Kate Fox News

• Stand-up
• 8 - 9
• 5-15 & 17-30 Aug 2010

Comic poet, stand-up and sometime journalist Kate Fox, anchors her dramatic life story to the big news events. While [i]The...   Full listing

The Rap Guide To Evolution

• Musical
• 8 - 11
• 20-22 & 24-30 Aug 2010

See the 2009 Fringe First-winning original 'Rap Guide'. See Baba Brinkman do for Darwin what he did for Chaucer. Educational...   Full listing

It is Rocket Science! V2

• Stand-up
• 8.50 - 9.50
• 6-9 & 11-30 Aug 2010

Helen Keen's award-winning space-based show (soon to be a BBC Radio 4 series) relaunches! With a meteor shower of new...   Full listing

The Oxford Imps

• Improv
• 7.50 - 9.50
• 4-24 & 26-30 Aug 2010

Returning with their stellar improvised comedy extravaganza after sell-out shows in 2008 and 2009, The Oxford Imps will teach you...   Full listing

Clarkson And Crouch: Neighbourhood Watch

• Sketch show
• 5 - 9.50
• 4-17 & 19-30 Aug 2010

As 'Broken Britain' crumbles, join Messrs Clarkson and Crouch as they once again denounce the horrors of modern life no...   Full listing

Gemma Goggin: Get Laid or Die Trying

• Stand-up
• 8.50 - 9.50
• 4-30 Aug 2010

Sharp and sassy stand-up Gemma Goggin is fast approaching 30. Simultaneously celebrating and mourning her perennially single 20s, she shares...   Full listing

Pension Plan

• Stand-up
• 5 - 9.50
• 4-16 & 18-29 Aug 2010

Leisa Rea (Adams & Rea, '4 Stands Up', BBC Radio 4) flaunts her gallery of failures, from cycling proficiency to...   Full listing

Checkley Bush

• 5 - 9.50
• 4-30 Aug 2010

Welcome to Checkley Bush, a place where things aren't always what they seem. Come and meet the Lanarkshire Lezzas, a...   Full listing

A Betrayal Of Penguins: Don't Run With Scissors

• Sketch show
• 8.50 - 10
• 4-16 & 18-30 Aug 2010

After last year's sell-out run, A Betrayal of Penguins is back, presenting a kids' TV show that's doomed to fail....   Full listing

Ray Green: Adventures in Telly Land 3D

• Stand-up / storytelling
• 5 - 9.50
• 4-15 & 17-30 Aug 2010

TV legend Ray Green takes us on a whirlwind journey through his televisual high's and lows, while trying to include...   Full listing

Morgan & West: Time-Travelling Magicians

• Magic
• 5 - 9.50
• 4-29 Aug 2010

Great Scott! Victorian magic duo Morgan & West travel 100 years into the future presenting an hour of baffling magic,...   Full listing

The Rap Guide To Human Nature

• Musical
• 6.50 - 10.50
• 4-8, 10-15, 17-22 & 24-30 Aug 2010

2009 Fringe First winner for 'his brilliantly conceived effervescent performance, ' (Scotsman, 'Rap Guide to Evolution'); Baba Brinkman returns with...   Full listing

Bec Hill Didn't Want To Play Your Stupid Game Anyway

• Stand-up
• 8 - 9
• 4-16 & 18-30 Aug 2010

Welcome to the party that is adulthood! Have a drink! (But don't drive.) Smoke! (But not indoors.) Vote! (But not...   Full listing

I Kid You Not

• Stand-up
• 8 - 9
• 4-15, 17-22 & 24-30 Aug 2010

Hilarious anecdotes from actor Andy Linden's colourful life. Van Morrison's fan from hell, up close with Roman Polanski, queasiness in...   Full listing

Maeve Higgins: Personal Best

• Stand-up
• 5 - 9.50
• 4-15 & 17-30 Aug 2010

I don't say things like this lightly but - I have a really funny and good show this year! Also...   Full listing

The Unexpected Items

• Sketch show
• 5 - 10
• 4-16, 18-23 & 25-30 Aug 2010

A brand new hour of sketches, songs and satire from the creators of YouTube smash hit, 'Gap Yah'. 'Saariously funny'...   Full listing

It's Not Father Stone - It's... Michael Redmond

• Storytelling / stand-up
• 5 - 10
• 4-15 & 17-30 Aug 2010

He's immediately recognisable from his memorable role as Father Stone in the Channel 4 series, 'Father Ted', where he hardly...   Full listing

Pluck: Musical Arson Reignited!

