Mystery Meat (Showcase)

• Stand-up
• Free
• 3-5, 7-12, 14-19 & 21-26 Aug 2018

Mystery Meat is a monthly cult stand-up show regularly performing to sell-out audiences in Brighton. This is no accident. Get...   Full listing

Lee Kyle - Kicking Potatoes Into the Sea

• Stand-up
• Free
• 3-14, 16-18 & 20-26 Aug 2018

Have you ever kicked a potato into the sea? Lee Kyle has. It's great but it's not the answer to...   Full listing

Jake Donaldson: Help! I'm Trapped in the Body of an Adequate Comedian!

• Stand-up / storytelling
• Free
• 2-26 Aug 2018

Jake Donaldson returns to the Fringe with his debut hour-long solo show! Jake mixes stand-up and storytelling in his new...   Full listing

Gráinne Maguire: What Has the News Ever Done for Me?

• Satire
• Free
• 2-26 Aug 2018

Hosted by Gráinne Maguire (as seen on Dave's UnSpun with Matt Forde), every day three different comics bring along the...   Full listing

Twat Out of Hell

• Stand-up
• Free
• 2-6, 8-20 & 22-26 Aug 2018

Twat Out Of Hell features comedian Gary G Knightley (as seen on Channel 4, BBC Three and the West End)...   Full listing

Andrew Sim: You Gotta Find Joy

• Stand-up
• Free
• 2-14 & 16-26 Aug 2018

Bringing his first solo show to the Fringe with a combination of storytelling, songs and surreal improvisations, Andrew Sim intends...   Full listing

Mat Ricardo Vs The World

• Free
• 2-26 Aug 2018

Award-winning cabaret star and the UK's most successful juggler, Mat Ricardo, had a problem - after a 30-year career as...   Full listing

Russell Hicks: A Fist Full of Ideas

• Stand-up / improv
• Free
• 2-26 Aug 2018

Russell Hicks attempts to hone a work that is forever in progress by walking on stage with - literally -...   Full listing

Pam Ford: Pants and Pantsability Rinsed

• Stand-up / storytelling
• Free
• 17-26 Aug 2018

Following last years standing-room-only show, Pam's ready to see if she can clean up her act. Can you help to...   Full listing

Dan Kelly's Madras Years

• Free
• 2-16 Aug 2018

Join Dan Kelly as he piles into the Madras Years, a medium-spicy character comedy show designed to open more cans...   Full listing

Eat Sleep Shit Shag

• Stand-up / storytelling
• Free
• 2-23 Aug 2018

Amused Moose Comedy Award finalist, 2015, Abbie Murphy returns to the Fringe with her new show, Eat Sleep Shit Shag....   Full listing

A Book Lovers Comedy Show

• Stand-up
• Free
• 2-12 & 14-26 Aug 2018

George loves reading. He used to be the kind of maverick who didn't listen in class because he was engrossed...   Full listing

A Booklover's Comedy Show

• Stand-up
• Free
• 2-12 & 14-26 Aug 2018

George loves reading. He used to be the kind of maverick who didn't listen in class because he was engrossed...   Full listing

Please Stop!

• Free
• 19-26 Aug 2018

Please Stop! Please Stop! Please Stop! No this is not a command but a comedy documentary which explores the view...   Full listing

Samantha Pressdee: Pulling it Together (WIP)

• Satire / storytelling
• Free
• 2-10 Aug 2018

Four years ago Samantha lost everything, including her marbles. In an adventure through the British welfare system, Samantha battles cuts,...   Full listing

TwentyTwelve - Free

• Stand-up / storytelling
• Free
• 11-18 Aug 2018

Colin's life has been a series of well-meaning mishaps and misunderstandings. He'd somehow managed to get by without too much...   Full listing

Don't Be Terrible

• Play
• Free
• 2-13 & 15-26 Aug 2018

Can stand-up save your love life? Self-confessed nice guy Steve thinks so. That's why he's asked Alice, an up-and-coming stand-up,...   Full listing

The Poetry of Sticking an Egg Up a Hen's Butt!

