Join Cotswold comedian Cerys Nelmes on her return to the Fringe with her brand-new show! She brings a jam-packed hour full of fun, games, music, and prize giveaways plus a meat/vegan raffle! Featuring classic games from Bullseye, The Price is Right, Name That Tune, 321, The Generation Game, Play Your Cards Right and other 80s favourites! With a real cult comedy feel, it’s all glued together by our house band Stinky Bunting, plus guest comedians dropping by! Come along and reminisce about the golden TV shows we all know and loved!
An evolution of his successful 2018 Edinburgh Fringe and Perth Australia Fringe World show Twisted, Aaron Ayjay continues to take you down the dark and twisted road of musical comedy in Even More Twisted, with his not-so-trusted six-string, Lola, taking on topics such as relationships, the government, postmen, sailors, urban legends, pets that hump your leg and whatever else…
After the success of his debut hour, political comedian Don Biswas returns to the festival with a brand-new WIP show: Left-Wing Conspiracy Theorist with Dyspraxia 2. With fire in his belly, jaded and left-wing dyspraxic Don lets loose a tirade of funny…
Was Liam Neeson, the star of Taken, mistaken to say what he said? Is he racist? Was he racist? What is racist? Does any of this matter? After painstaking research on Facebook Anthony Ayton has the definitive answer…
This is a quick-fire compilation show featuring the rising stars of comedy each doing five minutes.
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.
A mixed bill show with hand-picked top comics. Each night has a different topical theme with a medal going for the nights best joke! Goddamn Loch Ness Monsta!
A brutally honest show about growing up in the Balkans, then somehow moving to Malta, and finally ending up in London to become a pizza boy. A re-examination of his own life, Vlad’s energetic pace combined with his need to overshare will take us on an extraordinary journey, from his country’s communist past to that time he was still a virgin…
In 2012 I wrote a diary on a deck of playing cards, one for each week. Pick them out and I’ll tell stories spanning three continents about heartbreak, prison, fireworks – everything! The order’s up to you…
Steve’s dad died of Alzheimer’s. There’s nothing he can do about it except remember him the way he was. Steve has also been deaf since his teens but has new hearing aids so now he’s gone through all the music of his youth…
Famous adventurer and posh idiot Jasper Cromwell Jones (played by award-winning comedian Joe Bor) presents an Alternative Book Festival with other weird and wonderful authors. In 2016, Jasper reached the final of English Comedian of The Year, as well as winning the title of Old Comedian of The Year at Leicester Square…
Returning for its second year, Henry Ginsberg (FHM Stand-Up Hero, Reading Festival New Act of the Year) presents a possibly anarchic, probably slightly depraved and almost certainly alcohol-fuelled showcase of the best stand-up comedy from this year’s Fringe…
Award-winning comedian Joe Bor retells the story of the friendship between his grandad (world-renowned town planner Walter Bor) and his grandad\'s best friend (world-renowned comedy actor Herbert Lom) and their journey from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to the UK.
What is love? An unknown quantity, a mesmerising spiritual gift or a song by Haddaway? Love guru Dr Lara Love heals our loveless society in one enlightening hour. ‘Brilliant, unique and boundary bending comedy’ (TalkFringe…
Fun, charming and playfully dirty, Australian comedian Jez Watts has performed with/supported Ari Shaffir, Brian Posehn, Duncan Trussell and The Dollop. This is his new stand-up hour for 2019…
Funny Women finalist, Broadchurch actor and Most Promising Junior 1998* Becky, accidentally got gay married and now the biological clock is ticking. She brings her new ‘nigh-octane’ show to reckon with that early potential and ask: err what now? The world is her cockle…
See the very best comedians at the Fringe, alongside some of the UK’s best comedy newcomers, at this top-rated comedy selection show. With a different line-up every night, and a sell-out show at Fringes 2004-2018…
The cream of the crop from the University of Salford showcasing the future faces of British comedy. From the UK University with the longest running full-time comedy degree. With special appearances from students from our partner college in Canada, Humber College, Toronto…
Growing up, I was too brown for white kids and the wrong kind of brown for brown kids. That’s when I first questioned my identity. ‘A wonderful show! Very funny and also quite moving…
This is an hour of stand-up comedy from seasoned Canadian comedian, Evan Desmarais. Highbrow dick jokes with heart from a balding man in a backward cap. ‘One of the funniest, quick-witted and confident comedians’ (TheAdelaidian…
‘Edgy and very funny’ (Cheeky Monkey Comedy Club). ‘A buzzy fluffball of comedy unafraid to take risks, a cute puppy with a surprising snarl’ (MumbleComedy.net). As seen on BBC iPlayer…
Henry Ginsberg didn’t lose his virginity, or have any romantic experiences to speak of at all until his late 20s. Now he’s making up for lost time. Having been pigeonholed as a dark and cynical comic for many years, he’s now on a mission to reveal himself as the passionate romanticist he’s always felt himself to be…
Croydon’s sixth leading conspiracy theorist attempts to debunk the big myths: JFK, Twin Towers, why British Bake Off went to Channel 4. Plus fake news, media lies and why his girlfriend dumped him in 2007!
