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EDINBURGH FRINGE RECOMMENDATIONS - 2023
We recommend this lovely lot at this summer's Fringe: veterans of ACMS, creators of strong blurb goodness, and some of our favourite acts.
| Act | Type | Parent Venue | Venue Name | Room | Time | Dates | £? | AGES? | Blurb |
| John Hegley: The Early Word | Comedy | Summerhall | Summerhall | Red Lecture Theatre | 10:15-11:15 | Aug 2-13, 15-20, 22-27 | £15 (£13) | 8+ | Folk and creatures. 'Delightfully inventive' (Observer). |
| First Thing (Work in Progress by Daniel Kitson) | Theatre | Summerhall | Summerhall | Roundabout | 10:30-11:30 | Aug 2-7, 9-14, 16-21, 23-27 | £ | 16+ | It will definitely be over by noon. |
| Daman Bamrah: Salmon Camera | Comedy | Laughing Horse | 32 Below | Main Cellar | 11:00-11:45 | Aug 3-27 | PWYW | 14+ | Join British Sikh comedian Daman as he attempts to identify himself in an increasingly absurd world. |
| Glenn Moore: Work in Progress | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 12 Blair St) | Four | 11:20-12:20 | Aug 3-15 | £/PWYW | 14+ | One of the greatest joke writers of his generation… |
| Rose Matafeo: Work in Progress | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 12 Blair St) | Four | 11:20-12:20 | Aug 16-27 | £7/PWYW | 14+ | Edinburgh Comedy Award winner. Work-in-progress stand-up. Results will vary. |
| Cheekykita: Octopus in Space | Kids | Laughing Horse | The Three Sisters | Maggie's Chamber | 11:30-12:15 | Aug 3-8, 10-13, 15-20 | £/PWYW | 5+ | High-energy interactive fun with dancing cats, silly songs and creatures... |
| Jody Kamali: Mr Sleepybum | Kids | Assembly | George Square | The Box | 11:40-12:25 | Aug 3-8, 10-15, 17-20 | £ | 4+ | High-energy, inventive physical comedy show. |
| Olaf Falafel's Super Stupid Show (20% More Stupider) | Kids | Pleasance | Courtyard | Beside | 11:40-12:40 | Aug 2-15, 17-21, 24-27 | £ | 3+ | There will be truth-telling cheese, fishing, ducks, bumbags, sausages... |
| Sara Pascoe: Why Be Normal When You Can Be Funny? | Book | EIBF @ | Edinburgh College of Art | Baillie Gifford Sculpture Court + livestream | 11:45-12:45 | Aug 19 (Sat) | £15.50 (£13.50) | Sara Pascoe has enlightened readers – and made them howl with laughter – with her reflections on femininity and sexuality. Now, she turns her talents to fiction with Weirdo. | |
| Ben Target: LORENZO | Theatre | Summerhall | Summerhall | Anatomy Lecture Theatre | 11:55-13:00 | Aug 2-13, 15-20, 22-27 | £15 (£13) | 14+ | This life-affirming story about a man’s death is conveyed through the popular mediums of storytelling, servitude to the audience and live carpentry. |
| Chris Thorburn: Cineman | Comedy | Just the Tonic | The Mash House | Attic | 12:00-12:45 | Aug 10-13, 15-27 | £8 (£5) | 16+ | Jokes about films. |
| Alasdair Beckett-King: Dial M for Montgomery | Book | EIBF @ | Edinburgh College of Art | Spark Theatre | 12:00-13:00 | Aug 13 (Sun) | £5 | 8+ | Calling all super-sleuths; there’s been a murder! But don’t worry, famous detective Montgomery Bonbon is on the case. |
| Catherine Bohart: Work in Progress | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 12 Blair St) | Three | 12:00-13:00 | Aug 2-9 | £/PWYW | 16+ | This perfectionist idiot will do her absolute best to make you laugh. |
| Ed Gamble: Work in Progress | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | The Hive | One | 12:00-13:00 | Aug 2-13 | £/PWYW | 14+ | Co-host of Off Menu. Taskmaster champion. An hour of new material. |
| Joe Wells: King of the Autistics | Comedy | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Banshee Labyrinth | Chamber Room | 12:00-13:00 | Aug 5-27 | PWYW | 18+ | About representation, role models and the fight for autistic rights. |
| Lara Ricote: A Work in Progress!!! | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | The Hive | One | 12:00-13:00 | Aug 21-23 | £10/PWYW | 16+ | It’ll be a very silly show, you’re gonna think 'oh this bitch is soooo silly!!'. |
| Larry Dean: Work in Progress | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 12 Blair St) | Three | 12:00-13:00 | Aug 10-16 | £/PWYW | 16+ | Three-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee tries some new jokes. |
| Natalie Palamides and Lucy Pearman: Pearman then Palamides (WIP) | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | The Hive | One | 12:00-13:00 | Aug 24-27 | £8 | 16+ | Two very normal girls who will share an hour. 25 mins each probably. |
| Sarah Keyworth: Work in Progress | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 12 Blair St) | Three | 12:00-13:00 | Aug 17-27 | £/PWYW | 16+ | Keyworth delivers a brand-new hour of comedy as they work up a new show. |
| The Most Toast | Comedy | Hootenannies | The Apex | Hoot 1 | 12:00-13:00 | Aug 13 (Sun) & 19 (Sat) | £5 (£4) | 12+ | Somebody in the audience will have eaten the most toast. We will find them. |
| Eleanor Morton: Work in Progress | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 9-11 Blair St) | Two | 12:05-13:00 | Aug 14 (Mon) | £7/PWYW | 16+ | Come and bear witness to the rock face of creativity, i.e. a show that isn’t quite finished yet. The theme? Ghosts! 'Exceedingly funny' **** (Fest). |
| Sam Lake: Aspiring DILF | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 9-11 Blair St) | Two | 12:05-13:05 | Aug 2-13, 15-27 | £/PWYW | 16+ | Furbies, twink death and the transformative wonder of Butlins. |
| Harriet Kemsley: Work in Progress | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | The Tron | 12:10-13:10 | Aug 15 (Tues) | £7/PWYW | 18+ | Her finished shows are chaos so god knows what a work in progress will be like… | |
| Hannah Platt – Work in Progress | Comedy | Hootenannies | The Apex | Hoot 4 | 12:20-13:05 | Aug 21-28 | £/PWYW | 16+ | A work in progress from BBC New Comedy Awards finalist Hannah Platt. |
| David McIver: Small Boy Trapped in a Wellness Retreat | Comedy | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Banshee Labyrinth | Cinema Room | 12:20-13:20 | Aug 5-27 | PWYW | 18+ | A multimedia stand-up comedy show that is guaranteed to make you feel well. |
| Chris Cantrill: SuPeRgEnIu$ (WIP) | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 9-11 Blair St) | One | 12:30-13:30 | Aug 15 (Tues) | £7/PWYW | 16+ | About his rude son, upsetting pensioners on purpose and party planning. |
| Soup Group: Art Show! | Kids | Monkey Barrel | (at 9-11 Blair St) | One | 12:30-13:30 | Aug 8 (Tues) | £8/PWYW | 5+ | Surrealism, realism, clowning and fun for the whole family. |
| Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Work in Progress | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 12 Blair St) | Four | 12:45-13:45 | Aug 15-27 | £7/PWYW | 16+ | Plenty of jokes, lots of revelations and a routine about First Aid. |
| Lee Kyle: England's Best Comedian | Comedy | Laughing Horse | The Pear Tree | Main Room | 12:45-13:45 | Aug 3-14, 16-27 | PWYW | 16+ | Lee Kyle has been a comedian for 14 years and very good for the last few. |
| Tarot: Work in Progress | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 12 Blair St) | Four | 12:45-13:45 | Aug 2-14 | £7/PWYW | 16+ | We’ve made the tickets cheap so you’ve got somewhere to sleep for an hour without having to sell a kidney. |
| Matt Green: That Guy (Work in Progress) | Comedy | Laughing Horse | City Café | Hollywood | 12:50-13:50 | Aug 16-20 | £/PWYW | 16+ | Jokes about politics and jokes not about politics. That probably covers it. |
| The Listies: Make Some Noise | Kids | House of Oz | The Great Indoors | (near Summerhall) | 13:00-13:50 | Aug 4-9, 11-16, 18-20 | £ | 4+ | An insane mixtape of silly songs, stupid sketches and crazy clowning! |
| Robin Ince – Weapons of Empathy | Comedy | Gilded Balloon | The Museum | Auditorium | 13:00-14:00 | Aug 2-27 | £ | 12+ | Expect a chaos of words and ideas, love and delight. And also a very long reading list. |
| Consignia Presents: The Annual Sean Morley Tribute Act Comedian of the Year | Comedy | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Banshee Labyrinth | Chamber Room | 13:10-14:10 | Aug 16 (Wed) | PWYW | 18+ | One of three one-off deeply weirdcore shows from Consignia. **** Chortle **** The Scotsman. |
| Shelf: The Kids' Show | Kids | Pleasance | Courtyard | The Green | 13:15-14:15 | Aug 2-15, 17-27 | £ | 3+ | Join best friends Rachel and Ruby for a kids' comedy show that's fun for all the family! Full of sketches, songs, pranks and silliness. |
| Tom Little: The Reliably Funny Comedian You Want To See | Comedy | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Burrito 'n' Shake | Downstairs | 13:15-14:15 | Aug 8 (Tues) | PWYW | 18+ | 'Inventive, unexpected and often very silly…' (Chortle.co.uk). |
| Tom Little: The Reliably Funny Comedian You Want To See | Comedy | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Subway | Main Room | 13:15-14:15 | Aug 17 (Thurs) | PWYW | 18+ | 'Inventive, unexpected and often very silly…' (Chortle.co.uk). |
| Seymour Mace Does Drawring | Comedy | The Stand | Two | 13:20-14:20 | Aug 3-13, 15-27 | £10 (£8) | 16+ | I draw pictures of the things that live in my head. I show you the pictures and tell you a story. You laugh. You leave. | |
| Ahir Shah: Ends | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 12 Blair St) | Three | 13:25-14:25 | Aug 3-27 | £12/PWYW | 14+ | This one's about family, immigration, marriage, history, politics and beans. |
| Alex Kealy: Fear Itself (Work in Progress) | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | The Hive | One | 13:25-14:25 | Aug 14 (Mon) | £8/PWYW | 16+ | The 'almost sexily cerebral' (**** (Daily Telegraph)) stand-up presents a work-in-progress comedy show about fear (probably). |
| Alison Spittle: Soup | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | The Hive | One | 13:25-14:25 | Aug 2-13, 15-27 | £/PWYW | 16+ | Alison Spittle is simmering with jokes and probably rage… |
| Vix Leyton: Antihero | Comedy | The Stand | Four | 13:25-14:25 | Aug 4-6, 8-13, 15-20, 22-27 | £ | 14+ | Can you be the main character in your own life without being the hero? | |
| Eleanor Morton: Work in Progress | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 9-11 Blair St) | Two | 13:30-14:25 | Aug 16 (Wed) | £7/PWYW | 16+ | Come and bear witness to the rock face of creativity, i.e. a show that isn’t quite finished yet. The theme? Ghosts! 'Exceedingly funny' **** (Fest). |
| Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel | Comedy | Underbelly | Bristo Square | McEwan Hall | 13:30-14:30 | Aug 5-7, 9-13 | £ | 12+ | The all-star cast improvise a hilarious new Jane Austen novel every show, inspired entirely by a title from the audience. |
| It's Me, Richard Wright, I'm the Problem It's Me | Comedy | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Banshee Labyrinth | Cinema Room | 13:30-14:30 | Aug 5-15 | PWYW | 18+ | Richard Wright is about to turn 40 and he's worried that he has stopped caring. |
| Ted Milligan: The Finished Product (A Work in Progress) | Comedy | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Legends | Downstairs | 13:35-14:20 | Aug 5-27 | PWYW | 18+ | Nice job geez' (Former England International Joe Cole). |
