101 Comedy Club - Free

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

'Funny. Fast. Free' **** (ThreeWeeks). Each show sees four experienced acts performing. All our comedians have been hand-picked from an...   Full listing

3's Comedy - Adam Knox, Luka Muller and Peter Jones

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

3's Comedy brings together Adam Knox, Luka Muller and Peter Jones, three of the rising stars of Australian comedy for...   Full listing

99 (First World) Problems feat Andy Quirk and Anna J

• Music
• Free
• 31 Jul; 1-5, 7-12, 14-19 & 21-25 Aug 2019

Andy Quirk, the UK's premier rapper of first world problems and his surly lead backup dancer Anna J invite you...   Full listing

99 Club Stand-Up Selection - Free

• Stand-up
• Free
• 31 Jul; 1-25 Aug 2019

Proudly supporting the Free Festival with a selection of four different comics daily. The 99 Club has been awarded Best...   Full listing

A Booklover's Comedy Show

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

***** (Dircksey.com.au). ****½ (FourthWallMedia.Wordpress.com). After a sell-out run in 2018, the book-themed comedy compilation hit is back! If you've ever...   Full listing

A Jewish Sexagenarian and a Liverpudlian Plumber Walk Into a Bar

• Stand-up / music
• Free
• 1-4 Aug 2019

Henry Churniavsky (2019 Not So New Comedian of the Year semi-finalist) is a grumpy Jewish sexagenarian who's just got through...   Full listing

A Many Splendored Thing

• Music / improv
• Free
• 1-2, 5, 8-9, 12, 15-16, 19 & 22-23 Aug 2019

A musical journey through the hilarious foibles and pain that come with having a heart in this modern world. I...   Full listing

A Night Of Wikipedilove

• Music
• Free
• 1-11, 13-18 & 20-25 Aug 2019

This show is a unique musical comedy where one-person-band Noam Osband sings original music about sex and love based on...   Full listing

A&E

• Stand-up
• Free
• 17-25 Aug 2019

During his already very busy schedule, life threw a heart attack at Aled which he found to be most inconvenient....   Full listing

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, It's The One-liner Show

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Enjoy an hour of the best up-and-coming one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay....   Full listing

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, It's 101 Clean Jokes In 30 Minutes

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Award-winning gag merchant and UK Pun Champion 2016, Masai Graham, delivers over 100 clean jokes in just half an hour....   Full listing

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrgh, It's 101 Naughty Jokes In 30 Minutes

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Award-winning gag merchant and UK Pun Champion 2016, Masai Graham, delivers over 100 naughty jokes in just half an hour....   Full listing

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh, It's The Monster Stand-up Show!

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase, including your award-winning host...   Full listing

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrghhh! It's The Increasingly Prestigious Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards Show - And It's Free!

• Absurdist / variety
• Free
• 23 Aug 2019

It's the annual two-hour charity variety show filled with bizarre acts and very alternative comedy which includes the presentation of...   Full listing

Aaaaaaaaand Now! The Ed Factor: An Edinburgh Gong Show

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Seven comedians: you, the audience, decide their fate. Who goes? Who lasts the full five minutes? You decide! Just like...   Full listing

Aaron Twitchen: Can't Stop A Rainbow...

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-24 Aug 2019

Sun, sea and stand-up. A comedy holiday special about friendship, love and wine from Aaron Twitchen. Never let anyone try...   Full listing

About Comedy: Stand-Up Comedy Courses

• Workshop / stand-up
• 99
• 3, 6, 10, 13, 17, 20 & 24 Aug 2019

Learn the skills and art of stand-up comedy performance on this two-day intensive comedy training course. With 20+ years of...   Full listing

About Time / Bully

• Stand-up / storytelling
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

A split bill comedy show featuring Thanyia Moore (Funny Women Award winner 2018) and Sian Davies (Hilarity Bites New Act...   Full listing

Absolute Zero: Jez Watts

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-4, 6-11, 13-18 & 20-25 Aug 2019

Fun, charming and playfully dirty, Australian comedian Jez Watts has performed with/supported Ari Shaffir, Brian Posehn, Duncan Trussell and The...   Full listing

AC/DC: Australian Comedians / Dope Comedy

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

That's not an Australian comedy show, this is an Australian comedy show! A sell-out hit at Edinburgh Fringe 2018 and...   Full listing

Acting Natural

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

George has taken acting classes for years. It hasn't resulted in him being a world renowned actor but it has...   Full listing

Adrian Tauss and Sasha Ellen: Get a Room

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-13 & 15-25 Aug 2019

Adrian Tauss and Sasha Ellen are stand-ups who have been inappropriately funny in public and have been told to get...   Full listing

Ahab; Or What If Moby Dick Were Stand-up Comedy

• Stand-up / storytelling
• Free
• 1-12, 14-19 & 21-25 Aug 2019

Moby Dick: a book, a play, an episode of Star Trek, 12 movies and a fish. Now, it's been adapted...   Full listing

Aidan 'Taco' Jones - 52 Days

• Stand-up / storytelling
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

In 2012 I wrote a diary on a deck of playing cards, one for each week. Pick them out and...   Full listing

Aidan 'Taco' Jones - Lightfoot James

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

For most of 2017 I received taunting messages from a fake Facebook account. Lightfoot James made veiled threats about my...   Full listing

Alcohol Is Good For You - Sam Kissajukian

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-5, 7-12, 14-19 & 21-25 Aug 2019

Nominated for Best Comedy at Fringe World 2016 and sold out all 23 Edinburgh shows in 2016-18. Sam (Australia) has...   Full listing

Alex Farrow: Philosophy A-level

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

A stand-up comedy show about education, religion and modern Britain told through the stories of teaching philosophy to teenagers. 'Honest...   Full listing

All Aboard!

