Walking Tours of the Historic Royal Mile

AUG 2-25 at 10:00 (120 min) - Free

Outside City Chambers / Outside

Welcome to Edinburgh in August.Time to spare? At a loose end? There is always room for you on our walking tours around the heart of Edinburgh's historic Old Town. We'll show you the hidden corners of this fascinating district: the closes and courtyards, nooks and crannies – places you might never discover on your own. We'll tell you about the city's rich history, the colourful characters and personalities who have made Edinburgh what it is. Our guides are all local people who love our city and are only too pleased to share their knowledge and enthusiasm with you. Our tours are genuinely fr...

Snack Chat

AUG 1-12, 14-25 at 10:00 (60 min) - Free

The City Café / Las Vegas

Snack Chat – Start your day with a taste of the Fringe's finest comedians and a free yummy snack bar. Many acts will have their own full show later in the day. Stand-up comedians perform their sets and the audience is welcomed to join in with some interactive games (participation by choice): self-help exercises with a prize for best helper, heckling games, welcome an outsider, reject a local and more games for a chatty morning audience. Mobile phones are left off: get off social media and enjoy the moment. Playtime for adults. Come for the craic....

About Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Courses

AUG 20-21, 24-25 at 10:00 (270 min) - £99/£89 (book 2 tickets, get 1 half price)

The Free Sisters / The Wee Room

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Learn the skill and art of stand-up comedy performance on this two-day intensive comedy training course. Our tutors are professional comedians and writers, and the course includes a graduation performance in a Fringe show. All of the subjects during the two-days are covered with lively and interactive sessions. The subjects covered include material generation, joke writing skills, what makes comedians work, finding material, history of comedy, technical and general skills, market inf...

Zero Hour / Without Your Permission

AUG 11-18 at 10:00 (45 min) - FREE

The Free Sisters / The Wee Room

Without Your Permission comments on how the female body is policed and manipulated through the ever-changing politics of abortion. It uses strong, powerful movement to show the strength of women with the aim of encouraging the conversation about female reproductive rights with our audience members. Zero Hour is a contemporary dance show that depicts the loss of perception of time in an abstract movement form. It uses a combination of musical scores and movement to portray the loss of perception of time felt when a person suffers a mental illness - such as depression....

CeilidhKids at the Fringe - Free!

AUG 1-13 at 10:15 (45 min) - Free

The Counting House / The Ballroom

Family workshop suitable for children aged 3-7 years with parents or carers. We involve everyone: skip, clap and march together to traditional Scottish music, under the chandeliers. Enjoy discovering very simple (often simplified) dances that you might find at a ceilidh or Scottish country dance, celebrating the social aspects of dancing with a partner. CeilidhKids is all about fun for all generations. Hugely popular with local families, now it's your turn. 'More workshop than show, the accomplished organisers magically persuade a bunch of 3-7 year olds to march, jump and (sort of) dance th...

Freshly Squeezed Comedy

AUG 1-25 at 10:20 (60 min) - Free

The City Café / Hollywood

This is your first stand-up show of the day, serendipitously happening within the best breakfast joint in Edinburgh! Grab a coffee and join a rotating cast of BBC New Comedian of the year 2018 finalist Isa Bonachera, 2019 Max Turner semi-finalist Miztli Rose, 'bitingly funny' (LondonPubTheatres.com) Alexandria Macleod and Abigail Weinstock. Wake up with a shot of the day's funniest headlines and a healthy portion of their very best material. It's a Buzzfeed quiz/Vice doc/Guardian editorial sort of a show complete with zeitgeist cultural references and factually incorrect observations....

Jake Donaldson Fights The Sea (WIP)

AUG 1-10 at 10:20 (55 min) - Free

The Counting House / The Attic

Join Jake for a work-in-progress of his new stand-up show. We all know the Sea has gotten too big for its boots recently, and Jake intends to bring it down a peg or two. Is he being serious or is it a metaphor for mental health and toxic masculinity? Only time will tell. A brand new hour of comedy about morality, love and aspiration from the writer and performer of 2018's "Help! I'm Trapped In The Body OF An Adequate Comedian!" - One of Huffington Post's "Must See New Acts at the Edinburgh Fringe" and also named one of "The best comedy show titles at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe" by Bri...

TransAtlantic

AUG 11-25 at 10:20 (55 min) - Free

The Counting House / The Attic

Has this whole Transgender thing got you confused? Great! Come learn a thing or two at Trans-Atlantic. Why are we mad at Scarlet Johansen? Why are we suddenly everywhere? Why are there so many letters? You'll learn all this and more from a witty American who managed to escape their home country, which is now on fire. 'Honestly, the most harassment I’ve gotten while living here is not for being Queer. It’s for being a fucking Yank.' ...

Scottie Dog & Friends!

AUG 1-11, 14-18, 20-25 at 10:30 (60 min) - Free

Bar 50 / The Alcove

A children and family show for dog lovers and all the best things about growing up with 'mans best friend'. I'll be doing a family friendly stand up show where I talk about my love for dogs and how they shaped my upbringing....

Louise Leigh Identifiable

AUG 1-13, 15-25 at 10:30 (60 min) - Free

The Counting House / The Loft

Funny Women Regional Finalist and badly-behaved mother of two Louise Leigh should probably be delousing her kids instead of gallivanting off to Edinburgh to appear in the festival. Navigating her path through the choppy seas of the "midlife, sniping and logistics" phase of marriage, via modern parenting and how to shave your legs like you're in an advert, Louise is "Consistently funny and unafraid to experiment" Wil Hodgson "Great performance, great confidence, great jokes." Gary Delaney "Witty, imaginative and more than a little risque" The Scotsman ...

Lee Kyle – ConQuest

AUG 1-13, 16-25 at 10:40 (60 min) - Free

The City Café / Nineties

All Lee Kyle ever wanted to be was a comedian. And now, he is one. So, with that in mind, he'd like to say the following to Mr McDonald, his former maths teacher at St Wilfrids RC Comprehensive School in South Shields. Aaaah! Turns out I CAN make a living by dicking around And I DON'T need calculus like you seemed to think (As far as I know, I'm not actually sure what it is). Admittedly, living is a vague term, I'm not making mid-nineties maths teacher money, sure, but we aren't starving to death and at least I get to get up at noon. Oh, also, Mr so-called McDonald, you shouldn'...

The Oxford Revue Presents. Rogue Two: Burns and Moore

AUG 5-16 at 11:00 (60 min) - Free

Bar 50 / Upstairs

Join two of the Oxford Revue’s brightest talents as they take you through an hour of rogue, wild and laugh-out-loud comedy. Fresh from their sell out shows in Oxford and Durham, Burns and Moore have bought sufficient woollen clothing to prepare them for the North as they follow in the footsteps of previous Revue alumni like Michael Palin, Al Murray and Rowan Atkinson. The pair will guide you on a journey from the innermost thoughts of Sir Thomas More (renowned 16th century theologian and part time banjo player) to the mysteries of Airport security, leaving you questioning the very nature...

Games With James

AUG 1-13, 15-18 at 11:00 (60 min) - Free

The Counting House / The Lounge

Award-winning comedian and UK board gaming champion James Cook invites you to play board games live on stage. Buckaroo, Guess Who, Hungry Hippos and more done like you've never seen it before. Suitable for 5+...

About Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Courses

AUG 3-4, 6-7, 10-11, 13-14, 17-18 at 11:00 (270 min) - £99/£89 (book 2 tickets, get 1 half price)

The Free Sisters / The Wee Room

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Learn the skill and art of stand-up comedy performance on this two-day intensive comedy training course. Our tutors are professional comedians and writers, and the course includes a graduation performance in a Fringe show. All of the subjects during the two-days are covered with lively and interactive sessions. The subjects covered include material generation, joke writing skills, what makes comedians work, finding material, history of comedy, technical and general skills, market inf...

Africa Weird and Wonderful

AUG 2-11, 13-23 at 11:00 (60 min) - Free

The Free Sisters / Maggie's Front Room

African is a fascinating place full of authentic stories and silly facts. There is music and role play. This is fun for all the family....

Grumpy Pants

AUG 1-25 at 11:00 (45 min) - Free

The Free Sisters / The Gothic Room

GRUMPY PANTS - A FORK THROWING COMEDY FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY! A show that is designed to entertain parents alongside kids with a mix of perfectly crafted juggling routines, clowning, physical comedy and fork throwing! Yes forks!! Grumpy Pants invites the audience into an eccentric and intimate world, where everyday objects such as suitcases, glasses of water and frisbees are bought to life in experimental juggling routines. A bizarre and off beat character Grumpy Pants communicates through his expressive rubber skin, words and sounds and the fourth wall is broken from beginning to end, as ...

I Am the Horrible Thing

AUG 1-2, 5, 8 at 11:00 (60 min) - Free

The Free Sisters / The Wee Room

Greg will give you £5 if you come to this show. No joke. The first 10 people to come and stay the whole time will get £5. Greg almost died on vacation in Costa Rica. Now he wants to tell you the whole funny/sad story and about the time he painted his penis purple in Hawaii. This is a true story. Greg is a lifelong improv comic, but in this show he does something a little different. He does not go for the quick laugh. He relives his near-death experience so deeply you won't know if he gets out alive until the very end. 'Deeply effecting life-or-death story' (Charleston City Paper)....

The Iceberg Effect

AUG 15-16, 19, 22-23 at 11:00 (60 min) - Free

The Free Sisters / The Wee Room

The 90s: The Spice Girls, New Labour and Titanic. A film that defined a decade and created a lifetime of lust for Leonardo DiCaprio. This summer we are bringing back the 90s spirit by talking to three unsung stars of the film. This is a ‘Where are they now?’ tale of three performers who are forever in the shadow of the iceberg. We will meet overlooked Titanic actors such as Ioan Guffudd who played the scene-stealing character of Fifth Officer Luxe, and see how he ended up spending the rest of his life at sea. As well as a Lobster whose life was saved by the Titanic sinking who tells of her...

Jack and Barney are in the Background

AUG 1-11, 13-25 at 11:00 (45 min) - Free

The Newsroom / The Downstairs Bar

Audience wanted! Jack and Barney need to film 30 hours’ worth of stock footage of a ‘comedy show’. The footage will hopefully be used as part of a cutaway in a Hollywood film, or shown on a telly in the background of an Australian soap. Hecklers will need to wear mics. If someone could spill a drink around the forty minute mark, that’d be great. Let’s make it realistic folks. Your hosts have done their research, and have been practicing comedy just to prepare. Jack is now one half of acclaimed double-act ‘Moon’ (‘One of best-reviewed shows of Fringe 2018’ British Comedy Guide) and has writ...

Object of Desire

AUG 12-25 at 11:05 (60 min) - Free

The Pear Tree / Pear Tree Indoor Stage

"With a tripod, a clothes hanger and an overcoat, Cora Todd, an emerging Scottish performance artist creates a dark, humorous and unsettling performance that is unlike any other I've seen" M Sherin (Rose Bruford). A nostalgic view of a 1950's relationship through not so rose tinted spectacles, Object of Desire is a performance like no other. This unique, one woman show blends comedy and drama with authentic and contemporary elements that will leave you questioning issues of consent, relationships and sexism that still resonate today. Cora incorporates music, movement and puppetry to object ...

Olaf Falafel - It’s One Giant Leek For Mankind

AUG 1-11 at 11:05 (60 min) - Free

The Pear Tree / Pear Tree Indoor Stage

Surrealist comedian, author, illustrator and Fringe favourite Olaf Falafel, presents his latest book ‘It’s One Giant Leek For Mankind’. Inspired by the 50th anniversary of the historic 1969 moon landing, this hilarious silly show is packed full of jokes, farts, drawing, moon baboons and oversized vegetables!...

