Three years ago there was only one TV drama worth talking about. It was bold, it was brilliant, it was cancelled. Colin Hoult returns with a Until now. Aug 1h Must see! Free Non-ticketed. Award-winning comedy from Bristol University back with colourful, quirky and quick-paced sketches. Comedy Bitch return, following their smash hit sell-out run.
B V61GE5 All for zero pence. Enter at your own risk! A truly unique comedy experience. Two comedians, no lights, saving energy. Book early; recorded for television. Nothing at all.
Hosted by Kate Smurthwaite. Game show, Political. He will amaze you! Pleasance presents four of the hottest new acts on the circuit; supported by the Charlie Hartill Special Reserve. Three international top comics. One against one, no allies! Like in every world war: different line-up every night. Stand-up B V23GF5. Back for the 20th consecutive year. Also features Aug 1h30m great beard.
Free Ticketed www. PL Apath Productions An electric, obstreperous, and slightly off-kilter blend of surreal observationalism, northern sketch comedy and political commentary laced with anarchic slapstick. Featuring three up-andcoming performers from the north east of England, plus a special guest. Doctors Gibson and Marshall vicariously tackle your relationship issues.
From Schadenfreude to Freudian shambles: improvised song and banter to soothe the lovesick soul. For me, he was head and shoulders better than anyone else in the final. Anarchic, chaotic, and unpredictable… An explosion of stand-up, variety and sidesplitting comic performance. A deliciously wicked evening of no-holds-barred, infectiously spontaneous fun! Sold out ! Funny, dark and ultimately uplifting. Love Tim Minchin?
Sarah Silverman? Joan Rivers? You do! Tammy Stone has been described as an explosion of all three. Join her for a teatime feast of stand-up, comedic songs and quirky humour. Shy, reserved, northern girl seeks 27 boys she used to have a secret crush on Combining stand-up, sketches and video, an endearingly personal story from Fringe newcomer Lizzy Mace. Cabaret, Music Born of the loins of seventies Havana and nurtured on a diet of soulful, sexy tunes, the legendary Cuban Brothers perform their unique combination of music, comedy and sensational dancing.
Grey sky thinking as Private Eye contributor Rick Kelly subjects audiences to a tour de force of good old British pessimism. He left a successful career in stockbroking to entertain strangers. Upbeat tales of incompetence, loneliness and failure. Plus a lust for life, chocolate and girls beyond his reach. This man-half-Xbox, hormoneSeventh solo show from ridden teenager.
Triple Perrier Award findeth wisdom, and getteth of hysterical Son of a Jesus freak and a Green Beret, Bevins is cocky, opinionated, sarcastic, ridiculous and dangerous. Danny delights audiences around the world with his unique and personal brand Stand-up of storytelling.
Shy dynamo Dave Hill presents tales of addiction and ostensible fame overseas in a show punctuated by occasional full-on rock guitar assaults. This late night chat show mixes live comedy, hilarious videos and interviews with a different special guest each night. A celebration of the music and moves, with a few laughs along the way. Award-nominated Canadian comedian Darrin Rose tells tales of being raised by men — a brother and a single father. His family was pretty normal and typefaces were mundane, until everything changed.
Inspired, he gathered thoughts, experiences and guest performers for your enjoyment. A free show, all you have to lose are your preconceptions. B VGH5 Aug The if. Really stupid! At the very least, it will be some of these things. A comedy show featuring sketches, stand-up, music and poetry. This unusual blend of humour incorporates slapstick, observational, surrealism and quirky laugh-a-minute bizarreness.
This review will showcase the best of up-and-coming comedy talent found in the capital city. A darkly surreal, laugh-loud comedy where ragtag characters compete in the ultimate gameshow. One team wins, the rest will die! The ultimate Fringe chat show! No politics, bit rude. Dealing cards and cheating death Gilded Balloon Teviot Venue 14 6 - 29 August A one-woman comedy about the struggles people go through when trying to lose weight and general attitudes to food.
In this performance art piece Mills uses real food to demonstrate the emotions of her character. Have you seen the Exocet? An antique dildo stolen from a second-hand sex toy shop is being used for a series of violent murders Surreal, sinister and silly comedy from the Casual Violence!
A sketch comedy crash course to Cloud 9! Unbelievably free. How far would you go to be remembered? But only spelt unfamy. Expect comedy from black, brown, and Asian sorts with colourfully hilarious acts to match. The small-town comedy duo present an evening of big ideas, analysing life from their slightly skewed perspective. Raw, edgy humour! A light-hearted look at how we negotiate with one another in romantic relations or when simply ordering a meal.
