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Frankie Boyle Work In Progress Shows at Leicester Square Theatre & Museum Of Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 1st Dec 2024
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie Boyle Work In Progress Shows at Leicester Square Theatre & Museum Of Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 1st Dec 2024
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie Boyle Work In Progress Shows at Leicester Square Theatre & Museum Of Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 1st Dec 2024
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Andy Andy with Andy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hootenannies @ Potterrow
- 15th - 25th Aug 2024
Andy has been abandoned by his brother.
Wet Hot American Stand-Ups
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 13th - 25th Aug 2024
We know in the UK you like your humour dry, but ours is sopping wet.
Karl Porter and Ben Silver: 2 Sick Guyz (Doing Stand-Up)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic Legends
- 13th - 25th Aug 2024
Featuring the slow-mo guy and viral sensation Karl Porter and Hot Water Comedy Club’s Breakthrough Act of the Year Ben Silver, 2 Sick Guyz (Doing Stand-Up) will present each act’s …
In Conversation with… Andy Cameron
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 12th Aug 2024
They are two words that are misused far too often these days, but in the case of Andy Cameron, the description of ‘comedy legend’ is totally justified.
Stuart Goldsmith: Spoilers (A Climate Crisis Stand-Up Show)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 12th - 14th Aug 2024
Stuart’s terrified of the climate crisis, but no-one he knows ever mentions it, so it must be fine.
The Fannies One Night Stand!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 12th - 19th Aug 2024
It’s a one-night stand for the Fannies’ ‘hilarious stream-of-consciousness double act’ (Entertainment-Focus.
The Wee Man: Nae Offence
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 11th - 25th Aug 2024
Scotland’s original viral The Wee Man returns from the jail in a new one-man play written by Rab C Nesbitt creator Ian Pattison.
The Wee Museum of Memory
- Listing Exhibitions
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Wee Museum of Memory
- 5th - 26th Aug 2024
Packed full of memories, photographs and memorabilia relating to everyday life in Edinburgh over the last 100 years. Come and join us to reminisce!
Attila the Stockbroker: 14 Days, 14 Completely Different Shows
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans
- 5th - 18th Aug 2024
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
The Best Stand Ups of Edinburgh
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms
- 4th - 25th Aug 2024
Produced by NYC comedian Sean Conrad, this mixed-bill stand-up comedy show features Edinburgh’s best stand-up comedians every night.
One-Person Shows / Solo Shows: Daily Picks of the Fringe
- Listing Spoken Word / Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Doghouse Hotel
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2024
Start each morning with this curated variety showcase, featuring the very best solo shows at the Fringe! Rotating daily line-ups include storytelling, theatre, clown, cabaret, spok…
About Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Course
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
- 3rd - 18th Aug 2024
Learn the skills and art of performing stand-up comedy on this two-day intensive comedy course.
Jade Kelly – Nasty Wee Bitch
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6
- 2nd - 9th Aug 2024
Jade was once a wee lassie who was terrified of teenage girls.
The Stand Late Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 2nd - 24th Aug 2024
‘This is late-night comedy at its finest’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
Cool Beans Comedy: Stand-up with a Twist!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ George Street
- 2nd - 24th Aug 2024
Real people.
Late Bite – Mixed-Bill Late Night Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
A stunning mixed-bill of new and established acts.
Award-Winning Little Smash Comedy: Best in Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic Legends
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
Little Smash Comedy brings its multi award-winning show to the Fringe after a sell-out run in 2023.
Stand-Up Science
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
Love science? Love comedy? Want to laugh and feel smart? Come to Stand-Up Science, a compilation of fantastic science-based comedy from across the Fringe.
Andy Roach: Laughing at Conspiracy Theories
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
Laughing at conspiracy theories.
H&M: A Split Hour of Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic Legends
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
Experience the outrageous humour of the brilliant Matt Adlington – ‘barrels full of Essex boy charm’ (Chortle) – with support from comedy friends, including rising comedy star …
Dragon Shows for Babies
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- LifeCare Centre
- 1st - 20th Aug 2024
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
The Bite – Mixed-Bill Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
A fabulous mixed-bill of new and established acts in a daily changing line-up throughout the Fringe.
Stand-Up Philosophy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
Comedians explore big ideas through stand-up comedy.
Cyclopath – Stand-Up and Songs
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
‘Dion Owen is undoubtedly a comedian on the cusp of greatness’ (National Post).
Not My Audience! The Stand-up Panel Show You Control With an App!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ 32 Below
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
Comedy panel show where top comics answer the daft questions you choose on our exclusive app, and take on stand-up challenges that test their comedy muscles.
4 Comedy Masterminds: Stand-Up Comedy and Game Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
The Comedy Connection: A Stand-up Comedy Game Show.
Off the Cuff: Stand-Up Comedy Magic
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 1st - 27th Aug 2024
Chris Dinwoodie is a five-time Scottish magic champion.
PG Hits! The Best in Family-Friendly Stand-Up Comedy!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
Three top stand-ups perform their very best routines just as they do in comedy clubs up and down the country and abroad, just without the swearing! PG Hits is a professional stand-…
TBC: A Stand-Up Experiment
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
The customer is always right, right? So Rob Alderson wants the audience to write his show, two minutes at a time.
0 AD – After Dairy: A Split Bill Stand-Up Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
An hour of wall-to-wall laughs from two of Scotland’s most exciting new comedians – Liam Jackson and Grant Barr! Liam dissects his mishaps in the job market, travels and Scottish…
100 Things You are Overthinking – An Improv Stand-up Comedy Game Show!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Downstairs at Betty’s
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
Fifth year on the Fringe! Join our comics as they battle it out, creating comedy from any thought you have.
The Wee Man's Comedian Rap Battles
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron)
- 31st Jul - 11th Aug 2024
The Wee Man is your MC for a night of no-rhymes-barred showdowns as some of the best comedians at the Fringe clash in banging bouts of hip-hop wits.
I am Claire Parry (very funny stand-up)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 31st Jul - 15th Aug 2024
I am Claire Parry (very funny stand-up).
Abby Wambaugh: The First 3 Minutes of 17 Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2024
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
Yoga with Jillian: The Guardian Top 50 Shows to See!
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2024
The Guardian’s Top 50 shows to see! Jillian is back at the Fringe with her yoga mat and blender after a hit premiere at last year’s Fringe and subsequent sell-out runs in New York …
Stand-Up for Refugees: A Night of Stand-Up Comedy in Support of Refugee Action
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 19th Jun 2024
In the lead up to Refugee Week, Refugee Action are bringing together some of the UK’s top comics for an evening of stand-up comedy, raising money to support the im…
About Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Course
- Listing Workshop
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Windmill
- 1st - 2nd Jun 2024
Learn the skills and art of performing stand-up comedy on this two-day intensive comedy course.
The Stand-Up Horror Show
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
- 26th - 30th May 2024
In a stunning twist, the Ha Ha Horror Show sees the iconic Great Mortar emerging from retirement, promising a spectacle that transcends the realms of comedy and horror.
Andy Parsons: Bafflingly Optimistic
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 15th May 2024
"For those who worry that we are going to hell in a handcart, Andy Parsons will at least make you enjoy the ride" - The i As seen on Netflix, Amazon …
Andy Parsons: Bafflingly Optimistic
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 15th May 2024
"For those who worry that we are going to hell in a handcart, Andy Parsons will at least make you enjoy the ride" - The i As seen on Netflix, Amazon …
Rob Duncan is Leather Daddy. Who is Andy Duncan?
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 8th - 13th May 2024
Rob Duncan has found a persona that really resonates with him.
SESKA: DON'T WEE YOUR PANTS
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 5th - 12th May 2024
Crazier than finding a penguin in your fridge.
You Got It, Boss! | Stand up, Smack down!
- Listing
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 21st - 22nd Feb 2024
You Got It, Boss! Life at #2: A Henchman's Tale Stand up, Smack down! Where comedy and wrestling collide You Got It, Boss! - Charisma CheckWhat's a goon su…
Stand Up For Pakistan II
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 29th Nov 2023
Tez Ilyas hosts a special night of stand-up comedy in aid of re-building Pakistan.
Stand-Up Comedy Meets Classical Piano
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- William Cobbett House (Freehold)
- 14th Oct 2023
Aïda Lahlou presents Stand-Up Comedy Meets Classical Piano.
Andy Onions: PowerPointless
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 25th - 27th Aug 2023
A stupendously silly, high-octane stand-up comedy show.
Jez Lowe and Andy May – Songs, Strings and Small-pipes
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 23rd Aug 2023
Songs and tunes from North-East England, from award-winning songwriter and author Jez Lowe and his long-time musical collaborator and leading Northumbrian piper and pianist Andy Ma…
In Conversation with... Andy Burnham
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand’s New Town Theatre
- 22nd Aug 2023
Mayor of Greater Manchester since 2017, Andy’s priorities include building a London-style integrated transport system, ending rough sleeping, transforming Greater Manchester into…
Stand-Up For Raymond with Frankie Boyle, Susie McCabe and more
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand’s New Town Theatre
- 22nd Aug 2023
Man down! Celebrated Scottish comedy legend Raymond Mearns has only gone and had a stroke and had to cancel his Fringe run….
Andy Miller: Michael Bublé and Rat Pack Tribute
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The A Club at the Merchants Hall
- 21st Aug 2023
Andy is one of Scotland’s top swing vocalists offering a big band sound production with professional sound and light.
The Fannies One Night Stand!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 14th Aug 2023
It’s a one night stand for the Fannies (‘hilarious stream-of-consciousness double act’ (Entertainment-Focus.
Andy Parsons: Bafflingly Optimistic
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 14th - 27th Aug 2023
Having done 17 full-run Edinburgh shows, Andy hasn’t done one for 17 years.
Broads Abroad: New York Stand-Up Showcase
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron)
- 14th Aug 2023
They say if you can make it in NYC, you can make it anywhere! Well, hello, Edinburgh! This showcase show features a line-up of NYC’s premier comics: Stef Dag (@stefdagz), Gabby Bry…
Jack Tucker: Comedy Stand-Up Hour
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 13th - 20th Aug 2023
Winner: Comedian’s Comedian, Chortle Awards (2020).
Not So Smart: Raising Funds for Crisis in Memory of Andy Smart
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 12th Aug 2023
An hour of stand-up, improv and utter wild nonsense celebrating the life of as-it-turns-out-not-immortal comedian, adventurer and raconteur Andy Smart.
David Sands Stand-Up Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Deaf Action
- 11th - 12th Aug 2023
A stand-up comedy show in BSL by the funniest deaf actor in the world, David Sands (aka Chris Baker from Small World). Come and laugh with… or at… David Sands.
Paul Brown Sings Andy Williams
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 11th Aug 2023
Andy Williams was one of the world’s greatest light music entertainers and, in celebration of his legacy, Paul performs many of Andy’s biggest hits.
0 Plans: A Crowd Work Comedy Stand-up Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin
- 5th - 27th Aug 2023
A crowd-work and stand-up comedy show with zero plans.
About Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Courses
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
- 5th - 20th Aug 2023
Learn the skills and art of performing stand-up comedy on this two-day intensive comedy course.
Wet Hot American Stand-Ups
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand’s New Town Theatre
- 4th - 13th Aug 2023
We know in the UK you like your humour dry, but ours is sopping wet.
The Stand's Pick of the Fringe
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand’s New Town Theatre
- 4th - 26th Aug 2023
The Stand’s Pick of the Fringe – The Stand’s hand-picked selection of great comedy from across the Fringe at The Stand’s New Town Theatre every Friday and Saturday night.
The Stand Late Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 4th - 26th Aug 2023
‘This is late-night comedy at its finest’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
Wee Seals and Selkies
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Storytelling Centre
- 4th - 27th Aug 2023
In this delightful family show, storytelling and music combine to create an enchanting performance, evoking Scotland’s northern seashores.
AAA Stand-Up at Underbelly
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
The total sell-out show 2005-2022 returns with a brand-new line-up.
Aaaargh! It's the Monster Stand-Up Show!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
Enjoy an hour of the tastiest comedians at the Edinburgh Fringe this year.
Stand-Up Philosophy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
Comedians explore big ideas through stand-up comedy.
The Stand-Up Horror Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
Occult cabaret-horror stand-up show but none of the booked acts have shown up! Therefore, it falls on our host, the spectral Tom Short (2019 Chortle Student Comedian runner-up, 201…
Stand-Up Science
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
Love science? Love comedy? Want to laugh and feel smart? Come to Stand-up Science, a compilation of fantastic scientific comedians from across the Fringe.
Andy Field: Belligerent (WIP)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- 2Northdown
- 3rd - 4th Aug 2023
Andy’s been a stand up comedian for over 10 years now and he’s always made an effort to not be negative or combative, to amplify silliness and be lighthearted Recently however, he…
24 Shows in 24 days: Live at the Big Cave
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
Andy Bucks and Low Effort Sketches: Combined Effort
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 3rd - 9th Aug 2023
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.
Jack Traynor and Daniel Petrie: Introducing Two of Scotland's Most Exciting New Stand-up Comedians
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
Shared hour with two absolute stars of the future.
Andy Field: Belligerent (WIP)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- 2Northdown
- 3rd - 4th Aug 2023
Andy’s been a stand up comedian for over 10 years now and he’s always made an effort to not be negative or combative, to amplify silliness and be lighthearted Recently however, he…
Glass Crumpet's Stand-Up Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Eastside
- 3rd - 19th Aug 2023
Glass Crumpet presents a triple bill of brand new stand-up from comedy graduates Will Rice, Tom Roberts and James Tangye.
AAA Stand-Up Late
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
The total sell-out show 2005-2022 returns with a brand-new line-up.
AAA Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
Total sell-out show 2005-2022 returns with a brand new line-up.
Laura Davis: Well Don't Just Stand There Dancing
- Review
- ★★★★
- Laura Tucker
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 21st Aug, 2023
With the brash vocals of an Australian zookeeper addressing an unruly tour group, Davis commands the room, immediately taking charge with her distinct brand of offbeat comedy.
Andy Roach – Laughing at Conspiracy Theories
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
Andy Roach, Liverpool-based comedian who was shortlisted in the Musical Comedy Awards 2023, returns to Edinburgh.
Robin Ince – MELONS: A Love Letter to Stand-Up Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand’s New Town Theatre
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2023
Robin’s first solo show was a disaster, but a disaster that ended with him punching a melon with Vernon Kay’s face drawn on it before singing Mustang Sally (still no cruise shi…
Last Stand on Honey Hill
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2023
Following the success of last year’s show, comic songwriter Liz Cotton is back.
Alexander Bennett: I Can't Stand the Man, Myself
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2023
Do you have a critical inner voice? Join Alexander as he interrogates his own, tries to kill it, then comes for yours.
AAA Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose / Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2023
Total sell-out show 2005-2022 returns with a brand-new line-up.
Alexander Bennett: I Can't Stand The Man, Myself
- Listing Comedy
- Durham Fringe Festival
- Klute
- 30th Jul 2023
Do you have a critical inner voice? Join Alexander as he interrogates his own, tries to kill it, then comes for yours.
Alexander Bennett: I Can't Stand The Man, Myself
- Listing Comedy
- Durham Fringe Festival
- Klute
- 30th Jul 2023
Do you have a critical inner voice? Join Alexander as he interrogates his own, tries to kill it, then comes for yours.
North East Stand-Up Showcase
- Listing Comedy
- Durham Fringe Festival
- Fabio’s Bar / The City Theatre
- 29th - 30th Jul 2023
Alex Knipe (Chortle Student Finalist 2023) and Ben Lycett (Felt Nowt New Act Finalist 2022) present a night of some of the best up-and-coming stand-up comedians that the North East…
North East Stand-Up Showcase
- Listing Comedy
- Durham Fringe Festival
- Fabio’s Bar / The City Theatre
- 29th - 30th Jul 2023
Alex Knipe (Chortle Student Finalist 2023) and Ben Lycett (Felt Nowt New Act Finalist 2022) present a night of some of the best up-and-coming stand-up comedians that the North East…
Andy Barr's Ill Defined Extravaganza - Penge Comedy Festival
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 15th Jul 2023
You sense the presence of an Extravaganza.
Venue B Takeover Gig
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
- 30th May 2023
Venue B hosts a monthly sell out gig of local young up and coming bands and DJs.
Venue B Takeover Gig
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
- 30th May 2023
Venue B hosts a monthly sell out gig of local young up and coming bands and DJs.
Alexander Bennett: I Can't Stand The Man, Myself
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 29th May 2023
A show about hating yourself and, amongst other things, choosing not to.
Alexander Bennett: I Can't Stand The Man, Myself
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 29th May 2023
A show about hating yourself and, amongst other things, choosing not to.
Ben Miller's Stand-Up Science
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 28th May - 4th Jun 2023
A show that’s equal measures hilarious, educational, and deeply personal.
Ben Miller's Stand-Up Science
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 28th May - 4th Jun 2023
A show that’s equal measures hilarious, educational, and deeply personal.
Aaargh its the Monster Stand Up Show
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 25th - 28th May 2023
Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase, including your award-winning host, Masai Graham (UK Pun Champion 2016, Joke o…
Aaargh its the Monster Stand Up Show
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant / Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 20th May 2022 - 28th May 2023
Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase including your award-winning host, Masai Graham (UK Pun Champion 2016, Joke of…
No Penis, No Knowledge: Kaisa Pylkkänen Stand Up Special
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant / Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
- 20th - 23rd May 2023
‘“Phenomenal!” - (Woman, 31, Helsinki) “Funny as fuck” - (Man, 65, New York) “Better than a real penis!” - (Gay man, 44, Helsinki) “I didn’t even have to be ashamed” -(Kaisa’s mum)…
No Penis, No Knowledge: Kaisa Pylkkänen Stand Up Special
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant / Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
- 20th - 23rd May 2023
‘“Phenomenal!” - (Woman, 31, Helsinki) “Funny as fuck” - (Man, 65, New York) “Better than a real penis!” - (Gay man, 44, Helsinki) “I didn’t even have to be ashamed” -(Kaisa’s mum)…
Pitch Night: Stand-Ups Present Your Startup Ideas
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 18th May - 1st Jun 2023
Dragons Den meets Whose Line is it Anyway! We ask three stand-ups to give presentations on companies that we’ve made up that make products that don’t exist.