Attention Seeker

AUG 19-25 at 11:15 (60 min) - Free

32 Below (Formerly Ushers) / The Cellar

The anxiety-riddled jokewriter/doormat for a famous comedian accidentally crashes into the standup spotlight and decides to stay. Armed only with paralysing fear, blind panic and jokes the comedian didn’t buy, he sets out to prove just who’s really the funny one, and the rest, as they say, is history... except history is normally written by the winners. The British-Canadian standup-storyteller invites you to experience the vicarious thrill of telling jokes on stage to tens, hundreds, even thousands of people - and then back to tens again - without the sleepless nights and crippling sel...

Ella Al-Shamahi and Susie Steed: Gold Diggers

AUG 1-18 at 11:15 (55 min) - Free

32 Below (Formerly Ushers) / The Cellar

When an economist meets an archaeologist for an hour of stand up. Join British-Arab Archaeologist Ella (BBC presenter, National Geographic Explorer) and Economist Susie (NATYS finalist 2019, Funny Women Regional Finalist 2018) for an hour of stand up about politics and life. Ella is "warm, erudite and funny" The Times “Susie’s message, intelligence, storytelling & humour simply boom out into the ether; spending an hour in her company is a charming alternative to doing just about anything else during the Fringe.” Mumble Comedy ...

Mumblebrag

AUG 1-5, 7-12, 14-19, 21-25 at 11:15 (60 min) - Free

Brass Monkey / The Cinema Room

Some comics would brag. They’d say prior performances were 'bizarrely coherent' ***** (Flaneur) or that they were 'delivered with conviction and creativity' (TheStateoftheArts.co.uk) or that 'the worst thing about this was the audience' **** (EdFringeReview.com), (you wouldn’t be that audience, right?). They’d want you to know that two of them recently made it to the finals of Wales' biggest stand-up competition, that they make incredible coffee, and one of them even made a statue giggle once. But we wouldn't say that. That would be bragging. We're just comedians. On stage. Doing our best....

Twat out of Hell: Deluxe

AUG 1-25 at 11:15 (60 min) - Free

The City Café / Las Vegas

Twat Out Of Hell features comedian Gary G Knightley (as seen on Channel 4, BBC Three and the West End). Gary G Knightley brings you a comedy show about, well, him. In an ever evolving world it is getting harder and harder to say things without offending anybody. Join Knightley as he explores the topics we aren’t allowed an opinion on and the people who are off-limits. "Quick witted with strong audience work, sharp observations and great stage presence" (Bunbury Publishing) "Twat Out Of Hell is a filthy hidden gem and why the chuff it’s free I just don’t know." (The National Student) ...

CeilidhKids at the Fringe - Free!

AUG 1-14, 16-19, 21, 23-25 at 11:15 (45 min) - Free

The Counting House / The Ballroom

Family workshop suitable for children aged 3-7 years with parents or carers. We involve everyone: skip, clap and march together to traditional Scottish music, under the chandeliers. Enjoy discovering very simple (often simplified) dances that you might find at a ceilidh or Scottish country dance, celebrating the social aspects of dancing with a partner. CeilidhKids is all about fun for all generations. Hugely popular with local families, now it's your turn. 'More workshop than show, the accomplished organisers magically persuade a bunch of 3-7 year olds to march, jump and (sort of) dance th...

Cracking Up

AUG 1-4, 6-11, 13-18, 20-25 at 11:30 (60 min) - Free

The Counting House / The Attic

Daphna Baram looks back on a life of strife, fighting her two arch enemies, her body and her mother, and reaching thin understandings with booth. "Supremely talented...As stinging as it was biting" (Oxford Daily); * * * * * "There is raw passion beating just under the skin of the material which is subtle & delicate in parts and very honest in others all tied together with absolute hilarity. It is an important show to see...it is everything you want from a comedy show and more, with biting satirical humour and fantastic observational comedy." (Bunbury Magazine)....

Fantastic Magic Show for Kids

AUG 1-25 at 11:30 (60 min) - Free

The Free Sisters / Maggie's Chamber

The Fantastic Magic Show is a special and unique experience for the children and their parents. It is a wonderful and memorable way of entertainment. The Fantastic Magic Show includes a lot of participation from the kids which keeps the kids active throughout the whole time and brings tones of fun and joy for everybody. Balloon animals – all the kids receive a balloon animal which they can play with and take home as token from the show. Also there will be a tutorial on how to do magic – kids love to learn how to become magicians. Children never get bored of magic especially when th...

3's Comedy - Adam Knox, Luka Muller & Peter Jones

AUG 1-25 at 11:35 (60 min) - Free

The City Café / Hollywood

3's Comedy brings together Adam Knox, Luka Muller & Peter Jones, three of the rising stars of Australian comedy for a whole new hour of hilarious stand-up. As seen on the TV, as heard on radio and as bumped into on public transport on the way to gigs all across the world; Knox, Muller and Jones are guaranteed to make you laugh. (Adam Knox) "You''ll laugh ''til it hurts." - The West Australian (Luka Muller) "A lovely young man... making the most of that nice guy image you can only warm to." - Chortle (Peter Jones) "One of the best up-and-coming comedians at the festival. A near-flaw...

Huggers

AUG 1-25 at 11:45 (60 min) - Free

Bar 50 / The Alcove

The popular worldwide hit show returns with another revolving line-up of the best comedians, musical acts, magicians and children’s entertainers for all the family to enjoy together. ‘My eight-year-old loved it. The hour whizzed past. Perfect for children’s attention spans’ (ChildFriendlyBrighton.co.uk). ‘Mums and dads are onto a winner with this ... delightfully immature comedy’ (Herald Sun, Melbourne)....

Rib Ticklers' Pick of the Fringe

AUG 1-11, 13-25 at 11:45 (60 min) - Free

The Counting House / The Loft

Rib Ticklers Pick of the Fringe Is a variety show with a mixed bill line up. Having worked with these acts over the last decade, Rib Ticklers will be bring you talent from America, Australia, Europe, and Asia. A global line up with world class talent. Rib Ticklers has done the hard work for you and filtered through the 100s of comedians, come and sample them here and then go see there full shows later on. ...

Samantha Hannah: How to Find Happiness (In a Year)

AUG 1-25 at 12:00 (50 min) - Free

Cabaret Voltaire / Main Room

In 2018 Samantha, 'one of the funniest ladies on the planet' (RemoteGoat.com), tried to find a husband in a year. It didn't work but she got a ridiculous story out of it (as did The Times, BBC News and of course Perth Courier). It's 2019 now and the hunt is for happiness instead. But what is happiness? And is it really that great?! Come to find out what happened next with the almost hubby... stay for the secrets behind complete and utter fulfillment....

Dangerous Adventures

AUG 22-25 at 12:00 (60 min) - Free

Finnegan's Wake / The Back Room

Her travels in some of the world's most dangerous places have been embellished and transformed into adventure thrillers by new British novelist Ruth Elliott-Smith. She talks about her life and work, and tells what inspired her to use her real-life experiences as a basis for her creative writing. Her heroines are feisty, assertive protagonists who very often find themselves rescuing the heroes from life-threatening perils. Hear how real life mirrors fantasy in her first two novels, The Sword, about war in the Middle East; and El Dorado and the Amazon, about the cocaine cartels of Colombia and...

Guerilla Aspies Year Five – Not an Autism Puppet Show

AUG 1-3, 10-16 at 12:00 (60 min) - Free

Finnegan's Wake / The Back Room

THE LONGEST RUNNING AUTISM CONVERSION SHOW IN HUMAN HISTORY. Join in with Paul Wady as he takes you into the ideas and lives of the global autistic underground community that grows each year. Yet more insights into a world that was all around you all along. But you may have never seen. ...

Kefi: Reggetiko

AUG 17-21 at 12:00 (60 min) - Free

Finnegan's Wake / The Back Room

Immerse yourself in a Greek coffee house where familiar faces tell stories of their displaced lives, while a series of unpredictable events unfold in the background. Spontaneous good feelings mixed with urban Greek folk and dub-inspired tunes. A band of partial family, Emilios (bouzouki) was raised in awe of his uncle Poli (bouzouki and vocals), a multi-instrumentalist who grew up in the Cypriot diaspora of London. For the first time, Kefi tell their story and invite you into their world to sit, relax, laugh and enjoy their company and their inter-generational tales of disconnected familiarity...

Stealth Aspies – Aspies Anonymous

AUG 4-9 at 12:00 (60 min) - Free

Finnegan's Wake / The Back Room

The now Arts Council recognised and funded Stealth Aspies Theatre Company returns to tell the stories of our kind yet again. Not pity porn, definitely moving and containing a large degree of fun. ...

Black Sheep

AUG 1-12, 14-25 at 12:00 (60 min) - Free

Sofi's Southside (formerly Harry's) / Upstairs

You normal? Acting strange? Mags, in her 50s, Eddie in his 20s, are both black sheep. Eddie is trying to stay woke. Mags just wants a nap. Black Sheep explores the notion that trying to fit in leads to all sorts of trouble. What if you decided that you are OK? We all know a black sheep or maybe we are one. Finding head space and heart space for different. By the end of the show you may embrace the black sheep, with consent, of course. What's normal anyway? Reject your Facebook likes, you're grand....

Madame Chandelier's Rough Guide to the Opera

AUG 1-18 at 12:00 (45 min) - Free

The City Café / Nineties

In a camp fusion of comedy, cabaret and opera, Madame Chandelier guides you through her favourite opera plots, with jokes, dramatic death scenes, and a Nessun Dorma sing-along! Having stolen this great music from the grand opera house, Madame Chandelier, the joyfully ridiculous and self-proclaimed anti-diva of opera, is tearing down the pretence and bringing opera to the people. Winner of the Royal Vauxhall Tavern's Got Talent competition, 2018. 'Brilliantly memorable' Operissima...

Neckbreaker

AUG 19-25 at 12:00 (55 min) - Free

The City Café / Nineties

"From the hottest independent shows to the largest comedy clubs in the world, there's no stage too small or too big for New York City based comedian Max White." -Vice In his debut Edinburgh Fringe Festival hour, NYC Comedian Max White brings you "Neckbreaker", a jaw dropping American Stand-up style Storytelling Show....

Eliott Simpson: (a)sexy and I know it

AUG 17-25 at 12:00 (35 min) - Free

The Free Sisters / Basement

Eliott has never cared for sex. He enjoys doing people as much as he enjoys doing his taxes (not at all), yet for all his life it has lead to nothing but ridicule. But in peculiarity lies comedy, and Simpson has it in spades. With tales of gender, stakes, queerness and cakes, Simpson aims to widen your eyes to the life of an asexual man living in a hyper-sexualised world. So come along, keep on your thong, and enjoy the only show completely absent of dick jokes...okay there are some but they’re very intellectual. “Absurd and Accessible” – The Norwich Radical "Weird as f**k" - Janey Godley^...

Science Magic: Play with Your Food

AUG 1-25 at 12:00 (60 min) - Free

The Free Sisters / The Gothic Room

After touring for 3 months in Australia, triple award-winning Irish comedian & scientist, Donal Vaughan, brings his hugely popular science, comedy, magic family show back to the Edinburgh Fringe. Using only things you find around the house, Donal will perform amazing tricks to show how magical science can be. Wanna see a potato rocket launcher? Or conjure dragons breath? How about a vomiting unicorn? Or course you do. Always exciting and sometimes very messy, learn about science and laugh your pants off while you do. And the best part is all the tricks can be performed by you when you go ho...

Tales from the Balkans

AUG 1-16 at 12:00 (30 min) - Free

The Free Sisters / Basement

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. Will his tales bear the message that will end world’s problems? Probably not. But you can still laugh at them... or him. To properly enjoy this show, bring popcorn and low expectations....

Funny Feckers

AUG 1-25 at 12:00 (60 min) - Free

The Hanover Tap / The Wee Tap

Funny Feckers, one of London's most popular comedy nights, is a compilation stand-up comedy show featuring the best acts from Ireland and beyond. It's a fun and friendly affair which brings people together through laughter and silliness, hosted by cheeky Irish comic Wes Dalton. 'An Irish charmer who has cheekiness and likeability down to a tee'. (Kentish Towner). At the 2017 Fringe, during some improvised crowd work, Wes managed to convince a crazy Dutchman to propose to his girlfriend on stage. The video went viral and the story made it into The Scottish Sun and Edinburgh Evening News....