• Cabaret / music
• Free
• 1-5, 7-12, 14-19 & 21-25 Aug 2019

Possibly the best musical comedy show with live piano and a Romanian performer! It is a 50-minute journey through life....   Full listing

All Together Irish

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Following last year's sell-out run, All Together Irish returns with a daily selection of Ireland's top comics plus guests from...   Full listing

All-Star Comedy Cabaret

• Variety
• Free
• 2-6, 8-13, 15-20 & 22-24 Aug 2019

A spectacular mixed bill variety show bursting with the best stand-ups, character comedians, musical acts and the most original performers...   Full listing

Amy Howerska: Serious Face

• Satire / clown
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Non TV-famous, non award-winning comic Amy Howerska returns because she's not yet learnt her lesson. Through a series of errors...   Full listing

An Excellent Cleanser of the Liver - Free

• Sketch show
• Free
• 11-18 Aug 2019

Behold, beware, behave! A brand-new sketch show from some comedians you don't know! Join the Sheffield Revue in an adventure...   Full listing

Andrew Frank: Cognitive Goof

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Andrew Frank: Cognitive Goof is an hour of stand-up comedy exploring the hilarity and profundity of perception, belief, identity, time...   Full listing

Andrew Roper - Break Point

• Stand-up / storytelling
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Sun, surf, skydiving and stand-up. What happens when you take a comedian from a London winter into an Aussie summer?...   Full listing

Andrew Silverwood: Call Me Janice

• Storytelling / stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

'If you put me in your show, change my name. Call me Janice.' 'I can't do that.' 'Why not?' 'Because...   Full listing

Anesti Danelis: Six Frets Under

• Music
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

'Brilliant blend of sharp wit, optimism and perfectly dark humour' ***** (EdFestMag.com). Anesti Danelis returns with a new hour of...   Full listing

Angel Comedy Showcase

• Stand-up
• Free
• 3-12 & 14-24 Aug 2019

Award-winning Angel Comedy (Best Venue in the UK 2015, 2017 Chortle Awards) brings a whole new showcase of acts to...   Full listing

Angry Boater

• Storytelling
• Free
• 1-6, 8-13, 15-20 & 22-25 Aug 2019

Comedy the way you like it... up the canal. Now in its fifth year, Joel Sanders returns in his glorious...   Full listing

Angus Dunican: Nice Bit of Kit

• Stand-up / storytelling
• Free
• 1-15 & 17-25 Aug 2019

A while back, things became too awful for Angus to cope with. So he got a massive dog, took up...   Full listing

Ashley Haden: F*ck You, and F*ck Your beliefs

• Satire
• Free
• 1-12 & 14-25 Aug 2019

Are we good people or just arseholes who are good at lying to ourselves? Ashley Haden once again looks to...   Full listing

Ashley Storrie: Hysterical

• Stand-up / storytelling
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Star of BBC Scotland's Up For It! and BBC Radio Scotland, Ashley Storrie returns to the Fringe with a raw...   Full listing

Attention, Seeker

• Storytelling / stand-up
• Free
• 19-25 Aug 2019

The anxiety-riddled writer/doormat for a famous comedian stumbles into the big-time stand-up spotlight and decides to stay, with hilarious conseq......   Full listing

Aussiental

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-5, 7-12, 14-19 & 21-25 Aug 2019

Laugh Mob presents Arnie Pie's new stand-up comedy show; Aussiental. A show about how conflicting it was growing up in...   Full listing

Babes / Pigs In The City

• Stand-up
• Free
• 15-16, 19 & 22-23 Aug 2019

What happens when one small-town bumpkin and one Third World brat try to spread their wings and become two cosmopolitan,...   Full listing

Bad Boys

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Jamie 'an engaging presence' D'Souza and Chelsea 'good gags' Birkby (Chortle.co.uk) are two of the baddest boys to come out...   Full listing

Barely There

• Stand-up / storytelling
• Free
• 3-25 Aug 2019

Join Mary O'Connell and Patrick Healy for an hour of laughs and insights into their underwhelming lives. Mary's still angry...   Full listing

Battle Of The Superheroes: The Great Superhero Debate

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-13 Aug 2019

Many comedians converge in a mixture of stand-up comedy, improvisation, interactive debate and Q&A to find out who is the...   Full listing

BattleActs!