| Harriet Kemsley: Work in Progress | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | The Tron | 13:35-14:35 | Aug 14 (Mon) | £7/PWYW | 18+ | Her finished shows are chaos so god knows what a work in progress will be like… | |
| Ian Smith: Crushing | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | The Tron | 13:35-14:35 | Aug 2-13, 15-27 | £/PWYW | 18+ | A new show about stress, love and driving a tank with your hairdresser. | |
| Chris Grace: As Scarlett Johansson | Comedy | Assembly | George Square | Studio Five | 13:40-14:40 | Aug 2-28 | £ | 12+ | Chris Grace, Chinese-American character best known for playing Jerry on Superstore, portrays the greatest living Asian actor Scarlett Johansson through comedy, theatre, stand-up and the music of Tom Waits. |
| Mark Silcox: Women Only | Comedy | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Voodoo Rooms | carte blanche! | 13:40-14:40 | Aug 5-27 | PWYW | 18+ | Dr Silcox request powerful women to take special care of us weak men. |
| Get to Know Trixie Pickle with Olaf Falafel | Book | EIBF @ | Edinburgh College of Art | Spark Theatre | 13:45-14:45 | Aug 18 (Fri) | £5 | 7+ | Watch Olaf live-draw and join in with an arty activity yourself, while learning about some famous artists from throughout history. |
| Natasha Sutton Williams: Clown Sex | Theatre | Pleasance | Courtyard | Bunker Two | 13:45-14:45 | Aug 2-15, 17-20, 22-27 | £ | 18+ | Join Gary Strange in the London sewers as he encounters stories of bad sex, sad sex and clown sex. |
| Spring Day: Exvangelical (Work in Progress) | Comedy | Laughing Horse | Bar 50 | Garden Room | 13:45-14:45 | Aug 3-14 | £/PWYW | 18+ | American transplant Spring Day provides dark comedy for nice people. |
| Super [w/ Charlie Vero-Martin] | Theatre | Pleasance | Courtyard | The Cellar | 13:45-14:45 | Aug 2-13, 15-28 | £ | 16+ | Darkly comic drama about ambition, love and overwhelming failure told by two not-very-super heroes. |
| Bridget Christie: Who Am I? | Comedy | The Stand | New Town Theatre | Grand Hall | 13:50-14:50 | Aug 2-9 | £20 | 14+ | The Taskmaster favourite and star of The Change is hot, but not in a good way. It’s a menopause laugh-a-minute with a confused, furious, sweaty lady. |
| This Is Your Trial (Kids' Court) | Kids | Hootenannies | The Apex | Hoot 4 | 13:50-14:50 | Aug 4-28 | £ | 5+ | Guilty or innocent? You decide. Inspiration for CBBC's hit show Monster Court. |
| Stewart Lee: Basic Lee | Comedy | The Stand | New Town Theatre | Grand Hall | 13:50-15:00 | Aug 11-20 | £20 | 14+ | 70-minute selection of highlights from the current touring show. One man, one microphone, and one microphone in the wings in case the one on stage breaks. Pure. Simple. Classic. Basic Lee. |
| Harriet Dyer: Mother | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | The Hive | Two | 13:55-14:55 | Aug 24-27 | £7/PWYW | 14+ | A story about mothers and levels of mother-ness that exist in the wild. |
| Yuriko Kotani: This Is My Work | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | The Hive | Two | 13:55-14:55 | Aug 14-23 | £/PWYW | 14+ | BBC New Comedy Award winner, UK-based Japanese comedian. |
| Paul Zenon in Monkey Business | Theatre | Le Monde | Dirty Martini | (near Assembly Rooms) | 14.30-15.30 | Aug 4-27 | £ | 12+ |
The amazing, strange-but-true story behind the weird stuff advertised in vintage American comics. |
| Barry Ferns: Arthur's Seat Comedy Extravaganza | Comedy | On Top of Arthur's Seat | Arthurs Seat (Top of) | 14:00-14:45 | Aug 19 (Sat) | PWYW | 8+ | These gigs somehow work – they are the most joyful of gigs. They shouldn't work, but they do.' ***** (Scotsman). | |
| Jacob Hatton: Touchdown! | Comedy | Laughing Horse | 32 Below | Main Cellar | 14:00-15:00 | Aug 3-15 | £/PWYW | 16+ | A dyspraxic, 30-something, British stand-up with one touchdown dream… |
| Leslie Ewing-Burgesse Plots. | Comedy | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Canons' Gait | Lower | 14:00-15:00 | Aug 5-7, 9-14, 16-21, 23-27 | PWYW | 18+? | Leslie tries to stay positive in this hour of macabre whimsy! |
| Rhiannon Shaw: Wedding Night | Comedy | Bedlam Theatre | Bedlam Theatre | 14:00-15:00 | Aug 15-20, 22-27 | £ | 16+ | Character comedian and stand-up presents her Fringe debut hour in the form of her very own wedding. | |
| Mark Watson's Churchfest | Comedy | St Peter's Church | The Church | 14:00-21:00 | Aug 22 (Tues) | PWYW | 12+ | Mark Watson performs in, and curates, a day of unusual old-school Fringe activities. | |
| Adam Riches is The Guys Who You Meet Everywhere | Comedy | Underbelly | Cowgate | Cow Café | 14:10-15:00 | Aug 3-27 | £ | 18+ | He was sensitive. Understanding. Supportive. And it was all an act. |
| Alex Kealy: Fear Itself (Work in Progress) | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 12 Blair St) | Four | 14:10-15:10 | Aug 15 (Tues) | £8/PWYW | 16+ | The 'almost sexily cerebral' (**** (Daily Telegraph)) stand-up presents a work-in-progress comedy show about fear (probably). |
| Marjolein Robertson: A Shetland Folktale | Spoken | Scottish Storytelling Centre | Netherbow Theatre | 14:15-15:15 | Aug 21, 23, 25, 27 | £12 (£10) | 12+ | This beautiful folktale transports the listener back to life in Shetland in the 1800s. | |
| Marjolein Robertson: Me, Myself and Mary (Queen of Scots) | Theatre | Scottish Storytelling Centre | Netherbow Theatre | 14:15-15:15 | Aug 2-8, 10-13 | £12 (£10) | 14+ | Jam-packed with murder, mayhem, intrigue, family infighting and gender politics. | |
| Rob Duncan: Baby Trains | Comedy | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Legends | Upstairs | 14:20-15:15 | Aug 5-11, 13-23 | PWYW | 18+ | An hour of professionally researched nonsense, featuring relatable topics including trains and babies. |
| Alexander Richmond: One Man 12 Angry Men | Comedy | Laughing Horse | City Café | Nineties | 14:25-15:25 | Aug 3-27 | £/PWYW | 16+ | In a world where one man can be one character, Alexander Richmond dares to be twelve of them. |
| Rob Auton: The Rob Auton Show | Comedy | Assembly | Roxy | Upstairs | 14:25-15:25 | Aug 2-26 | £ | 14+ | The Rob Auton Show is a show about Rob Auton. |
| David Hoare: One Billion Songs Please! | Comedy | Hill Street Theatre | Dunedin Theatre | (near Assembly Rooms) | 14:30-15:30 | Aug 4-14, 16-27 | £15 (£12) | 16+ | Another bumper show bursting with hilarious songs and jokes. 'An annoyingly funny young man' (Gary Delaney). |
| Ivo Graham: Graham in the Green | Theatre | Pleasance | Courtyard | The Green | 14:30-15:30 | Aug 17-25, 27 | £ | 14+ | Poring over the usuals (relationships, responsibilities, regrets) without any promise of logic or laughter. |
| Madame Chandelier's Opera Party for Kids | Kids | Pleasance | Courtyard | The Green | 14:30-15:30 | Aug 2-15 | £ | 8+ | Experience opera's greatest hits and learn about the characters, in this interactive introduction with Madame Chandelier. |
| Ori Halevy & Francesco Kirchhoff: Overthinking It | Comedy | Laughing Horse | Eastside | Karaoke Room | 14:30-15:30 | Aug 4-27 | £/PWYW | 16+ | Ori Halevy will split his mind and an hour with German comedian Francesco Kirchhoff. |
| John Otway | Music | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Voodoo Rooms | Ballroom | 14:45-15:45 | Aug 16 (Wed) | PWYW | 18+ | A surreal sense of humour and a self-deprecating underdog persona. |
| Richy Sheehy and Mark O'Keeffe: The Young-ish Offenders | Comedy | Laughing Horse | The Brass Monkey | Cinema Room | 14:45-15:45 | Aug 3-27 | PWYW | 18+ | Two biys from Cork. They're not that young but they've committed crimes. |
| Larry Dean: Work in Progress | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 12 Blair St) | Three | 14:50-15:40 | Aug 8-9 | £8/PWYW | 16+ | Three-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee tries some new jokes. |
| Nate Kitch And Caitriona Dowden's Catechism Of Cliché (Volume I) | Comedy | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Little White Pig | Basement Bar | 14:50-15:50 | Aug 5-27 | PWYW | 18+? | "An odd pair" (Three Weeks) split an hour of stand-up and confront the absurd. Likely to contain nuns, bags, and chess. |
| Sofie Hagen: Banglord | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 12 Blair St) | Three | 14:50-15:50 | Aug 3-7, 10-14, 17-21, 24-27 | £/PWYW | 16+ | U up? ;) xx |
| Ted Hill: Tries and Fails to Fix Climate Change | Comedy | Assembly | George Square | The Crate | 14:50-15:50 | Aug 2-14, 16-27 | £ | 14+ | A celebration of silliness, nature and polar bear calculations. Oh, and graphs. |
| Eleanor Morton: Work in Progress | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 9-11 Blair St) | Two | 14:55-15:50 | Aug 15 (Tues) | £7/PWYW | 16+ | Come and bear witness to the rock face of creativity, i.e. a show that isn’t quite finished yet. The theme? Ghosts! 'Exceedingly funny' **** (Fest). |
| Ada Campe: Naval Gazing | Cabaret | The Stand | New Town Theatre | Studio | 14:55-15:55 | Aug 3-14, 16-21, 23-27 | £12 (£11) | 12+ | Ahoy! Sail away with cabaret legend Ada for an adventure on the high seas. |
| Laura Davis: Well Don't Just Stand There Dancing | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 9-11 Blair St) | Two | 14:55-15:55 | Aug 3-14, 16-27 | £/PWYW | 16+ | About parties, spiders and the spectre of fascism which stalks us all. |
| Marcel Lucont: Les Enfants Terribles – A Gameshow For Awful Children | Kids | Assembly | George Square Gardens | Piccolo | 14:55-15:55 | Aug 2-21 | £ | 6+ | The wild interactive game show returns, where kids get to be pests, politicians and petomanes to be crowned the most awful child. |
| Will Adamsdale: Melanjolly – A Show of Just Songs | Comedy | Underbelly | Bristo Square | The Dairy Room | 14:55-15:55 | Aug 15-25 | £ | 12+ | Hear ye ! Yonder comes yon Perrier winner from ages ago with another questionable career swerve! |
| Amy Matthews: I Feel Like I'm Made of Spiders [directed by Elf Lyons] | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | The Tron | 15:00-16:00 | Aug 2-8, 10-15, 17-22, 24-27 | £/PWYW | 16+ | This is a show about the thrill of falling and the thud of landing. And after a thud comes a laugh. | |
| Harriet Dyer: Mother | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | The Tron | 15:00-16:00 | Aug 23 (Wed) | £7/PWYW | 14+ | A story about mothers and levels of mother-ness that exist in the wild. | |
| Harriet Kemsley: Work in Progress | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | The Tron | 15:00-16:00 | Aug 16 (Wed) | £7/PWYW | 18+ | Her finished shows are chaos so god knows what a work in progress will be like… | |
| James Nokise: God Damn Fancy Man | Comedy | Laughing Horse | City Café | Las Vegas | 15:00-16:00 | Aug 3-27 | PWYW | 14+ | Joyful, daring and undeniably sharp. |
| John Robins: Work in Progress | Comedy | Just the Tonic | Nucleus | Sub-Atomic Room | 15:10-16:05 | Aug 3, 5-6, 8-10, 12-13, 15-17, 19-20, 22-24, 26-27 | £ | 14+ | Notes on stage? Tick! Breath-taking riff-scenarios? Tick! Bits that don't work? Tick! Progress not perfection, people! |
| Alice Fraser: The Gargle: Live | Comedy | The Stand | New Town Theatre | Lower Hall | 15:10-16:10 | Aug 15 & 22 (Tues) | £12 | 16+ | The hit news satire podcast from The Bugle. There’s just one rule: No politics! |
