves Casual Violence, w… 

101 Things to Do Before You Die

101 Things to Do Before You Die

Fast-paced, hilarious sketch comedy from Making Faces. 

Myles and Dan's Complete Shambles

Myles and Dan's Complete Shambles

Myles and Dan present their debut hour of disorganised double-act sketch comedy. 

The Star Factory

The Star Factory

Enthused? Inspired? Vibing? If you love Brighton Fringe why not become part of it? Loquacious Luvvie or Lounge Lizard, it could be you on stage making mediocre scripts something gr… 

It's Okay, I'm Dealing With It

It's Okay, I'm Dealing With It

The Hiccup Project were the darlings of the 2015 Brighton Fringe with their show May-We-Go-Round, winning awards and accolades in abundance and that holy grail of all Fringe art… 

Not Yet Suffragette

Not Yet Suffragette

Time is of the essence in this absolutely faultless performance from EntreprenHER Productions. 

The Funny Papers: Human Behaviour

The Funny Papers: Human Behaviour

Hilarious new surreal sketch show about how humans are. 

Minor Delays

Minor Delays

Slick sketch comedy from one of the best-reviewed shows at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. 

Cassie Atkinson: Supernumerary Rainbow

Cassie Atkinson: Supernumerary Rainbow

Join character comedienne Cassie Atkinson “Future national treasure” (ToDoList), as we run through the rainbow of her mind. 

Bob and Jim: The Rest of The Lot

Bob and Jim: The Rest of The Lot

Bob and Jim do ‘The Rest of The Lot’. 

Look How Much Friends We Are!

Look How Much Friends We Are!

Mister Bus will be bringing its special brand of surreal sketch comedy to Brighton Fringe! That’s a long train journey and we don’t even like each other that much. 

The FunkSmugglers: Mead Dreams

The FunkSmugglers: Mead Dreams

3 guys + 1 drum + 1 loop pedal = funkin’ carnage. 

Charles Booth: VSOP

Charles Booth: VSOP

Charles Booth (Time Out character comedian to watch) makes his Brighton debut with an eclectic concoction of characters fizzing with heart-warming lunacy, dazzling originality and … 

Foil, Arms and Hog: Skiddlywup

Foil, Arms and Hog: Skiddlywup

Irish comedy, potato, potato, potato, you racist. 

Zach & Viggo: Thunderflop

Zach & Viggo: Thunderflop

Fresh off a sold-out tour between New York and Los Angeles and an extended run at the Edinburgh Fringe, these Gaulier-graduates bring their high energy and low intelligence to Brig… 

Aaaaaaand... It Is What It Is

Aaaaaaand... It Is What It Is

Born in the grim shadow of Brighton Pier, the ‘It Is What It Is’ comedy-collective are here to bring you mirth, levity and so much more. 

Not Fast Enough

Not Fast Enough

‘Not Fast Enough’ is a provocative and dynamic sprint through contemporary gender politics and imaginative theatre structures. 

Pappy's Live at the Cabaret Bar!

Pappy's Live at the Cabaret Bar!

Performing some of their classic sketches, some new bits and some bits that will come across as new because they’ve forgotten how they went in the first place. 

Birthday Girls: Party Vibes

Birthday Girls: Party Vibes

Acclaimed sketch troupe Birthday Girls return to the Fringe for one week only with their smash-hit sold out 2014 show! A comedy party of odd characters, offbeat sketches and try-ha… 

Birthday Girls: Party Vibes

Birthday Girls: Party Vibes

Acclaimed sketch troupe Birthday Girls return to the Fringe for one week only with their smash-hit sold out 2014 show! A comedy party of odd characters, offbeat sketches and try-ha… 

What a Load of Skit

What a Load of Skit

It’s clear that the sketch trio made of Oli Gilford, Edd Cornforth and Jake Shoolheifer have good comic potential, and bounce nicely off each other. 

