Comrade Egg And The Chicken Of Tomorrow

• Clown
• 9 - 11
• 31 Jul; 1-8, 10-17 & 19-26 Aug 2019

'We are going to liberate the hell out of 20, 000 chickens.' Welcome to The Chicken Appreciation Society and welcome...   Full listing

Rubbish Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream

• Play
• 8.50 - 10
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-26 Aug 2019

Runaways. Fairies. Goblins. Water pistols!? Look out, it's Rubbish Shakespeare! The madcap quartet return with the Bard's impish tale of...   Full listing

Trump Lear

• Play / satire
• 10 - 12
• 31 Jul; 1-13 & 15-26 Aug 2019

Last year's 'chaotically enjoyable' (Spectator) sell-out hit Shakespeare adaptation returns. Actor and impersonator Carl David - aka David Carl -...   Full listing

Beetlemania: Kafka For Kids

• Play
• 10 - 12
• 31 Jul; 1-13 & 15-25 Aug 2019

The smash hit of last year's festival is back! Join the Kafkateers for their 'riotously cheerful' (Chortle.co.uk) show packed with...   Full listing

Brave Macbeth

• Play / music
• 8.50 - 10
• 31 Jul; 1-18 Aug 2019

Primary Times Children's Choice Award winner Brave Macbeth is back. On his way home from battle, Brave Macbeth meets the...   Full listing

Amy Annette: What Women Want

• Chat show
• 9
• 10-11, 17-18 & 24-25 Aug 2019

Join Amy and a panel of her more famous comedian friends at the recording of a live comedy conversation show....   Full listing

The Showstoppers' Kids Show

• Storytelling / music
• 9.50 - 11
• 31 Jul; 1-18 Aug 2019

Fringe favourites and Olivier Award-winning improvisers, The Showstoppers, take your kids' ideas and transform them on the spot into interactive...   Full listing

dressed.

• Play
• 15
• 20-25 Aug 2019

After being stripped at gun point, Lydia set out to redress herself with a new healing set of armour. Lydia...   Full listing

Jennifer Tyler: Ready Or Not

• Music
• 9 - 12
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-26 Aug 2019

For years, Jennifer liked to be over-prepared. Every move was meticulously thought-through and every possible outcome was assessed. She was...   Full listing

Briony Redman is Indecisive (or Isn't, You Decide!)

• Storytelling / sketch show
• 7 - 9
• 31 Jul; 1-12 & 14-26 Aug 2019

Life is short. There's no time to debate options, consider details or use spellcheck. At some point you have to...   Full listing

Bobby & Amy

• Play
• 10 - 12
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-26 Aug 2019

A new dark comedy about foot-and-mouth disease by Fringe First award winner Emily Jenkins. It's the late 90s: Take That,...   Full listing

Algorithms

• Play
• 8.50 - 11
• 31 Jul; 1-12 & 14-26 Aug 2019

Brooke has it all: the job, the flat, the girlfriend... but what happens when things go tits up just before...   Full listing

Wild Swimming

• Play
• 10 - 12
• 31 Jul; 1-6, 8-12, 14-19 & 21-26 Aug 2019

Wild Swimming: a brief and benighted history. Nell and Oscar meet on a deserted beach in Dorset. It's 1595... or...   Full listing

Fishbowl

• Play
• 14 - 17.50
• 31 Jul; 1-13 & 15-26 Aug 2019

The hilarious misadventures of three eccentric and lovable anti-heroes crammed in their wacky rooftop bedsits. The funniest show in Europe...   Full listing

The Rebirth of Meadow Rain

• Cabaret
• 8.50 - 10
• 31 Jul; 1-6, 8-13 & 15-26 Aug 2019

Meadow Rain would like to say sorry. Sorry for disappearing. Sorry for being a bad friend. And sorry for calling...   Full listing

Beach Body Ready

• Storytelling
• 8 - 10
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-26 Aug 2019

It's the season of cutting carbs, hitting it hard at the gym, and shaving everything from the chin down. Summer...   Full listing

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show

• Stand-up
• 9.50 - 11.50
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Great value, great venue and great fun! Lunchtime compilation showcasing comedians you must not miss with new line-ups every day...   Full listing

Dan vs Food

• 6
• 14 Aug 2019

A man eats a meal on stage. This is the greatest cultural event of the year. For one lunchtime only,...   Full listing

Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe

• Variety
• 12.50
• 3-14, 16-21 & 23-25 Aug 2019

'It's like the Royal Variety Show of the Fringe'. Mervyn and his team carefully research the Fringe and bring you...   Full listing

The Listies: Ickypedia

• 7.50 - 10
• 31 Jul; 1-18 Aug 2019

***** (Fest). ***** (List). ***** (ThreeWeeks). ***** (FringeReview.co.uk). ***** (BroadwayBaby.com). ****½ (Age). Australia's kidult comedians are back with a new...   Full listing

Daisy MacDade: Sugarbaby

• Storytelling
• 8 - 10
• 20-26 Aug 2019

Daisy MacDade tells the strange-but-true story of her extraordinary experiences as an Edinburgh-based sugarbaby trying to get through university. Meet...   Full listing

Arthur Smith: SYD

• Storytelling
• 11.50 - 13.50
• 2-17 Aug 2019

The story of an ordinary man who lived through extraordinary times, told with love, laughter and song. 'A touching and...   Full listing

It'll Be Alt-Right on the Night

• Play
• 10 - 12
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-26 Aug 2019

Greeny and Stevo grew up punks - squats, dumpster-diving and PVA-glue-spiked hair. But they've changed. No, f*ck that, the world's...   Full listing

Stiff & Kitsch: Bricking It

• Music / stand-up
• 8.50 - 11
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-26 Aug 2019

Musical Comedy Award winners 2018 sing about everything keeping them awake at night: tax, wooden cutlery and the consequences of...   Full listing

Sexy Lamp

• Music
• 8.50 - 10.50
• 31 Jul; 1-12 & 14-26 Aug 2019

Brilliantly combining comedy, original songs and storytelling, Sexy Lamp sheds a bright light on how ridiculous the entertainment industry can...   Full listing

I, AmDram

• Play
• 7 - 9
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-26 Aug 2019

Amateur dramatics: the unspoken past of many a Fringe performer. From four generations of leading ladies comes one queer Londoner,...   Full listing

Murder on the Dancefloor

• 8.50 - 11
• 31 Jul; 1-12 & 14-26 Aug 2019

Sabrina digs up dirt, a hysterical boy looks heavenward and there might be a ghost in the garden. In a...   Full listing

The Land Of My Fathers And Mothers And Some Other People

• 10 - 12
• 31 Jul; 1-26 Aug 2019

The Land of My Fathers and Mothers and Some Other People is an all-singing, all-dancing re-enactment of what Rhys's Mam...   Full listing

Audible Live

• Stand-up
• Free
• 13-24 Aug 2019

Audible hosts two weeks of completely free live comedy shows, showcasing the finest acts the festival has to offer, all...   Full listing

Flanders and Swann

• Cabaret
• 12 - 13
• 31 Jul; 1-11 Aug 2019

The songs and wit of those masters of mayhem, mirth and Madeira - timeless musical comedy legends, Flanders and Swann....   Full listing

A Holy Show

• Storytelling
• 10 - 12
• 31 Jul; 1-26 Aug 2019

Written and directed by Janet Moran. A new comedy about the most Irish of hijackings. There'll be music, nostalgia, heroism,...   Full listing

I Lost My Virginity to Chopin's Nocturne in B-flat Minor

• Play
• 8.50 - 9.50
• 31 Jul; 1-26 Aug 2019

'I'm not going to gamble the happiness I have with you for a chance at happiness with someone else -...   Full listing

Will Duggan: Class Two

• Stand-up / storytelling
• 8 - 10
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-26 Aug 2019

During an odd and turbulent time in recent history Will found himself questioning every poor decision he has ever made...   Full listing

A Grave Situation

• Play / music
• 7.50 - 10
• 2-17 Aug 2019

The Pleasance's 'breathtakingly skilled ensemble' (Scotsman) present their brilliantly inventive comedy revival. Armed with only five spades and Albert's trusty...   Full listing

With Child

• Play
• 9 - 11
• 31 Jul; 1-13 & 15-25 Aug 2019

A solo show - six different women, one thing in common. Inspired by society's expectations and the pressures on women...   Full listing

