Brainiac Live!

• 12 - 15
• 1-12 & 14-27 Aug 2018

Strap on your safety goggles. Due to popular demand, science's greatest and most volatile live show arrives with a vengeance....   Full listing

Bennett Arron: I've Never Told Anyone This

• Stand-up
• 9 - 10
• 1-12 & 14-27 Aug 2018

Bennett Arron is revealing secrets. The problem is they are not all his to tell. In this personal, shocking and...   Full listing

Stupid Cupid

• Play
• 9 - 10
• 1-12 & 14-27 Aug 2018

Ever feel confused about love? Where to find it and keep it? Do you think you touch yourself too often?...   Full listing

Comedy Of Errors

• Play
• 10
• 1-14 Aug 2018

One of Shakespeare's finest comedies, The Comedy of Errors, in a vigorously fresh and exciting production that offers a delicious...   Full listing

Camels

• Sketch show
• 9 - 10
• 1-12 & 14-27 Aug 2018

Camels is a side-splittingly funny five-star sketch comedy, coming to Edinburgh after four sell-out runs in London. Written and performed...   Full listing

The Guilty Feminist

• Multimedia
• 15
• 25 & 26 Aug 2018

Deborah Frances-White (from BBC Radio 4 and Global Pillage) and special guests record an episode of her hit comedy podcast,...   Full listing

Dick and Dom: Dick V Dom

• Game show
• 12.50 - 14.50
• 1-12 Aug 2018

Are you ready?! The multi BAFTA-winning legends Dick and Dom are coming to Edinburgh for the first time in 2018....   Full listing

Fun Kids Radio's Epic Roadshow Adventure

• 10 - 11
• 1-12 & 14-27 Aug 2018

The Fun Kids Radio presenters need your help to keep the station on-air and to make the best radio roadshow...   Full listing

Karaoke Saved My Life

• Cabaret
• 10 - 11
• 2-12 & 14-26 Aug 2018

Did you know that all life problems can be solved through karaoke? Join this immersive interactive experience and sing your...   Full listing

Nick Hall: Spencer

• Stand-up
• 9 - 10
• 1-12 & 14-27 Aug 2018

Spencer Percival has one claim to fame. He's the only British Prime Minister ever to be assassinated. Unfortunately, no one's...   Full listing

Vince Ebert: Sexy Science. Made in Germany

• Stand-up
• 9 - 10
• 1-14 & 16-27 Aug 2018

German comedians are like English cooks, sober Scotsmen or Texan democrats. And physicists aren't funny at all. That may be...   Full listing

UCL Graters: Panopticon

• Sketch show
• 9 - 10
• 1-12 & 14-27 Aug 2018

The nation's favourite appliance-themed comedy troupe returns for the heavenliest of seventh years at the Fringe. Join The Graters' mirthful...   Full listing

Austentatious

• Improv
• 14 - 16
• 15-24 Aug 2018

After sell-out national tours, a West End run and BBC Radio 4 special, Austentatious returns to the Fringe for its...   Full listing

Croft & Pearce: Double Take

• Sketch show
• 10 - 11
• 6-26 Aug 2018

Stars of BBC Radio 4's The Croft & Pearce Show and Sketchorama, winners of the Mervyn Stutter Spirit of the...   Full listing

Amy Annette: What Women Want

• Chat show
• 10
• 16-19 & 23-26 Aug 2018

Join Amy and a panel of her far more famous comedian friends in comic conversation. Previous guests (such as Aisling...   Full listing

Goons

• Play
• 10 - 11
• 3-14 Aug 2018

Albert thinks something's a bit off when Big Darren sends him to the shops with a list for a bottle...   Full listing

Awakening

• Play
• 10 - 11
• 1-12 & 14-27 Aug 2018

'Happy birthday Cassie... You're a f*cking idiot.' It's the morning of Cassie's 26th. She wakes to find herself in someone's...   Full listing

Not Yet Suffragette

• Satire
• 10 - 11
• 1-12 & 14-27 Aug 2018

Not Yet Suffragette is a potent mix of feminist theatre and stand-up comedy surrounding how - not far - women's...   Full listing

Lucy Frederick: Even More Naked

• Stand-up
• 9 - 10
• 1-12 & 14-26 Aug 2018

Some years ago, comedian Lucy Frederick appeared in a reality TV show in which she had to get naked. Like,...   Full listing

