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Kunt and the Gang

Kunt and the Gang

Malcolm Hardee Award winner KATG returns to the Fringe with a set of greatest (minor internet) hits of cheerfully offensive comedy songs to prove you CAN say anything anymore, prov… 

Grizzly Jim and The Gary Chronicles, A Collection of Adventurous Verse

Grizzly Jim and The Gary Chronicles, A Collection of Adventurous Verse

Grizzly Jim’s been a hunter all of his life, no quarter given nor none taken. 

Ray Fordyce: Quincunx

Ray Fordyce: Quincunx

Quincunx is Ray Fordyce’s favourite word. It means a pattern of five and there are five areas of his life he want’s to talk about and how they all connect. 

A Bad Taste Show

A Bad Taste Show

Feast yourselves on an irreverent meal of a comedy sketch show. 

Bad Immigrant

Bad Immigrant

It’s a roller disco about immigration. 

Robocop vs The Terminator vs Gabriel Featherstone

Robocop vs The Terminator vs Gabriel Featherstone

‘Wild, inventive comedy for fans of Emo Philips and Nick Lutsko’ (Chris Thorburn, Breaking The News). 

The Alternative Black Comedy Showcase

The Alternative Black Comedy Showcase

Top black international comedy acts who are still able to get into the country or afford accomodation. 

I Listened to 100 Covers of Creep So You Don't Have To!

I Listened to 100 Covers of Creep So You Don't Have To!

Ever listen to a cover of a song and think: wow, what a funky fresh jam! I feel like I’ve grown as a person!? What if you listened to a hundred? Chris presents an oddball comedy sl… 

Knickers Cabaret

Knickers Cabaret

Knickers Cabaret is your one-stop shop for fresh, funny and flirty comedy! After a sell-out run at Brighton Fringe in 2024, we’re bringing the chaos to Edinburgh! With a killer lin… 

Naivety, Love and My Poor Interpretations of the Social Order on a Rainy Day

Naivety, Love and My Poor Interpretations of the Social Order on a Rainy Day

A show about society and my poor interpretations of it, the naivety that I miss having and the things that are loving and concerning and good – by the way, I’m contractually obli… 

Pope Benedict the IX

Pope Benedict the IX

The (mostly) true story of the first gay pope in the Middle Ages. 

Mel McGlensey is Normal

Mel McGlensey is Normal

Mel McGlensey is Normal is a late-night choose your own adventure style hour. 

Ben Goldsmith: CrimeLandTown

Ben Goldsmith: CrimeLandTown

‘An insane amount of fun’ (TheWeeReview. 

Clever Comedy Chicago

Clever Comedy Chicago

A one-of-a-kind alternative comedy showcase straight from the Windy City itself. 

Out of My Wheelhouse

Out of My Wheelhouse

Like watching Whose Line Is It Anyway masquerading as a theatrical play. 

Phil Ellis: Soppy Stern

Phil Ellis: Soppy Stern

Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee 2023 and Malcolm Hardee, Chortle and Entertainment Wow Award winner, Phil Ellis returns with a brand-new hour of stand-up, silliness and a lot of hea… 

American Football: An Improv Comedy Show

American Football: An Improv Comedy Show

New York City improv comedians present American Football: An Improv Show. 

Business Casual: Cowboys

Business Casual: Cowboys

Cowboys tells the story of a gunslinging hero seeking revenge on the gang who killed his family. 

Comedians Beer Mat Flipping Championship

Comedians Beer Mat Flipping Championship

Eight top comedians compete to see who is the champion beermat flipper 2025! Sikisa, Stuart Laws and Matt Sandstorm host comedy’s premier sporting event, with eight guest comedians… 

Luke Rollason, Luke Rollason, Let Down Your Hair

Luke Rollason, Luke Rollason, Let Down Your Hair

Trained bushbaby, BAFTA nominee and Disney Prince heartthrob of Extraordinary (Disney+) descends from his ivory (Fairtrade) tower to glisten your eyes with this monument to creativ… 

Bec Hill: Guess Who's Bec, Bec Again? Bec Hill's Bec! (Tell a Friend.)

Bec Hill: Guess Who's Bec, Bec Again? Bec Hill's Bec! (Tell a Friend.)

Hey! Did you miss me? I missed you. 

Ray Badran: King of the Table

Ray Badran: King of the Table

Ray Badran is back with the iconic late-night table tennis tournament: Friday 8th and 15th, featuring some of the best comedians of the Fringe battling it out to see who is King of… 

Donkey

Donkey

Donkey! John Spillane performs stand-up (dressed as a Donkey) in Laughing Horse’s Horse Box. 

Achtung! The Superkrauts Are Coming!

Achtung! The Superkrauts Are Coming!

Lederhosen, laughs and all-out lunacy! The Superkrauts – Strack and Adams – serve up a riotous mix of absurd physical comedy, toe-tapping German hits, and playful audience anti… 

Mark Silcox: The Gold Trader

Mark Silcox: The Gold Trader

Dr Silcox will start gold trading with a £500 account, and will keep his audience entertained with his charming life stories as the trades progress through the show and over the w… 

Pando

Pando

A philosophical comedy set in video game worlds. 

Roger O'Sullivan: Fekken

Roger O'Sullivan: Fekken

Is it possible to usurp a rural patriarch? To defeat him in a Tekken style tournament? To overcome trauma through multimedia comedy and 90s nostalgia? Join BBC New Comedy Awards no… 

Ego Tourism: Taoism in the Wild

Ego Tourism: Taoism in the Wild

What does Taoism – the ancient, mischievous and subversive philosophy – look like in modern Western life? Rule one: Words fail, humor rules. 

Lolo's Boyfriend Show

Lolo's Boyfriend Show

Lolo lands a dream-come-true European tour. 

Best of Cabaret 2025

Best of Cabaret 2025

Best of Cabaret from the Fringe returns for a 5th year with an all-star diverse rotating cast of international seasoned artists in the genre. 

Johnny White Really-Really: am/pm

Johnny White Really-Really: am/pm

Writing blurbs isn’t easy. 

Lucy Pearman: Lunartic

Lucy Pearman: Lunartic

The Moon dreams of stardom so she’s popped down to perform her new show. 

XXX Revue

XXX Revue

Rude, nude with anarchic attitude. 

The Church of John Spillane

The Church of John Spillane

Irish madman John Spillane is back with his 100% improvised stand-up show! As seen on BBC, RTE, WWE, Comedy Central and host of Ladbible Ireland. 

Powerful

Powerful

A comedy cabaret cocktail by one woman who thrives on live connection with you! What’s it about? Grabbing life by the t**ts and creating your own narrative. 

Big Red

Big Red

Georgina Musgrave is Big Red: Queensland’s terrifying, hilarious, disgusting, lesbian ex-wrestling sensation!! This adopted Queenslander (via London) brings the pain, maim and brai… 

Leslie Ewing-Burgesse: Behemoth

Leslie Ewing-Burgesse: Behemoth

A new show from your favourite (she hopes?!) London-based, 6’3 Canadian, existential, green-haired, silly, spooky, formerly imaginary, formerly cursed, alternative comedian. 