Irish Comedy Invasion – Gary Lynch tours all over Europe with The Good The Bad and The Irish. ‘Brilliant’ (BroadwayBaby.com). Josephine McCaffrey’s life has taken her from Leitrim to Dublin via Devon…
Pottervision! The Harry Potter Parody show returns with a brand-new hour! Join us, four full grown men, as we celebrate and re-create the absurd scenes of those magical movies. This year setting our sights on the second of the films…
When a seemingly innocent career retrospective interview with maverick film-director Electric Frog brings up controversies he’d rather leave buried, proceedings take a distinctly bizarre and hysterically unexpected turn…
After her hit show Happy in 2018 (‘Wilkinson’s relatable, down-to-earth humour leaves us in stitches’ **** (ThisIsRadelaide.com.au)), Wilkinson (Finalist: SYTYF and New Act of the Year, 2013) is back with an outrageously fun stand-up show…
Andy Quirk presents his pick of the finest Fringe comedians performing ten-minute tasters of their full-length shows. Expect a titanic mix of stand-up, sketch and musical comedy. You’ll be “Poseid” yourself with the “trident-tested” material!
Before I begin this review, I would like to clarify, as James Beagon (co-director and actor) did at the start of the show, that Aulos Productions’ Shakespeare Catalysts is a work in progress...
Jacob Lovick and Tyler Harding (Edinburgh Fringe LST Sketch-Off Finalists, 2017) are at it again! Last night at the Fringe Espionage venue this double act – otherwise known as LoveHard – delivered yet another highly entertaining show proving their ability and cementing their reputation as, not only fantastic writers but also, incredibly versatile and compelling actors...
Do you not fit into a box? Olivia (Big O) knows all too well about not fitting in: when kimchi, AKA fire-breathing garlic dragon breath, is your culture’s most famous export, how are you ever going to lead a normal life in the land of burgers, French fries, and ketchup? But as an acupuncturist, who fixes people for a living, why can’t she fix herself? In this hilarious comedy hour, Big O entertains with her Korean-American observations...
William Stone – 'belting gags!' (Angela Barnes) – and Simone Belshaw – 'brilliantly offbeat' (FunnyWomen.com) – are just two pals trying to make sense of life and its many facets...
These two friends are the comedy duo Pies and Haggis and together they'll take you on a comedy journey that is full of truth, confessions and a hilarious voyage that'll make you question your existence and want to phone a best friend...
Njambi McGrath, star of the BBC World Service's International New Year Comedy Celebration and author, will be showcasing the best comedy talent.
Award-winning Angel Comedy (Best Club in UK 2015, 2017, 2018 – Chortle Awards) brings a showcase to Edinburgh for the first time. Award-winning comedians and the best new acts, for free! Time Out recommended, a comedy institution and top comedy club in London on TripAdvisor!
Whose party is this? Anthony Ayton is a way better conversationalist when Jack Daniels is involved. Let's chat in the kitchen and pray the DJ/Lord of anti-music goes home. 'Bloody Funny' (Angela Barnes).
Come laugh, marvel and cry at the best bits, from the best comedian, you’ve never heard of. 'How the f*ck is Markus Birdman not famous?' (Paul Sinha). Amused Moose Award nominee – Best Show, Edinburgh Fringe ‘15...
Henry Ginsberg presents a possibly anarchic, probably slightly depraved and almost certainly alcohol-fuelled showcase of the best stand up comedy at this year's fringe. Hopefully, everybody makes it out alive!
Sunjai Arif and Nathan Eagle are Stranger Friends. Come on a journey to the Upside Down as Sunjai (Bath Comedy Festival New Act of the Year 2017) and Nathan (Portsmouth Comedian of the Year 2018) share their memories of nostalgic pop culture in a way only the two of them could imagine...
See this award-nominated (best comedy Buxton Fringe 2017) Australian (now lives in Bedfordshire…gutted) who played to full houses throughout Fringe 2017. See the man who writes for Channel 4’s award-winning show The Last Leg (not the leg jokes)...
Say it Ain’t Show is a brand-new show from Evan Desmarais about trying to adult while still being a child on the inside. It touches on expectations, passion and being okay with being overcome...
Come and join us for a wunderbar time at Cosmic Comedy Berlin. Laugh your lederhosen off at a wide range of topics by some of the best comics from the Berlin English comedy scene. They will be sharing humorous stories of living, working and partying in one of the most popular cities in the world...
They say 'don't cry over spilt milk'. Comedian Bronston Jones jokes about his life's little problems... and some big ones too! 'Certifiably unique' (LA Weekly). 'Very entertaining' (BroadwayBaby...
Sam (Australia) was nominated for Best Comedy at Fringe World 2016. Now enjoy this hilariously silly mock talk show inside his mind. 'Unceasingly funny' ****1/2 (TulpaMagazine.com)...
Laughing Horse NATY winner Donal Vaughan and fellow Irishman Pat McDonagh are here to make you laugh. And that's it. If you want to see a show about a middle class, white guy talk about the struggles of being gluten intolerant, we're not the show for you...
UK rising comedy star Nicky Wilkinson returns to Edinburgh debut with her hotly anticipated new show, Happy: a fun-packed hour of stand-up, pies and party games. \'Effortless likeability and excellent comic timing\' (Chortle...
See the very best comedians from across the Fringe, alongside hot new talent and Fringe newcomers from around the UK, with a different comedy line-up at each show, every day. Line-ups include performers selected from Fringe shows and the international comedy circuit, with guests from the best in new talent appearing at the Fringe...
We live in an increasingly mixed world when it comes to race, sexuality, gender and families. After realising that when it comes to dating, Mickey has a definitive bias towards white women, it was time to take a deeper look into whether it was nature or nurture...
Aussie globetrotting comedian-storyteller Frank Hadchiti and Italian surrealist entertainer Fico Fellini met one damp autumn night at a West Berlin comedy open mic night. The following three years brought a deepening friendship and a lasting collaboration, resulting in their Vagabonds of Comedy, a mayhem variety show in which these two wanderers of international stages introduce a selection of two to three acts (from stand-up to burlesque), different each night, from the best that Edinburgh has to offer...
