Baby Wants Candy Workshop

• Workshop
• 15
• 10, 17 & 24 Aug 2011

Learn musical improv from the best! Internationally renowned Chicago troupe, Baby Wants Candy 'entertainment phenomenon' (Scotsman), invites you to learn...   Full listing

The Diaries of Adam and Eve

• Play
• 13
• 4-15 & 17-29 Aug 2011

Relationships shouldn't work, but somehow they do, so who did the groundwork? In this witty and modern adaptation of Mark...   Full listing

Bette and Joan - The Final Curtain

• Play
• 13
• 3-9, 11-16, 18-21 & 23-29 Aug 2011

'You should only say good of the dead. Joan Crawford is dead. Good' (Bette Davis). On her deathbed, Bette is...   Full listing

Card Ninja

• Magic
• 8
• 4-14, 16-21 & 23-28 Aug 2011

Comedian. Magician. Ninja. Hailing from New Zealand, Javier Jarquin presents Card Ninja, a riotous and dazzling display of comedy and...   Full listing

Best of the Fest Daytime

• Variety
• 13
• 5-7, 9-14, 16-21, 23-25 & 27-28 Aug 2011

Last year's smash hit family friendly daytime version of 'Best of the Fest' returns! Join us in the beautiful gardens...   Full listing

James Campbell's Comedy 4 Kids

• 7
• 11-14 Aug 2011

James Campbell is a stand-up comedian for children over six, their parents and anyone who likes comedy without the rude...   Full listing

Funny Women

• Stand-up
• 12
• 3-7, 10-14 & 17-21 Aug 2011

Britain's leading female comedy brand showcases the newest acts from the UK and beyond. Plus seeking out the freshest and...   Full listing

Funny Women Comedy Workshop

• Workshop
• 45
• 8 & 15 Aug 2011

Visiting the Fringe and think it's the perfect time to dip your toe into comedic waters? Already a performer who'd...   Full listing

One Night Stan

• 12
• 3-29 Aug 2011

May 18th, 1954. Stan Laurel sits backstage in a British variety theatre. An audience waits, but where is Oliver Hardy?...   Full listing

Kevin Cruise

• Variety
• 12
• 3-15 & 17-29 Aug 2011

Teatime cruise ship capers with legendary high seas host. Comedy, magic, game shows, sing-a-long classics and bingo. Pack your bags...   Full listing

Al Murray's Compete for the Meat

• Chat show
• 10
• 12-27 Aug 2011

It's back! Do you wish it could be Christmas everyday? Well it is, with Compete for the Meat! Christmas Special...   Full listing

The Baby Diary

• 9.50
• 3-14 & 16-28 Aug 2011

Jenny is pregnant. Simon is quite lonely. Mike is a bit angry. Sandra is infertile. A new comic play by...   Full listing

Chortle Student Comedy Awards Final

• Stand-up
• 8.50
• 28 Aug 2011

Hundreds entered, only eight survive. Who will be crowned Britain's best student comedian? Organised by leading comedy website Chortle, previous...   Full listing

Little Howard's Big Show

• 10
• 3-16 & 18-29 Aug 2011

Big Howard and Little Howard's massively popular BBC1 show Little Howard's Big Question is in danger after someone accidentally called...   Full listing

Paul Daniels: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

• Magic
• 14
• 3-28 Aug 2011

The most successful magician of the 20th-century and international sex symbol comes to town with the very lovely Debbie McGee...   Full listing

Olivia Lee Chats Them Up

• Chat show
• 12.50
• 16-28 Aug 2011

Star of her own Comedy Central show, Olivia Lee: Dirty Sexy Funny and Channel 4 shows, Olivia Lee's Naughty Bits...   Full listing

Pink Noise by FORK

• Music
• 15
• 3-9, 11-16 & 18-28 Aug 2011

The show that reinvents a cappella. World-class singing, groundbreaking sounds, comic talent, extravagant fashion but no instruments. Think champagne shower...   Full listing

New Art Club: Quiet Act of Destruction

• 14
• 3-8, 10-15 & 17-28 Aug 2011

Edinburgh Spotlight Best Comedy Show 2010 winners take you on an energetic, hilarious rampage through the placid Cambridgeshire village of...   Full listing

Liberace: Live From Heaven

• Music
• 14
• 3-28 Aug 2011

February 4 1987, Liberace, Mr Showmanship, arrives at the pearly gates. Will Saint Peter and the angels let him in...   Full listing

Henning Wehn / Otto Kuhnle: Das Very Best Of German Humour

• 12.50
• 16 Aug 2011

Teutonic jolliness at its best. Join old Fringe favourites Otto Kuhnle, the funniest man from Dusseldorf and winner of the...   Full listing

Rayguns Look Real Enough: Balls Deep

• Music
• 10.50
• 3-29 Aug 2011

More mash-up mayhem following the success of their 2010 show Set To Stun and the story of one man's struggle...   Full listing