Pitch Night: Stand-Ups Present Your Startup Ideas
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 18th May - 1st Jun 2023
Dragons Den meets Whose Line is it Anyway! We ask three stand-ups to give presentations on companies that we’ve made up that make products that don’t exist.
Stand-Up Comedy Workshop
- Listing Workshop
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space / Komedia Studio
- 8th May 2022 - 7th May 2023
Have you ever laughed? Learn how to use some practical stand-up comedy basics in your writing, performing, stand-up, work presentations, public speaking or - just for fun.
Stand-Up Comedy Workshop
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 7th - 7th May 2023
Have you ever laughed? Learn how to use some practical stand-up comedy basics in your writing, performing, stand-up, work presentations, public speaking or - just for fun.
Stand up for Sikh Your Mind
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 1st May 2023
A night of stand up comedy in aid of Mental Health Charity Sikh Your Mind.
Stand Up For Ukraine
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 28th Jan 2023
Join us for another evening of stand up to raise money for the people of Ukraine.
Stand up comedy in Kings Cross
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- The Guitar Social - St Elmo’s
- 6th Jan - 3rd Feb 2023
Stand up comedy at St Elmos, the next hub of music and arts, located just a stones throwaway from Kings cross station.
Father Christmas Needs a Wee!
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Arts Theatre
- 3rd Dec 2022 - 23rd Dec 2023
Father Christmas is on his rounds.
Ben Miller's Stand-Up Science
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- ZOO Playground
- 27th - 28th Aug 2022
A show that’s equal measures hilarious, educational and deeply personal.
In Conversation with... Andy Burnham
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand’s New Town Theatre
- 23rd Aug 2022
Mayor of Greater Manchester since 2017, Andy’s priorities include building a London-style integrated transport system, ending rough sleeping and transforming Greater Manchester i…
Stand Up for Your Planet
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 22nd Aug 2022
The comedy fundraiser extravaganza is back! Following a sell-out, all-star line-up in 2019, join us for a night of laughter to show your support for our planet.
PG Hits! Stand-Up Comedy That's Everyone's Cup of Tea!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 22nd - 28th Aug 2022
A hilarious stand-up comedy compilation show that leaves out the really rude bits so the whole family can enjoy the show.
Durham University's Stand Society Presents: Dungaree
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 22nd - 28th Aug 2022
Straight from the mean, cobbled streets of Durham comes a troupe of student comics with a mission: making you laugh so hard you forget the overwhelming futility of life.
The Late Shift: New York City Stand-Up Comedy Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on North Bridge
- 22nd - 27th Aug 2022
The Late Shift is the one Fringe stand-up comedy show you do not want to miss! New York City is the stand-up comedy capital of the world.
Stand Up At Seven With Ella Al-Shamahi and Suse Steed
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Dragonfly
- 17th - 28th Aug 2022
Join Ella Al-Shamahi (BBC, Channel 4 and National Geographic presenter, ‘erudite and funny’ (Times)) and Suse Steed (NATYS finalist 2019, Funny Women Regional Finalist 2018) for an…
Paul Brown Sings Andy Williams
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 16th - 18th Aug 2022
Paul Brown Sings Andy Williams is a solo acoustic concert showcasing many of Andy Williams’ greatest hits.
A Wee Journey
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus / Dance
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Studio
- 16th - 20th Aug 2022
Live music, choreography and storytelling combine to create a compelling exploration of migration experiences.
Stand Up, Weather Girl!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 15th - 21st Aug 2022
The role of the weather girl is one of the most iconic in the TV landscape.
Andy's Moon Show – How to Fake the Moon Landing
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms
- 15th - 19th Aug 2022
Join Andy (AKA Radio 1’s occasional moon expert, Shawn Moondez) as he explains the intricacies around faking the 1969 moon landing to his conspiracy theorist co-host and UK Improv …
Andy's Moon Show – How Much is the Moon Worth?
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms
- 14th - 20th Aug 2022
Join Andy (AKA Radio 1’s occasional moon expert Shawn Moondez) as he explains various ways to value our moon to his co-host and UK Improv Smackdown 2022 winner, Rick Falcon.
Star Spangled Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Smoke & Mirrors
- 14th - 18th Aug 2022
Free comedy showcase hosted by American stand-up comedian Leah Renee.
About Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Courses
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
- 6th - 24th Aug 2022
Learn the skills and art of performing stand-up comedy on this two-day intensive comedy course.
The Future of Free Stand-Up: Steffan Alun + Support
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Canons’ Gait
- 6th - 28th Aug 2022
The Welsh optimist returns to the festival, and this year he’s been thinking about the future.
The Stand Late Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 5th - 27th Aug 2022
‘This is late-night comedy at its finest’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
The Mystery of the Wee Pirate's Curse
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on North Bridge
- 5th - 20th Aug 2022
It is 1952 and the spiffing summer hols are here at last, what larks indeed! Young Lady Iris Bungle finds herself in bonnie Scotland assisting her theatrical, spunky cousin Lord Di…
Fab: Funny Stand-Up for Sad People, Sad Songs for Funny People
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 5th - 13th Aug 2022
Comedian Fab La Roche-Francoeur loves the feeling of being surrounded by an audience laughing at his jokes.
Platonic Love Triangle – A New York Stand-up Comedy Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- ZOO Playground
- 5th - 28th Aug 2022
New York comedians Wyatt Feegrado (Bettor Days on Hulu, Amazon Prime), Lukas Arnold (2 million+ followers on Tiktok) and Otter Lee (Fairview on Comedy Central) present an afternoon…
Stand Up for the People
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Frankenstein Pub
- 5th - 29th Aug 2022
Since his first sell-out Edinburgh show That Bloke Who Does Voices, Danny Posthill, has decided to put the world to rights with a brand-new show Stand Up for the People, where he t…
Freestyle Comedy: Improvised Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 5th - 28th Aug 2022
It’s stand-up, but not as you know it; no rules, no backup, no script, no set list.
Stand Up and Thrive
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 5th - 12th Aug 2022
An award-winning blend of coaching and comedy from Harriet Beveridge.
Bomb and Get Bombed: A Stand-Up Comedy Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
The only comedy show in town with actual consequences for bad jokes.
PG Hits! Stand-Up Comedy That's Everyone's Cup of Tea!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
A hilarious stand-up comedy compilation show that leaves out the really rude bits so the whole family can enjoy the show.
Wee Seals and Selkies
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Storytelling Centre
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
In this delightful family show, storytelling and music combine to create an enchanting performance, evoking Scotland’s northern seashores.
Aaaaaaaaaargh! It's the Monster Stand-Up Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase including your award-winning host, Kirsty Munro.
Stand-Up Science
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
Love science? Love comedy? Want to laugh and feel smart? Come to Stand-Up Science, a compilation of excellent comedy about science from across the Fringe.
Stand-Up Philosophy – Free!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
Stand-up philosophy is like stand-up comedy – except it’s philosophical.
Andy Roach: Laughing at Conspiracy Theories
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
Andy Roach, Liverpool-based comedian who was shortlisted in the Musical Comedy Awards 2022, makes his solo Edinburgh debut.
Set List: Stand-up Without a Net
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic Nucleus
- 4th - 27th Aug 2022
It’s back! ‘For anyone genuinely interested in comedy and comedians, this is the must-see show of the festival’ ***** (Scotsman).
Ben Miller's Stand-Up Science
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
A show that’s equal measures hilarious, educational and deeply personal.
Andy Macleod: Anoint My Head – How I Failed to Make it as a Britpop Indie Rockstar
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
A one-man show set in early 90s London about a band who didn’t become rich or famous but had a manager who did.
Darkest Thoughts – Stand-Up from Your Thoughts
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
Finally, something Netflix can’t match! Darkest Thoughts offers you the audience a chance to get immediate comedy based on any topic you can think of.
Set List: Stand-up Without a Net
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic Nucleus
- 4th - 27th Aug 2022
It’s back! ‘For anyone genuinely interested in comedy and comedians, this is the must-see show of the festival’ ***** (Scotsman).
Banana Split: A Stand-Up Comedy Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters
- 4th - 14th Aug 2022
Fresh, off-beat comedy from two former Cambridge Footlights.
Vlad and Kuan-wen: The Wee Aliens
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
A dazzling double-header show featuring Vlad and Kuan-wen (Macedonia and Taiwan), who cut their teeth on the London circuit.
AAA Stand-Up at Underbelly
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
Total sell-out 2005-2019 returns with a brand-new line-up.
AAA Stand-Up Late
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 3rd - 29th Aug 2022
Total sell-out 2005-2019 returns with a brand new line-up.
AAA Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 3rd - 29th Aug 2022
Total sell-out 2005-2019 returns with a brand new line-up.
Andy Field: Ideas (,) Man
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2022
Andy’s an ideas man and he’s got ideas, man.
AAA Stand-Up Late at Gilded Balloon
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 3rd - 29th Aug 2022
Total sell-out 2005 - 2019 returns with a brand-new line-up.
Psychic Stu's Comedy Stand Up Show
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant / Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 22nd - 25th May 2022
Come along to see Psychic Stu in his Phenomenal Stand Up Show! You may be lucky and get your fortune told by the man himself.
Psychic Stu's Comedy Stand Up Show
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sascha Cooper
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant / Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 25th May, 2022
Psychic Stu takes on the world of fake mediums and not only stands up for the holistic world, but unwittingly educates others on what to look for so as not to get conned.
Aaargh its the Monster Stand Up Show
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 20th - 22nd May 2022
Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase including your award-winning host, Masai Graham (UK Pun Champion 2016, Joke of…
A Little Bit Neurotic: A Stand-up Show
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Cellar Bar @The Brunswick
- 16th May 2022
Alex Bertulis-Fernandes is a stand-up and writer.
A Little Bit Neurotic: A Stand-up Show
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Cellar Bar @The Brunswick
- 16th May 2022
Alex Bertulis-Fernandes is a stand-up and writer.
Tom Little Makes a Triumphant Return To Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 12th May - 5th Jun 2022
Tom Little won the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year, was a BBC Radio New Comedy Award finalist and his 2018 Edinburgh show was nominated for the Amused Moose Comedy Award.
Tom Little Makes a Triumphant Return To Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 12th May - 5th Jun 2022
Tom Little won the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year, was a BBC Radio New Comedy Award finalist and his 2018 Edinburgh show was nominated for the Amused Moose Comedy Award.
Alex Franklin and Andy Watts present: Andy Watts and Alex Franklin
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 8th - 9th May 2022
Alex Franklin (Brighton Comedy Award Finalist/ BBC New Comedy Award Nominee) and Andy Watts (Max Turner Prize Winner/ So You Think You’re Funny Runner-Up) have landed, and are re…
Alex Franklin and Andy Watts present: Andy Watts and Alex Franklin
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 8th - 9th May 2022
Alex Franklin (Brighton Comedy Award Finalist/ BBC New Comedy Award Nominee) and Andy Watts (Max Turner Prize Winner/ So You Think You’re Funny Runner-Up) have landed, and are re…
Stand-Up Comedy Workshop
- Listing Workshop
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 8th May 2022
Have you ever laughed? Learn how to use some practical stand-up comedy basics in your writing, performing, stand-up, work presentations, public speaking or - just for fun.
...The Secret Comedy Club by Artista (Voted audience choice award best Fringe venue 2021)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery / Artista Upstairs
- 6th May - 5th Jun 2022
We run comedy nights at this venue all year round but we have something special planned for the Fringe.
Ay Up It's Stand Up: Paddy Young & Adam Flood
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 6th - 9th May 2022
Ay Up Ducks! Following a sell-out run at Edinburgh Fringe, we’re bringing our stand-up show to Brighton.
Ay Up It's Stand Up: Paddy Young & Adam Flood
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick / Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 6th - 15th May 2022
Ay Up Ducks! Following a sell-out run at Edinburgh Fringe, we’re bringing our stand-up show to Brighton.
Stand Up For Ukraine
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 24th Mar 2022
Join us for an evening of stand up to raise money for the people of Ukraine.
Stand up comedy in Epsom
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Dia y Noche Lounge
- 2nd Dec 2021
Stand up comedy At the Dia y Noche lounge, a popular, family run cafe, music and sports bar in Epsom.
Stand up comedy in Kingston
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Willoughby Arms
- 24th Nov 2021
Stand up comedy at the Willoughby arms, a popular local pub in the heart of Kingston.
Logan Murray's Stand Up Course: Mondays, November 2021
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 22nd Nov 2021
‘Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
Stand up comedy in Kingston
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Willoughby Arms
- 17th Nov 2021
Stand up comedy at the Willoughby arms, a popular local pub in the heart of Kingston.
Stand up comedy in Kingston
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Willoughby Arms
- 10th Nov 2021
Stand up comedy at the Willoughby arms, a popular local pub in the heart of Kingston.
Stand up comedy in Kingston
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Willoughby Arms
- 3rd Nov 2021
Stand up comedy at the Willoughby arms, a popular local pub in the heart of Kingston.
Stand up comedy in Kingston
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Willoughby Arms
- 1st Sep - 27th Oct 2021
Stand up comedy at the Willoughby arms, a popular local pub in the heart of Kingston.
Logan Murray's Stand Up Course: Sundays October 2021
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 24th Oct 2021
"Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
Stand up comedy in Epsom
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Dia y Noche Lounge
- 21st Oct 2021
Stand up comedy At the Dia y Noche lounge, a popular, family run cafe, music and sports bar in Epsom.
Stand up comedy in Kingston
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Willoughby Arms
- 20th Oct 2021
Stand up comedy at the Willoughby arms, a popular local pub in the heart of Kingston.
Stand up comedy in Kingston
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Willoughby Arms
- 13th Oct 2021
Stand up comedy at the Willoughby arms, a popular local pub in the heart of Kingston.
Stand up comedy in Epsom
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Dia y Noche Lounge
- 7th Oct 2021
Stand up comedy At the Dia y Noche lounge, a popular, family run cafe, music and sports bar in Epsom.
Stand up comedy in Kingston
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Willoughby Arms
- 6th Oct 2021
Stand up comedy at the Willoughby arms, a popular local pub in the heart of Kingston.
Stand up comedy in Kingston
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Willoughby Arms
- 15th - 29th Sep 2021
Stand up comedy at the Willoughby arms, a popular local pub in the heart of Kingston.
Wee Rosie
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Union Theatre
- 24th - 25th Sep 2021
Rosie is a young woman with an incredible story to tell.
Anna Clifford’s Stand Up Special “Ghosted”
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 23rd Sep 2021
“ I can’t tell if I am being ghosted or that person is practising social distancing very well” Watch Irish comedian Anna Clifford dissect t…
Anna Clifford’s Stand Up Special “Ghosted”
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 23rd Sep 2021
“ I can’t tell if I am being ghosted or that person is practising social distancing very well” Watch Irish comedian Anna Clifford dissect t…
Stand up comedy in Kingston
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Willoughby Arms
- 22nd Sep 2021
Stand up comedy at the Willoughby arms, a popular local pub in the heart of Kingston.
Logan Murray's Stand Up Course: Saturdays, Sept 2021
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 18th Sep 2021
"Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
Stand up comedy in Epsom
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Dia y Noche Lounge
- 16th Sep 2021
Stand up comedy At the Dia y Noche lounge, a popular, family run cafe, music and sports bar in Epsom.
Logan Murray's Stand Up Course: Mondays, Sept 2021
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 13th Sep 2021
‘Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
The Bugle with Andy Zaltzman
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Underbelly Earls Court
- 7th Sep 2021
A live performance of the global smash-hit podcast The Bugle.
Stand up comedy in Epsom
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Dia y Noche Lounge
- 2nd Sep 2021
Stand up comedy At the Dia y Noche lounge, a popular, family run cafe, music and sports bar in Epsom.
Tom Little Makes a Triumphant Return to Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium
- 23rd - 29th Aug 2021
Tom Little won the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year, was a BBC Radio New Comedy Award finalist and his 2018 Edinburgh show was nominated for the Amused Moose Comedy Award.
Ay Up, It's Stand-Up: Paddy Young and Adam Flood
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 22nd - 29th Aug 2021
Two 30-minute sets of stand-up from up-and-coming comedians from the north of England, Paddy Young (as seen on ITV2, Sky, Channel 4) and Adam Flood (BBC New Comedian 2019 nominee, …
Stand up comedy in Epsom
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Dia y Noche Lounge
- 19th Aug 2021
Stand up comedy At the Dia y Noche lounge, a popular, family run cafe, music and sports bar in Epsom.
Andy Field The Rhythm, Field The Rhyme, Get On Up, It's Comedy Time
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 17th - 29th Aug 2021
A brand new collection of fun and silly ideas loosely arranged into the form of a show by award winning comedian Andy Field.
Andy Field The Rhythm, Field The Rhyme, Get On Up, It’s Comedy Time
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 17th - 29th Aug 2021
A brand new collection of fun and silly ideas loosely arranged into the form of a show by award winning comedian Andy Field As seen/heard on BBC One, Radio …
Best of Fringe Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
- 17th - 29th Aug 2021
It’s been a long time since we could go see live comedy, but it’s back! Award-winning comic Ben Clover presents a different bill of top stand-ups each evening.
Aaaaaaargh It’s the Monster Stand-Up Show!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
- 17th - 29th Aug 2021
Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase including your award-winning host, Masai Graham (UK Pun Champion 2016).
Andy Field The Rhythm, Field The Rhyme, Get On Up, It's Comedy Time
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 17th - 29th Aug 2021
A brand new collection of fun and silly ideas loosely arranged into the form of a show by award winning comedian Andy Field.
Tom Little Makes a Triumphant Return to Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway
- 9th - 29th Aug 2021
Tom Little won the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year, was a BBC Radio New Comedy Award finalist and his 2018 Edinburgh show was nominated for the Amused Moose Comedy Award.
Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Etcetera Theatre
- 8th - 15th Aug 2021
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Nice Try and Clown Nipples (Two Comedy Solo Shows)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Etcetera Theatre
- 8th - 15th Aug 2021
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Etcetera Theatre
- 8th - 15th Aug 2021
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Stand-Up Philosophy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 7th - 29th Aug 2021
Comedians look at the hilarious side of philosophy.
Best of Fringe Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ 32 Below
- 7th - 29th Aug 2021
It’s been a long time since we could go see live comedy, but it’s back! Award-winning comic Ben Clover presents a different bill of top stand-ups each evening.
Aaaaaaargh It’s the Monster Stand-Up Show!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 7th - 29th Aug 2021
Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase including your award-winning host, Masai Graham (UK Pun Champion 2016).
Gareth Mutch and Joe McTernan: Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 6th - 29th Aug 2021
Join two of Scotland’s finest comedians for an hour of energetic stand-up with unique observations and hilarious stories.
Sherlock's Secret Challenge – The Puzzle Solving Game That Shows You The City
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Outside The Conan Doyle Pub
- 6th - 30th Aug 2021
You will need a group of 2-5 detectives, internet access on your phone, your brain and your legs! We’ll provide the specialist kit.
Freestyle Comedy: Improvised Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 6th - 29th Aug 2021
It’s stand-up, but not as you know it; no rules, no backup, no script and no set list.
Yin Wee Ceilidh
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Player
- 6th - 6th Aug 2021
Yin Wee Ceilidh or a rollickin’ good time.
Sara Segovia and Lachlan Werner are making shows (WORK IN PROGRESS)
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Miller
- 15th Jun 2021
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 7th - 27th Jun 2021
Tl;dr: Two female comedians debut their 30 minute solo shows on one bill.
Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 7th - 27th Jun 2021
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Lyric Theatre
- 28th May 2021 - 18th Sep 2022
‘It’s not all that glitters is gold, half the story has never been told’ - Bob Marley Lively up yourself and celebrate the story of Jamaica’s global superst…
Logan Murray’s Stand Up Course: Sundays May 2021
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 23rd May 2021
"Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
Logan Murray’s Stand Up Course: Saturdays, May 2021
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 22nd May 2021
"Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
Logan Murray’s Stand Up Course: Sunday's May 2021
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 16th May 2021
"Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
Logan Murray’s Stand Up Course: Sunday's May 2021
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 16th May 2021
"Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
Logan Murray’s Stand Up Course: Mondays, May 2021
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 3rd May 2021
‘Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
Andy Parsons: Healing The Nation
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 16th Apr 2021
BORIS JOHNSON replaces Theresa May as PM.
Logan Murray’s Stand Up Course: Mondays, April 2021
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 12th Apr 2021
‘Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
Logan Murray’s Stand Up Course: Mondays, April 2021
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 12th Apr 2021
‘Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
Logan Murray’s Stand Up Course: Saturdays, April 2021
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 10th Apr 2021
"Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
Logan Murray’s Stand Up Course: Saturdays, April 2021
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 10th Apr 2021
"Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
Stand Up Comedy Club
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Farnham Maltings
- 15th Jan 2021
Please note that Tier 2 regulations mean that only members of the same household or support bubble may meet together indoors.
Logan Murray’s Stand Up Course: Mondays, Winter 2020
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 30th Nov 2020 - 15th Feb 2021
‘Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
Logan Murray’s Stand Up Course: Sundays, Winter 2020
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 1st Nov - 13th Dec 2020
‘Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
Logan Murray’s Stand Up Course: Saturdays, Autumn 2020
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 26th Sep - 14th Nov 2020
‘Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
Logan Murray’s Stand Up Course: Mondays, Autumn 2020
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 14th Sep - 23rd Nov 2020
‘Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
The Wee Museum of Memory
- Listing Exhibition
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Wee Museum of Memory
- 3rd - 31st Aug 2020
A unique hands-on reminiscence museum in a shopping centre with an exhibition full of memories.
Andy Parsons: Healing The Nation
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 1st May 2020
‘It was 24th June 2016 and I found myself contemplating a supermarket meal deal.
Andy Parsons: Healing The Nation
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 1st May 2020
‘It was 24th June 2016 and I found myself contemplating a supermarket meal deal.
Logan Murray’s Stand Up Course: Mondays, Spring 2020
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 6th Apr - 8th Jun 2020
"Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
Logan Murray’s Stand Up Course: Mondays, Spring 2020
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 6th Apr - 8th Jun 2020
"Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
Logan Murray’s Stand Up Course
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 28th Mar - 9th May 2020
‘Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
Logan Murray’s Stand Up Course: Weekends, Summer 2020
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 28th Mar - 9th May 2020
‘Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
Andy Young: Records in my Bedroom
- Listing Music
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 14th Mar 2020
Critically acclaimed singer Andrew Young and Musical Director Paul Knight bring a new cabaret to the Museum of Comedy This show takes a journey from the early days of An…
Logan Murray’s Stand Up Course: Weekends, Spring 2020
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 1st Feb - 14th Mar 2020
"Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
Logan Murray’s Stand Up Course: Weekends, Spring 2020
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 1st Feb - 14th Mar 2020
"Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
Logan Murray’s Stand Up Course: Mondays, January 2020
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 13th Jan - 23rd Mar 2020
‘Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
Logan Murray’s Stand Up Course: Mondays, January 2020
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 13th Jan - 16th Mar 2020
‘Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
Andy Zaltzman – Work in Progress
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 3rd - 10th Dec 2019
Andy Zaltzman, host of the long-running worldwide hit satirical podcast The Bugle, comes to the Museum of Comedy.
Andy Young: Records in my Bedroom
- Listing Music
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 16th Nov 2019
Critically acclaimed singer Andrew Young and Musical Director Paul Knight bring a new cabaret to the Museum of Comedy This show takes a journey from the early days of An…
Logan Murray's Stand Up Course: Mondays, Autumn 2019
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 9th Sep - 25th Nov 2019
‘Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
Logan Murray’s Stand Up Course: Weekends, Autumn 2019
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 31st Aug - 29th Sep 2019
"Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
Stand Up Nights Competition Final
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 30th Aug 2019
12 Finalists will compete for a cash prize of £500. Each act is 5 - 7 minutes long. Interval after 6th act
Eric Andre: The Stand Up Tour
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon at the Museum
- 25th Aug 2019
Comedian, actor and host of Adult Swim’s top-rated and most anarchic programme The Eric Andre Show comes to the (true) final night of Fringe to tear sh*t the f*ck up.
Stand Up to Stand Out
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 21st Aug 2019
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Stand Up for Your Planet
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Hall
- 19th Aug 2019
Join us for a one-off comedy extravaganza, raising awareness for one of the most pressing issues of our time – protecting our planet.
Questions for Quiz Shows
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 17th Aug 2019
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
Geeks, Stand Up!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 14th - 25th Aug 2019
This show brings you some of the funniest comedians from around the Fringe to laugh, joke and talk passionately about their favourite geek passions.
Andy Zaltzman: Satirist For Hire – Blindfold Cliff-Edge Unicorn Brexit Britain Bogus Prime Minister Democrageddon American Elections Cricket World Cup General State of the World Specials
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 13th - 25th Aug 2019
Zaltzman, host of the global smash-hit podcast The Bugle, brings his uniquely interactive stand-up show Satirist For Hire.
Stand Up for Shelter
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, George Square
- 13th Aug 2019
Stand Up for Shelter returns for another year at the Fringe bringing you a fantastic showcase of comedy, all in aid of Shelter.
Nathan and Ida’s Hot Dog Stand
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Space
- 6th - 17th Aug 2019
Nathan and Ida Hardwerker leave the old country to build a better life for themselves in the New World: With nothing but a will to succeed and a secret recipe for sauce, they disco…
Andy Gunn Presents: From T-Bone To Trucks
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Stramash
- 4th - 18th Aug 2019
Following 2018’s sold-out run, Scottish virtuoso Andy Gunn’s back with his homage to the greats of electric blues guitar with a multimedia experience featuring projected films, nar…
Andy Gunn Acoustic: Whashappenin Edinburgo?!
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys
- 4th - 22nd Aug 2019
Though known as a world-class electric player, Scotland’s own blues guitar virtuoso and radgiest of gadgies, here plays acoustic versions of original and obscure cover songs in a s…
Fingers and Thumbs with Andy Gunn
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- artSpace@StMarks
- 3rd - 17th Aug 2019
Scotland’s own guitar virtuoso debuts an all new show exploring in trio format, various stringed instruments.
Logan Murray’s Stand Up Summer School
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 3rd - 18th Aug 2019
‘Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
Steffan Alun and Support: You Can't Escape Free Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Waverley Bar
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2019
The Welsh optimist returns to the festival – and this year, he’s been trying to escape.
Daniel Cook and Rose Johnson: Two Gorgeous Stand-Ups
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2019
An hour of gorgeous stand-up from two gorgeous comedians.
About Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Courses
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2019
Learn the skills and art of stand-up comedy performance on this two-day intensive comedy training course.
The Stand Late Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 2nd - 24th Aug 2019
‘This is late-night comedy at its finest’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
The Stand's Pick of the Fringe
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand’s New Town Theatre
- 2nd - 24th Aug 2019
The Stand Comedy Club’s hand-picked selection of great comedy at the Fringe at The Stand’s New Town Theatre almost every Friday and Saturday night.
Stand-Up Poet
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Imagination Workshop
- 2nd - 24th Aug 2019
‘Excellent show’ (FringeReview.
FreeStyle Comedy: Improvised Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2019
It’s stand-up, but not as you know it.
Stand-Up Edinburgh
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys / Laughing Horse @ Espionage / Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2019
You’re at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the biggest arts festival in the world – come see a showcase of the comedians that perform in Edinburgh year round.
Trevor Lewis Presents: A Stand-Up for the Mystery Hour
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2019
Direct from great success in Australia, A Stand-Up for the Mystery Hour is a show like no other.
The Edinburgh Revue Stand-Up Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2019
The Edinburgh Revue returns for its 10th Fringe, bringing you 50 minutes of ‘brave, intelligent, and inventive’ (BroadwayBaby.
Ahab; or What If Moby Dick Were Stand-Up Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Moby Dick: a book, a play, an episode of Star Trek, 12 movies and a fish.
Andy Barr: The Ruby
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ Black Medicine
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
With his father recently deceased, minor aristocrat Andy Barr stands to inherit his fortune, his estate, his magnificent ruby and its terrible curse.
Wee Seals and Selkies
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Storytelling Centre
- 1st - 11th Aug 2019
In this delightful family show, storytelling and music combine to create an enchanting performance, evoking the Scottish northern seashores.
Southampton Stand-Up Showcase
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Rotating bill stand-up! Come and see the finest stand-ups the University of Southampton Comedy Society and the Fringe has to offer! Featuring experienced student performers, both n…
Skydive to Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
From forgetting to pull your ripcord at 12,000 feet to finding your feet as a comedian: ex-skydiver Mat reveals all in an amusing yet absurd journey from living above the clouds to…
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh, It’s the Monster Stand-Up Show!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase, including your award-winning host Wes Dalton, featuring a different line-up e…
Andy Field's Funeral
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
From BBC Radio 1’s The Andy Field Experience, ITV2’s The Stand Up Sketch Show and Comedy Central’s Ones To Watch.
99 (First World) Problems feat Andy Quirk and Anna J
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Andy Quirk, the UK’s premier rapper of first world problems and his surly lead backup dancer Anna J invite you to join their crew for their latest musical comedy show dealing wit…
Jack Tucker: Comedy Stand-Up Hour
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Following sell-out shows in New York, London and LA, award-winning comedian Zach Zucker returns with a new hour of absurdist stand-up! Important: Jack Tucker is a very funny stand-…
99 Club Stand-Up Selection – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Proudly supporting the Free Festival with a selection of four different comics daily.
AAA Stand-Up at Underbelly
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Total sell-out 2005-2018 returns with a brand-new line-up.
Andy Storey: Still (Awkward) Life
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
‘It’s difficult, I think, being a human person.
Stand-Up Philosophy – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Bored of mindless comedy shows? Then come to Stand-Up Philosophy.
Stand-Up Nomad: Backpacking Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Backpackers and travelling comedians have a similar lifestyle: exploring new cultures, travelling light and relying on booze to socialise.
The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2019
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
AAA Stand-Up Late at Gilded Balloon
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2019
Total sell-out 2010-2018 returns with a brand-new line-up.
Andy Smart: 40 Years at the Edinburgh Fringe
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2019
Andy has performed at 40 Edinburgh Festivals.
Stand Up with Janine Harouni (Please Remain Seated)
- Review
- ★★★
- Kate Nora
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 26th Aug, 2019
When will Joanne Harouni get to do the Ted Talk she deserves?In an unusual standup routine, Harouni devotes her hour-long performance to stories about her multifaceted father and l…
AAA Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2019
Total sell-out 2005-2018 returns with a brand-new line-up.
AAA Stand-Up Late
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2019
Total sell-out 2010-2018 returns with a brand-new line-up.
Stand Up with Janine Harouni (Please Remain Seated)
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- 27th Jul 2019
Janine's father is a lifelong New Yorker and son of Middle-Eastern immigrants.
Wingspan Stand-Up Special
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Taproom
- 12th Jul 2019
A night of Stand-up comedy for our charity partner BIRD featuring the best up-and-coming comedians from the open-mic circuit.
Alexei Sayle: Stand Up WIP
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 6th Jul 2019
Hot on the heels of his Radio 4 success and sell out Edinburgh show, Alexei returns to the Museum of Comedy with new material.
Andy Parsons: Work in Progress
- Listing
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 4th Jul 2019
Join Andy Parsons (Mock The Week) one of Britain’s finest political comedians as he tries out material ahead of his new tour ‘Healing Th…
Stand Up With Janine Harouni (Please Remain Seated)
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 7th - 20th Jun 2019
Janine's father is a lifelong New Yorker and son of Middle-Eastern immigrants.
Andy Stedman - Confessions Of A Failed Rock Star (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 21st - 24th May 2019
“Stedman’s voice is sure to melt hearts.
BA Theatre Arts Graduate Shows
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Blockhouse
- 20th - 21st May 2019
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
The Naked Stand Up: Naked Truth
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 19th May 2019
Join ‘The Naked Stand Up’, Miss Glory Pearl, for a provocative and hilarious night of stand-up, comic verse and other nonsense as she appraises the human body; its joys, its frustr…
Stand Up Yours
- Review
- ★★
- Annabel Pribelszki
- Brighton Fringe
- The Old Market - Waterloo Room
- 20th May, 2019
Entering The Old Market on a Thursday night, to view a 'prize-winning feministic and queer Swedish comedy' was soon to be met with disappointment.
Logan Murray’s Stand Up Course: Mondays, Spring/Summer 2019
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 13th May - 5th Aug 2019
"Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
Logan Murray’s Stand Up Course: Mondays, Summer 2019
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 13th May - 5th Aug 2019
‘Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
Andy Field's Funeral
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 13th - 22nd May 2019
“Completely brilliant” ***** (Voice Mag) “For an hour of hilarious escapism, look no further” **** (Edinburgh Festivals) “Stellar puns, great one liners” **** (Fest…
Logan Murray’s Stand Up Course: Weekends, Spring/Summer 2019
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 12th May - 23rd Jun 2019
"Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
Logan Murray’s Stand Up Course: Weekends, Summer 2019
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 12th May - 23rd Jun 2019
‘Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
Ed Gamble: Stand-Up Special
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 12th - 12th May 2019
Following on from 4 sell-out dates at the Leicester Square Theatre, Ed Gamble is back for one day only (and he’s filming something special)!Live at The Apollo…
Stand-up with Janine Harouni (Please Remain Seated)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs: The Kennel
- 8th - 25th May 2019
Winner of the 2018 Laughing Horse New Act of the Year, Janine Harouni brings you a hilarious hour of stand-up comedy about standing up for what you believe in, even if you have to …
Vladimir McTavish: 25 Years of Stand-up
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 5th - 6th May 2019
“One of the finest acts on the Scottish comedy circuit” (Guardian), Vladimir McTavish became a full-time comedian in 1993, since then he has performed to audiences across the g…
Stand-up Comedy Workshop
- Listing Workshop
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 5th May 2019
Have you ever laughed? Have fun learning how to use some friendly comedy basics to boost your writing, performing, work presentations, public speaking or just for fun! Jill Edwards…
Geeks, Stand Up!
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 4th - 12th May 2019
It’s 2019 and the geeks have inherited the earth! Geek culture is emerging from TV and movies, but there was a time you’d be ashamed to be one.
Ahab; or What if Moby Dick Were Stand-up Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 4th - 12th May 2019
Moby Dick: a book, a play, an episode of Star Trek, 12 movies, and a fish.
The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 4th - 6th May 2019
One of The Guardian’s Best Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018.
Best in Comedy Chat and Stand-up
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 3rd - 4th May 2019
This chat show is the perfect way to start your Fringe evening, as you spend an hour in the company of one of Scotland’s finest comedians, Vladimir McTavish, and his guests in this…
Stand-Up Comedy Club (April)
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Farnham Maltings
- 17th Apr 2019
Farnham Maltings and Off the Kerb Productions present their popular Stand-Up Comedy Club, your chance to catch up-and-coming comedy talent in a club environment.
Andy Bell is Torsten in... QUEERETERIA TV
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 10th - 28th Apr 2019
Post-Armageddon in a England of the near future, a merry band of surviving dysfunctional queers take over the television station and recreate, in excruciatingly diva dri…
Martin Angolo & Keith Fox: A Night Of Stand Up Comedy
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Dublin
- Civic Theatre
- 22nd Mar 2019
A night of stand up comedy from two of the country’s best up and coming comedians.
Logan Murray's Stand Up Course
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 17th Mar 2019
Course times: 12pm until 5.
Stand-Up Comedy Club (March)
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Farnham Maltings
- 13th Mar 2019
Farnham Maltings and Off the Kerb Productions present their popular Stand-Up Comedy Club, your chance to catch up-and-coming comedy talent in a club environment.