Wil Greenway: Either Side of Everything

• Storytelling / music
• 10.50 - 11.50
• 2-12 & 14-26 Aug 2018

Master storyteller and perennial Fringe sell-out, Wil Greenway returns with live musicians and (hopefully) a live audience to help your...   Full listing

Ashley Blaker: Observant Jew

• Stand-up
• 10 - 11
• 1-3, 5-10, 12-17, 19-24 & 26 Aug 2018

Ashley Blaker isn't your average Orthodox Jewish man. He's also an internationally acclaimed comedian and now, for the first time,...   Full listing

CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation

• Improv
• 9 - 10
• 1-26 Aug 2018

No one knows who the killer is, not even the cast! The improvised comedy murder mystery is back! Following a...   Full listing

Manhunt

• Sketch show
• 9 - 10
• 1-12 & 14-27 Aug 2018

Best friends Emm and Leo are incredibly lonely and distressingly available. So... would you maybe want to hang out later?...   Full listing

Tom Neenan: It's Always Infinity

• Stand-up
• 10 - 11
• 1-12 & 14-26 Aug 2018

***** (ThreeWeeks). **** (Telegraph). Tom's girlfriend has vanished, so he has done what any right-minded man would do and turned...   Full listing

Featured Richard Soames: Let's Make a Movie

• Multimedia
• 9 - 10
• 1-12 & 14-27 Aug 2018

One man. One hour. One second hand camcorder. Join 'charming storyteller' (Chortle.co.uk) Richard Soames as he gets the band back...   Full listing

Bumper Blyton

• Improv
• 9 - 10
• 1-27 Aug 2018

The picnic hamper's packed full of parody, ready for a riotous improvised spoof in the style of Enid Blyton. Come...   Full listing

Viv Groskop: Vivalicious

• Stand-up
• 9 - 10
• 1-12 & 14-26 Aug 2018

As heard on BBC Radio 4 and as seen on BBC One's This Week, Viv Groskop presents Vivalicious, a show...   Full listing

Ross Brierley: Accumulator

• Stand-up
• 9 - 10
• 1-13 & 15-27 Aug 2018

What would you do if you had a bet on the horses and won a year's wages in a day?...   Full listing

Helen Lederer: I Might as Well Say It

• Stand-up
• 10.50 - 11.50
• 3-12 & 14-25 Aug 2018

The Naked Video and Absolutely Fabulous star feels it's time to spill, before she forgets and gets taken off the...   Full listing

Buried: A New Musical

• Music / play
• 11 - 12
• 1-9 & 11-27 Aug 2018

Winner of The Cameron Mackintosh Award 2018, NSDF Edinburgh Award and The Stage Pick of the Fringe 2017. When Rose...   Full listing

Ian Smith: Craft

• Stand-up
• 10 - 12.50
• 1-12 & 14-26 Aug 2018

Multi award-winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC Three's Sweat the Small Stuff, Dave's The Magic Sponge podcast) returns. This show will...   Full listing

Paul Mayhew-Archer: Incurable Optimist

• Stand-up
• 9 - 10
• 1-12 & 14-26 Aug 2018

Paul's co-written or worked on many much-loved comedy shows - The Vicar of Dibley, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue,...   Full listing

Athena Kugblenu: Follow The Leader

• Stand-up
• 10 - 11
• 1-12 & 14-26 Aug 2018

The world's never had more knowledge, yet never more stupidity. Athena can't help but notice consistencies between the universe and...   Full listing

Josh Glanc: Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Chamedian

• Sketch show
• 10 - 11
• 1-12 & 14-26 Aug 2018

Winner: Best Comedy, Perth Fringe 2017. Named 'one of the most exciting emerging [Aussie] talents' (TheAge.com.au) and fresh from a...   Full listing

Silent Disco Tours by Silent Adventures

• Multimedia
• 13.50
• 1-27 Aug 2018

Join the Silent Adventures dream team as they lead you on a fun-filled silent disco tour of the capital. Don...   Full listing

The Chore Of Enchantment

• Magic
• 9.50 - 10.50
• 1-12, 14-19 & 21-27 Aug 2018

The world is in turmoil. Can magic provide the much-needed solace for these difficult times? Vincent Gambini is not so...   Full listing

Robyn Perkins: 10,000 Decisions

• Stand-up
• 10 - 12
• 1-12 & 14-26 Aug 2018

Everyone makes bad decisions, right? But let's be honest, bad decisions make you who you are. In this brilliant new...   Full listing

Matt and Ollie are... Dads!

