Tag: comedy

A one-man comedy play about the British Prime Minister that history forgot. Underbelly (Clover), Bristo Square @ 13:30 August 1 - 27 (not 13) ‘I am murdered!’ It’s May 11th, 1812. The Prime Minister has just been shot dead in the lobby of...

Just the Tonic at The Mash House (Cask House) 2 - 26 (not 13) August @ 18:25 Following his first solo stand-up album, Amazing, Probably, which went to number 3 in the iTunes Comedy Chart, Sid Singh returns to the Edinburgh...

Pravda @ Espionage | 2 - 27 (not 14) @ 7.30pm Scottish Comedian of the Year Leo Kearse rips into liberals in his follow up to last year's sellout hit I Can Make You Tory. He takes a...

One show: three possible endings. Banshee Labyrinth (Cinema Room) 4 – 26 August @ 13:20 Stuart and Zoe meet for their first date and do ‘The 36 Questions’, an infamous psychological experiment designed to make strangers fall in love.It works. Now, after four years as a...

Political comedian & ball of anxiety Alex Kealy trains his sights on love and politics. II’s territory already covered by War & Peace, Life & Fate and Ant & Dec.Politically everything is on fire...

Gilded Balloon Teviot, Billiard Room 1 - 26 August 2018 (except 15) @ 17:00 Kerr-ching! For his much anticipated return to Edinburgh, following his widely-acclaimed show, Let’s Talk About Tax, the world’s only financial expert and comedian, Dominic Frisby has devised a...

BARRY FERNS: BARRY LOVES YOU | 3 - 27 August (not 13) @ 21:00 |Just The Tonic at The Tron Love is an absolutely subjective term. What does love mean to you? Is it possible that Barry Loves You?...

Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd star as Erasmus and Paul, long-term lovers who live a carefree life in Sante Fe, where Erasmus is a kitsch celebrity TV chef and Paul his long-suffering producer. The...

Alice Marshall: The Strike Winner of the 2017 Brighton Fringe Best Comedy Award returns with a brand new show! Just The Tonic @ The Caves - Aug 2nd-26th, 5.30pm Critically acclaimed character comedian Alice Marshall returns to the Edinburgh...

Gilded Balloon is proud to present a brand-new, year-round home for comedy, theatre and cabaret right in the heart of the city’s West End Headlining Gilded Balloon’s inaugural winter programme will be Morag Fullarton’s critically-acclaimed,...

Tom Stade’s 60 date Autumn tour comes to Edinburgh in November.Canadian stand-up, Tom’s, affable and easy going wit is, as always, in evidence. A free flowing show focusing on a Mid-life crisis and middle...

There will be a night of live, alternative stand up comedy at the Braid Hills Hotel, Morningside on 3 November 2017 with Seymour Mace.The line up includes MC GARETH WAUGH "One of the fastest rising...

The Singing Psychic is back at the Edinburgh Fringe – she always knew she would be.This time the amazing Polish visionary unveils her brand spanking new game show packed with songs, 70s-style team games (including Fourtunes)...

Rachelle Elie can tell you more about love and relationships than Gwyneth Paltrow, Madonna and Katy Perry could ever do – and she’s laying it all on the line. The Outstanding Canadian Comedy Award winner is bringing her...

Discover the Difficulties of Romance at this Year’s Edinburgh FringeShow Title: Schutte the Unromantic Written and performed by Katy SchutteKaty Schutte is a Funny Women finalist and winner of the Best Comedy Show Latest Awards at Brighton...

  ​Rolling In The Aisle Productions presents: Sixth Night: Shakespeare For Those With Short Attention Spans How do you bring Shakespeare to the Edinburgh Fringe? Cut down one of his most famous plays and give it a...

In 1997 Simon Morley created the global smash hit and Edinburgh Fringe favourite Puppetry of the Penis. Now he bares all in a slightly different way, in a show that looks back on twenty years' worth...

Just Festival 2017: Press ReleaseThe world is in a difficult place at the moment. From the domestic to the global, the personal to the political, for those who wish to make the world a...

The Second Coming is a farcical, contemporary retelling of the Nativity story. This debut performance of The Second Coming by Dougal Thomson is a thoroughly humorous and modern examination of faith and miracle in the 21st century. The play...

Bill Larkin (Comedy Central's "Premium Blend") stands behind his keyboard for an evening of original comedy songs.  The Los Angeles Times calls him “bitingly satirical”.  Weird Al Yankovic himself says he’s “a big fan”.  Intended for...

NewsRevue may be back every year but it’s always an entirely new show!This Guinness World Record-breaking, Fringe First-winning, Perrier finalist, news-based song and sketch show is where you should come if you’re in need of a cathartic...

Critically acclaimed idiot, Olaf Falafel is back with another hour of surreal stupidity.Who knows what it'll involve, probably conkers, maybe sandpaper. Whatever it is, he personally guarantees your money back if you actually learn something of...

From the team who brought you the sell-out hits Dizney Rascal; Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho and How to Win Against History; winner of a VAULT Festival Comedy Award and an Underbelly Untapped Award...Inspired by true...

“I don’t think I’m going to live a long life because I’ve never seen any really tall old ladies.”In her UK debut hour LYNCHED, Carmen Lynch (The Late Show with David Letterman, The Late...

Andrew Doyle doesn’t know his left from his right. But then, neither does anyone else. A staunch left-winger, Andrew has somehow found himself accused of being on the Dark Side. Partly it’s because he’s...

By John Kennedy and Phyllis Stephen Christmas-Pud cookin' and brandy flaming hot news reaches The Edinburgh Reporter from our friends at The Traverse Theatre announcing their Autumn/Winter season that promises some seriously Christmas chill-outs. As the...

Jason Manford and Phill Jupitus will step aside from their roles in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to host a Comedy Gala in support of Waverley Care, Scotland’s HIV and Hepatitis C charity.This one night event takes...

Photo credit: Joe MartinezI have a confession to make. I have seen Don’t Push the Button two and a half times. The first time I saw the show as a fellow SpaceUK performer curious...

Last week I saw Colin Mochrie of Whose Line Is It Anyway fame improvise with four different members of the public who had been hypnotised. Mochrie, of whom I am a long-time fan, makes...

Sold out and packed, Bella Younger took her character Deliciously Stella to the Pleasance Courtyard to give the punters a tongue-in-cheek lecture on Smug is a Lifestyle not a Diet, with what she hopes...