Second Chance | Our Wee Gerry
- Listing Theatre
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 2nd - 2nd Mar 2019
Second ChanceAn experiment on a different sort of love story Our Wee Gerry Gerry and Arlene, cross-communitied lovers Second Chance - Idir Mná / LakedaemonThey sa…
Stand-Up Comedy Club (February)
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Farnham Maltings
- 13th Feb 2019
Farnham Maltings and Off the Kerb Productions present their popular Stand-Up Comedy Club, your chance to catch up-and-coming comedy talent in a club environment.
Logan Murray’s Stand Up Course
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 19th Jan - 2nd Mar 2019
‘Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
Stand-Up Comedy Khichidi
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 24th Nov 2018
Hindi-English stand up comedy show by Jagdish Chaturvedi THE ONLY INDIAN DOCTOR STAND-UP COMEDIAN IN THE WORLD * *Who is performing on the 24th November at 8 30 PM at th…
One Life Stand
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Canada Water Theatre
- 13th Oct 2018
When we can have sex whenever we want, with whomever we want, why settle for a normal relationship?
Fringe Guide to Running a Venue
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 26th Aug 2018
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved.
Hatty's Last Stand
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Salvation Army Edinburgh City Corps
- 24th - 25th Aug 2018
Harriet Stand (Hatty to her friends) is auditioning for a part in the critically acclaimed play Life.
Wee MacNessie
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Giles’ Cathedral
- 21st - 25th Aug 2018
Based on the popular children’s book series by Pauline Mackay, Polkadot Theatre invites our audience to explore the interactive world of Wee MacNessie and his friends.
A Show About Shows About Show Biz
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 20th - 25th Aug 2018
From Show Boat to Showman, there’s always Another Op’nin, Another Show about the sparkling self-obsessed world of musical theatre! And why not? Some of the best shows are all a…
Andy Gunn Presents: From T-Bone to Trucks
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 20th - 25th Aug 2018
Fronted by Scottish guitar virtuoso Andy Gunn, From T-Bone to Trucks will take you on a journey through the decades, showcasing the most loved and respected exponents of the blues.
Al Murray's Three Night Stand (Definitely Not a Preview)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre
- 19th - 21st Aug 2018
The nation’s favourite pub philosopher turned pop-up publican, brings his unique comedy genius to the Edinburgh Fringe, serving up his satirical brew of no-nonsense banter for thre…
Stand Up for Shelter
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, George Square
- 15th Aug 2018
Stand Up for Shelter returns for its fifth year at the Fringe, bringing you a fantastic showcase of comedy, all in aid of Shelter.
Andy Zaltzman: Right Questions. Wrong Answers.
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 15th - 26th Aug 2018
Zaltzman, host of long-running global hit podcast, The Bugle, returns to Edinburgh to (a) ask, (b) confront, (c) evade and (d) incorrectly respond to, the biggest questions facing …
Stand Up to Stand Out
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 11th Aug 2018
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Andy Gunn
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 10th - 17th Aug 2018
Scottish guitar virtuoso Andy Gunn brings his soulful bluesy set to the Fringe with a rare stripped-back performance featuring songs from his latest album, Too Many Guitars to Give…
Nathan & Ida's Hot Dog Stand
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- The Hen & Chicken Theatre
- 10th Aug 2018
Nathan and Ida Hardwerker left the old country to build a better life for themselves in the new world.
Free Stand-Up Will Never Die
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Three Broomsticks
- 4th - 25th Aug 2018
The hilarious Welsh optimist returns to the Fringe, working through his latest identity crisis the only way he knows how – with 40 minutes of excellent free comedy.
About Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Courses
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 4th - 25th Aug 2018
Learn the skill and art of stand-up comedy performance on this two-day intensive comedy training course.
Stand Up and Slam
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Subway
- 4th - 25th Aug 2018
The battle is on! Six outstanding Fringe acts, one epic fight night.
The Show Between Shows Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BrewDog Lothian Rd
- 4th - 25th Aug 2018
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
The Edinburgh Revue's Stand-Up Show 2018
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2018
The Edinburgh Revue returns to the Fringe with a collection of its best and brightest local talents from throughout the year in this stand-up showcase.
The Stand Late Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2018
‘This is late-night comedy at its finest’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
Rob Kemp's Wheel of Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel / Monkey Barrel Comedy Club
- 3rd - 26th Aug 2018
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
Stand Up, Weather Girl!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 3rd - 26th Aug 2018
Sam Fraser has been a stand-by BBC local weather presenter since 2012.
Andy Barr: Neustadt
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Black Medicine Basement & Heroes
- 3rd - 26th Aug 2018
Visionary architect Andy Barr, tasked with designing the ideal socialist city, is dragged into a paranoid nightmare of Cold War intrigue.
Kirk Smith's Stand-up Showcase
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Bar Bados Complex
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2018
Stand-up comedy showcase produced by Los Angeles based stand-up comic Kirk Smith.
The Stand's Pick of the Fringe
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand’s New Town Theatre
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2018
The Stand Comedy Club celebrates its 21st anniversary at the Edinburgh Fringe with the best of 20 years visiting the stage at New Town Theatre. Different line-up nightly!
Freestyle Comedy: Improvised Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 3rd - 26th Aug 2018
It’s stand-up, but not as you know it.
Set List: Stand-Up Without a Net
- Review
- ★★★★
- Linnie Moulton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 8th Aug, 2018
Every comedian has their set-list: jokes which are tried and true, presented in a timely fashion to showcase their best zingers, punchlines and their best dick joke.
Andy Field the Love Tonight
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Since the end of the last Fringe, Andy Field has been keeping a diary full of his thoughts, feelings and silly ideas.
Ali Brice's Lemonade Stand
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ The Hive
- 3rd - 26th Aug 2018
You are cordially invited to the grand reopening of Ali Brice’s Lemonade Stand.
Mind the Gap Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
A 23-year-old blind theoretical physicist turned local radio news broadcaster, a late-night TV casino host and a well-meaning woman called Glynis join forces for a laugh-packed sho…
99 Club Stand-Up Selection – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Proudly supporting the Free Festival with a different selection each day of four of the best comics at the Fringe.
Stand-Up Philosophy – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Bored of mindless comedy shows? Then come to Stand-Up Philosophy.
The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
Abstract Stand-Up Art
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C aquila
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2018
A one-person comedy show with art and passion.
Witches, Wee Folk and Watery Beasties
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Storytelling Centre
- 2nd - 12th Aug 2018
There’s more to Scotland than meets the eye, for amidst the bonnie hills, craggy coasts and lush, green glens, dwell some truly curious beings.
Ahab; or What If Moby Dick Were Stand-Up Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Moby Dick: a book, a play, an episode of Star Trek, 12 movies, and a fish.
Aaaaaaaaaargh, It's the Monster Stand-Up Show – Free Entry
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase including your award-winning host, Masai Graham (UK Pun Champion 2016).
Stand-Up Showdown: Improv Apocalypse!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Harry’s Southside
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Teams of improvisers take on stand-ups on stage, and you get to choose who is funnier. Loser dies. Even better? The show is free.
AAA Stand-Up at Underbelly
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Total sell-out 2005-2017 returns with a brand new line-up.
Stand-Up Nomad: Backpacking Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Backpackers and travelling comedians have a similar lifestyle: exploring new cultures, travelling light and relying on booze to socialise.
Andy Storey: Awkward
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
‘It’s difficult I think, being a human person.
Stand-Up Power Hour
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fireside
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2018
The hottest free ticket in town. A selection of the best acts at the Edinburgh Fringe showcased in this hour of power.
Andy Onions – PowerPointless
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
High-octane, stand-up comedy show.
Gavin Webster: I Am Stand-Up Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 2
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
What type of comedian are you Gav? Hard-hitting? Are you one of these edgy types that says the unsayable or a modern consumer complaints comedian? Maybe you’re surreal and are on…
Not My Audience! The Stand-Up Showcase with a Twist: You Decide the Material!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Which comic belongs in your bubble? Send your suggestions through our app: comedy gold or utter crap? Three top comedians compete to impress with tailor-made jokes based on the dem…
25 Years of Stand-Up: Vladimir McTavish
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand’s New Town Theatre
- 1st - 26th Aug 2018
Vladimir McTavish became a full-time stand-up comedian in 1993, since then he has performed to audiences worldwide and gigged with some of the biggest names in the business.
AAA Stand-Up Late
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 1st - 27th Aug 2018
Total sell-out 2010-2017 returns with a brand-new line-up.
Stand and Deliver
- Review
- ★
- Beverly Sproats
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C
- 21st Aug, 2018
There is something sad about leaving Stand and Deliver, accompanied by the sound of the Adam Ant song referenced in the title of the show.
AAA Stand-Up Late at Gilded Balloon
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 1st - 27th Aug 2018
Total sell-out 2010-2017 returns with a brand-new line-up.
One Life Stand
- Review
- ★★
- William Heraghty
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Roundabout @ Summerhall
- 13th Aug, 2018
After their five star runaway success with All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, Middle Child were always going to suffer from difficult second album syndrome and it’s a real shame …
AAA Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 1st - 27th Aug 2018
Total sell-out 2005-2017 returns with a brand-new line-up.
Stand Up with Janine & Andrew (Please Remain Seated)
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 31st Jul 2018
BBC New Comedy Award nominees and real-life couple Andrew Nolan and Janine Harouni bring you an hour of standup comedy, unless they have already broken up.
Stand Up Soldier
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Tea Pot
- 25th Jul 2018
Ex soldier and now comedian Martin Semple turns terrifying situations from his time in the British Army into hilarious material, marking Martin out to be a unique and talented me…
Zeal: Queer Improv & Stand-Up Night
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Chateau
- 19th Jul 2018
A night of queer improvised comedy with Zeal at the Chateau, South London’s brand new queer arts space opening in July! FREE ENTRY.
Stand Up, Weather Girl!
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 30th - 31st May 2018
Sam Fraser has been a stand-by BBC local weather presenter since 2012.
25 Years of Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 25th - 28th May 2018
Scottish comedy-award-winner and BAFTA nominee Vladimir McTavish celebrates a quarter-century in the business with an hour-long show featuring some brand-new topical gags, some old…
Stand and Deliver
- Review
- ★★★
- Elanor Parker
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 29th May, 2018
It's 1736, George II is on the throne, witchcraft laws are being appealed and the British Empire was starting to take shape.
Rob Deb: A Stand Up Guy
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet @ The Welly
- 19th - 27th May 2018
Bi-cultural, demi-sexual, 42 year old Londoner WLTM varied audience with GSOH to tell jokes of a politically irreverent nature.
A Musical History of 24 George St, Brighton - and Other Shows
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Bom-Bane’s Music Cafe
- 18th May - 3rd Jun 2018
By popular demand! Original musical journey from 400 AD Boerthelm’s Tun to present day Bom-Bane’s, with portraits of all the colourful inhabitants along the way.
Nathan & Ida's Hot Dog Stand
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 17th - 20th May 2018
Nathan and Ida Hardwerker leave the old country to build a better life for themselves in the New World: taking with them nothing but a will to succeed and a secret recipe for sauce…
Stand-Up-Comedy Workshop
- Listing Workshop
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 13th May 2018
Have you ever laughed? Have fun learning how to use some friendly stand-up-comedy basics to boost your writing, performing, stand-up, work presentations, public speaking or - just …
BA Theatre Arts Graduate Shows
- Review
- ★★★★
- Carmen Dupre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 9th May, 2018
Bringing us four short scenes, Puck’s Players – consisting of Bill Poulton, Phillip Lee and Aaron Thaddeus Lee – were able to exhibit outstanding versatility as performers, d…
Andy Quirk's Got First World Problems
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
- 5th May - 2nd Jun 2018
East London’s premier rapper of first-world problems, Andy quirk, and his backup dancer Anna J, bring fist-pumping therapy for modern living to the masses.
Robot vs Hurricane: An hour of alternative stand-up from Nicholas Everritt and Pete Nash
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Rocks
- 5th - 27th May 2018
Strap in for a strikingly alternative show from two of the most original acts rising through the UK stand-up scene: ‘The Robot’ Nicholas Everritt and Pete ‘The Hurricane’ Nash.
Logan Murray’s Stand Up Course
- Listing Workshop
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 16th Apr - 25th Jun 2018
‘Logan Murray's courses in stand-up do more than teach comedy - his students discover themselves.
headspace Stand Up For Youth Mental Health
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- The Garden of Unearthly Delights
- 18th Mar 2018
headspace hosts a riotous afternoon of laughs and entertainment starring some of Australia and the world’s hottest comedic and artistic performers.
The Stand Up Show
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- The Garden of Unearthly Delights
- 9th - 17th Mar 2018
The Stand Up Show is back! For the fourth year in a row the Stand Up Show will be bringing the best comedians in town together in one place.
One Mic Stand - OPEN MIC COMEDY
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- Howling Owl / Rhino Room
- 19th Feb - 12th Mar 2018
Adelaide’s premier Open Mic night returns! EVERY MONDAY catch 10 different comedians from across the Fringe PLUS a special guest headline act.
Up Stand Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- PLATFORM 56
- 17th Feb 2018
An exciting twist on stand up comedy! You, the audience will set the tone of the night by choosing who gets to take the stage to try and get you to belly laugh or fall off your sea…
Side Shows
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Sadler’s Wells Theatre
- 25th - 26th Nov 2017
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
Classic Andy’s Improv Comedy Party
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Nursery Theatre
- 24th Nov 2017
Classic Andy proudly present their Improv Comedy Party.
Free Stand-Up Comedy Show
- Listing Comedy
- Off Off Broadway
- Local 138
- 2nd Nov 2017
Free Stand-Up comedy show with all donations given to Lady Parts Justice! Come join at Local 138 on Thursday, 11/2 at 8pm.
Classic Andy’s Improv Comedy Party
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Nursery Theatre
- 13th Oct 2017
Classic Andy proudly present their Improv Comedy Party.
Classic Andy's Improv Comedy Party
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Nursery Theatre
- 22nd Sep 2017
Classic Andy proudly present their Improv Comedy Party.
Fringe Guide to Running a Venue
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 27th Aug 2017
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Sustainable Shows: Emerging Trends
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 23rd Aug 2017
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Adrienne Truscott's a One-Trick Pony (Or Andy Kaufmann is a Feminist Performance Artist and I'm a Comedian)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ The Hive
- 19th - 26th Aug 2017
Truscott wrestles with: standing up while telling jokes, second shows, stealing material and bad reviews – back in the town where she got ‘em! All while paying homage to her fa…
Andy Zaltzman: Satirist for Hire (World of 2017 Special Edition)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 15th - 27th Aug 2017
Zaltzman, host of legendary podcast The Bugle, delivers satire on commission, as ordered by you, the public, in his unique interactive show.
Stand Up to Stand Out: How to Find Your Funny
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 12th Aug 2017
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Streetbeat Free Lunchtime Stand-Up Showcase
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Whistlebinkies
- 11th - 27th Aug 2017
A free lunchtime showcase of established and up and coming acts offering tasters of their shows. Six acts plus MC Alastair Sadler.
Stand By
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall
- 14th Aug, 2017
There’s a real sense of excitement in the run-up to Stand By, not least thanks to the slightly-unusual venue—inside an Army Reserve Centre in the north of the New Town.
US Tour Booking For Small And Independent Shows
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 10th - 21st Aug 2017
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Live Shows in an Internet Media Age
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 9th Aug 2017
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Stand Up for Shelter
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, George Square
- 9th Aug 2017
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…
The Show Between Shows Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 52 Canoes (Grassmarket)
- 6th - 26th Aug 2017
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Andy Storey and Maddie Campion: Epoch
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Black Market
- 5th - 26th Aug 2017
An hour of upbeat stand-up from two thoughtful souls.
Andy Quirk's Got First World Problems
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Black Market
- 5th - 26th Aug 2017
East London’s premier rapper of first world problems invites you to join his crew for a chart rundown of fist-pumping therapy for modern living.
About Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Courses
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 5th - 22nd Aug 2017
Learn the skill and art of stand-up comedy performance on this two-day intensive comedy training course.
Andy Barr: Tropic of Admin
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ Dragonfly
- 4th - 27th Aug 2017
Six years ago award-winning administrator Andy Barr was marooned on a tropical island.
Chicago's Stand-Up Showcase
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 4th - 26th Aug 2017
Chicago, America’s premier city for up-and-coming comedians sends its best and brightest to Edinburgh.
The Edinburgh Revue's 2017 Stand-Up Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 4th - 28th Aug 2017
The Edinburgh Revue returns for its eighth Fringe, bringing you an hour of ‘brave, intelligent, and inventive’ (BroadwayBaby.
That's You Now If You Wanna Take Your Wee Card Out!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 4th - 14th Aug 2017
People watching is bloody brilliant, isn’t it? Let’s take a good look at those spectacular nobodies, anybodies and busybodies.
Madame Señorita: 25 Different Shows, Come Every Day!
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
Aaaaaaargh! It's the Monster Stand-Up Show – Flamin' Hot – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
A selection of five of the hottest up-and-coming comedians at the festival in this stand-up comedy showcase extravaganza, with a different line up daily featuring your headliner Ro…
We Stand Amused
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 3rd - 16th Aug 2017
A man stands accused of a heinous crime.
The Family Friendly(ish) Stand-Up Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Two world travelled comedians, Dylan Gott (Canada) and Radu Isac (Romania), perform an hour of sort of clean comedy.
Andy Stedman – Parental Guidance
- Review
- ★★
- Ben Munster
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 21st Aug, 2017
Andy Stedman’s son Freddy has been gifted a stand-up set in his honour.
Phill Jupitus Up the Stand
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Clark
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 11th Aug, 2017
When Phill Jupitus commits to the Fringe, he does so 100 per cent.
Holt and Talbot Can’t Stand the Sight of Each Other
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Apex Grassmarket Hotel
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Not enough material for solo shows and nobody else will work with them.