• Improv / sketch show
• Free
• 2-4, 6-11, 13-18 & 20-25 Aug 2019

Winners: People's Choice Award, Vault Festival. As heard on BBC Radio 1. A ball-busting compere takes four improvisers to their...   Full listing

BBC: British-Born Chinese

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

BBC is the debut show from British-born Chinese comedian Matthew Fong. His politically incorrect view on love, life and growing...   Full listing

Ben Gosling: Jobs (with Special Guests)

• Stand-up
• Free
• 2-12 & 14-25 Aug 2019

A character comedy show from a comedian with real character. Each day will feature a different special guest act opening,...   Full listing

Ben Van der Velde - Fablemaker

• Improv / stand-up
• Free
• 1-13 & 15-25 Aug 2019

An improvised comedy adventure with this 'master of audience interaction' (Huffington Post) as he raids the library of his fantastical...   Full listing

Best in Class

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Showcasing underrepresented working-class comedy voices. Sponsored by Spam, chippy teas, waste grounds, hanging around, knock-off trainers, a fella your dad...   Full listing

Bitch and Nerd

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

One is a bitch. The other is a nerd. Join Emily Woods (as seen on Shaw TV, Max Turner Award...   Full listing

Black Sheep

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

You normal? Acting strange? Mags, in her 50s, Eddie in his 20s, are both black sheep. Eddie is trying to...   Full listing

Bloom

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-4, 6-11, 13-18 & 20-25 Aug 2019

Funny Women finalist, Broadchurch actor and Most Promising Junior 1998* Becky, accidentally got gay married and now the biological clock...   Full listing

Board Game Smackdown

• Game show / improv
• Free
• 1-13, 15-20 & 22-25 Aug 2019

The cult hit of 2018 is back! The funniest Fringe performers play board/card/party games live on stage. Hosted by award-winning...   Full listing

Bollywood and Birmingham to Berlin and Brexit

• Storytelling / stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Growing up, I was too brown for white kids and the wrong kind of brown for brown kids. That's when...   Full listing

Borne of Chaos

• Storytelling
• Free
• 2-25 Aug 2019

From the tomb of the womb to the womb of the tomb. From homeless to Hollywood. This is an honest...   Full listing

Broken Toys

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Comedians are, like, soooo the broken, unused toys in a toy box and we've been, like, really trying to use...   Full listing

Brown Panther - Ruven Govender

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-5, 7-12, 14-19 & 21-25 Aug 2019

Join one of the funniest Indian comedians in Australia for an hour of ethnic-based comedy. Following the success of last...   Full listing

Bumble Me Tinders - Dating Horror Stories

• Storytelling
• PWYW
• 1-5, 7-12, 14-19 & 21-25 Aug 2019

Hosted by comedian Patrick Melton (USA) and featuring a new line-up of hilarious comedian eye candy each show. Comics share...   Full listing

Calum Ross Presents Ross: After The Screaming Stops

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

As a teenager, Calum asked a famous comedian how to get into comedy. That comedian told him to not bother....   Full listing

Can You Throw This In The Bin For Me?

• Stand-up
• Free
• 4-8, 11-15 & 18-22 Aug 2019

An English lawyer, a German IT guy, and an Israeli TV writer throw away their life to entertain you. The...   Full listing

Canadian Club

• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Canadian Club is a stand-up comedy show produced by one of the most Canadian people in the world, Brad Bryans....   Full listing

Caroline Mabey - Hair Of The Dog

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

Caroline Mabey's husband/boyfriend/partner (whatever!) just quit his accounting job to train as a dog groomer. Time for a life audit....   Full listing

Caspian and Ciaran: The Milkmen

• Stand-up / storytelling
• Free
• 2-25 Aug 2019

Ciaran loves milking. He milks his friends, acquaintances, family members and passing strangers for anecdotes: from Müller Corner focus groups...   Full listing

Catching Up

• Stand-up
• Free
• 2-14 & 16-25 Aug 2019

Fresh from the Oxford Revue, Elaine ('effortless and off the cuff' (Cherwell)) and Olley ('fabulously funny lyrics' (OxfordOpeningNight.com)) present an...   Full listing

Cerys Nelmes' 80s Gameshow Mash-Up

• Game show
• Free
• 19-25 Aug 2019

Join Cotswold comedian Cerys Nelmes on her return to the Fringe with her brand-new show! She brings a jam-packed hour...   Full listing

Character Building Experience

• Game show
• Free
• 1-13 & 15-25 Aug 2019

You enter a tavern. You see a group of comedian questers. What do you do? A Dungeons-and-Dragons-style, interactive, role-playing game...   Full listing

Charmian Hughes: What-not

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

Charmian self-identifies as a what-not, the word for people who don't have a word. Also as an extremely funny comedian...   Full listing

Chris Mcglade: Forgiveness

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Following the murder of his father, hard hitting and critically acclaimed northern comedian Chris McGlade is attempting to lay to...   Full listing

Circus Sonas Presents: DTCB The Prison Years

• Clown / cabaret
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

What happens when two circus performers are sent to prison? They come up with a new Fringe show of course....   Full listing

Claptrap

• Stand-up / storytelling
• Free
• 1-12 & 15-25 Aug 2019

Claptrap /'klaptrap/ noun: absurd or nonsensical talk or ideas. Pithy and precocious stand-up from up-and-coming comedians Becky Povall and Jessie...   Full listing

