Venue 5: The Stand Comedy Club

- 5 York Place, EH1 3EB
- 0131 558 9005
- www.thestand.co.uk
- www.edfringe.com
Details
Stand 1 on York Place is the home of The Stand clubs. Stand 2 (also listed as Venue 5b) is at 16 North Street, EH2 1HJ.
Shows at this venue
Alex Love: How to Win a Pub Quiz - British Edition
- Game show
- 10
- 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019
This starts off as stand-up, then becomes a pub quiz. Get into teams and compete for prizes. Theme: Britain, covering... Full listing
Michael Legge: The Idiot
- Stand-up
- 12
- 1-11 & 13-26 Aug 2019
'The angriest man in UK comedy is back at the Fringe for another hour of spleen-venting, more misanthropic, bitter and... Full listing
Paul F Taylor: Odd Paul
- Stand-up
- 10
- 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019
Disappear down the rabbit hole of a fool's mind. Marvel at imaginative, logic-defying, left-field ideas spoken from an award-winning comedians... Full listing
Mark Watson: I Appreciate You Coming to This and Let's Hope for the Best (Work in Progress)
- Stand-up
- 12
- 13-25 Aug 2019
Watson presents a show that's no more than 50% ready for public consumption and hopes for the festival's legendary supportive... Full listing
Shappi Khorsandi: Skittish Warrior... Confessions of a Club Comic
- Stand-up
- 12
- 4-10 Aug 2019
Comedian, author and, most recently, idiot who agreed to be tortured on I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!,... Full listing
In Conversation with Standard Issue
- Chat show
- 10
- 11 & 12 Aug 2019
Standard Issue, the podcast founded by Sarah Millican, returns to Edinburgh for a fourth year. Made by women, for women,... Full listing
I Want an Irish Passport
- Stand-up
- 10
- 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019
Everyone wants an Irish passport but what does being Irish really mean? Is there more than just drinking and the... Full listing
Simon Munnery: Alan Parker Urban Warrior Farewell Tour
- Stand-up / satire
- 12
- 1-11 & 13-26 Aug 2019
Once the most radical, now the only radical. The bedsit anarchist returns with the old gold, the old truths and... Full listing
Marjolein Robertson: Da Shetland Spree
- Stand-up
- 9
- 31 Jul; 2-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019
Shetland comedian Marjolein, as seen on BBC, wants to transport you to her home with tales and truths of what... Full listing
Daniel Kitson: Everything Smells Of Orange
- Stand-up
- 5
- 5, 7-12, 14-19 & 21-25 Aug 2019
Daniel Kitson, having not made anything unequivocally good for years and years and years, now displays a charmless lack of... Full listing
Orlando Baxter: Finding Mariah
- Stand-up
- 10
- 1-11 & 13-24 Aug 2019
Orlando Baxter explores the struggles of trying to reconnect with an absentee parent and the conversation that led to him... Full listing
The Fanny's
- Stand-up
- 9
- 2-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019
Everything else may have dried up but not their wit! The grande dames of Scottish comedy triumphantly return at a... Full listing
Carl Hutchinson: I Know I Shouldn't Behave Like This...
- Stand-up
- 12
- 2-11 & 13-24 Aug 2019
As seen on Comedy Central's Stand Up Central and The Chris Ramsey Show. Following a sold-out 100+ date 2018/19 tour,... Full listing
Gavin Webster: Buddhism and Other Such Rubbish
- Stand-up
- 10
- 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019
Buddhism? Absolute nonsense! I'm appalled about it or something. Mental health?! We didn't have mental health 40 years ago and... Full listing
Josie Long: Tender
- Stand-up
- 12
- 1-11, 13-18 & 20-25 Aug 2019
Three-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and very hard to pin down indie-underdog-nightmare Josie Long is back with a new show... Full listing
Steve N Allen: Better Than
- Stand-up
- 9
- 2-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019
In a time when you can't do right for doing wrong, Steve N Allen (as seen on BBC Two's The... Full listing
Funny for a Girl
- Stand-up
- 12
- 2-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019
We've selected the funniest women we could find at the Fringe and brought them together for an evening of comedy... Full listing
Cülture Elité
- Stand-up
- 10
- 1-11, 13-18 & 20-25 Aug 2019
The show Cülture Elité (written Kültür Èlité) is a comedy show about elitism, art, culture and the silly world of... Full listing
An Evening with Savvy B
- Stand-up
- 9
- 2-3, 5, 12 & 19 Aug 2019
Hannah Walker and her alter ego, Savvy B, take a comic look at who we become when we drink and... Full listing
Alex Love: How to Win a Pub Quiz - Late-Night Edition
- Game show
- 11
- 4-8 & 11-12 Aug 2019
This is part stand-up, part actual pub quiz. Now in a late-night setting. The theme: the 2000s. The audience get... Full listing
Political Animal
- Satire
- 12
- 13-15, 18-22 & 25 Aug 2019
Legendary late-night political stand-up showcase returns to butter the 2019 world's infinite supply of stroppy hot potatoes. Hosted by [l]The... Full listing
The Stand Late Club
- Stand-up
- 15
- 2-3, 9-10, 16-17 & 23-24 Aug 2019
'This is late-night comedy at its finest' **** (BroadwayBaby.com). Late-night comedy at its best. Eight superb showcases from Scotland's favourite... Full listing