Warning: may contain cleavage. Visual and surreal comedy absurdist returns after world tour. Wit, whimsy and chairs will all be provided. Apply on the door. Student Improv Nottingham invites you to the coolest comedy at Edinburgh this summer. Use your remote control to play along and win fabulous prizes and tickets. Stand-up comedy from two rising stars of the circuit: Tania Edwards hilarious and Rachel Stubbings fantastic deadpan timing - joined by guest MCs throughout the run.
Drags Aloud are back with another blockbuster funny, gloriously twisted, genderbender satire on the movies. A warped, shoddy B V61GE5 extravaganza; sure to tickle your manly bones. Can they work it out? Well funny. The Edinburgh Revue showcases sketches and stand-up from some of the hottest young talent on the Scottish and UK comedy circuits.
Sketch show: Thurs-Sun. Stand-up show: Mon-Weds. Stand-up comedy from two rising stars of the circuit Tania Edwards and Rachel Stubbings — joined nightly by different award-winning comics. Hilarious and free. Electro Elis James — Gemstone!
Travel at 88 miles per hour, never put Baby in a corner, and find out what your favourite 80s movie characters are doing today. The hilarious journey of four unique characters faced with the monumentous task of speaking in public for the first time. Tornadoes strike Pratts Bottom South, a giant pirate is heading for Little Hiccup at 40mph, three dentures and a toupee are missing.
The fate of the fete hangs in the balance! SSSS Edinburghguide. Envisage patriotic ramblings, anti-drug propaganda and magical gemstones hurtling towards your face, exploding with hilarity on impact. Elis is a man who spends too much time alone in the sleepy market towns of Great Britain.
This is the story of his quest to make those towns interesting. Musical comedy, stand-up, your mind blown!
Free entry. Free sweets. Free hilarious. Good oral hygiene optional! Musical, Stand-up. After back to back sell-outs, Eric returns with his blistering new show!
Emo Philips — 54th funniest comedian ever Channel 4 survey — last played Edinburgh in ; he out-sold every act on the Fringe. This is the show he currently performs in the States. Eric wants to make the world a better place, but how?
Aug ,15,, Which laws get passed? We live in a world that emphasises wealth, power and achievement. We strive for fame, fortune and the American dream. Doctors say average will never be fame, fortune or the American dream. Kind of. Internationally acclaimed comedy! Farm girl Brenda seeks acting fame in the Big Apple. Encounter whiskybreath housemates, alleyway love interests and pro-porn agents and see if she finds success, fame or fries!
Book this now. Russian hookers, medieval pimps, Japanese standups, Chicago cops and Shakespearean advertising men; Craig Ricci Shaynak plays them all in this one-man show featuring the Giant Wheel of Accents which transforms audience suggestions into improvisational reality. Guest appearances from noted gentlepersons of the Empire.
Improv, Storytelling. Intelligent, fast-paced spontaneity, every joke a fist of fresh, improvised joy. You decide the victor — free! Game show, Improv. Love the movie, live the life. Willis looks for life answers in a feel good movie. The smash hit of the festival returns. Cabaret, Storytelling. Hotly anticipated Edinburgh debut. Genuine underground comedy, performed underground. High energy comedy-poetry: tales of love, loss and Stephen Fry. Featuring sensitive Harking back to fifties radio campery from the manic comedy but using contemporary Bertram Trotar and beefy material.
Everything you see musings from badger-bearded and hear is live, no second troubadour Ant Smith. Classic radio yarns, brilliantly evoking a dinner-jacketed age of casual imperialism. Sound effects created live. In their th year the Cambridge Footlights return to Edinburgh with a brand spanking new hour of top class sketch comedy. Tickets always sell fast, so book now to avoid disappointment.
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Half price if you came last night. Bacon butties at the bar! Every year a sell-out! Two nights only. For the fifth year running Free Fringe stalwart Ro Campbell hosts an awesome showcase of professional comics from the UK and international circuits.
Book your tickets in person at the Fringe Box Office, over the phone on or online at www. A minimum of two full-price tickets must be purchased at the same time. Not applicable with any other offers. Concession prices not available on participating shows on these dates. Great improvised comedy, superb food and absolutely free entry. Shakespeare and Superheroes.
Magic, antelope and the World Cup. The ice-cream Quest. New York comic is free. Warning: Unpredictable. Elise Harris and Danny Worthington each day host a bill of five or more of the newest acts in comedy. If you like your comedy in small chunks this is the show for you. Interactive, Magic. Hosted by Keara Herald.
Eight FunBags, four women and one titillating show. Quirky sketches, stand-up and comedy songs. The Funny Women Awards seek out the newest female comedy talent. A comedy club featuring up-andcoming stand-up performers, including professionals who will be popping in to try absolutely anything. Must have GSOH, big dirty laugh and open attitude towards nudists, muggings and the inappropriate use of fish fingers.