Clash of the Tight Tens

• Variety
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Andy Quirk presents his pick of the finest Fringe comedians performing ten-minute tasters of their full-length shows. Expect a titanic...   Full listing

Classic Joke Club

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Join the funniest acts on the UK and international circuit as they share classic jokes handed down to them by...   Full listing

Comedy Boxing - Best Of The Fest

• Stand-up / improv
• Free
• 1-5, 7-12, 14-19 & 21-25 Aug 2019

Comedy Boxing triumphantly returns to Edinburgh now with the best of the best competitors, each show! Comedians will compete over...   Full listing

Comedy Freak Show

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Come one, come all to this tragic affair! Comedy Freak Show is an exhibition of comedic rarities. Socially unusual humans,...   Full listing

Comedy Gobbledygook Showcase / Free Festival

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

London Bermondsey's beloved local comedy show comes to Edinburgh! Hosted by a podgy gay comic from the remote island of...   Full listing

Comedy Queers

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-24 Aug 2019

The 2018 sell-out show returns. Bigger. Better. Queerer. Hosted by Sian Davies, an 'excellent compere' (Kate Copstick, Scotsman). A raucous...   Full listing

Comedy Shorts

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Back for its fourth year, Tom Short (Funhouse Champion of Champions 2014, Harrogate Comedian of the Year finalist 2018) presents...   Full listing

Comedy Striptease

• Stand-up / improv
• Free
• 1-5, 7-12, 14-19 & 21-25 Aug 2019

The best, most daring comedians of the Fringe showcase their skills, but if they're not funny enough they must perform...   Full listing

Comedy Village

• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Montreal, Canada's premiere stand-up comedy show for tourists visiting Edinburgh. Roles reversed, these Canadian comedians have travelled a long way...   Full listing

ComedySportz UK

• Improv
• Free
• 1-17 Aug 2019

You've seen football. You've seen tennis. But have you seen comedy as a sport?

Two teams will battle it out...   Full listing

Common People (Again)

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-9 Aug 2019

Following a very successful run in 2018, the Common People are back for more! Janet and Paul are ordinary, common...   Full listing

Confessions Of A Taxi Driver

• Free
• 1-12 & 14-25 Aug 2019

Ever wake up after a heavy night of booze and think, what did I do last night? You rarely remember...   Full listing

Conor Drum: Solo

• Stand-up / storytelling
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

A show about growing up and becoming a man. As his parents prepare to Airbnb his old bedroom, Conor rediscovers...   Full listing

Cool Jokes/Hot Takes

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-12 & 14-24 Aug 2019

Two award-winning comics in one show! We can't tell you who they are... But we can tell you that they're...   Full listing

Cool Story Bro

• Stand-up / storytelling
• Free
• 1-13 & 15-25 Aug 2019

Childhood memories can sometimes be blurry but you never forget your first school trip, especially when it turns into a...   Full listing

Cordelia and Dimple: Buffet

• Stand-up / storytelling
• Free
• 1-13 Aug 2019

Dimple's biggest fear? Looking down from heaven (post-murder) to watch her religiously vegan parents learn that the contents of her...   Full listing

Cosmic Comedy Berlin

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Join us for a wunderbar time at Cosmic Comedy Berlin hosted by Dharmander Singh and Neil Numb. Laugh your lederhosen...   Full listing

Cyclopath

• Stand-up / storytelling
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Professional comedian and avid cyclist Dion Owen brings his best stand-up material with an emphasis on his experiences and passion...   Full listing

Dan Cardwell: Recall

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Dan Cardwell is in recall. His malfunctioning iModerate chip has caused an imbalance in personality, resulting in his constant muttering:...   Full listing

Daniel Muggleton: Pimpin' Ain't Easy (But I Reckon it's Easier for Straight, White Men?)

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Australian comedian and tracksuit enthusiast Daniel Muggleton's just woke enough to know he's an asshole. But who wants to be...   Full listing

Daphna Baram: Cracking Up

• Stand-up / storytelling
• Free
• 1-4, 6-11, 13-18 & 20-25 Aug 2019

After dealing with immigration, politics and Jewish mothers, Daphna Baram's 2019 Fringe offering takes on mass and time (AKA weight...   Full listing

Darcie Silver - I Know You Are

• Free
• 1-18 Aug 2019

Darcie has been described as one of the most exciting new comedians on the circuit. With a mix of one-liners...   Full listing

Darren Walsh: Punimal Farm

• Stand-up / multimedia
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Like puns? Think you've seen it Orwell before? Well gammon check this out. Join Darren (ITV's Out There, [i]BBC Edinburgh...   Full listing

Dave Chawner: Mental

• Stand-up / storytelling
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

A show about mental health (rather than mental illness). As seen on BBC, ITV and Channel 4. As heard on...   Full listing

Dave Fensome: ADHDave

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Highly-tipped comic Dave Fensome makes his debut with a darkly comic journey through his life, re-framed through an ADHD diagnosis...   Full listing

Decree Absolute Vodka

• Stand-up / storytelling
• Free
• 1-13 & 15-25 Aug 2019

A personal stand-up show where comedian Sarah Iles talks you through the absolute (vodka) joys of being divorced in her...   Full listing

Deskchair Burlesque

• Stand-up
• Free
• 12-25 Aug 2019

Oxford Revue alumnus John Rayner ('laugh-out-loud... and unexpectedly poignant' (Cherwell.org)) presents his first solo comedy show/erotic novel masterclass. With sketches,...   Full listing

Desperately Seeking Motivation: Challenged

• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Matt Stags and Josie Ettrick-Hogg are desperately seeking motivation. Attempting to overcome severe hoarding disorders, procrastination and mental health issues,...   Full listing

Down It Fresher!