Multi award-winning Welsh comedian, Jenny Collier, is back and gooder than ever. 'Brilliant... Infectious to watch and a joy to behold **** (VoiceMag.uk). 'Unlike any other comedian' ***** (EdfestMag...
After his last stretch in the slammer, Tony Corleone has become a sit-down comedian. Don't worry about nothing. Tony’s gonna explain everything. Brexit, Trump, terrorism, gays, #MeToo, and how to talk American...
North-East-born preacher comic Chris McGlade returns to the Fringe following his 2017 critically acclaimed show Infant Hercules. This brand new no-holds-barred show looks at how the south of England is prejudiced towards the rest of the country as McGlade hilariously rips the guts out of political correctness and the status quo...
Nominated for Best Comedy at Fringe World 2016 and sold out all 23 Edinburgh shows in 2016 and 2017. Sam (Australia) has been crushing stand-up globally and this new show is even better than last year's...
Scottish Comedian of the Year, Leo Kearse returns with the follow up to I Can Make You Tory. Poking fun at liberal sanctimony and hypocrisy, Leo takes on millennials, #metoo, environmentalists and Jeremy Corbyn, showing why socialists are selfish and Trump is great...
Comedy Boxing triumphantly returns to Edinburgh now with different competitors each show! Comedians will compete over four hilarious rounds of stand-up, improvisation, heckling and boxing...
The Potter parody show that celebrates and highlights the absurdities of those magical movies. Join us, four full-grown men pretending to be 12-year-old children, as we re-enact, recreate and celebrate the Philosopher's Stone...
Rosie Holt is not for everyone. 'If that was my daughter I'd be ashamed' (Rosie's mum's mate). 'Don't talk about me on stage' (Rosie's Ex). But those people are idiots. The best people like it Holt...
From the age of sieges and chivalry comes a show about medieval love, adrenaline junkies and an insane quest for glory. Join comedian and archaeologist Paul Duncan McGarrity as he explains how modern life could be so much better if we all take a moment and learn how to attack a castle...
Steve's dad has Alzheimers. There's nothing he can do about it except remember the way he was. Steve has also been deaf since his teens but has new hearing aids so now he's gone through all the music of his youth...
This is the fourth year of We're Sorry. Showcasing Canadian talent performing or visiting the Fringe; you never know who is going to swing through. So fill your belly with poutine and bring a hockey stick for this fun show of Canuck comedians...
Get your afternoon off to the perfect start with Revill's Selection. Join host Paul Revill (Bath Comedy Festival New Act of the Year 2014) for a frisky, fun and irreverent hour of stand-up comedy...
Andy Quirk presents his pick of the finest Fringe comedians performing ten-minute tasters of their full-length shows. Expect a titanic mix of stand-up, sketch and musical comedy. Good clean fun – you’ll be "Poseid" yourself with the "trident-tested" material!
Enjoy an hour of the best up-and-coming one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay. Audience members are encouraged on stage to tell their favourite gags in a joke-off competition, all held together by your host, Masai Graham (UK Pun Champion 2016).
The debut season of a revolving line-up of the best established and up-and-coming female comedians from around the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. An early evening show for all comedy fans...
Following more sell-out shows at festivals and theatres worldwide, this hit show returns with a changing line-up of various comedians with hilarious material based on sex and relationships! 'Excellent' ***** (Audience review from EdFringe...
The Fresh Prince of the comedy is a master of the crowd and slave to the laugh. Kyle Legacy is hilarious and so original. If you came to laugh hard, Kyle is at your service. With huge success in 2017 touring his comedy across AUS, UK, USA and Canada, strap in for an hour of non-stop hilarity...
For the love of God, will somebody stop this man before he does himself or someone else an injury? 'A new comedy original' ***** (Herald).
This chat show is the perfect way to start your Fringe day, as you spend an hour in the company of one of the finest stand-ups on the Scottish comedy circuit. Visit this late-afternoon soiree which brings you the very best in chat and stand-up comedy from three of the Fringe's best performers, selected from venues all around Edinburgh by its top-notch Scottish comedy host...
The cream of the crop from the University of Salford showcasing the future faces of British comedy. From the UK university with the longest running full-time comedy degree. Stand-up, sketch and more!
Following more sell-out shows at festivals and theatres worldwide, this hit show returns with a changing line-up of various comedians with hilarious material based on sex and relationships! 'Excellent' ***** (Audience review from EdFringe...
East London's premier rapper of first-world problems, Andy Quirk, and his backup dancer, Anna J, invite you to join their crew for fist-pumping therapy tackling the inconsequential irks of modern living...
If you like profanity, women and very catchy tunes then Meat Market is for you. Best friends who've been outraging people since they met; Becki and Zube from Meat Market always draw a crowd...
Looking past the sweltering hot and humid room that the Laugh Train Comedy Showcase takes place in, this show is enjoyable enough for a night out. It’s hard to distinguish it from any other comedy showcase show but like most it can be fun at times when you’re enjoying the performer on stage or annoying when a performer goes on for a bit about what it’s like to date in 2017 and you feel like you’ve heard that joke once a day since the Fringe started...
The three stars of Israeli comedy: Shahar Hason, David Kilimnick and Yohay Sponder. A rabbi, a loving Yemenite and a self-loving Jew walk onto the stage. Want to see how the joke ends? Come to see us...
Geraldyne are a team of improvisers that grew up mishearing song lyrics. We’ve practiced a lot and think we’ve finally got the act of hearing stuff down… Every show we invite a guest musician to perform live on stage...
Congratulations! You have been selected to work for Zinus Family Inc Ltd LLP. On this first induction day we will equip you with all the tools necessary to become an invaluable member of our company...