The Amazing Sketch Show

The Amazing Sketch Show

The description of The Amazing Sketch Show states that their sketches are ‘some of the funniest, silliest and zaniest sketches’ to be found at this year’s Fringe. 

Brody and Chadwick's Great Blimp Deception

Brody and Chadwick's Great Blimp Deception

Irish comedians Giles Brody and Colin Chadwick invite you to a compendium of sketch comedy, featuring childish Nobel Prize winners, Frankenstein’s reformed monster, Teen Pope, Go… 

Amused Moose Comedy Award Grand Final

Amused Moose Comedy Award Grand Final

Grab your tickets to vote for tomorrow’s stars at this prestigious Final alongside comedy cognoscenti. 

Sheeps Skewer the News

Sheeps Skewer the News

Sheeps’ Daran Johnson, Alastair Roberts and Liam Williams take a wry look at the news and do not like what they see when they take a wry look at the news. 

The Beta Males: Alpha Sketches

The Beta Males: Alpha Sketches

The Betas are back. 

Casual Violence: Om Nom Nom Nominous

Casual Violence: Om Nom Nom Nominous

Critically acclaimed sketch villains and stars of BBC Radio 4’s Sketchorama return with their multi award-winning best-of show. 

Sketch Club: The Final

Sketch Club: The Final

Welcome to the Grand Final of the Gilded Balloon and Sketch Club’s exciting new competition to find the very best new sketch performers. 

Your Aunt Fanny

Your Aunt Fanny

Your Aunt Fanny have been performing their unique brand of comedy throughout the North East to sellout audiences since 2013. 

BBC: Sketchorama

BBC: Sketchorama

Comedian Isy Suttie presents three sketch groups performing at this year’s Fringe for the brand new series of Radio 4’s popular comedy showcase, Sketchorama. 

Double Dipp's Pick 'n' Mixx

Double Dipp's Pick 'n' Mixx

What do you call a night where you speak to spirits, win prizes and get your hands on toys that would make your nana blush? One actress, seven characters, total mayhem! Double Dipp… 

The Secret of My Failure

The Secret of My Failure

The Secret of My Failure is a farcical, eclectic sketch comedy show hosted by the energetic Dr Postscript, which weaves through sarcastic appraisals of bad comedy sketches (a cleve… 

Kids With Beards present... ¡Niños Con Barbas TV!

Kids With Beards present... ¡Niños Con Barbas TV!

It’s been a big year for Kids With Beards. 

The Colour Ham – One. Last. Time. (A Best Of)

The Colour Ham – One. Last. Time. (A Best Of)

Last show ever – will sell out. 

The Knowing Smirk Comedy Show

The Knowing Smirk Comedy Show

Banter and silliness are the driving force of this Cheltenham sketch comedy troupe. 

Pappy's Presents...The Secret Dudes Society

Pappy's Presents...The Secret Dudes Society

Two-time Edinburgh Comedy award nominees and stars of BBC Three’s Badults, Pappy’s, bring their comedy club to the Edinburgh Fringe for four very special shows. 

The NHS: Don't Ask, It's Private

The NHS: Don't Ask, It's Private

A fast-paced, irreverent, comedy sketch show from the worryingly funny doctors of tomorrow. 

Life Jim (But Not as We Know It)

Life Jim (But Not as We Know It)

Come with us on a journey through the ups, downs and sideways of life. 

Flick and Julie: Pop-Up Penny Pinchers

Flick and Julie: Pop-Up Penny Pinchers

A friendship forged in hard times, Flick and Julie are an unlikely pairing who have come together to make your pennies go further. 

Night of My Life

Night of My Life

Sketch Club 7 has six members. 

Pelican: A Sketch Show

Pelican: A Sketch Show

‘The epitome of bizarre hilarity and joyous absurdity’ ***** (Tab. 

Northern Ar Souls – Farewell Tour

Northern Ar Souls – Farewell Tour

The Northern Ar Souls present their farewell tour. 

