Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghTV success has only sharpened the Starstruck creator's punches as she overshares about the indignities of dating, her fine gags closer to the bleeding edge than…
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Dressed as the publisher's emblem, in orange flippers and not much else, the ingenious comic delivers a dizzy series of droll visual routines Some shows have "…
Monkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghThe Massive Dad star riffs on the benefits of making comedy online, buoyed by arch good humour and high-quality gags within gags Stevie Martin's show weighs up…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe Australian comedian's rocky 2023 is explored in PowerPoint, SMS exchanges, rap, musical comedy and online videos The year 2023 was the worst of Lou Wall's l…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe irrepressible aesthete, and lapsed primary school teacher, underwent medical trials to fund this effervescent show " and has since been hospitalised There's…
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Witnessing 9/11 from school as a six-year-old is one of many mental distresses recounted in the New York comic's often piercingly bleak set Whenever you think …
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe American standup and sitcom writer delivers a show of ticklish suspense that somersaults with invention and surprise Not all comedy shows need weighty theme…
Standup Olga Koch, whose dad was once the deputy prime minister of Russia, is weighing in on the debate about class and wealth in the industry in an unusual way " by addressing it head-on No…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe straight-talking comic's debut hour is cheerfully rude and glowing with maternal love, as she describes parenting a son with autism At a festival with 3,600…
Or What's Left of Us by Sh!t Theatre is a playful and starkly profound hour in which the duo share their bereavements and stir reflections of our own When someone you love dies, the grief ca…
Monkey Barrel Comedy, Edinburgh Armed with spreadsheets and her usual playfulness, the comic attempts to evaluate the worth of her life so far Has autobiographical comedy reached its apotheo…
Just the Tonic at the Caves, EdinburghBrown engages in good faith with questions of guilt and remorse, while perceiving bad faith in his critics' responses to an old routine that included th…
Pleasance Courtyard , EdinburghMaking her fringe debut, the comic performs a droll, unsentimental and occasionally heart-stopping pas de deux with the critical voice in her head Hannah Platt…
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghRapunzel, Hansel and Gretel and a lot of toilet roll feature as the star Disney+ comedy Extraordinary explores wishes and their fulfilment All very well being part o…
Pleasance @ EICC, Edinburgh There's more Margolyes than Dickens here, but her gift for florid characters is on fine display and suits the Victorian master perfectly "Guaranteed to offend and…
A crowing flash-in-the-pan PM and Jimmy Carr's life lessons from the Oompa Loompas A tale of two powerful women as the Edinburgh fringe enters its opening week. Nica Burns is a West End prod…
Traverse, EdinburghPlaying both partners in a sordid three-year relationship, the bold LA clown delivers another unforgettable show Few fringe trajectories have been as joyful to trace these…
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Bebe Cave dazzles in a slightly overstuffed monologue about fame, sexism and power in Tinseltown 'A person waiting to be asked to pretend to be a person." It d…
Assembly George Square, EdinburghShe was chewed up and spat out by the US, but now the TikTok sensation gets to tell her story in this slick production With her TikTok series a smash during …
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe Texan comedian delivers a playful show about a holiday from hell that tackles mental health and wokeness It is rare for an act to firmly establish themselve…
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghA show about unresolved masculinity combines elements of musical theatre with the experimental comic's own ruminations on ego and oblivion If you were picking a come…
Children's author, YouTuber, 'sausage bird' designer … the comic who was born Derek Chickpeas (maybe) talks about cooking up his hilariously daft alter ego " and we pick some of his funnie…
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh This tremendous solo debut finds the comic veering between stranger-than-fiction verisimilitude and hilarious gothic exaggeration 'Childless cat ladies" have b…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghDowning Street's chief of staff is imagined to be gossipy and gregarious in this wickedly silly show Sue Gray is one of the most recognisable names in the UK, b…
Monkey Barrel, Edinburgh The BBC New Comedy award-winner resurrects a cadaver of an idea as a Rotherham working men's club MC with a devilish twist Subterranean and claustrophobic, Monkey Ba…