Unladylike

• Stand-up
• PWYW
• 14-25 Aug 2019

As an Indian-American immigrant living in the Middle East, Arzoo is bombarded with mixed messages on how to be a...   Full listing

Kayla MacQuarrie: Traumatised

• Storytelling
• PWYW
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Kayla MacQuarrie is Traumatised. She'll tell lots of jokes about it though so stick with her and we'll all be...   Full listing

David Callaghan: Dance Like No One's David Callaghan

• Stand-up
• PWYW
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

A new stand-up show from David Callaghan. **** (Scotsman). **** (EdFestMag.com) **** (TheReviewsHub.com). 'Callaghan does an excellent job... very funny...   Full listing

Fiona Ridgewell: Even Dizney Needs a Day Off!

• Stand-up / storytelling
• PWYW
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Fiona Ridgewell is the epitome of positivity... but she's struggling to keep a PMA as she stumbles through life trying...   Full listing

Edy Hurst: Hurst Schmurst

• Stand-up
• PWYW
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Award-winning comedian Edy Hurst brings his musical comedy, loop pedal nonsense and stand-up to answer the age-old question: 'What's the...   Full listing

Andrew White: Retirement Tour

• Stand-up
• PWYW
• 2-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

What do you do when life comes to a crossroads? Write a show about it, of course! At 19 years...   Full listing

Tom Kitching: Welcome to My Barn!

• Stand-up / storytelling
• PWYW
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Co-creator of The Voice of Ray brings a brand-new solo hour to Edinburgh. Expect knee laughing and belly slapping in...   Full listing

Andy Storey: Still (Awkward) Life

• Stand-up
• PWYW
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

'It's difficult, I think, being a human person.' Happy behind curtains closed and determined to keep the world at arm's...   Full listing

Internationally Unknown

• Stand-up
• PWYW
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Internationally unknown French American stand-up comedian Clara Bijl brings an hour of brand new stand-up comedy back to Edinburgh for...   Full listing

Alan Shed's Music, Comedy And Everything Else Interactive Quiz Show

• Music / game show
• 7
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

When the Britpop band Shed Seven disbanded in 2003, a dozen people witnessed the drummer's only attempt at stand-up comedy....   Full listing

Travis Jay: Funny, Petty, Cool

• Stand-up
• PWYW
• 1-11, 13-15 & 17-25 Aug 2019

After attending the festival in 1994 as a young boy to watch his mother Angie Le Mar perform, Leicester Mercury...   Full listing

Ollie Horn: Pig in Japan

• Stand-up
• PWYW
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Hello! Ollie here. Thanks for checking out my show. I tell the daft story of how I ended up moving...   Full listing

Motherhood: A Comedy

• Stand-up
• PWYW
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Tara has two children under two (yes they were both planned, thank you for asking...) and is exploiting them for...   Full listing

Musical Comedy Guide Showcase

• Music
• PWYW
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Free daily hour-long showcase of the best musical comedy at this year's Edinburgh Fringe, courtesy of the Musical Comedy Guide...   Full listing

Luca Cupani: Lives I Never Lived

• Storytelling / stand-up
• PWYW
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Which life would you choose if you had a second chance? Luca managed to narrow the possible answers down to...   Full listing

Chris Kehoe: The Second Coming of Chris

• Satire / stand-up
• PWYW
• 18-25 Aug 2019

Would everything be better if piratical misanthrope Chris Kehoe was in charge? Maybe. Tackling racism, climate change and pot noodles,...   Full listing

Joseph Parsons: Baggy Point

• Stand-up
• Free
• 13-17 Aug 2019

Joseph Parsons (as seen on Channel 4) presents his uplifting, sell-out show, Baggy Point. With his lovable and electric energy...   Full listing

Lew Fitz: Chucky Egg (Work in Progress)

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-11 Aug 2019

With his first solo show, stand-up comedian Lew Fitz (BBC New Comedy Award nominee 2018) covers a hilarious and often...   Full listing

Archie Maddocks: Big Dick Energy

• Stand-up
• PWYW
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Life's getting a bit serious innit? Political instability, social politics making people less social - life now is guilt, followed...   Full listing

Jenny Bede: The Musical

• Stand-up / music
• PWYW
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Classically trained in musical theatre, comedian, writer and actor Jenny Bede is tired of waiting around for her perfect role....   Full listing