George Fouracres: Gentlemon

• Stand-up
• 10
• 31 Jul; 1-26 Aug 2019

George Fouracres, Wolverhampton's fancy-pantsiest son, tells stories of a Black Country childhood, sings ancient ballads, becomes occasional grotesques and splatters...   Full listing

Murder She Didn't Write: The Improvised Murder Mystery

• Improv
• 10 - 12.50
• 31 Jul; 1-26 Aug 2019

A classic murder mystery is created on-the-spot from audience suggestions in this ingenious and hilarious show from Fringe favourites, Degrees...   Full listing

Edinburgh Comedy Awards Gala

• 14
• 25 Aug 2019

The UK's first and premier award for celebrating live comedy. See the 2019 winner and nominees for one show only!...   Full listing

Glenn Moore: Love Don't Live Here Glenny Moore

• Stand-up / storytelling
• 9 - 11
• 31 Jul; 1-25 Aug 2019

'Glenn Moore' (List) follows up last year's Edinburgh Comedy Award nomination with a new hour of 'brilliantly original' (Chortle.co.uk), 'blissfully...   Full listing

The Guilty Feminist: Live Podcast

• 17.50
• 2-4 Aug 2019

The Guilty Feminist podcast has become a comedy phenomenon with over 60 million downloads since it launched in early 2016....   Full listing

Paul Merton's Impro Chums

• Improv
• 14 - 16.50
• 8-17 Aug 2019

Paul Merton and his highly acclaimed Impro Chums are wonders of nature. They take audience suggestions and create cascades of...   Full listing

James McNicholas: The Boxer

• Stand-up
• 8 - 10
• 31 Jul; 1-13 & 15-25 Aug 2019

James' grandad, Terry Downes, became world middleweight champion in 1961. By contrast, James' school PE teacher once told him he...   Full listing

Matt Winning: It's the End of the World as We Know It

• Storytelling
• 8 - 10
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

(And I feel fine (but not all the time)). A storytelling lecture about how we cope with climate change from...   Full listing

Anna Drezen: Okay Get Home Safe!

• Stand-up
• 9 - 11
• 31 Jul; 1-13 & 15-25 Aug 2019

The Saturday Night Live writer and former editor-at-large of online satirical women's magazine Reductress comes to the Fringe for the...   Full listing

Cam Spence: The Sunshine Clinic

• Character
• 9 - 11
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Cam Spence presents an explosive debut hour of idiosyncratic character comedy. Welcome to The Sunshine Clinic (rehab facility closest to...   Full listing

Giants Are Fjörd

• Music / sketch show
• 9.50 - 11.50
• 31 Jul; 1-12 & 14-25 Aug 2019

It's 2019. Iconic Norwegian Eurodance duo Fjörd are back. And they're recording a live studio album... In 2015, Fjörd released...   Full listing

The Last Of The Pelican Daughters

• Play
• 11.50 - 13.50
• 31 Jul; 1-16 & 18-25 Aug 2019

Joy wants a baby, Storm wants to be seen, Sage wants to be paid, Maia doesn't want anyone to find...   Full listing

Heidi Regan: Heidi Kills Time

• Stand-up
• 9 - 12
• 31 Jul; 1-25 Aug 2019

Silly, surreal show about time travel, love and time travel. Tired of immature 'I slept with your mum' jokes? Come...   Full listing

Lucy Beaumont: Space Mam

• Stand-up
• 12
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

The hugely anticipated new show from Best Newcomer nominee. Lucy feels she's finally turned into a real woman and she's...   Full listing

Mighty

• 9 - 11
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-26 Aug 2019

The 'remarkable' (Scotsman) and bite-sized Jack AG Britton presents Mighty; a TED talk-meets-theatre show that combines comedy, live music and...   Full listing

HUB Fresh

• Stand-up / sketch show
• Free
• 6 & 7 Aug 2019

The best place to discover new comedy on the Fringe! Join us for a changing line-up of comedians all making...   Full listing

Nicholas Parsons' Happy Hour

• Stand-up / chat show
• 15
• 2-5 & 8-11 Aug 2019

Join Nicholas Parsons, comedy actor and legendary host of Radio 4's Just a Minute, for an unmissable hour of fun...   Full listing

Reverend Richard Coles: #SimpleCountryParson

• 13 - 15
• 12-25 Aug 2019

Revd Richard Coles is on a fortnight's leave from his country parish and has been excused from his co-presenting duties...   Full listing