Fear not, this is a show for more than just the conspiracy theorists out there. Armed with a pun in the title and a range of tones to please all audiences, Archie Maddocks has put together an enjoyable collection of anecdotes for his Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut; it just needs a bit more polish to really shine...
Join Aaron Ayjay as he takes a comedic and sometimes musical journey through dating, marriage, divorce, death and other life experience stuff from his point of view...
Award-winning Angel Comedy (Best Club in UK 2015, 2017 Chortle Awards) brings a showcase to Edinburgh for the first time. Award-winning comedians and the best new acts, free! Time Out recommended, and Top 10 on TripAdvisor!
John Scott Delusions. The world has gone mad. So has John on occasion. Misdiagnosed with schizophrenia, aged 24. But then he got better… Well, turns out he was actually bipolar, which is a bit trendier...
See the very best comedians at the Fringe, alongside some of the UK's hottest new talent and Edinburgh Fringe newcomers, at this top-rated comedy selection show. Back for its 14th year in Edinburgh! There's a different line-up every night, with guests from all around the Fringe...
Everybody has a dirty little secret. Whether yours is a metaphorical skeleton in the closet or a full-on body in the basement, this is the place for you to spill the tea anonymously in an evening of music, comedy, glitter and unrestrained campery...
'Naked is a little gem of a show' (ThePlusOnes.com/Melbourne). 'Stripping herself back and becoming vulnerable, this heartfelt comedian has nothing to hide as she is beautifully funny – a truly lovely human being...
Join the Comic Sans of Drag, Kate Butch, for an hour of comedy, songs and games. Catch 'a great comedian' (WhatsOnStage.com) in her debut solo show, fresh(ish) from appearing in the cult Edinburgh smash, The Room: The Musical, discussing pornography, marriage, and dot-to-dot puzzles...
Present and Correct are back once again for another hilarious run at the Edinburgh Fringe! We return with an all-new show packed full of this year’s latest and greatest sketches which are guaranteed to keep you laughing! We all know it wouldn’t be the Fringe without our side-splittingly funny performance to start your morning right, so head on down to Vic St Coffee Co.
In a world on the edge of breakdown, words start to crumble. Whip-smart character comedy from Charlotte Gittins, star of Fringe hits Austentatious – ***** (Times) – and Folie à Deux – ***** (BroadwayBaby...
Some people are life's heroes: leading men and women full of swash, buckle and daring-do. Others just hold their jackets. As the credits roll and the heroes hump, join Ben off-camera as he salutes the Barney Rubbles, Boo-Boos and Dr Watsons of the world...
With over 10 million video views online, internet sensation Rodney delivers a one-hour extravaganza filled with silly one-liners, magic, props and music. Fun for all the family!
For the third year, American atheist Bronston Jones sees the state of his nation and mutters 'God Bless 'Merica... because it'll take a miracle to fix it.' Show changes with the news.
Join the funniest acts in Edinburgh as they share classic jokes handed down to them by their family. Chickens, mothers-in-law, doctors, elephants, Englishmen, Irishmen, Scotsmen (and other nationalities) all welcome to walk into this bar...
To mark its 10th Anniversary, the worldwide hit show puts on an extra afternoon special. A changing line-up of comedians talking about relationships and sex in the afternoon! What more could you want from a daytime show? ‘A tour de force of laughter filled mischievous comedy’ ***** (ArtsinLeicestershire...
Aussie wit vs British banter. Two comedians compete over four hilarious rounds. Stand-up, crowd heckling, improvisation, roasting and actual boxing. With sold out shows internationally and across Australia, the long awaited rematch is here and it's fun on steroids...
The Townie Tavern is like any regular suburban pub, except in this place regulars include a New Age traveller, an old skool raver and a disgraced ex-Met Police chief. With each of them trying to work out their raison d'être, it makes for an interesting night in the saloon bar...
Mickey feels he wasted his 20s and now wants to live all the things he missed out on: sex, drugs, being a stepdad, etc...
Enjoy an hour of the best up-and-coming one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay. Audience members are encouraged on stage to tell their favourite gags in a joke-off competition, all held together by your host Masai Graham (UK Pun Champion 2016).
The Nan Tapes. A double act. 'Undiscovered genius' (Guardian). 'Fully deserves his underground reputation as the comedian's comedian' (ThreeWeeks).
Quirky, honest, dark and irreverent humour from this critically acclaimed Australian stand-up and writer (The Last Leg) forced by love and money to live in suburban UK where he can’t escape the clutches of marriage, children and monthly payments to the man...
You are guaranteed to have a laugh at this brand-new stand-up comedy show. Featuring three mad lads from the west of Ireland. Come along and enjoy as these comedians each express their unique and hilarious views on the world, life and everything in-between...
'The comedy surprise discovery of this Fringe' **** (AdelaideNow.com.au). Award-winning Singaporean comedian Jinx Yeo (first Runner-Up, Hong Kong International Comedy Festival) presents his all-new 2017 stand-up comedy show...
On the Edge: five acts, five friends, five different backgrounds and five ways to have you in hysterics. We’ve got women, we’ve got men, we've got a mum, we've got a dad, an uncle, a posh one, a cockney one and one that we can’t even stereotype...
The Potter parody show that celebrates and highlights the absurdities of those magical movies. Join us, four full-grown men pretending to be 12-year-old children, as we re-enact and recreate scenes from the first Potter film...
Ray Fordyce is back to host another afternoon feast of comedy and entertainment. Featuring three or more acts each day, this is a must for every Fringe visitor.
Following the success of last year's show, Jenny is returning with a brand-new hour of stand-up comedy. ‘Hilarious’ ***** (EdFestMag.com). ‘Brilliant... Everyone leaves wishing they were her friend’ **** (ArtsAwardVoice...
