Venue 288: Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 37 Guthrie Street, EH1 1JG
- 0131 556 5375
- www.justthetonic.com
- www.edfringe.com
Shows at this venue
Angry Face Emoji
- Stand-Up
- PWYW
- 11:15am (1 hour)
- 2-12, 14-26 Aug 2018
Join Esther Manito - 'bold, original and of course laugh out loud' (Bidisha, BBC) and Ryan Dalton - 'as funny... Full listing
David Callaghan: Dead Man's Chest
- Multimedia / stand-up
- PWYW
- 11:40am (1 hour)
- 2-12, 14-25 Aug 2018
An interactive technological comedy adventure with comedian David Callaghan. Bring your smartphones and stupid heads. 'One of my highlights of... Full listing
The Museum of Tat Roadshow
- Sketch Show / improv
- 10
- 11:45am (1 hour)
- 2-12, 14-26 Aug 2018
Welcome to the Roadshow - it's just like your favourite antiques-based telly programme off the telly, just not on the... Full listing
The Hangover Cure
- Stand-Up / storytelling
- PWYW
- 12:35pm (1 hour)
- 2-12, 14-19, 21-26 Aug 2018
BBC New Comedy Award nominee 2017. 'One to watch' (FunnyWomen.com, 2018). The Hangover Cure is the feel-good stand-up comedy show... Full listing
Richard Wright: Virgin
- Stand-Up
- PWYW
- 12:50pm (1 hour)
- 2-12, 14-26 Aug 2018
Richard Wright is a virgin. In his exciting new 2018 show Wright looks at adult virginity from his own point... Full listing
Kai Samra - Brothers (WIP)
- Storytelling
- PWYW
- 1pm (45 mins)
- 2-12, 14-26 Aug 2018
Winner of the Birmingham Breaking Talent Award 2017, Kai Samra is on a mission to subvert lazy stereotypes based on... Full listing
Generation Y Us?
- Stand-Up / storytelling
- PWYW
- 1:05pm (1 hour)
- 2-12, 14-26 Aug 2018
Fiona Ridgewell: Piccadilly Comedy grand finalist 2017/18. 'Fiona has funny bones, an easy warmth and actual gags' (Julia Chamberlain). Tom... Full listing
Archie Maddocks: Matchstick
- Stand-Up / storytelling
- PWYW
- 1:55pm (1 hour)
- 2-12, 14-26 Aug 2018
Award-winning Archie Maddocks presents an hour of biting, provocative, unflinchingly funny comedy where he explores his deepest and darkest thoughts,... Full listing
Ignacio Lopez: Nine Ig Fails
- Stand-Up / music
- PWYW
- 2:10pm (1 hour)
- 19-26 Aug 2018
Spain's best export, Ignacio Lopez (BBC Sesh), shares his life's biggest failures with a globe-trotting story about music, comedy adn... Full listing
Jack Evans: Work
- Stand-Up
- PWYW
- 2:20pm (1 hour)
- 2-12, 14-26 Aug 2018
Workers of the world: please stop! Jack Evans, lizard prince of Manchester's alternative circuit, presents a punchy, out-there hour about... Full listing
Harry and Chris Save the World
- Music
- PWYW
- 2:25pm (1 hour)
- 2-12, 14-25 Aug 2018
Last year we prevented an apocalypse and almost got a panda pregnant, and then Jonathan Ross called us 'fabulously entertaining',... Full listing
Tania Edwards: Not My Dog
- Stand-Up
- PWYW
- 3:15pm (1 hour)
- 2-12, 14-26 Aug 2018
Not My Dog is a hilariously dark exploration of modern life and our need to (mis)represent it from stand-up Tania... Full listing
Dom O'Keefe: Free Willy from the Perspective of the Whale
- Sketch Show
- PWYW
- 3:30pm (1 hour)
- 2-5, 7-12, 14-20, 22-26 Aug 2018
A massive whale escapes from prison with the help of a small child. Told from the perspective of the whale.... Full listing
Jacob Hawley: Howl
- Stand-Up
- PWYW
- 3:40pm (1 hour)
- 2-12, 14-26 Aug 2018
BBC New Comedy 2017 finalist Jacob Hawley presents his highly-anticipated debut hour. Hailing from a working-class Brexit town, Jacob now... Full listing
Bilal Zafar - Lovebots
- Stand-Up
- PWYW
- 3:45pm (1 hour)
- 2-12, 14-26 Aug 2018
Best Newcomer nominee 2016 and Hackney Empire (NATYS) winner is back with a brand-new show! Social media has been taken... Full listing
Tudur Owen: Undemanding
- Stand-Up / storytelling
- PWYW
- 4:35pm (1 hour)
- 2-12, 14-25 Aug 2018
Another joyous stand-up show from BAFTA Award-winning comedian and father of Welsh people, Tudur Owen. Greatness doesn't come easily to... Full listing
Yes, That Nick Page, Apparently. Winner of English Comedian 2017
- Stand-Up
- 10
- 4:50pm (1 hour)
- 3-5, 7-12, 14-19, 21-25 Aug 2018
Nick Page has had an interesting year, he won English Comedian of the year after coming second the previous year... Full listing
Matt Winning: Climate Strange
- Stand-Up
- PWYW
- 5pm (1 hour)
