Iceland’s biggest comedian (and first-ever Netflix star) Ari Eldjárn returns for his eagerly awaited third show which includes Nordic observations on drumbeats, sleep, parenthood …
Xu Xin, Ma Long, Ray Badran, Jan-Ove Waldner, Mark Silcox, Fan Zhendong.
Norwegian clown Viggo Venn has moved to London to follow his life-long dream of becoming a British Comedian.
Sarah Keyworth (Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, House of Games) delivers a brand-new hour of comedy every day as they work up a new show.
An unhinged variety show all the way from Los Angeles.
The ‘almost sexily cerebral’ (**** (Daily Telegraph)) stand-up presents a work-in-progress comedy show about fear (probably), after 2022’s ‘breakneck pace.
Chris Cantrill (half of twice Edinburgh Comedy Award nominated double act, The Delightful Sausage) returns with a work-in-progress show about his rude son, upsetting pensioners on …
Adult Film Club is a raucous showcase of comedy short films, bizarro music videos and truly effed-up MP4s.
The ‘almost sexily cerebral’ (**** (Daily Telegraph)) stand-up presents a work-in-progress comedy show about fear (probably), after 2022’s ‘breakneck pace.
Comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean (Live at the Apollo, Have I Got News for You) is coming to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to do a work in progress of her 2024 tour show – yep, she’…
Stand-up Eleanor Morton presents new ideas as she works towards her next show.
Star of Live at the Apollo, Late Night Mash and Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee, brings a show all about the women in her life, from her mother to her best friend and …
***** (Scotsman).
Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Lara Ricote comes back to Edinburgh to work out her next show.
Winner: Critics Choice Award, Perth Fringe 2023.
Three-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee tries some new jokes.
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…
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The Mountebank Comedy Walk is the hysterical, historical and completely original walking tour of Edinburgh led by professional local award-winning comedian Daniel Downie.
Jamali Maddix is working up a brand-new hour.
Wonderfully absurd stand-up from a fool’s thinking man.
Host of the global smash-hit podcast Have A Word, star of Live at the Apollo and Dave’s Best Joke of the Fringe winner is back with a brand-new hour of stand-up.
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 …
Double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Ahir Shah returns for his first full Fringe since 2019’s Dots (now a special on HBO Max).
Luisa Omielan created her own genre of comedy and her work has had a massive influence on the comedy landscape in the UK.
Stuart is terrified of the climate crisis, but no-one he knows ever mentions it, so it must be fine.
Cult comedy favourite Laura Davis brings a new show about parties, spiders, and the spectre of fascism which stalks us all.
Pierre’s stand-up is observational comedy for people who think they don’t like observational comedy, but why? Why do you people enjoy this stuff? Does it matter? Uncertainty reigns…
Better known as, That French TikTok Lady, Tatty Macleod has gained a huge online following thanks to her hilarious and astute observations of French and British culture.
‘The best showcase of pure joke-writing skill on the Fringe’ (Guardian).
The creator and star of ITV2’s hit sitcom, Buffering, returns to the Fringe following five critically acclaimed shows.
The giddy inner workings of a comedy show in its beginnings.
Award-winning comedian Stephen Buchanan (BBC New Comedy Award and Scottish Comedian of the Year) returns to the Fringe with his unique blend of stand-up, sketch and character comed…
Nonbinary whirlwind returns to the Fringe.
Join the gifted comic storyteller with over 10million TikTok and Instagram views as he battles chronic illness and hilariously reckons with his new reality during a hospital stay.
The best show of 2019 according to Chortle.
Sikisa brings her second stand-up hour to the Fringe and this time it’s personal, as she asks: why is it so hard to say the right things? As seen and heard on Live at the Apollo …
After his ‘gut bustingly funny’ (DeadlineNews.
MC Hammersmith is the world’s leading freestyle rapper to emerge from the ghetto of middle-class west London.
Best Show nominee and as seen on BBC, Channel 4 and Dave, Josh Pugh, brings a brand-new show to the Fringe.
Priya Hall is obsessed with her nan to an unhealthy degree.
Following his five-star, sold-out, award-nominated debut show in 2022, Vittorio Angelone returns to the Fringe in 2023 with his difficult second album.
Nominated: Best Newcomer and Best Show, Edinburgh Comedy Awards and Best Show, Melbourne Comedy Festival.
With nearly 1,000 TikTok followers (at the time of going to print), be sure to book early to catch “the king of online” as he surfs cyberspace and reveals the World Wide Web’s sill…
He’s 27, gay and riddled with dyspraxia.