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, it's the One Liner Show.

AUG 1-25 at 12:00 (60 min) - Free

The Lockup / Lock Up 1

Enjoy an hour of the best up-and-coming one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay, all held together by your host Masai Graham (UK Pun Champion 2016). ...

Robbie McShane Has Loads of Pals (and a girlfriend too)

AUG 1-11, 13-16, 19-25 at 12:00 (60 min) - Free

The Newsroom / The Downstairs Bar

Robbie McShane for the first time in his life, at 25, has a girlfriend. He has also obtained 3 platonic pals in the process. So he now feels he is in an apt position to disseminate the knowledge among the public. I've asked him for a description of the show to sell you all on it, here's what he has sent on over: "How would you like to have it ALL? Like me! Come on down to this brief motivational talk on how to both obtain a relationship and sustain friendships. No lifejacket required for either of these ships! Haha, there will be more cool jokes like that throughout. For free! I might bri...

Free Festival Music Bars - Live Music Around Edinburgh

AUG 3-25 at 12:00 (360 min) - Free

The Pear Tree / The Courtyard Stage

Join us for a huge selection of acoustic music, duos, bands, rock, folk music, singers and more every day and night of the Fringe... with music specially selected to get your toes tapping and you singing along all day and night at venues across Edinburgh and also out in Leith. Contact each venue for the daily line-ups. ...

Let’s Get Tough

AUG 1-11, 13-25 at 12:00 (45 min) - Free

The Raging Bull (Formerly Moriarty's) / Cellar

Have you ever felt you’re not tough enough? Well, two problematic fools are here to teach you how to grab life by the nackers. Imogen Edmundson and Fi Simpson aka Sons & Co. are preparing for a national tour of their self-defence and assertiveness workshop. Watch as the duo take on life’s challenges from the comfort of their toxic relationship. Get ready to get tough! Sketch-Off 2019 semi-finalists. Laughing Horse New Act of the Year 2018 - Semi-Finalist, 2Northdown New Act Competition, Semi-Finalist. “A surprising mix of light and dark.” - Funny Women....

My Mother's Shoes

AUG 3-11, 13-18, 20-25 at 12:15 (60 min) - Free

Bar 50 / Upstairs

Some women aspire to wearing their mother’s shoes. As children, we might have dressed up in them. Later in life, we may follow in our mother’s footsteps intentionally, or because of how we’ve been moulded. Performer and writer Karola Gajda’s mum was sent by Stalin from her homeland Poland to a Siberian gulag at the age of three in 1940. The Red Cross reunited Karola’s mum with father, who had been sent to a different gulag, in the UK, seventeen years later. It was meant to be a happy time, but she then fell ill with a mystery illness. Fighting for her life on a UK ward without a scrap of Engl...

Alex Farrow: Philosophy A-Level

AUG 1-25 at 12:15 (50 min) - Free

Cabaret Voltaire / Long Room

“Alex Farrow: Philosophy A-Level” is is a stand-up comedy show about history, religion and modern Britain told through the stories of teaching Philosophy to teenagers. “Honest and interesting and really, very, very funny indeed” –★★★★★ Bunbury Magazine, “Jaw Achingly funny”- Oxford Times ★★★★★ “An engaging and entertaining pairing of learning and good humour!” – ★★★★ The Latest, Brighton Tasked by Ofsted with “promoting British values” to teens in an East-London school in special measures for Islamic extremi...

Clash of the Tight Tens

AUG 1-25 at 12:15 (60 min) - Free

Cabaret Voltaire / The Cave

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! ...

What Has The News Ever Done For Me?

AUG 1-25 at 12:15 (60 min) - Free

The Counting House / The Lounge

Every day, three top comedians bring in the story from the days news they *think* is the most important and have to persuade the audience why theirs is the one they should care about- will it be Trumps tweets, Brexit breakdowns or the Spice Girl reunion- you decide! Plus Daily Mail readers comments, Harry Potter fan fiction and more! Fourth SELL OUT YEAR!...

Babes/Pigs in the City

AUG 15-16, 19, 22-23 at 12:15 (60 min) - Free

The Free Sisters / The Wee Room

What happens when one small-town bumpkin and one third world brat try to spread their wings and become two cosmopolitan, cool customers? A whole lot of joy, despair, whipped cream and knickers, that's what! Will they become sophisticated babes? Or just two pigs in the city? An hour of stand-up brought to you lovingly by up-and-coming comedians, the silly yet acerbic Amy Xander, and the sharp and sassy Ginnia Cheng. Ginnia reached the semi-finals of So You Think You’re Funny in 2018 and The Max Turner Prize in 2019. Amy was also a 2018 So You Think You’re Funny semi-finalist and has written...

Camp Running-a-Mock

AUG 1-2, 5, 8-9, 12 at 12:15 (60 min) - Free

The Free Sisters / The Wee Room

King’s College London’s Running-A-Mock Improv troupe has sent it’s best improvisers all the way up to Edinburgh to present Camp Running-A-Mock! An improv show worth writing home about. This summer at camp is gonna be a blast! Prepare for classic camp activities like swimming, arts and crafts, chanting, peer pressure, getting poison ivy rashes on your tender bits, and most importantly friendship. Well, actually, we can’t promise any of that because we’ll be making it all up on the spot from suggestions from you the campers! This won’t be your typical camp experience but it will be full of l...

Zane Helberg - Live from Rehab

AUG 1-25 at 12:15 (60 min) - Free

The Free Sisters / Maggie's Front Room

Live From Rehab is a hilarious and cathartic stand up show by comedian Zane Helberg. From having a one legged recovering alcoholic Dad, a crippling drug addiction, and a wife in the mental hospital, no dark corner of his life is off limits. Zane whisks you through his struggles and finds humor in the pains of life. Many audience members agree they feel better about themselves and their own lives after watching Live From Rehab. It's fun for the whole family! (as long as the family is of age) Some Reviews: "Hey at least I'm not as sick as that Zane!" - many audience members "I was thinkin...

ComedySportz UK

AUG 1-17 at 12:20 (60 min) - Free

The Pear Tree / Pear Tree Indoor Stage

You've seen Football. You've seen tennis. But have you seen comedy as a sport? ComedySportz is the all ages, all action, all improvised competitive comedy show that sees two teams battle it out for laughs with quick-witted gags, games, sketches and songs inspired by your suggestions. There are plenty of opportunities to get involved in the action as teams go for comedy gold. There’s a referee on hand to ensure a good clean match – it’s a family friendly show after all – with penalties for bad behaviour and bad jokes. Who wins? You decide! ComedySportz have been delighting audiences acro...

Peeved with Peter E Davidson

AUG 18-25 at 12:20 (60 min) - Free

The Pear Tree / Pear Tree Indoor Stage

Peter E Davidson is back with his third solo Fringe show... PEEVED! Pete has discovered he can't quite reach full anger… But he has a solution which he wants to share with the other placidly afflicted! What if you could combine all the tiny things that niggle and irritate and in doing so combine their powers to give you access to the ‘insta-rant!’ So join Peter for this hilarious hour of observational comedy as he nit-picks at the things that really get under people’s skin… The big important burning issues of the day… like over complicated sandwiches, those ads where Skeletor do...

Paul Foxcroft: Debut

AUG 1-12, 14-25 at 12:25 (55 min) - Free

32 Below (Formerly Ushers) / The Cellar

PAUL FOXCROFT: DEBUT PRESENTED BY PAUL FOXCROFT It's Paul Foxcroft's second debut stand-up show! Or the first one, just in the wrong order. You decide! Paul's stumbling rapidly towards his 40th birthday and has some pretty big questions; What's the best exercise? Who are we supposed to listen to? When is he supposed to become a conservative and can it be avoided? Are there any simple answers out there that aren't nonsense? Also, how many spiders are there? (That last one isn't as important as the others, but seriously. What's up with spiders?) Let's find out as a team. And by 'as...

In-Bread With Joseph Emslie (Work In Progress)

AUG 3-11, 13-25 at 12:25 (60 min) - Free

Cabaret Voltaire / Cinema Room

Joseph presents a 45 minute work-in-progress show where he attempts to separate the good from the bad and the wheat from the chaff.
While it might not sound that exciting, think again, because as a coeliac Joseph is being far more dangerous than you first thought!
Bring your gluten free treats and come and see someone who is "definitely a name to keep tabs on." (Bruce Dessau, 2017) Over the past two years Joseph has claimed a place in the Laughing Horse New Act Of The Year Finalist 2018, Amused Moose National New Comic Award Finalist 2017 and So You Think You're Funny Semi Final ...

Grave St.Claire: Hard Bop

AUG 1-25 at 12:30 (60 min) - Free

Bar 50 / Marquee

‘Grave St.Claire: Hard Bop’ is a multimedia comedy show that incorporates stand up, videos, dance, and fancy dress. The show is a light-hearted and genuine look at overcoming adversities and includes stories about getting married way too young, learning to skateboard at age 32, crying at work, and how, as a leftist immigrant, I accidentally got a job working for an anti-immigration lobby within weeks of moving to a new country. Grave St.Claire is a New Zealand comedian living and gigging in London. Come see it....

Well, That Was Weird...

AUG 1-25 at 12:30 (60 min) - Free

Bier Keller, Picardy Place / Courtside

A comedy show for those who are sick of the mainstream. Forget Trump gags, Tinder references or cheesy punchlines. At Well, That Was Weird... we are celebrating an eclectic showcase of the Fringe's most alternative acts, performing inventive comedy deemed too bizarre for normal shows. There will be improv, music, theatre, spoken word, stand-up, and some stuff so out there you won't even know what to call it, all under the absurd umbrella of comedy. Some recent performers include naked cream-cake opera, LOLbot the robot comedian, a homicidal TED talk, a comedian heckling himself and darth va...

A Talking Therapist's Blues

AUG 1-6, 8-13, 15-20, 22-23 at 12:30 (60 min) - Free Ticketed

Brass Monkey / The Cinema Room

Its raw. Its from the heart. It will enter your soul. Prepare to be bewitched! PoetTess is a Psychotherapist. She is also a Word Spinner. Accompanied by accomplished Blues musician, Isaac Bacon, she shares a spellbinding story of love and loss, life and death and above all, redemption. In defeat she learned to fly, you can too. Dark humour and punchy pros. Truly Inspirational. ...

A-Z Mental Health Atlas

AUG 1-2, 4-9, 12-14 at 12:30 (45 min) - Free

The City Café / Las Vegas

Can't tell a psychiatrist from a psychic, a chainsaw-wielding-killer from someone with schizophrenia or a raging narcissist from the President of America? NHS shrink and award-winning comedian Benji Waterstones maps the psychiatric landscape and busts some myths along the way. Because our minds don't come with a satnav. Best Newcomer nominee Brighton Fringe 2018. "Perfect and hilarious" Buzzfeed...

Laughing Horse Free and Family Friendly Pick of the Fringe

AUG 2-25 at 12:30 (60 min) - Free

The Counting House / The Ballroom

See the very best comedians selected from around the Fringe, with different line-ups every day in this brand-new family friendly lunchtime stand-up showcase, from the people behind sell-out hit Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe. Just like its older sister, it's a great way to see Fringe comedy, with top line-ups and big laughs... just less naughty bits! Reviews of later version: 'Cracking comedy selection' ★★★★★ (Cream of the Fringe). 'An extraordinary smorgasbord' ★★★★ (Herald Sun, Melbourne). 'A fantastic night' ★★★&...

Slacktivist

AUG 1-25 at 12:30 (60 min) - Free

The Lockup / Lock Up 2

Through the years, the major conspiracies have dominated the headlines, JKF, Twin Towers, Why British Bake Off went to Channel 4! But now, Croydon's 9th best truth detective, conspiracy theorist and slacktivist is here to blow it all open. Rod Shepherd, Slacktivist, investigates the fake news, media lies and trying to fill out on line petitions - and is it worth it? ...