Michael Odewale: #BlackBearsMatter

• Stand-up
• 7.50 - 10
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Michael Odewale is selfish. And apathetic. And so are you. Join the fast-rising star as he tries to figure out...   Full listing

Bryony Kimmings: I'm a Phoenix, Bitch

• 15 - 17
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Following a critically acclaimed extended run at Battersea Arts Centre, Grand Hall and an Offies 2019 win, I'm a Phoenix,...   Full listing

Anna And Helen: Stuck In A Rat

• Sketch show / music
• 9 - 11
• 31 Jul; 1-12 & 14-26 Aug 2019

Ever found yourself stuck in a rat? Unpleasant, isn't it? Time marches on, but you're on the spot. Not even...   Full listing

Sarah Keyworth: Pacific

• Stand-up
• 9 - 11
• 31 Jul; 1-12 & 14-25 Aug 2019

Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee for Best Newcomer and winner of the Herald Angel Award returns with a brand-new hour of...   Full listing

Jack Gleadow: Mr Saturday Night

• Stand-up
• 8 - 10
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Winner of Amused Moose National New Comic and Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year makes his Fringe debut after performing...   Full listing

Stand Up with Janine Harouni (Please Remain Seated)

• Stand-up
• 10 - 12
• 31 Jul; 1-12 & 14-25 Aug 2019

Janine's father is a lifelong New Yorker and son of Middle-Eastern immigrants. He's also an avid Donald Trump supporter. Attempting...   Full listing

Spencer Jones: The Things We Leave Behind

• Stand-up / clown
• 11 - 13
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Edinburgh Comedy Award and double BAFTA-nominated professional idiot Spencer Jones is back with his brand-new show. [l]The Things We Leave...   Full listing

Alexander Fox: Snare

• Storytelling / music
• 8.50 - 10
• 31 Jul; 1-26 Aug 2019

'Mrs Richardson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?' In 2011, Alexander Fox left school and went to music college,...   Full listing

Catherine Bohart: Lemon

• Stand-up
• 9 - 11.50
• 31 Jul; 1-12 & 14-25 Aug 2019

After 2018's 'funny, warm... perfectly structured debut' **** (Times), Catherine's back to smash stereotypes around sex, sexuality and relationships. As...   Full listing

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical

• Improv / music
• 13 - 17
• 31 Jul; 1-12 & 14-25 Aug 2019

The Edinburgh must-see, Olivier Award-winning (Best Entertainment and Family Show) West End hit returns for its 12th consecutive year! A...   Full listing

Tom Parry: Parryoke!

• Stand-up
• 9.50 - 12.50
• 31 Jul; 1-12 & 14-26 Aug 2019

Fresh from his Best Newcomer nomination in 2015, Parry is back with a brand-new hour celebrating life, love and going...   Full listing

Helen Bauer: Little Miss Baby Angel Face

• Stand-up
• 8 - 10
• 31 Jul; 1-13 & 15-25 Aug 2019

Helen enjoys a drama. She's her mother's daughter, taking a small situation, blowing it up, then getting upset that it's...   Full listing

Tom Taylor: Is the Indie Feel-Good Hit of the Summer

• Stand-up
• 8 - 10
• 31 Jul; 1-25 Aug 2019

From the maker of sell-out Fringe hit: The Charlie Montague Mysteries; tour support for Ed Sheeran's tour support, Tom Taylor,...   Full listing

Kieran Hodgson: '75

• Stand-up
• 14 - 15
• 17, 21 & 25 Aug 2019

The Tales of Kieran Hodgson: Part Four. Nominated for Best Show, Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2018. Passion. Betrayal. Harold Wilson. In...   Full listing

Kieran Hodgson: French Exchange

• Stand-up
• 14 - 15
• 14, 18 & 22 Aug 2019

The Tales of Kieran Hodgson: Part One. In 2003 a US-led coalition went to war with Iraq and Kieran Hodgson...   Full listing

Kieran Hodgson: Lance

• Stand-up
• 14 - 15
• 15, 19 & 23 Aug 2019

The Tales of Kieran Hodgson: Part Two. Nominated for Best Show, Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2015. In 2003 Lance Armstrong won...   Full listing