Ole John Hastings here, God’s favourite comedian, Fringe regular and public urinator (by circumstance and never choice) has returned with a maximum nonsense and mega-lols show.
Olga Koch turned 30, got a master’s degree, went on an adult gap year, got salmonella, lost herself, found herself and washed it all down with a delicious prawn cocktail.
A bit of a crazy, hazy time for Stu this year.
Join Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Mat Ewins (Harry Hill’s Clubnite, Live from the BBC) and double Edinburgh Comedy Award winner John Kearns (8 Out of 10 Cats, Guessable) as the…
An hour of ill-advised mash-ups and remixes.
Double Edinburgh Comedy Award winner John Kearns and critically acclaimed nonsense merchant Pat Cahill present their messy, loving, self-flagellant Off-Broadway show.
ComedyMania UK, in association with Monkey Barrel Comedy presents Aurie Styla and Friends.
Intranet sensation Amy Gledhill (1/3 of cult double act The Delightful Sausage) makes her Fringe debut with a show about resilience and dancing.
Multi award-winning comedian and critically acclaimed loud Northerner Ian Smith (as heard on BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz and The Now Show – and seen on Comedy Central Live) retur…
Warning: I want to be worldwide performer. I hope you do not mind but this show will pretty much just involve me going up there and being nice with it.
Angelos is here standing in front of people for about seven days, maybe more if he can get time off at the stables.
Lockdown phenomenon Gigless goes live! New material from your favourite comedians, as always, presided over by Catherine Bohart, Helen Bauer and Andrew White.
Catherine Bohart loves control, hates change and is a serial planner.
Edinburgh’s best-rated, award-winning comedy club welcomes back last year’s sold-out Fringe showcase for 2022! A new line-up every night showcasing the very best acts from the Monk…
Edinburgh’s hysterical, historical, and completely original comedy walking tour will take you through the cobbled streets of Edinburgh’s Old Town with comic inspiration coming from…
A new work in progress from the host of The Comedian’s Comedian podcast.
Love queer comedy? Bored of cis male comedians? Don’t worry, the queer women, trans and non-binary stand-up sensation is back with another epically gay show featuring incredible LG…
Despite what Catherine Bohart tells us in This Isn’t For You, she is more emotionally articulate than she gives herself credit for.
Double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and star of Live at the Apollo returns with a brand new hour of ‘confessional storytelling at its funniest’ ***** (Herald).
‘After defeat, re-enchantment is necessary’, said Lola Olufemi.
From dealing with video testimonies of love from superfans to the vilest of far-right vitriol that can be spat in 280 characters and all whilst dealing with the life of a comedian,…
If it isn’t your old internet friend, Dr Giggles.
Safe everyone.
Winner: Comedian’s Comedian Award, Chortle Awards (2020).
Hot piece of ass Barry rises from the ashes of the pandemic to heal your soul like a hearty dose of medicinal magic mushrooms.
It’s a loud and rowdy Saturday night at Monkey Barrel.
Kiri Pritchard-McLean is back and a lot has happened over the last few years.
What do you do when the end of the world finally comes and you realise it’s going to happen slowly and boringly? No sudden meteor strike.
Neanderthal Canadian Trinidadian Norn Iron loon Law brings his half-baked thoughts on the last couple of years and a little time travel to boot.
‘If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses’ (Henry Ford).
A new show about private things, public things and trying to wrap your big sexy arms around time to keep it still.
Let Piscean comedy duo Norris and Parker lure you into their fever dream for a surreal hour of wild, nautical madness.
Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee Lauren is back with a brand-new show.
The world’s angriest optimist returns for another bash at sorting out life’s complications.
The biggest-titted Edinburgh Best Show nominees return in their darkest-ever adventure.
Does emotion help us make moral judgments? Alfie will address this question using jokes.
Before the plague and WW3 I was a chortling, apple-cheeked blacksmith and now I am a scowling wretch in a tattered cloak.
Olga Koch is winning at life and she wants us to know it.
There’s a world just like our own, but there isn’t a word for sand.
People of Edinburgh, I have dearly missed you.
Two chefs are making a soup.
Monkey Barrel Comedy’s alternative comedy night, Project X presents, all the way from Tennessee (US of America), The Chuck Wagon Chuckle with Dusty Rambusky! Join Dusty and his ban…
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‘Rising star of the British stand-up scene’ (List).
The world’s angriest optimist returns for another bash at sorting out life’s inexplicable complications.
Hannah and Erika are two of the most exciting rising stars on the comedy scene.