Narin Oz: Inner Child(ish)

Narin Oz: Inner Child(ish)

Narin Oz is not good at real life. 

200 Puns in One Hour with Roger Swift

200 Puns in One Hour with Roger Swift

The 2024 sold-out show returns. 

Nick Everritt: Shadow

Nick Everritt: Shadow

Nick Everritt (British Comedian of the Year 2023 runner-up) is a weird, alternative, deadpan stand-up comedian who pretends to be a serial killer for the entertainment of others. 

Jokes I Rescued from the Future (by Telling Them Now)

Jokes I Rescued from the Future (by Telling Them Now)

Ivo’s Edinburgh Fringe debut offers a playful dive into the chaos of our modern world through a show full of absurdist jokes. 

The Mothman Cometh

The Mothman Cometh

Darkness, we’re told to fear it. 

A Hundred Percent No Anxiety Comedy Show – Peter Bazely

A Hundred Percent No Anxiety Comedy Show – Peter Bazely

Best Newcomer nominee Bazely performed last year’s show about having a Breakdown while having more anxiety than he’d ever had. 

Mat Wills: My Wife Took My Dad to a Brothel (I Drove)

Mat Wills: My Wife Took My Dad to a Brothel (I Drove)

Love, laughter, and life’s unexpected turns! Comedian Mat Wills delivers a brutally honest, yet heartwarming hilarious take on family, love, social taboos, the absurd realities o… 

And How Does That Make Me Feel?

And How Does That Make Me Feel?

A musical stand-up show dealing with life as an Irish male raised in a culture where emotions are things to be avoided. 

Alfie Brown: Popular Comedian

Alfie Brown: Popular Comedian

I was on Live at the Apollo, I got loads of stars in The Guardian. 

Su Mi: THISMOTHERPHUCKER

Su Mi: THISMOTHERPHUCKER

THISMOTHERPHUCKER is a public nuisance. 

Barbara Fernandez presents: Everything But Standup

Barbara Fernandez presents: Everything But Standup

Welcome to the cabaret asylum – a revolving lineup of oddball character acts, singers, magicians, clowns. 

Foxdog Studios: Robo Bingo 2.0

Foxdog Studios: Robo Bingo 2.0

Fresh bingo, new robots and lower quality prizes. 

Ray Fordyce's Imaginatively Titled Variety Show

Ray Fordyce's Imaginatively Titled Variety Show

Ray Fordyce is back once again to host a variety show filled with comedy and entertainment from across the world. 

BATSU!

BATSU!

Edinburgh, are you ready? Warriors, are you ready? Created in New York and Chicago, BATSU! returns to the Fringe after a wildly successful, sold-out 2024 run. 

Tom Simons - Alright?

Tom Simons - Alright?

Tom Simons is going to stand in a room in Scotland and make you laugh. 

Love Hunt

Love Hunt

Forget foxes, bargains, or Jeremy – this is the biggest hunt of them all. 

Great Times at Fringe

Great Times at Fringe

Cory and Kevin bring their hit NYC variety show to Edinburgh – a curated line-up of the best Fringe comedians every night. 

Jonah Non Grata

Jonah Non Grata

Inspired by the Book of Jonah – and probably God – award-winning shunt veteran, Mitchell and Webb writer, John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programmer (and Keith Darren Dean in Ghosts)… 

A Night of Drama

A Night of Drama

People of Edinburgh: grab a peel. 

Pat Rascal: Space Gravy

Pat Rascal: Space Gravy

This absurd comedy about one boy’s dream to send Yorkshire to space returns after a critically acclaimed preview run. 

Elephant in the Room

Elephant in the Room

Babar, king of the elephants and one of the most adored childhood cartoons around the world, is almost 94 years old and is currently having a little problem. 

Cheekykita – Batshit

Cheekykita – Batshit

Multi award-winning Cheekykita is Batshit! Set in woods in Manchester, there’s a bat with songs, dances and daftness. 

Sibet Partee: Behind

Sibet Partee: Behind

Stand-up meets striptease in Behind, a fever dream of dick, desire and delusion. 

Paul Currie: Dada Dojo

Paul Currie: Dada Dojo

Dada Dojo will definitely be a happening, free-form, immersive, comedy art clownarchist experiment by a Belfast-born non-sensical, bisexual, non-binary clown with a healthy beard a… 

Late John with Tonight Spillane!

Late John with Tonight Spillane!

Join host John Spillane for the ultimate Fringe afterparty! Credits include BBC, RTE, WWE, Comedy Central and he’s the host of Ladbible Ireland. 

Sizeable Chunks with Peter E Davidson

Sizeable Chunks with Peter E Davidson

Life is massive. 

Kathy Maniura: The Cycling Man

Kathy Maniura: The Cycling Man

Middle-aged and newly single, he’s spent the salary of an NHS nurse in Decathlon and he’s on the verge of a breakdown. 

Patrick Monahan: The Good, the Pat and the Ugly

Patrick Monahan: The Good, the Pat and the Ugly

Cancel culture is fast approaching. 

Jain Edwards: She-Devil

Jain Edwards: She-Devil

Jain isn’t like other girls. 

Theo Mason Wood: Legalise Kissing

Theo Mason Wood: Legalise Kissing

A genre-defying mix of stand-up, surreal storytelling and live techno anthems – this is comedy like you’ve never seen before. 

jessica aszkenasy: TITCLOWN

jessica aszkenasy: TITCLOWN

What is art?? Am I a genius?? Both of these questions I will be answering ‘yes’ to in my show. 

Dead Man Talking

Dead Man Talking

Comedians Elliot Weber (Dead Dad) and Joshua Emerson (Dead Mom) want to make you laugh with jokes about death and grief. 

Emma Holland: Don't Touch My Trinkets

Emma Holland: Don't Touch My Trinkets

Let me take you on a tour through my personal gallery, there’s all kinds of treasures and wares. 

Mel McGlensey is Motorboat

Mel McGlensey is Motorboat

Batten down the hatches and seal your porthole! It’s time for the silliest, most outrageous, naughty and nautical show ever made about someone who is part boat, part woman. 

Siblings: Dreamweavers

Siblings: Dreamweavers

Award-winning character comedians and IRL Sisters, Maddy and Marina Bye (Byes), are back. 

Biscuit Barrel: The 69-Sketch Show

Biscuit Barrel: The 69-Sketch Show

69 sketches in an hour! The UK’s fastest sketch show returns for its sixth year, featuring new sketches for 2025. 

The Mayor and His Daughter: A Genuine Appreciation of Comedy

The Mayor and His Daughter: A Genuine Appreciation of Comedy

The Mayor and his daughter are in crisis. 

