Venue 61: Underbelly, Cowgate

- 66 Cowgate (entrances on Cowgate and Victoria Street), EH1 1JX
- 0844 545 8252
- www.underbelly.co.uk
- www.edfringe.com
Shows at this venue
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[/l] 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 [l]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, [l]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