| Cariad Lloyd: Lessons from Loss | Book | EIBF @ | Edinburgh College of Art | Baillie Gifford Sculpture Court + livestream | 15:15-16:15 | Aug 15 (Tues) | £15.50 (£13.50) | In 'You Are Not Alone', Lloyd reflects on grief in all its sad, surprising, awkward, tender, and sometimes funny forms. | |
| Simon Munnery's Jerusalem | Comedy | The Stand | One | 15:15-16:15 | Aug 3-13, 15-28 | £12 (£10) | 14+ | Something will come of it and you can call it art. | |
| Alex Kealy: Fear Itself (Work in Progress) | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 9-11 Blair St) | One | 15:20-16:20 | Aug 16 (Wed) | £8/PWYW | 16+ | The 'almost sexily cerebral' (**** (Daily Telegraph)) stand-up presents a work-in-progress comedy show about fear (probably). |
| Helen Duff: Lullabies | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | The Hive | Two | 15:20-16:20 | Aug 15 (Tues) | £7/PWYW | 16+ | A controlled implosion of chaotic beauty, soothing stories, and unforgettable songs. |
| Stuart Goldsmith: Spoilers | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 9-11 Blair St) | One | 15:20-16:20 | Aug 3-15, 17-27 | £/PWYW | 18+ | Stuart is terrified of the climate crisis, but no-one he knows ever mentions it, so it must be fine. |
| Shelf: Teenage Men | Comedy | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Voodoo Rooms | Speakeasy | 15:25-16:25 | Aug 5-15, 17-27 | PWYW | 18+ | In their last show, Hair, Shelf joked about being mistaken for teenage boys. Now, it’s time to grow up. It's time to start being teenage men. |
| Eddy Hare: Leave It With Me | Comedy | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Globe Bar | Globe | 15:30-16:15 | Aug 5-6, 8-13, 15-20, 22-26 | PWYW | 18+ | Eddy Hare (BBC New Comedy Awards Nominee) presents a relaxing standup show. |
| Aussies Abroad [w/ Kyle Dolan, Anno Gomes and Jon Walpole] | Comedy | Laughing Horse | Home Bar | Basement | 15:30-16:30 | Aug 3-13,15-20,22-27 | £/PWYW | 18+ | Come and see three rising stars of Australian comedy. |
| Cerys Bradley: Not Overthinking Things 2019 [directed by Elf Lyons] | Comedy | Laughing Horse | Bar 50 | The Alcove | 15:30-16:30 | Aug 3-25, 27 | £/PWYW | 14+ | Surreal and silly interactive stand-up show/birthday party. |
| Ivo Graham: Organised Fun | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | The Grand | 15:30-16:30 | Aug 6, 26 | £ | 14+ | Ivo's lining up a show with more risk than ever before. |
| Paul Merton's Impro Chums [w/ Richard Vranch] | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | The Grand | 15:30-16:30 | Aug 10-20 | £17.50 (£15.50) | 14+ | Paul Merton and his highly acclaimed Impro Chums are wonders of nature. |
| Peter Fleming Meets Doctor Who! | Comedy | Laughing Horse | Bar 50 | The Alcove | 15:30-16:30 | Aug 26 (Sat) | PWYW | 14+ | Warped telly nostalgia from acclaimed character comic and Blue Peter badge winner Tom Burgess. |
| Ari Eldjárn: Saga Class | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 12 Blair St) | Four | 15:35-16:35 | Aug 21-27 | £12(£10)/PWYW | 14+ | Includes Nordic observations on drumbeats, sleep, parenthood and much more. |
| Josh Glanc: Collections 2023 | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 12 Blair St) | Four | 15:35-16:35 | Aug 9-20 | £/PWYW | 12+ | His best bits – his most exhilarating, most exciting, and most wackadoo stuff. |
| Josh Pugh | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 12 Blair St) | Four | 15:35-16:35 | Aug 1-8 | £/PWYW | 14+ | Josh has some ideas and jokes that you wont need to pay full price to see. |
| Olaf Falafel: Look What Fell Out Of My Head | Comedy | Laughing Horse | The Pear Tree | Main Room | 15:45-16:40 | Aug 3-15, 17-27 | PWYW | 12+ | The best-joke-list-bothering comedian presents stuff he finds funny. |
| Alex Bertulis-Fernandes and Sharlin Jahan: White Chicks 2 | Comedy | Laughing Horse | The Three Sisters | The Wee Room | 15:45-16:45 | Aug 14-27 | £/PWYW | 18+ | A split hour from two stand-ups who happen to be brown women. |
| Sian Davies: This Charming Man [directed by Elf Lyons] | Comedy | Assembly | George Square | The Box | 15:45-16:45 | Aug 2-27 | £ | 16+ | Where do you go when your role models let you down? |
| Sooz Kempner: Y2K Woman | Comedy | Underbelly | Bristo Square | Buttercup | 15:45-16:45 | Aug 2-14, 16-27 | £ | 16+ | For anyone who remembers the year 2000 or had big dreams as a kid. |
| Bilal Zafar: Imposter | Comedy | Underbelly | Bristo Square | Friesian | 15:50-16:50 | Aug 2-13, 15-28 | £ | 12+ | A show about how his housemate tried to get him arrested five times. |
| Comedy Club 4 Kids | Kids | Assembly | Roxy | Upstairs | 15:55-16:55 | Aug 3-20, 25-27 | £10.50 (£9.50) | 6+ | Since 2005, we've been persuading our favourite performers to entertain family audiences, and with different exciting line-ups every day there will always be something new to delight you. |
| A Show for Gareth Richards | Comedy | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Whistlebinkies | Binkies Lounge | 16:00-17:00 | Aug 5-27 | PWYW | 18+ | A different bill every day with 100% of audience donations going to Gareth's young family. |
| Ian Stone Will Make It Better | Comedy | Laughing Horse | The Counting House | Ballroom | 16:00-17:00 | Aug 3-13, 15-27 | PWYW | 16+ | Feel like life is getting you down? Ian Stone will make it better. |
| Adrian Bliss: Inside Everyone | Comedy | Pleasance | Dome | Ace Dome | 16:10-17:10 | Aug 3-13, 15-27 | £ | 14+ | An atom travels to Earth on a quest for greatness, finding himself inside some of the most important people who have ever lived. |
| Bennett Arron: Loser | Comedy | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Liquid Room | Annexe | 16:15-17:15 | Aug 5-27 | PWYW | 16+ | He's BAFTA shortlisted and star of the Radio 4 sitcom Alone, but life still laughs at him. |
| Chris Forbes: Court Jester | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | The Hive | One | 16:15-17:15 | Aug 2-13 | £/PWYW | 16+ | Quarterbacks, prom queens and heartache… and an unexpected path that led to a career in comedy. |
| John Kearns: The Varnishing Days | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 12 Blair St) | Three | 16:15-17:15 | Aug 2-13 | £12 | 16+ | The heart-stopping, glasses-dropping, hard-rocking, wig-shaking new show. |
| Spencer Jones: Making Friends | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 12 Blair St) | Three | 16:15-17:15 | Aug 14-27 | £12/PWYW | 16+ | A brand new show about moving to a new area, people he has met and losing his mind. |
| Zach Zucker: Spectacular Industry Showcase | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Upstairs | 16:15-17:15 | Aug 22-26 | £11 £10) | 16+ | The bad boy of clown returns with another dazzling display of comedic firepower, as he continues his never-ending quest to become Hollywood's next "it girl". |
| Ange Lavoipierre: Your Mother Chucks Rocks and Shells | Comedy | Underbelly | George Square | The Wee Coo | 16:20-17:20 | Aug 2-13, 15-27 | £ | 14+ | An absurd sketch show where it's always 2am, set in the liminal space between screen-lit insomnia and bad dreams. |
| JJ Whitehead – White Noise | Comedy | The Stand | New Town Theatre | Studio | 16:20-17:20 | Aug 3-14, 16-27 | £ | 16+ | Another fun show filled with the skewering of social norms and self-deprecation. |
| Jody Kamali: Things We Do for Love | Comedy | Assembly | George Square | The Crate | 16:20-17:20 | Aug 2-8, 10-15, 17-22, 24-28 | £ | 16+ | 50% Bristolian. 50% Iranian. 100% stupid. |
| Northern News: Live! [w/ Ian Smith and Amy Gledhill] | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 9-11 Blair St) | Two | 16:20-17:20 | Aug 11 (Fri) | £10 | 16+ | A very special live edition of comedy podcast Northern News. |
| Garrett Millerick: Never Had It So Good | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | The Tron | 16:25-17:25 | Aug 2-13, 15-27 | £/PWYW | 18+ | I’m sick of everyone moaning all the time, so I’ve written a show about how bloody great everything is. | |
| Helen Duff: Lullabies | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | The Tron | 16:25-17:25 | Aug 14 (Mon) | £7/PWYW | 16+ | A controlled implosion of chaotic beauty, soothing stories, and unforgettable songs. | |
| Eve Ellenbogen: Dead Mom Stuff | Comedy | Laughing Horse | City Café | Hollywood | 16:35-17:35 | Aug 3-13, 15-27 | £/PWYW | 16+ | Loudmouth Eve Ellenbogen will tell you pretty much anything, unless you ask about her dead mom. |
| Lorna Rose Treen: Skin Pigeon | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Attic | 16:35-17:35 | Aug 2-13, 15-27 | £ | 14+ | The greatest thing to come out of Redditch since the fishing tackle. |
| Lulu Popplewell: Actually, Actually | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Bunker Three | 16:35-17:35 | Aug 2-14, 16-27 | £ | 16+ | Failed child actor and now successful comedian explores the links between Love Actually, smoking crack, the Daily Mail and sunburn. |
| Stuart Bowden: Of Moonset and the Milky Way | Theatre | Assembly | Roxy | Downstairs | 16:35-17:35 | Aug 17-20, 22-27 | £ | 14+ | 30 candles for 30 cakes; 900 birthday candles. It was a spectacular idea, but she never arrived. |
| An Evening with Michael Fry and Killian Sundermann | Comedy | Underbelly | Bristo Square | The Dairy Room | 16:40-17:40 | Aug 15-28 | £ | 16+ | Experience a unique and occasionally surreal evening of laughter from Ireland's favourite internet comedians. |
| Kathy Maniura: Objectified | Comedy | Gilded Balloon | Teviot | Wee Room | 16:40-17:40 | Aug 2-13, 15-28 | £ | 12+ | Kathy Maniura is ready to be objectified – by which she means pretend to be a bunch of objects live on stage!! |
| Vix Leyton: The Comedy Arcade | Comedy | The Stand | Three | 16:40-17:40 | Aug 4-6, 8-13, 15-20, 22-27 | £9 (£8) | 14+ | Vix Leyton invites four different comics every night to spar with never-before-told stories from the hilarious to the scandalous. | |
| Christopher Bliss: An Evening with… | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 9-11 Blair St) | One | 16:45-17:45 | Aug 3-10 | £/PWYW | 14+ | A rural oddball chucks home-grown drivel down your ears. |
| Helen Bauer: Grand Supreme Darling Princess | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 9-11 Blair St) | One | 16:45-17:45 | Aug 14-27 | £10/PWYW | 16+ | All about the women in her life, from her mother to her best friend and that one girl who was mean in 2008. |
| Helen Duff: Lullabies | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | The Hive | Two | 16:45-17:45 | Aug 16 (Wed) | £7/PWYW | 16+ | A controlled implosion of chaotic beauty, soothing stories, and unforgettable songs. |
| Lara Ricote: A Work in Progress!!! | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 9-11 Blair St) | One | 16:45-17:45 | Aug 11-13 | £10/PWYW | 16+ | It’ll be a very silly show, you’re gonna think 'oh this bitch is soooo silly!!'. |
| Stuart Laws? Is That Guy Still Going? | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | The Hive | Two | 16:45-17:45 | Aug 1-15, 17-27 | £/PWYW | 14+ | Getting married, being middle of the road and trying to be more honest |
| Egg: Absolutely Fine | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Beside | 16:50-17:50 | Aug 14-27 | £ | 14+ | Just a fresh new show from two fresh young gals who, honestly, are absolutely fine. |