• Play
• Free
• 1-11 Aug 2019

After getting dragged along to the smelliest, most infamous night club in Edinburgh by her new friends, Frida the Fresher...   Full listing

Dr Lara Love: Love Leans In

• Character
• Free
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

What is love? An unknown quantity, a mesmerising spiritual gift or a song by Haddaway? Love guru Dr Lara Love...   Full listing

Dummy

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

A comedy about the autistic spectrum. Everybody's on it. Diagnosed at a young age with autistic spectrum disorder, American comedian...   Full listing

EdinBra Fringe Comedy

• Stand-up / storytelling
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

A revolving line-up of hilarious female comedians from around the Fringe with an hour of stand-up comedy to be enjoyed...   Full listing

Eh?

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

From a no-holds-barred dissection of his own laughable life to a skewed look at the absurdity of the everyday. Let...   Full listing

Eleanor Conway: You May Recognise Me From Tinder

• Stand-up / storytelling
• Free
• 2-12 & 14-25 Aug 2019

Ferocious clubber Eleanor Conway has always been a woman of extremes; she partied around the world as a music journo,...   Full listing

Eliott Simpson: (a)sexy And I Know It

• Stand-up
• Free
• 17-25 Aug 2019

Eliott has never cared for sex. He enjoys doing people as much as he enjoys doing his taxes (not at...   Full listing

Ella Al-Shamahi and Susie Steed: Gold Diggers

• Satire
• Free
• 1-18 Aug 2019

Join the digger, British-Arab archaeologist Ella (BBC presenter and National Geographic explorer), and gold-hating economist, Susie (NATYS finalist 2019, Funny...   Full listing

Elliot Wengler - Solo: An Elliot Wengler Story

• Stand-up / storytelling
• Free
• 10-13 & 15-25 Aug 2019

Elliot Wengler lives at home in a village in the middle of nowhere and is fine with that. Mostly. He...   Full listing

Erich McElroy: Radical Centrist

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

With politics moving to extremes and into every aspect of our lives, Erich McElroy finds another way. The only true...   Full listing

Es Are Good

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-14 Aug 2019

If you're looking for unbridled enthusiasm, thwarted by the prospect of middle age, this is the show for you.   Full listing

Evan Desmarais: Pizza and Ice Cream

• Stand-up / clown
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

This is an hour of stand-up comedy from seasoned Canadian comedian, Evan Desmarais. Highbrow dick jokes with heart from a...   Full listing

Even More Twisted

• Music / stand-up
• Free
• 14-18 Aug 2019

An evolution of his successful 2018 Edinburgh Fringe and Perth Australia Fringe World show Twisted, Aaron Ayjay continues to take...   Full listing

Everyone Dropped Out of My Sketch Troupe

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

An accidental one-woman show! Standing in the wreckage of a five-piece sketch troupe, one comedian is determined to keep going....   Full listing

Ew Girl, You Nasty

• Stand-up / storytelling
• Free
• 1-12, 14-19 & 21-26 Aug 2019

If you have never smoked meth, worked in a sex dungeon, or eaten dog food, don't worry, because Katharyn Henson...   Full listing

Expelled from Eton

• Free
• 13-17 Aug 2019

George is the poshest chav. He's an equal opportunity offender. The stereotypes of multiracial Britain are all absolutely accurate. Macabre,...   Full listing

Falling with Style

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Adventurer David von Jones takes a humorous glance at popular Disney and Pixar movies with a view to discovering more...   Full listing

Fantastic Flatulence and Where to Find It

• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Award-winning Scottish author Stuart Reid launches his eighth book at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2019 with an exploration of...   Full listing

Fantastic Magic Show for Kids

• Magic
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

The Fantastic Magic Show is a special and unique experience for the children and their parents. It is wonderful and...   Full listing

Fat Roland: Seven Inch

• Stand-up / absurdist
• Free
• 1-13 Aug 2019

In the last record shop still standing, Manchester comic Fat Roland re-examines his life through not-so-teenage kicks, surrounded by forgettable...   Full listing

Filippo Spreafico: Sentimental Value

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-4, 6-11, 13-18 & 20-25 Aug 2019

Consulting with his fortune teller alter ego, Filippo realizes that nostalgia is a consistently successful market. Taking off on a...   Full listing

Fourth Cousin, Once Removed... Forcibly

• Stand-up
• Free
• 2-4 & 7-11 Aug 2019

Meet Roberta Roberts... Distant cousin of Julia, former child star (Vegemite commercials) and experimental theatre visionary, determined to make her...   Full listing