A Poet's Guide to Surviving the Apocalypse

AUG 15-19 at 12:30 (60 min) - Free

The Place / The Baird

2019... the economy has crumbled, politics has turned our society on its head, the apocalypse is here and what we need is a strategy to help us cope, survive and thrive. But most importantly of all, we need that strategy to be delivered to us through poetry. Join the Four Poets of the Apocalypse: Emma Ireland (Contributor to Runner-up 2018 Saboteur Awards), Spike Pike (Veterans for Peace UK), Sophie Sparham (Writing East Midlands, BBC Radio 4, Ted X Talks) and Mike Took (A real writing talent - EdFringeReview.com) for A Poet's Guide to Surviving the Apocalypse because, let's face it, we are ...

Coming of the Third Age

AUG 1-14 at 12:30 (60 min) - Free

The Place / The Baird

Coming of Age is a collection of songs on the theme of growing older. Composed and sung by Anna Durkacz, a late developer who started writing songs at the fine age of 57,the show takes us on an exploration, each piece a little anecdote from Anna's life. It's not for nothing she has been called the "Beryl Cooke of songwriting" and "the Weird Al Jankovtch of the Old Mum Genre". While on the subject of genre: perhaps we might call the show "post-menopausal-post-folk". Anna takes a wry look the ageing process and proves it's never too late. Anna is backed by a fine band of pals,The Professors of ...

Jumping Off the Bandwagon

AUG 20-25 at 12:30 (60 min) - Free

The Place / The Baird

There's no such thing as a free lunch but there is a free quality comedy show at lunchtime! Whatsapp group dynamics, Instagram validation and threesomes with Siri and Alexa. Stand-up and piano bits about all your favourite contemporary bandwagons. After an immensely successful podcast season, London based comedy partners: Annie Sheppard - tall friendly philosopher who loves to love you and the truth, and Victoria Olsina - non-beanie wearing lesbian from the Argentinian mafia sorting out London’s bathrooms, are here to surprise and delight Edinburgh. #pleaseloveme #messagedeleted...

Nick Elleray: Big Nick Energy

AUG 1-11, 13-25 at 12:45 (60 min) - Free

The Counting House / The Attic

Nick Elleray brings the mellow thunder to the Fringe with a brand new stand-up show with a great new zeitgeisty title that the kids will love. Where do you find joy in these grim times? Should you be asking Nick? Come along and find out. 'Brilliant, astute observational comedy about middle-aged life.' (Adam Bloom) 'A fine variety of cracking good jokes.' **** (Three Weeks). 'Time and money spent on Nick Elleray is time and money well spent. He’s great.' **** (Edinburgh Festivals Magazine) ...

Stand Up: Edinburgh

AUG 2-25 at 12:45 (60 min) - Free

The Free Sisters / Basement

Did you know that Edinburgh has a thriving comedy scene all year? Well now you do! We present the best of Edinburgh's comedy heroes and the pick of the scene's up-and-comers. Everybody performing is either from, or lives in, Edinburgh or the surrounding areas. Come and share the joy of the only performers on the Fringe who aren't being bankrupted by accommodation costs....

Tom Short's Wheel of Misfortune

AUG 1-25 at 12:45 (60 min) - Free

The Free Sisters / Maggie's Chamber

Tom Short is a performance artist, an entertainer who exists in the moment, He has been described as fantastic Impish, Snazzy, authentic, Nerd, Affable, Random, Extraordinary, remarkable, phenomenal, exceptional, astounding, inspiring Unassuming, Eccentric and lovable. Incorporating tricksterism and charm and utilises an interdisciplinary seen more on the continent and rarely seen in the UK arts scene. Taking influence from Andy Kaufman, Lee Evans, Kanye West, Westwood Steptoe and son and more. ...

Decree Absolute Vodka

AUG 1-13, 15-25 at 12:50 (50 min) - Free

The City Café / Hollywood

A personal stand-up show where comedian Sarah Iles talks you through the absolute vodka joys of being divorced in her early 30’s. She takes you through her hilarious journey of leaving her husband and having to move back in with her mother, trying to date again after 12 years out of the game and ultimately figuring out who the hell she is. This hilarious and poignant show will make you realise that when life hands you lemons, it’s all about Absolute Vodka. “Left the room quaking with laughter… a deeply astute comedy story-teller” Voice magazine. "Sarah Iles is an absolute treat to watch. H...

Comedy Gobbledygook

AUG 1-25 at 13:00 (60 min) - Free

Bar 50 / The Alcove

London Bermondsey's beloved local comedy show comes to Edinburgh! If you are looking for a quirky comedy show that caters the needs of radio four audience as well as Hello Magazine readers, then this is the show for you! Hosted by a podgy gay comic from the remote island of Taiwan, this comedy show has entertained month after month, all at the same time, South London locals + trendy gentrifier hipsters + recent foreign immigrants. That's why we are confident we have something for everyone! If a diverse, slightly bonkers and friendly comedy space is your thing, come to Comedy Gobbledygook...

Sketch Thieves

AUG 1-12, 14-25 at 13:00 (60 min) - Free

Cabaret Voltaire / Main Room

Comedy sketch swapping live! The cult hit show where sketch groups perform their own sketches, then each others'. Chortle Award winner – Best Club Show London. Top 5 comedy shows of the year (List). Top 10 shows at the Fringe (Time Out). Top 25 shows at the Fringe (Comedy.co.uk). Featured on BBC Radio 4 Extra. Made into a BBC television pilot. 'Brilliant format' (Guardian). 'Birth of a new cult comedy night... an undoubted hit' (Chortle.co.uk). 'Spontaneous and anarchic' **** (Fest). 'Truly electric' **** (Scotsman). 'Action-packed and chaotic' **** (BroadwayBaby.com). 'Deserves more than one ...

Angry Boater

AUG 1-6, 8-13, 15-20, 22-25 at 13:00 (60 min) - Free

The Counting House / The Loft

An hour of comedy, the way you like it.... up the canal. Now in its fifth year, Joel Sanders returns in his glorious comic voyage from suburbia to chaos. What's it really like to give up everything you've known to live on a boat? Twists, turns and big laughs from a comedian who spent a decade working across America with comedy's elite… followed by another decade floating around on a narrowboat. "Compelling!" Reno Gazette-Journal...

Journeys of the Mind and the Megabus

AUG 1-25 at 13:00 (60 min) - Free

The Golf Tavern / Upstairs

Luke Chilton and Joe Bates are two of the most promising comedians on the London open-mic circuit, and they’ve both been on a journey. Luke’s was a journey of the mind, when side-effects from anti-malaria tablets led to a psychotic episode deep in the Thai jungle. Joe’s was a journey of the coach, on the M1 southbound, to pursue his lifelong dream of sharing a house with 10 other people by the age of 33. Their journeys have led them to Edinburgh, and they’ll be bringing their very different styles and stories to this brilliant 2 part show. Larium Diaries is a single 25-30 minute anecdote in...

Ben Gosling: Jobs (with Special Guests)

AUG 2-25 at 13:00 (60 min) - Free

The Raging Bull (Formerly Moriarty's) / Cellar

A character comedy show from a comedian with real character. Each day will feature a different special guest act opening, then it’s on to Ben. Brilliant. 'Ben Gosling stood out as one to watch... naturally hilarious' (EdFringeReview.com). 'Ben Gosling carries the entire show' **** (InterMissionBristol.co.uk). 'Unpredictable, quick, exciting and fast-paced, clearly intelligently written... undeniably clever' **** (BroadwayBaby.com), *****(ClogsComedy.wordpress.com)...

Free Festival Music Bars - Live Music Around Edinburgh

AUG 3-24 at 13:00 (300 min) - Free

The Wee Pub / Main Room

Join us for a huge selection of acoustic music, duos, bands, rock, folk music, singers and more every day and night of the Fringe... with music specially selected to get your toes tapping and you singing along all day and night at venues across Edinburgh and also out in Leith. Contact each venue for the daily line-ups. ...

Rice and Chips

AUG 1-25 at 13:10 (60 min) - Free

The City Café / Nineties

Follow Marvin McCarthy as he takes you through a journey of being raised by a British atheist, king of cynical father and devout Buddhist, Chinese mother, in modern day Britain and the ghettos of Wimbledon. Expect the unexpected, as this is a dry, deadpan and surreal story with a difference....

Aaaaaaaaaaaaah, It's 101 Clean Jokes in 30 Minutes

AUG 1-25 at 13:15 (30 min) - Free

Dropkick Murphy's / Main Room

Award-winning gag merchant and UK Pun Champion 2016, Masai Graham, delivers over 100 clean jokes in just half an hour. Expect puns, one-liners and wordplay in this 3.3 laughs per minute bonanza. 'Annoyingly good' (Gary Delaney, Mock the Week). 'Flashes of proper genius' (Chortle.co.uk). ...

Old Jewish Jokes

AUG 1-5, 7-12, 14-19, 21-25 at 13:15 (60 min) - Free

Finnegan's Wake / The Back Room

Seventh consecutive year for the UK's longest running and most successful ever Jewish comedy show. Based on a true story, Jewish comedian Ivor Dembina performs some of his favourite kosher gags alongside his personal take on the life of the modern Jewish comic. ***** (Broadwaybaby) **** (Scotsman) **** (The Mirror) Admission free, gentiles half price. ...

Girl Stuff

AUG 11-20 at 13:15 (60 min) - Free

Sofi's Southside (formerly Harry's) / Upstairs

Sweden's female comedian of the year 2018 Josefin Johansson, presenter of the local editions of 'Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?' and ’Hollywood Game Night’ goes abroad with her 'Girl Stuff'. A comedy and music show about all the things girls love: makeup, ponies and boys. Or is that all? We discuss everything from the Bachelor to the Bechdel-test and yes, there will be some naughty bits. Josefin Johansson works for stage, radio and television. Is known for her quirky 80's style attire mashed with 'My Little Pony' aesthetics. What’s not to love?! ...

Lily Hyde & Alissa Anne Jeun Yi: Gentlemen, Please!

AUG 21-25 at 13:15 (60 min) - Free

Sofi's Southside (formerly Harry's) / Upstairs

Lily Hyde and Alissa Anne Jeun Yi: Gentlemen, Please! Soho Theatre Young Company alumni and (future) BAFTA winners Alissa and Lily present a brand-new split bill of foul-mouthed smut and highbrow satire. Suitors heavily discouraged. Lily and Alissa met on the Soho Theatre Stand-Up Lab in 2018 and quickly bonded over their love of expensive candles and the fact that they were both complex, three-dimensional women. Lily was blinded by Alissa’s silky Asian garms and exquisite taste in eyewear, and Alissa still remains strangely aroused by Lily’s extensive knowledge of 17th-century French...

The Two Moronnies - Brexed Off

AUG 1-10 at 13:15 (60 min) - Free

Sofi's Southside (formerly Harry's) / Upstairs

Fifty minutes of sophisticated word play as The Two Moronnies lampoon the lampoonable in their unique, energetic musical style. “Special guests” could include Donald Trump, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Jeremy Corbyn, Nicola Sturgeon, the odd royal and any other public figure that’s fallen foul of foot in mouth syndrome. Expect laconic wit and word play, with topical new lyrics set to old favourites in a repertoire that includes tunes from Flotsam and Jetsam, Flanders and Swann, Boney M, Gilbert and Sullivan, Kurt Weill, Madness, Abba, Queen, Red Clay Ramblers, Carter Fami...

Science Magic: Play with Your Food

AUG 1-25 at 13:15 (60 min) - Free

The Free Sisters / The Gothic Room

After touring for 3 months in Australia, triple award-winning Irish comedian & scientist, Donal Vaughan, brings his hugely popular science, comedy, magic family show back to the Edinburgh Fringe. Using only things you find around the house, Donal will perform amazing tricks to show how magical science can be. Wanna see a potato rocket launcher? Or conjure dragons breath? How about a vomiting unicorn? Or course you do. Always exciting and sometimes very messy, learn about science and laugh your pants off while you do. And the best part is all the tricks can be performed by you when you go ho...