| Heidi Regan: Finding an Inner Peace That All Your Friends Will Envy | Comedy | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Banshee Labyrinth | Chamber Room | 16:50-17:50 | Aug 5-13, 15-27 | PWYW | 18+ | About Santa, the Matrix, my patient wife... and other fictional concepts, heyooo! No, seriously she is a wonderful person. |
| Consignia Presents: The Annual Sean Morley Tribute Act Comedian of the Year | Comedy | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Brewdog (Lothian Road) | The Garage | 16:55-17:55 | Aug 15 (Tues) | PWYW | 18+ | One of three one-off deeply weirdcore shows: this is The Rise and fall of Alpha Dog Craft Beer LTD. |
| Frank Lavender: Be Funny | Comedy | Just the Tonic | La Belle Angele | (by Mash House) | 17:00-18:00 | Aug 3-13, 15-27 | £/PWYW | 18+ | Character comedy from Gareth Joyner, the brain (and legs) behind Myra DuBois. |
| Frankie Thompson and Liv Ello: Body Show | Theatre | Pleasance | Courtyard | Beneath | 17:00-18:00 | Aug 2-13, 15-27 | £ | 14+ | Electric, eclectic love story about dysmorphia, dysphoria, and dystopia. |
| Marjolein Robertson: Marj | Comedy | The Stand | One | 17:00-18:00 | Aug 3-13, 15-28 | £12 (£11) | 16+ | Tartan-clad Marjolein' (Bruce Dessau). It was plaid, Bruce! Plaid!! | |
| Monica Heisey, Josie Long & Will McPhail: Funny Peculiar | Book | EIBF @ | Edinburgh College of Art | Baillie Gifford Sculpture Court + livestream | 17:00-18:00 | Aug 19 (Sat) | £15.50 (£13.50) | If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry – sometimes it’s better to do both. | |
| Schalk Bezuidenhout: Keeping Up | Comedy | Gilded Balloon | Teviot | Sportsmans | 17:00-18:00 | Aug 2-14, 16-27 | £ | 14+ | All he wants is to stay "hip with the youth". Can he do it? Can he Keep Up? |
| Tom Little: The Reliably Funny Comedian You Want To See | Comedy | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Subway | Main Room | 17:00-18:00 | Aug 5-27 | PWYW | 18+ | 'Inventive, unexpected and often very silly…' (Chortle.co.uk). |
| Adele Cliff Can Break Your Arm | Comedy | Just the Tonic | The Caves | Up The Stairs | 17:05-18:05 | Aug 3-13, 15-27 | £5/PWYW | 18+ | Adele's back, funnier and more dangerous than ever! |
| Ruth Hunter: The Ruth is on Fire | Comedy | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Banshee Labyrinth | Cinema Room | 17:10-18:00 | Aug 5-6, 8-13, 15-20, 22-27 | PWYW | 18+ | A new show of fun, spooky and very good stand-up comedy. |
| Jeromaia Detto: MUSH | Comedy | Underbelly | Cowgate | Iron Belly | 17:10-18:05 | Aug 21-27 | £ | 16+ | An all-out journey of absurdity |
| Cheekykita: An Octopus, The Universe 'n' Stuff | Comedy | Laughing Horse | The Three Sisters | Maggie's Front Room | 17:15-18:15 | Aug 3-8, 10-13, 15-20, 22-27 | £/PWYW | 14+ | Hell yeah, a lot of fun and (very) silly dancing, songs, creatures and an octopus. |
| Angel Hodgson: Albatross | Comedy | BlundaGardens | Magical SpiegelYurt | 17:20-18:20 | Aug 3-12 | £5/PWYW | 16+ | An intimate and offbeat clown show that examines self-reflection, trauma, and resolution. Fine family fun. No kids. | |
| Max & Ivan: Life, Choices | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Above | 17:20-18:20 | Aug 2-4, 6-11, 13-18, 20-25, 27 | £ | 14+ | A show about fatherhood, friendship, and the future. |
| Dom – The Play [w/ Thom Tuck] | Theatre | Assembly | Rooms | Ballroom | 17:20-18:35 | Aug 3-20, 22-27 | £ | 14+ | A must-see comedy for anyone who follows the Westminster circus! |
| Nick Doody – The Difficult Twelfth Album | Comedy | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Liquid Room | Annexe | 17:30-18:25 | Aug 5-14, 16-21, 23-27 | PWYW | 16+ | Life in Happy Valley, the rise of Artificial Intelligence, living with the cutest dog in the world… |
| Gary: Tank Commander – Gary Talks (Yous Listen) | Comedy | Gilded Balloon | Teviot | Debating Hall | 17:30-18:30 | Aug 18-28 | £17 (£16) | 14+ | It's gonna have brilliant guests, and me, and even more amazin' 'hings! |
| John Robertson: The Dark Room for Kids! | Kids | Gilded Balloon | Teviot | Nightclub | 17:30-18:30 | Aug 2-14, 16-27 | £ | 11+ | An interactive adventure featuring terrible prizes and total mayhem! |
| Marc Burrows: The Magic of Terry Pratchett | Comedy | Gilded Balloon | Teviot | Dining Room | 17:30-18:30 | Aug 2-13, 15-28 | £ | 8+ | A journey through the life and work of Sir Terry Pratchett, officially endorsed by the author's estate. |
| This Is Your Trial | Mixed | Laughing Horse | The Counting House | Ballroom | 17:30-18:30 | Aug 3-27 | PWYW | 14+ | The award-winning, critically acclaimed courtroom roast returns. |
| Marny Godden: Fancy Rat | Comedy | BlundaGardens | BlundaBus | 17:40-18:30 | Aug 13-17 | £/PWYW | 0+ | Marny’s latest alter ego, Fancy Rat, is an aspiring human being. The world isn’t interested. | |
| Drew Michael: Drew's Adventures | Comedy | Pleasance | Dome | Jack Dome | 17:40-18:40 | Aug 2-15, 17-27 | £ | 16+ | A show centring on Drew's lifelong experience with hearing loss. |
| Dru Cripps: Pickle Bin | Comedy | BlundaGardens | BlundaBus | 17:40-18:40 | Aug 3-12 | £5/PWYW | 16+ | What is a 'hilarious' (**** (BroadwayWorld.com)) unemployed clown supposed to do, when a magical bin outside of his house keeps spawning gifts? | |
| Ikechukwu Ufomadu: Amusements | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Bunker Two | 17:40-18:40 | Aug 2-15, 17-27 | £ | 16+ | Waggishly absurd exploration of such vital topics as 'The Alphabet' and 'Counting'. |
| Lara Ricote: A Work in Progress!!! | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | The Hive | One | 17:40-18:40 | Aug 17-19 | £10/PWYW | 16+ | It’ll be a very silly show, you’re gonna think 'oh this bitch is soooo silly!!'. |
| Larry Dean: Work in Progress | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 12 Blair St) | Three | 17:40-18:40 | Aug 4-7 | £8/PWYW | 16+ | Three-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee tries some new jokes. |
| Paul Sinha: Pauly Bengali | Comedy | The Stand | New Town Theatre | Grand Hall | 17:40-18:40 | Aug 2, 4-27 | £ | 16+ | Acclaimed comedian, daytime TV star and global TikTok sensation, Paul Sinha is at least two of these. |
| Rachel Parris: Work in Progress | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Cabaret Bar | 17:40-18:40 | Aug 9-13 | £ | 14+ | The BAFTA-nominated comedian and viral sensation presents a work-in-progress hour of her signature blend of stand-up and songs. |
| Scott Murphy: About a Buoy [from Tom Whiston] | Comedy | Gilded Balloon | Patter Hoose | Snug | 17:40-18:40 | Aug 2-13, 15-27 | £ | 14+ | A wild sailboat adventure about one man's love for his buoys. |
| Zach Zimmerman: Purple Smiling Face with Horns Emoji (WIP) | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | The Hive | One | 17:40-18:40 | Aug 20-24 | £8/PWYW | 18+ | An hour full of whip-smart gags, jokes and plenty of naughtiness. |
| Mr Chonkers | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 9-11 Blair St) | Two | 17:45-18:35 | Aug 16 (Wed) | £10/PWYW | 16+ | Absurd. Simple. Outrageous. Stupid. Fun. An important waste of your time. It’s great. |
| Ashley Manning- Candyfloss (Work-In-Progress) | Comedy | The Stand | New Town Theatre | Studio | 17:45-18:45 | Aug 19 & 21 | £ | 18+ | A deep, dark exploration of sexuality and shame, sweetly sugar-coated with jokes. |
| Stuart McPherson: Love That For Me | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 9-11 Blair St) | Two | 17:45-18:45 | July 31; Aug 1-15, 17-27 | £/PWYW | 16+ | This show is his attempt to make sense of it all and put himself back together. |
| Yippee Ki Yay | Theatre | Gilded Balloon | The Museum | Auditorium | 17:45-19:00 | Aug 3-8, 10-15, 17-22, 24-27 | £ | 14+ | Acclaimed, joyfully funny retelling of classic film Die Hard. |
| Benjamin Alborough: Absolute Monopoly | Comedy | Assembly | George Square | The Crate | 17:50-18:50 | Aug 2-14, 16-28 | £ | 12+ | Chaotic, interactive gameshow, with the audience physically becoming the board. |
| Crizards: This Means War | Comedy | Pleasance | Dome | 10 Dome | 17:50-18:50 | Aug 2-13, 15-26 | £ | 16+ | A wonky war epic directed by Edinburgh Comedy Award winner, Jordan Brookes. |
| Freya Parker: It Ain't Easy Being Cheeky | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Baby Grand | 17:50-18:50 | Aug 2-13, 15-27 | £ | 14+ | Hot topics to include death, bread and the joy of waving. It's hehehehe o'clock! |
| Grace Jarvis: This Is the Last Goldfish That I Am Going to Eat for You [directed by Laura Davis] | Comedy | Underbelly | George Square | The Wee Coo | 17:50-18:50 | Aug 2-13, 15-28 | £ | 16+ | An anthology of all the weird things I have done to try and make friends. Do not attempt these methods for yourselves. |
| Sunil Patel: WIP | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | The Tron | 17:50-18:50 | Aug 16 (Wed) | £6/PWYW | 16+ | Patel. Live from Milan in 3.5-inch shorts. New material. A work in progress. | |
| Troll | Comedy | Underbelly | Cowgate | Belly Laugh | 17:50-18:50 | Aug 3-13, 15-27 | £ | 16+ | A two-troll clown show about friendship, scape(goat)ing and being misunderstood. |
| Sam Campbell. Bulletproof Ten | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | The Grand | 18:00-18:10 | Aug 16 (Wed) | £2 | 16+ | The show will only go for ten minutes BUT you will remember it for longer. |
| A Shark Ate My Penis: A History of Boys Like Me | Comedy | Gilded Balloon | Teviot | Wee Room | 18:00-19:00 | Aug 8-28 | £ | 12+ | It's nice to watch a show not thinking, 'Well, they could have made this gayer.' |
| Glenn Moore: Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Feed Me, Glenn I'm Sixty Moore | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | One | 18:00-19:00 | Aug 3-15 | £ | 14+ | Glenn - proud owner of a Pointless Celebrities trophy and a House Of Games tankard - brings one of the best-reviewed shows of 2022 back to Edinburgh. |
| Lucinda Spragg: An Additional Evening With | Comedy | Gilded Balloon | Teviot | Wee Room | 18:00-19:00 | Aug 2-7 | £ | 16+ | Leader of the Regain Party, freedom fighter/icon, agitator extraordinaire and professional feather ruffler… |
| Mark Watson and Mat Ryer: The Company | Comedy | St Peter's Church | The Church | 18:00-19:00 | Aug 21 (Mon) | £6 | 12+ | You're on a company awayday to Edinburgh. Your votes decide what happens. | |
| Mary O'Connell: Money Princess [directed by Elf Lyons] | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Bunker Three | 18:00-19:00 | Aug 2-14, 16-27 | £ | 16+ | Mary O'Connell is conflicted: she hates capitalism but loves to shop. |
| Troy Hawke: Work in Progress | Comedy | Just the Tonic | Nucleus | Atomic Room | 18:00-19:00 | Aug 20-27 | £11 | 14+ | WIP show from multi award-winning comedian and CEO of the Greeters Guild. |
| James Rowland: Piece of Work | Theatre | Summerhall | Summerhall | Anatomy Lecture Theatre | 18:00-19:10 | Aug 2-13, 15-20, 22-25, 27 | £ | 14+ | This remarkable road trip features his captivating mix of story, comedy and music. |
| Rob Copland: Live At The Banshee Labyrinth | Comedy | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Banshee Labyrinth | Chamber Room | 18:05-18:55 | Aug 5-15 | PWYW | 18+ | "Daft and experiential" **** (The Wee Review) |