Andy Daly: Monsters Take Your Questions
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 3rd - 13th Aug 2017
Fresh off the series finale of his critically acclaimed American comedy series, Review, Andy Daly (also seen on such shows as Eastbound & Down, The Office and Silicon Valley) makes…
AAA Stand-Up at Underbelly
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Total sell-out 2005-2016 returns with a brand-new line-up.
Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Ding dong the witch is back! Multi award-winning Fringe sensation Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho returns with the most fabulous game show of all! Join the Iron Lady for songs, gam…
Aaaaaaaargh! It's the Monster Stand-Up Show – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase including your award-winning host, Masai Graham (UK Pun Champion 2016).
Holt and Talbot Can’t Stand the Sight of Each Other
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
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…
Stand-Up Nomad: Backpacking Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Backpackers and travelling comedians have a similar lifestyle, exploring new cultures, traveling light and relying on booze to socialise.
Set List: Stand-Up Without a Net
- Review
- ★★★★
- Holly Mackinlay
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 23rd Aug, 2017
Once again, Set List: Stand Up Without a Net returns to the Fringe at Gilded Balloon Teviot, just as loud and energetic as in previous years and with just as much potential for cat…
The Andy Field Experience
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Clark
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 7th Aug, 2017
It’s a hard task to sum up quite what The Andy Field Experience is about without using the words surreal and odd.
AAA Stand-Up Late
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 2nd - 28th Aug 2017
Total sell-out 2010-2016 returns with a brand-new line-up.
Three Wee Kings: Grandad's Cut
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Duddingston Kirk Manse Gardens
- 2nd - 19th Aug 2017
Resting from the outdoor evening plays this utterly charming take on the Three Kings is indoors mid-afternoon.
Piggyback: Stand-up And Improv Unite
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Nursery Theatre
- 8th Jul 2017
Stand-up and improv unite in one explosively funny night as a cast of improvisers weave a (dramatic! funny! exciting!) play in three acts based on the work of three (hilarious! exp…
BEINGS plus Open Roads and Classic Andy
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Nursery Theatre
- 7th Jul 2017
BEINGS takes inspiration from audience suggestions to create three improvised tales dealing with the delights and woes of various… lifeforms, while Classic Andy explores unique c…
Stand by Me
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah Virgo
- UK Regional & Tours
- Edinburgh Playhouse
- 5th Jun, 2017
Opening with the ever-familar chord progression of Stand by Me this tribute to Ben E King and the Drifters by Othello Music had the audience in the palm of their hand from …
Andy Stedman: Parental Guidance
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 24th - 25th May 2017
Comedian and singer/songwriter Andy Stedman is a new dad for the first time and, taking this role as extremely seriously as he does, he has written a show dedicated to giving his l…
Steve Lee: Sit Down Stand Up!
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Waterfront 1
- 22nd - 28th May 2017
46 years in showbiz.
Stand By Your Nan
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Duke of Wellington Blue Room Stage
- 19th - 20th May 2017
The original Educating Rita met Buddha of Suburbia and pretended to be an ordinary working class housewife whilst she went on strange spiritual quests, educated herself, and got an…
Bom-Bane's Musical History of 24 George St, Brighton & Other Shows
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Bom-Bane’s Music Cafe
- 18th May - 3rd Jun 2017
An original musical & gastromonical journey from the 5th Century settlement of Boerthlelm’s Tun to Brighton in 1795, with affectionate portraits of the colourful inhabitants of 24 …
Stand Up & Slam!
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 17th May 2017
Stand-up comedy: poetry’s idiot relation, right? Performance poetry: comedy’s boring cousin, yes? Let’s find out.
Stand-Up Comedy Workshop
- Listing Workshop
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 14th May 2017
Have you ever laughed? Have fun learning how to use some friendly comedy basics to boost your writing, performing, work presentations, public speaking, or just for fun! Jill Edward…
BA Theatre Arts Graduate Shows
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Studio 3
- 8th - 9th May 2017
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
Heidi Regan and Will Rowland Present: Some Comedy in a Venue
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Blue Man
- 7th - 28th May 2017
Will and Heidi are two thoughtful, principled stand-ups who will do anything to get a laugh, including dropping all principles.
The Shoreditch Improv Festival Sunday Funday Shows
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Water Poet
- 19th Feb 2017
3pm-4pm The first show of the day will feature about as wide a variety of improvisation styles as one could ask for, with three groups that could not be more different from each o…
Snow White and the Seven Wee Muppets
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Websters Theatre
- 12th Dec, 2016
Inside Out Theatre’s second pantomime for relatively news arts venue Websters (located in Glasgow’s Kelvinbridge area) is another self-consciously low-rent production which …
Fringe Guide to Running a Venue
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central@Infirmary Street
- 28th Aug 2016
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Venue Marketplace
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central@Infirmary Street
- 27th Aug 2016
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Stand-Up From Russia
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C
- 21st - 29th Aug 2016
The biggest comedians from Russia are coming to the Fringe for the very first time! Since 2013, seven million people tune in every Sunday to watch these stars on the critically acc…
Limmy: Daft Wee Stories
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue150 at EICC
- 18th - 21st Aug 2016
Following last year’s sell-out tour, Limmy returns to the stage with a new selection of stories from his Sunday Times bestseller.
The Clinic: An Afternoon of Serious Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 17th Aug 2016
Universal Comedy is a Scottish charity that changes lives through comedy.
Stand Up for Shelter
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, George Square
- 16th Aug 2016
It’s back! Another impressive, eclectic mix of comedy talent hits the Fringe in aid of Shelter.
spiked at the Stand: Free!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 15th Aug 2016
spiked, the radical magazine that fights for your right to offend, returns to the Stand for a night of no-holds-barred comedy.
Simon Lukacs Shows His Range
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Southside Social
- 15th - 23rd Aug 2016
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
Stand Up to Stand Out: How to Find Your Funny
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central@Infirmary Street
- 14th Aug 2016
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Daniel Sloss: So? (Late Shows)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue150 at EICC
- 12th - 27th Aug 2016
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
Father Christmas Needs a Wee!
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Venue45
- 12th - 27th Aug 2016
Father Christmas is back on his rounds… And he still needs a wee! At every house Father Christmas eats and drinks the tasty treats that have been left for him.
About Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Courses
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 6th - 27th Aug 2016
Learn stand-up comedy on this two-day intensive comedy course.
99 Club Stand-Up Selection – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 5th - 28th Aug 2016
Proudly supporting the Free Festival with a selection of four different comics daily.
The Stand Late Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 5th - 27th Aug 2016
‘This is late night comedy at its finest’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
Stand-Up History
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 5th - 29th Aug 2016
History meets hilarity as stand-up comedians bring the past to life with punchlines.
Under Cover With the Naked Stand-Up
- Review
- ★★★
- Iona Gaskell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 16th Aug, 2016
Miss Glory Pearl is the naked stand-up and she doesn’t mess about.
The Edinburgh Revue Stand-Up Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 5th - 29th Aug 2016
The Edinburgh Revue are back at the Fringe celebrating ten years of making the ‘comic talent of the future’ (Skinny).
Andy Stedman: Nine Months and Counting
- Review
- ★★★
- Stanley Allan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Espionage
- 24th Aug, 2016
Andy Stedman: 9 Months and Counting is a gentle burble through the perils of impending fatherhood, combining musical comedy with sustained audience interaction.
Andy Field: Roar
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
There are many schools of thought as to what is best to write here but few are bold enough to address those schools at the expense of describing their own show.
Set List: Stand-Up Without a Net
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
‘For anyone genuinely interested in comedy and comedians, this is the must-see show of the festival’ ***** (Scotsman).
Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows
- Review
- ★★★★★
- William Heraghty
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 8th Aug, 2016
Ding dong, the witch isn’t dead! And this time it’s definitely cause for celebration! After her previous success as an ‘international cabaret superstar’ Maggie is back in b…
Yolav and Graham's Jovial Trauma: Refugee Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
Yolav is a comedian from a country that no longer exists due to the collapse of its government.
Aaaaaaargh! It's the Monster Stand-Up Show – Free Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase including your award-winning host, Masai Graham.
Aaaaaaargh! It's the Monster Stand-Up Show – Free Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase including your award-winning host, Masai Graham.
Bob Slayer: 24 Hour Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus
- 4th - 29th Aug 2016
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
Andy Zaltzman: Plan Z
- Review
- ★★★★
- James W. Woe
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 10th Aug, 2016
The Satirists for Hire returns to the fringe with another hour of bizarre similes, half baked ideas, and desire for a better world.
Mystery Gimmick Stand-Up Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
Ben Clover has been doing stand-up for ages now and is pretty good at it.
Stand Up & Slam!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
Stand-up comedy: poetry’s idiot relation, right? Performance poetry: comedy’s boring cousin, yes? Let’s find out.
Mystery Gimmick Stand-Up Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C soco at ibis
- 3rd - 29th Aug 2016
Ben Clover has been doing stand-up for ages now and is pretty good at it.
Andy Askins: The Man With No Name
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon at the Counting House
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2016
Andy Askins lives in blissful ignorance, at odds with rational thinking.
Andy Storey @funnystorey
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon at the Counting House
- 3rd - 29th Aug 2016
BBC New Radio Comedy Award finalist 2015 and human curiosity Andy Storey has always been positively cynical.
AAA Stand-Up Late
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 3rd - 29th Aug 2016
Total sell-out 2010-2015 returns with a brand new line-up.
AAA Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 3rd - 29th Aug 2016
Total sell-out 2005-2015 returns with a brand new line-up.
What Can You Do to Make Your Venue Autism-Friendly?
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central@Infirmary Street
- 1st - 2nd Aug 2016
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The Wee One
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh
- Leith Dockers Club Ltd
- 13th - 16th Jun 2016
Following the lives of Marie, John and their thirty-something son Danny, The Wee One is a heart-warming original comedy about the true-to-life challenges of a modern day family in …
The Wee One
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Leith Dockers Club Ltd
- 15th Jun, 2016
The Wee One starts with a scenario familiar enough from numerous television sitcoms – a couple well into middle-age who appear to be stuck with an adult child who has failed t…
Stand Up & Slam!
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 18th May 2016
Stand-up comedy - poetry’s idiot relation, right? Performance poetry - comedy’s boring cousin, yes? Let’s find out! Six phenomenal acts go head to head for your approval in thi…
Stand-Up Comedy Workshop
- Listing Workshop
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 15th May 2016
Learn how to use stand-up basics to boost your writing, performing, work presentations, public speaking- or just for fun! Jill’s comedy courses are the most established in the UK.
Andy and Sarah's Rantomime
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Dukebox
- 10th - 14th May 2016
Every Christmas, comedians Andy Thomas (‘Crimes Against Humanities Teachers’) and Sarah Charsley (‘Ghost Sex’) meet to mime a rant, then do it for real.
Ted Alexandro Presents a Night of Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- New York Comedy Club
- 23rd Mar 2016
Mr.
The Return of Pee-wee Herman
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- 92nd Street Y
- 22nd Mar 2016
“Pee-wee’s Big Holiday” marks the long-awaited cinematic return of the beloved odd-ball Pee-wee Herman, the character created by Paul Reubens nearly 40 years ago …
First Ever: Stand & Deliver Comedy Night - Speak Easy Loft Bar
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- Smokin’ Billy’s
- 25th Feb 2016
Steve N Allen (MC): “Apollo-quality live comedy” - ThreeWeeks Rhodders: Award winning radio presenter Rosie Holt: “disgustingly talented” - TheatreWales.
Valentines Shows
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Littlefield / Magnet Theater / The Stand
- 9th - 14th Feb 2016
Valentine’s Day may have a cheesy reputation, but the heart-filled holiday has inspired plenty of great live comedy for devoted couples, optimistic daters and determinedly si…
Stand Up for 826NYC
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- The Bell House
- 31st Jan 2016 - 31st Jan 2017
Maeve Higgins hosts this excellent night of stand-up in support of 826NYC, a nonprofit focusing on improving the writing skills of young New Yorkers.
Stand-Up Spotlight
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Upright Citizens Brigade Theater East
- 25th Jan 2016
Two up-and-coming favorites, Naomi Ekperigin and Matteo Lane, share an hour of stage time.
Stand-Up With Planned Parenthood
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Littlefield
- 2nd Dec 2015
The comedian Giulia Rozzi hosts this charity event with a top-notch roster: David Cross, Myq Kaplan, Aparna Nancherla, John Early, Michelle Buteau, Will Miles, the Reformed Whores …
Andy Kindler
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Union Hall
- 28th Nov 2015
A stand-up known for criticizing fellow comedians or the state of comedy entirely, Mr.
Stand-Up for the Cause
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- The Stand
- 15th Sep 2015
This fund-raiser show benefits “Tuesday’s Children,” a charity that continues to help victims and families affected by the Sept.
Fringe Guide to Running a Venue
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 27th Aug 2015
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved.
Stand By Your Man - True Crime Cabaret
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 24th - 25th Aug 2015
Stand By Your Man: True Crime Cabaret presents chilling, thrilling true stories of regular women with one thing in common: they all fell in love with serial killers.
Stand Up to Stand Out: How to Find Your Female Funny
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 23rd Aug 2015
Humour is essential in our everyday lives and defines our humanity.
Stand Up to Stand Out: How to Find Your Female Funny
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 22nd Aug 2015
Humour is essential in our everyday lives and defines our humanity.
An Evening of Melody with the Wee Three Tenors
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Brunton
- 21st Aug 2015
West End and opera star John Marshall returns with tenors Fraser Simpson, Bruce Davis, and Richard Lewis, piano, to perform favourite opera, Broadway and movie hits.
An Evening of Melody with the Wee Three Tenors
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Brunton
- 21st Aug 2015
West End and opera star John Marshall returns with tenors Fraser Simpson, Bruce Davis, and Richard Lewis, piano, to perform favourite opera, Broadway and movie hits.
Father Christmas Needs a Wee!
- Review
- ★★★★
- M Johnson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Venue45
- 30th Aug, 2015
An entertaining pantomime-esque show that is great fun for both adults and children.
The Clinic: An Afternoon of Serious Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 18th Aug 2015
Universal Comedy is a Scottish Charity that changes lives through comedy.
This Is Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- The Cutting Room
- 17th Aug 2015
Mark Normand hosts this stand-up showcase full of excellent comics, including Seaton Smith, Sean Donnelly, Carmen Lynch, Yamaneika Saunders and special guests.
Daniel Sloss: Dark: Extra Shows!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue150@EICC
- 14th - 29th Aug 2015
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
The Rat Pack Stand-Up Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 13th - 19th Aug 2015
Edinburgh 2013/14 sell-out hit and Time Out Critics’ Choice 2014 returns for a limited run.
The Rat Pack Stand-Up Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 9th - 30th Aug 2015
Edinburgh 2013/14 sell-out hit and Time Out Critics’ Choice 2014 returns for a limited run.
Set List: Stand-Up Without A Net
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 9th - 30th Aug 2015
What if someone else wrote a set list of outrageous and original topics for the world’s best stand-up comedians, and they had to perform from it with literally zero seconds to pr…
99 Club Stand-Up Selection – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 8th - 30th Aug 2015
Proud to support the Free Festival, The 99 Club brings a selection of some of the best comics at the Fringe.
Stand-Up Tragedy
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Banshee Labyrinth
- 8th - 30th Aug 2015
‘Takes in everything from music to comedy and is characterised by an emphasis on truth’ (Independent).
About Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Courses
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 8th - 29th Aug 2015
Learn the skill and art of stand-up comedy performance on this two-day intensive comedy training course.
Stand-Up Philosophy – Free
- Review
- ★★★
- Oliver Lennard
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Silk
- 19th Aug, 2015
Stand-Up Philosophy is a low-key, quirky little Free Fringe show featuring professional philosophers sharing thoughts, answering questions, and trying their hands at comedy.
The Nursery Improv Venue at the Edinburgh Fringe
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Thistle Edinburgh, The King James
- 7th - 30th Aug 2015
The Nursery together with Freestival is bringing an improv only venue to Edinburgh - a Fringe first! Every night for three weeks, the Holyrood Suite at the Thistle Hotel will trans…
Set List: Stand-Up Without A Net
- Review
- ★★★
- Max Falkenberg
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 13th Aug, 2015
The best in improvised stand-up, Set List presents a daily changing selection of Fringe favourites performing a never before seen set without a moment’s preparation.
The Wee Man Syndrome
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 7th - 29th Aug 2015
Mind that video? Know how the one wi the ned? A work in progress detailing the emancipation of a meme.
Stand Up & Slam! – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Cowgatehead
- 7th - 31st Aug 2015
Stand-up comedy: poetry’s idiot relation, right? Performance poetry: comedy’s boring cousin, yes? Let’s find out.
Stand Up & Slam! – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Cowgatehead
- 7th - 31st Aug 2015
Stand-up comedy: poetry’s idiot relation, right? Performance poetry: comedy’s boring cousin, yes? Let’s find out.
Stand Rising
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 7th - 30th Aug 2015
A brand new show for 2015, showcasing the rising comedy stars from The Stand Comedy Club’s year-round comedy bills.
The Stand Late Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 7th - 29th Aug 2015
‘This is late night comedy at its finest’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
Now That's What I Call Stand-Up #2
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Blind Poet
- 6th - 30th Aug 2015
After a fantastic first Fringe appearance in 2014, we’re back in 2015 for Volume 2.
The Naked Stand-Up
- Review
- ★★★
- Ed Barnes
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Spotlites
- 27th Aug, 2015
At first glance, The Naked Stand-Up might seem like a crowd-pulling gimmick, or a cheap trick to distract from poor material.
Aaaaaarrgghhhh! It's the Monster Stand-Up Show – Free Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys
- 6th - 30th Aug 2015
Feast on five of the tastiest up and coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase, including your award-winning headliner Masai Graham.