Inbetweeners star Lily Lovett brings you celebrity impressions and sketches with music and audience interaction to create her fast-paced, high-energy, hilarious debut show! Come and help Kim K choose which nudes to send Kanye; Cheryl's looking for a new PA, want to have an interview with our Chez for the role? Lily has been in numerous TV shows and films including The Inbetweeners, Harry Potter, Silent Witness and Cuffs...
One dimwit comedian's every dumb decision presented in list form. Fifty great mistakes guaranteed. A new stand-up and sketch show by Melbourne-born, London-based comedian. As heard on BBC Radio 4, NTS's Mix-Tape and Glastonbury backstage radio...
Comedians losing their heads and performing with no bodies! This sell-out show returns for a second year with more of the best comedians from the Fringe... all delivering comedy from their floating heads...
The hugely popular show at comedy festivals and theatres worldwide returns for its 10th anniversary year. A changing line-up of the best comedians from around the fringe converge to regale you with hilarious tales and jokes about that most noble of all pastimes – shagging...
Start your evening with Matt Duwell and Victor Patrascan as they bring the finest selection of alternative and off the wall comedy from across the Fringe that doesn't play by the rules...
A rotating showcase of some of the best Canadian Comedians at the Fringe! All in celebration of Canada's 150th Birthday!
Following a hugely successful double header show last year, Irish Andrew is back in the same venue for more drunken tales and shenanigans. If you miss this you’ll have a lot of regrets… Don’t go wandering through life thinking 'what if'...
It's pretty hard to top the most controversial figure in modern political history but American-born, British-based comic McElroy has stacked the deck. He’s got all the alternative truth, the fakest news and is gonna make the Fringe great again...
The UK-based comedian returns with new and hilarious anecdotes and jokes from his many comedy journeys around the world. 'Fast and funny... The audience loved it... Sweetly, wildly hilarious' **** (Rip It Up, Adelaide Fringe)...
Get your afternoon off to the perfect start with Revill’s Selection. Join host Paul Revill (Bath Comedy Festival New Act of the Year 2014) for a frisky, fun and irreverent hour of stand-up comedy...
Tai the Comedybawse lives in a real life rap video, but is it OK for gangsters to have mid-life crises? Trans-Gangster is a comedic journey through urban wit, music, and one-liners...
Award-winning comedian Sarah Callaghan, fresh from two hugely successful shows and tours of Australia, returns with a show inspired by an incredibly lucky escape, forcing her to re-evaluate everything – life, loneliness and fat charges for sky dives...
Andy Stedman: 9 Months and Counting is a gentle burble through the perils of impending fatherhood, combining musical comedy with sustained audience interaction.Stedman’s concerns about becoming a father meander from worries about the birth to which parent his child will love more...
In a world where it’s possible to trade time off your life to change your body into society’s definition of perfection, how much time would you spare? 5 Years is a very eye opening portrayal of how much the media industry dictates the way we should feel about our appearance...
Rondo comedy show Head Sets features a rotating line up daily, so you cannot be certain of what to expect. All performers stick their heads through a cut-out hole in a black plastic wall to give off the impression of levitation, as well as rely upon only their noggin for comedy...
Leo Kearse, in his guise as Pun-Man, has a simple mission: to save the world of comedy from banal observational stand-up and self-righteous, long-winded anecdotes. In this, the current UK Pun Champion is a qualified success, delivering an hour of dizzying highs mixed with a few nauseating lows...
Poignant, inventive and razor sharp describes Archie Maddocks’ debut show at the Fringe. Shirts vs Skins, explores the conflict of being mixed race and the pressure of choosing a side...
Njambi McGrath’s 1 Last Dance With My Father sells itself as a dark comedy telling the story of her Kenyan upbringing and her violent relationship with her father. However the central story of the father-daughter relationship only really comes into its own in the final fifteen minutes, winding up a set that is primarily a collection of stand-alone jokes...
Tired of all of the Pick of the Fringe shows? Worn out by Fringe hyperbole? This lunchtime showcase has all the great comedians who've had bad reviews and deserve much more! The best shit show in town! Every year fantastic comedians get bad reviews for their shows, crazy reviewers from the gardening section of House and Home and Badgers and Jam Monthly become comedy critics for the month, trying to outdo each other with acidic reviews and ignoring what matters: laughs! Now the great one-star shows get a chance to bite back! **** (BroadwayBaby...
A show about growing up in the deepest darkest parts of India (Southall) and then being thrown into the west with no language, culture, personality or brains.
See the very best comedians from across the Fringe, alongside hot new talent and Fringe newcomers, with a different comedy line-up at each show, every day, as Laughing Horse's Comedy Selection returns to Edinburgh for its 13th year...
BattleActs! is an award-winning, multi five-star comedy show that has performed to rave reviews around the country. The show sees two teams of fearless improvisers pitched against each other by a ball-busting compere...
Nothing will remain sacred when the ‘bombastically liberal’ Rick Molland (ThreeWeeks) meets the ‘shamelessly shocking’ Sully O'Sullivan (Australian Times) in this stand-up comedy face-off on Freedom of Speech, where low blows aren't just legal, they're encouraged...
Aussie wit vs British banter. Two comedians compete over five hilarious rounds. Stand-up, crowd heckling, improvisation, roasting and actual boxing. It's fun on steroids.
Two underground Irish comedians, Aidan Killian and Andrew Gilmore, unite to allow their comedy demons to run amok on stage. Expect to be blown away with an hour of non-stop laughter that touches on all of life's challenging issues: money, power and handjobs...