| Friz Frizzle: Hypo Fixation | Comedy | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Legends | Upstairs | 18:05-19:00 | Aug 5-6, 8-13, 15-20, 22-27 | PWYW | 18+? | A show with songs, stories, and a hell of a lot of medication. |
| Nabil Abdulrashid: The Purple Pill | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Beside | 18:05-19:05 | Aug 2-14, 16-27 | £ | 16+ | A show about trying to be a good person while staying a badman. |
| Lara Ricote: A Work in Progress!!! | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 9-11 Blair St) | One | 18:10-19:10 | Aug 14 (Mon) | £10/PWYW | 16+ | It’ll be a very silly show, you’re gonna think 'oh this bitch is soooo silly!!'. |
| Sunil Patel: WIP | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | The Hive | Two | 18:10-19:10 | Aug 15 (Tues) | £6/PWYW | 16+ | Vibe: Jason Statham, Jack Reacher, Creed 2, Creed 3, Top Gun 2 (Maverick), King Henry V (Agincourt), Saudi Arabian Golf League. |
| Tom Ballard: It is I | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 9-11 Blair St) | One | 18:10-19:10 | July 31; Aug 1-13, 15-27 | £/PWYW | 16+ | One of Australia’s hottest comedians (not physically) delivers a brand-new show about robots, the monarchy and death. |
| Frankie Boyle: Lap of Shame | Comedy | Assembly | Rooms | Music Hall | 18:20-19:20 | Aug 3-13 | £ | 16+ | As part of a continuing physical and mental tailspin, Frankie Boyle suppresses his overarching sense of futility and horror to tell jokes for an hour in the final days of organised human life. |
| Matt Price: As Seen on CCTV | Comedy | Just the Tonic | The Caves | The Spare Room | 18:20-19:20 | Aug 3-13, 15-27 | £5/PWYW | 18+ | A hilarious and life-affirming story about how one free session with a life coach and a death threat changed Matt Price's perspective on everything. |
| Lara Ricote: A Work in Progress!!! | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 12 Blair St) | Four | 18:25-19:25 | Aug 15 (Tues) | £10/PWYW | 16+ | It’ll be a very silly show, you’re gonna think 'oh this bitch is soooo silly!!'. |
| Robin Tran: Don't Look at Me | Comedy | Assembly | George Square | The Box | 18:25-19:25 | Aug 2-14, 16-27 | £ | 14+ | Robin Tran is an Asian transgender lesbian, but don't worry, she's still funny. |
| Alexis Dubus: 3-Star Show | Comedy | Just the Tonic | La Belle Angele | (by Mash House) | 18:30-19:30 | Aug 3-13 | £/PWYW | 16+ | Don't miss this explosively average show from a multi award-nominated performer truly at the middle of his game. 'Too clever' *** (List). |
| Ivo Graham: Organised Fun | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Beyond | 18:30-19:30 | Aug 2-27 | £ | 14+ | Expect quizzes, tangents and fluster. |
| Tom Mayhew: This Time Next Year, We'll Be Millionaires! | Comedy | Laughing Horse | The Three Sisters | Maggie's Front Room | 18:30-19:30 | Aug 3-27 | £/PWYW | 18+ | Dreams. Endless hope. Jokes about how weird and annoying capitalism is. |
| Twonkey’s Greatest Twitch | Comedy | Voodoo Rooms | Ballroom | 18:30-19:30 | Aug 4-6, 8-13, 15-20, 22-27 | £10 | 18+ | Like an electrocuted Tommy Cooper in a car crash with Frank Sidebottom. 'We will examine the tapes closely when we return to London' (Britain's Got Talent). | |
| Reuben Solo: Palindrome | Comedy | Just the Tonic | The Mash House | Attic | 18:40-19:35 | Aug 3-13, 15-27 | £/PWYW | 16+ | A crazy show about paradoxes and parachutes and other perverse ideas that will probably get him deported. |
| Chloe Petts: If You Can't Say Anything Nice | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Above | 18:40-19:40 | Aug 2-13, 15-27 | £ | 14+ | Expect routines on Greta Thunberg, the Queen and calling you all a bunch of virgins. |
| Viggo Venn: Clown (Clown in Progress) | Comedy | BlundaGardens | Magical SpiegelYurt | 18:40-19:40 | Aug 3-7 | £/PWYW | 18+ | 'My favourite clown in the world' (Julia Masli). | |
| Markus Birdman: Platinum – Free | Comedy | The Liquid Room | The Liquid Room | 18:45-19:40 | Aug 5-7, 9-14, 16-20 | PWYW | 16+ | June 2021, I had a stroke. I ended up with a platinum heart. I’d like to tell you about it. | |
| A Young Man Dressed As A Gorilla Dressed As An Old Man Sits Rocking In A Rocking Chair For 56 Minutes And Then Leaves...14 | Comedy | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Liquid Room | Annexe | 18:45-19:41 | Aug 15 (Tues) | PWYW | 12+ | As described. |
| Eleanor Morton: The Ill Advised Character Show | Comedy | The Stand | One | 18:45-19:45 | Aug 14 (Mon) | £12 (£10) | 16+ | A brand-new one-off character show, displaying a full range of accents and coats for one night only. Silly, fun and ill advised. | |
| James Nokise – Right About Now | Comedy | The Stand | Four | 18:45-19:45 | Aug 3-13, 15-27 | £10 (£9) | 14+ | An electric, joyful hour packed with fun and skewering takes on society. | |
| Sara Schaefer: Going Up | Comedy | Underbelly | Bristo Square | Friesian | 18:50-19:50 | Aug 23-25 | £ | 16+ | Fake(?) seminar about defeating your hecklers, developing your TS (thick skin) and achieving total perfect comedy success. |
| Charlie Vero-Martin: Picnic | Comedy | Underbelly | Cowgate | Delhi Belly | 18:55-19:55 | Aug 3-13, 15-27 | £ | 16+ | Seriously joyful sketch show full of characters, puppets and surprises. |
| Phil Kay – Funny Walks | Comedy | Just the Tonic | The Caves | set off fron Rowantree Bar | 19:00-19:50 | Aug 12-13, 15-26 | £10 | 14+ | Hear actual stories told in the places they happened! Groundbreaking stuff! A laugh a metre. |
| Amelia Bayler: I Work in Customer Service but I’m Actually a Pop Star | Comedy | BlundaGardens | BlundaBus | 19:00-20:00 | Aug 3-12 | £5/PWYW | 18+ | After an epic journey she finds her unhinged, joyous voice once more. | |
| John Otway | Music | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Voodoo Rooms | Ballroom | 19:00-20:00 | Aug 14 (Mon) | PWYW | 18+ | A surreal sense of humour and a self-deprecating underdog persona. |
| Kieran Hodgson: Big In Scotland | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Forth | 19:00-20:00 | Aug 2-27 | £ | 16+ | In 2020, the world changed forever, as Kieran Hodgson moved to Scotland… |
| Michelle Brasier: Reform | Comedy | Gilded Balloon | Teviot | Dining Room | 19:00-20:00 | Aug 2-15, 17-27 | £ | 16+ | A true story (unfortunately) about befriending her online scammer. |
| Daniel Foxx: Villain | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Baby Grand | 19:05-20:05 | Aug 2-13, 15-27 | £ | 14+ | About childhood, Tilda Swinton and bullying (but in a chic way). |
| Mark Nelson: Bits & Pieces | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | The Hive | One | 19:05-20:05 | Aug 1-13, 15-20, 22-27 | £/PWYW | 18+ | New stuff, greatest hits and bits and pieces from his decade at the Fringe. |
| Pierre Novellie: Why Are You Laughing? | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 12 Blair St) | Three | 19:05-20:05 | Aug 2-27 | £/PWYW | 14+ | Is something wrong with him or you? |
| Josh Weller: Age Against The Machine | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Below | 19:10-20:10 | Aug 2-13, 15-27 | £ | 14+ | A love letter to music, a break-up letter to the industry and an hour of high-octane stand-up from a man ready to stare his younger self in the face. |
| Liam Withnail: Chronic Boom | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 9-11 Blair St) | Two | 19:10-20:10 | Aug 2-27 | £/PWYW | 18+ | New show from the award-winning, smash-hit comic. |
| Siân Docksey – Pole Yourself Together! [directed by Alexander Bennett] | Comedy | Pleasance | Dome | 10 Dome | 19:10-20:10 | Aug 2-8, 10-13, 16-20, 23-28 | £ | 16+ | Pole dancing comedian cheerfully ignores climate disaster, another recession and the steady creep of fascism to see if hanging off a stick can make you stop thinking about death. |
| Sam See: Government Approved Sex | Comedy | Laughing Horse | The Counting House | The Lounge | 19:15-20:10 | Aug 3-7, 9-14, 16-21, 23-27 | PWYW | 16+ | A stand-up comedy show about relationships, BDSM and scientific facts. |
| Christopher Macarthur-Boyd: Scary Times | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | The Tron | 19:15-20:15 | Aug 1-13, 15-27 | £/PWYW | 14+ | Featuring routines and jokes on such topics as Edinburgh Zoo, going for a walk, and the collapse of the British state. | |
| Jenny Ryan: Out of the Box | Cabaret | Gilded Balloon | Teviot | Wine Bar | 19:15-20:15 | Aug 19-28 | £ | 12+ | An evening of song, storytelling and even some showbiz secrets. |
| Matty Hutson: Don't Hold Back | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Attic | 19:15-20:15 | Aug 2-13, 15-27 | £ | 16+ | Musical comedian Matty Hutson bares his sensitive soul. |
| Sunil Patel: WIP | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | The Tron | 19:15-20:15 | Aug 14 (Mon) | £6/PWYW | 16+ | Patel. Live from Milan in 3.5-inch shorts. New material. A work in progress. | |
| Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man & The Pool | Comedy | Underbelly | Bristo Square | McEwan Hall | 19:15-20:25 | Aug 22-27 | £ | 12+ | His coming-of-middle-age story. Life, death and a highly chlorinated YMCA pool. |
| Ali Brice: I’m More Interested In What You Have To Say (Work In Progress) | Comedy | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Banshee Labyrinth | Chamber Room | 19:20-20:20 | Aug 21-27 | PWYW | 18+ | "Ali Brice is funny" ***** The List. You'll have a good time. Come along. Cheers. |
| David O'Doherty: Tiny Piano Man | Comedy | Assembly | George Square | Gordon Aikman Theatre | 19:20-20:20 | Aug 2-14, 16-28 | £ | 14+ | A new pageant of laughter, song and occasionally getting up from a chair. |
| Paul Foot: Dissolve | Comedy | Underbelly | Cowgate | Belly Dancer | 19:20-20:20 | Aug 3-14, 16-27 | £ | 14+ | Inevitably he does get distracted by officious lollipop ladies. |
| Otto and Astrid's Joint Solo Project | Theatre | Assembly | George Square Gardens | Piccolo | 19:25-20:25 | Aug 2-8, 10-15, 17-27 | £ | 12+ | Berlin's prince and princess of art rock and Europop. |
| Celya AB: Second Rodeo | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Beside | 19:30-20:30 | Aug 2-14, 16-27 | £ | 16+ | As a child, all she wanted was to be an adult. Now she wants out. |
| Josie Long: Love Language | Book | EIBF @ | Edinburgh College of Art | Baillie Gifford West Court | 19:30-20:30 | Aug 18 (Fri) | Pay What You Can | An uplifting discussion on how storytelling and comedy can be an escape from the mayhem of modern life. | |
| Pleasance All-American Newcomer Comedy Gala | Mixed | Pleasance | Courtyard | One | 19:30-20:30 | Aug 5 (Sat) | FREE | 12+ | Discover the freshest comedy talent on the Fringe as they make their Pleasance debuts. |
| Rosie Jones – Triple Threat | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | One | 19:30-20:30 | Aug 11-12 | £ | 14+ | Join Rosie as she ponders whether she is a national treasure, a little prick, or somewhere in between! |
| Sara Pascoe: Success Story | Comedy | Underbelly | Bristo Square | McEwan Hall | 19:30-20:30 | Aug 18 (Fri) | £15 (£14) | 14+ | After deciding to be famous at 14 years old, Sara has ruined Hugh Grant's birthday and seen Salman Rushdie dancing. For balance she’s also been slagged off by Geri Halliwell so it’s not all glamour. |
