Comedy

The ensemble performs Gourd Golly Miss Cauli, Also Sprout Zarathustra and All You Need Is Clove with instruments crafted from fresh vegetables on the day of the show.

John Godber Company and Theatre Royal Wakefield. Olivier award-winning John Godber is back in Edinburgh after ten years with a new comedy, starring Steve Huison (The Full Monty) and Sue Cookson (Casualty). Jack walks out on his job, his wife and teenage children. Beside his bed are copies of Hot Sex Tips and Which…

Former Labour advisor Matt Forde brings political comedy to the people. Opening the show with impressions and stand-up, he also introduces a political figure to discuss their views and beliefs, with a chance for Q&A from the audience.

Intelligent and energetic observational humour from the 2012 winner of Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival Best New Show award.

Remember all those times you said, I’ll go see Nan tomorrow? Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow… Just one more episode of The Big Bang Theory… Then she was dead! Don’t do that with this show, go see it today. Matthew Highton is a sublime stand-up and masterful storyteller who will take you through imaginative and memorable…

The socially awkward, perennially clumsy Miranda off the, what we call, telly embarks on her first ever live tour. Such fun!

P45 Popes. Gun-toting Paralympians. Nick Clegg. We live in ethically uncertain times. Not to worry, though, critically acclaimed comic poets Gary From Leeds and Richard Purnell are here to settle your moral quandaries through the only means necessary: Moraletry. What, you may ask, is Moraletry? Like a cross between…

Julia Sutherland hosts a night for comedians to try out their latest gags and see which ones go down well and which ones don't.

Invisible Dot Ltd. The New Wave, a cross section of the most exciting and innovative new acts in the country - 'this century's Comic Strip' (Sunday Times). A limited nine-show run following a sold out London residency, ahead of an Autumn nationwide tour. 'If you like your comedy daring, clever and with a pinch of…

What would you do if a stranger asked you to father her child? If your dad thought dance school turned you gay? If you'd never seen the man behind the mask? A moving and unforgiving tribute by three performers whose faraway fathers might just make an appearance. International company Babakas take inspiration from…

Four good friends. One last party. One last chance to get more f*cked than the time before! A dangerous, funny, tragic, and honest look beneath the surface as they realise it’s time to get out and grow up. Produced by the New Wolsey Theatre, written by Rob Salmon and performed by the New Wolsey Young Associates, Party…

Adult humour from the TV regular, poet and sometime singer.

Offbeat and inventive humour from the TV regular.

Svenska Teatern coordinated by Ace-Production. The year is 2108. World War Seven has laid waste to the entire planet. The nation states of Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas and Australasia have all been totally destroyed. And yet, miraculously, one small, insignificant country on the outermost fringes of the British…

Weekly beginners' showcase where the bright young things of Scotland's comedy circuit strut their stuff for an entirely reasonable two whole pounds. The occasional seasoned act drops by to try out new material, so it's a bit of a win/win really.

One-day music and comedy festival, featuring, among others, Collectors Club, Middlemen, Goy Boy McIroy gracing the music stage and Scott Gibson, Katy Mulgrew and Pat Monahan on the comedy stage.

Avalon Promotions. After sorting out politics (Hitler Moustache), religion (Christ on a Bike), love (What is Love, Anyway?) and penises (Talking Cock) Herring's tenth consecutive stand-up show tackles the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns (apart from Jesus and that canoe bloke). Is death a…

Gilded Balloon in association with Sloat Entertainment and EMX Management. After last year's sell-out run with The Blanks, Sam Lloyd (Ted from TV's Scrubs) returns to the Fringe to play all 37 roles in Becky Mode's machine gun paced, hilarious one-man comedy play; Fully Committed. Lloyd plays Sam Peliczowski, the…

'Sarah Millican is never less than belly-laugh hilarious' (Mirror). 'An iron fist in a marigold glove' (Guardian). The British Comedy Award’s Queen of Comedy Sarah Millican is giving up the party scene (Ann Summers), easing off on the drinking (fizzy pop equals wealthy dentists) and settling down (taking her bra off).

The journalist and broadcaster shares his love of the singer-songwriter and explains how song lyrics influenced his life.

Observational satire from stand-up and writer of seven sports books, Eddy Brimson. Also featuring Jonathan Mayor, Babatunde and Geoff Norcott.