Sheffield of Dreams

Sheffield of Dreams

Sheffield’s greatest entrepreneur invites you to take a look at his life so far, and a tantalising glimpse of the successes to come with the help of some very special guests. 

Sheffield of Dreams

Sheffield of Dreams

Sheffield’s greatest entrepreneur invites you to take a look at his life so far, and a tantalising glimpse of the successes to come with the help of some very special guests. 

Flick and Julie: Pop-Up Penny Pinchers

Flick and Julie: Pop-Up Penny Pinchers

A friendship forged in hard times, Flick and Julie are an unlikely pairing who have come together to make your pennies go further. 

Never Been Better

Never Been Better

Let these sketch clowns lure you into a world of fractious characters who flirt with the bizarre, as their social facades unravel. 

Anna Morris: It's Got To Be Perfect

Anna Morris: It's Got To Be Perfect

I’ve always somewhat despised weddings. 

The Exeter Revue: Sketchup

The Exeter Revue: Sketchup

Four students, a full house and a series of clever sketches make for a very enjoyable hour in The Exeter Revue: Sketchup. 

Uncanned Laughter

Uncanned Laughter

Join the Southampton Jesters and delve into the funny old world of sketch comedy. 

Comedy Sketch Show with Trestle Masks

Comedy Sketch Show with Trestle Masks

A series of comedy sketches performed by a talented all-female cast from St Mary’s Calne Senior School. 

UCLU Comedy Club Presents...

UCLU Comedy Club Presents...

Join UCLU Comedy Club’s Blank Slates for an hour of thrilling improvised comedy, as they follow the story of a young superhero on their rise to glory. 

Kind Hearts and Cormorants

Kind Hearts and Cormorants

A snappy, intelligent, and at times surreal sketch show that readily mocks itself, its members and the meaning of life. 

Beard: The Grin of Love

Beard: The Grin of Love

Innovative and playful, the brand new two-part sketch group Beard weave joyful, bizarre and enthralling comedy. 

The Euromen

The Euromen

Late-night lunchtime show! Join The Euromen in their hangover cabaret from the night before. 

The Edinburgh Revue: Sketches in Scarlet

The Edinburgh Revue: Sketches in Scarlet

Welcome to a dark, sexy sketch show assembled and reanimated in The Basement. 

Clare Plested: The Essential Collection

Clare Plested: The Essential Collection

Some of the best comic characters out there are likeable but misguided individuals, chronically lacking in self-awareness. 

The Oxford Revue Presents – Free

The Oxford Revue Presents – Free

Alex Furrow, the compere for Oxford Revue Presents, has a lot to contend with, La Belle is a big venue and it must be difficult to pack it out with an eager crowd. 

James Hamilton Is So Lonely – Free

James Hamilton Is So Lonely – Free

The hotly anticipated solo debut of a multi award-winning sketch comedian is probably happening elsewhere. 

Natasia Demetriou and Ellie White are Mother and Baby

Natasia Demetriou and Ellie White are Mother and Baby

Come and sit in a cinema and watch two dogs show you their tricks. 

The Warwick Revue Present: Sketch Education

The Warwick Revue Present: Sketch Education

A probably funny show featuring more than one sketch. 

Simon Slack – The Fantasist

Simon Slack – The Fantasist

Fantastical absurd one-man sketch show. 

Twins: Pret A Comedy

Twins: Pret A Comedy

Annie McGrath and Jack Barry are back with another sketch comedy show for people who hate sketch comedy. 

KINGS!

KINGS!

KINGS! is the brand new sketch duo of Adam Blampied and Lydia King. 

Best Boy: Bested

Best Boy: Bested

Best Boy thought fame beckoned when the BBC broadcast their sketch – unfortunately, they’d sent in the wrong one. 

Lost Property

Lost Property

Like the cat in the picture on the lamp post, Richard and Robin are lost. 

The Travelling Sisters

The Travelling Sisters

With wild eyes and a wicked flavour of comedy, Australian trio The Travelling Sisters serve up a bevy of tragically charming characters. 