Anesti Danelis: Six Frets Under

AUG 1-25 at 13:15 (60 min) - Free

The Hanover Tap / The Wee Tap

Amused Mooose Comedy Award Finalist Musical Comedian, Anesti Danelis, returns with a new hour of witty, ridiculous, and delightfully dark comedic songs that celebrate all the fun things in life like: identity crisis, stealing from work, inescapable rumours, alternative medicine, fearless youth, goats? and much more! So pull up a seat and let's ask life's biggest questions like 'why are we here?’ and ‘if people print their missing cat posters in black and white, do they even want to find their cats?’ in hopes to help us understand our existence and toe-tap that existential dread away. "Brill...

Angel Comedy Showcase

AUG 3-12, 14-24 at 13:15 (60 min) - Free

The Lockup / Lock Up 1

Award-winning Angel Comedy (Best Club in UK 2015, 2017, 2018 - Chortle Awards) brings a showcase to Edinburgh 2019. A total sell out in 2018 and 2017 Award-winning comedians and the best new acts, for free! Time Out recommended, a comedy institution and top comedy club in London on TripAdvisor!...

Fat Roland: Seven Inch

AUG 1-13 at 13:15 (60 min) - Free

The Newsroom / The Downstairs Bar

In the last record shop still standing, Manchester comic Fat Roland re-examines his life through not-so-teenage kicks, surrounded by forgettable (and unforgettable) pop music. Amid the cobwebbed racks and fading seven-inch singles, he faces his 45th birthday alone. Meanwhile, all the cool kids are drinking Slop!, the new hipster drink that tastes of gin AND petrol. When the brewery comes knocking, will Roland pack up his gramophone? Will Ed Sheeran come to the rescue (he won’t)? Why does Grace Jones sound like Johnny Vegas? And is that Gary Barlow holding a mop?! A five-star, on...

Girl Code

AUG 14-25 at 13:15 (60 min) - Free

The Newsroom / The Downstairs Bar

Girl Code Imagine if Loose Women was more outrageous, and funnier. "Girl Code" is a comedy discussions show about the highs and lows of womanhood. It features 4 uncensored female presenters who are of different backgrounds, different generations, and different opinions. No subject is off the table - the hosts will discuss anything including periods, monogamy, the changing role of gender, office politics, relationships and the conflicts between generations. They discuss the topics of the day, mixing humour with intelligent debate. In addition to the conversational segments, the forma...

MARVELus: Improv the MARVEL-verse

AUG 1-11, 13-25 at 13:20 (60 min) - Free

Cabaret Voltaire / Long Room

The UK's premiere nerd-culture comedy duo, The Just Us League and guests present a brand new MARVEL movie trilogy made up on the spot. Get your geek on as these improvisers make up a whole new MCU. Featuring some of the UK's best improvisors from The Noise Next Door, Showstoppers and more! ...

Laugh Train Home Comedy Showcase

AUG 1-25 at 13:30 (55 min) - Free

32 Below (Formerly Ushers) / The Cellar

In its 7th year, the best comics of the Fringe are brought together for this premier comedy showcase. Every show features different four/five-star comics, making it the best guide for who to see in Edinburgh, as well as a fantastic stand-alone show. The line-ups are constructed by one of London's best comedy clubs, Laugh Train Home, and sponsored by its home venue, The Four Thieves....

Broken Toys

AUG 1-25 at 13:30 (60 min) - Free

Bar 50 / Upstairs

A split stand up comedy bill from 3 rising stars from the London comedy circuit. One guy raising a kid that isn't his. One guy becoming an escort to make ends meet. And another guy because we need to fill that diversity quota....

Zahra Barri's Special (Work in Progress)

AUG 1-25 at 13:30 (50 min) - Free

Cabaret Voltaire / The Cave

Zahra’s never stood in front of a mirror and taken a selfie. Nor has she intentionally made herself look like a dog on Instagram. Zahra doesn’t think she’s special so why does everyone else think they are? She begs, “Don’t be a big head but don’t be narrow minded. Just have a normal sized head, please.” “Edgy and very funny", Cheeky Monkey Comedy 'A buzzy fluffball of comedy unafraid to take risks, a cute puppy with a surprising snarl.' Mumble Comedy. As seen on BBC Iplayer. As heard on BBC Radio 4 Extra and BBC Radio 2. ...

Charmian Hughes: What-not

AUG 1-11, 13-25 at 13:30 (60 min) - Free

The Counting House / The Lounge

When everyone around you is self-identifying, and you feel a bit left out, chill! You can join the tribe of What-Nots with Charmian, who also self identifies as a very funny comedian. 'Captivating, irresistible' (Scotsman). 'A class above other stand-ups, great entertainer not to be missed' (Dominion Post, New Zealand). 'Best gags of the night' (Independent). 'Charming ribaldry' (Guardian). 'I love Charmian Hughes' (Bridget Christie). Glastonbury Festival emcee, BBC Radio 4 Pick Of The Week....

A Many Splendored Thing

AUG 1-2, 5, 8-9, 12, 15-16, 19, 22-23 at 13:30 (60 min) - Free

The Free Sisters / The Wee Room

Feeling heartbroken? They say laughter is the best medicine! Throw in some music, and now you're really talking. Come join Rena Hundert on a healing musical journey from heartbreak to self-love....

Not My Audience

AUG 1-11, 13-25 at 13:30 (60 min) - Free

The Free Sisters / Maggie's Front Room

Ever wanted to be part of a comedy show but don''t like the idea of being picked on by the comedian? Do you have funny suggestions for stand up topics that you''d like professional comedians to improvise around? Want to see three top comedians battle it out to win you over? Experience the Edinburgh Fringe Festival NOT MY AUDIENCE! The interactive stand up comedy showcase where the festival''s hottest talent takes it in turns to impress you the audience based on the information you anonymously share through our exclusive app. Before the show starts, you''ll be able to access our secure and ...

Shut it down Carol

AUG 2-25 at 13:35 (60 min) - Free

The Pear Tree / Pear Tree Indoor Stage

Hello! My name is Edd Hedges, I'm a comedian and I do storytelling style comedy shows, I've done two before and they both went pretty well. I was invited to do a run at the prestigious SOHO Theatre (fancy) and I got to go to and perform in Australia. I'm coming back to the fringe with my third hour. It's another story, but this one is a bit different. This show is about a lot of things. It's hard to explain but ultimately it's about two people. A 74 year old man in Essex sitting in his garden in 1999 and a 24 year old, standing on a beach on the other side of the planet in 2018. This show is a...

Character Building Experience

AUG 1-13, 15-25 at 13:40 (60 min) - Free

Cabaret Voltaire / Cinema Room

You enter a tavern. You see a group of comedian questers. What do you do? A Dungeons-and-Dragons-style, comedy, interactive role playing game experience where the audience get to play God and make the decisions about what characters can and can’t do. Suitable for the experts, the novices and the uninitiated but curious. No two quests are alike; a unique mini-adventure, with Game Master Sasha Ellen. “Honest, hilarious and horrifying... the comedy future looks good for Ellen”-Canal-St “Always engaging”-Chortle Material featured on BBC Radio 4...

Loud Blond Bald Kid

AUG 1-12, 14-25 at 13:45 (60 min) - Free

Bar 50 / Marquee

First kisses, weird hairs, the cool group: navigating adolescence was a challenge for everyone. These painfully hilarious stories of growing up will make you feel thankful you never have to go back – and surprised to realise we all actually made it out OK. Hailed as a dynamic heartfelt storyteller this is Kevin James Doyle's follow up to The 30 Year Old Virgin which was called brutally honest and wildly funny. Best Comedy, FRIGID Festival NYC. ...

Mista Lorraine

AUG 1-25 at 13:45 (60 min) - Free

Bier Keller, Picardy Place / Courtside

Some people choose their alter ego, as for Mista Lorraine it chose her. Lorraine invites you to see the funny side of being a woman with a deep voice in her standup show Mista Lorraine. Customer services representatives go all out to protect Lorraine from herself even demanding to speak to the ‘real’ Lorraine. Accusations of being a fraud and being denied access to certain services are just some of the situations Lorraine faces daily when conducting business over the phone. She has been brought to tears but now it's time to laugh about it. Even a call to emergency services is not as straig...

that Black Mirror Episode with the two Lesbians - Richy Sheehy and Mark O'Keeffe

AUG 1-25 at 13:45 (60 min) - Free

Brass Monkey / The Cinema Room

Ireland's comedy darlings Mark O'Keeffe (winner Show Me the Funny 2019- and Richy Sheehy (viral sensation as Cork's Biggest Liverpool Fan) bring you their best hour. "Great Fucking Set" - Tony Hinchcliffe "These guys are going to be fucking huge" - David McSavage “Musical Genius” – BBC Radio 1 'Most Original, First Class Comedy' - Limerick Fringe 'Cork's finest export' - Red FM ...

Conor Drum: Solo

AUG 1-25 at 13:45 (60 min) - Free

The City Café / Las Vegas

A show about growing up and becoming a man. As his parents prepare to Airbnb his old bedroom, Conor rediscovers his teenage years after finding his old band's demo and wonders if going solo was the right thing to do. 'Highly entertaining' (Chortle.co.uk). 'Perfect Fringe stand-up' (TheWeeReview.com). 'Delivers high quality material' (Skinny). 'Very shrewd observational humour' (BroadwayBaby.com)....

Board Game Smackdown

AUG 1-13, 15-20, 22-25 at 13:45 (60 min) - Free

The Counting House / The Ballroom

Hosted by award-winning comedian and UK board game champion James Cook, the funniest Fringe performers play classic and new board games live on stage in this comedy panel show based on board/card/party games. Suitable for ages 11+ Previous guests incl Gary Delaney, Robin Ince, Paul Sinha, Laura Lexx, Eleanor Tiernan among others Audience reviews for 2018: "It’s funny, light hearted and energetic, with a few gentle innuendos. Good for boardgame nerds but also super accessible for non-gamers" "It was Brilliant. We laughed from the opening sentence to the end." "This was one of ...

Interviewing Electric Frog

AUG 1-25 at 13:45 (60 min) - Free

The Lockup / Lock Up 2

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 & hysterically unexpected turn… Come and see Electric Frog recount the frankly ludicrous tale of his rise to the heady heights of pudding faced Dada legend and international Media Mogul. But was his rise without casualties? Join Electric Frog and his companion Matt Stags for a retrospective of this strange, dada-esque character's career - dare to enter his mysterious world. A riot of sound and vision; an as...

The Presented

AUG 1-25 at 13:45 (60 min) - Free

The Place / The Baird

A struggling artist working at a movie theater, Chris goes on a surreal adventure into his subconscious while popping popcorn. From childhood moments to famous 19th century actresses, armadillos and fog machines, The Presented is a funny and insightful look at success and rejection in the modern world. "A strikingly original writer & performer." - The Scotsman "The Spalding Gray of Philly." - Broad St. Review ...

Aaaaaaaaaaaaarrgh, It's 101 Naughty Jokes in 30 Minutes

AUG 1-25 at 14:00 (30 min) - Free

Dropkick Murphy's / Main Room

Award-winning gag merchant and UK Pun Champion 2016, Masai Graham, delivers over 100 naughty jokes in just half an hour. Expect puns, one-liners and wordplay in this 3.3 laughs per minute bonanza. 'Annoyingly good' (Gary Delaney, Mock the Week). 'Flashes of proper genius' (Chortle.co.uk). ...