Jacob Hawley: Faliraki

• Stand-up
• PWYW
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Stevenage soft lad Jacob Hawley presents ruminations on love, youth and mental health. Politics for idiots, feminism for lads, love...   Full listing

Mike Newall: Re:Newall

• Stand-up
• PWYW
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

I can't believe I hadn't thought of this title before. Having to move back home at 36 and "start again",...   Full listing

Stevie Gray: Arctic Monkeys' Midlife Crisis

• Stand-up / music
• PWYW
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Award-winning Stevie smashes out a debut show of songs, stories and silliness whilst answering that all important question, what should...   Full listing

Never Again

• Stand-up
• PWYW
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Maggie Kowalski (Hackney Empire New Act of the Year 2018 runner-up, Funny Women Regional runner-up 2018) and Davina Bentley (Leicester...   Full listing

Sam Haygarth: Climate Crisis

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Sam Haygarth was arrested recently. This is a show about being an activist. About melting ice caps and rising sea...   Full listing

Christianity and Me

• Stand-up
• PWYW
• 1-11 & 13-24 Aug 2019

Nick Dixon is considering doing something so controversial and shameful he will be ridiculed and hated by the comedy community,...   Full listing

I, Tom Mayhew

• Stand-up
• PWYW
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Tom Mayhew (BBC New Comedy Award semi-finalist 2018) was unemployed for three years from the age of 18. This is...   Full listing

Sam Russell: Privileged to be Here

• Stand-up
• PWYW
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

2019 eh? Why is politics? When is religion? Who is gender? Where is race? Confused? So is Sam. And given...   Full listing

Dave Green: Guest Bed

• Stand-up / storytelling
• PWYW
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Dave grew up with two beds in his bedroom and he's trying to find out why. Join Dave as he...   Full listing

Ian Lane - Paperweight

• Stand-up / multimedia
• PWYW
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Remember Bravo Two Zero? Of The First Gulf War fame? Ian Lane does. His dad was a member of the...   Full listing

Tony Cowards: Stepdad Jokes

• Stand-up
• PWYW
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Top one-liner comic, Tony Cowards ('The best joke writer around' (GQ Magazine)), returns with his hilarious new show about the...   Full listing

Ania Magliano and Matt Hutchinson: Mixtape

• Stand-up / music
• PWYW
• 1-5, 7-11, 13-18 & 20-25 Aug 2019

Ania is a bright young comedian and YouTube star making waves (finalist: Chortle Student Awards, 2Northdown New Act Competition; check...   Full listing

Stoph Demetriou: Acting In Bad Faith CANCELLED

• Multimedia / storytelling
• PWYW
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

We all lie to ourselves. Stoph has convinced himself that his failures aren't his fault, but the truth that they...   Full listing

Nick Horseman: The Rhyme Scheme

• Stand-up / music
• PWYW
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

In 2018, Nick 'Horse' Horseman got married, survived a 6.9 magnitude earthquake that killed 450 people and gave up his...   Full listing

Radical Honesty

• Stand-up / storytelling
• PWYW
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Join Luke Martin for total honesty about everything from German dwarves to gender pronouns! Find out how sobriety is like...   Full listing

Free Footlights

• Stand-up / sketch show
• Free
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

An hour of stand-up, songs, sketches and much more, from the Cambridge Footlights - alumni include Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie,...   Full listing

Lulu Popplewell: The Humble Bumhole

• Stand-up
• PWYW
• 1-11, 13-18 & 20-25 Aug 2019

It's March as I write this, so who knows what the show will be by August. But this is a...   Full listing

Gabe Mollica: The Whole Thing

• Stand-up / storytelling
• PWYW
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Gabe Mollica started doing stand-up in Edinburgh after he got dumped for his best friend. Five years later, this New...   Full listing

Ross Drummond and Harry Monaghan: The Orb

• Stand-up / storytelling
• PWYW
• 1-11 & 13-18 Aug 2019

Have you touched The Orb? Want to meet two that have? A mainstay of science, wonder and amazement since its...   Full listing

Stout, Pale and Bitter

• Sketch show
• PWYW
• 19-25 Aug 2019

A brand-new sketch show about time travel, adventure and bureaucracy. Join a sketch trio whose work is 'mind-blowingly brilliant' (ThreeWeeks)...   Full listing