Asp

Asp

Daniel wangs down the gauntlet. 

Some Like It Thea-Skot

Some Like It Thea-Skot

‘Comic monster’ (Chortle. 

The Travelling Sisters

The Travelling Sisters

With wild eyes and a wicked flavour of comedy, Australian trio The Travelling Sisters serve up a bevy of tragically charming characters. 

Huntington & Hutt: Insignificant Other

Huntington & Hutt: Insignificant Other

What connects Monmouthshire, the efficacy of Lucozade, and leviathan-lunged pop princess Adele? Absolutely nothing. 

Lost Property

Lost Property

Like the cat in the picture on the lamp post, Richard and Robin are lost. 

Some Like It Thea-Skot

Some Like It Thea-Skot

‘Comic monster’ (Chortle. 

Fifty Shades of Fizzog

Fifty Shades of Fizzog

Who doesn’t want to see grannies street dance?In an unexpected turn of events, this year’s breakthrough sketch show is not just another bunch of students. 

Paris Communal Shower

Paris Communal Shower

This show is like a cake, not a cake made by hand, but by a second hand cake maker that was bought at a car boot sale in Bognor Regis from a man with brown hair and a lisp. 

Best Boy: Bested

Best Boy: Bested

Best Boy thought fame beckoned when the BBC broadcast their sketch – unfortunately, they’d sent in the wrong one. 

Foil, Arms and Hog: Skiddlywup

Foil, Arms and Hog: Skiddlywup

Irish comedy, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato you racist. 

Present and Correct: Fan Club

Present and Correct: Fan Club

Dead Duck Productions brings you another hilarious and original sketch show from the Present and Correct series! We need one more member for our cast to be complete and we’re wai… 

Tiny Horse Comedy

Tiny Horse Comedy

Tiny Horse Comedy. 

KINGS!

KINGS!

KINGS! is the brand new sketch duo of Adam Blampied and Lydia King. 

Late Night

Late Night

Every night of Fringe there’s something different on at Bedlam. 

Asp

Asp

Daniel wangs down the gauntlet. 

Twins: Pret a Comedy

Twins: Pret a Comedy

Annie McGrath and Jack Barry are back with another sketch comedy show for people who hate sketch comedy. 

James & Seaburn - Piano Chocolat

James & Seaburn - Piano Chocolat

Thrown together by quirk of fate and sticking together though necessity, Nicola James and Ian Seaburn present Piano Chocolat, a fun-filled journey through modern life, touching on … 

F-Holes

F-Holes

Sketch Comedy + Live Orchestra = F-Holes 

Foil, Arms and Hog: Skiddlywup (Extra Performances)

Foil, Arms and Hog: Skiddlywup (Extra Performances)

Irish comedy, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato you racist. 

Lucky Strike

Lucky Strike

So like I said. 

All Our Friends Are Dead

All Our Friends Are Dead

When Norris – one half of the outstanding comedy duo Norris and Parker (Katie Norris and Sinead Parker, directed by Lucia Fox) – learns that she was lured here labouring under … 

Lunchtime of Champions

Lunchtime of Champions

From the writers of the Footlights International Tour Show 2014 comes a triumphantly fun new double act. 

Sad Faces Present The Dawn Chorus

Sad Faces Present The Dawn Chorus

Sad Faces challenge themselves and you with their adaptation of JR Chapterhouse’s devastatingly heartbreaking novel. 

The Dead Secrets Present... The Curiositorium

The Dead Secrets Present... The Curiositorium

‘Scripted comedy of the highest quality’ (Buxton Fringe). 

Dyer and Whitney: You and I

Dyer and Whitney: You and I

After their successful debut last year, Dyer and Whitney are back with more of their unique, original and hilarious character comedy sketches and songs! This new duo sold out at Le… 

Sam and Tom from TV!

Sam and Tom from TV!