Walking Tours of the Historic Royal Mile

AUG 2-25 at 14:00 (120 min) - Free

Outside City Chambers / Outside

Welcome to Edinburgh in August.Time to spare? At a loose end? There is always room for you on our walking tours around the heart of Edinburgh's historic Old Town. We'll show you the hidden corners of this fascinating district: the closes and courtyards, nooks and crannies – places you might never discover on your own. We'll tell you about the city's rich history, the colourful characters and personalities who have made Edinburgh what it is. Our guides are all local people who love our city and are only too pleased to share their knowledge and enthusiasm with you. Our tours are genuinely fr...

Aidan 'Taco' Jones - Lightfoot James

AUG 1-25 at 14:00 (60 min) - Free

The Counting House / The Attic

From December 2016-August 2017 I received two messages a week from a fake Facebook account. This mystery person shared a bunch of private information about my family, and said they were going to fuck my Mum. The name of the account was Lightfoot James, help me find him. "An effortless and vulnerable charm seldom seen on the stand-up stage, even from the most famous comic minds" The Music (Melbourne Comedy Festival, 2018) ★★★★ TheFourthWall (FRINGE WORLD, 2018) ---------------------------------------------- Aidan Jones is known to his friends as Taco because wh...

Gummy Bears

AUG 8-14 at 14:00 (50 min) - Free

The Cuckoo's Nest / Basement

Adam Brides(Max Turner Competition Finalist) and David Anthony (Leicester Square New comedian of the Year Semi Finalist) join forces for an extravaganza of comedy and storytelling. Come and spend an hour of fun with two men who look like they never sleep for tales of daring escapades and crippling defeat. One gifted with endless enthusiasm for life, and one who is yet to be convinced of it. North vs South. Working class vs painfully middle. Educated vs barely literate. Join the adventure! "Very funny and great energy. The type of comic that makes you wanna be his friend" - Radu Isac. "...

Ishi Khan: I'mMigrant!

AUG 15-25 at 14:00 (50 min) - Free

The Cuckoo's Nest / Basement

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ -Female Arts . Funny women best show award nominee, Ishi explores migration & identity. As stories of the migration crisis, Brexit & the Windrush scandal dominated the news, Ishi wonders where she fits in. Zambian-born, with Indian ancestry, Ishi is at home in Britain. Does that make her Brizambdian? Her energetic, playful nature draws you into her complex world. Join Ishi on an adventure of discovery . Expect silliness, fun & colourful Bollywood dancing. This show is suitable for migrants, non-migrants and strawberries! "So r...

The Afterlife of a Soap Star

AUG 1-7 at 14:00 (50 min) - Free

The Cuckoo's Nest / Basement

A comic/ tragic tale of a media babe trying to make sense of modern day...and night life... Fighting a system, a family and a gender that’s against her. AFTER LIFE OF A SOAP STAR is a semi autobiographical one woman show, depicting the madness of the media, maddening politics and “madness” itself. From a woman who’s experienced all of it! ...

Huggers

AUG 1-25 at 14:00 (60 min) - Free

The Free Sisters / Maggie's Chamber

The popular worldwide hit show returns with another revolving line-up of the best comedians, musical acts, magicians and children’s entertainers for all the family to enjoy together. ‘My eight-year-old loved it. The hour whizzed past. Perfect for children’s attention spans’ (ChildFriendlyBrighton.co.uk). ‘Mums and dads are onto a winner with this ... delightfully immature comedy’ (Herald Sun, Melbourne)....

Nicky Wilkinson: Game On

AUG 1-11, 13-25 at 14:00 (60 min) - Free

The Free Sisters / Basement

After her 2018 hit show 'Happy' ("Wilkinson's relatable, down-to-earth humour leaves us in stitches" ★★★★ - thisisradelaide.com.au), Wilkinson is back with an outrageously fun stand-up show. It's Game On! "Effortless likeability and excellent comic timing" - chortle.co.uk. Finalist of So You Think You're Funny and New Act of the Year, 2013. One half of multi award-winning physical comedy duo, The Kagools ('Surely one of the outright funniest pieces of the entire festival ★★★★★ - tvbomb.co.uk)...

The World's Smallest Comedy Show

AUG 10-11 at 14:00 (240 min) - Free

The World's Smallest Fringe Venue / The Coop

It's the smallest comedy show in the smallest venue at the Fringe. A select three audience members, at any one time, will see the best comedy that can fit in and around the world's smallest Fringe venue. Sell-out guaranteed! Featuring a rotating line-up of comics and a rotating audience too... If someone leaves you can grab their seat as the show goes on all afternoon, with different acts every 30 minutes, 2pm to 6pm. Oh, and did we mention that it all happens in a chicken coop too?...

Mickey Sharma - Pervert!

AUG 1-13, 15-20, 22-25 at 14:05 (40 min) - Free

The City Café / Hollywood

I've been single for 3 years. and I have made use of this time doing exactly what I want to do. Result.......apparently I'm a sexual deviant!...

Erich McElroy: Radical Centrist

AUG 1-11, 13-25 at 14:15 (60 min) - Free

Bar 50 / The Alcove

With politics moving to extremes and into nearly every aspect of our lives, Erich McElroy finds another way. The only true centrist comedian at the Fringe, Erich is rising up to demand incremental change and reasoned debate. He’s crossing over the left/right divide in a way that’ll make you stop and think - or at least slow down. Heard on BBC Radio Scotland’s ‘Breaking the News’ & Radio 4’s ‘Moral Maze.’ Seen on BBC Breakfast, Good Morning Britain, SkyNews. “Stand-up at its best” ★★★★★ BroadwayBaby “The pace never dips and the jokes land every time” ★★...

Classic Joke Club

AUG 1-25 at 14:15 (60 min) - Free

Cabaret Voltaire / Main Room

Join the funniest acts on the UK and international circuit 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. Discover the definitive answers behind the number of people required to change a light bulb, the adventures of an entire menagerie of creatures and why three representatives of the British Isles are always getting into such unexpected scrapes.' Previously appearing acts include Stuart Goldsmith, Geoff Norcott, Sindhu Vee and Bec Hill...

Jane Hill - Addicted to Fun

AUG 1-12, 14-25 at 14:15 (60 min) - Free

The Counting House / The Loft

Jane used to be fun. By fun, she means drunk. She’s been sober for 16 years and life is fine, but she still misses the fun times: the buzz that only alcohol can give you; the sheer joyous abandon of being drunk. With a wicked sense of humour and a shockingly reckless candour, Jane discusses her own drinking problem, the British approach to alcohol, the scrapes that booze got her into - and how she managed to get out. Addicted to Fun is frank and funny show about anxiety, sex, alcohol and that time she nearly vomited over Noddy Holder. ‘Comedy gold... . Throughout, she holds the room...

Danny Nee-ds his debut

AUG 1-16 at 14:15 (60 min) - Free

The Golf Tavern / Upstairs

I am Danny Nee. I am either an Irish man or a Chinese man. I leave that up to you to judge. I hablo espanol and parler francais and I will tell you about this. I play guitar and will release an album soon so i do have a sensitive side which seeks to reflect on my emotions more openly rather than just covering it up by comedy all the time. I am from the west highland of Scotland but live in Glasgow so I went from nearly getting killed by boredom to nearly getting killed by knife users as they are called in more affluent areas....

Once an Emo, Always an Emo (WIP)

AUG 23-25 at 14:15 (60 min) - FREE TICKETED

The Golf Tavern / Upstairs

Kirsty Brinkman (Barshens) is bringing her work in progress stand up hour to the Fringe. Having written the show some time ago, she has been reworking the entire thing to include: jokes (maybe), stories (probably) and something about an identity crisis and growing up emo (hopefully). She's a bit of a legend, she's a wildcard and she has been described as "the funniest person I have ever met" on two separate occasions, by two very close friends, with (fairly) minimal pressure. Please consider joining her for a sure-to-be fun hour of trying new and funny stuff (broadly speaking). ...

Two Mums - One Cup

AUG 17-22 at 14:15 (60 min) - Free

The Golf Tavern / Upstairs

Two Mums - One Cup One split hour of hilarity + comedy brought to you by comedians who happen also to be Mums. Kelly Ford / Soho Radio Presenter and Funny Women - One to Watch 2018 and Naomi Wattis - Max Turner - Semi Finalist 2018. ...

Leslie Ewing-Burgesse Exists!

AUG 1-12, 14-25 at 14:15 (60 min) - Free

The Raging Bull (Formerly Moriarty's) / Cellar

Leslie Ewing-Burgesse did a show last year about being imaginary, and realised along the way that it was a massive manifestation of all her insecurities!! Hooray!! Now she''s trying to accept that she might actually be real, and face the horrid truth of being a genuine human in a terrifying world. Through the means of extreme silliness, obviously. She doesn't know how to take things seriously!!...

Everyone Dropped Out of My Sketch Troupe

AUG 1-13 at 14:25 (60 min) - Free

The City Café / Nineties

An Accidental One Woman Show! Standing in the wreckage of a five piece sketch troupe, one stressed out comedian is determined to keep going. She'll show you how the show should have gone through sketch, stand-up and characters and explain where it all went tits up (also the original name of the sketch troupe). Was it when Brid decided to become a nun? Or when Lucy got arrested? Maybe they should have stopped it all when Rhiannon got them barred from Sheffield's city limits. What matters is that Mary is still going and still determined to do the five person Poirot sketch. Watch her as s...

Goodbye Charles

AUG 19-25 at 14:25 (60 min) - Free

The City Café / Nineties

"I ate the divorce papers, Charles. I ate them with ketchup...and they were good. Gooood!" We are very pleased to present to you the dark comedy and growing cult hit Goodbye Charles, written by American playwright Gabriel Davis. Jill's husband Charles mysteriously disappears after she refuses to grant him a divorce. Concerned something has happened to her husband, Jill follows a string of clues to try and find out the secret Charles was keeping from her... ...

S.H.T.F.

AUG 14-18 at 14:25 (60 min) - Free

The City Café / Nineties

We live in challenging times. Climate change. Pandemics. Brexit. But do not despair! Alpha Wolf will show you the equipment and skills YOU need to survive the end of the world. Alpha Wolf is founder and President of Survivalists UK, Britain's 35th largest survivalist community. Come and see what Alpha has to say. It may save your life!...

Cyclopath

AUG 1-25 at 14:30 (60 min) - Free

Finnegan's Wake / The Back Room

Professional comedian and avid cyclist Dion Owen brings his best stand up material with an emphasis on his experiences and passion for life on a bike. ...

Plans

AUG 1-13, 15-20, 22-25 at 14:30 (60 min) - Free

Sofi's Southside (formerly Harry's) / Upstairs

So there is this man and this other man, one of them is good. God willing, we will be like our comedy heroes and become the total laughing stock of the community! We should also say we're brothers. Plans is a comedy duo from Edinburgh. ...

Circus Sonas Family Show

AUG 1-25 at 14:30 (60 min) - Free

The Free Sisters / The Gothic Room

Martin, and Logy return to the Edinburgh Fringe with their fun, family friendly show. Suitable for all ages....

101 Comedy Club

AUG 1-25 at 14:30 (60 min) - Free

The Hanover Tap / The Wee Tap

'Funny. Fast. Free' **** (ThreeWeeks). Each show sees four experienced acts performing. All our comedians have been hand-picked from an ethical fair trade farm where they've been grown in only the finest organic dog poo. All our fart jokes are sustainable due to our unique carbon off-set scheme. Each time one of us blows off, a tree is planted in Dagenham, Essex. 'Original, likeable, great timing and hilarious delivery' (Dan Kington, Danny's Comedy Club)....

Pottervision 2 WIP

AUG 1-25 at 14:30 (60 min) - Free

The Lockup / Lock Up 1

Pottervision 2 WIP! The Harry Potter Parody show returns with a brand-new WORK IN PROGRESS 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. How? Through parody, audience interaction and re-enactments. Curious? Well rest your curiosity, this show is suitable for the most casual potter fan but engaging enough for the most avid squib. 'One of the most sought after shows at the Fringe' **** (Freshair Radio). Sell-out show 2017 and 2018....

It's All Going To Be O.K.