Toussaint Douglass: Accessible Pigeon Material

Toussaint Douglass: Accessible Pigeon Material

Hello friend. 

Ellen Turnill Montoya is Mr Handsome

Ellen Turnill Montoya is Mr Handsome

A handful of playful props and physical buffoonery in an illustrated world. 

Nate Kitch: Something Different!!!!!

Nate Kitch: Something Different!!!!!

2024’s Best Newcomer and Malcolm Hardee Award nominee returns, let’s see what happens now. 

Olivia McLeod Is Unrepresented

Olivia McLeod Is Unrepresented

Mmm. 

STARDUST Starring Star Dust (In Person)

STARDUST Starring Star Dust (In Person)

A glitter-soaked cabaret meltdown from a fallen icon with nothing left to lose – except the will to perform, her accoutrements and possibly her marbles. 

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

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

Guests! Prizes! Definitely no vengeful ghosts! Henry and Charlie are putting the past behind them to record their live TV chat show. 

Susan Harrison: Should I Still Be Doing This?

Susan Harrison: Should I Still Be Doing This?

Award-winning character-comedian Susan Harrison presents a brand-new show, featuring a host of joyfully bizarre characters including an unconfident Sindy doll, a woman who’s swallo… 

Alice Cockayne: Licensed. Professional. Trained. Qualified.

Alice Cockayne: Licensed. Professional. Trained. Qualified.

Ratty wig girl. 

The City of Ladies

The City of Ladies

Offbeat comedy exploring the radical ladies of the past through puppetry, drag and special hats. 

Funz and Gamez rebootz

Funz and Gamez rebootz

The smash-hit, Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning Funz and Gamez is back with a brand-new show and brand-new group of misfits, lead by your Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning host Phil Ell… 

Gareth 'Complete Nonsense' Rees: Maybe Rain Dear

Gareth 'Complete Nonsense' Rees: Maybe Rain Dear

Death. 

The Division of Labour

The Division of Labour

A short caprice in gaslighting. 

Matt Winning: Solastalgia (Work in Progress)

Matt Winning: Solastalgia (Work in Progress)

Everyone’s favourite climate academic and comedian Dr Matt Winning tests new ideas about climate change. 

NeuroChatter

NeuroChatter

One woman taking on the role of her three alter-egos in this tragi-comic psychodrama. 

More of a Question Than a Comment (WIP)

More of a Question Than a Comment (WIP)

Camilla is obsessed with stories, great stories, the greatest stories ever told. 

The Evolutionary and Inescapable Rotting of Girlhood

The Evolutionary and Inescapable Rotting of Girlhood

Feminine human beings begin the process of metamorphosis around 10 years of age. 

idiots... GAY idiots

idiots... GAY idiots

According to hosts Grace Fool and Jennifer Schmennifer, this country is founded on Gay idiots—and quite right too! With live singing, drag, character comedy, lip-syncing and clow… 

The Normal Formal

The Normal Formal

Normal Al Yankovic attempts to retain a sense of decorum and decency as his line-up of acclaimed alternative comedians cause chaos. 

Wild 'n' Free

Wild 'n' Free

A poignant journey, through chequered showbiz career of Eddie Garrity, interspersed with songs from the new album Wild ‘n’ Free and anecdotes from early glam rock, punk to cabaret. 

Nature of the Beast

Nature of the Beast

Danny has met the love of his life, Nat. 

Aardvark Comedy with Dylan Clarke

Aardvark Comedy with Dylan Clarke

Aardvark Comedy returns to the Edinburgh Fringe following a successful run in 2023. 

Suchandrika Chakrabarti: Doomscrolling

Suchandrika Chakrabarti: Doomscrolling

In her second solo show, Suchandrika (Writer for BBC One’s Have I Got News For You and Radio 4; Funny Women ‘One To Watch’) tries to explain our chronically-online era to her niece… 

Artificially Intelligent Procrastinating Pundit

Artificially Intelligent Procrastinating Pundit

Denzil de Cristo uses pedantry, puns and parodies to ponder the future. 

Richard Duffy is Asleep: A Retrospective

Richard Duffy is Asleep: A Retrospective

We spend one third of our lives asleep. 

Sitting Pretty With Kitty

Sitting Pretty With Kitty

Sitting Pretty is a camp, fun-filled, happy-hearted show with northern powerhouse, beautician, astrologist, therapist and cabaret performer, Kitty Cassis. 

The Ballad of Steve Jobs and Buck Taskaroo

The Ballad of Steve Jobs and Buck Taskaroo

Steve Jobs is a visionary. 

Comedians Beer Mat Flipping Championship

Comedians Beer Mat Flipping Championship

Eight top comedians compete to see who is the champion beermat flipper 2024! Sikisa, Bell Hull and Stuart Laws host comedy’s premier sporting event, with eight guest comedians co… 

Mitzi Fitz (WIP)

Mitzi Fitz (WIP)

Get ready for the wildest acting seminar you’ve ever attended! In her 42 years in showbiz, Mitzi Fitz has seen and done it all. 

A Tale of Two Fitties

A Tale of Two Fitties

Join two of the UK’s most exciting new comedians for a hilarious hour of stand-up comedy. 

Deniz Goktas: Direct from Istanbul

Deniz Goktas: Direct from Istanbul

With his successful column he occupied in the Uykusuz Comics Magazine and his critically acclaimed podcast series Deniz Göktas’a Ayiracak Vaktim Yok’ (eng. 

Good Girl

Good Girl

Rhiannon knows exactly what men want, and from naughty schoolgirl to eager-to-please tradwife, she’ll make all your filthiest fantasies come true. 

Joz Norris: You Wait. Time Passes. (Work-in-Progress)

Joz Norris: You Wait. Time Passes. (Work-in-Progress)

Comedians’ Choice Award-winner Joz Norris has completed his life’s work, and he’s finally ready to unveil it to the world. 

Anna Soden: It Comes Out Your Bum (WIP)

Anna Soden: It Comes Out Your Bum (WIP)

Girls aren’t allowed to talk about poo. 

A Genuine Appreciation of Comedy

A Genuine Appreciation of Comedy

The Mayor and His Daughter (not pictured – though we are writing this) are desperate to make it in show business. 

Manchild

Manchild

Award-winning stand-up comedian Diederik Zuurmond does a lot of jokes, some impressions and a song to tackle all the tough topics of the day, including the cosmos, cum-brain and of… 

Why Can't You Be More Like Me!

Why Can't You Be More Like Me!

After 30 years of marriage, Larry and Lucy wrestle with the fundamental questions of monogamy in this first-of-its-kind whirlwind cross between stand-up comedy and live couples the… 

Hot Rubber

Hot Rubber

I’m not sure who came up with Hot Rubber’s concept of combining the children’s table-top racing game Scaletrix with a stand up comedy variety show, but after watching the sho… 

Kit Loyd: Frenzy (WIP)

Kit Loyd: Frenzy (WIP)

Oi Oi! Kit Loyd brings you 50 minutes of one-man physical sketch comedy. 