Kieran Hodgson: Maestro

• Stand-up
• 14 - 15
• 16, 20 & 24 Aug 2019

The Tales of Kieran Hodgson: Part Three. Nominated for Best Show, Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2016. In 2003 Kieran Hodgson heard...   Full listing

Rhys James: Snitch

• Stand-up
• 10 - 13
• 31 Jul; 1-25 Aug 2019

The boy from Mock the Week (BBC Two), Roast Battle (Comedy Central), The News Quiz and star of Rhys James...   Full listing

Marcus Brigstocke: Devil May Care

• Stand-up
• 14 - 15
• 31 Jul; 1-10 Aug 2019

Multi award-winning comedian Brigstocke returns for a limited run. An hour of blistering stand-up in the company of Lucifer himself....   Full listing

Tom Rosenthal: Manhood

• Stand-up
• 11.50 - 14
• 31 Jul; 1-12 & 14-25 Aug 2019

Let the beaky boy from Friday Night Dinner (Channel 4) and Plebs (ITV2) tell you the story of how he...   Full listing

Lucy Porter: Be Prepared

• Stand-up
• 12 - 16
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-17 Aug 2019

Fringe favourite Lucy returns with another fantastic stand-up show. At Brownies, Lucy thought she'd be prepared for anything as long...   Full listing

Gill Sims: Why Mummy Doesn't Give A ****!

• Storytelling
• 15
• 22 Aug 2019

Author of online sensation Peter and Jane, Gill Sims is the number one best-selling author behind Why Mummy Drinks, its...   Full listing

Nigel Ng: Culture Shocked

• Stand-up
• 7.50 - 10
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Nigel Ng (as seen on Comedy Central's Stand Up Central and Roast Battle) brings you on a joyous romp through...   Full listing

Sophie Duker: Venus

• Stand-up
• 7 - 9
• 31 Jul; 1-13 & 15-25 Aug 2019

Sophie Duker is your Venus, she's your fire, your desire. Or is she? Silly, sexy, savage stand-up from a girl...   Full listing

Yuriko Kotani: Somosomo

• Stand-up
• 8.50 - 11
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-26 Aug 2019

They say the squeaky wheel gets the grease, but Yuriko has spent her life making sure she doesn't stick out....   Full listing

Vikki Stone: Song Bird

• Music
• 9.50 - 12.50
• 31 Jul; 1-25 Aug 2019

Multi award-winning comedian and musician Vikki Stone returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with a new show of her trademark comedy...   Full listing

Ivo Graham: The Game of Life

• Stand-up
• 8.50 - 12
• 31 Jul; 1-25 Aug 2019

The time for faff is over: has Big Daddy Graham got the skillz (anecdotes/banter/topical asides) to pay da billz (gas/water/electric)?...   Full listing

Kai Samra: Underclass

• Stand-up
• 10 - 12
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Award-winning stand-up comedian Kai Samra presents his hotly tipped debut hour. Join Kai as he hilariously dissects life as a...   Full listing

Rosie Jones: Backward

• Stand-up
• 7.50 - 10
• 31 Jul; 1-4, 6-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

After a sell-out debut hour Rosie "triple threat" Jones returns to the Fringe with a big question: am I backwards,...   Full listing

Adam Hess: My Grandad Has a Fringe

• Stand-up
• 9.50 - 11.50
• 31 Jul; 1-13 & 15-25 Aug 2019

The star of Tonight At The London Palladium (ITV), Stand Up Central (Comedy Central) and Live From The BBC is...   Full listing

Kelly Convey: Telephone Voice

• Stand-up
• 7.50 - 10
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Kelly Convey 'Chatham girl done good' brings us her debut hour which travels back in time to her errant teenage...   Full listing

Pierre Novellie: You're Expected to Care

• Satire / stand-up
• 9 - 12
• 31 Jul; 1-25 Aug 2019

Existing is exhausting. Endless empathy and engagement is expected of everyone. You've got to be aware of all the complicated,...   Full listing

John Robins: Hot Shame

• Stand-up
• 14 - 15
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Edinburgh Comedy Award winner, digital DJ, vibe-magnet, yells into a well. Join John Robins for his new stand-up show following...   Full listing