• Musical
• 8 - 11
• 19-28 Aug 2010

The world's funniest string trio return to Edinburgh. Award-winning Fringe favourites Pluck wreak havoc between the harmonies in a raucous...   Full listing

The Rupert Pupkin Collective

• Improv
• 9 - 12
• 4, 6-8, 10-15 & 17-18 Aug 2010

Steve Steen, Stephen Frost, Andy Smart, Ian Coppingger and Dave Johns are giants of comedy (well, not Ian). They have...   Full listing

The Sweeney - The Life and Work of Jim Sweeney

• Storytelling
• 9 - 10
• 17 Aug 2010

Documentary charting the life and work of Jim Sweeney, Comedy Store Player who retired form performing in 2007 because of...   Full listing

Princess Cabaret

• Variety
• 6 - 8.50
• 4-17 & 19-30 Aug 2010

The 2009 Fringe hit returns. Seven Aussie women bring you a satire dealing with those meek and male dependent icons,...   Full listing

Celia Pacquola - Flying Solos

• Stand-up
• 9.50 - 10.50
• 4-16 & 18-30 Aug 2010

'Irresistibly charming Celia Pacquola is Adam Hills with ovaries... a warmly uplifting show that's as inspiring as it is hilarious....   Full listing

The Brothers Streep

• Musical
• 5 - 9.50
• 4-15 & 17-29 Aug 2010

Do you enjoy songs about evil pirate captains, the global economy crisis, movie spoilers and scrunchy-faced celebrities? Join Dylan and...   Full listing

Barry Cryer

• Stand-up
• 12
• 6-19 Aug 2010

In spite of a recent petition, Barry returns with a show of sit-down comedy. Born outside the village of Wedlock,...   Full listing

The Bruce Collective

• Improv
• 9 - 10
• 20-30 Aug 2010

'The Bruce Collective' drag improv comedy kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Join them as they improvise a film...   Full listing

Hardeep Singh Kohli: Chat Masala

• Chat show / musical
• 6 - 12
• 4-24 & 26-30 Aug 2010

After last year's sell-out fringe debut in 'The Nearly Naked Chef', Hardeep returns with a chat show featuring top festival...   Full listing

Monster Of The Deep 3D

• Sketch show
• 8.50 - 9.50
• 4-15 & 17-30 Aug 2010

The last surviving member of a colony that lived in a deep sea habitat called Aquaplex is giving a cultural...   Full listing

Felicity Ward Reads From The Book Of Moron

• Stand-up
• 5 - 10.50
• 4-15, 17-22 & 24-30 Aug 2010

There is no dose of personal truth that award-winning Australian comic Felicity Ward thinks should stay in her diary. Direct...   Full listing

Jarlath Regan: Not So Common Sense

• Stand-up
• 5 - 9.50
• 4-15 & 17-30 Aug 2010

Following two consecutive years of sell-out shows, a milky way of stars and a mantelpiece of awards, Jarlath is back...   Full listing

Phil Kay: In Tweed

• Storytelling / musical
• 6 - 11
• 6-15, 17-22 & 24-29 Aug 2010

Phil Kay weaves colourful strands of natural material together that are twisted to provide strength and a rough warmth. In...   Full listing

Wendy Wason in 'Other People's Secrets'

• Stand-up
• 6 - 10
• 4-16, 18-23 & 25-30 Aug 2010

Wendy Wason loves secrets; knowing them, telling them and keeping them. It seems there are a lot of them about;...   Full listing

Mike Keat: The Lyin' Bitch and The Wardrobe

• Stand-up
• 10 - 11.50
• 5-21 & 23-30 Aug 2010

The creative force behind the infamous Cuban Brothers returns to Edinburgh, his hometown, with his highly anticipated debut solo show,...   Full listing

Tom Allen Toughens Up!

• Stand-up
• 9 - 10
• 4-15 & 17-29 Aug 2010

Star of Channel 4's 'TNT Show', BBC Radio 4's 'Bleak Expectations', BBC New Comedy Award and So You Think You're...   Full listing

The Axis of Awesome: Songs in the Key of Awesome

• Musical
• 10 - 12
• 4-17, 19-24 & 26-30 Aug 2010

It's Spinal Tap meets 'Flight of the Conchords] (Scotsman) as Australia's gods of comedy rock return to Edinburgh to sing...   Full listing

Joe Rowntree: Peaceful Worrier

• Stand-up
• 9 - 10
• 4-15 & 17-29 Aug 2010

Star of Sky One's multi-award-winning hit TV series Brainiac: Science Abuse and host of sell-out UK tour, Brainiac Live; performs...   Full listing

The Funny Farm

• Stand-up
• 13 - 14
• 11 Aug 2010

In 1988 The Funny Farm was born, a collective of Scottish based stand-ups - come see the best of these:...   Full listing

