Sunshine

• Play / clown
• 9 - 10
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Don't forget to bring a towel! Award-winning Children's Theatre Company Stickyback present a 5 star comedy for all the family....   Full listing

Dream Machine

• Play
• 10 - 11
• 12-18 Aug 2019

This year's hottest product has just hit the city. Slap this little device on your forehead and the Dream Machine...   Full listing

Harry Baker: I Am 10,000

• Stand-up / poetry
• 10 - 11
• 1-24 Aug 2019

Mathematician-turned-World-Slam-Champion Harry Baker turns 10, 000 days old, celebrating numbers, words and life itself. From winning his school's Battle of...   Full listing

Fix Us

• Play
• 10 - 11
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

'Be strong. Keep your head up. Knock 'em dead.' Lee has autism, Zara has CHARGE syndrome and Kirsty has Cerebral...   Full listing

Final Cut

• Multimedia / character
• 9 - 10
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Sir Trevor Brierly - writer, director, occasional cat-sitter - was many things to many people. To his colleagues Michaelmas Crouch...   Full listing

F. Off

• Play
• 11 - 12
• 2-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

F. Off. As the extremes of social media kick up an unsettling and unsavoury stink, Evening Standard 'One to Watch'...   Full listing

Obsolete

• Multimedia / sketch show
• 10 - 11
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

After Fringe hit Speechless, Cambridge Footlights Comrie and Dan present the hyperkinetic, garish and gothic Obsolete: a sinister tech company...   Full listing

Art Heist

• Play
• 11 - 12
• 1-13 & 15-25 Aug 2019

Three thieves break into the same gallery on the same night. They're all intent on stealing the same extremely valuable...   Full listing

Before 30

• Play
• 10 - 11
• 1-12 & 14-25 Aug 2019

Before 30 follows Chris, a Deliveroo driver trying to make his way in the world. His previous struggles with depression...   Full listing

Monsoon Season

• Play
• 10 - 11
• 1-11, 13-18 & 20-25 Aug 2019

A brutally demented romantic comedy. It's monsoon season in Phoenix, and recently separated couple Danny and Julia are spiralling into...   Full listing

Do Our Best

• Play
• 10 - 11
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Self-obsessed Sephie finds herself back in the sanctuary of the Girl Guides following the death of her Mother. In a...   Full listing

The Wrong Ffion Jones

• Play
• 10 - 11
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Once famed for coal, copper and steel production, Wales's industry has now ground to a halt. All that's left to...   Full listing

Unexpected Item in the Bagging Area

• Music / play
• 10 - 11
• 1-12 & 14-25 Aug 2019

Grab your Bag for Life, stick your pound-shaped keyrings into the trolley and step inside The Supermarket for a freshly...   Full listing

The Durham Revue: Unnatural Disaster

• Sketch show
• 9.50 - 10.50
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

New year. New troupe. 100% new material. The apocalypse was originally planned for 2012, but clashed with the Olympics, and...   Full listing

Ticker

• Play
• 10 - 12
• 1-12 & 14-25 Aug 2019

Ticker follows twenty-something Spencer, a Geordie millennial who is deeply in love with the inestimable Gabi. But Spencer's life is...   Full listing

Roisin Crowley Linton: Teenage Kicks

• Poetry / storytelling
• 9 - 10
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Stamptown Newcomer Award winner 2018, Roisin Crowley Linton returns to Edinburgh with her signature blend of achingly honest poetry, side-splitting...   Full listing

AJ Holmes: Yeah, But Not Right Now

• Music / storytelling
• 9 - 10
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Award-winning actor, writer and composer AJ Holmes makes his Edinburgh debut with an hour of stand-up, storytelling, and songs! Known...   Full listing

Lucy Farrett: Lois

• 10 - 11
• 1-12 & 14-25 Aug 2019

Lucy Farrett is Lois: your new favourite action hero. She fights the man, steals from the rich and eats punks...   Full listing

Four Woke Baes

• Play
• 11.50 - 12.50
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Multi award-winning US playwright Jonathan Caren's razor-sharp dark comedy follows four friends on a river-rafting stag party that's turned upside...   Full listing