AUG 1-13, 15-25 at 14:30 (60 min) - Free

The Newsroom / The Downstairs Bar

The world is going to shxt! Or so it seems. Ophélie and Kuan-wen share with you why they believe in the simple optimism that everything is going to be O.K. Not least because these two have years of experience fighting against the french patriarchy/ a Chinese tiger mum. It's not exactly an easy ride to be aliens in (Post-)Brexit Britain, is it? Ophélie Hocquard - BBC New Comedy Award 2017 Nominee, as heard on BBC Radio 4, Writer for BBC Newsjack, Funny Women “One to Watch” 2018 Kuan-wen Huang - Hackney Empire New Act of the Year 2019 Finalist, Amused Moose National New Comic Awar...

A Booklover's Comedy Show

AUG 1-12, 14-25 at 14:35 (60 min) - Free

32 Below (Formerly Ushers) / The Cellar

“The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.” - Terry Pratchett After a sellout run in it’s inaugural Edinburgh season the Booklover’s Comedy Show sensation is back! A compilation show featuring a rotating bill of comedians and storytellers talking about everything book related - it could be anything from a kids book that scarred them for life to a time they partied with Salman Rushdie - whatever it is, if you like reading there'll be something for you. So if you’ve ever: - paused after reading something to take a moment and collect your...

Gráinne Maguire; Guys- It's Problematic

AUG 1-25 at 14:35 (60 min) - Free

Cabaret Voltaire / Long Room

Award-winning comedian Gráinne Maguire (Dave's UnSpun, BBC One's This Week, RTE's Cutting Edge and Radio 4's Now Show) returns with a sparkling, exhilarating and life-affirming show about why we should all be Team Titanic. Writer for 8 Out of 10 Cats and The Last Leg. 'A must-see from a comedian at the top of her game' (Edinburgh Festivals Magazine). 'A self-assured performance from a woman who has mastered her craft' (Skinny). 'Sarcastically and scabrously hilarious' (Chortle.co.uk). 'Original and unpredictable – a delightful, incisive hour of truth and madness' (FringeGuru.com)....

Confessions of a Taxi Driver

AUG 1-12, 14-25 at 14:45 (60 min) - Free

Bar 50 / Upstairs

The show follows Andrew as he is awarded custody of his daughter. The judge in court when giving custody tells Andrew "You look like you drank a lot last night and then turns to the mother and says you look like you had a lot to drink this morning". Custody was awarded to the 21 year old and his life got turned upside down. 21 years later his daughter now a successful poet in her own right has somehow turned out good. And has written some poems about her relationship with her alco father which will be relayed to the crowd with a comedic slant. The show will end with stories about his new proff...

Mistaken

AUG 2-4, 6-11, 13-18, 20-25 at 14:45 (60 min) - Free

Cabaret Voltaire / The Cave

The Actor Liam Neeson made some controversial statements! How should he be treated? Following an huge row on Facebook Anthony Ayton takes a nuanced view."I love Anthony Ayton he's clever a bit cheeky and bloody funny" Angela Barnes ...

Socially Awkward Penguin

AUG 1-18, 20-25 at 14:45 (60 min) - Free

Dropkick Murphy's / Main Room

Have you ever found yourself in an awkward social situation? Ever wished there was a guide to help you navigate your way through life's trickier interactions? Do you want a penguin? Then join Emmy Fyles (Comedy Central, BBC Three) in a multimedia extravaganza as she endeavours to solve these problems for you (apart from the one about wanting a penguin, obviously. You’re on your own there). ‘Superb comic timing, clever, original writing – one to watch!' **** (FunnyWomen.com). One of the Guardian's Best Shows of the Fringe 2018. ...

Cool Jokes / Hot Takes

AUG 1-12, 14-24 at 14:45 (60 min) - Free

The Counting House / The Lounge

Cool Jokes / Hot Takes 2 of Scotlands finest comedians in one show! Liam Withnail Liam Withnail has been entertaining the audiences of Scotland and beyond for nearly ten years. His cheeky manor is always a hit with audiences – leading to a nomination for BEST COMPERE at the 2018 Scottish Comedy Awards. The only comic to ever appear in BOTH the ENGLISH and SCOTTISH Comedian Of The Year Finals – his career has led him to sell out shows at Festivals in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Adelaide, Reykjavik, Brighton and more… “Slick, Fast Paces Banter” – The Skinny Christopher Macarthur Boyd Bo...

Funny Cluckers - Best of the Fest

AUG 2-25 at 14:45 (60 min) - Free

The Free Sisters / Maggie's Front Room

Four top-quality fowl-mouthed acts, hand-plucked from around the festival. For the poultry sum of a bucket contribution on eggsit. Guaranteed to be clucking funny. Cockmungously not suitable for the family....

Musicedy

AUG 1-2, 5, 8-9, 12, 15-16, 19, 22-23 at 14:45 (60 min) - Free

The Free Sisters / The Wee Room

Join us for an experiment in music and comedy the likes of which has never been seen before (in this room and exact time slot)! In every show, a lineup of stand-up comedians will perform their sets as normal, but with live accompaniment from a musician onstage. With a brand-new lineup of award-winning comedians and musicians every day, you're always bound to witness something unique and exciting! Will it work? We'll have to see......

Olaf Falafel Presents Knitting With Maracas

AUG 1-12, 14-25 at 14:50 (60 min) - Free

The Pear Tree / Pear Tree Indoor Stage

Critically acclaimed idiot Olaf Falafel is back once again like a renegade master. If you've been to any of his previous shows you'll know exactly what to expect - inventive jokes and stupid comedic leftfieldery all held together with the flimsiest of narrative structures. "Absurdity so well-crafted that silly doesn't do it justice" (Evening Standard). ‘A wonderful hour of professional silliness’ (List). ‘A barrage of absurdist humour and sharp one-liners’ (EdFringeReview.com). ‘Olaf Falafel is an idiot, and wouldn’t have it any other way’ (Steve Bennett, Chortle.co.uk). ‘Re...

Common People (Again)

AUG 1-9 at 14:55 (60 min) - Free

Cabaret Voltaire / Cinema Room

COMMON PEOPLE (AGAIN!) Following a very successful run in 2018, the Common People are back for more! Janet and Paul are ordinary, common people and very happy with it. They aren’t trying to educate anyone, teach them where they are going wrong or how they should think and if they were it would be dangerous to listen. All they want is to take your mind off the world and enjoy an hour of belly laughs. This is what happens when comedy comes out of the council estate, so come and have a laugh if you think you're hard enough. ...

Elliot Wengler: Solo an Elliot Wengler Story

AUG 10-13, 15-25 at 14:55 (60 min) - Free

Cabaret Voltaire / Cinema Room

Having grown up in the 90s and 00s, all Elliot Wengler, ‘a likeable performer with nice ideas’ (Broadway Baby) wants to talk about is Pokemon, how he became the 16th-best-Pokemon-player-in-the-UK-in-2004. Full of ‘truly funny stories; a real treat’ (Concrete), Wengler recounts tales of growing up in the digital age with fast-paced storytelling, hyperactive observations, and a quest to if not catch ‘em all… then to joke about ‘em all instead..! ● ‘a likeable performer with nice ideas’ – Broadway Baby ● 'hilarious', 'fabulous', ‘great stories delivered in a hilarious way’ –...

Suren Jayemanne: I'm Here, All Weak (AUS)

AUG 1-25 at 15:00 (60 min) - Free

Bar 50 / Marquee

Suren Jayemanne (AUS) has made a splash on the Australian scene, with his debut TV stand up special featured as part of ABC's Comedy Next Gen series. Suren has been praised for his engaging and witty style that is both provocative and downright funny. Touching on race and multiculturalism, in an increasingly fractured world, Suren seeks to poke fun at what separates us while celebrating what unites us. With eager anticipation, Suren returns to Edinburgh in 2019. Don't miss this chance to see one of Australia's rising stars of comedy. ...

Darcie Silver - I know you are but what am I?

AUG 1-16 at 15:00 (60 min) - Pay What You Want

Brass Monkey / The Cinema Room

“Very Funny Stuff” - Russell kane “Very talented Joke Writer” - Gary Delaney Darcie Silver is one of the most exciting new comedians on the circuit. With an hilarious mix of one liners, dark jokes you can't quite believe she's saying and a bit of filth thrown in for good measure- she's an audience favourite who doesn't disappoint. ...

Sense of Tumour

AUG 17-25 at 15:00 (60 min) - Free

Brass Monkey / The Cinema Room

What does a busy, modern, single woman do when she finds a lump in her breast? She cracks jokes. With no respect for cancer, Ingibjorg has spent most of her cancer treatment writing jokes to stay in control of an otherwise daunting situation, making people giggle nervously about her blue tit, baldness and bowel movements and revealing way too much about getting laid with cancer. Now fresh out of chemo, she's raring to overshare stuff with a brave enough audience. With special guests....

Will Mars: Phoenix

AUG 1-12, 14-25 at 15:00 (60 min) - Free

The City Café / Las Vegas

Brilliantly self-deprecating stand-up, Will Mars, is fast making a name for himself as a down-at-heel, yet lovable international star. As seen on FOX's Showtime at The Apollo, NBC's Trial By Laughter (Season 8 Finalist) & BBC's Stand-Up for Comic Relief. "A remarkable talent ... A comic tour de force” **** EdFringe Review (U.K.) "As a storyteller he is a joy to experience" **** Mumble Comedy (U.K.) "A unique and witty perspective on thoughts that many have but rarely articulate" **** Adelaide Advertiser (Australia) "Damn! That dude is funny!" Steve Harvey, Showtime at The Apoll...

Stand-up Philosophy

AUG 1-25 at 15:00 (60 min) - Free

The Counting House / The Ballroom

STAND-UP PHILOSOPHY is like stand-up comedy, except that it’s philosophical as well as funny! With a different philosophical theme and line-up each day, the Fringe’s most intelligent comedians join some of the UK’s most entertaining academic philosophers, to answer the big questions of philosophy - and discuss them with the audience. Hosted by philosopher/comedian Charlie Duncan Saffrey, it’s like a cross between a stand-up comedy show and a public lecture, only more fun. And there’s a bar. Come along if you’re curious!...

Barely There

AUG 3-25 at 15:00 (60 min) - Free

The Cuckoo's Nest / Basement

Join Mary O'Connell and Patrick Healy for an hour of laughs and insights into their underwhelming lives. Mary is still angry about the ending of Lost, even though she hasn't seen it. She is also a NATYs Finalist 2018, and winner of the London Chortle Student Competition public vote in 2016. Scathing, playful, laid-back, and assured, Mary brings her perplexed take on life to the stage. Patrick is a NATYs Finalist 2019, because he's younger than Mary and won't let her forget it. He was also a So You Think You're Funny Finalist in 2018, and was crowned Yellow Comedy Young Comedian of the Year...

Becky Brunning: Bloom

AUG 1-4, 6-18, 20-25 at 15:00 (60 min) - Free

The Lockup / Lock Up 2

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? #metoo, the Matriarchy, can you crowdsource a baby? The world is her cockle. The world is her oyster. Becky Brunning is in BLOOM. "Her comedy insinuates itself, forcing its way inexorably through the cracks in her audience's defences and flourishing there" Broadway Baby "Original, inventive and exciting" Sara Pascoe ★★★★ Au...

Johnny Depp: A Retrospective On Late-Stage Capitalism

AUG 1-10 at 15:00 (60 min) - Free

The Place / The Baird

Join Johnny Depp — preteen heartthrob turned wino forever — for a retrospective on every film of his entire career, even the ones we didn’t watch, in order to ask... what happened? Toss your golden doubloons, scissorhands memorabilia, and embarrassing fan letters onto the shrine turned dumpster fire Depp has created for himself. Part ritual & part drunken singalong, Johnny Depp: a Retrospective features rum, promiscuity, and $30,000 worth of candles by which we can pay to watch the Rich consume us all. Jenna Kuerzi as Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow as Johnny Depp as Late Stage Capitalism as Jack...