Jarred Christmas Stands Up

• Stand-up
• 5 - 10.50
• 4-11 & 15-30 Aug 2010

One of New Zealand's funniest exports is back for Edinburgh 2010. Following sell-out shows in Edinburgh and London, a starring...   Full listing

Miles Jupp: Fibber In The Heat (A Cricket Tale)

• Stand-up
• 9 - 10
• 4-15 & 17-29 Aug 2010

From The Thick of It and BBC Radio 7's Newsjack, this Perrier nominee tells the sorry tale of how he...   Full listing

Sean Hughes: Ducks and Other Mistakes I've Made

• Stand-up
• 10 - 15
• 5-10 & 12-19 Aug 2010

After selling out in 2009, Sean Hughes has been on the road for a whole year and has been perfecting...   Full listing

Tommy Tiernan: Crooked Man

• Stand-up
• 12 - 15
• 20-25 & 27-30 Aug 2010

Fresh from his sell-out solo tour of Australia and New Zealand and his third appearance on '[i]The Late Show With...   Full listing

Craig Hill: Why Don't You Come Down The Front?

• Stand-up
• 7.50 - 15.50
• 5-14, 16-20 & 22-30 Aug 2010

A deliciously wicked evening of no-holds-barred, infectiously spontaneous fun! Sold out 2002-2009! 'Riotously funny... He is that rare thing, a...   Full listing

Tara Flynn: Big Noise

• Musical
• 5 - 10
• 4-16 & 18-29 Aug 2010

For the first time since her days in the Nualas, Tara Flynn ('Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle', 'Thank God You're Here',...   Full listing

Dave Thornton: A Different Type Of Normal

• Stand-up
• 5 - 10.50
• 4-15 & 17-29 Aug 2010

Dave always thought his family was pretty normal and typefaces were mundane, until everything changed when he was nineteen. Since...   Full listing

Anil Desai: Hey, Impressions Guy!

• Stand-up
• 9 - 10
• 4-15 & 17-29 Aug 2010

The stand-up chameleon has spent the last year playing to audiences all over the world, starred in his own mini...   Full listing

Patrick Monahan - I Walked, I Danced, Iran

• Stand-up
• 5 - 12.50
• 4-8, 10-15, 17-22 & 24-30 Aug 2010

New stand-up show from the international award-winning Irish/Iranian/Teesside stand-up comedian, fresh from a sell-out national tour and regular appearances on...   Full listing

Shazia Mirza: Multiple Choice

• Stand-up
• 5 - 12.50
• 4-30 Aug 2010

Most people have a crush at 16, a relationship by 32, sex in between. Not me and Susan Boyle allegedly....   Full listing

Sam Simmons - Fail

• Stand-up
• 5 - 11
• 5-29 Aug 2010

Winner Piece of Wood (peer's choice) Award and winner Golden Gibbo Award, Melbourne Comedy Festival 2010. Winner Festival Directors' Award,...   Full listing

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre - On The Telly

• Play
• 5 - 10
• 5-29 Aug 2010

Earth's funniest socks return for a fourth sell-out year with more new songs, sketches, socks and violence. 'For sheer energy...   Full listing

Caroline Rhea

• Stand-up
• 10 - 15
• 6-25 Aug 2010

Caroline Rhea ('Curb Your Enthusiasm', [i'Man in the Moon[/i]', 'Sordid Lives' and Aunt Hilda in 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch'), stand-up...   Full listing

The Gilded Balloon 25th Anniversary Shows

• Stand-up
• 14 - 16
• 27-29 Aug 2010

The Gilded Ballon is 25 years old! Come and see our special friends and favourite performers re-live the highlights. See...   Full listing

Robert White's Outrageously Peculiar Organ

• Musical / stand-up
• 5 - 8
• 4-16 & 18-29 Aug 2010

Robert White's 'Outrageously Peculiar Organ': The curious musical inventions and abstract creations of the obscurely gifted, yet somewhat disgraceful mind,...   Full listing

Ali Cook: Pieces Of Strange

• Stand-up / magic
• 11 - 12
• 4-10, 12-17 & 19-30 Aug 2010

Star of Channel 4's Dirty Tricks and Five's Monkey Magic. Award-winning TV magician Ali Cook returns to Edinburgh after his...   Full listing

Dead Cat Bounce... Too Fast For Love

• Musical
• 8.50 - 9.50
• 4-15 & 17-29 Aug 2010

Ireland's favourite comedy rock supergroup is back in Edinburgh. Expect smoke machines, screaming guitar solos and everything from hip-hop slow...   Full listing

Lach: The Day I Went Insane

• Stand-up / musical
• 5 - 9.50
• 4-15 & 17-30 Aug 2010

World premier! Brilliant songs, comedy and revelations from NYC's living legend: founder of the revolutionary Antifolk movement. 'Face-ache funny!' (Guardian);...   Full listing

Aidan Bishop: Adaptable

• Stand-up
• 8.50 - 9.50
• 4-15 & 17-29 Aug 2010

This native New Yorker has had enough. No more Mister nice guy. Everyone is getting it in this show... especially...   Full listing

Best Of 'So You Think You're Funny?'

