The LGBTQ+ New Comedian of the Year Competition is back for 2025 featuring some of the most exciting emerging talent on the LGBTQ+ comedy scene.

Join us to watch & vote for your favourites and help us find the new LGBTQ+ New Comedian of the Year!

Guided by our amazing MC Sam Lake and with Kathleen Hughes headlining, our Edinburgh heat will be a lovely night of queer hilarity!

Connor Read - Endearing, Northern, Impish & Queer!

Christopher Hamilton - Mature and sexy - a man 20 years my senior

Katie Sheinman - Queer mum, fake northerner and competitive breastfeeder

Tasha Mott - Dark jokes and even darker makeup

Zoe Harding - Transgender comedian who mainly talks about crabs and/or Godzilla

Kat Powell - I will spill pearls on the stage to win this.

Pheebs Stephenson - Great energy on stage, likeable & quirky Stand Comedy Club, Edinburgh

Euan Murphy - Tall autistic bisexual freak of nature

Adam McLeod - A guy this weird looking has gotta be hilarious

Cil Rae Minogue - Drag queen with delusions of grandeur and performance anxiety

Nicholas Elliott - He's a formerly fashionable, ethnically ambigous Scottish Chinese gay fool

Phoebe LaReine - She's classy and witty, the hostest with the mostest

Thank you for purchasing your tickets - you do not need to bring printed versions.

Please note doors open at 6.15pm

Showtime start is 7pm

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