Niamh Marron – Stand Up Chameleon
- Review
- ★★
- Oliver Lennard
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 24th Aug, 2015
Effervescent comic and sometime Irish TV face Niamh Marron delivers an unpolished and often forced hour of fairly standard comedy material with occasional witty zingers being the o…
Richard Melvin Presents… Live at The Stand Podcast
- Review
- ★★
- Oliver Lennard
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 13th Aug, 2015
Live at the Stand is an opportunity to attend the recording of the podcast of the same name, featuring a rotating lineup of comics performing sets and taking part in games and inte…
AAA Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 5th - 31st Aug 2015
Total sell-out 2005-2014 returns with a brand new line-up.
The Underbelly Radio Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly Med Quad
- 5th - 28th Aug 2015
FUBAR Radio and Underbelly present The Underbelly Radio Shows recorded live from 12:30pm each day at Ermintrude, Underbelly hosts a series of live radio broadcasts brought to you b…
K'rd Strip: A Place to Stand
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 30th Aug, 2015
K’Rd Strip: A Place to Stand is a bizarre yet beautiful blend of Māori culture, contemporary dance, vocals and music, drag and real life stories.
The Edinburgh Revue Stand-up Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 5th - 31st Aug 2015
**** (Skinny).
AAA Stand-Up Late
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 5th - 31st Aug 2015
Total sell-out 2010-2014 returns with a brand new line-up.
Stand Up for Charleston
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- The Bell House
- 29th Jul 2015
Naomi Ekperigin hosts this night of comedy to benefit the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.
Stand
- Review
- ★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Arches Arts
- 10th Jun, 2015
“This is not just about me,” says one of the cast at the start and close of Chris Goode’s Stand.
Shows for Days
- Listing Theatre
- Off Broadway
- Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Lincoln Center
- 31st May 2015
(previews start on Saturday; opens on June 29) Having just brought us Moss Hart’s entrancing “Act One,” Lincoln Center offers another piece of showbiz reminiscenc…
Venue B @ Brighton Youth Centre
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Youth Centre
- 23rd - 30th May 2015
See the best in live performance for and by young people (and open to everyone!) at Venue B, Brighton’s only dedicated venue for young people. Check our website for full details.
Andy White: Daddy Fool
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 21st - 23rd May 2015
Do you strive to be a better parent? Don’t worry, you’ll always be a better one than comedian Andy White.
Stand-Up Comedy Workshop
- Listing Workshop
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 17th May 2015
Have you ever laughed? Learn to use some practical stand-up comedy basics in your writing, performing, stand-up, work presentations, public speaking or just for fun.
The Improverts - Exam Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh
- Teviot Debating Hall, Teviot Row House
- 14th - 15th May 2015
The Improverts are back for two Exam Specials in the Teviot Debating Hall! A different combination of players will take to the stage each night for a round of high-class, high-ener…
United We Stand: The Story of the Shrewsbury 24
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Old Courtroom
- 8th - 10th May 2015
A hardhitting, powerful, entertaining drama about the 1972 National Builders’ Strike and the trial of the Shrewsbury Pickets.
The Naked Stand Up
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 8th - 31st May 2015
Join burlesque performer Miss Glory Pearl for a no-holds-barred look at the body and our (usually laughable) attitudes towards it.
The Colin Hoult Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 7th - 25th May 2015
Star of ‘Derek’, ‘Being Human’ and ‘Carnival of Monsters’ returns to the Brighton Fringe with two entirely new shows: Sit on the Ledge and Jump Down to the Ground (7, 2…
Andy Thomas: My Kampf
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Dukebox Theatre
- 4th - 22nd May 2015
Andy ‘Turmoil’ Thomas delivers a one man performance about his life and ‘struggle’ to work out why everything has to be so difficult.
Stand-Up Comedy Night at the Artists Institute
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- The Artist’s Institute
- 30th Apr 2015 - 30th Apr 2016
As part of the visual artist Carolee Schneemann’s season at the Artist’s Institute, in which she focuses on the body, Miriam Katz hosts this all-female stand-up show de…
Fridays at Noon: Andy de Groat
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- USA Regional & Tours
- 92nd Street Y
- 6th Feb 2015
The choreographer Catherine Galasso presents a selection of rarely seen dances by Andy de Groat, as part of the 92nd Street Y’s midday series.
The Improverts - London Shows
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Hen & Chickens Theatre Bar
- 9th - 10th Jan 2015
Always Different, Always Funny! After a sell out run at Edinburgh Fringe 14 and comedy residents during term time Edinburgh University, The Improverts are performing two shows in L…
Andy Borowitz in Conversation with Soledad OBrien
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- 92nd Street Y
- 10th Dec 2014
One of the country’s finest satirists, Mr. Borowitz joins Ms. O’Brien for a retrospective of the biggest news stories of 2014.
Stand Up to Hunger
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- The Stand, New York
- 23rd Nov 2014
The podcaster behind “The Biff Lawson Xperience” hosts this top-notch stand-up fund-raiser for City Harvest.
New York Comedy Festival: Stand Up for Heroes
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Theater at Madison Square Garden
- 5th Nov 2014
Now in its eighth year, this megastar comedy and music show benefits the Bob Woodruff Foundation, which supports wounded veterans and their families.
Stand Up for Rockaway
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- The Bell House
- 23rd Oct 2014
Seth Herzog hosts this stand-up show to benefit the St.
Brooklyn, Stand Up
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Knitting Factory
- 20th Oct 2014
The Knitting Factory’s front bar now features another stand-up show.
The Andy Kaufman Award
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Upright Citizens Brigade Theater East
- 12th Oct 2014
Now in its 10th year, this award show recognizes quirky up-and-coming artists who perform “in the spirit of the comic legend.
Bawdsville Cabaret - The Ram Jam's Last Stand
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- London Fringe
- The Grey Horse
- 21st Sep 2014
Bathe in the risqué for an evening of all girl comedy, cabaret & burlesque hosted by Unruly Scrumptious with resident cabaret wrong’uns - plus special guests.
Lemonade Stand
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- The Stand, New York
- 17th Sep 2014
Sam Haft hosts this old-fashioned variety show, with stand-up from Hannibal Buress, Nikki Glaser and Mike Vecchione and “dirty folk rock” from Jessica Delfino.
Stand Up for Shelter
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 23rd Aug 2014
London’s favourite comedy gala hits the fringe.
Fringe Guide to Running a Venue
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 22nd Aug 2014
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved.
The Clinic: An Afternoon of Serious Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 19th Aug 2014
Universal Comedy is a Scottish charity that changes lives through comedy.
Can Stand Up - Don't Want To!
- Review
- ★★
- Rory Mackenzie
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 20th Aug, 2014
Tonally and thematically, Can Stand Up - Don’t Want To! is all over the place.
Jarred Christmas and Jack Hobbs: The Christmas and The Hobbit -A Beat Box and Stand-Up Collaboration
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 18th - 20th Aug 2014
Hobbit is an acclaimed beat boxer.
Andy Zaltzman: Satirist for Hire
- Review
- ★★★
- Hamish Hartnoll
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club III & IV
- 15th Aug, 2014
Andy Zaltzman, best known for his central involvement in The Bugle Podcast, brings his satirical wit to Edinburgh with Satirist For Hire.
Nick Helm's Two Night Stand in The Grand
- Review
- ★★★★
- Troy Holmes
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 14th Aug, 2014
Nick Helm’s Two Night Stand in the Grand is an epic comedy rock show worthy of its massive venue.
McNeil and Pamphilon Go 8-Bit!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 16th Aug, 2014
Returning to an even bigger venue this year, sketch duo McNeil and Pamphilon reprise their geekalicious gameshow for this year’s Fringe: once again McNeil and Pamphilon Go 8 Bit …
Daniel Sloss – Really...?! Extra Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue150@EICC
- 8th - 23rd Aug 2014
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
Six Billion Suns
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo
- 13th Aug, 2014
Alzheimer’s is a disease close to the hearts of many people, as it affects so many of such a wide variety of ages, cultures and societies.
Antonio Forcione: No Strings Attached
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 11th Aug, 2014
Antonio Forcione is such an established and adored Fringe regular it almost seems redundant reviewing him because, just as day follows night, a five star review follows Foricone’s …
The Man Who Almost Killed Himself
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 9th Aug, 2014
The Man Who Almost Killed Himself is a funny and tragic true story inspired by the work of anthropologist Andrew Irving in Uganda and Eastern Africa.
Alice
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on North Bridge
- 11th Aug, 2014
The twists and turns of the topsy-turvy world of Alice in Wonderland are well known and loved by many, enshrined in literary pop culture.
Biding Time (Remix)
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 9th Aug, 2014
Biding Time (Remix) holds some interesting ideas and memorable visuals, but it’s often hard to decipher what the aim of the company’s design and concept really is.
Larkin' About
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Valvona & Crolla
- 9th Aug, 2014
Larkin’ About is a retrospective-come-biography of renowned contemporary poet Philip Larkin.
Stand-Up Comedy Live @ Le Monde
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Upstairs @ Le Monde
- 3rd - 21st Aug 2014
The best stand-up comedy in the city from some of the hottest comics in the country - visit our website for full details: www.lemondehotel.co.uk/live
Stand-Up Tragedy
- Review
- ★★★
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Banshee Labyrinth
- 13th Aug, 2014
Stand up tragedy is a relation of stand up comedy.
Riptide: The Slasher Musical
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 16th Aug, 2014
Fringe musicals are often incredibly hard to get right but with a score as sizzling as the sun on the beach and some incredibly skilled performers, Riptide: The Slasher Musical hit…
Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 11th Aug, 2014
Mervyn Stutter has been sourcing and sharing his picks of the Fringe for, unbelievably, 28 years and he is clearly not waning when it comes to separating the wheat from the chaff.
Charity Chuckle: Stand Up for Charity
- Review
- ★★★
- Ed Barnes
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 9th Aug, 2014
Charity Chuckle started out as a regular Brighton comedy night, raising money for local charities.
About Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Courses
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 2nd - 23rd Aug 2014
Learn stand-up comedy performance on this two-day intensive comedy course.
Hooray for Ben Target
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Banshee Labyrinth
- 7th Aug, 2014
Hooray for Ben Target is a show in development, the idea being that by the 25August it will be full of great ideas.
Unicornucopia
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Globe Bar
- 14th Aug, 2014
Unicornucopia is James Ross’s insane and breakneck hour of Free Fringe stand-up, in which he rattles with hilarious speed through topics of colleagues, love, dreams and some hila…
The Secret Wives of Andy Williams
- Review
- ★★★
- Grace Knight
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 4th Aug, 2014
The Secret Wives of Andy Williams is an enjoyable hour of theatre that is occasionally funny and often moving, with plenty of eccentricity to keep things interesting.
Miss Glory Pearl: The Naked Stand-Up
- Review
- ★★★★
- Stuart Mckenzie
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 9th Aug, 2014
‘These are my tits,’ says the woman on stage wearing nothing but a pair of black high heels and a red pillbox hat, ‘Feel free to look at them.
All Star Stand-Up Showcase
- Review
- ★★
- Alanta Colley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys
- 22nd Aug, 2014
If you’re in the mood for some bawdy, laddish comedy then this is the show for you.
Fragile
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo
- 5th Aug, 2014
Let it be known now: this show is not an easy watch.
Pioneer
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo Southside
- 13th Aug, 2014
Curious Directive have hit the Fringe this year with epic sci-fi drama Pioneer, a space-exploration thriller of stunning proportions.
Set List: Stand-Up Without a Net
- Review
- ★★★
- Jane Thompson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Stand in the Square
- 31st Aug, 2014
In Set List, spontaneity is the name of the game; a selection of comics perform completely improvised sets in front of your eyes, with nothing to guide them but key phrases which a…
Klip
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 9th Aug, 2014
Klip describes itself as “a collage of carefully chosen coincidences”.
The Sons of Pitches: Boiler Alert!
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 19th Aug, 2014
In the recent explosion in popularity of a cappella it seems like you can’t walk up the Royal Mile without tripping over a group of symmetrically dressed singers who’ve lost th…
Casual Violence: The Great Fire of Nostril
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 16th Aug, 2014
In this farcical one-hour romp through the troves of storybook tropes, Fringe sketch regulars Casual Violence treat the audience to a kids-show-for-adults style adventure into a wo…
The Stand Late Show
- Review
- ★★★★
- Stuart Mckenzie
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 12th Aug, 2014
If you’ve ever watched anything by John Robertson before you’ll know just how zany and energetic he can be, which is the perfect reason why he makes a great host for The Stand …
99 Club Stand-up Selection - Cowgate - Free
- Review
- ★★★
- Stuart Mckenzie
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 19th Aug, 2014
Luke Benson hosts 99 Club’s pick of the Fringe with a free hour of comedy that shows off the talents (and faults) at this year’s festival.
Eric Davidson - The Independent State of Eric
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 11th Aug, 2014
Eric Davidson’s blend of wordplay, poetry, rhyme, song and comedy is somewhat legendary among Fringe savants and he doesn’t disappoint with his new show.
Treasure Island
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on Niddry St
- 12th Aug, 2014
Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale is given a family-friendly and wonderfully whimsical adaptation in this new production by Fourth Monkey.
Simon and Garfunkel – Through the Years
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 3rd Aug, 2014
Folk duo Bookends, made up of David Haynes and Pete Richards, pay homage to one of the greatest pairings in modern folk music with this heartfelt, competent and surprisingly mult…
Now That's What I Call Stand-Up #1
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Blind Poet
- 31st Jul - 24th Aug 2014
See it before it gets jaded at #249! Four top class comedians doing their best ten minutes.
Stand-Up Showdown: Singh vs Whitmer
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake
- 31st Jul - 23rd Aug 2014
Two comedians enter the stage to prove who’s funnier.
Mick Ferry: What's Going On?
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Community Project
- 11th Aug, 2014
Mick Ferry’s flyer has quotes from John Bishop and Jason Manford declaring his genius so from the offset is pretty predictable what one is going to receive in this amusing but forg…
Guilt & Shame: Going Straight
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 14th Aug, 2014
With more raucous energy than a crate of Red Bull sprinkled with cocaine, Rob Cawsey and Gabe Bisset Smith under the collective guise Guilt & Shame bring their new show Going Strai…
Aaaaargh! It's the Monster Stand-Up Show! Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde
- 31st Jul - 24th Aug 2014
Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comics in this stand-up showcase.
Andy Field is a Giddy Manchild
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 31st Jul - 24th Aug 2014
This show will either be great or, like, ironically great because of how bad it is.
SmallWar
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Traverse Theatre
- 19th Aug, 2014
SmallWar, a piece adapted from actual accounts of events and experiences from conflicts spanning from WWI to Afghanistan, is an interestingly understated exploration of the emotion…
Strange Face - Adventures with a Lost Nick Drake Recording
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde
- 12th Aug, 2014
Mike Burdett’s one man show has all the signs and potential for being a Fringe hit but, sadly, due to some underdeveloped writing and wayward lessons, it doesn’t quite hit the mark…
Tomas Ford Stop Killing People
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 21st Aug, 2014
With a strange, original and interesting production, Tomás Ford brings his Patrick Bateman of the Fringe to the Mash House to tell a one-man-musical tale of double crossing deceit…
Donald Robertson Is Not a Stand-Up Comedian
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Traverse Theatre
- 31st Jul - 24th Aug 2014
What would you do if everyone in the world hated you? Would you run? Would you fight? Or would you try to make them laugh? Donald Robertson has got no mates and he isn’t funny.
The Confessions of Gordon Brown
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Hall
- 9th Aug, 2014
Gordon Brown was, according to the blurb for this show, our greatest failing as a Prime Minister in 200 years.
The Rat Pack Stand-Up Comedy
- Review
- ★★★
- Kayleigh Blair
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 2nd Aug, 2014
The Rat Pack Stand Up Comedy features swing hits and a changing line up of comedians from the Fringe catalogue.
I Promise You Sex and Violence
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Northern Stage at King’s Hall
- 13th Aug, 2014
Northern Stage’s production of I Promise You Sex and Violence is a critique of modern attitudes to homophobia, racism and sexuality.
A Kitchen Nightmare
- Review
- ★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 5th Aug, 2014
There are only two jokes in A Kitchen Nightmare.
Government Inspector
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 9th Aug, 2014
Born from the Young Pleasance brood, Incognito theatre in association with Pleasance present their wild and witty take on this secondary school favourite – Gogol’s Government Ins…
Janis Joplin: Full Tilt
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Checkpoint
- 5th Aug, 2014
Grab your feather boas, slug down a bottle of Jack Daniels in one and prepare yourself for this rocking, superb and moving show.
The Rat Pack Stand-Up Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 31st Jul - 24th Aug 2014
2013’s sell-out hit returns with top comedians on stage for the whole show, freewheeling stand-up and live Rat Pack music.
Alistair Green: Nobody’s Twisting Your Arm
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club III & IV
- 19th Aug, 2014
One of the lesser known but better versed performers in The Stand’s programme at this year’s Fringe, Alistair Green’s show Well Nobody’s Twisting Your Arm is a no-frills …
Bette Davis Ain’t for Sissies
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 9th Aug, 2014
Writer and performer Jessica Sherr claims she has always been in love with the 1930s and 40s and it shows in this enjoyable and insightful one-woman show.
My Obsession
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 6th Aug, 2014
Suki Webster’s debut play explores the relationship between comedians and their superfans.
Circumcise Me
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 7th Aug, 2014
Yisrael Campbell is just your average Irish, Italian, Catholic, American, recovering alcoholic, Reform Jew, Conservative Jew, Orthodox Jew, husband, father of four, comedian.
Early Doors
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Pop-Up: The Pub
- 10th Aug, 2014
Famed fan of the sauce Oliver Reed once said, “You meet a better class of people in pubs.
The Edinburgh Revue Stand-Up Show
- Review
- ★
- Vyvyan Almond
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 10th Aug, 2014
Every art needs its new generation of practitioners.
Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2014: Real Feelings
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 14th Aug, 2014
Stepping into some pretty big comedy shoes, Cambridge Footlights have brought a fast-paced sketch and improv show to this year’s Fringe.
Jason Cook: Broken
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 7th Aug, 2014
Jason Cook reveals near the beginning of Broken that his journey into stand-up comedy was a stereotypical one.
