Comedy

A brand new show from everyone's favourite bigoted landlord, Al Murray, star of Happy Hour. Please only cheer at the irony and stay in your house if you actually hate the French.

Inventive and thought-provoking humour from writer and leader of The Horne Section, Alex Horne. Also featuring intelligent wit from stand-up, writer and one third of sketch troupe Jigsaw, Craine.

A load of comedians, including Billy Kirkwood, How Do I Get Up There and Mark Nelson, give up their time to help raise money for Scotland's leading dementia charity.

Amy now has a job and is setting up a free school! Come prepared to learn - poetry, apostrophes and a special lesson for R Kelly on metaphor. All new show if you came last year. ‘Amy Wright has amassed a collection of material so eclectic that her hour-long show might as well have bolts through its neck…

Inventive, offbeat humour and intelligent wit from the vegan, amateur occultist and member of steampunk band The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing.

Andy Day and comedy partner Mike James present a lively children's show in which they discover a mysterious machine which takes them on a journey through time.

Graham. After their acclaimed freshman show Graham Rex, Graham return to the Fringe with brand new sketches in AntiGraham. When bloodthirsty badgers stage a coup d'etat, four friends find themselves trapped in an underground bunker, with only their dreams and memories for comfort. This meline revolution is tearing…

This is a show on top of Arthur's seat, every day at 1pm. It is only a 45 minute walk from the Royal Mile (really!), a totally unique (and funny) event at the most spectacular venue in Edinburgh. You can't afford to miss it. ‘One of the friendliest, fun and memorable shows at the Fringe this year’ ★★★…

Clive Anderson ties up the Loose Ends with cool music, lots of comedy and, of course, scintillating conversation. Recorded for BBC Radio 4. Please note - This is a free event ticketed via a random draw. To enter the draw please visit www.bbc.co.uk/tickets.

Broadcast simultaneously live on BBC Radio Scotland and sold out every year for the last decade, Fred MacAulay and Susan Calman bring you the pick of the very best comedy from the Fringe. Please note - This is a free event ticketed via a random draw. To enter the draw please visit www.bbc.co.uk/tickets.

Offbeat and deadpan humour from Norwegian stand-up and 2012 winner of Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, Daniel Simonsen. Also featuring Sam Fletcher.

Hired by Aladdin's genie, trainer Alice Lashman is here to teach you how to wish successfully. Grab a birthday candle, find a dandelion puff and come to Alice's seminar to learn how to avoid the mistakes of bankrupt lottery winners, our coalition government and fame-rejecting reality TV stars. Also featuring…

St Andrews' oldest, best and only improv troupe is lonely. Talented, well-educated, semi house-trained performers seek that special hour-long connection with a supportive audience. Open to suggestions. No night is ever the same and former audiences have described us as inexplicably pleasurable. Mild performance anxiety.

Following his smash hit, sell out show ‘Words, Words, Words’ in 2010, which won both the Edinburgh Comedy Award Panel Prize and a Malcolm Hardee Award, and received unprecedented rave reviews, comedy sensation Bo Burnham returns to the Fringe for a strictly limited run with his brand new show What. The youngest person…

Multi award-winning comic Sam Wills aka The Boy With Tape On His Face takes his show on a tour of the UK. Sam's piercing blue eyes stare out over a rectangle of gaffer tape as he holds his audience spell bound. He deftly unfolds the tangents of his delightful brain process, deliberately preparing each scene and eventually…

No Prophet Theatre Company and Close Up Theatre. Uni is over. The grades are in. And there's just time for one last act of irresponsibility. On their last night as students, these lads have to face their future, so a drug-fuelled bash seems wholly appropriate. An arrestingly dark comedy, offering an intense insight…

Mick Perrin Worldwide in association with Dawn Sedgwick Management. Winner of the 2013 Dave Channel/ Leicester Comedy Festival award for Best New Show. Brett's acclaimed new stand-up show takes on pornography, crying and how to survive a New York blackout, dignity intact. Half jokes, half stories – all cop. Brett is…

Bright Club features its usual intoxicating blend of comedy and academia as lecturers from the city's universities turn their studies into entertaining stories.

• Written by: Tim Firth

Based on the true story of 11 WI members who posed nude for a calendar to raise money for the Leukaemia Research Fund.

• Written by: Tim Firth

When Annie loses her husband to cancer, she decides to honour his memory by purchasing a new sofa for the hospital waiting room. Annie and best friend Chris hit on a unique fundraising idea; a nude calendar featuring the members of the local Women's Institute. The calendar proves much more popular than anyone imagined and…

Following countless sell-out runs, the Cambridge Footlights return to the Edinburgh Fringe as they celebrate the club's 130th anniversary. Many past Footlights have changed the face of British comedy, including Peter Cook, John Cleese, Hugh Laurie and Tim Key. Join 'the most renowned sketch troupe of them all…