Fernando and His Llama Friend

Fernando and His Llama Friend

It’s tough being a deaf kid. 

Mom's Room

Mom's Room

Mom’s Room: the place you go to play, dress up, and find treasures while the parents are away. 

Queer Tales for Autistic Folk WIP

Queer Tales for Autistic Folk WIP

You find a door. 

The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS)

The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS)

A lush greenhouse for comedy’s finest weirdest blooms, and literal good gig, back for our thirteenth Fringe with yet more high-end foolishness, Permitted Heckles and a bountiful … 

Al Lubel Talks About His Name for 57 Minutes and About Something Else for 3 Minutes

Al Lubel Talks About His Name for 57 Minutes and About Something Else for 3 Minutes

I (Al Lubel) talk about my name for 57 minutes and about something else for 3 minutes. 

Bot Brothers: A Story of Our Times

Bot Brothers: A Story of Our Times

Two robo-clones, born of a mad professor and separated by family and class, must find a way to love where all odds are against them. 

James Ross Does Guess Who

James Ross Does Guess Who

Remember childhood-favourite Guess Who? It’s that, but based on vibes and played with you, the lovely audience. 

Markus Birdman – We Are All in the Gutter, but Some of Us Are Looking at the Gutter

Markus Birdman – We Are All in the Gutter, but Some of Us Are Looking at the Gutter

Candid and hilarious new stand-up hour, talking about who I am, in an era where people are really keen to hear about who you are, so long as who you are is something they want to h… 

Tom Little: Show Me Some Bloody Respect

Tom Little: Show Me Some Bloody Respect

‘A properly talented comic. 

Sam Dodgshon's Memory is Full

Sam Dodgshon's Memory is Full

Sam Dodgshon has been collecting photos. 

Pineapple Princess

Pineapple Princess

One woman. 

Kane & Abel: Magician Twinpossible

Kane & Abel: Magician Twinpossible

Kane & Abel return with magic and comedy based on being twins. 

Jake Baker: Rule Breaker!

Jake Baker: Rule Breaker!

A rule-breaker, a risk taker, a wave-maker and a convention-shaker – all phrases never before used to describe Jake Baker. 

Jessica Aszkenasy: BRA SHOW (WIP)

Jessica Aszkenasy: BRA SHOW (WIP)

An “alternative comedy” show about bras, more specifically about not being able to find the right one. 

Ryan Kenny: Some Words, In An Order, On A Stage

Ryan Kenny: Some Words, In An Order, On A Stage

Ryan Kenny brings alternative comedy to Edinburgh, blending music, props, and sharp wit. 

Frank Sanazi's Mein Way

Frank Sanazi's Mein Way

Step into the uniquely entertaining world of Frank Sanazi, where comedic singing dictators reign supreme. 

Werewolves of London (Work in Progress)

Werewolves of London (Work in Progress)

From the creators of Big Zeus Energy (nominated for Best Debut Show 2023, Leicester Comedy Festival; sell-out five-star show, Edinburgh Fringe 2023) a new work-in-progress clown an… 

Jaz Mattu Returns

Jaz Mattu Returns

Jaz Mattu goes back home to live with his dad in Kent to focus on his comedy career. 

Edward Aczel – Running on Empty

Edward Aczel – Running on Empty

Aczel does his best, but it isn’t going to offer a solution to the unbearable lightness of being – as planned. 

The Hippie from Grimsby

The Hippie from Grimsby

A comical blend of balanced chaos and aligned lunacy, the stories of a modern-day hippie, a funky wizard, a professor of funk, but most of all, an insanely wild and must-see comedi… 

Shower Chair

Shower Chair

Shower Chair is an hour long comedic play about mistakes, growing up, and learning how to save life from going down the drain. 

Liars and Clowns: A Late Night Comedy Show

Liars and Clowns: A Late Night Comedy Show

Returning to Edinburgh for the third year in a row! Liars and Clowns is a jam session for comedians, with a revolving door showcasing the best alternative comedy from around the fe… 

ZAP

ZAP

In the similar style of the wildly popular The Play that Goes Wrong, this production follows a company of actors attempting to perform 7 different shows at once and everything star… 

Auld Cheeky

Auld Cheeky

The best of the best of the best of the best of the best of the best of the Scottish comedy circuit, plus guests. 

Mish Mash

Mish Mash

A hodge-podge of comedians, clowns, and weirdos of every variety: a playful potpourri of all the hysterical humans we’ve befriended during the Fringe. 

Will BF: Moon Team IIIV

Will BF: Moon Team IIIV

Everyone loves the 1979 movie phenomenon Moon Team, but loves to hate its 1999 reboot. 

That's Not My Name

That's Not My Name

This is not a show about mental health. 

Ask A Stripper: No Holes Barred

Ask A Stripper: No Holes Barred

Ask a Stripper challenges you to rethink everything you know about stripping and sex work. 

Catherine McCafferty: (Not) That Bad

Catherine McCafferty: (Not) That Bad

Catherine McCafferty is (Not) That Bad. 

Dr Dolittle Kills a Man (and Reads Extracts From His New Book)

Dr Dolittle Kills a Man (and Reads Extracts From His New Book)

Dr. 

Alfie Brown: Open Hearted Human Enquiry

Alfie Brown: Open Hearted Human Enquiry

The award-winning comedian Alfie Brown is back with his first show since the fabric of his reality disintegrated. 

Cobin Millage: Fifteen Pints With a Wax Figure of Renowned Painter Pablo Picasso

Cobin Millage: Fifteen Pints With a Wax Figure of Renowned Painter Pablo Picasso

Cobin Millage brings his second, and possibly final, show to the Edinburgh Fringe. 

Seymour Mace – Looking Stupid, Dressing Up and Saying C*nt a Lot: 35 Years of Being a Fool

Seymour Mace – Looking Stupid, Dressing Up and Saying C*nt a Lot: 35 Years of Being a Fool

A lifetime being a professional f*cking lunatic that enjoys swearing in front of people. 

Peter E Davidson: Manifest Density

Peter E Davidson: Manifest Density

Top Derry comic Peter E Davidson returns with his sixth Edinburgh special. 

Wild West Rodeo

Wild West Rodeo

Anything goes at this late-night variety show hosted by Australia’s cult-favourite improv group Snake Pit featuring Edinburgh’s biggest acts of today and tomorrow. 

Pull My Goldfinger

Pull My Goldfinger

Bond is dead. 

Ross Purdy Dances in the Cultural Sewer

Ross Purdy Dances in the Cultural Sewer

Australian comedian Ross Purdy attempts to perform the most culturally significant show the Earth has ever seen with his chaotic brand of alternative anti-comedy. 

200 Puns in One Hour with Roger Swift

200 Puns in One Hour with Roger Swift

The comedic prop-pun lunatic Roger Swift shoots out 200 puns in one hour! With his trademark crazy homemade props, audio cues and PowerPoint slides. 