Sam and Tom! are an anarchic double-hander made up of comedic wunderkinds Tom Burgess ‘coldly psychotic’ (Chortle. 

The Blunder Games

The Blunder Games

A non-stop hour of nonsensical family fun from madcap double act Chris and Cammy. 

Latex and Roses

Latex and Roses

An hour of unapologetic satirical sketches performed by QMU ComSoc, a group who blended together would create the ethnicity of off-white. 

Giraffe: Raisin' the Hoof

Giraffe: Raisin' the Hoof

Giraffe are back! And they’re stampeding through the Underbelly with their third offering of charming silliness. 

The Durham Revue: Cirque du Sillý

The Durham Revue: Cirque du Sillý

The Durham Revue has a lot going for it this year – the group are all on top form. 

Good Kids

Good Kids

Tom Dowling and Kieran Ahern are current members of the Oxford Revue, but they’re also bloody good kids. 

The Improverts

The Improverts

As the members of Edinburgh University’s improv troupe run into the flashing lights, accompanied by music and applause, they are introduced to us as ‘the players’. 

Bristol Revunions: Cream

Bristol Revunions: Cream

The Bristol Revunions are a first class example of what a student sketch comedy show can be. 

Hurt and Anderson: Sketchbombs

Hurt and Anderson: Sketchbombs

In Sketchbombs, Georgina Hurt and Laura Anderson take one of the cornerstones of the British entertainment tradition – the comedy double-act – and give it a fresh and invigorat… 

UCL Graters - 2015: A Sketch Odyssey

UCL Graters - 2015: A Sketch Odyssey

Following sell-out performances in 2014, UCL Graters, University College London’s award-winning comedy group, returns to the Fringe with a fresh hour of sketches. 

Mixtape

Mixtape

Join the Mixtapers for their hilarious bitesized theatre inspired by music. 

The Leeds Tealights: Discuss

The Leeds Tealights: Discuss

The Leeds Tealights show off considerable performance skills in this slickly choreographed, highly creative, and frequently fantastic hour of sketch comedy. 

Foil, Arms and Hog: Skiddlywup

Foil, Arms and Hog: Skiddlywup

Irish comedy, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato you racist. 

When the Sh*t Hits the Fan

When the Sh*t Hits the Fan

Two divorces, a rare autoimmune disease and both becoming single mums wasn’t part of the life plan. 

Milo McCabe: Genesisocide

Milo McCabe: Genesisocide

Milo McCabe’s latest hour - and his first in the one-man sketch format - is incredible. 

Kayfabe

Kayfabe

Hosts of the Time Out Critics’ Choice show Character Assassination, Simon Lukacs (‘Incredibly charming’ FunnyWomen. 

Sarah Bennetto: Fritters Away an Hour of Your Life... Mmm, Fritters

Sarah Bennetto: Fritters Away an Hour of Your Life... Mmm, Fritters

A new stand-up and character solo show by the London-based Melbourne comedian and host of Storytellers’ Club. 

Sketch Thieves

Sketch Thieves

It’s comedy set swapping live! The show where comedians perform their own jokes, then each other’s. 

Ste and Dave in Training

Ste and Dave in Training

Ste and Dave In Training is a brand new character comedy show, written and performed by Ste Johnston (Channel 4’s No Offence) and Dave Jackson (ITV2’s Bad Bridesmaid). 

Möglich

Möglich

Douglas Walker, the funny one from improvised impresarios Racing Minds: ‘Crafted by the gods of comedy’ ***** (ThreeWeeks) has written his first solo show. 

Charles Booth: Deer in the Spotlights

Charles Booth: Deer in the Spotlights

Don’t be frightened, little deer, be fabulous! Charles Booth (one of Time Out’s Character Comedians to Watch and graduate of Second City) returns to Edinburgh with a brand new,… 

ComedySportz UK

ComedySportz UK

ComedySportz is an all ages, all improvised show. 

Laughing Stock

Laughing Stock

Irreverent. 