James Barr: Thirst Trap

• Stand-up
• 9 - 10
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

James Barr, as seen asking Justin Bieber about his penis (MTV, host of award-winning comedy podcast [i]A Gay and A...   Full listing

Superstar

• Storytelling
• 10 - 11
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

From a very young age, Nicola has been determined to prove to her four older siblings, and the world, that...   Full listing

Electric

• Play
• 9 - 10
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Baby wipes, glitter and cans at the ready, Joni and Scarlett head off on their respective weekends. From two sides...   Full listing

Crystal Rasmussen presents The Bible 2 (Plus a Cure for Shame, Violence, Betrayal and Athlete's Foot) Live!

• Cabaret
• 10 - 11.50
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

After a swift rise to fame with her Nobel-nominated book Diary of a Drag Queen, DENIM's Crystal is back. Bringing...   Full listing

AAA Stand-Up at Underbelly

• Stand-up
• 10 - 12
• 1-26 Aug 2019

Total sell-out 2005-2018 returns with a brand-new line-up. 'Comedy the way it should be: laugh-a-minute, leaving the audience wishing the...   Full listing

Gobby

• Play
• 10 - 11
• 1-15 Aug 2019

Bri is not who she used to be, so she's revisiting the five parties that changed her. Gobby is a...   Full listing

Harry and Chris: This One's for the Aliens

• Music
• 10 - 12
• 1-24 Aug 2019

Harry and Chris (Guardian Pick of the Fringe 2018) are at the top of their field, having invented the field...   Full listing

Bismillah! An ISIS Tragicomedy

• Play / satire
• 10 - 11
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Radicalisation, disenfranchisement and the rock band Queen. Dean joined the army, 'Danny' joined ISIS. One's from London; the other, Leeds....   Full listing

Business Casual

• Sketch show
• 9.50 - 10.50
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Winner: Stamptown Newcomer Award, 2019. Fresh off the grill, Oscar-winning comedy group Business Casual brings their debut show to the...   Full listing

Paul Foot: Baby Strikes Back!

• Stand-up
• 10.50 - 12.50
• 1-12 & 14-25 Aug 2019

Paul, now a fully-disqualified swan psychologist, delves deeper to discover the origins of the gay sperms and once again unleashes...   Full listing

Paul McCaffrey: Lemon

• Stand-up
• 10 - 11
• 1-22 & 24-25 Aug 2019

In the last couple of years, Paul McCaffrey has performed to over half a million people while supporting his comedy...   Full listing

Hotter

• 9 - 10
• 12-25 Aug 2019

Hello, we're Ell and Mary. We're best friends and ex-girlfriends and we're bored of playing it cool. So this is...   Full listing

Garry Starr Conquers Troy

• Sketch show
• 11.50 - 12.50
• 1-11, 13-18 & 20-25 Aug 2019

Having single-handedly saved the performing arts in 2018 with his multi award-winning debut solo show, comic wunderkind Garry Starr delivers...   Full listing

Son of Dyke

• Storytelling
• 9 - 10
• 1-11 Aug 2019

Following a sell-out, five-star run at Vault Festival in London, ]f]Son of Dyke[/f] is the hilarious true story of a...   Full listing

Viggo the Viking

• Clown
• 10 - 11
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Best Comedy winner, Brighton Fringe 2016 (Zach & Viggo). Best Comedy nominee, Fringe World 2018 (Pepito). From the deep forests...   Full listing

Tony Cantwell: Live Feed

• Stand-up / sketch show
• 9.50 - 10.50
• 2-25 Aug 2019

Tony Cantwell's live feed: a heart-pounding night of incognito browsing. Join comedian Tony Cantwell for a brand-new night of live...   Full listing

Double Denim: Adventure Show

• Sketch show / clown
• 10 - 11
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Part safari party. Part murder mystery. All denim. Michelle Brasier and Laura Frew bring you part two of the [f]Double...   Full listing

Sex Shells

• Cabaret / sketch show
• 10 - 11
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Fresh from their sell-out Soho Theatre run, London's campest musical sketch comedy threesome is here to flame on your parade!...   Full listing