Cutting Off Kate Bush
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 8th Aug, 2014
Lucy Benson-Brown’s one woman show explores mid-to-late twenties inertia, family values and how we pin hopes and philosophies on the tunes of our favourite musical artists.
Ian Smith – Flappable
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 17th Aug, 2014
The chatty Yorkshire patter of Ian Smith’s comedy offers an incredibly relatable show in the Pleasance comedy programme at this year’s festival.
Normal/Madness
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 5th Aug, 2014
One issue addressed in this powerful and moving one-woman show is the unfortunate truth that mental illness is still massively misunderstood - a symptom that also seeps into thea…
Boxman
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 5th Aug, 2014
Boxman, the eponymous star of this one man show, is a lad, no doubt about it.
He Had Hairy Hands
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 14th Aug, 2014
Having taken the Fringe by storm last year with their debut piece The Boy Who Kicked Pigs, young and incredibly talented theatre company Kill The Beast returns to The Pleasance wit…
AAA Stand-Up
- Review
- ★★★
- Joanna Alpern
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 7th Aug, 2014
Our host for the evening is Sunna Jarman, and she is certainly engaging.
AAA Stand-Up Late
- Review
- ★★★
- Joanna Alpern
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 5th Aug, 2014
Banterous and dangerous, this night of eclectic stand-up comedy is in the hands of three very capable performers.
Sam Simmons: Death of a Sails-Man
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 14th Aug, 2014
The king of surrealist stand-up, Sam Simmons, brings his incredible and irreverent style to the Udderbelly in Death of a Sails Man, the gut-achingly funny tale of a windsurfer lost…
...and This is My Friend Mr Laurel
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 11th Aug, 2014
Laurel and Hardy are widely considered to be the greatest comedy pairing of all time and this touching one-man show does a lot to display the deep affection and loyalty the two men…
Dracula
- Review
- ★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 14th Aug, 2014
Vampires never seem to go out of fashion.
The Beta Males: Happenstance
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 12th Aug, 2014
Fierce, fast, farcical and ferocious, The Beta Males certainly pack a punch in their new show Happenstance.
Alex Edelman: Millennial
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 14th Aug, 2014
Up in Pleasance’s intimate stand-up venue Attic, there is one young comedian who is making waves on the comedy scene as he manages to cement himself as a firm Fringe favourite ev…
Andy de la Tour Stand-Up or Die in New York
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 30th Jul - 25th Aug 2014
Only two human activities happen in front of a brick wall.
Brooks Wheelan Falls Back on Stand-Up Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Union Hall
- 28th Jul 2014
Fresh from proudly posting on Twitter news of his firing from “Saturday Night Live,” Mr. Wheelan will kick off this makeshift stand-up tour in Brooklyn.
Stand Up on the Spot
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- The Stand, New York
- 16th Jul 2014
Stand-ups throw out their planned material and improvise material based entirely on audience suggestions; performers include Todd Barry, Sasheer Zamata, Jim Florentine, Joe DeRosa,…
Children's Shows and Workshops
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- Academy of Creative Training / The Old Market
- 31st May - 1st Jun 2014
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
Stand-up Comedy Workshop
- Listing Workshop
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 25th May 2014
Have you ever laughed? Learn to use some practical stand-up comedy basics in your writing, performing, stand-up, work presentations, public speaking or just for fun.
How to: Run a Venue at Brighton Fringe
- Listing Workshop
- Brighton Fringe
- Marlborough Theatre
- 24th May 2014
Ever thought about running your own Brighton Fringe venue? Then this panel discussion is for you! Hear about the practicalities, pleasures and pitfalls of running a venue from a va…
Venue B
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Youth Centre
- 24th - 31st May 2014
What kind of music do you like? We got it.
Venue B Presents the Mystery Weekender
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- To be discovered…
- 24th - 25th May 2014
2 big days, several SECRET locations and a mash-up of live music and epic performance! Special guest stars, festival fever, dance off, skate jams and all the weird and wonderful�…
The Greatest Shows on Earth
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 17th May 2014
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
About Comedy: Stand-up Comedy Course
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple
- 17th - 18th May 2014
Learn stand-up comedy on this two-day course plus graduation show,with our comedian and writer tutor Jay Sodagar.
About Comedy: Stand-up Comedy Course
- Listing Workshop
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Temple
- 17th - 18th May 2014
Learn stand-up comedy on this two day stand-up comedy course, which also includes a performance in a Fringe graduation show.
Andy Seize: Off the Rails
- Listing Exhibition
- Brighton Fringe
- Hilton Metropole Hotel
- 7th - 14th May 2014
Andy Seize is an artist who has always had an awareness of the ‘bigger picture’.
The Colin Hoult Shows
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Burrow at The Warren
- 5th - 25th May 2014
Master character comedian and star of ‘Derek’ and ‘Being Human’ performs all his critically acclaimed, sell-out, weirdly wonderful comedy shows, fresh from his hit Radio 4 series.
Paul Sinha is a Stand-up Comedian
- Listing Comedy
- Glasgow Comedy Festival
- The Stand Comedy Club, Glasgow
- 21st Mar 2014
Paul Sinha is a stand-up comedian, but you might know him as ‘The Sinnerman’, from ITV’s tea-time quiz, The Chase.
Fringe Guide to Running a Venue
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug 2013
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking.
Fringe Guide to Running a Venue
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug 2013
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be hugely rewarding, but is also a mammoth undertaking.
Stand Up Sat Down
- Review
- ★
- Emily Edwards
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug, 2013
St Andrews student Matt Gibson talks about life with Asian parents, being unable to seduce girls and those annoying things in life.
Adventures of Andy Kershaw
- Review
- ★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2013
Kershaw has had a lot of bad press over the last decade for his personal life but he’s back on track and promoting his autobiography No Off Switch at the Auditorium, Ghillie Dhu …
Seussical
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Read
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2012
This energetic cast and their enthusiasm make this a genuinely enjoyable performance.
The Other Guys: One Night Stand
- Listing Music / Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug 2013
Fresh from YouTube and Top 40 success, St Andrews’ The Other Guys bring their hilarious parodies, exquisite musicality and suspect dance moves for one night only in a show that won…
BBC: Radio 4 Extra Stand-Up Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th - 19th Aug 2013
Showcasing an exciting selection of the brightest and the best stand up comedians at this year’s Fringe.
The Secret Garden
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2013
3Bugs Theatre Company return to the Fringe with a new adaptation of this classic children’s story.
Omid Djalili Live
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Southbank Centre Pop-up Festival Area
- 15th Aug, 2013
Somewhat of a fringe legend, Omid Djalili has graced many a theatre on his national tours over the last 20 years since he performed his very first Edinburgh Fringe show.
Shostakovich Late
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2012
After a long day trotting around Edinburgh from venue to venue, taking chances on shows that turn out to be rubbish, take yourself down to The Royal Over-Seas League and ease away …
Blues! Live at Venue 45
- Listing Music / Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th - 22nd Aug 2013
The Blueswater is the 12-piece band behind award-winning show Blues!, and they will be performing a limited run of five shows at the enigmatic Venue 45.
Project Lolita
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2013
In amongst the more controversial theatre on at the Fringe this year we have emerging playwright Sophie Foster’s new work, which dissects the media culture surrounding suspected …
Beethoven for Breakfast
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2012
Beethoven for Breakfast is a soft ease into an Edinburgh day.
1,000 Suns
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2013
The Cold War is over, but this time America lost.
FOX
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2013
Children and adults alike will be familiar with Roald Dahl’s timeless story of Fantastic Mr Fox.
Gobsmell: The Musical
- Review
- ★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2013
With an admittedly clever pun for a title, this misplaced family comedy misses the mark in its attempt to entertain, both musically and humorously.
Wee Rascals Cinema and Ceilidh
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th - 31st Aug 2013
Make a day of it with the Wee Rascals Club showing Scottish film Brave followed by a ceilidh just for kids.
McNeil & Pamphilon Go 8-Bit!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
Mario Kart, Street Fighter and Bomber Man are all names that strike nostalgic excitement into the hearts of many of a certain generation.
Daniel Sloss - Stand-Up (Extra Shows!)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th - 24th Aug 2013
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
Moonshine, Medicine and The Mob: Whisky Tasting
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2013
Is there any better way to spend an afternoon than sitting in a wood panelled, beautiful, archaic board room, sipping on an array of expensive, high class, tasty beverages from aro…
Cat Stevens Reconstructed
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2013
Cat Stevens Reconstructed is far more than a tribute act to the legendary singer songwriter.
BiDiNG TiME - Various Shows
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th - 24th Aug 2013
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
School Night
- Review
- ★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2013
School Night joins the ranks of late night, best of the fest numbers at Pleasance Courtyard, the setup being the audience are the pupils and the comedians the teachers, all there t…
John-Luke Roberts: Broken Stand-Up
- Review
- ★★★★
- Melinda Hughes
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2013
I was absolutely delighted by this truly ingenious comedian.
Cassetteboy vs DJ Rubbish
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2013
I am middle class.
The Graveyard Slot
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2013
The Graveyard Slot, a ‘live radio show’, attempts to throw its audience back to the days of must-listen wireless drama with a story of death, deception, spectres, spirits and all t…
Paul Dabek - Stand Up and Be Conjured
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2013
According to the neat-suited Paul Dabek, the Magic Circle demands that all its members must include a card trick at some point in their act, otherwise there’s a terrible risk of ‘m…
About Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Courses
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2013
Learn stand-up comedy performance on this two-day intensive comedy course.
Stand-Up Tragedy
- Review
- ★★★
- Kenza Marland
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2013
A variety show with a somewhat dark twist, Stand-Up Tragedy offers a medley of media and performers, each with very different takes on telling tragedy.
The Horne Section Live in a Cow - Extra Shows
- Listing Comedy / Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2013
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
On Hold
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2013
The world of PR is one ripe for comedy gold, Izzy Tennyson’s new play has taken this, using it not only for its humour but also to paint a dark portrait of the professional world…
India Flamenco
- Review
- ★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2013
This exploration of the relationship between traditional Indian dancing and flamenco does exactly what it says on the tin.
Daniel Sloss: Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy / Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2013
After a massive year of live touring, television, his debut DVD release and parties comes the new stand-up show from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man…
Free - 99 Club Stand-Up Selection - Cowgate
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2013
Proudly supporting the Free Festival, the 99 Club brings a selection of four different comics every day.
Thor of the Common Man
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2013
Theatre SanTuoQi bring their famed blend of dance, physical theatre, puppetry and Nuo Opera to the fringe for their exploration of everyone’s favourite Norse deity.
Whodidit
- Review
- ★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2013
The question that arises during the viewing of Whodidit, a spoof murder mystery that riffs on long running mega-success The Mouse Trap among others, is not the eponymous one but a …
Father Christmas Needs a Wee! The Musical
- Review
- ★★★
- Kathleen Sargeant
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2013
TaleGate Theatre have adapted Nicholas Allan’s beloved children’s book into a new funny and energetic musical, which ticks all the boxes for a children’s show, apart from the fact …
MurleyDance Double Bill
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2013
Through the two pieces that make up this double bill, La Peau and Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, MurleyDance show off their immense skill and enviable talents in a production t…
The Circus of Terror
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2013
Genuinely scary theatre can be hard to get right but this young theatre company has hit the balance of scares and gags bang on in this exciting and innovative show.
The Stand Late Show
- Review
- ★★★★
- Justin McCarthy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2013
This is late night comedy at its finest.
The Stand Late Show
- Review
- ★★★★
- Adam Bloodworth
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2012
The Late Show attracts a lot more of a local audience than most Fringe events and there is a sense that it doesn’t necessarily mind separating itself somewhat from the hustle and b…
God of Carnage
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2013
Yasmin Reza’s modern masterpiece is here brought to life in the most frenetic, extreme and exciting way.
Birdhouse
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2013
Taking the story of four elderly women who have been entangled in a freak attack by a murder of crows and take refuge in the Coronet Cinema this is a strange, intriguing and entert…
The Greatest Liar in All the World
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2013
The Greatest Liar in All the World is an extension/parallel exploration of children’s favourite Pinocchio.
Paul Foot: Words
- Review
- ★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2013
Paul Foot, the backwards-haircut (short on top, long on the sides) staple of comedy panel shows, brings his slurring style of delivery and love for all things surreal to the Fringe…
The Rat Pack Stand-up Comedy
- Review
- ★★★
- Jenni Ajderian
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2013
The Rat Pack did far more than sing.
Aaaaargh! It's the Monster Stand-Up Show - Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st - 25th Aug 2013
Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit including your award-winning headliner Masai Graham.
Leo
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
It’s an old trick seen may times before: someone crawls along the floor, someone films them sideways and they look, on camera, like they are climbing up a wall.
The Edinburgh Revue Stand Up Show
- Review
- ★★★
- Alex Franklin
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2012
Shaggy haired and stunningly bearded, Noah Torn launches the Edinburgh Revue Stand-Up Show with a bang.
The Comedian's Comedian Live with Stuart Goldsmith
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Read
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2012
This show is billed as a comedian’s comedy show for comedians.
The Bread and the Beer
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2013
In our day to day anodyne world of commuting and spam e-mails it’s easy to forget that sometimes we all need to swill a beer, dismiss our troubles and dance to our sweaty content.
Iain Stirling: At Home - Extra Shows
- Listing Comedy / Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st - 23rd Aug 2013
Having bought a house with his girlfriend the Edinburgh-born comic explores how a decision that comes from a place of love can lead to such fear and uncertainty.
Rouse Ye Women
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2013
This inventive piece of devised physical theatre is the rousing story of a group of female workers in 1910 who went on strike from their jobs as chain-makers, demanding higher pay …
Set List: Stand-Up Without a Net
- Review
- ★★★
- James Dolton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2013
Setlist is just a bloody good idea.
Guilt & Shame: Addicted to Everything
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2013
There are tons and tons of sketch shows on at the Fringe this year, meaning that it is easy for them to get lost amongst the crowd.
Stand Up, Woman
- Review
- ★★
- Lucy Hoggan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 22nd Aug, 2013
The idea behind Julia Munrow’s one-woman show has the potential to be entertaining: a mother of two at the end of her tether after being taken advantage of by her husband, friend…
Set List: Stand-Up Without a Net
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Helene Cloete
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2012
Improvised stand-up is a tricky business, but luckily the organisers of The Set List continue to get some of the country’s most well-known comedians to take part.
The Edinburgh Revue: Stand-Up Show
- Listing Comedy / Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st - 26th Aug 2013
The University may be out for the summer, but The Edinburgh Revue isn’t and is proud to bring you six of Edinburgh’s best up-and-coming comedians!
Dr Ettrick-Hogg and Guests - Stand-Up Show- Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st - 25th Aug 2013
Wild, raucous and full of Fringe spirit.
PowerCouple - Stand-up Comedy from Stephen Bailey and Gary John Senior
- Review
- ★★★
- Kai Sedgwick
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 22nd Aug, 2013
One of the beautiful things about the Fringe is the way in which so many shows can be supported simultaneously.
Light Relief
- Review
- ★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
Geoff Cotton’s show is a mix of sketches, comedy songs, stand-up and satire.
Sex Guru
- Review
- ★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2013
Wolfgang Weinberger has been described by the Guardian as ‘Austria’s most prominent sexologist since Sigmund Freud’; he has performed to over half a million people around the world…
Jonny & the Baptists: Bigger Than Judas
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2013
Jonny & The Baptists have in the past, unfairly in my opinion, been likened to Tenacious D.
BEASTS
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2013
Following their successful Pleasance run at the Fringe last year, BEASTS once again return with their inimitable brand of absurdist, ridiculous sketch comedy.
Amateur Transplants: Adam Kay Is Going For A Number One
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2013
With a show that is definitely not for the easily offended, Adam Kay reels off a series of his inimitable brand of parody songs with expert comedic timing and the hilarity that onl…
Sad Faces Threw a Party
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2013
After the success of their debut Edinburgh show last year, Sad Faces return with more jokes, japes and some crisp-based canapés.
AAA Stand-Up Late
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2013
Stand-up variety shows at the fringe can often be hit-and-miss, but this one just gets it spot on.
AAA Stand-Up
- Review
- ★★
- Dave Coates
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2012
Perhaps a case of mis-selling the show at Pleasance Courtyard, the audience for AAA Stand Up was of a distinctly middle age and much of the material used by three comedians in the …
AAA Stand-Up
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2013
Total sell-out 2005-2012 returns with a brand new line-up.
AAA Stand-Up Late
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2013
Total sell-out 2010-2011, returns with a brand new line-up.
My Pregnant Brother
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2013
This harrowing story of platonic love, loss and the things we do for our families is absolutely gripping from the moment it starts.
The State vs John Hayes
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2013
With the much publicised and ongoing arguments concerning the American death penalty and justice system, it would be easy to write a play concerning the issue which stank of lofty …
Carey Marx: Intensive Carey
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2013
With his show Intensive Carey, this Fringe favourite returns after a one year hiatus with the story of how he almost died, a number of times, by having a heart attack.
John Lloyd: Liff of QI
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2013
John Lloyd has worked with some of this country’s most plaudit burdened comedians, many of whom cut their teeth on the mile and were discovered performing in the dingy venues of …
Akmal
- Review
- ★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2013
Akmal, the Aussie comedian and radio star, returns to the Fringe for another show exploring his fundamentalist Christian upbringing, his race and his views on the world around him.
Absolutely Free Live Music
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd Aug, 2012
If you find yourself staggering down the Royal Mile at 2am desperately looking for a drink, there is a string of late-night live music bars ready to keep your liver happy and suppl…
Andy and Mike's... Tick Tock Time Machine
- Review
- ★★★★
- Allana Isaacs
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
Andy Day, of Cbeebies fame, and Mike James deserve a standing ovation for their efforts to save parents from having to entertain their children on a rainy Sunday morning in Edinbur…
One Night Stand: An Improvised Musical
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Natasha Long
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2008
Returning after their 2007 sell-out Fringe hit, One Night Stand are back and better than ever.