Thünderbards: Chapter III

Thünderbards: Chapter III

From the sweaty depths of their library on Cowgate, Matt Stevens and Glenn Moore give an entertaining hour of sketch comedy. 

John McKeever: Multifarious

John McKeever: Multifarious

On top of talent and comic-timing, McKeever has charm by the bucket-load. 

Huntington & Hutt: Insignificant Other

Huntington & Hutt: Insignificant Other

What connects Monmouthshire, the efficacy of Lucozade, and leviathan-lunged pop princess Adele? Absolutely nothing. 

Huntington & Hutt: Insignificant Other

Huntington & Hutt: Insignificant Other

What connects Monmouthshire, the efficacy of Lucozade, and leviathan-lunged pop princess Adele? Absolutely nothing. 

Clandestine Sketch Show

Clandestine Sketch Show

**** (Nouse. 

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre – Minging Detectives

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre – Minging Detectives

There’s been a murrrder! Some criminals put stockings on their heads, now Earth’s funniest Socks get their heads around crime. 

The Jest: The Five Humours

The Jest: The Five Humours

Like some much of our interaction with the wider world, it starts with a button. 

Daphne Do Edinburgh

Daphne Do Edinburgh

Extra dates announced: Thursday 13 and Friday 14, 21:45. 

Pop Pop

Pop Pop

Newcomer Penny Greenhalgh is dropping her debut show Pop Pop like it’s hot – a hot mess of sketch, stand-up and ice dancing. 

Ben Russell: The Tokyo Hotel

Ben Russell: The Tokyo Hotel

This show begins with the sound of drums and then a dreadful storm and so gives its audience certain expectations of what is to come but, as Russell himself exclaims, “prepare yo… 

Max and Ivan: The End

Max and Ivan: The End

In Max and Ivan: The End, the eponymous duo take you on a guided tour of the small town of Sudley-on-Sea, introducing you to all of the residents. 

Joanna Neary: Faceful of Issues

Joanna Neary: Faceful of Issues

The much-loved Celia, housewife and host, returns, on tour with her Toxborough Village Hall Chat Show, in aid of the Animal Hospital, for a kitten who needs an iron lung. 

The Pin: Ten Seconds with The Pin

The Pin: Ten Seconds with The Pin

It’s almost impossible to see a sketch show that doesn’t have its misses; hit and miss is so much of an audience expectation it has almost become the received format. 

Minor Delays

Minor Delays

Those little things that hold you back, awkward pauses and abashed hesitations of everyday life: the focus of Minor Delays. 

I Would: A Hypothetical Sketch Show

I Would: A Hypothetical Sketch Show

This sketch show offers an hour of clean-cut and well-rehearsed comedy. 

The Oxford Revue: Issues

The Oxford Revue: Issues

The Oxford Revue’s 2015 Fringe offering is a confident display of strong student comedy. 

Mid-Brow

Mid-Brow

After a blistering London run and festival tour this year, Fringe debutants Mid-Brow have been attracting many plaudits along the way with their self-titled sketch show; one even d… 

Sophie Pelham: Country Files

Sophie Pelham: Country Files

The trip from busy Edinburgh to sleepy Wiltshire is down a short flight of stairs and through a door, upon which you’re greeted with complimentary sherry (dry or sweet, your pref… 

Gein's Family Giftshop: Volume 2

Gein's Family Giftshop: Volume 2

Gein’s return to the Edinburgh Fringe once again to showcase their brand of dark sketches. 

The Story Beast

The Story Beast

John Henry Falle (of Radio 4, Chortle-nominated sketch idiots, The Beta Males) hath now become The Story Beast. 

Aunty Donna

Aunty Donna

Aussie Edinburgh favourites return with a killer new show. 

Megan Ford: Feminasty

Megan Ford: Feminasty

Feminasty is a rollercoaster of irreverent, witty humour with a real agenda at hand. 