Bex Turner: Bexual Healing

Bex Turner: Bexual Healing

It’s a pun, although some of the characters might be witty and off the wrist. 

Murder Inc

Murder Inc

Every night, it’s a raucous, improvised, made-to-order murder with Murder Inc – where the audience chooses the setting, the characters, and even the motives. 

Laurence Tuck: Dark/Twisted/Nerdy/Awkward

Laurence Tuck: Dark/Twisted/Nerdy/Awkward

The title of the show says it all. 

Tea Wade: MANDRILL

Tea Wade: MANDRILL

Tea Wade’s MANDRILL is an hour where we find ourselves learning as well as laughing as we’re taken on a journey through time that becomes a compilation on how social norms that… 

Ahh I Appear to Be Having a Breakdown – The Debut Hour From Peter Bazely

Ahh I Appear to Be Having a Breakdown – The Debut Hour From Peter Bazely

Does your life feel like a massive fire in a bin? Well don’t worry – because Kanye West made having a breakdown cool, and now Peter Bazely shows you how to turn your pesky publ… 

BATSU!

BATSU!

Edinburgh, are you ready? Warriors, are you ready? Created in New York and Chicago, BATSU! returns to the Fringe after a riotous, sell-out 2023. 

DISCOunt: The Disco Variety Show

DISCOunt: The Disco Variety Show

DISCOunt: The Disco Variety Show featuring disco dance numbers, comedy, drag, burlesque, music and did we mention disco?! Based on a love and deeply inaccurate knowledge of the 70s… 

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

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

It’s not often you get to be in the audience for a pilot TV show, let alone a live chat show witha warm-up act, special guests, commercial breaks and several references to pastco… 

Cheekykita: An Octopus, The Universe 'n' Stuff

Cheekykita: An Octopus, The Universe 'n' Stuff

Multi award-winning comedian Cheekykita’s one-woman, tour-de-force nonsense ride from sea to space. 

Improv: Spontadeity

Improv: Spontadeity

Improvised mythological madness! A changing line-up of improvisers perform scenes, games and challenges from audience suggestions: creating tragedies and epics on the spot, all wit… 

Ben Goldsmith: CrimeLandTown

Ben Goldsmith: CrimeLandTown

CrimeLandTown is an affectionate one-man character comedy spoof of the Italian-American gangster epic. 

Josh Makinda Is Probably Fine

Josh Makinda Is Probably Fine

Josh Makinda is bringing his debut solo show to the Edinburgh Fringe! Australian, Kenyan-ethnicity, but NYC-based, Josh has been wowing audiences the world over with his unique bra… 

American Two in One Comics

American Two in One Comics

America is the land of the free, home of the brave and homeland of two of the freest, bravest men to ever live: Mark Henely and Chris Warren. 

The Good, The Bad and The Irish

The Good, The Bad and The Irish

The Good the Bad and the Irish has been performing at the Fringe for the last 14 years! We’re the original Irish comedy show with regular weekly clubs in Edinburgh and many sellout… 

Nerine Skinner: The Exorcism of Liz Truss

Nerine Skinner: The Exorcism of Liz Truss

If you're known for impersonating a particular public figure, it can be difficult to shake that typecasting; a fact Nerine Skinner is all too aware of. 

Viv Gee: Age Against the Machine

Viv Gee: Age Against the Machine

A trawl through the bemused and bewildered mind of a middle-aged teenager coming to terms with aging, technology and reading glasses. 

Becky Fury: Great British C*nts

Becky Fury: Great British C*nts

Award-winning Becky Fury (her real name) investigates the challenging identity that is being British-ish. 

Kitty and Shirley’s Teen Dream Magazine Comedy Sleepover

Kitty and Shirley’s Teen Dream Magazine Comedy Sleepover

A stand-up split bill with a difference: It’s set in the teen-magazine sleepover dream world. 

Aaalternative Comedy Club

Aaalternative Comedy Club

Teknicolour Smoof’s alternative comedy club comes to the Edinburgh Fringe with five different comedians each day. 

John Luke Roberts: John-Luke-A-Palooza!

John Luke Roberts: John-Luke-A-Palooza!

John-Luke Roberts does every solo comedy show he’s ever done in a row, and then goes back to the first one and does them again until the Fringe runs out. 

Alexander Bennett: Emotional Daredevil

Alexander Bennett: Emotional Daredevil

Take a risk. See this show.  

Toy Stories, or How Not to Make a Living as an Artist

Toy Stories, or How Not to Make a Living as an Artist

Toy Stories is a fascinating mishmash of conflicting art forms and topics. 

Metroland Live: The Box

Metroland Live: The Box

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

Mel McGlensey is Motorboat

Mel McGlensey is Motorboat

Batten down the hatches and seal your porthole! It’s time for the silliest, most outrageous, naughty and nautical show ever made about someone who is part boat, part woman. 

Isobel Rogers: How to Be Content

Isobel Rogers: How to Be Content

Isobel and her guitar ask modern life’s essential questions: Is there ever a right time to have a baby? Are you your therapist’s favourite client? Are polyamorous relationships as … 

Luke Rollason, Luke Rollason, Let Down Your Hair

Luke Rollason, Luke Rollason, Let Down Your Hair

Luke Rollason is back at the Fringe with Luke Rollason, Luke Rollason, Let Down Your Hair, and all is right in the world. 

Gracie and the Start of the End of the World (Again)

Gracie and the Start of the End of the World (Again)

The most sparkly and relatable Jellyfish you will see this year, or probably any year really. 

Ladies Who Ranch

Ladies Who Ranch

We heard your pleas. 

Shitty Mozart

Shitty Mozart

It’s been a couple of days and I still don’t really know what to make of this show. 

Paul Currie – TEET

Paul Currie – TEET

TEET makes a welcome return after its 2021 debut (during the weird quiet post-Covid Fringe). 

Broken Planet: The Absurd Cabaret of Apocalyptic Proportions

Broken Planet: The Absurd Cabaret of Apocalyptic Proportions

A subversive live experience developed by artists from around the globe. 

Riki Lindhome: Dead Inside

Riki Lindhome: Dead Inside

After touring the world and making a hit TV show as part of musical comedy duo Garfunkel and Oates, Emmy-nominated actress, comedian, songwriter (and new mom) Riki Lindhome explore… 

We Forgive You, Patina Pataznik

We Forgive You, Patina Pataznik

Jake and Liv deserve the world. 

Paddy Young: Hungry, Horny, Scared

Paddy Young: Hungry, Horny, Scared

He’s hungry. 

The Jam Society

The Jam Society

A wild and chaotic alternative extravaganza fresh from Amsterdam’s theatres, featuring a dazzling parade of hilariously smart, silly and sexy international variety acts. 

Karen's Diner on Tour

Karen's Diner on Tour

At our pop-up you will be greeted and waited upon by rude waiters who in return are expecting you to give it full Karen. 