All he had to do was drive to the gig, perform a stand up set, use appropriate language, and pick up a cheque. What could possibly go wrong? Multi award-winning Scottish Ghanaian stand-up tells the story of one night in the life of a stand-up comic...
The flourishing Amsterdam comedy scene comes to Edinburgh with a bang, a bash and a bootilicious bounce. This motley crew of born-again cloggies have roots in Egypt, Ireland, Italy, the UK, the US, Russia, Sudan, Belgium and Berlin...
Two world travelled Canadian comedians Dylan Gott and Evan Desmarais (JFL42, Comedy Network, MTV, iChannel, Canadian Comedy Awards) split a hilarious hour of stand-up comedy. **** (Torontoist...
Floss is a brand new shiny sketch show by Eleanor, Orlando and Dillon. Join these three Cambridge Footlights for a feel-good hour of dizzying highs and devastatingly crushing lows. You don't want to miss out! Previous praise for the performers: ‘Impeccably written and performed’ (Varsity)...
Get your afternoon off to the perfect start with Revill’s Selection. Join host Paul Revill (Bath Comedy Festival New Act of the Year 2014) for a frisky, fun and irreverent hour of stand-up comedy...
Following sell-out shows in Adelaide, Melbourne, Darwin, Singapore, Germany and all over the UK, the hugely popular and hilarious show returns for its ninth successive year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe...
Hilarity Bites Comedy Club present their Pick of the Fringe, following full houses from 2013-2015. Each show will feature four great acts from the comedy circuit, presented by one of our regular MCs...
Enjoy an hour of the best up and coming one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay. Audience members are encouraged on stage to tell their favourite gags in a joke-off competition, all held together by your host Masai Graham (UK Pun Champion 2016).
I say, I say, I say... See the best acts in Edinburgh breathe new life into classic joke formats. Never mind why the chicken crossed the road, we find out how and where. Discover the definitive answers behind the number of people to change a lightbulb, what to do with errant mothers-in-law and why three representatives of the British Isles are always getting into such unexpected scrapes...
Award-winning comic Dave Chawner takes a sensitive, funny and thought-provoking look at eating disorders, mental health and identity. ‘Makes you think as well as laugh’ (BroadwayBaby...
Living in the trendy part of town, Tamar has become uncharacteristically nervous about leaving the house. She is convinced there must be more to life than dodging hipsters, envying gym girls and keeping body hair under control...
A stand-up comedy show in which John promises to rip up the room for the full hour, or you can leave throughout. 'Among the top five comedians in Scotland.' (Observer). 'Sensational' ***** (MumbleComedy...
Two years ago Matt spent six hours in a car with Hollywood star Harvey Keitel. Since then people keep asking Matt what Harvey’s like, and presumably the same thing has also been happening the other way around? So Matt started writing to him...
Hilarity Bites Management are one of the biggest comedy agencies in the North of England, looking after some of the biggest and brightest talent. See some of the best new acts working today, including the multi-award winning Sam Gore, the wonderfully warm Andy Fury, 2015 Beat the Frog World Series winner Rob Mulholland, and Bury raconteur Danny Deegan...
Papa CJ takes the audience through chapters of his life, with the idea of simultaneously removing metaphorical and physical layers, as he strips in front of us. Brought up in India with a working class background, he guides us through dark periods of his life, alongside lighter observational anecdotes...
From the dark depths of the mind to the mountain-peak pinnacles of youth, from familiar Edinburgh to fairytale Cambridge University: this teenage poet explores the strange and often unjust world around her and within her as she learns how to live and be...
Smokin' hot late night comedy session, featuring some of the finest acts doing the rounds at the Fringe, hosted by the Inflatable Colonel team: Adam Greene (television warm-up act for ITV's A Night with Olly Murs), Chris Joyce: 'funny act ...
We May Have To Choose is a one-person show performed by Emma Hall. The structure is refreshingly simple. For 45 minutes, she states 621 different opinions and declarations about the world around her...
Stephanie Tisdell is an up-and-coming comedienne, originally from Brisbane, Australia. In April 2014, she won the National Grand Final of the coveted Deadly Funny Competition, held at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, leaving her with the title of Funniest Aboriginal Comedian in Australia...
Wander around Edinburgh for any length of time and you will find that the Fringe has no shortage of shows with cringeworthy titles. Whilst this three-man stand-up show doesn’t quite fall into that category, its name baffles me...
Therapist Clara Milly has over 20 years’ worth of experiences on which to draw from the huge amount of people she has met and helped in her career.The idea of telling their stories is fascinating, but the show fails because of the way she chooses to do it...
Harry and Gary: Eldrich and Knightley. Like all good family members, they have some things in common. But, what happens when two 90s liberal teens recognise that it has all gone wrong? Do they become the symptom or the cause of the malaise? One skinny clean-cut homosexual, one angry bearded camp breeder, one hashtag, some guests and one post liberal deluge getting pulled apart, like the lie that love and peace was...
Late-night lunchtime show! Join The Euromen in their hangover cabaret from the night before. Magnus, Icelandic balladeer, and Andrzejek, Polish performance artist, will be celebrating the culture, traditions and spirit of Europe through music, poetry and tantric massage...
One-man musical comedy about a young man, Barry, who works in a cafe where he gets told off by his boss but has a real crush on his daughter, the waitress, Mary. Barry dreams of becoming a pop star but one day gets involved with a crime gang by mistake...
See the very best comedians from across the Fringe, alongside hot new talent and Fringe newcomers, with a different comedy line-up at each show, every day, as Laughing Horse's Comedy Selection returns to Edinburgh for its 12th year...
One morning Wyatt decided he didn't need to listen to voicemails anymore. Hiding procrastination under the veil of political sticking it to the system, it got a bit out of hand. A true tale of love, loss, and missed appointments...