Freshly Squeezed Comedy

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Your first stand-up show of the day, serendipitously happening within the best breakfast joint in Edinburgh! Grab a coffee and...   Full listing

Funny Cluckers: Best of the Fest - Free

• Stand-up
• Free
• 2-25 Aug 2019

Four top-quality, fowl-mouthed acts, hand-plucked from around the festival. For the poultry sum of a bucket contribution on eggsit. Guaranteed...   Full listing

Funny Feckers

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-26 Aug 2019

One of London's most popular comedy nights Funny Feckers is coming to the Fringe to showcase the best acts from...   Full listing

Games With James

• Game show
• Free
• 1-13 & 15-18 Aug 2019

Award-winning comedian and UK board-gaming champion James Cook invites you to play board games live on stage. Buckaroo, Guess Who,...   Full listing

Gaming Under the Influence

• Game show
• Free
• 1-5, 7-12, 14-19 & 21-25 Aug 2019

Drunk comedians compete for audience accolades with stand-up, drinking games and a variety of different video game challenges nightly. No...   Full listing

Gay Not Straight

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-11 Aug 2019

Former "straight" and rising NYC star Keenan Steiner (NY Comedy Festival) makes his Fringe debut with a high-octane hour on...   Full listing

Geeks, Stand Up!

• Stand-up / storytelling
• Free
• 14-25 Aug 2019

This show brings you some of the funniest comedians from around the Fringe to laugh, joke and talk passionately about...   Full listing

Gerry Carroll - Crock Or Gold

• Cabaret
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

He's 66 and he has his own leprechaun, but is Gerry a crock or is he gold? He'll let you...   Full listing

Ghost Orgy

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

A late-night stand-up comedy show that explores sex and the supernatural. Hosts Erika Ehler, Hannah Lawrence and Bria Hiebert will...   Full listing

Girl Bully

• Play
• Free
• 1-10 Aug 2019

Mary Squared explore the meaning of the word 'bitch' in an evening of comedic theatre. With appearances from our childhood...   Full listing

Girl Code

• Free
• 14-25 Aug 2019

Girl Code is a comedy panel show, hosted by Sikisa and featuring a group (three to four) of outspoken female...   Full listing

Girl Stuff

• Stand-up
• Free
• 11-20 Aug 2019

Sweden's top female comedian Josefin Johansson, TV presenter and singer takes her sold-out show Girl Stuff abroad for the first...   Full listing

Glenn Grimwood: Unf*ckable

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-4, 6-11, 13-18 & 20-25 Aug 2019

Glenn Grimwood has never been on TV so you know what he's doing must be good. Perth's most creatively dirty...   Full listing

Global Comedy Club

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Global Comedy Club: showcasing some of the best up-and-coming comedians on the circuit. As seen/heard on talkSPORT, Soccer AM and...   Full listing

Godley On The Fringe

• Storytelling
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Godmother of Scottish comedy. Chief Trump annoyer. Back at the Counting House bringing you the best of her 22 years...   Full listing

Good Evening Edinburgh

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-4, 6-11, 13-18 & 20-25 Aug 2019

Sam (Australia), nominated for Best Comedy at Fringe World 2016. Sam brings wild fun and laughter to an hour of...   Full listing

Goodbye Charles - Free

• Play
• Free
• 19-25 Aug 2019

'I ate the divorce papers, Charles. I ate them with ketchup... and they were good. Gooood!' 8 Minute Dirge presents...   Full listing

Gráinne Maguire - What Has the News Ever Done for Me?

• Satire
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Three comedians bring along the news story they "think" is the most important and persuade the audience why it's the...   Full listing

Gráinne Maguire: Guys... It's Problematic

• Storytelling / satire
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Award-winning comedian Gráinne Maguire (Dave's UnSpun, BBC One's This Week, RTE's Cutting Edge and Radio 4's Now Show) returns with...   Full listing

Grave St Claire: Hard Bop

• Stand-up / multimedia
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

New Zealand comedian, Grave St Claire, brings his multimedia comedy show to Edinburgh for the first time. The show is...   Full listing

Grumpy Pants

• Clown
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

A hilarious show for the whole family. Mr Vita will delight audiences of all ages with his perfectly crafted juggling...   Full listing

Guerilla Aspies Year Five - Not an Autism Puppet Show

• Storytelling
• Free
• 1-3 & 10-16 Aug 2019

The fifth year of the world unique audience autism conversion show faces new issues. The organiser of the protest outside...   Full listing

Gummy Bears

• Stand-up / storytelling
• Free
• 8-14 Aug 2019

Adam Brides (Max Turner Competition finalist) and David Anthony (Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year semi-finalist) join forces for...   Full listing

Haha Cool

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

In the last year Luka has lost 60lbs, a grandparent and the roof of his house. He's told jokes all...   Full listing

Half the Man - Michael Livesley

• Storytelling
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

After losing half his body weight, Michael Livesley is half the man he was. Raised in an all-female household with...   Full listing