Adam Riches: The Beakington Town Hall Murders

• 11 - 14
• 31 Jul; 1-12 & 14-26 Aug 2019

Last night, 10 tortoises were massacred in a tombola-related prank gone wrong. So tonight, all members of the Beakington Council......   Full listing

The Mae Martin Experiment

• Stand-up / improv
• 13
• 3-5 Aug 2019

The star of her own highly-acclaimed Netflix stand-up special and 2017 Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, Mae Martin builds an improvised...   Full listing

Ben Pope: Dancing Bear

• Stand-up / storytelling
• 7 - 10
• 31 Jul; 1-13 & 15-25 Aug 2019

Ben Pope is a 'classy, stylish and accomplished' (Chortle.co.uk) stand-up comedian. But he's also been a ghost-tour guide, teacher and...   Full listing

Pete Firman & The Amazing TBC

• Magic
• 12 - 15.50
• 31 Jul; 1-25 Aug 2019

Come and witness the first and possibly final performance of The World's Greatest Magical Double Act! Award-winning magician/comedian Pete Firman...   Full listing

Phil Wang: Philly Philly Wang Wang

• Stand-up
• 12 - 13
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Following a sell-out 2017 run, Phil 'Philly Philly Wang Wang' Wang is back with a new hour of absolute gold....   Full listing

The Tartan Ribbon Comedy Benefit

• Stand-up
• 12.50
• 13 Aug 2019

The best night of comedy on the Fringe, with all proceeds going to Waverley Care: a charity the Pleasance has...   Full listing

Colin Cloud: Sinful

• Magic
• 15.50 - 17.50
• 31 Jul; 1-12 & 14-25 Aug 2019

Are you an honest person? And did you just lie to yourself? Colin Cloud knows the truth - and the...   Full listing

Chris Washington: Raconteur

• 9 - 11
• 31 Jul; 1-25 Aug 2019

Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee, Chris returns with a brand-new show. If you like your comedy hard-hitting, boundary-pushing, genre-defying,...   Full listing

Darren Harriott: Good Heart Yute

• Stand-up
• 9 - 10.50
• 31 Jul; 1-13 & 15-25 Aug 2019

Best Newcomer Nominee Darren considers himself a good person. Now he's 30 and he's never been in love. It can't...   Full listing

London Hughes: To Catch a D*ck

• Stand-up
• 9 - 11
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

From ITV2's The Stand Up Sketch Show, BBC2's Mock The Week and E4's Celebs Go Dating, join London in her...   Full listing

Huge Davies: The Carpark

• Stand-up / music
• 8.50 - 10
• 31 Jul; 1-13 & 15-25 Aug 2019

From Comedy Central At The Comedy Store. Huge, one the most exciting and unique new acts in the UK, presents...   Full listing

Jake Lambert: Never Mak the Same Mistak Twice

• Stand-up
• 7.50 - 10
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Following on from his sold-out, 'solidly entertaining debut' (Scotsman), Jake Lambert returns with a brand-new show packed full of 'brilliant...   Full listing

Matt Forde: Brexit, Pursued By A Bear

• Satire
• 14
• 31 Jul; 1-25 Aug 2019

Join Britain's leading political comedian as he once again promises his last show as an EU citizen (maybe). Matt Forde...   Full listing

Sunil Patel: White Knight

• Stand-up
• 7.50 - 9.50
• 31 Jul; 1-26 Aug 2019

Fire emoji. Dove emoji. Aubergine emoji. Head exploding emoji. Money emoji. Brown fist emoji. As seen on BBC Two's Big...   Full listing

Sara Barron: Enemies Closer

• Stand-up
• 10 - 12
• 1-12 & 14-25 Aug 2019

2018 Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Newcomer nominee, Sara returns to the Fringe following her five-star debut hour and two sell-out...   Full listing

Suzi Ruffell: Dance Like Everyone's Watching

• Stand-up
• 8.50 - 11
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Suzi has made a name for herself turning tragedy and anxiety into big laughs. This year, she is happy. This...   Full listing

Stephen Buchanan: Baby Dove

• Stand-up
• 8.50 - 10
• 31 Jul; 1-13 & 15-25 Aug 2019

Winner of the prestigious BBC New Comedy Award 2018 and the reigning Scottish Comedian of the Year, Stephen brings his...   Full listing

The Cabinet Of Madame Fanny Du Thé

• Variety
• 10 - 12
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-26 Aug 2019

Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance. Also, some juggling. Reach into Fanny's cabinet for...   Full listing

Titania McGrath: Mxnifesto

• Satire
• 10 - 14
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Titania McGrath is a radical intersectionalist poet committed to feminism, social justice and armed peaceful protest. As a millennial icon on...   Full listing

Micky Overman Presents: Presenting Miss Micky Overman

• 7.50 - 10
• 31 Jul; 1-25 Aug 2019

This brand-spanking-new hour by the 2018 Chortle Best Newcomer nominee finally answers the question no one is dying to have...   Full listing

Alun Cochrane: Brave New Alun

• Stand-up
• 10 - 14
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Strap. The heck. In! No more Mr Nice Person! Alun (The Cockerel*) Cochrane intends to drop truth bombs and articulate...   Full listing

Nina Conti: Work In Progress

• Improv / variety
• 12
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-18 Aug 2019

British Comedy Award winner Nina Conti is boldly experimenting and discovering fresh ideas as she develops her next new show....   Full listing

The Death Hilarious: Razer

• Sketch show / stand-up
• 10 - 12
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Former sketch and character wonk has quit comedy in favour of the lucrative art of spiritualism. You will gasp and...   Full listing

Rose Matafeo: Horndog

• Stand-up
• 14 - 15
• 20-24 Aug 2019

The Edinburgh Comedy Award 2018 Best Show winner returns for one week only. Rose Matafeo has kissed nearly 10 men...   Full listing

Simon Brodkin: 100% Simon Brodkin

• Stand-up
• 12
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-24 Aug 2019

You may know him as 'comedy legend Lee Nelson' (Sun) or 'some unfunny pillock' (Deputy Prime Minister) who gave Theresa...   Full listing

Moon: We Cannot Get Out

• Sketch show
• 7.50 - 10.50
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Two provincial louts perform grotty comedy sketches. There's something wrong with their venue though: it keeps trying to kill them....   Full listing

Jayde Adams: The Ballad of Kylie Jenner's Old Face

• Stand-up
• 12.50 - 13.50
• 31 Jul; 1-25 Aug 2019

In 2019 if you want to be a 'successful independent woman person' you better have something to say and you...   Full listing

Jordan Brookes: I've Got Nothing

• Stand-up
• 9 - 11
• 31 Jul; 1-12 & 14-25 Aug 2019

No tricks. No gimmicks. No plan. Just an hour in my company as we reach the end. Things will be...   Full listing

Schalk Bezuidenhout: South African White Boy

• Stand-up
• 8.50 - 10.50
• 31 Jul; 1-26 Aug 2019

Two-time SA Comic's Choice Award winner, South African comedian Schalk Bezuidenhout is back in the UK with his Edinburgh debut....   Full listing

The Brand-New, Full-Throated Adventures of Reginald D Hunter

• Stand-up
• 15.50 - 17
• 31 Jul; 1-4, 6-12, 14-18 & 20-25 Aug 2019

Reginald D Hunter returns to the Fringe with his highly anticipated new show. For over 20 years his searingly honest...   Full listing

Alice Snedden: Absolute Monster

• Stand-up
• 8 - 10
• 31 Jul; 1-13 & 15-25 Aug 2019

Who are we? What are we doing here? Do you like me? And what are you saying behind my back?...   Full listing

Ciarán Dowd: Padre Rodolfo

• Character
• 9 - 12
• 31 Jul; 1-13 & 15-25 Aug 2019

World-famous lothario, swordsman and butthead Rodolfo is back! Following an unspeakable tragedy he turns his back on his lifestyle -...   Full listing

Ed Night: Jokes of Love and Hate

• Stand-up
• 9 - 12
• 31 Jul; 1-25 Aug 2019

'His stand-up is some of the cleverest, funniest and most unassuming comedy I've encountered' ***** (AYoungerTheatre.com). 'There can't be many...   Full listing

Ray Badran: Everybody Loves Ray, Man

• Stand-up
• 7 - 9
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Australian comedian Ray Badran recently moved to the UK and is performing his debut Fringe show. A show about the...   Full listing

Marcel Lucont: No. Dix

• Cabaret
• 11 - 14
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

The Fringe's favourite Frenchman returns for his tenth year with an exquisite new show and a live band to abuse....   Full listing