Matthew Dames is a seasoned performer who migrated to Tasmania, Australia from Cambridge in 2011. His contemporary folk style is warm and sensitive, drawing influence from Passenger, Luka Bloom and Dougie MacLean...
Shut Your Cakehole. The intimate ramblings of Quinn Patrick, a council house kid who is now a man. More of an oddity than Odyssey! Meet some of the colourful characters he has met along the way...
Claus is still the funniest bagpipe comedian in Europe – and the only one. Request your favourite tune and see what the Dane delivers. Also suitable for non-piping fans. ‘Admirable flexibility and wit’ **** (ThreeWeeks)...
There's a real buzz of excitement as people are alerted to the talents of rising star Gary Meikle. Dubbed the People's Comedian, he's proving himself as the hottest new talent to come out of Scotland since Bridges...
Gaulier-trained clowns Jojo Calypso and Gorgee take you on a substantial but pleasant commute to the station of pure idiocy. Jojo is a cosmic taxidermist and who enjoys showing off his Siamese bananas...
Uncle Sam Wants You For U.S. Movies! Come and explore the lessons we learn at the movies and the influence these teachings hold over our personal lives and over our understanding of major current events...
A comedian came to Edinburgh from Japan, the country worst at speaking English! After miscommunication, cultural friction, struggle with an immigration officer, a disastrous first performance at a lap dancing club, aggressive flyering with poor English, and incomprehensible quarrels with drunken audiences, what did he find in Edinburgh? How did he get featured in a Times article? Did he see the light in the new world of English comedy? This is a solo documentary comedy show about the struggle anyone can have in their new challenge...
Your friend and mine, multi award-winning comedian Jack Gleadow presents four of the best acts on the Fringe for free! Featuring acts at the top of their game and the best new talent...
'Don't worry, Sean – it takes a career worth of Edinburgh shows to find your audience.’ ‘Well, that's gonna take too long.’ For Sean's second Edinburgh Fringe show he presents a decade of Edinburgh shows in one festival...
I’m writing this on deadline day, for Fox Sake. Ever cringed so hard you needed a physio? You’ll love this. **** (FringeGuru.com). ‘Drop what you're doing and go see her now’ (Skinny)...
So You Think You're Funny Finalist, BBC New Comedy Award finalist and The Piccadilly Comedy Club's New Comedian of 2015, Amir Khoshsokhan tells a love story about love, hedgehogs and milk...
After their successful debut last year, Dyer and Whitney are back with more of their unique, original and hilarious character comedy sketches and songs! This new duo sold out at Leicester Square Theatre 2014...
A radical adaptation of Mike Daisey's true story of what happens when we look beyond the beautiful surface of our beloved smart phones and uncover the bloody mess beneath... Expect searing black comedy, an exceptional musical score and gut wrenching truths that will stop you in your tracks...
Chris Savage wants to make a sexual world more cynical with limericks and a child's xylophone. Charlie Ralph wants to make a nonsensical world even stupider through made-up games and fake beards...
Musical Comedy Awards Best Newcomer, Faye Treacy went to the Brit School of Performing Arts with Adele and Jessie J, and then studied the trombone at The Royal Academy of Music with no one interesting...
Join Sarah Keyworth (Amused Moose Semi-Finalist) and Alex Hylton, (Macmillan Comedian of the Year Runner-up) as they take on love, sexuality and dating in this debut show. For two very different reasons, these two comics have been trying to meet women...
The worldwide hit show returns with a line-up of superb and varied comedians from all around the Fringe doing material based around the hilarious, cheeky subject of shagging. ‘A tour de force of laughter filled mischievous comedy’ ***** (ArtsInLeicestershire...
Comedians Jake Lambert (Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year nominee) and Dom Lister (Reading Comedy Festival New Act of the Year winner) want as many people as possible to know they exist...
After directing two sell-out Fringe runs with The Oxford Imps in 2013 and 2014, Dom O’Keefe presents the Fringe debut of his one-man character comedy show. Enjoy 30 little monologues, a video, a mime sequence and a PowerPoint presentation depicting the lives of a washed-up therapist and three of her patients...
The stars of Don’t Drop the Egg and Charity Case split an hour of stand-up comedy. Listen to them ramble on about their love loss and hair loss. You’ll laugh, cry or leave. They have been to the O2, Wembley and Madison Square Gardens and they enjoyed the comedy and thought why not have a go.
Let Michael Hill entertain you with his misadventures living in Japan’s capital – battling cultural differences and language barriers, braving earthquakes, teaching English poorly, experiencing love hotels, winning urinal games, getting arrested and swearing at ducks...
'A raconteur extraordinaire! One of a kind! Sunshine is star!’ (Japan Times). 'Sunshine magically plucks laughter with rhythm and timing fit for an athlete!' (Asia.Nikkei.com). Lovely! Intense! A one-man sitcom! How can we resist?
Winners of the 2013 and 2014 Billy T award. Rose and Guy are coming to Edinburgh and they'd like to be friends. With you! And then sort of, do some jokes in front of you while you laugh politely...
Join this trio of Cambridge Footlights regulars for an hour of gag-riddled, irreverent silliness, as Jamie Armitage, Tom Fairbairn and Rob Oldham guide you through the world of Bafflesmash...
Hate 'n' Live is a night that revels in a non-PC, outrageous and often obscene approach to comedy. A showcase of stand up comics attempt improvised sets inspired by audience suggestions of the things they hate the most...
First Class takes the form of three intercutting monologues which follow the lives of three different people. Each of the three characters is on a train and each of them is faced with a big decision...
Whether this comedy compilation is a success or not depends entirely on which comedians are available to perform. It could be a five star night that leaves your stomach aching from laughteror it could be utter pants...