Stuart is an observational comedian who doesn’t fully understand what he’s observed.
Stephen Buchanan (BBC New Comedy Award, Scottish Comedian of the Year) and Liam Withnail (Amused Moose Winner for Outstanding Show, Scottish Compere of the Year) are back and rarin…
Looking for justice? ‘Cos we’ve plenty of it.
Emperor clown Christian Brighty presents an absurd love letter to play, romance and stupidity.
For one week only, George Fox and Chris Thorburn are bringing their award-winning comedy off the internet and back to the Monkey Barrel stage for their work-in-progress stand-up sh…
There was a comment made in an article in the Edinburgh Evening News just before the Fringe began about how, after the amount of time comedians have had to prepare for the 2021 Fri…
A 45-minute experiment in silliness depths.
A ‘gut-bustingly funny’ (**** (List)) thing in a turtleneck gives you a makeover for the interior design of your mind.
Does emotion help us make moral judgements? Alfie Brown is performing a work-in-progress show (which are often a lot more fun) that will attempt to answer this question.
Multi-award-winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz and The Now Show) presents some new ideas (and some old ones) through a mixture of theatrical techniques, such…
Two award-winning comedians premier their latest routines after a year inside.
Cockroach is an hour of dark, gut-wrenching stand-up from one of the best comedians in the country.
‘Rising star of the British stand-up scene’ (List).
Fed up with being told how to look and behave since she was a teenager, Harriet is taking a long hard squint at the beauty industry through her two remaining false eye lashes.
After almost two years off duty, award-winning stand-up Pierre Novellie is back at the Fringe and ready to perform to whoever else is willing to leave the house.
The world’s angriest optimist returns for another bash at sorting out life’s inexplicable complications.
The Big Show returns to the Fringe! Monkey Barrel Comedy’s top-rated, sell-out weekend extravaganza is on every night at 22:15 (not 12th), with a top mixed-bill line-up each even…
Critically acclaimed comedian and host of Vice’s Hate Thy Neighbour and Channel 4’s Adventures in Futureland, Jamali Maddix is heading out on tour again after his incredible 2018 W…
If you want to make the finest wine, use the sweetest grape on the vine.
Horror in all it’s forms from the brilliant, brutal mind of one of Scotland’s most talented comics.
A brand new hour of jokes from Alfie Brown; the country’s best non-famous comedian.
What happens when our youthful expectations of love and sex, those formed in the 90s by movies, TV and music get crushed by the realities of adulthood and, in this one case, a terr…
The kid’s back with another hour of lo-fi stand-up comedy to chill or study to.
Comedy It-girl Elf floats to Fringe with a horrifying comedy show inspired by Stephen King.
Critically acclaimed comedian and host of Viceland’s Hate Thy Neighbour and Channel 4’s Adventures in Futureland, Jamali Maddix has just come back from his first world tour.
Yorkshire’s finest meat-themed double act is back, in an all-new sketch comedy nightmare.
Join Luisa Omielan (What Would Beyonce Do?!, Am I Right Ladies?! and Politics For Bitches) as she tries out some stuff for an upcoming project.
Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Olga Koch is back! Ahead of her BBC Radio 4 special, the acclaimed stand-up tells a love story through the medium of computer programming (which she …
Following a whirlwind couple of years of awards, nominations, sell-out shows and international touring, Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee 2017 Lauren Pattison returns to…
Rob Carter’s cult hit creation is back with a glossy revamp of his 2016 debut show.
Dan Clark, star of BBC Three’s cult hit sitcom How Not To Live Your Life and host of the popular podcast Screen Talk, is dusting off his comedy cape* to perform stand-up for the fi…
‘The reigning queen of character comedy’ (Evening Standard), Alison Thea-Skot, returns to the Fringe for two nights with her five-star smash-hit show.
The podcast all about eating: live.
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Beth Vyse returns as Olive Hands in this work in progress show: The Hands Have It! where she finds herself running for leader of the Western world.
In this amazing hour of comedy, Joe will distill what he’s learned about the history of everything and the future of everything, and what it all means.
Karl Theobald (Hang Ups, Plebs, GameFace, Green Wing) is back in his element, making his long-awaited return to the live comedy arena.
‘From fearless and funny to heart-stoppingly raw’ (Evening Standard).
Two chefs are meant to be making a soup.
I, John Kearns, and I, Pat Cahill, join hands to present our messy, loving, self-flagellant off-Broadway show, 110%.
Join Project X in welcoming the weird, wacky and the downright hilarious to the stage.
‘The comedy thrill of a lifetime’ ***** (Scotsman).