Princes of Main

Princes of Main

Fresh from the Cambridge Footlights, Princes of Main – Alex MacKeith, Ben Pope and Jamie Fraser – are a new and exciting comedy trio, a promising addition to the scene. 

Will Franken: Who Keeps Making All These People?

Will Franken: Who Keeps Making All These People?

One-man sketch show Will Franken serves up another smorgasbord of multi-voiced madness. 

NewsRevue 2015

NewsRevue 2015

2015 has surely been a bumper crop for satire. 

aLOne – Loren O'Brien

aLOne – Loren O'Brien

It all begins with a suicide threat. 

In Cahoots: Two White Guys

In Cahoots: Two White Guys

It’s hot in the Pleasance This: hot and dark and funny. 

Croft & Pearce – There's Always Something

Croft & Pearce – There's Always Something

Returning to the Fringe with another slice of slickly made sketch comedy, Hannah Croft and Fiona Pearce once more impress with cleverly structured and impeccably acted comic vignet… 

Massive Dad 2.0: Step Up 2 Massive Dad

Massive Dad 2.0: Step Up 2 Massive Dad

Massive Dad (Liz Kingsman, Tessa Coates, and Stevie Martin) have a sense of humour like Japanese fusion cooking, with their combination of social detail and zaniness. 

Lazy Susan: Double Act

Lazy Susan: Double Act

Deceptively sweet, Lazy Susan bring a cheeky malevolence to their character-driven sketch comedy. 

Goodbear

Goodbear

Joe Barnes and Henry Perryment deliver solid, expressive performances in their comedy sketch show. 

Everything That's Wrong with the Universe

Everything That's Wrong with the Universe

Everything That’s Wrong With the Universe is a one-woman sketch show performed by Gemma Arrowsmith. 

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2015: Love Handles

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2015: Love Handles

I’m not entirely sure where the title of the show came from, as love handles are never mentioned or a part of any of the sketches that The Cambridge Footlights perform but, frank… 

Bucket

Bucket

Ed Eales-White and Jon Pointing slam down a new character/sketch/double act comedy show. 

zazU: A Fête Worse Than Death

zazU: A Fête Worse Than Death

zazU, a town (or possibly country) with fairly odd inhabitants, is gearing up to hold its fête. 

Bafflesmash

Bafflesmash

Join this trio of Cambridge Footlights regulars for an hour of gag-riddled, irreverent silliness, as Jamie Armitage, Tom Fairbairn and Rob Oldham guide you through the world of Baf… 

BEASTS: Live DVD

BEASTS: Live DVD

Big time sketch heroes BEASTS are returning to Edinburgh to film a live DVD of their best ever show. 

Nick Hall: Dodekahedron

Nick Hall: Dodekahedron

Noun (Doh-dek-uh-hee-drun). 

Kitten Killers: Woof

Kitten Killers: Woof

The Foster’s Golden Jesters Award finalists, Laughing Horse New Act of the Year 2014 semi-finalists, and Brighton Fringe Best Comedy Show nominees are back with their hotly anticip… 

Richard Soames Does the Right Thing

Richard Soames Does the Right Thing

Morally upstanding stand-up and sketches from star of Fringe favourites The Beta Males (Radio 4, Chortle Award nominees). 

Revan and Fennell: Fan Club

Revan and Fennell: Fan Club

Brimming with originality and presenting a confidently executed show, Revan and Fennell are a double act that have the potential to succeed the comedy throne of French & Saunders. 

Fashion

Fashion

St Andrews Revue’s new sketch show Fashion is a fun and enjoyable way to spend 50 minutes, but it’s not going to split your sides or radically change your point of view. 

The Super Serious Show

The Super Serious Show

Hailed by L. 

Daphne Do Edinburgh

Daphne Do Edinburgh

Any budding sketch group could do far worse than give Daphne’s show a visit. 

Goose: Golden Eggs

Goose: Golden Eggs

One of the best-received acts in Edinburgh present the best of their last three epic one-man shows. 

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