Hari Kanth: This Train Terminates Here

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

A comedy show about definitely not wanting kids... I think? The second debut hour from the childless BBC New Comedy...   Full listing

Heavenly Comedy Edinburgh

• Stand-up
• Free
• 2-11 & 13-23 Aug 2019

This is a quick-fire compilation show featuring the rising stars of comedy each doing five minutes.   Full listing

Henry Ginsberg: Romantic Comedian

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Henry Ginsberg didn't lose his virginity, or have any romantic experiences to speak of at all until his late 20s....   Full listing

Hero Worship

• Storytelling
• Free
• 1-6, 8-13, 15-20 & 22-25 Aug 2019

If you had a chance to spend time with your idol, would you take it? Joel has hung out with...   Full listing

Huggers

• Variety
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

The popular show with a revolving line-up of performers of all varieties to entertain all the family returns after more...   Full listing

I Am the Horrible Thing

• Free
• 1-2, 5 & 8 Aug 2019

Greg almost died on vacation in Costa Rica. Now he wants to tell you the whole funny/sad story and about...   Full listing

I Fahrt Berlin: The Journey Continues

• Stand-up / storytelling
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

This tour de farce of bizarre exploits and odd misadventures chronicles an American's nearly seven-decade search to find his place...   Full listing

I'll Be Broken Home for Christmas with Jeffrey Baldinger

• Music
• Free
• 2-25 Aug 2019

I'll Be Broken Home for Christmas is a dark comedy musical written by Jeffrey Baldinger and Jessica Michelle Singleton. Jeffrey...   Full listing

I'm Here, All Weak

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Suren Jayemanne (Aus) has made a splash on the Australian scene, with his debut TV stand-up special featured as part...   Full listing

Immoral Maze

• Satire
• Free
• 1-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

As more and more subjects aren't being talked about, the Immoral Maze deals with them in the most honest way...   Full listing

In Bread with Joseph Emslie (Work in Progress)

• Stand-up
• Free
• 3-11 & 13-25 Aug 2019

In this 45-minute work-in-progress show Joseph attempts to separate the wheat from the chaff. It might not sound exciting but...   Full listing

Interviewing Electric Frog

• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

When a seemingly innocent career retrospective interview with maverick film-director Electric Frog brings up controversies he'd rather leave buried, proceedings...   Full listing

Irish Comedy Invasion

• Improv
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Irish Comedy Invasion - Gary Lynch tours all over Europe with The Good The Bad and The Irish. 'Brilliant' (BroadwayBaby.com)....   Full listing

Ishi Khan: I'mMigrant!

• Stand-up
• Free
• 15-25 Aug 2019

Ishi Khan: I'mMigrant! A fun comedy show about migration, identity and belonging from award-nominated comedienne. The migration crisis, Brexit leave...   Full listing

It's All Going To Be OK - Free Festival

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-13 & 15-25 Aug 2019

The world is going to sh*t! Or so it seems. Ophélie Hocquard (BBC New Comedy Award 2017 nominee, Funny Women...   Full listing

Italian Stallion: Fake Hero

• Stand-up
• Free
• 7-11 Aug 2019

A "nearly" comedy about my memories as a professional stripper and near-hero during the London Bridge terror attack in 2017....   Full listing

Jack and Barney Are in the Background

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

Jack Chisnall (BBC Radio 4 writer, 'one of the best reviewed shows of Fringe 2018' (Comedy.co.uk)) and Barney Iley (Amused...   Full listing

James Cook: The Show That Literally Nobody Tried to Ban

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-13, 15-20 & 22-25 Aug 2019

Sarcastic nonsense, ridiculous stories and crackpot theories. 'A top class comic' (Birmingham Mail). 'The most enjoyable hour' (BBC News). Tour...   Full listing

James Meehan - Never Better

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

How am I doing? Never Better. A spanking new hour from multiple comedy award winner and laidback Lancastrian James Meehan....   Full listing

Jane Hill: Addicted to Fun

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

Jane used to be fun. By fun, she means drunk. She's been sober for 16 years but still misses the...   Full listing

Jane Hill: All I Want

• Stand-up
• Free
• 14-25 Aug 2019

I'm 55. I thought I'd have everything I wanted by now. Unfortunately I still don't know what that is. Like...   Full listing

Japanese Sweet Wasabi: No Mask Required!

• Stand-up
• Free
• 5-25 Aug 2019

Kilara Sen, a female Japanese comedian from Tokyo, won't wear surgical masks like other Japanese! This is her debut one-hour...   Full listing

Jarred Christmas: A Funny Hour

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

Comedy. Comedy. Comedy. Comedy. Comedy. Bit of a story. Comedy. Comedy. Comedy. Comedy. Comedy. Join New Zealand sensation and star...   Full listing

Jasper Cromwell Jones' Alternative Book Festival

• Sketch show
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Famous adventurer and posh idiot Jasper Cromwell Jones (played by award-winning comedian Joe Bor) presents an Alternative Book Festival with...   Full listing

Javier Jarquin is Boring AF

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

Javier is boring. An utterly painstaking and underwhelming human being. He's not one to watch. He has no buzz about...   Full listing