Ian Fox: The Unsearchables is an interactive quiz show that asks the questions you can’t Google. By this Fox means questions with no definite answers, such as “what is he thinking?” or “why is that man shouting medieval religious rhetoric on The Royal Mile?” By interactive, Fox means there is audience interaction and television screens hooked up to a laptop...
With a black father from Barbados and a white mother from England, Nik Coppin has grown up with a foot in both worlds. He discusses the complex politics of identity where his mixed heritage means that he’s not considered part of either of the communities...
Sy Thomas is the usual host of this show, introducing his friends from the rest of the Fringe as well as doing a section of his own material. However, on the day I attended we were put in the capable hands of Joey Page as MC...
In the appropriately multi-lingual halls of Espionage is this hidden gem of the Free Festival. Katerina Vrana is wholly, enthusiastically Greek, though the RP accent and the love of the British monarchy may fool you into thinking otherwise...
In addition to their main show at the Pleasance, the writer-performer foursome known as the Beta Males have split into pairs to do something a bit different in the afternoon. On this occasion, we’re talking the pairing of Richard “I’m a nice person” Soames with the ebullient creature of narrative peculiarities that is generally known as the Storybeast–but also, apparently answers to the name of John Henry Falle...
With the huge success of The Avengers and the Batman trilogy, the return of the Amazing Spider-Man and Superman movies, and Captain America, Iron Man and Wolverine making the A-list to name but a few, superheroes have never been so popular...
Mark Farrelly’s The Silence of Snow is a charming and funny, if not particularly deep, depiction of the life of Soho author Patrick Hamilton, best known for penning Rope and Hangover Square...
For his first solo stand-up hour, Barry Ferns invites you into The Barry Experience. Winner of the Malcolm Hardee Award 2013, Chortle nominated Best MC 2014. ‘The best comedy show I have ever seen’ ***** (ThreeWeeks)...
Nothing new here. Bruce Fummey is also doing a show called Aaah’m Votin YES. Just in case I decide to vote No, here’s a show of pre-independence debate material. You still get the same great Afro Scottish comedy you’ve always had within the UK … and it doesn’t cost to get in...
Taking the Fringe at its word, a different line-up every night with some of the country’s best comics, who perform an hour of un-club friendly, thought-provoking comedy. Thinking Standing Up is just as much about the journey as it is about the punchlines...
Bald Scotsman Gary Sansome, bold Israeli Daphna Baram and brawled Irishmen Andrew Gilmore are joining forces in this hour of laughs, silliness and mirth with special guests, priceless prizes and challenging quizzes.
This is the show you'll be telling people about in five years time. Late-night, chaotic: Matt T Woodward, Dr Ettrick-Hogg and a host of guests are bringing The Bite back. Twitter: @TheBiting
‘Austerity Pleasures is definitely worth seeing’ **** (ThreeWeeks). In its third year running, Austerity Pleasures returns to the Fringe with a new hour of politics, social satire and leader lampooning, now with an international twist...
‘A bearded fantasist’ **** (Time Out). ‘A surrealist’s wet dream’ **** (Skinny). ‘A true comic original’ **** (Scotsman). ‘A psychedelic trip’ **** (Exeunt). ‘Eloquent nonsense’ **** (BritishTheatreGuide...
I'll never trust a woman who carries Imodium in her purse. Ola explains why in his first hour show, whilst recounting his search for a wife. ‘An infectiously playful spirit’ (Chortle...
Two-time comedian of the year nominee Luke Benson has been looking at his life: nearly 30, not quite winning and obsessing over how big is fun-size. The Geordie giant looks at the expectations of society, self-help, aggrandisement, how best to deal with the whole caper and whether he’s managing at all...
Two stand-ups and a musical comic make tracks with you, the audience, for the next pop sensation, Mr. Kirby. Beats, art, stories, loops, samples and gags.
Following on from last year’s acclaimed show Awkward Hawk, Paul Duncan McGarrity (Amused Moose finalist 2011) looks at the power of schadenfreude, embarrassment, and how being hit in the balls might help to unite the world...
The hilarious and disgruntled stand-up returns to Edinburgh with a fantastic new show. 'This guy is an exciting talent ... he is one of the best' (Scotsman). 'Raw and different' ***** (ThreeWeeks)...
Ben has always been cheerfully baffled by everything the human race has ever done: from space exploration, to genocide, to crisp sandwiches. Come share his good natured confusion for an hour as he tries to work out exactly why we're here and what the best snack to eat is whilst we mull it over...
Mickey Sharma has had a unique life: an Indian born in Pakistan (it's true!) he then moved to Beijing and Hong Kong, before ending up in the exotic climes of Birmingham aged 19. Having endured various jobs like a waiter, shelf stacker, labourer on a building site and a bouncer, Mickey is now proud to be Sharma Sharma Sharma Sharma Sharma Comedian*...
Grawlix: A spiral-shaped graphic used to indicate swearing in comic strips. A string of typographical symbols, especially "@#$%&!".
Shunning dresses and dolls, donning a football kit and picking up a cricket bat at the age of three were early signs. After being called a geezer bird by a well-known comedian, Karen explores all that this entails, including being thrown out of the Brownies and a night club for unladylike behaviour and the struggles of learning to flirt...
A spectacular variety show featuring a plethora of unforgettable characters, performed and hosted by one man from Bristol. A barnstorming hour of physical and character comedy. 'Hilarious’ (ThreeWeeks)...
Laughing Horse Comedy presents a stand-up show featuring the very best comedians selected from across the Fringe. Selected from all venues and including top names, award winners and the best of this years up-and-coming talent...