Six comedians strut their stuff. Street www. Me I could be killed for this. Co-writer: Kate Smurthwaite. Expect: jokes. SSSS Scotsman. Laying herself bare to an audience of strangers daily, this sharp and sassy stand-up shares a hilarious account of the dating disasters and sexual shenanigans of her 20s.
No holds barred. The Malcolm Hardee Award nominee returns. Pioneering stand-up comedy from the eminent physician and polymath. SSSS Chortle. Dennis Roadknight Brilliant mix of top comedy, live music and nuclear politics and His Amazing Friends returns. Excellent value with a different line up of top festival comedians daily. Plus Hollywood award-winning short film, and free nibbles at your table.
Gaga wearing balsa wood? The antipodean cabaret queen sell-out reveals how to write a hit in an hour. Cabaret, Music. A comedy sketch show performed amidst a postapocalyptic zombie invasion. The cast will fight for their lives while giving you the show of yours. SSSS Fest. Every year her Edinburgh show is like listening to an overfriendly cleaner telling you all the things that ever happened in her life, but in a funny way. Top headliners and the best rising stars. Followed by free open-mic comedy and late bar.
The Gilded Ballon is 25 years old! Come and see our special friends and favourite performers re-live the highlights. After selling over 3, tickets last year, the boys return with more silliness, surrealism, great characters and 80s anthems.
For one week only, a brand new type of show. A heady mix of jokes, chat, competition, argument and making value judgements about complete strangers. Worn out shoppers and curmudgeons welcome. You could even win a curly wurly A heady mix of comedy, drama and lycra, these kids of the 80s bring you a sketch-adventure packed with compelling characters.
Get ready for this surreal brand of fantastical hijinks. For the eighth year, the picnic returns for more teatime titter. A stand-up selection box of comedy quiche and sausage rolls in the aisles. The hotly anticipated solo debut from Greg Davies. The Social Club strikes back. Join classic showbiz turns Eduardo Continental and Bangers and Mash plus embittered compere Mike Wilde who had a sitcom as they try to keep the flame of variety alive.
An improvised comedy show with special guest star stories in every performance. The Maydays are awardwinning comedians, critically acclaimed and accompanied by a sensational musician. For anyone who ever crossed a line.
The worldly word clown hurdles international border controls and charges headlong at the rabbit-proof fences of tiny minds. Hilarious double bill from a pair of geeks, LOL! Tasting early! Comic songs, ukuleles and stand-up to take you through the highs, lows and heartaches of looking for that perfect someone. Hold onto your skin because Henry Paker is about to hit you with his first hour of crucial stand-up featuring odds and sods, whimsy and some mild posturing. Two stand-ups, one mic, no holds barred!
Alex and Karel grab the audience not literally with jokes, anecdotes and banter yes, literally. Join them for fun, frolics and frivolity in a fantastically frenetic free friendly funfest! Before her Edinburgh debut last year, Hannah walked across England. It was a bad idea. This show is about preparing for a graceful downhill shuffle. Cat abortion. Dog suicide. Racist rabbits. Dead Dads Club.
Free show. Life as German comedy ambassador to the United Kingdom is a right old struggle. Henning will tell you all about it.
Come along or else! Legendary frontman for Black Flag, author, Hollywood actor, Grammy Award winner, passionate stream-of-socialconsciousness raconteur. Categorically do not bring the kids. The all-year-round comedy club makes its Edinburgh Fringe debut. You have a tiny penis. I have a tiny penis. Come and see our The Horne tiny penises. A surreal and hilarious show that you should come and stare at. The Invisible Dot Ltd. Sketch show, Revue. Like most children, Ben has After Dark an imaginary friend.
Unlike most children he still has one at A charming comedy documenting the many pitfalls, hazards and obstacles facing imaginary friends in the 21st century. Want to be the next Richard Branson but daunted by the effort? Sunday Times author Rachel Bridge reveals shortcuts to success in her entertaining account of how to be a brilliant entrepreneur. The Stand Comedy Club www. Some telly. Performed live. Programmes mainly adverts. With new tips and techniques for the same old problem: zombies.
Brain destruction is guaranteed. Meet Christian Schulte-Loh! Appearing celebrities: full-length show. Tony Hart, Jeremy Beadle, www. Hilarious games based entirely on audience suggestions — always different, always funny. Do you like to laugh? So do we. Wow, we have so much in common. You should definitely come to our show.