| Tom Little: The Reliably Funny Comedian You Want To See | Comedy | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Subway | Main Room | 19:30-20:30 | Aug 14 (Mon) | PWYW | 18+ | 'Inventive, unexpected and often very silly…' (Chortle.co.uk). |
| Krystal Evans: The Hottest Girl at Burn Camp | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | The Hive | Two | 19:35-20:35 | Aug 2-14, 16-27 | £/PWYW | 16+ | A viciously funny take on some of the defining moments in Krystal’s life |
| Olga Koch: Prawn Cocktail | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 9-11 Blair St) | One | 19:35-20:35 | July 31; Aug 1-27 | £/PWYW | 16+ | Think less Eat Pray Love and more Shake Scream Cry. |
| BriTANicK: Work in Progress | Comedy | Assembly | George Square | Studio Three | 19:45-20:45 | Aug 21-26 | £ | 16+ | Mucking about with a collection of best bits and brand-new material. |
| Geraldine Hickey: Of Course We've Got Horses | Comedy | Assembly | George Square | The Box | 19:45-20:45 | Aug 2-14, 16-27 | £ | 14+ | Geraldine is very good at telling funny stories, it's why she's won comedy awards in Australia. |
| Lara Ricote: A Work in Progress!!! | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 12 Blair St) | Four | 19:50-20:50 | Aug 16 (Wed) | £10/PWYW | 16+ | It’ll be a very silly show, you’re gonna think 'oh this bitch is soooo silly!!'. |
| Lou Wall vs The Internet | Comedy | Assembly | George Square | Studio Four | 19:50-20:50 | Aug 2-14, 16-27 | £ | 14+ | About me. And murder and the internet. |
| Sikisa: Hear Me Out | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 12 Blair St) | Four | 19:50-20:50 | Aug 2-15, 17-20, 22-27 | £/PWYW | 16+ | Why is it so hard to say the right things? |
| Jordan Gray: Is it a Bird? | Comedy | Assembly | Rooms | Music Hall | 19:55-20:55 | Aug 23-24 | £ | 16+ | Jordan returns to Edinburgh once more to take on babies, boobies, bigots and Batman. |
| Jeromaia Detto: MUSH | Comedy | BlundaGardens | Magical SpiegelYurt | 20:00-20:55 | Aug 2-12 | £5/PWYW | 16+ | An all-out journey of absurdity for anyone who loves playfulness, silliness and delightful whimsy! | |
| Carl Donnelly – The Dead Dad Show | Comedy | BlundaGardens | Magical SpiegelYurt | 20:00-21:00 | Aug 23-27 | £/PWYW | 16+ | Join this multi-award winning London comedian as he unpacks the worst month of his life (since his divorce that is). | |
| Jarred Christmas: Silly Billy | Comedy | Laughing Horse | 32 Below | Main Cellar | 20:00-21:00 | Aug 3-6, 8-13, 15-20, 22-27 | PWYW | 18+ | Award-winning New Zealand comedian; master of interaction, consummate raconteur. |
| Jeremy Segway: A Life Out of Balance [w/ The Duncan Brothers] | Comedy | Bedlam Theatre | Bedlam Theatre | 20:00-21:00 | Aug 4-13 | £10(£9)/PWYW | 14+ | A show dedicated to Mr Segway, the man who invented the Segway, all performed entirely on Segways. | |
| Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Ed MacArthur: String V SPITTA | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Above | 20:00-21:00 | Aug 18-26 | £ | 16+ | A kids party... but for adults. Smash-hit musical comedy about two rival children's entertainers. |
| Myra Dubois: Be Well | Cabaret | Pleasance | Dome | King Dome | 20:00-21:00 | Aug 2-13, 15-27 | £ | 18+ | Myra DuBois lays her healing hands on the masses in her wellness sermon. |
| Rosie Holt: That's Politainment! | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Two | 20:00-21:00 | Aug 2-14, 16-27 | £ | 16+ | Rosie returns to tightrope the thin line between politics and entertainment. |
| William Stone: Lofi Jokes to Study/Relax to | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | The Cellar | 20:00-21:00 | Aug 2-14, 16-27 | £ | 16+ | Put your feet up and enjoy a joke-filled show in a relaxed atmosphere. Contains zero peril. |
| David Quirk – Astonishing Obscurity | Comedy | The Stand | Four | 20:05-21:05 | Aug 3-13, 15-27 | £12 (£10) | 18+ | A story about the day he ended a 32-year-old family vendetta – A truth. A lie. Obsession. Stalking. Art. | |
| Jacob Henegan: Mostly Killer (Some Filler) | Comedy | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Southsider | Side Lounge | 20:15-21:00 | Aug 5-7,9-14,16-21,23-27 | PWYW | 18+ | This show will contain 3 perfect jokes, and many other jokes that are imperfect but beautiful in their flawed nature. |
| Best in Class | Mixed | Laughing Horse | The Three Sisters | Maggie's Chamber | 20:15-21:15 | Aug 3-27 | £/PWYW | 18+ | A crowdfunded profit-sharing show that champions the rich talent of working-class comedians. |
| Glenn Wool: The Tardigrades Picnic | Comedy | Scottish Comedy Festival @ | The Beehive Inn | Beehive 2 (The Attic) | 20:15-21:15 | Aug 4-14, 16-28 | £/PWYW | 18+ | You will laugh, he's very good at this. |
| Dan Rath: All Quiet Carriage Along the Inner Western Line | Comedy | Underbelly | Bristo Square | Friesian | 20:20-21:20 | Aug 2-13, 15-28 | £ | 16+ | This is for folks who headbutt payphones just for the cardio. **** (Scotsman) |
| Gillian Cosgriff: Actually, Good | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Cabaret Bar | 20:20-21:20 | Aug 2-8, 10-15, 17-27 | £ | 14+ | Hilarious original songs, killer stand-up, and a big book of things that are actually good. |
| Patti Harrison: My Huge Tits Huge Because They Are Infected Not Fake! | Comedy | Pleasance | Dome | Queen Dome | 20:20-21:20 | Aug 2-13, 15-27 | £ | 16+ | Expect pure, chaotic fun. |
| Foxdog Studios: Robo Bingo | Comedy | Underbelly | Cowgate | Delhi Belly | 20:25-21:25 | Aug 3-27 | £ | 14+ | An interactive show for people who don't want to talk to anyone. |
| Alice Fraser: Twist | Comedy | Underbelly | Bristo Square | Jersey | 20:30-21:30 | Aug 2-13, 15-28 | £ | 14+ | The moment you think you've got a handle on things, life throws you a twist. |
| An Evening of Mayhem with Megan Stalter | Comedy | Gilded Balloon | Teviot | Debating Hall | 20:30-21:30 | Aug 12-23, 25-27 | £ | 16+ | Megan delights every crowd and leaves them saying, wait is she okay? |
| Annabel Marlow... is this okay?? | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Attic | 20:30-21:30 | Aug 2-15, 17-27 | £ | 16+ | Original music, perfect singing (not even kidding), and absolute vibes. |
| Nish Kumar: Them Changes (Work in Progress) | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 12 Blair St) | Three | 20:30-21:30 | Aug 10-12, 14 | £/PWYW | 16+ | An hour of new material from a 37-year-old occasional TV host. |
| Tom Stade: Natural Born Killer | Comedy | The Stand | One | 20:30-21:30 | Aug 3-13, 15-27 | £15 (£14) | 18+ | Legendary Canadian superstar with a killer new hour! | |
| Footface: How to Radiate Sexual Allure | Comedy | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Banshee Labyrinth | Chamber Room | 20:35-21:25 | Aug 12-18 | PWYW | 18+ | A very normal comedy show. From the powerful team behind Consignia. |
| John Hastings: The Times They Are A John Hastings | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 9-11 Blair St) | Two | 20:35-21:35 | July 31; Aug 1-27 | £/PWYW | 14+ | God’s favourite comedian and public urinator (by circumstance and never choice). |
| Robin Ince – MELONS: A Love Letter to Stand-Up Comedy | Comedy | The Stand | New Town Theatre | Studio | 20:35-21:35 | Aug 2-14, 16-27 | £13 (£10) | 14+ | How he fell in love with comedy thanks to The Goodies and Rik Mayall and how after 30 years he started to find his voice. |
| Susie McCabe: Femme Fatality | Comedy | Assembly | George Square | Studio Two | 20:35-21:35 | Aug 2-13, 15-27 | £ | 14+ | With her razor-sharp punchlines she is currently ‘the best story telling comic in the UK right now’ (List). |
| Elf and Duffy: Heist | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | The Tron | 20:40-21:40 | Aug 2-15 | £10/PWYW | 18+ | Duffy and Elf are friends. Duffy signs, Elf doesn’t. Elf speaks, Duffy doesn’t. Let’s see how this works out… | |
| Luke McQueen and Mark Silcox: Songs With My Father | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | The Tron | 20:40-21:40 | Aug 21-27 | £/PWYW | 18+ | A father. Desperate. A hit single. Enough money for his son to finally move out. | |
| Preppers – A Comedy About the Apocalypse(s) [w/ Stuart Laws] | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | The Tron | 20:40-21:40 | Aug 16-19 | £/PWYW | 14+ | It’s very stupid stuff, and sort of near the end of the world, so why not treat it like an immersive experience? | |
| Tamsyn Kelly: Crying in TK Maxx | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Bunker One | 20:40-21:40 | Aug 2-13, 15-27 | £ | 16+ | When Tamsyn discovers footage of her estranged father in a Channel 4 documentary, she's forced to stop and reassess her life |
| The Briefing with Melissa McGlensey | Comedy | Assembly | Roxy | Downstairs | 20:40-21:40 | Aug 2-13 | £ | 16+ | Comedy presser. Directed by Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall. |
| Rhod Gilbert: Work in Progress | Comedy | Gilded Balloon | Teviot | Wine Bar | 20:45-21:45 | Aug 21-23, 25-27 | £ | 16+ | Expect some dark but funny shit. |
| Richard Stott: Dear Lord… What A Sad Little Life | Comedy | Laughing Horse | Cabaret Voltaire | Long Room | 20:45-21:45 | Aug 3-13, 15-27 | PWYW | 14+ | Just doing a breezy hour of stand-up. Is in no way obsessing about people liking him. |
| John Robins: Howl | Comedy | Just the Tonic | Nucleus | Atomic Room | 20:50-21:45 | Aug 3-6, 8-13, 15-20, 22-27 | £16 | 14+ | Still screaming after all these years. |
| Ange Lavoipierre and Jane Watt: Jazz or a Bucket of Blood | Comedy | Underbelly | George Square | The Wee Coo | 20:50-21:50 | Aug 2-13, 15-27 | £ | 14+ | Jane and Ange compete to decide the dominant theme of this farce. |
| Cabaret Impedimenta [hosted by John-Luke Roberts] | Mixed | Assembly | George Square Gardens | Piccolo | 20:55-21:55 | Aug 17-20 | £ | 16+ | An impossible variety show. Amazing acts attempt to perform while confronted by obstacles and increasingly difficult circumstances. |
| Jonny & The Baptists: Ten Thankless Years | Comedy | Assembly | George Square Gardens | Piccolo | 20:55-21:55 | Aug 9-15 | £ | 14+ | The country's best (not most popular) musical comedians present their greatest hits, from a decade of being wildly under appreciated. |
| Julia Masli: CHOOSH! | Comedy | Assembly | George Square Gardens | Piccolo | 20:55-21:55 | Aug 22-27 | £ | 12+ | An absurd homage to migration. 'Properly bonkers... very funny' **** (Scotsman). |
| Mr Chonkers | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 9-11 Blair St) | One | 21:00-21:50 | Aug 14 (Mon) | £10/PWYW | 16+ | Absurd. Simple. Outrageous. An important waste of your time. It’s great. |
| Rosco McClelland: Bring Out Your Dead | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | The Hive | Two | 21:00-21:50 | Aug 2-15, 17-27 | £/PWYW | 18+ | A show about taking chances, even when the consequences are certain death. |
| Alexander Bennett: I Can't Stand the Man, Myself | Comedy | Gilded Balloon | Patter Hoose | Coorie | 21:00-22:00 | Aug 2-13, 15-27 | £ | 16+ | A show about hating yourself and, amongst other things, choosing not to. |
| Courtney Pauroso: Vanessa 5000 | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Beneath | 21:00-22:00 | Aug 2-15, 17-27 | £ | 16+ | Artificially intelligent. Genuinely stupid. |