• Stand-up
• 10
• 11-14 & 19-22 Aug 2010

Your chance to see the most popular winners and runners-up from the last 22 years of the biggest (and best)...   Full listing

GIT Starring Jon Richardson, Lloyd Langford and Dan Atkinson

• Stand-up
• 7.50 - 8.50
• 23-29 Aug 2010

Jon Richardson (two-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee) Lloyd Langford ('The Rhod Gilbert Show' and writer for 'Never Mind The Buzzcocks')...   Full listing

So You Think You're Funny?

• Stand-up
• 10
• 8-10, 15-18 & 26 Aug 2010

We travelled the length and breadth of the UK to find the best new comics, see them battle it out...   Full listing

The Boy With Tape On His Face

• Variety
• 9 - 10
• 5-15 & 17-29 Aug 2010

The silent show that has created a lot of talk finally comes to Edinburgh. Stand-up with no talking - this...   Full listing

Norman Lovett - LOL :)

• Stand-up
• 5 - 9.50
• 4-30 Aug 2010

Best known for Holly the computer in 'Red Dwarf' (BBC2) but did you know Norman has been a stand-up comedian...   Full listing

H Anthony Hildebrand: Why Is A Lettuce?

• Stand-up
• 5 - 10.50
• 4-15 & 17-30 Aug 2010

Incorporating poetry, electronic beats, terrible drawings, storytelling, lies, a pamphlet and jokes about people and things, 'Why is a Lettuce?'...   Full listing

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical

• Musical / improv
• 6 - 12
• 6-17 & 19-29 Aug 2010

A brand new musical is created from scratch at each performance of this award-winning production, where audience suggestions help to...   Full listing

Mrs. Bang: A Series Of Seductions in 55 Minutes

• Musical
• 5 - 10
• 4-15 & 17-30 Aug 2010

An unabashed mess of calamity, sex and shattered pre-loved hits, Mrs. Bang turns cabaret on its head in a reasonable...   Full listing

Old Rope In The Balloon

• Improv / stand-up
• 5 - 10.50
• 4-9, 11-16 & 18-29 Aug 2010

Phil Nichol's famous London club. Leading comics and circuit regulars perform new material alongside a nightly headliner. Performers hold the...   Full listing

Scott Agnew: Pride (In The Name of Love)

• Stand-up
• 5 - 10
• 5-15 & 17-30 Aug 2010

Critically acclaimed Glasgow stand-up explores what he and others have done for love and whether they should be proud of...   Full listing

Minority Retort

• Stand-up
• 5 - 10
• 4-30 Aug 2010

Admit it, you laugh at Asians all the time, but usually it's behind their back. Jason is one of you...   Full listing

Comedy in the Dark

• Stand-up
• 6 - 10
• 6-19 Aug 2010

Enter at your own risk! 'Comedy in the Dark' makes it's debut at Edinburgh after sell-out shows at Leicester Comedy...   Full listing

Kissing The Goldfish

• Musical
• 8 - 10
• 20-22 & 24-30 Aug 2010

Goldfish returns to Edinburgh with their eclectic mix of songs that range from the highly sophisticated via the wry and...   Full listing

The Nelson Twins

• Sketch show / stand-up
• 5 - 10
• 4-30 Aug 2010

Chris and Justin are identical twin stand-up comedians, all they need now is a gimmick. As seen on TV in...   Full listing

The Axis of Awesome and Friends Sing Songs... and Friends!

• Musical
• 10
• 6-8, 12-14, 19-21 & 27-29 Aug 2010

Join the Axis of Awesome and your favourite guests from across the festival for a late-night-mash-up-sing-along-feel-good-party-hour. It's the late night...   Full listing

Comedy Countdown

• Panel show
• 8.50 - 9.50
• 9-10, 16-17 & 23-24 Aug 2010

See comedians pitted against each other in something almost resembling everybody's favourite teatime quiz! Previous contestants included: Mark Watson, Sarah...   Full listing

Late'n'Live

• Stand-up / variety
• 10 - 15
• 6-30 Aug 2010

The first and still the best late night show on the Fringe! The legendary late-night pick of the best comedy...   Full listing