We made it all the way from Australia, you can make it to our venue Audience suggestions create improvised play. If comedy was a crime, the Improlympians would be on Death Row. Rock your socks hilarious improv! A fast-paced show that will have you rolling in the aisles and coming back for more. Note: Bring any item and the players will figure out how to integrate it! There are nine crucial skills people need in order to build lasting relationships and successful careers.
Sadly, Chris Matthewman only knows seven of them. A stand-up comedy, musical, personal development masterclass. Who built Stonehenge? We answer your questions as a life-affirming tale, so funny your contact lenses will fall out! Two doctors singing smutty songs at a piano.
Contains brand new swear words. Experimental one-man show blending spoken word and video projection. Nods to burlesque and performance art. Dark humour, surreal eroticism and the queer body. Erotic Award winner. Promising exactly what the title suggests, satisfaction is probable. Mandy Dassa brings you her debut sketch show. Quickfire sketches and hearty laughs, this show brings you a bit of character comedy to wet your whistle!
Secret location by the sea. Conflict: A Science! Ian Kendall returns in his nineteenth year with one show. SSSS from pretty much everyone who matters.
With a meteor shower of new bits, a cosmos of costumes and approximately 99 feet of tinfoil. An American show tracking the notorious Middle East conflict to a botched onenight stand between Israel and Palestine at the Geneva Convention. Pleasance Bristo Square www. Stand-up comics Yariv Perelmuter and Nidal Agha journey through the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict — without mediators or passports — exposing the comedy within the acrimony. Safe territory? A mixed bag of brand new work.
Rehearsed and unrehearsed scripts, a bunch of talent, and lots of fun! The quiz night with all the fizz and glitter of a game show off the telly. Film and music questions, balloon-twisting, robots, kazoos, Kerrchinko, tower of strength and tip-top prizes. A splendid time is guaranteed for all. Ben Verth presents a raucous, endearing, dark and surreal new sketch show packed to the rafters with chaotic delinquents and flailing misfits.
Learning PM Michael Redmond! In this show, he will speak, about spare ribs, his moustache and more. Join Ivor Dembina as he devises a new solo show - live! The piece will evolve over three weeks through audience interaction and some real soul-searching from Ivor. Come and play your part in the riskiest show in town. You tell us.
A new show featuring student stand-ups that offers the audience a chance to write a punchline funnier than the acts, to win our takings. We just keep making the same mistakes but just get slightly better at dealing with the fallout. James Christopher is a standup and jolly Yorkshireman with forthright, opinionated observations.
His brother Michael is a Liberal Democrat MP, turning to comedy to sharpen his wit for those big Parliamentary speeches. Political, Stand-up. What happens when you find a clown in your family tree? Funny Women finalists Marie Vagen and Julie Jepson, with fellow woman, Alison Leitch bring you their unique take on life, love, the universe and everything in a new show for How I lost my breast and found myself.
Sandwiches welcome. Sold out Winner of Chortle Comedy Award Cabaret Bar 6—30 August, He returns each year with a show that is hilarious, exciting, and full of surprises. This time, the end is just the beginning. Book early to best newcomer and avoid disappointment!
Multi finalist I hate piles, love and refusing to racists especially the Chinese compromise for the industry! Fun for all the family, although entirely unsuitable for children.
Take home a bendy bully or just your BFH. Game show. Are you obsessed with something? Did climate change end when the financial crisis started? From collecting stamps to checking doors are locked ten times, is life making us all It gets no better than this - brilliant!
If you have a sick sense of humour maybe laughter is the best medicine. Not to be taken if you have a sensitive disposition. Recommended dose: one new show to be taken annually I said annually. A celebration of anger. New thoughts plus the very best bits. Linguistic experiments for new radio series. Razor-sharp observations. What are your hopes or expectations for EIF ? Our focus on the contemporary cultures of the Americas, Australia and New Zealand is bringing lots of fresh faces to the festival, and the UK, for the first time.
And the programme is hot! Do you have any fears, concerns or challenges? What are your hopes or expectations for EFF ? Anyone with a creative idea can be part of it, and first-timers arrive with the same spirit of hope and determination as seasoned celebrities. What happens here can change lives, and making the most of that opportunity is a challenge for all of us involved.
What are your hopes or expectations for EIBF ? What are your hopes or expectations for EAF ? Mainland said: "Audiences have come to know the Edinburgh festival fringe as the place to see every kind of art; from the most imaginative children's theatre to topical and incisive comedy and theatre which challenges audiences to discuss and re-consider their world. The festivals' directors argue that funding has to be protected to ensure they attract visitors during the recession.
The Fringe said this year's event, again dominated by comedy, had outstripped last year on most measures: there were 40, performances of 2, shows at venues, involving more than 21, performers. More than shows were free. By comparison, in there were 31, performances of 2, shows in venues.
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