Daniel Sloss - The Joker

• Stand-up
• 13.50
• 3, 6-15 & 17-29 Aug 2011

Scotland's half-man-half-Xbox, hormone-ridden comic prodigy started doing stand-up aged 16 and appeared on Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow, 8 Out Of...   Full listing

Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen

• Variety
• 16
• 12-27 Aug 2011

Hosted by Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal, this cult New York variety show features comedy from some of the best...   Full listing

Dave Gorman's Power Point Presentation

• Stand-up / multimedia
• 15
• 3-28 Aug 2011

The man behind Edinburgh hits Are You Dave Gorman and Googlewhack Adventure returns to the Fringe. Always one of comedy's...   Full listing

7 Day Drunk

• 12
• 4-14, 16-21 & 23-28 Aug 2011

Bryony has always had a rocky relationship with alcohol. It seems intrinsically linked to her confidence as an artist as...   Full listing

Andrew Maxwell: The Lights Are On

• Stand-up
• 15
• 3-15 & 17-29 Aug 2011

Star of the Edinburgh Fringe and comedy award nominee Andrew Maxwell returns with a brand new hour of mischievous charm...   Full listing

Jimeoin - Lovely!

• Stand-up
• 14.50
• 3-15 & 17-29 Aug 2011

Stunning show of world-class stand-up from one of live comedy's masters. No gimmicks, pure and simple great craic from star...   Full listing

Margaret Cho - Cho Dependent

• Stand-up
• 16
• 3-9, 11-16 & 18-29 Aug 2011

Revered for her crass in your face style and taboo busting material, Cho is one of the most prolific and...   Full listing

Evelyn Evelyn

• Music
• 13
• 17-21 Aug 2011

Punk cabaret queen Amanda Palmer and Seattle-based prankster Jason Webley present the world's only conjoined-twin singer-songwriter duo! The twins will...   Full listing

Pistol & Jack - Smash.Glam.Sex.Music

• Music
• 12
• 3-15, 17-22 & 24-28 Aug 2011

Raucous. Heart-wrenching. Badass. She's an American pop princess. He's a depraved Cockney rocker. Preaching the filth and mashing up hits...   Full listing

Glenn Wool: No Lands Man

• Stand-up
• 14
• 3-14 & 16-29 Aug 2011

Glenn is one of the pioneers of what is now known as the world circuit. Over the past three years...   Full listing

Al Murray the Pub Landlord's Compete for the Meat - Late Night

• Chat show
• 15
• 18-20 & 25-27 Aug 2011

It's back! Do you wish it could be Christmas everyday? Well it is, with Compete for the Meat Christmas Special...   Full listing

Andrew O'Neill: Alternative

• Stand-up / storytelling
• 12
• 3-14, 16-21 & 23-28 Aug 2011

Funny comedy show by longhaired man (includes short play about gravy). All styles of comedy covered, guaranteed (some twice). ****...   Full listing

Comic Strip

• 15
• 4-7, 11-14, 19-21 & 26-28 Aug 2011

Comic Strip is a night of stand-up and strip-tease, a night of belly laughs and nipple tassels, a night of...   Full listing

Puppetry of the Penis: 3D

• Variety
• 15
• 3-14 & 16-29 Aug 2011

The astonishing and unforgettable ancient Australian art of genital origami Puppetry of the Penis is back with a brand new...   Full listing

The Two Wrongies

• Variety / sketch show
• 10
• 3-14, 16-21 & 23-29 Aug 2011

Strap yourself in and prepare for a right royal wronging as you enter the world of The Two Wrongies, the...   Full listing

Neil Hamburger: Discounted Enterainer

• Stand-up
• 12
• 15-28 Aug 2011

America's $1 funnyman Neil Hamburger returns! The hardest working and most profoundly suffering comedian in existence, Neil's unique brand of...   Full listing

The Horne Section

• Variety / music
• 14
• 3-6, 8-13, 15-20 & 22-27 Aug 2011

Jazz based, vein popping, late night variety show The Horne Section is back. Mixing the best comedy with the finest...   Full listing

Maxwell's Fullmooners

• Music / stand-up
• 16
• 14 Aug 2011

The UK's No.1 late show. Unstoppable comedy force Andrew Maxwell presents everyone's favourite late night show, Fullmooners. Award-winning self-styled hip-hop...   Full listing

Eat Your Heart Out

• 10
• 16-21 & 24-28 Aug 2011

British cabaret is thriving. Girls gallivant around like extras from Moulin Rouge and everybody loves to hear Radiohead on a...   Full listing

The Mess

• Variety
• 4.99
• 3-14, 16-21 & 23-28 Aug 2011

Necessarily brutal. Not unnecessarily cruel. No bells or whistles, no smoke or mirrors, no cliques or door policy. 100% non...   Full listing

Pokermen

• 12
• 5-7, 10-14, 17-21 & 25-28 Aug 2011

When comedians chat amongst themselves there's a hidden agenda of rivalry, each one wants to be the wittiest, to have...   Full listing

The Room

• 8
• 7, 14, 18 & 21 Aug 2011

Bring your plastic spoons and come watch the screening of the cult phenomenon that is The Room. The best worst...   Full listing