2015 Edinburgh Fringe

Alex Horne: Monsieur Butterfly

Alex Horne: Monsieur Butterfly. Alex Horne. Copyright: North One Television
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33: Pleasance Courtyard

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Nominated for last year's Edinburgh Comedy Award, Alex's stupidly ambitious, logistically problematic and potentially disastrous DIY comedy show is back. Now even bigger and even less likely to succeed, this is Monsieur Butterfly. Reviews from 2014: 'Funny, fresh and original' (Times), 'A delight of a show' (Independent), 'Ingenious silliness, a delight to witness' (Observer), 'Take your kids, take your granddad, but get them to wee before they go in because once this show starts you quite simply could not bring yourself to leave' (Scotsman).

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Edinburgh fringe 2015: what's your last taboo?

Everyone's got boundaries, though some are a bit weirder than others. Here are the topics the fringe's top comics won't touch...

Joseph Morpurgo, Daphne, Massive Dad, Alex Horne, The Pin, Alfie Brown, Nish Kumar, Joe Lycett, Sheeps & Ellie White, The Guardian, 7th August 2015

Tim Key and Alex Horne: How we met

'We spent an afternoon seeing how much stuff we could fit down our trousers. I managed a toaster and quite a lot of cutlery'

Adam Jacques, The Independent, 12th July 2015

Best returning shows of the 2015 Fringe!

We've hand picked two shows that appeared at last year's Fringe and are returning for one more run, giving you a chance to either catch it for the first time, or experience the brilliance once again.

The Angry Microwave, 7th July 2015

Best comedy shows at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015

Following the unveiling of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme, we've chosen our pick of the comedy on offer during August.

Brian Donaldson, The List, 10th June 2015

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Alex Horne returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a special two-week run of his 2014 Foster's Comedy Award nominated show Monsieur Butterfly. Stupidly ambitious, logistically problematic, potentially disastrous, this is the show Alex has wanted to make for a decade.

Remember that board game, Mousetrap, where you had to build a complicated machine to catch a mouse? Now that was a brilliant board game, wasn't it? And you know that Honda advert, where all the car parts collided to make a thing happen? Now that was a brilliant advert, wasn't it? Of course, Mousetrap was a game for kids which meant you lost the rubber band and the ball-bearing would always fall off the chute. And that Honda ad actually took nine months to set up, cost a million pounds and was still only successful on the 660th attempt. Well, in this unprecedented comedy experience, you can watch Alex Horne attempt something similar in just 56 minutes. He'll have just one chance. He has not spent a million pounds. (He has, however, invested over £85 on eBay, made over ten trips to Wickes and bought a second-hand van).

Away from the live stage, Alex has created, produced, and alongside Greg Davies, stars in Taskmaster; a brand new series for UKTV's Dave beginning on July 28th. Based on his successful Edinburgh show of the same name, Taskmaster's contestants are Roisin Conaty, Tim Key, Romesh Ranganathan, Frank Skinner and Josh Widdicombe.

Following a fifth consecutive sell-out run at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival, this year Alex Horne and The Horne Section will once again bring their unique mix of stand up, feel-good spectacle and jaw-dropping musicianship to the Fringe with a brand new show, The Horne Section's Questions Sessions.

Performances

Date Time Venue
15th Aug 2015 19:00 Pleasance Courtyard
16th Aug 2015 19:00 Pleasance Courtyard
17th Aug 2015 19:00 Pleasance Courtyard
18th Aug 2015 19:00 Pleasance Courtyard
19th Aug 2015 19:00 Pleasance Courtyard
20th Aug 2015 19:00 Pleasance Courtyard
21st Aug 2015 19:00 Pleasance Courtyard
22nd Aug 2015 19:00 Pleasance Courtyard
23rd Aug 2015 19:00 Pleasance Courtyard
24th Aug 2015 19:00 Pleasance Courtyard
25th Aug 2015 19:00 Pleasance Courtyard
26th Aug 2015 19:00 Pleasance Courtyard
27th Aug 2015 19:00 Pleasance Courtyard
28th Aug 2015 19:00 Pleasance Courtyard
29th Aug 2015 19:00 Pleasance Courtyard

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