Jay Light: Fake It 'Til You Make It

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

'One of the best roasters in Los Angeles' (Jeff Ross). 'Not the son I thought I raised' (his mom). Jay...   Full listing

Jenny Collier: The Jen Commandments

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Multi award-winning Collier is back with her brand new stand-up show. 'Brilliant... Infectious to watch and a joy to behold'...   Full listing

Jimmy McGhie

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-4, 6-11, 13-18 & 20-24 Aug 2019

Jimmy McGhie brings show number nine to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. It'll most likely be a load of whinging and...   Full listing

Joe McArdle is: Theo McCabe

• Stand-up / improv
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

The award-winning co-creators of smash-hit Fringe comedies Vampire Hospital Waiting Room and Apocalypse Cruise Ship Love Affair bring their debut...   Full listing

Johnny Depp: A Retrospective On Late-stage Capitalism

• Free
• 1-10 Aug 2019

Join Johnny Depp - pre-teen heart-throb turned wino forever - for a retrospective on every film in his entire career,...   Full listing

Johnny Irish

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Ireland's own Duffy Connors is taking his one-man show Johnny Irish to Edinburgh, which includes stories from the odd man's...   Full listing

Joke Thieves

• Stand-up / improv
• Free
• 1-12 & 14-25 Aug 2019

Comedy set swapping live! The cult hit show where comedians perform their own jokes, then each others'. Chortle Award winner...   Full listing

Jokers in the Pack

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Four of the best jokers from the Fringe pack, perform the finest material from their club sets, which have been...   Full listing

Jonathan Hipkiss - At Least We're Out the House

• Stand-up
• Free
• 14-25 Aug 2019

Nominated for Best New Show at this year's Leicester Comedy Festival. There's no agenda here. No social or political message....   Full listing

Jumping Off the Bandwagon

• Stand-up / music
• Free
• 20-25 Aug 2019

There's no such thing as a free lunch but there is a free quality comedy show at lunchtime!
WhatsApp & Instagram...   Full listing

Jumping the Barriers

• Play
• Free
• 19-25 Aug 2019

We tell the story of a chance meeting on a train between a wealthy young graduate and a homeless northerner,...   Full listing

Justin Heyes - White Muslim

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-11 Aug 2019

After being nominated for the Best Comedy award at the Perth FringeWorld, Justin Heyes brings his new show White Muslim...   Full listing

Justin Matson: Try Harder

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-4, 6-11, 13-18 & 20-25 Aug 2019

Justin Matson discovered all the secrets in life so you don't have to! Los Angeles based comedian and self-help guru...   Full listing

Kelsey De Almeida: I'm Very Different People (WIP)

• Stand-up / storytelling
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Fresh from performing at the Adelaide and Melbourne Fringe festivals 2019, catch South End Comedy Festival's Best Newcomer Winner in...   Full listing

Kevin James Doyle: Loud Blond Bald Kid

• Storytelling / stand-up
• Free
• 1-12 & 14-25 Aug 2019

First kisses, weird hairs, the cool group: navigating adolescence was a challenge for everyone. These painfully hilarious stories of growing...   Full listing

Late Night Comedy Death Camp

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

Returning for its second year, Henry Ginsberg (FHM Stand-Up Hero, Reading Festival New Act of the Year) presents a possibly...   Full listing

Late Show Great Show / Free Festival

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

The night is young and some of the best stand-up comedians at the Fringe are ready to make you laugh,...   Full listing

Lateef Lovejoy - Life, Times and Society's Crimes

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-16 Aug 2019

HD Management presents multi award nominee and the official face of the ITV Hub and uSwitch, Lateef Lovejoy with his...   Full listing

Laugh Train Home Comedy Showcase

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

In its seventh year, the best comics of the Fringe are brought together for this premier comedy showcase. Every show...   Full listing

Laughing Horse Free and Family Friendly Pick of the Fringe

• Free
• 2-25 Aug 2019

See the very best comedians selected from around the Fringe, with different line-ups every day in this brand-new family friendly...   Full listing

Laughing Horse Free Best in Comedy Chat Show

• Chat show
• Free
• 2-12, 14-18 & 20-25 Aug 2019

This chat show is the perfect guide to what comedy you should see at the Fringe as host Vladimir McTavish,...   Full listing

Laughing Horse Free Comedy Selection

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

See the very best comedians at the Fringe, alongside some of the UK's best comedy newcomers, at this top-rated comedy...   Full listing

Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-25 Aug 2019

See the very best comedians selected from across the Fringe, with a different line-up of top comedians at every show....   Full listing

Laurence Tuck: Expert in Failure

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-9 Aug 2019

Laurence Tuck is turning 40, and what has he done? Bugger all! He has been a cataclysmic failure. This show...   Full listing

Lee Kyle - ConQuest

• Stand-up
• Free
• 1-13 & 16-25 Aug 2019

Lee didn't have a show this year, he was worried he was going to have to start knowing about politics...   Full listing

Left-Wing Conspiracy Theorist With Dyspraxia 2

• Satire
• Free
• 11-18 Aug 2019

After the success of his debut hour, political comedian Don Biswas returns to the festival with a brand-new WIP show:...   Full listing