A hothouse bursting with dazzling new comedy blooms (metaphorical), we present a ludicrous, bountiful plenitude of guests, hosted by an ever-changing line-up of Thom Tuck, John-Luk…
The closest I get to remembering my dreams are the ideas that occur during the thin veil between sleep and awake, where your mind wanders unimpeded and undirected.
Amused Moose Best Fringe Show 2018 winner.
As seen on Mock the Week.
Ben is milleni-ill.
‘A Scottish talent on the rise’ (Scotsman).
Edinburgh’s #1 rated comedy club and three-time Scottish Comedy Award winner brings you its pick of the Fringe for the very first time! Showcasing the very best acts from the Mon…
Star of Scot Squad, Darren Connell comes to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for one night only! Nominated for a BAFTA, Darren is best known for portraying the lovable Bobby Muir on B…
Not a show, but the undercoat, base coat or petticoat of what may one day be a show.
Friday Night Sinner! is a one-woman, horror-comedy musical about a Jewish, sexually repressed, newly married maniac (stick to what you know).
Double Edinburgh Comedy Award winner presents his fourth show.
Colt Cabana Is a world-famous wrestler who has wrestled around the world from Dundee to Japan and back including a short, not so successful, run in the WWE as Scotty Goldman.
Pearman, an Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Newcomer nominee, Leicester Comedy Awards Best Show nominee, ‘star in the making’ (**** Telegraph) and co-star of BBC Two’s Mister Winner a…
Spencer bought a new looper, but he can’t beatbox.
Switch on your phones and switch off your brains, as one idiot enters the cloud and puts his mind on a spin cycle for your entertainment.
Tom Walker and Demi Lardner are young twin brothers left alone at home.
Amy Matthews blends observational routines with offbeat whimsy, resigning to the absurdity of modern life.
The award-winning Fringe favourite is back with a brand-new hour of his trademark thoughtful, exciting comedy.
Do you have an opinion? Because we’d love to hear it! Shivani Thussu’s debut hour is set in a focus group that goes too far.
Tony Law identifies as a hominid.
A ‘master of craze ceremony’ **** (Guardian).
Old new act, Pat Cahill, brings another hour of his confused neo-music hall stupidity to the Fringe.
When you get a new worst day of your life, it’s time to tell everyone about the second worst! A show about discovering the magic in your belly.
Angelos is up in Edinburgh to do his stuff and to stand in front of people for about 13 days, maybe more if he can get time off at the stables.
The planet is messed up.
Hench is an engaging exploration of female strength in its many forms.
Loulie, AKA the face that launched a thousand dicks, examines conduct (in the media, baby), mental health (other people’s, I’m fine) and perverts (that one is mainly me, actually).
Critically acclaimed, maverick of the Fringe and victim of The Luke McQueen pilots (BBC Three) returns to perform his fifth solo show.
A completely unique, side-splittingly hilarious walk of Edinburgh’s Old Town with local comedian Daniel Downie that promises to be more hysterical than historical.
Stuart McPherson (as seen on BBC1) brings his hotly anticipated debut hour to the Fringe.
Best Show Nominee, Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2016.
Scottish Comedy Award winner Donald Alexander is back with more long-limbed and surreal stand up.
Krystal Evans is a newcomer on the Scottish comedy scene and has quickly established herself as “one to watch” mostly because she steals drinks.
As seen on Live from the BBC, Live from the Comedy Store, The Russell Howard Hour and Live at the Apollo.
He’s survived adoption, both his moms dying, mental breakdowns, addiction and getting diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.
Nominated for Best Show at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards in 2017 and 2018, Ahir Shah returns to the Fringe with a new hour of funny and good stand-up.
This is a brand-new hour from Alfie Brown about family, friendship and inherited belief.
John Hastings is back at the Fringe and has moved out of his regular haunt, the Pleasance Courtyard, to a more homely Monkey Barrel.
Acclaimed stand-up (and the UK’s foremost gilet apologist) Stuart Laws reflects on the day his life changed forever when he risked everything in a Vegas poker tournament.
Brister presents an hour’s whistle stop tour on the nature of privilege, and how we can stop it creating ‘total bell ends’.
Kiri Pritchard-McLean (Have I Got News For You, The Russell Howard Hour) is working up a new show.
Mother is Tiff Stevenson’s observation of the many and varied forms that motherhood can take, her material existing in the venn diagram where motherhood and feminism interconnect…
Zoë has been on hiatus.
One of the biggest comedy stars in Denmark, Simon Talbot comes to the Fringe with some work-in-progress shows.