Chortle Student Comedy Award Final

• Stand-up
• 12
• 12 Aug 2019

Hundreds entered, only a handful survive - now one will be crowned Britain's Funniest Student 2019. We've scoured the UK's...   Full listing

Andrew Doyle: Exodus

• Stand-up
• 10 - 14
• 19-25 Aug 2019

One of the UK's foremost political satirists, Andrew Doyle returns to Edinburgh for his eighth solo stand-up show. He is...   Full listing

An Audience with Yasmine Day

• Cabaret
• 7.50 - 9.50
• 31 Jul; 1-12, 14-19 & 21-25 Aug 2019

Failed 80s diva and Dorking's most successful pub singer Yasmine Day boldly attempts to revive her flagging career with a...   Full listing

Aaron Chen: Piss Off (Just Kidding)

• Stand-up
• 8.50 - 10.50
• 31 Jul; 1-12 & 14-25 Aug 2019

Winner: Best Newcomer 2017, Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Winner: Best Newcomer 2017, Sydney Comedy Festival Winner. Directors' Choice 2016, Melbourne...   Full listing

Catherine Cohen: The Twist...? She's Gorgeous

• Cabaret / music
• 12 - 13
• 31 Jul; 1-6, 8-11, 14-18 & 20-25 Aug 2019

A show about living, laughing, loving and losing your debit card five times in one year. Through original songs and...   Full listing

Jamie Loftus: Boss, Whom Is Girl

• Stand-up
• 10 - 11
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-26 Aug 2019

Learn how to empower yourself by participating in capitalism in this fabulous keynote speech from Silicon Valley girlboss and founder...   Full listing

Boar

• Play
• 9 - 11
• 31 Jul; 1-11, 13-18 & 20-25 Aug 2019

Welcome to the Kingdom of Skadi. A place of adventure, a distant land where pirates, bounty hunters and thieves do...   Full listing

Tarot

• Sketch show
• 8 - 10
• 31 Jul; 1-25 Aug 2019

The twisted minds of Gein's Family Giftshop ('Brilliant' (Reece Shearsmith)) and sweaty bodies of Goose ('Brilliant' (Guardian)) combine to bring...   Full listing

The Noise Next Door's Comedy Lock-In

• Improv
• 12 - 14
• 31 Jul; 1-13 & 15-25 Aug 2019

The eleven-time sell-out sensation returns for an evening of improvised anarchy with the biggest names in comedy. See your favourite...   Full listing

Tim Key: Work In Progress

• 8.50 - 11.50
• 14-25 Aug 2019

A work-in-progress show from Tim Key.   Full listing

AAA Stand-Up Late

• Stand-up
• 9 - 12
• 31 Jul; 1-26 Aug 2019

Total sell-out 2010-2018 returns with a brand-new line-up. 'Comedy the way it should be: laugh-a-minute, leaving the audience wishing the...   Full listing

Berk's Nest Mid-Fest Comedy Special

• 15
• 13 Aug 2019

Complete sell-out 2017 and 2018. A spectacular night of comedy celebrating the middle of the festival from award-winning production company...   Full listing

Don't Be Terrible

• Stand-up
• 9 - 11
• 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-26 Aug 2019

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, how to make...   Full listing

Snort

• Improv
• 10 - 12
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

New Zealand's favourite comedy improv show Snort makes its way to Edinburgh for the first time! Cheeky, topical, and relentlessly...   Full listing

Mark Watson: The Infinite Show

• Stand-up
• 16
• 9-10 & 23-24 Aug 2019

Cluster-bombed with yoghurt on Taskmaster, half-killed by Bear Grylls on Celebrity Island, scrawny Fringe legend Watson returns with his show...   Full listing

Pleasance Newcomer Comedy Gala

• Stand-up
• Free
• 3 Aug 2019

A one-off comedy extravaganza! For the past 35 years, the Pleasance has been the home of new comedy talent in...   Full listing

Fern Brady: Power and Chaos

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

As seen on Live from the BBC, Live from the Comedy Store, The Russell Howard Hour and Live at the...   Full listing

Amusical

• Music / stand-up
• 15
• 21 Aug 2019

Hosted by Jayde Adams and Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Amusical is a comedy celebration of all things West End (or Broadway if...   Full listing