Jack Tucker: Comedy Stand-up Hour

• Stand-up
• 10 - 11
• 1-13 & 15-25 Aug 2019

Following sell-out shows in New York, London and LA, award-winning comedian Zach Zucker returns with a new hour of absurdist...   Full listing

Kevin Quantum: And for My Next Trick 2

• Magic
• 11 - 12
• 1-19 & 21-25 Aug 2019

Sell-outs in 2017/18. Best Magic winner at Adelaide Fringe. Kevin Quantum reactivates his silly side; returning with more magic, reimagined...   Full listing

Two Hearts: The Comeback Tour

• Music / satire
• 10 - 11
• 2-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Last year... they came to Edinburgh. This year... they've come back. It's a comeback. NZ's most bombastic musical comedy duo...   Full listing

Courtney Pauroso: Gutterplum

• Clown
• 11 - 12
• 1-12 & 14-25 Aug 2019

Developed with Dr Brown and from the producers of the smash-hit award-winning shows Nate and Laid. American comedian Courtney Pauroso...   Full listing

Karam Deo: Table For One

• Music
• 9 - 10
• 1-15 Aug 2019

If you've been unlucky in love, nothing makes you feel better about yourself than laughing at someone else. Enter Karam...   Full listing

Totally Plucked

• Clown
• 9 - 10
• 16-25 Aug 2019

Hello sweetie! Get ready for a new sense of comedy and performance which, together, produce a raw and physically engaging...   Full listing

Best Of Musical Comedy Awards

• Music
• 11
• 24 & 25 Aug 2019

Join us for a riotous celebration of the Fringe's best musical comedians! Since 2009, the MCAs have helped to launch...   Full listing

Danny O'Brien: Reformer

• 9.50 - 10.50
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

What happens when a touring stand-up comedian can no longer stand up? A food-obsessing cheese lover tries veganism for a...   Full listing

Found Footage Festival: Volume 9

• Multimedia
• 10 - 11
• 15-24 Aug 2019

Joe Pickett (Onion) and Nick Prueher (Colbert Report) are back in Edinburgh for 10 nights only with an all-new guided...   Full listing

Lovecraft (Not the Sex Shop in Cardiff)

• Cabaret
• 11.50 - 12.50
• 13-18 & 20-25 Aug 2019

An award-winning, one-woman science comedy-musical about the neuroscience of love and loneliness. Combining heartfelt tales of relationship highs, lows and...   Full listing

Karaoke Saved My Life

• Music
• 10 - 11
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

Scotty D, a city boy born and raised in South Detroit, will take you on a journey, showing how karaoke...   Full listing

Julia Rorke

• Character
• 10 - 11
• 1-12 & 14-24 Aug 2019

Jeneane Morris is here to tell you some shit about life: buckle up. Strap in. Get over it. Bring the...   Full listing

Anxiety Club

• Improv
• 9 - 10
• 16-20 Aug 2019

Hilarious. Mind-blowing. Sassy AF. Welcome to Anxiety Club. Majestic gazelles of improvised comedy - Briony Redman (The Free Association), Charlotte...   Full listing

Jonny's Panel Show (Really Good)

• Variety / panel show
• 10
• 11 & 18 Aug 2019

After directing ungrateful clown duo Zach & Viggo, starring in an award-winning funk opera with Thumpasaurus, and touring the world...   Full listing

Spank!

• Variety
• 15.50 - 16.50
• 2-25 Aug 2019

Spank! returns for an incredible 16th year with hilarious hosts, awesome comedians and gratuitous nudity. Showcasing the most exciting comedy...   Full listing

Stamptown Comedy Night

• Absurdist / variety
• 10
• 8, 15 & 22 Aug 2019

Sold-out run: Melbourne International Comedy Festival (2019). Sold-out run: Edinburgh Fringe (2018). A raunchy, chaotic, and full-on trainwreck, [f]Stamptown Comedy...   Full listing

Zach & Viggo: Thunderflop

• Clown / absurdist
• 10
• 9-10, 16-17 & 23 Aug 2019

Winner: Best Comedy at Adelaide Fringe Weekly Award (2017). Winner: Best Comedy at Brighton Fringe (2016). Following three international tours...   Full listing