Jumping The Barriers

AUG 19-25 at 15:00 (60 min) - Free

The Place / The Baird

“Jumping the Barriers” tells the story of a chance meeting on a train between a wealthy young graduate and a homeless northerner, and how this dramatic mirror casts light on the inequality of our society. James seemingly has it all – a good job, a nice flat in London, and a girlfriend who loves him. Everything is sorted. And that’s the problem. Nothing exciting ever happens to him. Enter Nathan, a streetwise scouser who is homeless and has just bunked on the train. Their short train journey shows us how first impressions can be deceiving, how we often take a lot for granted and that we always ...

Sets in the City - Free

AUG 11-18 at 15:00 (60 min) - Free

The Place / The Baird

Hey, you! Don't watch that! Watch this! The Sheffield Revue Presents.... Sets in the City A brand new show from some comedians you don't know! Guaranteed to make you laugh, or absolutely none of your money back*! Join The Sheffield Revue for an hour of what is sure to be an eclectic and rib-tickling mix of stand up comedy! Come along and see a different set of hilarious stand-ups a night, all accompanied by one of our fantastic MCs who will pump you all so full of soul you’ll be bursting and ready for a toilet break! Some old reviews: “Refreshing and enjoyable. A great deal of ...

Sh*t Socialist

AUG 1-25 at 15:15 (60 min) - Free

The Counting House / The Attic

Chris Tavner presents his new stand up show about his life of being a Socialist activist. Well, we say activist, that depends on what time he gets up. Chris will explore lessons learned from his experience in the context of Brexit, Trump and Corbynmania, working through his own contradictions and hypocrisies along the way. A show for the many... “Likeable and funny” City Life ...

Fantastic Flatulence and Where to Find It

AUG 1-25 at 15:15 (60 min) - Free

The Free Sisters / Maggie's Chamber

Award-winning Scottish author Stuart Reid launches his 8th book at the Edinburgh Festival in 2019 with an exploration of eggy explosions, big bottom burps and his fear of farts. He even has a fear of saying fart. How do astronauts fart in their space suits? And where does it go? Do their suits inflate? Do aliens fart? Not that it matters because in space, no one can hear you fart! There will be bums, bogies, books and more big bottom burps with more stunning stories from the madcap world of Gorgeous George, Grandpa Jock and Crayon Kenny. Warning no.1 - there may be snot! Warning no.2 - au...

Nik Coppin: Shark

AUG 19-25 at 15:15 (60 min) - Free

The Free Sisters / Basement

The affable globetrotting comedian returns with a show consisting of hilarious comedy deconstruction and anecdotes from his many overseas trips. There is no shark......

Shaggers

AUG 1-18 at 15:15 (60 min) - Free

The Free Sisters / Basement

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.co.uk). ‘Excellent’ ***** (Audience Review, Edfringe.com). ‘Utterly hilarious’ ****1/2 (Perth Fringe World). ‘Possibly the best value show at the Festival’ **** (Herald Sun, Melbourne)....

Sarah Lee: Half A Man

AUG 1-12, 14-25 at 15:20 (30 min) - Free

The City Café / Hollywood

A half hour from half a man (her father was a man). Join this loveable, grown-up tomboy for her punchy and hilarious fringe debut. Jewish Comedian of the Year Finalist 2018. Leicester Square Comedian of the Year Semi-Finalist 2018. Get-Up Stand-Up! Semi Finalist 2018....

Immoral Maze

AUG 1-11, 13-25 at 15:30 (60 min) - Free

Bar 50 / The Alcove

Steve N Allen (BBC2’s The Mash Report), Erich McElroy (Sky News, BBC Breakfast) and guest comedians from the UK stand-up circuit tackle the moral questions of the day. In a time when more and more subjects aren’t being talked about Immoral Maze deals with them in the most honest way, by getting comedians to rip them apart. ...

Shawn Jay's Fun Guide to Nihilism

AUG 1-25 at 15:30 (60 min) - Free

Bier Keller, Picardy Place / Courtside

Shawn Jay is a wandering vagabond philosopher, whom the meaning of life has passed by (if it were ever there in the first place). An acerbic wit who analyses the absurdity of life by pedantically dismantling song lyrics, debunking motivational quotes, and getting the audience to share their gripes, before coming to a very surprising conclusion... A show for the thinkers. Prepare. Mentally. “A brilliant surrealist. Laugh-out loud humour. Surreal, poignant, inspired” - The International Times ...

Michael Fabbri

AUG 1-25 at 15:30 (60 min) - Free

Cabaret Voltaire / Main Room

Michael Fabbri, Star of Radio 4’s Dyslexicon, has graced the global comedy circuit for many years, Furthermore, you are most welcome at his new standup show. “An absolutely superb circuit headliner.” – London Is Funny “Exceptionally funny, extremely sharp, hugely enjoyable.” – The Scotsman “Startlingly insightful.” – The Guardian ...

Best In Class

AUG 1-25 at 15:30 (60 min) - Free

The Counting House / The Loft

Showcasing underrepresented working-class comedy voices. Sponsored by Spam, chippy teas, waste grounds, hanging around, knock-off trainers, a fella your dad knows, weed, the unions, crap schools, bunking off, electric meters, Brixton, Toxteth, Grenfell, hand-me-down clothes, caravans, the back of a lorry, failed MOTs, failed GCSEs, bus stops, payday loans, bacon, pubs, pints, tobacco, Margaret f*cking Thatcher, Cash Converters, Universal Credit, zero-hour contracts, jam butties, gravy, pyjamas, broken glass, broken homes, playing out, white lightning, E, backyards, slums, dying young, the NHS,...

Fourth Cousin, Once Removed...Forcibly.

AUG 1-4, 7-11 at 15:30 (60 min) - Free

The Golf Tavern / Upstairs

Meet Roberta Roberts... Distant cousin of Julia, former child-star (vegemite commercials) & experimental theatre visionary, determined to make her mark....or claim someone else’s. From award-winning writer/performer Ali Kennedy Scott (The Day the Sky Turned Black, "Enthralling" NY Times) comes this stand-up/storytelling/character mash-up about the ties that bind us, the dreams that fuel us, and the hiccups and hi-jinks along the way. www.iamroberta.com...

The Newcastle Revue: Tyne and Tyne Again

AUG 12-25 at 15:30 (60 min) - Free

The Golf Tavern / Upstairs

Newcastle Comedy Society have been hard at work getting their show together, and have come agonisingly close to succeeding. They really want to improve the Fringe, and have decided the one thing it’s really lacking is student comedy. They’ve been tried to get this Revue show to stand out from the rest though, and they reckon they’ve done it by making it, get this, funny. Ruled with an iron fist by the domineering Promoter, watch these poor, starving comedians try to fill an hour with an eclectic mix of sketch and stand-up. Life, death and art are just some of the things they won’t be coveri...

Ahab; or What if Moby Dick Were Stand-Up Comedy

AUG 1-12, 14-19, 21-25 at 15:30 (60 min) - Free

The Raging Bull (Formerly Moriarty's) / Cellar

Moby Dick: a book, a play, an episode of Star Trek, 12 movies, and a fish. Now, it’s been adapted into a stand-up comedy show by niche idiot Jonny Gillam. He wondered: If we can adapt books into plays. Can we adapt them into stand-up? I don’t know. Still, if anyone’s going to fail at this, I’d like it to be me. The result is a show that is entirely Moby Dick and entirely stand-up. Expect hubristic rants, musings on the minutiae of technical objects and Dick jokes. FAQ: Isn’t this a stupid idea? Yes. Classic literature isn’t for me? The show is more accessib...

Louise Atkinson: Sounds Good, Looks a Mess

AUG 2-13, 15-25 at 15:40 (40 min) - Free

The City Café / Nineties

“Sounds good, looks a mess” was a review Louise received last year and something she cannot seem to get out of her head. It seems stuck in her vast amounts of curly hair, along with 4 hairbrushes, 2 pen lids and a barely licked chubba chup lolly. As a gravy stained, proud, northern lass, Louise is desperately trying to work out what everyone’s problem is with her general appearance. From dating to comedy, nights out to interviews, Louise tries to explore if her general appearance has actually had a direct effect on her, or if the problem is just in everyone else's heads. Described as havin...

Not Quite Mass

AUG 1-25 at 15:45 (60 min) - Free

Finnegan's Wake / The Back Room

Save your soul with Laughter! Welcome to the cult of happiness. A church of the Craic. See excellent Irish comedians performing short sets. Handpicked by Reverend Steve Bennett. (Irish Comedian of the Year Winner) ...

99 (First World) Problems Feat Andy Quirk and Anna J

AUG 1-5, 7-12, 14-19, 21-25 at 15:45 (60 min) - Free

Sofi's Southside (formerly Harry's) / Upstairs

Andy Quirk, the UK’s Premier Rapper of First World Problems and his surly Lead Backup Dancer, Anna J, invite you to join their crew for a musical comedy show dealing with the inconsequential irks of modern living. Part concert / part group therapy session, with a genre-busting soundtrack paying homage to UK Garage, Scouse House, Funk, Eighties Synthpop, Nu Metal and more there’s room in the crew for everyone! ☆☆☆☆☆ - Bunbury Magazine. ☆☆☆☆ – Mumble Comedy. “You should be first in the queue for this” – Fringepig...

Laughing Horse FREE Pick of the Fringe

AUG 1-25 at 15:45 (60 min) - Free

The Free Sisters / The Gothic Room

See the very best comedians from across the Fringe, with a different top-notch comedy line-up each day. There's five shows every day, as the Laughing Horse's Pick of the Fringe returns to Edinburgh for its 16th year. Line-ups include performers selected from Fringe shows and the international comedy circuit, making this absolutely the best way to see great Fringe comedy... and it's free! Sell-out shows in Edinburgh (2004-2016), Brighton, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth (WA), Fremantle (WA), Singapore, Hong Kong, Manila and Hollywood (USA). ★★★★★ “Cracking Come...

Aaaaaaaaaaargh, It’s the Monster Stand-Up Show!

AUG 1-25 at 15:45 (60 min) - Free

The Hanover Tap / The Wee Tap

Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase including your award-winning host, Masai Graham (UK Pun Champion 2016). 'Flashes of proper genius' (Chortle.co.uk). Showcasing a different line-up of acts every show. ...

Joe Bor: The Story of Walter and Herbert

AUG 1-25 at 15:45 (60 min) - Free

The Lockup / Lock Up 1

Award-winning comedian Joe Bor retells the story of the friendship between his grandad (world-renowned architect Walter Bor) and his grandad's best friend (also world-renowned comedy actor Herbert Lom) and their journey from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to the UK. "Natural born comic ability" Chortle "Joe Bor is a must see" Alan Carr...

So What? Mark Row and Matt Bragg

AUG 1-25 at 15:45 (60 min) - Free

The Newsroom / The Downstairs Bar

It seems that in this modern world everyone's got an opinion; and what's more they all want you to know about it! But does anyone really care? When comedians start spouting their wider world views, do you sit up and take notice, or are you really left thinking - So What? Forget politics, the environment and religion. Matt Bragg and Mark Row will tell you about what really matters in 2019... We might not make you a better person, but we will make you laugh! ...

Caroline Mabey- Hair of the Dog

AUG 1-11, 13-25 at 15:50 (60 min) - Free

32 Below (Formerly Ushers) / The Cellar

Caroline Mabey’s husband/boyfriend/partner (whatever!) just quit his accounting job to train as a dog groomer. Time for a life audit. A joyously deft cautionary tale about the dangers of following your (or someone else’s) dreams, from one of the silliest people I know. As heard on the Self Renovators podcast and Josh Howie's Losing It on BBC Radio 4. Writer on The News Quiz. ’No-one has made us laugh as much at this Fringe’ – The Skinny ‘Mabey is thoroughly enjoyable company…. The slightly deranged offspring of a menage a trois between Vic Reev...