Why Do You Stand There in the Rain?
- Review
- ★★★★
- Helene Cloete
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 2nd Aug, 2012
During the Great Depression thousands of American World War I veterans gathered in Washington DC to demand payment of promised bonuses.
Mark Restuccia: How to Succeed at Internet Dating
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Read
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2012
Mark Restuccia cuts right to the point.
High North Movement
- Review
- ★
- Andy Read
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2012
Remember when Mimi from RENT held a large performance protest and it was brilliant because we could all see the sense of irony and sarcasm behind it? High North Movement is this wi…
Flowers for the Living - Free
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 4th Aug, 2012
In an interview for the seminal concert movie Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads frontman David Byrne, acting as the interviewer in his own interview asks himself, ‘I don’t think…
Eat a Queer Fetus 4 Jesus - Free
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Read
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2012
A typical Edinburgh stand-up by Richard Coughlan in the back room of an easily hidden pub, this is truly a gem hidden amongst the Fringe.
Guardian Reader
- Review
- ★★
- Andy Read
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2012
Will Hanmer-Lloyd takes us on a political rant about everything you can find on the Guardian.
Hitler Alone
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Read
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2012
Paul Webster presents an in depth and well researched look into the last hours of Hitler’s life in the intimacy of the Inlingua rooms, an intimidating rant from the mouth of Hitl…
The Loveboat Big Band Album Launch Extravaganza
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2012
Hello Sailor.
Festival Folk @ The Oak/The Wee Folk Club
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 29th Aug, 2010
Byrne’s material tonight takes in a range of styles and moods, but is mostly taken from poetry written in Scots dialect traditions, and there were clearly a number of jokes that I …
Owen O'Neill: Struck By Lightning
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2012
According to Owen O’Neill’s show his life started around the time of his 13th birthday when, whilst up a tree stealing apples from a local nunnery, he was struck by lightning.
Ha Ha Yum! Maeve Does Stand-up while Lilly makes Cakes
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave West
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2006
This does largely what it says on the tin, though tinned goods would be beyond the pale for these two sisters as they long for the simple pleasures of the 1950s: baking and pr…
The Big Bite-Size Breakfast /Matinee Shows
- Review
- ★★★★
- Pete Shaw
- Brighton Fringe
- 3rd May, 2009
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
Rookie Mistakes
- Review
- ★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2012
There’s a something heartbreaking about seeing a bad show - it really claws its way into the caverns of your soul and ceaselessly picks away at it as you feel grief for the peopl…
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! It's the Monster Stand-Up Show - Free
- Review
- ★★
- Anna Reid
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2012
The problems started right from the word go.
Mark Watson: The Information
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Andy Read
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2012
Mark Watson was running late.
It's Not Us, It's You - Free
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2012
With so much free fringe it’s can be a daunting prospect wading through the guide to find what’s worthwhile.
Daniel Sloss - Extra Shows!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Frankie Goodway
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2012
Daniel Sloss delivers a supposedly darker, meaner show in his later slot but most of his material is relatively clean, geared towards an audience who can laugh at him as well as wi…
Two for None
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2012
Two for None comedians Mark Simmons and Danny Ward display, between them, vastly different comedy styles.
The Vocal Orchestra
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2012
A message reminding people to turn off their mobile phones plays through the theatre.
Stitches: Stand-up. Slightly Strangely - Free
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jack Hackett
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2011
You’d be hard pressed to find a free hour of comedy at the Fringe as well-structured and thoughtful as ‘Stitches’.
The Static
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Andy Read
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug, 2012
ThickSkin have found a recipe for contemporary and physical theatre that works.
Swordy-Well
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2012
Swordy Well Family Meatworks is in crisis – as the last independent slaughter house in Britain it is facing a huge drop in sales, a mutiny from within the ranks, and assimilation…
2 Facedbook 3
- Review
- ★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
Being lecherous can be funny but if the letch is a winner it can come off as, well, perverse.
The Ginge, the Geordie and the Geek- All New Show 2012
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Read
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2012
A comedy sketch show, promising 32 new and hilarious sketches in under an hour.
One Night Stand
- Review
- ★★★
- Katherine Burr
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2012
The plot of One Night Stand is, unsurprisingly, the repercussions of a drunken work night out for two colleagues who wake up in the same bed.
Wee Andy
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2011
There’s a certain type of show that prompts a degree of fatigue in me.
Ms Minnelli and the Daring Do: Tim's Last Stand
- Review
- ★★★★
- Robyn Forsythe
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2010
A man singing Liza Minnelli in drag.
Mendelssohn at Teatime
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2012
The Royal Over-Seas League is fast establishing itself as the venue for classical music concerts at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Stand Up, Woman - Free
- Review
- ★★★
- Christie Rolley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2012
Having been ushered onto the top deck of a bus, itself a surreal beginning to a show experience, I was unsure what to expect from ‘Stand Up, Woman.
Kevin Tomlinson: Crazy Little Thing Called Love!
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2012
There is such an abundance of improvised shows around the fringe this year it’s a near impossible task to sift through them all to find the gems.
Misanthropy
- Review
- ★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2012
Misanthropy, as the title implies, is not a cheery play - it is miserable.
Comic Strip
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Andy Read
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2012
Half stand-up comedy gig, half naughty strip burlesque, it sounds like a recipe for disaster.
The Pain of Desire
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
For a music concert advertised as performance art and with the worryingly jejune title The Pain of Desire, one could be forgiven for thinking that this show might be worth a miss.
Gareth Richards: Introvert - Never Been To Disneyland
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Read
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2012
There are three things essential to know about Gareth Richards before his show starts.
Jody Kamali: Dirty Filthy Rich - Free
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2012
Dirty Filthy Rich wants to make you stinking, filthy rich.
Andy and the Prostitutes - The Musical
- Review
- ★★
- Kirsty Allen
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 4th Aug, 2012
Andy and The Prostitutes play one dirty trick by billing their foul-mouthed ditties as a musical but Andy and co.
Tommy Talks
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2012
‘You are the true heroes of the Fringe!’ announced Tommy Holgate, the bikram-yoga-obsessed host-cum-compere of Tommy Talks.
Folk at the Pleasance
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2012
Presented by folk singer-songwriter Sophie Ramsay, who opens the evening with a beautiful a cappella performance of a traditional Gaelic song, Folk at the Pleasance is a welcome mu…
Asher Treleaven: Troubadour
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2012
Edward De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats, for those unversed in the Maltese physician’s guide to lateral thinking and problem solving, is a self-help book from 1985 that teaches the …
Vladimir McTavish and Keir McAllister Look at the State of Scotland
- Review
- ★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 27th Aug, 2012
A referendum is coming.
Curtains
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Read
- London Fringe
- 3rd Aug, 2012
Curtains is the musical ‘whodunit’ about the cast of a failing Boston show that has ambitions for the New York stage via a series of twists, turns and murders.
Dr Ettrick-Hogg's Manly Stand-Ups - Free
- Review
- ★★★
- Cerys Mather
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2012
Dr Ettrick-Hogg is the very macho compere for this evening of male stand-ups talking about manly things and being generally masculine.
Sarah Kendall - Get Up, Stand-Up
- Review
- ★★★
- Adam Lebovits
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2012
‘You’re a funny crowd tonight aren’t you? For the first ten minutes I was sure this gig had bombed’.
Squeaky Dirty Stand-Up Comedy
- Review
- ★★★
- Marianne McPhee
- Camden Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2013
Squeaky dirty stand up comedy offers up three styles of stand up from this trio of comic pals.
Stand Up for Freedom
- Review
- ★★★
- Joshua Hepple
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 27th Aug, 2012
Hosted by Fred MacAuley and Susan Calman, this year’s Amnesty fundraiser treated the audience to a wide selection of comedy from Fringe stars including The Boy With Tape On His F…
Fairy Liquid And The Burst Bubble ... And Other Science Shows
- Review
- ★★★★
- Kathryn Mack
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2009
Science Shows for Schools have take three of their popular science presentations for schools and turned them into a 50 minute production for children at the Zoo Aviary.
Lou Sanders and Rachel Stubbings Stand-up
- Review
- ★★★★
- Steven Ellis
- Camden Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2013
Tonight is what the Camden Fringe is all about; two half hour segments from two different comedy artistes offering a peek at what the full hour could be like.
Broken
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2012
Set in a dystopian future where foetuses are harvested for their organs and boys dress like off-casts from a poorly funded production of ‘Oliver!,Broken, which displays some half…
Armageddapocalypse: Threat Level Dead
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Read
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 22nd Aug, 2012
After starting with an epic video and launching straight into fast paced one liners, it’s clear that this parody show has the objective of mocking every action film we have ever …
Etch A Sketch
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Goddard
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 26th Aug, 2009
The Oxford Revue is a sketch comedy show which has existed almost as long as the Fringe itself.
Hikapee Moonfall
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Currums
- FUSE International
- 27th Jul, 2014
Amazing performances, dazzling circus and some well-placed gags save this lacking and unambitious two-handed children’s show.
A Clockwork Orange
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Goddard
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 25th Aug, 2009
The stage version of A Clockwork Orange is Burgess retort to the Kubrick film.
Suggs: My Life Story in Words and Music
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Andy Read
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 22nd Aug, 2012
Graham Macpherson, aka Suggs, has produced a show with a clue in the title.
Graham Whistler: Stand-Up, Fall Down - Free
- Review
- ★★
- Helene Cloete
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2012
Graham Whistler’s show from last year’s Fringe returns, again mainly focusing on his cerebral palsy.
Marcus Brigstocke: The Brig Society
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Andy Read
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2012
Marcus Brigstocke presents a comic celebration of everything the Tory government has tried to achieve through their initiative of creating a Big Society where we can all just get a…
Rubies in the Attic
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2012
As a reviewer, I am expected to be an emotionally numb pillar of analytical prowess and critical acumen.
A Guide to Second Date Sex
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2012
A terrifyingly authentic portrayal of the awkwardness and obstacles we all face when sleeping with a new sexual partner for the first time.
Ganesh Versus The Third Reich
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Read
- London Fringe
- 29th Jun, 2012
Doing a piece about two different religions, a holocaust and advertising the majority of your company as intellectually disabled is certainly a way to stir up some controversy, and…
Andy Zaltzman Swears to Tell the Truth, Half the Truth, and Everything But the Truth
- Review
- ★★★
- Kathryn Mack
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2010
Andy Zaltzman will be best know to most audiences for his political comedy, podcast and radio appearances.
Andy Zaltzman: Armchair Revolutionary
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2011
If you only see one stand-up comedy set at this year’s Fringe, it should probably be Andy Zaltzman.
Telephonic
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- FUSE International
- 20th Jul, 2014
Part story-telling, part lecture,Telephonic is an insightful and absorbing trip into the mesmerising and impressive world of Foley artists.
The Red Bus Puppet Shows
- Review
- ★★★
- Kai Sedgwick
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2012
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
The Awesome Show
- Review
- ★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2012
The Awesome Show is a creative project that has been in the making for nine months.
Pete Firman - Hoodwinker
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Andy Read
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2012
Pete Firman returns from a stint on BBC 1’s The Magicians with a performance that has everything you need and expect from a magic show.
Chris Mccausland And Liam Mullone
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Currums
- London Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2012
Can a comedy show be rated on its interesting subject matter rather than its comedic merits? If so, Chris McCausland’s Not Blind Enough is definitely worth a look in.
The Triumph of Time and Truth
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2012
Tickets to see Scottish-grown chamber orchestra Ludus Baroque at Canongate Kirk are now bought by many as a matter of ritual, so strong is the group’s popularity and reputation f…
Confessions of a Grindr Addict
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Read
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug, 2012
Confessions of a Grindr Addict is mis-sold as a comedy.
The News at Kate 2012
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2012
A left-wing, atheist, ultra-feminist comedienne performing a politically fuelled stand-up show sounds daunting to say the least.
Dan Nightingale: The 11 and a 1/2 Ill-conceived Edinburgh Shows of Dan Nightingale
- Review
- ★★★★
- Wayne Cleworth
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
A show about shows is not the most original idea there has ever been but Dan Nightingale’s ‘what might have been?’ take on performing in this year’s Edinburgh Fringe provid…
All Star Stand-Up Showcase - Free
- Review
- ★
- Wayne Cleworth
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2012
As you enter the bar you are encouraged to take a drink; do, you’ll need it.
Tea With Terrorists - Free
- Review
- ★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2012
Sameena Zehra, the writer and performer of Tea With Terrorists, has led an extraordinary life and has been raised by an extraordinary family but her collection of stories, no matte…
Christian Reilly: This Is Not A Love Song
- Review
- ★★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2012
Christian Reilly has walked upon and calmed the boiling seas of the Royal Mile and resurrected the flogged and lifeless corpse of comedy music.
Chris McCausland: Not Blind Enough
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2012
Can a comedy show be rated on its interesting subject matter rather than its comedic merits? If so, Chris McCausland’s Not Blind Enough is definitely worth a look in.
The Cagebirds
- Review
- ★★★
- Andy Currums
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2012
David Campton’s The Cagebirds is a tight, gritty and intelligent meditation on confinement and rebellion.
Andy Zaltzman Boldly Unbuttons The Cloak Of Civilisation, But Is Perplexed And Perturbed By What He Finds Lurking Beneath
- Review
- ★★★
- Gill Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd Aug, 2008
Andy Zaltzman’s main topic is always politics, meaning he can cover the audience’s democratic disillusionment, teachers’ pay, and the immigration issue in just a few linked sentenc…
Nick Beaton Does Not Play Well With Others
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Andy Read
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 22nd Aug, 2012
Nick Beaton presents a show with enough social observations to make an hour fly by.
Interruption
- Review
- ★★
- Andy Read
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2012
You have to appreciate a company that leaves sweets on seats of the audience, like pillow chocolates at a hotel, but, sadly, they did not sweeten this show for me.
Wee Andy
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Jessica Osborne Lax
- Brighton Fringe
- 17th May, 2012
Set in Glasgow, this hard-hitting play speaks out about community violence and gang mentality based on director Paddy Cunneen’s own experiences whilst working in Edinburgh.
Max and Iván: Televisionaries
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Andy Goddard
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 28th Aug, 2009
Max and Iván are a comedy double act from London.
Stand Up: Edinburgh
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fireside
- 4th - 26th Aug 2018
Did you know that Edinburgh has a thriving comedy scene all year? Well now you do! Join Matt Duwell, as he presents the best of Edinburgh’s comedy heroes and the pick of the scene’…
VAULT Announces New London Venue and Return of VAULT Festival for 2024
- Feature
- Levi Bailey
- London Fringe
- 28th Nov, 2023
VAULT, the creators of VAULT Festival have found their new London home which will open in Spring 2024 with VAULT Festival returning in the Autumn.
Five outstanding EdFringe shows scoop a Broadway Baby Bobby in 2023
- Feature
- Pete Shaw
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 25th Aug, 2023
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
4 Family Friendly Shows in Brighton This Half Term
- Feature
- Elanor Parker
- Brighton
- 16th Feb, 2019
Ditch the messy arts and crafts this half-term and entertain your little darlings with the best live family friendly performances Brighton and Hove have to offer instead.
5 Brighton Shows To Entertain You This Christmas
- Feature
- Elanor Parker
- Brighton
- 11th Dec, 2018
It’s the most wonderful time of the year (apart from Brighton Fringe, of course) and there are plenty of delightful performances to entertain you this winter.
5 Brighton HorrorFest Shows To Sink Your Teeth Into This October
- Feature
- Elanor Parker
- Brighton
- 17th Oct, 2018
Welcome to our top 5 picks from the third year of Brighton HorrorFest, the spooktacular celebration from Sweet of all things that go bump in the night.
Black Friday Deals on West End Shows
- Feature
- Levi Bailey
- West End
- 23rd Nov, 2017
All this week we've got some fantastic offers on your favourite West End shows. Check back daily for the latest offers.
The Scottish Story Telling Centre: A Venue for Voices
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2017
The Scottish Storytelling Centre is, in its own words, ‘a vibrant arts venue with a seasonal programme of live storytelling, theatre, music, exhibitions, workshops, family events...
Eight shows heading to Brighton Fringe with the support of Greenwich Theatre
- Feature
- Levi Bailey
- Brighton Fringe
- 27th Apr, 2017
Greenwich Theatre is set to have an unprecedented profile at this year’s Brighton Fringe, with no less than eight productions heading for The Warren either co-produced or support...
Brighton Fringe: Top 10 Stand-Ups You Shouldn’t Miss:
- Feature
- Annie North
- Brighton Fringe
- 18th Apr, 2017
Renowned for its comedy, Brighton Fringe is the perfect time to discover brand new talents. Here’s our guide to stand-ups you’d be totally crazy to miss.
Brighton Fringe: 10 Shows to Book Before They Sell-Out
- Feature
- Nicholas Abrams
- Brighton Fringe
- 11th Apr, 2017
With Easter on the horizon it’s time to turn attention to Brighton Fringe with a look at some shows that are likely to sell out. Book early – you have been warned.
No Horizon's Andy Platt & Sam Reid on Creative Minds Overcoming Disability
- Feature
- Chris Quilietti
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2016
It’s the 1600’s, and a blind boy from a village in Yorkshire wants an education.
C Venues launches new flagship venue at St Stephen’s Stockbridge
- Feature
- Levi Bailey
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Mar, 2016
Edinburgh venue St Stephen’s Stockbridge returns in 2016 as the latest addition to the C venues stable.
Unmissable shows at Brighton Fringe this year
- Feature
- Nicholas Abrams
- Brighton Fringe
- 7th Mar, 2016
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
Five Christmas Shows You Shouldn’t Miss In London This Year
- Feature
- Pete Shaw
- London Fringe
- 20th Dec, 2015
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
Going To Space: Father Christmas needs a WEE!
- Feature
- Levi Bailey
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Jun, 2015
Father Christmas has a problem! After a few mince pies, a glass or two of milk and a little eggnog he finds himself in dire need of a bathroom!
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