Rozarina Larsen Presents: Whitefishing

Rozarina Larsen Presents: Whitefishing

Rozarina Larsen presents: White Fishing – a work-in-progress comedy about finding your authenticity. 

Garry Starr: Greece Lightning

Garry Starr: Greece Lightning

Winner of four Fringe Awards in 2022 An overzealous idiot performs all of Greek mythology in order to save his Hellenic homeland from economic ruin. 

Breaking News!

Breaking News!

Prepare for an extraordinary show as Haus of Gallus combines impeccable journalism with cutting-edge production techniques. 

Mark Watson's Churchfest

Mark Watson's Churchfest

Mark Watson performs in, and curates, a day of unusual old-school Fringe activities. Full listings at ImpatientProductionsUK.com from June 1st. 

50 – End of the Road?

50 – End of the Road?

Steve Jackson – ‘guts and sincerity’ **** (Scotsman) – is returning to Surgeon’s Hall with a new show. 

BattleActs!

BattleActs!

BattleActs! is an award-winning, five-star, late-night improvised comedy show that has been tickling Fringe audiences’ funny bones for more than a decade! Featuring an all-star cas… 

It's Christmas Time

It's Christmas Time

Ho ho ho ho! Come celebrate that special time of the year with Santa (Ray Badran) and his Elf (Josh Glanc). 

Mudfish and Friends: Half Past Midnight

Mudfish and Friends: Half Past Midnight

Character comedy sketch duo Mudfish host their friends in this wild show featuring their favourite sketch, stand-up and short films. 

Live (Nude) Girls

Live (Nude) Girls

Catherine McCafferty (Crush on Hulu) and Ellory Smith (3x Emmy Nominated) will perform at Edinburgh’s Free Fringe crafting two separate, equally bizarre, half hours of comedy. 

Richard Duffy is Asleep: A Retrospective

Richard Duffy is Asleep: A Retrospective

We spend one third of our lives asleep. 

Zoë Padley / The Wrong Numba: THE WRöNG PLANET..!?

Zoë Padley / The Wrong Numba: THE WRöNG PLANET..!?

You’ve been specially selected to join the journey of re-civilisation where we can escape the multi-torture of earth and join together in a new imagining of how life may be in our … 

Amrita Dhaliwal: A Lady that Fikas

Amrita Dhaliwal: A Lady that Fikas

Want to Fika? The end is nigh darlings, and The Lady is ready to play. 

April Small: Bloody Medea!!

April Small: Bloody Medea!!

Actress, dancer, singer, rebel. 

Leo Mohr: The Bilboquet Theory

Leo Mohr: The Bilboquet Theory

His secret to happiness and felicity. 

Vibe Shift

Vibe Shift

Vibe Shift is a late-night alternative comedy night. 

Heavy Para

Heavy Para

Holy-moly! Up-and-coming Glaswegian comedian Stuart Nixon brings you an hour of fun storytelling. He was on the telly! 

Cabaret Impedimenta

Cabaret Impedimenta

An impossible variety show created by John-Luke Roberts. 

Mr Chonkers Presents: Piggy Time

Mr Chonkers Presents: Piggy Time

An unhinged variety show all the way from Los Angeles. 

Big Cuck, Little Cuck

Big Cuck, Little Cuck

Making their Edinburgh debut, Leeds based stand-up weirdos Kyle Bedder (tall, thin, unhinged) and Dan Powell (short, fat, depressed) present Big Cuck, Little Cuck: a 60-minute expl… 

Bryony Byrne: A Clown Tries to Write a Play (WIP)

Bryony Byrne: A Clown Tries to Write a Play (WIP)

Bryony’s done with clowning. 

Park Bench

Park Bench

What if, for 40 minutes, we stop focusing on the humans that go places, and bring our attention to the place itself? The location, a bench, inside a park, inside a borough, inside … 

Comrie Sf: Ultramarine

Comrie Sf: Ultramarine

Plunge into the strange world and grotesque characters of self-help culture, augmented with clown-esque physicality and hectic tech. 

Big Smoke Comedy

Big Smoke Comedy

Big Smoke Comedy is stand-up comedy with a fully improvised finale and the only show of its kind. 

The Crisp Review: Live

The Crisp Review: Live

Comedian and crisp connoisseur Adam Evans presents The Crisp Review: Live, nominated for Best Theatre and Best Newcomer at the Greater Manchester Fringe 2022! The show documents th… 

Catfish the Cabaret

Catfish the Cabaret

Catfish The Cabaret is an alternative parody of Catfish: The TV Show. 

Childlike

Childlike

Straight out of college, antsy-yet-determined comedian Caitlin Jones navigates the audience on a tell-all nostalgia trip – the mishaps of teenage life, queer romance and self dis… 

The Paddock

The Paddock

It’s rapid-fire-alternative-mixed-bill night The Paddock! An assault on the senses with a colourful, eclectic showcase of some of the most innovative comedians at this year’s fes… 

Annabel Bashford: Clink Clank Clonkerty Clonk

Annabel Bashford: Clink Clank Clonkerty Clonk

Crime and punishment with jelly beans. 

Revolting Arts Club: Smutty Letters

Revolting Arts Club: Smutty Letters

‘I tore open your letter and licked the envelope’s seal for any lingering taste of you. 

Su Mi: Banana Beard

Su Mi: Banana Beard

Think it’s a solo stand-up show? Think again. 

Padley, Strauss and Woolf: Blue Peter (Bloop Eater?!)

Padley, Strauss and Woolf: Blue Peter (Bloop Eater?!)

Come and enjoy this surreal adventure where we might learn some things (?!) and discover who is Blue Peter. 

RODEO!

RODEO!

HOWDY! After a year of sell-out London shows the lawless late-night mixed-bill comedy show celebrates with a four-night Fringe run, featuring Paddy Young and a motley crew of outla… 

The Town Cryer

The Town Cryer

Brooke Finegold is masterful in her hour of live poetry, spoken word and stand up comedy. 

Method Vs Madness

Method Vs Madness

Conversational improvisation and carefully crafted comedic bits are intertwined in this mic-bump style, stand-up collaboration between Kyle Bedder and Emerson Young. 

The Edinburgh Fridge Show

The Edinburgh Fridge Show

Come and hear from SMEG, the most poetic fridge on the fringe! 45 minutes of character comedy, silly poems and the best props you’ll ever see in your life! What’s in the fridge? Ev… 

Phil Kay – Funny Walks

Phil Kay – Funny Walks

Phil Kay’s Funny Walks – the droll stroll. 

RODEO!

RODEO!

This is RODEO! After a year of sell-out London shows the lawless late-night mixed-bill comedy show celebrates with a four-night Fringe run, featuring Paddy Young and a motley crew … 

Bristleburg Town Hall

Bristleburg Town Hall

Residents of Bristleburg, USA: Meet at the bus to begin our exploratory Fringe Festival tour. 

