Afternoon events, Comedy

The perfect lunchtime comedy show. Top comedians from the UK circuit perform short sets for your enjoyment, all hosted by Katerina Vrana (From the BBC and Greek TV) 'Katerina Vrana Fizzles with confident likability' (Chortle.co.uk).

Foundry Group. 1976-1988. Two fat men pretend to fight each other. One hundred million watch. This multi award-winning comedy play brings back to grunting, grappling life two hugely popular behemoths and the bizarre world they bestrode. Herald Angel winner Ross Gurney (Follow Me, Mussolini) and Dave Mounfield (Count…

An interactive animated family comedy, from the award-winning creator of CBBC's Little Howard's Big Question.

A comedy made up of most of the key scenes liberally taken from the films of Alfred Hitchcock (and some imagined out-takes as well).

(noun) kennel used to separate a bitch on heat from other dogs to prevent knotting (breeding). Comic actresses Emma Newborn and Amelia Guild present life on a New Zealand farm through the eyes of six hilarious dogs. Meet a couple of randy terriers, hear the inner monologue of a lisping Labrador, the deranged ramblings of…

Sandy Nelson / The Assembly Rooms. Before skittering to a quiet demise, one hit ajit-folk noir duo The Telltales topped the Japanese charts. 21 years later they return to Tokyo to perform at a live TV awards ceremony, this time with extra baggage. Directed by Alison Peebles. 'Three performances to treasure as well as…

Hewn from actual slates! The team will warm you up with a series of fun games before wowing you with a full short play, all of it composed right before your eyes.

• Directed by: Psyche Stott
• Written by: Dennis Potter

Northern Stage presents Dennis Potter's loss-of-innocence drama in which seven children play together in the English countryside during a wartime summer. Directed by Psyche Stott.

A show about whether the strains of being a person are worse than the reality of being an animal. No animals were hurt in the making of this show though several were eaten during the writing of this show. Bob Graham has been described as '…wonderfully anarchic' (Skinny), '…too intelligent for Perth' (some woman from Perth).

Film-maker Bobby Gould comes face-to-face with the devil in this fast-talking comic duel of wits from David Mamet, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Glengarry Glen Ross. Bobby’s time on earth is about to be examined. Will Gould confess his sins? Will he prove he is a good man? Or will his ditsy ex-girlfriend turn up, spill…

A Parisian architect enjoys the best of all worlds by juggling three different fiancees, all air stewardesses on different routes, until his meticulous schedule is disrupted by a delayed flight.

Glenda and Stephen Edwards. Sell-out in 2011! Are you sick of hearing that lessons have been learnt, it must never happen again, those responsible must be held to account and there must be greater openness and transparency going forward? Those two old gits, Glenda and Stephen, are back having a go at Britain's ghastly…

A comedy musical for children and their families. It is about a young boy who doesn't fit in, struggling to come to terms with who he is.

House of Blakewell / Vicky Graham Productions. The musical missionaries are coming. Armed with catchy tunes and biting satire, House of Blakewell is out to convert Edinburgh this August. Alice wants to spread joy through song and dance. Harry wants more pious proceedings. Enlightenment? Maybe. Entertainment?

New Perspectives. The UK's very first staging of a film by Danish provocateur Lars Von Trier. Kristoffer, an out of work actor, has been hired for an unusual job; to stand in as the boss of a failing company. Soon the target of an angry and obsessive staff team, Kristoffer finds himself being pulled deeper and deeper…

Kill the Beast. Thirteen-year-old Robert Caligari is a nasty piece of work, but today is the day he gets his comeuppance. From the mind of Dr Who's Tom Baker and the twisted talents of Kill the Beast, comes a deliciously gruesome tale set in the drab and dreary time when teenagers had nothing better to do than plot…

• Written by: Howard Korder

Howard Korder's hilarious story of three former college pals making it big in New York with the women of their desires. Set during 1988.

An original musical comedy that builds on the idea that human beings use only 10% of their potential brain power. When an eminent professor grows a brain, he fails to realise that the brain may actually develop a personality of its own. Loosely based on a slew of 1950s B-movies, this show takes a humorous and often…

Timandra Harkness. Men read maps better, but women read emotions - so say brain scientists. Is the secret of human behaviour inside our skulls? Can neuroscience explain why Timandra throws like a girl but thinks like a bloke? You'll never look at your anterior cingulate cortex the same way again. Or a map. 'Harkness…

Angus Dunican / Free Festival. Angus Dunican has never been very good at being himself. In fact, the one person he would have rather been, lived in the same house as him. His older brother was always better at causing explosions, melting things and falling off stuff. This was all long before the pubs started to let him…

Bright Club / The Assembly Rooms. We're straight from the research field to the Fringe! Bright Club is the freshest thing in stand-up – an academic comedy cocktail synthesised for your entertainment and enlightenment. Our unique twist of pun-fact variety show blends comedy and research with diverse subjects ranging…

After astounding packed audiences at the Fringe with their ‘five-star comic brilliance’ (Flaneur.me.uk), Bristol Improv return with their showcase. Steals the Show, the short-form show, An Unexpected Tale, the improvised fantasy’ ★★★★ (IntermissionBristol.co.uk), and the critically acclaimed A Night of Noir: the…