• Storytelling
• Free
• 3-12 & 14-26 Aug 2018

Everyday life can be tragic and comical at the same time. And what's more uneasy - to laugh at something...   Full listing

Jane Hill - Addicted to Fun

• Stand-up / storytelling
• Free
• 2-13 & 15-26 Aug 2018

Jane used to be fun. By fun, she means drunk. She's been sober for 15 years but still misses the...   Full listing

That's My Story Podcast

• Storytelling
• Free
• 2-26 Aug 2018

Comedians Bronston Jones (USA) and Martin Mor (IRE) are joined each day by a different guest. They tell stories on...   Full listing

Tom Taylor: Abridged

• Stand-up
• Free
• 2-26 Aug 2018

The creator of Fringe hit: The Charlie Montague Mysteries (sell-out shows 2016 and 2017), returns with 40 minutes of jokes...   Full listing

Bollywood and Birmingham to Berlin and Brexit

• Stand-up / storytelling
• Free
• 2-26 Aug 2018

'Growing up - I was too brown for the white kids and the wrong kind of brown for the brown...   Full listing

Sagar Dreamcast

• Sketch show / character
• Free
• 2-13 & 15-26 Aug 2018

Fiona Sagar (Funny Women Best Show nominee 2016 and 2017, The Groundlings Comedy Theatre) returns with a new character comedy...   Full listing

Conor Drum: ...If

• Stand-up
• Free
• 2-26 Aug 2018

A comedy rockumentary about a band that never happened. Conor discovers his old band's 18-year-old demo and decides if giving...   Full listing

Nigel Ng: Malaysian Sensation (Work in Progress)

• Stand-up
• Free
• 2-7, 9-14, 16-21 & 23-26 Aug 2018

Nigel Ng is from Malaysia. Join him as he observes and adopts your western ways (he just started recycling!). People...   Full listing

Angry Boater

• Storytelling
• Free
• 2-6, 8-13, 15-20 & 22-26 Aug 2018

No skills, no patience, hypertension and a boat. What really happens when you abandon the land to follow your dreams?...   Full listing

Holt and Talbot: Mansplaining Feminism

• Satire / sketch show
• Free
• 2-13 & 15-26 Aug 2018

Still talking to each other after last year's Edinburgh success with [l]Holt and Talbot Can't Stand The Sight Of Each...   Full listing

George Michael Is Greek

• Stand-up
• Free
• 2-12 & 14-26 Aug 2018

Why do Greeks love to claim things? How much are we our nationality? What is a George Michael? A show...   Full listing

Fitting Image

• Storytelling
• Free
• 2-12 & 14-26 Aug 2018

Fitting Image is a show about fitting in and trying to be the person you want to be, especially when...   Full listing

Spring Day: Strong Codependent Woman - Free

• Stand-up
• Free
• 2-26 Aug 2018

Who runs the world? Not this bitch. I handed the keys to a drunk guy. Come see Spring Day (her...   Full listing

Bumble Me Tinders

• Stand-up
• Free
• 2-26 Aug 2018

Hosted by comedians Patrick Melton (USA) (Comedy Central, Spike TV, VH1) and Katharine Ferns (Canada) (MTV) with a different...   Full listing

The Mad Craic Comedy Show

• Stand-up
• Free
• 15-26 Aug 2018

An Irish stand-up comedy compilation show featuring some of the best comedians from around the festival, for free. With a...   Full listing

The Never Ending Cycle

• Sketch show
• Free
• 2-14 Aug 2018

May Cause Mild Irritation - The Never Ending Cycle   Full listing

52 Days

• Stand-up
• Free
• 2-26 Aug 2018

Hey, I'm Aidan, in 2012 I kept a journal on a deck of playing cards, one for every week. Pick...   Full listing

A Beginner's Guide to Bondage

• Stand-up
• Free
• 2-26 Aug 2018

A funny, naughty romp through the world of BDSM. Have you seen 50 Shades of Grey? Are you fetish curious?...   Full listing

Falling With Style

• Stand-up
• Free
• 2-26 Aug 2018

Adventurer David von Jones takes a humourous glance at some popular Disney and Pixar movies with a view to discovering...   Full listing

Getting Away Scott Free

• Stand-up
• Free
• 2-18 & 20-26 Aug 2018

After touring the world with internationally-received show, Getting Away Scott Free. Comic Scott Adams is ending his run here at...   Full listing

Black White With a Hash Brown

• Stand-up
• Free
• 2-26 Aug 2018

A tale of three colours. The show starts as pristine white in Bethnal Green and devolves to brown in Whitechapel,...   Full listing

Cool Story Bro

• Stand-up / storytelling
• Free
• 2-14 & 16-26 Aug 2018

Trev Tokabi, from the Ivory Coast, has a knack for putting himself in compromising situations! If you have a mate,...   Full listing

Oxford Revue: Free

• Stand-up / sketch show
• Free
• 2-26 Aug 2018

The Oxford Revue returns with its celebrated Free Fringe variety bill. Across the month of August, the University of Oxford's...   Full listing

The Spice Girls Lied to Us

• Stand-up
• Free
• 12-15 Aug 2018

The Spice Girls lied right to our faces. They sold us girl power, the crappy music, the equally crappy merch....   Full listing