• Play / sketch show
• 6 - 10
• 3-12 & 14-27 Aug 2018

Fringe debut from the award-winning Of Mice. After a stupid medieval dad makes a bargain with the devil, his descendants...   Full listing

Chris McCausland: Speaky Blinder

• Stand-up
• 10 - 12
• 1-12 & 14-26 Aug 2018

Following a stonking set on Live at the Apollo 2018! ***** (FringeGuru.com). One of the UK's top stand-ups returns! He's...   Full listing

Clara Cupcakes - The Worst

• Clown
• 10 - 11
• 1-12 & 14-27 Aug 2018

Nominated for the 2017 Golden Gibbo (Best Independent Production) at Melbourne Comedy Festival. In the summer of 2001, Clara Cupcakes...   Full listing

Stuart Bowden: Our Molecules

• 10.50 - 11.50
• 2-12, 14-19 & 21-26 Aug 2018

Cosmic comedy kindly presented by somebody who is obviously pretending to be an alien. A new show from the internationally...   Full listing

One Woman Sex and the City

• Play
• 12
• 1-12 & 14-27 Aug 2018

Parody on love, friendship and shoes. A loving send-up takes audiences through a laughter-infused six seasons of the beloved show....   Full listing

Nina Conti Is Monkey

• Improv
• 16 - 19
• 1-12 & 14-26 Aug 2018

Nina turns up with her favourite ingredients to bake the perfect showcake when a radical change occurs: Monkey takes unadulterated...   Full listing

Underbelly's Big Brain Tumour Benefit

• Stand-up
• 20
• 13 Aug 2018

Hosted by Susan Calman in her only Fringe appearance this year. Join a massive line-up of Fringe stars in a...   Full listing

Tom Skelton: Blind Eye Spy

• Sketch show
• 9 - 10
• 3-14 & 16-27 Aug 2018

2023. Post-Brexit, MI6's budget has been cut to the bone, but they need a new agent in Berlin. Out of...   Full listing

Tom Walker: Honk Honk Honk Honk Honk

• Stand-up
• 10 - 11
• 1-13 & 15-26 Aug 2018

Tom Walker is the strongest man in the world and is constantly gaining skill. This will be him onstage for...   Full listing

Alice Fraser: Ethos

• Stand-up
• 10 - 11
• 1-12 & 14-27 Aug 2018

Humans have always been fascinated by non-human minds. From the Golem, to Frankenstein's monster, to artificial intelligence - computers who...   Full listing

Adulting

• Variety
• 9 - 10
• 1-12 & 14-27 Aug 2018

If you've ever been engaged at 19 or have parking tickets worth a house deposit, then, like Tash, you've probably...   Full listing

Joe Sutherland: Toxic

• Stand-up
• 9 - 10
• 1-13 & 15-27 Aug 2018

Masculinity - isn't it, like, over? Or are there new ways to model manliness? Growing up Joe felt less like...   Full listing

Chris Henry: Around the World in 80 Dates

• Stand-up / cabaret
• 9 - 10
• 1-14 & 16-27 Aug 2018

Scottish Comedian of the Year finalist Chris Henry is back to take you on a whirlwind global gigglefest as he...   Full listing

Mark Nelson: Irreverence

• Stand-up
• 12.50 - 14.50
• 23-25 Aug 2018

Three nights only! 2017's smash-hit show from Scotland's award-winning stand-up and creator of BBC's viral sensation News at 3 (over...   Full listing

Bryony Twydle: Flamingo

• Sketch show
• 9 - 10
• 1-14 & 16-27 Aug 2018

Character comedian Bryony Twydle (BBC Radio 4's Sketchorama, E!'s The Royals) presents her debut Edinburgh show. Join Bryony as she...   Full listing

The Thinking Drinkers: Pub Crawl

• Stand-up
• 13 - 15
• 1-12 & 14-26 Aug 2018

After seven years of sell-out shows, The Thinking Drinkers return with a brand-new, hilarious, intoxicating bar-hop through history. Enjoy five...   Full listing