| Darius Emadi: Hot Ticket | Comedy | Laughing Horse | Bar Soba | Secret Soba | 21:00-22:00 | Aug 16-27 | PWYW | 14+ | Darius parades us through warrior prowess, psychokinesis, shark hunting… |
| Mark Watson: Search | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | One | 21:00-22:00 | Aug 2-14, 16, 18-20, 23-27 | £ | 14+ | Taskmaster star, multiple award-winner and Fringe legend returns. |
| Phil Kay: Silent DiscoVery... (Walking Tour) | Comedy | BlundaGardens | set off from The Bus Stop | 21:00-22:00 | Aug 13-26 | £10 | 14+ | Take a stroll with Phil for an off-the-cuff on the hoof walking tour. Talking cobblers on the cobbles. | |
| Ginzel's Little Cordoba: A Double Bill [plays, w Thom Tuck] | Theatre | theSpace @ | Surgeons Hall | Stephenson Theatre | 21:10-22:00 | Aug 4-12, 14-19 | £ | 12+ | Spanning 500 years of British history, this double-bill examines the fine line between individual and social responsibility. |
| Jo Griffin: The Power Hour | Comedy | Assembly | George Square | The Box | 21:15-22:15 | Aug 2-14, 16-27 | £ | 16+ | Jo’s got the power. You want it? Well come get it. Because she’s got it. Maybe. TBC. |
| Mat Ewins: Mr TikTok | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 12 Blair St) | Four | 21:15-22:15 | July 31; Aug 1-27 | £/PWYW | 16+ | **** (Guardian). **** (Times). ****½ (Chortle.co.uk). ***** (Independent). |
| Monét X Change: Life Be Lifein' | Cabaret | Underbelly | Bristo Square | McEwan Hall | 21:15-22:15 | Aug 2-8, 10-15 | £ | 18+ | Operatic bass-baritone and comedienne Monét X Change shares her anecdotal, intrusive thoughts and opinions. |
| Two Little Dickheads: Slot Fillers | Comedy | BlundaGardens | Magical SpiegelYurt | 21:20-22:15 | Aug 18-27 | £5/PWYW | 14+ | It’s unscripted, unhooved and unbelievably unnecessary. | |
| AAA Stand-Up at Just The Tonic [w/ Jacob Hatton, Freya McGhee and Thenjiwe] | Comedy | Just the Tonic | The Caves | Up The Road | 21:20-22:20 | Aug 3-13, 15-27 | £ | 16+ | Total sell-out show 2005-2022 returns with a brand new line-up. Endorphin-milking titterfest. |
| Zoe Coombs Marr: The Opener | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Above | 21:20-22:20 | Aug 14-27 | £ | 16+ | We regret to inform you that Dave is back. |
| Stewart Lee: Basic Lee | Comedy | The Stand | New Town Theatre | Grand Hall | 21:20-22:30 | Aug 12-14 | £20 | 14+ | 70-minute selection of highlights from the current touring show. One man, one microphone, and one microphone in the wings in case the one on stage breaks. Pure. Simple. Classic. Basic Lee. |
| Ed Byrne: Tragedy Plus Time | Comedy | Assembly | Rooms | Music Hall | 21:30-22:30 | Aug 3-13, 15-27 | £20 (£19) | 14+ | Mining the most tragic event in his life for laughs. |
| Mawaan Rizwan: Songs About Birds (WIP) | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Two | 21:30-22:30 | Aug 4-8, 10-13 | £12 (£10) | 16+ | Taskmaster's 'sneaky pasta snake' tries out brand-spanking-new songs and a couple of classics for good measure. **** (Times). **** (Evening Standard). |
| Charlie Lewin: Cockatiel | Comedy | Gilded Balloon | Teviot | Turret | 21:40-22:40 | Aug 2-14, 16-28 | £ | 12+ | The relatable coming-of-age of a queer kid from Melbourne trying to find his flock. |
| Huge Davies: Whodunnit | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Upstairs | 21:40-22:40 | Aug 2-15, 17-27 | £ | 16+ | Highly anticipated second show about murder. |
| Jazz Emu: You Shouldn't Have | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Two | 21:40-22:40 | Aug 17-27 | £16 (£15) | 16+ | Will he be able to get every single person in the world to like him? Or is it time for him to face the music? |
| Kwame Asante: In Stitches | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Upstairs | 21:40-22:40 | Aug 16 (Wed) | £ | 14+ | An hour of his best material on life inside and outside the hospital. |
| Garry Starr: Greece Lightning | Comedy | Underbelly | Bristo Square | Cowbarn | 21:40-22:50 | Aug 23-27 | £ | 18+ | An overzealous idiot performs all of Greek mythology. |
| Leila Navabi: Composition | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Attic | 21:45-22:45 | Aug 2-10, 12-27 | £ | 14+ | Welsh, brown, gay, Gen-Z comedian. Audacious punk musical-comedy show. |
| Martin Urbano: Apology Comeback Tour | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Bunker Three | 21:45-22:45 | Aug 2-15, 17-27 | £ | 16+ | Martin Urbano is sincerely subversive' (New York Times). |
| Jodie Mitchell: Becoming John Travulva | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Below | 21:50-22:50 | Aug 2-15, 17-27 | £ | 16+ | John Travulva teams up with his tick-box protégé: queer, non-binary class-straddler Jodie Mitchell. |
| Luke Rollason: cheep cheep (WIP) | Comedy | Pleasance | Dome | 10 Dome | 21:50-22:50 | Aug 11-13 | £ | 14+ | Star of Extraordinary (Disney+) emerges from the egg all fluffy-looking. I have no enemies and I will fight anyone who says different. |
| Tom Little: The Reliably Funny Comedian You Want To See | Comedy | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Banshee Labyrinth | Chamber Room | 21:50-22:50 | Aug 15 & 22 (Tues) | PWYW | 18+ | 'Inventive, unexpected and often very silly…' (Chortle.co.uk). |
| Cara Connors: Straight for Pay | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Bunker One | 21:55-22:55 | Aug 2-13, 15-27 | £ | 18+ | Comedian, actor, writer and multifaceted homosexual with an ass that won't quit. |
| Enjoy an Album Live with Liam Withnail and Christopher Macarthur-Boyd | Podcast | Monkey Barrel | (at 12 Blair St) | Three | 21:55-22:55 | Aug 14 (Mon) | £/PWYW | 18+ | The podcast where two comedians listen to the best (and worst) albums of all time. |
| John Robertson's The Dark Room | Comedy | Gilded Balloon | Teviot | Dining Room | 22:00-21:00 | Aug 2-27 | £ | 14+ | Will you: A) Find the light switch? B) Go north? C) Abandon hope? |
| Chris Cantrill: SuPeRgEnIu$ (WIP) | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 9-11 Blair St) | Two | 22:00-23:00 | Aug 14 (Mon) | £7/PWYW | 16+ | About his rude son, upsetting pensioners on purpose and party planning. |
| Dan Tiernan: Going Under | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 9-11 Blair St) | Two | 22:00-23:00 | July 31; Aug 1-13, 15-27 | £/PWYW | 16+ | He's 27, gay and riddled with dyspraxia. Dan's had a big year… |
| Dave Hill: Caveman in a Spaceship | Comedy | The Stand | New Town Theatre | Studio | 22:00-23:00 | Aug 14-27 | £ | 18+ | Stand-up, storytelling, music and occasional ill-advised feats of strength… |
| Gemma Soldati: The Poor Rich | Comedy | Assembly | Roxy | Downstairs | 22:00-23:00 | Aug 2-14, 16-27 | £ | 18+ | Prepare to be seduced, betrayed, and most of all – delighted. |
| Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Friends: Kool Story Bro | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Forth | 22:00-23:00 | Aug 21-23 | £ | 14+ | Kiell Smith-Bynoe hosts a late-night improv show featuring the best improvisers at the Fringe. |
| Nick Mohammed presents The Very Best and Worst of Mr Swallow | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | The Grand | 22:00-23:00 | Aug 15 (Tues) | £ | 14+ | A mix of new, old, very old and previously unusable material. Expect noise, maths, magic and the whole of Les Mis! 'Impressive... Why he's on roller skates is anyone's guess' **** (Guardian). |
| Dan Lees: The Vinyl Countdown | Comedy | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Banshee Labyrinth | Cinema Room | 22:10-23:10 | Aug 4-6, 8-13, 15-20 | PWYW | 18+ | Brings forgotten album covers back to life. A joyous night of musical madness. |
| Best of So You Think You're Funny? [w/ Pravanya Pillay] | Comedy | Gilded Balloon | Teviot | Wine Bar | 22:15-23:15 | Aug 2-4, 9-12, 16-23, 25-28 | £12.50 (£11.50) | 16+ | See the best up-and-coming comedians before they make it big! |
| Sophie Zucker: Sophie Sucks Face | Comedy | Underbelly | Bristo Square | Dexter | 22:15-23:20 | Aug 2-13, 15-28 | £ | 16+ | A one-woman musical about love, death, and incest. All bops. |
| Moses Storm: Perfect Cult | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Beneath | 22:20-23:20 | Aug 2-15, 17-27 | £ | 16+ | A brand-new show about being raised in an unsuccessful doomsday cult. |
| Mr Chonkers | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 9-11 Blair St) | One | 22:25-23:15 | Aug 15 (Tues) | £10/PWYW | 16+ | Absurd. Simple. Outrageous. Stupid. An important waste of your time. It’s great. |
| Andrew O'Neill – Geburah | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 9-11 Blair St) | One | 22:25-23:25 | Aug 2-14, 16-21, 23-28 | £/PWYW | 14+ | Nonbinary whirlwind. Them off of Good Omens 2, Damned Andrew, Buzzcocks, that sort of thing. |
| PLAYDATE: Comedians Improvise [w/ Amy Annette] | Comedy | Assembly | George Square Gardens | Piccolo | 22:25-23:25 | Aug 12 & 24 | £ | 14+ | Playdate brings comedians and improvisers together to play. |
| Dane Simpson: Didgeridoozy | Comedy | Assembly | George Square | Studio Four | 22:30-23:30 | Aug 2-13 | £ | 16+ | Straight outta Wagga Wagga. Bonus didgeridoo content. |
| Lachlan Werner – Voices Of Evil | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | The Cellar | 22:30-23:30 | Aug 2-14, 16-22, 24-27 | £ | 14+ | Brew is a small, squishy witch, and she has decided to sacrifice Lachlan. To help with his self-esteem. |
| Dungeons 'n' Bastards: An Adam Riches Gameshow | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 12 Blair St) | Four | 22:40-23:40 | Aug 17-27 | £10/PWYW | 16+ | Think Pat Sharp’s Fun House meets Krull in the show TV commissioners will soon be calling ‘a hard pass’. |
| Jamali Maddix: Work in Progress | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 12 Blair St) | Four | 22:40-23:40 | Aug 4-13 | £/PWYW | 16+ | Jamali Maddix is working up a brand-new hour. **** (Sunday Times). |
| Consignia Presents: The Annual Sean Morley Tribute Act Comedian of the Year | Comedy | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Banshee Labyrinth | Banqueting Hall | 22:45-23:45 | Aug 14 (Mon) | PWYW | 18+ | One of three one-off deeply weirdcore shows: this is an unnatural history of Dadaism. |
| Daniel Foxx: Villain | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Baby Grand | 22:50-23:50 | Aug 11 (Fri) | £ | 14+ | About childhood, Tilda Swinton and bullying (but in a chic way). |
| Jordan Brookes: Snakes for Cats to Watch (Work in Progress) | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Baby Grand | 22:50-23:50 | Aug 2-8, 21-27 | £ | 16+ | I cannot emphasise enough how this is not finished yet. |
| Dog Park [w/ Amy Annette & friends] | Mixed | Pleasance | Courtyard | Cabaret Bar | 23:00-00:00 | Aug 10 (Thurs) & 17 (Thurs) | £ | 16+ | New material with old friends. Enjoy comedians having a bit of laugh, and raise money for food banks too! |
| Haus Party! with Otto & Astrid | Mixed | House of Oz | The Great Indoors | (near Summerhall) | 23:00-00:00 | Aug 12, 19, 26 (Sats) | £ | 18+ | Berlin’s prince and princess of art rock and Europop host a raucous evening of variety acts |
| Ivo Graham: Organised Fun | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | The Grand | 23:00-00:00 | Aug 12, 19 | £ | 14+ | Ivo's lining up a show with more risk than ever before. |