Psychic Bev's Tarot Bonanza

Psychic Bev's Tarot Bonanza

Join Bristol’s biggest* (*read: only) satirical tarot card reader, down-to-earth Psychic Beverley, played, written and created by Anna Frances Hamilton. 

Do Not Resuscitate

Do Not Resuscitate

An unpredictable comedy showcase of the Fringe’s best alternative and experimental comedians. 

What're You Looking At!

What're You Looking At!

A show all about the tales of the disabled. 

The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS)

The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS)

A crucible in which we will forge comedy’s golden future and literal good gig, back for our 12th Fringe with yet more high-end foolishness, Permitted Heckles and a ludicrous, bount… 

Mark Dean Quinn: Is This Enough

Mark Dean Quinn: Is This Enough

Is this enough? ‘A fascinating, poignant and extremely entertaining study in deadpan tragicomedy’ (ExeuntMagazine.com). ‘Unlike anything else on the Fringe’ (TheReviewsHub.com). 

Wait!

Wait!

Theatre Haddangse has returned with Wait!, a heartwarming children’s play about a girl (Bada) creating a vibrant adventure of her own while she yearns for her fisherman dad to retu… 

Aardvark: Comedy Compilation Show

Aardvark: Comedy Compilation Show

A split-bill stand-up comedy show featuring a daily selection of the best up and coming comedians from Ireland and the UK. 

Anarchy Cabaret Presents: West End New Act of the Year Showcase 2023

Anarchy Cabaret Presents: West End New Act of the Year Showcase 2023

Featuring winners of London’s premier new-act comedy competition. 

Dave Bibby: Baby Dinosaur

Dave Bibby: Baby Dinosaur

Dave Bibby, ‘madcap musical-character-sketch comedy pioneer’ (BroadwayWorld. 

(o) (o)

(o) (o)

Lanessa Long (‘a winning energy’ (Chortle. 

Ruth Hunter: The Ruth is on Fire

Ruth Hunter: The Ruth is on Fire

Ruth Hunter (So You Think You’re Funny first runner-up, skin owner and Irish person) presents a new show of fun, spooky and very good stand-up comedy. 

A Retrospection

A Retrospection

Claire Woolner, LA-based absurdist comedian, blows hard on the edges of performance art and swims into surrealist clown. 

Comedy With a Dry Surreal Geordie Bloke Part Zwei

Comedy With a Dry Surreal Geordie Bloke Part Zwei

Sean Craig-Turner Not-So-New Comedian of the Year 2019 finalist. 

Trevor Lock: Share

Trevor Lock: Share

Residing somewhere between a conversation, a debate and group therapy with Salvador Dali, Share both transgresses and redefines normal social relationships, turning human interacti… 

Bedlam Late

Bedlam Late

Bedlam’s own alternative comedy night is back! See the most exciting acts from all over the Fringe in an old Gothic church-turned-theatre, featuring comedy, music and cabaret, with… 

Woah! These Guys are Funny

Woah! These Guys are Funny

When these two stud muffins met for the first time, they realised they had one mission: how do we get one audience member to say this was ‘good’ comedy. 

Dillis

Dillis

Brianna Ahlmark saves a horse in under four hours with a gun in her mouth. 

The Bag of Cats present: Nine Lives

The Bag of Cats present: Nine Lives

How do you act at work? How do you act at home? How do you act when everything goes wrong? Nine Lives is a long-form improvised comedy show exploring the different masks we all wea… 

Obie: Scottish Comedian Extraordinaire

Obie: Scottish Comedian Extraordinaire

The most Scottish comedian in history, John ‘Obie’ O’Brien, performing twice daily at the Fringe. 

Obie: Scottish Comedian Extraordinaire

Obie: Scottish Comedian Extraordinaire

The most Scottish comedian in history, John ‘Obie’ O’Brien, performing twice daily at the Fringe. 

Bad Play

Bad Play

Okay, let’s start at the beginning. 

Marc Burrows in the Glom of Nit

Marc Burrows in the Glom of Nit

Comedian, author, and journalist (New Statesman, Big Issue, Independent) Marc Burrows returns from the culture wars to ask ‘who am I?’ and ‘why is everything like this?’ An hour of… 

Becky Fury: Identity

Becky Fury: Identity

EdFest award winner presents a left-wing love letter to being queer-ish, mixed race-ish and British-ish. 

How to Eat a Bear

How to Eat a Bear

Mark and Dave set out to prove to the world that they are adults by doing the most obvious thing: killing and eating a bear. 

Beehavioural Problems: Something Something Autism

Beehavioural Problems: Something Something Autism

As comedian Stephen Catling ambles onto stage, clad in a novelty dog head, it's apparent that we're sitting in an absurdist comedy show. 

The GottaGo Room: An Escaping-a-Room Thingy

The GottaGo Room: An Escaping-a-Room Thingy

Escape rooms: everyone’s favourite activity to do when you’re going to a birthday party hosted by a virgin or when your company is forcing you to go under the threat of contract te… 

Paul Currie: Shtoom

Paul Currie: Shtoom

Brand-new, non-verbal immersive comedy show, created by award-winning Belfast comedian and clownarchist, Paul Currie. 

What're You Looking At!

What're You Looking At!

A show all about the tales of the disabled. 

The Midnight Show

The Midnight Show

‘Consistently boasting the most interesting line-ups in the country’ (Times). 

Shiitake Nights: Absurd Cabaret

Shiitake Nights: Absurd Cabaret

Glasgow’s collective of clowns, comedians and creatures of calamity come together to take you on their sell-out tour of pure imagination around the moon and back. 

Old Dog, New Tricks

Old Dog, New Tricks

50 years on the planet. 

Dan Lees: The Vinyl Countdown

Dan Lees: The Vinyl Countdown

Award-winning alternative comedian Dan Lees brings forgotten album covers back to life. 

An American Christmas with the BXG DXG

An American Christmas with the BXG DXG

Join the BXG DXG Mark Henely in this summertime holiday celebration. 

60 Minutes About Scotland

60 Minutes About Scotland

With Vladimir McTavish and friends. 

Liars & Clowns: A Late Night Comedy Show

Liars & Clowns: A Late Night Comedy Show

Liars & Clowns returns to Edinburgh to showcase the best alternative comedians from around the festival. 

Furiozo: Man Looking for Trouble

Furiozo: Man Looking for Trouble

A disturbing yet absurdly funny portrait of toxic masculinity. 

Vibe Shift

Vibe Shift

Vibe Shift is a late-night alternative comedy night. 

Martin bearne: Mixed Ability Actor

Martin bearne: Mixed Ability Actor

Sick of delivering one liners to disinterested pub-goers, Martin Bearne has broken free of the shackles of conventional comedy and is once again soaring on the wings of his first t… 

An Evening with Christopher Bliss

An Evening with Christopher Bliss

Join Shropshire’s worst novelist for an evening of dipping, chipping and sipping as he dips into his oeuvre of two-page novels, chips away at life’s big questions and sips hot … 

Eva Bindeman: Semi Killer

Eva Bindeman: Semi Killer

Eva Bindeman has made it to every comedy semi-final there is and absolutely no further. 