- 2-12, 14-26 Aug 2018
Dr Matt Winning is thinking about starting a family but wonders if he should. A show about why our knowledge... Full listing
Featured Jim Campbell: Trampoline
- Stand-Up
- PWYW
- 5:05pm (1 hour)
- 2-12, 14-26 Aug 2018
Engagement ring for sale! Jim Campbell had a breakdown so that you don't have to! The award-nominated stand-up returns to... Full listing
Scott Bennett: Leap Year
- Stand-Up
- PWYW
- 5:55pm (1 hour)
- 2-12, 14-26 Aug 2018
People say it's brave to do stand-up comedy, it's braver to let someone you love do it. This year Scott... Full listing
Hal Branson: Mbolo
- Stand-Up / storytelling
- PWYW
- 6:10pm (1 hour)
- 2-12, 15-26 Aug 2018
The debut hour from one of comedy's rising stars. Join Hal as he relives a 2003 trip to Uganda to... Full listing
Once, Twice, Three Times a Hayley
- Stand-Up / storytelling
- PWYW
- 6:20pm (1 hour)
- 3-12, 14-27 Aug 2018
Featured in the top Fringe jokes of all time in The Scotsman, The Independent and The Mirror. Guess who's back?... Full listing
Sid Singh: American Bot
- Stand-Up
- PWYW
- 6:25pm (1 hour)
- 2-12, 14-26 Aug 2018
Silicon Valley dominates the news with the richest man in the world (Jeff Bezos), a website that helped spread fake... Full listing
Nick Dixon: Marriage Material
- Stand-Up
- PWYW
- 7:15pm (1 hour)
- 2-12, 14-26 Aug 2018
Nick Dixon (Comedy Central at the Comedy Store, joke writer for Hollywood's Will Smith) arrives with his neurotically hilarious debut... Full listing
Tom Ward: Popcorn Lung
- Stand-Up
- PWYW
- 7:30pm (1 hour)
- 2-12, 14-26 Aug 2018
On the back of last year's critically acclaimed Love Machine and an appearance on Live From The BBC (BBC Worldwide),... Full listing
Masud Milas: Masud Abides
- Stand-Up
- PWYW
- 7:40pm (1 hour)
- 2-12, 14-25 Aug 2018
Masud Abides is the exciting follow-up show to Masud's 2016 debut Edinburgh show, Routes. Now living in the UK, this... Full listing
The Problem With Faye Treacy
- Stand-Up
- PWYW
- 7:45pm (1 hour)
- 2-12, 14-26 Aug 2018
Debut hour (Best Newcomer Musical Comedy Awards 2015; runner-up Bath New Act 2016; as heard on BBC Radio 2/4 Extra).... Full listing
Gary Tro: Idoit
- Stand-Up
- 7
- 8:35pm (1 hour)
- 2-12, 14-26 Aug 2018
Guys! I do it. You do it. We all do it. Idiocy. Let's bloody celebrate it together. Idoit is the... Full listing
Mat Ewins: What Sorry? My Mistake! The Doors Are Not Open; The Show Has Been Cancelled. Do Not Have Your Tickets Ready!
- PWYW
- 8:50pm (55 mins)
- 2-12, 14-26 Aug 2018
Edinburgh Award nominee Mat Ewins returns with another hour of nonsense and multimedia. 'Refused to explain where the rest of... Full listing
James Loveridge
- Stand-Up
- PWYW
- 9pm (1 hour)
- 2-12, 14-26 Aug 2018
Despite the world being on the brink of collapse, its fair to say James is the happiest he's ever been.... Full listing
Free Footlights
- Sketch Show
- PWYW
- 9:05pm (1 hour)
- 2-12, 14-26 Aug 2018
The Cambridge Footlights present an hour of stand-up, songs, sketches and much more. Alumni include Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, David... Full listing
Dan Nightingale: Sex, Drugs and My Nanna's Bungalow
- Stand-Up
- PWYW
- 9:55pm (1 hour)
- 2-4, 6-11, 14-18, 20-25 Aug 2018
Another great hour of stand-up from of the UK circuit's very best (award-winning) comedians. Heartfelt, funny and, as ever, brutally... Full listing
Andrea Spisto: Miss Venezuela
- Clown / character
- PWYW
- 10:10pm (1 hour)
- 2-12, 14-26 Aug 2018
One Venezuelan beauty queen goes on a radical journey of self-discovery as she prepares for the all-important Miss Universe competition.... Full listing
Two Little Dickheads
- Sketch Show
- 5
- 10:20pm (55 mins)
- 2-12, 14-26 Aug 2018
This is what happens when a cabaret clown and an improv master with a shared passion for cats spend way... Full listing
2 Girls, 1 Cup... of Comedy
- Stand-Up
- PWYW
- 11:15pm (1 hour)
- 2-12, 14-26 Aug 2018
Award-winning comedian Samantha Baines (Lee Nelson's Well Funny People) brings you a supersized cup of comedy with TV names, the... Full listing
Lenny Sherman: Make the World a Better Place
- Stand-Up
- PWYW
- 11:30pm (1 hour)
- 2-12, 14-26 Aug 2018
Fresh from filming on an upcoming comedy show for Channel 4, Lenny brings his hotly anticipated debut hour to the... Full listing