| Nick Helm's Hot 'N' Heavy Weekend | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | One | 23:00-00:00 | Aug 11-12 | £17.50 (£17) | 16+ | Join Nick Helm as he celebrates the 10th anniversary of his first album. |
| This Is Your Trial (Unleashed) | Mixed | Hootenannies | The Apex | Hoot 1 | 23:00-00:00 | Aug 4-28 | £/PWYW | 18+ | Guilty or innocent? You decide. |
| Pleasance Newcomer Comedy Gala | Mixed | Pleasance | Courtyard | The Grand | 23:00-00:20 | Aug 5 (Sat) | FREE | 12+ | Check out some of the most exciting new comedians at the Fringe as they make their Pleasance debuts in this late-night comedy party. |
| Stamptown Comedy Night | Mixed | Pleasance | Courtyard | Forth | 23:00-00:30 | Aug 5, 10-12, 17-19, 24-26 | £ | 18+ | A raunchy, chaotic and full-on Fringe experience, Stamptown is a late-night variety show featuring the best alternative performance on the international scene. |
| Tarot: Hive Mind | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Two | 23:10-00:10 | Aug 23, 25-26 | £ | 16+ | A gameshow in which contestants have to crowdsource their way to victory |
| Marc Burrows in the Glom of Nit | Comedy | Laughing Horse | City Café | Nineties | 23:15-00:00 | Aug 4-6, 8-13, 15-20, 22-27, 29 | PWYW | 18+ | An hour of nerdy jokes about sex, music, identity and modern life being rubbish, performed, for some reason, in front of a giant picture of Blur. |
| Stephen Catling: Beehavioural Problems: Something Something Autism | Comedy | theSpace @ | Surgeons Hall | Theatre 2 | 23:15-00:05 | Aug 4-12, 14-26 | £8 (£6.50) | 18+ | He who makes a bee-ast of himself gets rid of the pain of bee-ing a man. Surrealist escapade. |
| Gig Pigs Live in Edinburgh | Comedy | Pleasance | Courtyard | Cabaret Bar | 23:20-00:20 | Aug 16 (Wed) | £ | 14+ | Ivo Graham and Alex Kealy's podcast comes to the Pleasance for one night only! |
| System of a Clown: Nu-Metal Karaoke [hosted by Alison Spittle] | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 12 Blair St) | Three | 23:20-00:50 | Aug 27 (Sun) | £6/PWYW | 16+ | A nu-metal comic karaoke night for a big bunch of comics to perform at. |
| Siblings and Family Friends | Comedy | Pleasance | Dome | Queen Dome | 23:20-01:00 | Aug 9, 16, 23 (Wed) | £ | 16+ | Prepare yourselves for a wild and wonderful variety night hosted by character comedians and IRL sisters Maddy and Marina Bye. |
| It's Christmas Time [w/ Ray Badran and Josh Glanc] | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 12 Blair St) | Three | 23:20-01:20 | Aug 21-22 | £10(£9)/PWYW | 18+ | If you're after a late-night Christmas comedy show, that is hosted by two Australians, and takes place in Scotland, in August... then this is for you. |
| Chris Cantrill and Sam O’Leary: Adult Film Club | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 9-11 Blair St) | Two | 23:25-00:25 | Aug 15-16 | £8/PWYW | 16+ | A raucous showcase of comedy short films, bizarro music videos and truly effed-up MP4s. |
| Paul F Taylor: Head in the Clouds | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 9-11 Blair St) | Two | 23:25-00:25 | Aug 4-14, 17-27 | £/PWYW | 16+ | Wonderfully absurd stand-up from a fool's thinking man. |
| Jazz Emu's Pleasure Garden | Mixed | Assembly | George Square | Studios - Underground | 23:30-01:00 | Aug 17-19, 24-26 | £16 (£15) | 16+ | Jazz Emu's finest songs, along with sets from some special guest comedians. |
| Comedians Beer Mat Flipping Super Bowl | Comedy | Pleasance | Dome | Queen Dome | 23:30-01:30 | Aug 15 (Tues) | £12 (£11) | 12+ | Sikisa, Bella Hull and Stuart Laws host comedy's premier sporting event, with eight guest comedians competing to take home the trophy. |
| Comedians' DJ Battles [w/ Ivo Graham] | Cabaret | Assembly | George Square | Studios - Underground | 23:30-01:30 | Aug 4, 11, 20, 27 | £15 (£14) | 18+ | Ivo Graham (music snob, organised fun fanatic, superintendent of the sesh) pits Fringe legends against each other on the decks to see who's got the best taste in music, as voted by you, the people dancing. |
| Pravanya Pillay and Imogen Trusselle: Party | Mixed | Assembly | George Square | The Crate | 23:50-01:20 | Friday 4, 11, 18, 25 | £ | 18+ | The most eccentric and ‘queer as f*ck’ (Travis Alabanza) trans/non-binary/female mixed-bill comedy show. |
| Mr Chonkers Presents: Piggy Time | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 9-11 Blair St) | One | 23:55-01:25 | Aug 17-19 | £7/PWYW | 16+ | An unhinged variety show. A stunningly beautiful mess of a disaster. |
| RODEO! | Mixed | Monkey Barrel | (at 12 Blair St) | Three | 23:55-02:00 | Aug 13 (Sun) | £8 | 18+ | The lawless late-night mixed-bill comedy show, featuring Paddy Young and a motley crew of outlaws. |
| RODEO! | Mixed | Monkey Barrel | (at 9-11 Blair St) | One | 23:55-02:00 | Aug 10-12 | £8 | 18+ | The lawless late-night mixed-bill comedy show, featuring Paddy Young and a motley crew of outlaws. |
| King of the Table [w/ Ray Badran] | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 12 Blair St) | Three | 23:55-02:40 | Aug 18 & 25 (Fri) | £12 | 18+ | A table tennis tournament featuring some of the best comedians of the Fringe. |
| The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society (ACMS) | Mixed | Monkey Barrel | (at 9-11 Blair St) | One | 23:55-02:55 | Aug 6-9, 13-16, 20-23, 27 | £8/PWYW | 18+ | A crucible in which we will forge comedy's golden future and literal good gig, back for our 12th Fringe with yet more high-end foolishness, Permitted Heckles and a ludicrous, bountiful plenitude of guests. |
| Julia Masli: ha ha ha ha ha ha ha | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 12 Blair St) | Four | 00:05-01:05 | Aug 4-15 | £10 | 16+ | hahahhahahaha hehe hahahahahahahahahaha. 'Ha' (Guardian). |
| Viggo Venn: British Comedian | Comedy | Monkey Barrel | (at 12 Blair St) | Four | 00:05-01:05 | Aug 16-27 | £10 | 16+ | Norwegian clown has... life-long dream of becoming a British Club Comedian. |
| Alfie Brown – Late Show | Comedy | Just the Tonic | The Caves | The Wee One | 00:10-01:10 | Aug 3-4, 6-13 | £10 | 14+ | New jokes and old jokes from the award-winning comedian, good old Alfie Brown. |
| Liebenspiel's Bedlam Lates present - Mystika Glamoor’s Birthday Bonanza [kweer cabaret] | Cabaret | Bedlam Theatre | Bedlam Theatre | 00:30-01:30 | Aug 4 (Fri) | £9 (£8) | 18+ | The High Priestess of Edinburgh drag is celebrating her anniversary. You won't know what to expect. | |
| Liebenspiel's Bedlam Lates present - Late Night With Terry Wogan [w/ Thom Tuck] | Mixed | Bedlam Theatre | Bedlam Theatre | 00:30-01:30 | Aug 5 (Sat) | £9 (£8) | 18+ | Returning to the chat show format he loves the most, Wogan will be asking "real celebrities" "real questions" | |
| Liebenspiel's Bedlam Lates present -Lorna Rose Treen’s Midlands Child Syndrome | Mixed | Bedlam Theatre | Bedlam Theatre | 00:30-01:30 | Aug 10 (Thurs) | £9 (£8) | 18+ | An alternative comedy night about the Midlands set in the Midlands with acts from the Midlands discussing their favourite middle things. | |
| Liebenspiel's Bedlam Lates present -The Glang Show | Mixed | Bedlam Theatre | Bedlam Theatre | 00:30-01:30 | Aug 11 (Fri) | £9 (£8) | 18+ | Earth's most prestigious comedy anti-competition, hosted by Sean Morley. | |
| Liebenspiel's Bedlam Lates present - Hot Rubber [w/ Imogen Trusselle and Hudson Hughes] | Mixed | Bedlam Theatre | Bedlam Theatre | 00:30-01:30 | Aug 12 (Sat) | £9 (£8) | 18+ | The world's only Scalextric tournament/comedy night. | |
| Liebenspiel's Bedlam Lates present - Sam Nicoresti: Cancel Anti Wokeflake Snow Culture [directed by Siân Docksey] | Comedy | Bedlam Theatre | Bedlam Theatre | 00:30-01:30 | Aug 15 (Tues) | £9 (£8) | 18+ | A multimedia journey through identity from comedy’s odd prince of overthinking. | |
| Liebenspiel's Bedlam Lates present -Sam Nicoresti’s Bedtime | Comedy | Bedlam Theatre | Bedlam Theatre | 00:30-01:30 | Aug 16 (Wed) | £9 (£8) | 18+ | Revived from 2018. Nightmare-dreamy-mixed-bill-party. | |
| Liebenspiel's Bedlam Lates present -Fools Moon | Cabaret | Bedlam Theatre | Bedlam Theatre | 00:30-01:30 | Aug 17 (Thurs) | £9 (£8) | 18+ | Hosted by ‘magnificent physical comedian’ Paulina Lenoir, with the UK’s most exciting performers across clowning, music, dance, drag and live art. | |
| Liebenspiel's Bedlam Lates present - Comedy Done Quick | Mixed | Bedlam Theatre | Bedlam Theatre | 00:30-01:30 | Aug 18 (Fri) | £9 (£8) | 18+ | Speedrunning-themed comedy show, with Ben Alborough, @KentishIzzie and Robert Wells. | |
| Liebenspiel's Bedlam Lates present - Boyz Nite | Mixed | Bedlam Theatre | Bedlam Theatre | 00:30-01:30 | Aug 19 (Sat) | £9 (£8) | 18+ | Cerys Bradley hosts a brand new night celebrating trans men, trans masc and butch non-binary performers. | |
| Liebenspiel’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards Show | Mixed | Bedlam Theatre | Bedlam Theatre | 00:30-01:30 | Aug 27 (Sun) | £9 (£8) | 18+ | Our inaugural awards show. What are we commemorating? Let's find out together. | |
| Mark Dean Quinn: Is This Enough | Comedy | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Banshee Labyrinth | Cinema Room | 01:50-02:40 | Aug 5, 7-12, 14-19, 21-26 | PWYW | 18+ | 'Extremely entertaining study in deadpan tragicomedy' (ExeuntMagazine.com). |
| Niteskreen Ultimate Edinburgh Triumph 2023 This Time More Than Any Other Time This Time | Comedy | PBH's Free Fringe @ | Banshee Labyrinth | Cinema Room | 01:55-02:45 | Aug 13 (Sun) | PWYW | 18+ | "My friend had a nap, I had a very nice time" (Daniel Kitson) |
Please note:
- Weblinks have been included for Board Members & associates.
- Listings have been removed for shows that are no longer happening, e.g. Aboriginal Comedy Allstars, Joe Sutherland, Ryan Lane, and Rob Kemp's The Elvis Dead.
- Quite a few shows have been added to Edfringe since the programme was printed, and will likely continue to be; it is worth checking back (their Advanced Search function lets you see recent additions). More are visible on the British Comedy Guide, as that site also includes some Free Fringe and Free Festival shows are not listed on Edfringe at all.
- The Book Festival shows - some of which will be live-streamed - are listed on their own website.
- £/PWYW means you can either buy tickets to secure seats, or Pay What You Want on exit. A £ sign means tickets must be purchased in advance. PWYW shows are Pay What You Want on exit.
- Pay What You Want (PWYW) shows are unticketed, and will be seated on a first-come first-served basis. For popular free shows it's a good idea to arrive early and queue, or even get a token to secure your entry.
- Most performers who take donations will have a card reader as well as a keen enthusiasm for cash.
- Some Monkey Barrel shows - like Rose Matafeo's WIP and Ed Gamble's WIP - are already sold out. However! Monkey Barrel keep back 10% of each room's ticket allocation for people who queue up on the day, so it is always worth arriving early, checking with doorstaff and getting in the right line.
- Most shows do not allow late-comers. ACMS does, provided there's space.
- A show listed as 00:05 Aug 4 (Fri) starts laaate evening on Friday. This is true of listings here, on Edfringe, on the venues' websites, and in the printed programme. Double-check about show dates in the Edfringe app, as they don't seem to follow this convention.