Dreamgun: Film Reads

• 9 - 10
• 2-13 & 15-26 Aug 2018

Getting it wrong has never felt so right! Irish comedy weirdos Dreamgun amuse and exasperate cinephiles in equal measure with...   Full listing

Foil, Arms and Hog - Craicling

• Sketch show
• 13.50 - 16
• 1-26 Aug 2018

Irish comedy, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato... you racist. Sold-out Fringe 2009-2017. Over 100...   Full listing

Rhys Nicholson - Seminal

• Stand-up
• 11 - 12.50
• 2-26 Aug 2018

It's me, Rhys. Please come to my show. Barry Award nominee, Melbourne International Comedy Festival. 'Aloof, wired, super smart, super...   Full listing

Myq Kaplan: All Killing Aside

• Stand-up
• 11 - 13
• 1-12 & 14-26 Aug 2018

New York's cosmic comedian Myq (Mike) Kaplan takes you (and himself, and the universe) on a journey of kindness in...   Full listing

Dan Attfield: Futureproof

• Music / improv
• 9 - 10
• 1-12 & 14-27 Aug 2018

The first human to live to a thousand years old has allegedly already been born. Musical comedian Dan Attfield (Abandoman,...   Full listing

Rachel Fairburn: The Wolf at the Door

• Stand-up
• 10 - 11
• 1-12 & 14-27 Aug 2018

Small mistakes, big mistakes, life-changing mistakes. Rachel's made them all - a drawing she did when she was 6, the...   Full listing

Tamsyn Kelly: You're Welcome

• Stand-up
• 10 - 11
• 1-14 & 16-27 Aug 2018

Does a story even exist if it's not on Instagram? Tamsyn Kelly is a hilarious, fresh, new voice. And she's...   Full listing

Be More, Do Better but Don't Change

• 9 - 10
• 1-13 & 15-26 Aug 2018

A unique blend of achingly honest poetry, side-splitting stand-up and personal story telling about romantic love and why we prioritise...   Full listing

Shit-Faced Showtime: Oliver With a Twist

• 10.50 - 12.50
• 1-27 Aug 2018

From the pissheads behind the hit show Shit-Faced Shakespeare comes an all new cockney knees-up musical extravaganza. Dickens' classic tale...   Full listing

Alex Williamson: So Wrong, It's Wrong

• Stand-up
• 11.50 - 12.50
• 1-12 & 14-27 Aug 2018

Did someone say drugs, pedos and terrorists? Alex's twisted outlook will shake your faith in humanity before restoring it ever...   Full listing

Tori Scott Is #Thirsty

• Music
• 9.50 - 10.50
• 1-7, 9-14, 16-21 & 23-27 Aug 2018

Celebrating poor life choices and an unconditional love of vodka, direct from New York City. This Garland for the Grindr...   Full listing

Frieda Loves Ya!

• Cabaret
• 10 - 11
• 1-12 & 14-27 Aug 2018

Frieda Love is a cabaret clown attempting to save the world through comedy song, dance and guerrilla burlesque. Using the...   Full listing

Ladylike: A Modern Guide to Etiquette

• Stand-up
• 10 - 11
• 13-27 Aug 2018

Fresh from sell-out seasons and rave reviews in New Zealand and Australia, comedian Louise Beuvink is coming to Edinburgh for...   Full listing

zazUtinany

• Sketch show
• 9 - 10
• 1-12 Aug 2018

Award-winning comedy troupe zazU presents zazUtinany, an absurdly silly comedy game show incorporating live acts, games, a quiz and even...   Full listing

Douglas Walker Presents: Of Christmas Past

• 10 - 11
• 1-13 & 15-26 Aug 2018

Christmas is a time for joy and happiness, but there's a sinister secret wrapped in the stories we tell. Douglas...   Full listing

Shit-Faced Shakespeare: Hamlet

• Improv
• 12.50 - 15
• 1-27 Aug 2018

The legendary Fringe hit is back again with their biggest shit-faced show to date: Hamlet. This hilarious, sell-out, award-winning, smash-hit...   Full listing

Queen C*nt - Sacred or Profane?

• Play
• 9 - 10
• 1-7, 9-12, 14-19 & 21-26 Aug 2018

Blending comedy, drag, song and the grotesque, with absurd character sketches. Meet the Virgin Mary, Theresa May, Burt the drag...   Full listing