Reuben Solo: Palindrome

Reuben Solo: Palindrome

Winner: Adelaide Fringe 2023 Weekly Award – Best Comedy. 

#BigDerryEnergy with Peter E Davidson

#BigDerryEnergy with Peter E Davidson

Derry comedian Peter E Davidson returns for his fifth Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 

Coffee Kid

Coffee Kid

Meet Beanie: the love child of George Clooney and a Nespresso machine. 

Alex Franklin: I Must Reach the Summit, Please God I Must Reach the Summit

Alex Franklin: I Must Reach the Summit, Please God I Must Reach the Summit

‘I shall drag myself through the flames of hell; and from the ashes I shall be born anew. 

Phil Ellis's Excellent Comedy Show

Phil Ellis's Excellent Comedy Show

Phil Ellis. 

Comedy in the Dark

Comedy in the Dark

The sell-out, unique comedy experience returns. 

BATSU!

BATSU!

Long, long ago, in the Land of the Rising Sun, four Warriors used the power of laughter to capture Batsu no Akuma, the Spirit of Punishment, within a sacred gong. 

Alexis Dubus: 3-Star Show

Alexis Dubus: 3-Star Show

After 20 years on the circuit, Alexis Dubus, easily one of the comedians of his generation, is ready to deliver the greatest 3-star comedy experience ever staged. 

SalFUNNI's Laughterparty

SalFUNNI's Laughterparty

It’s time for a Laughterparty with students from the University of Salford! SalFUNNI is back with a brand-new line up of comedians for an hour of stand-up, sketch and shenanigans! … 

Sascha LO: Brat

Sascha LO: Brat

Notorious spoilt brat, Sascha LO, presents a very silly comedy show featuring 45 minutes of massive ego, self-entitlement and gen Z feminism. 

Big Value Comedy Show

Big Value Comedy Show

Longest running mixed-bill, star-finding show on the Fringe. 

The Young-ish Offenders

The Young-ish Offenders

Two biys from Cork. 

Cheekykita: An Octopus, The Universe 'n' Stuff

Cheekykita: An Octopus, The Universe 'n' Stuff

Multi award-winning comedian Cheekykita’s one-woman, tour-de-force nonsense ride. 

Smart and Dumber

Smart and Dumber

Smart and Dumber is a spilt-bill of stand-up comedy performed by up-and-coming comedians Serena Smart and Lucas Jefcoate. 

Jacob Hatton: Touchdown!

Jacob Hatton: Touchdown!

The clock ticks towards zero. 

Braingystics: Sieze the Mind

Braingystics: Sieze the Mind

Warning: Reading this description is legally considered consent to rewire your brain! Most humans only use 10% of their brain! Who is using the other 90%?! We will teach you to reg… 

The Retreat

The Retreat

A campy variety show that mimics an overenthusiastic kick-off event for a corporate retreat for the fictional company Men-ses Period Panties. 

Oddity Comedy

Oddity Comedy

This is Oddity Comedy: A show so funny, even the name is fun to say! We are a comedy showcase featuring the best alternative acts on the UK circuit. 

Nightwatchman

Nightwatchman

Oi Oi! Nightwatchman is a 55-minute split-bill from Kit Loyd and Ollie West. 

Plans: A Traditional Commedia Dell’Arte

Plans: A Traditional Commedia Dell’Arte

A comparative analysis of rural barn schooling and suburban alternative education in early 21st-century England. For George and the Underbelly keg boys. #ActuallyPrettyDecent  

Biscuit Barrel: The 69-Sketch Show

Biscuit Barrel: The 69-Sketch Show

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

Ted Hill: Tries and Fails to Fix Climate Change

Ted Hill: Tries and Fails to Fix Climate Change

Oftentimes when you go to a stand-up show, a comedian will attempt or fix or comment on a problem in the world, at least by providing a series of observations that you can’t real… 

Johnny White Really-Really: Catland

Johnny White Really-Really: Catland

Once upon a time I was the best blurb writer in the business – really, I was a wonder! But as time weighed down on me and all my afternoons began to expand and contract, I starte… 

Rosco McClelland: Bring Out Your Dead

Rosco McClelland: Bring Out Your Dead

Glaswegian comedian and popular Twitch streamer Rosco McClelland enters clad in a denim biker vest and a spider’s web tattoo coning one elbow. 

Petting Zoo Comedy

Petting Zoo Comedy

Live comedy with live animals. 

Paddy Young: Hungry, Horny, Scared

Paddy Young: Hungry, Horny, Scared

He’s hungry. 

MUSIC

MUSIC

Dave is house band / receptionist at streaming service Stripefy, but he wants more: he dreams of going full-time on reception. 

Andrew O'Neill – Geburah

Andrew O'Neill – Geburah

Nonbinary whirlwind returns to the Fringe. 

Holly Spillar: Hole

Holly Spillar: Hole

Join comedian Holly Spillar in her muff-busting comedy on sex, pain and the brain. 

How to Flirt: The TED XXX Talk

How to Flirt: The TED XXX Talk

How to Flirt: The TED XXX Talk is a fun and interactive comedy lecture with a lot going for it. 

Tartan Tabletop in a Dungeons & Dragons Comedy: The Never-Ending Quest (Ends Aug 27th)

Tartan Tabletop in a Dungeons & Dragons Comedy: The Never-Ending Quest (Ends Aug 27th)

Tartan Tabletop: The Neverending Quest is not your average improv show. 

Goodbye Uncle Fudgey

Goodbye Uncle Fudgey

In this pathetic comedy about privilege Tom Greaves (BFI Award winner) presents a dark satire about the psychological trauma of his own “privileged” childhood. 

The Power of Yep

The Power of Yep

Through stories, advice and games Trip Carmichael and Dalton Goggles, two blue collar Americans, show you how to ‘Yep your way through life. 

Me, Myself and Mary (Queen of Scots)

Me, Myself and Mary (Queen of Scots)

From award-winning writer Raymond Friel, Me, Myself and Mary (Queen of Scots) is a one-woman play with a cast of thousands! Join citizen historian and proud Shetlander Mary Fraser … 

Nick Wilty: Veteran Comedian

Nick Wilty: Veteran Comedian

Globetrotting comedian Nick Wilty has been touring the world for over 30 years, playing festivals, comedy clubs and appearing on TV in every continent. 

iCON

iCON

The world is in crisis and so is Sian Clarke. 

Mark Pleases You

Mark Pleases You

For his entire life, performer Mark Vigeant did everything he possibly could to make everyone around him happy. 

Indoor Kids

Indoor Kids

Imagine two lonely children who have no one to talk to until the Winds of Fate make them next-door neighbours. 

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