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Abandoman
Date	Location
Bound and Gagged Comedy. Abandoman is back! Abandoman recently completed a UK tour with Ed Sheeran. They create hilarious musical sketches at lightning speed live in front of their audience. ' Flight of the Concords meets 8 Mile ' (Chortle.co.uk). Ages 16+. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
1 Aug–3 Aug Wed–Fri 9.45–10.45pm Preview performance.	Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh
4 Aug–27 Aug Mon–Sun 9.45–10.45pm	Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh
6 Aug–7 Aug Mon & Tue 9.45–10.45pm Two-for-one ticket offer available.	Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh

The Broken Windows Policy
Date	Location
The Stand's monthly sketch show returns with new skits and character treats featuring the best of fresh Scots comedy, including Larah Bross, Dave MacGregor and Ben Verth. View full details
6 Jun 7.30pm There are also a whole bunch of special guests this evening, you lucky ducks. Enjoy Siân Bevan, Keir…	The Stand, Edinburgh
4 Jul 8.30pm	The Stand, Edinburgh

The Colour Ham
Date	Location
Magical comedy sketch group comprising Colin McLeod, Gavin Oattes and Kevin McMahon, making good use of absurdity, magic and mentalism. Member Gavin Oattes allegedly once licked Paul Daniels' face, so anything could happen, really. Over 18s only. View full details and ticket info
5 Jul 8.30pm Part of Edinburgh International Magic Festival.	The Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh

The Dog-Eared Collective: You're Amazing, Now Look at Me
Date	Location
Corrie McGuire for Objective Talent. Anarchic funnymongers The Dog-Eared Collective are back to bend your minds with more supercharged silliness. See super Swedes ABBA go head-to-head in a steam room smackdown, while the girl guides get political and Paddington Bear meets 8 Mile. This is surreal and inventive sketch comedy that'll surprise your eyes. 'Hilarious' (Sunday Times). 'One to watch' (Metro). 'Simply Inspired' (TheArtsDesk.com). 'Haemorrhage-inducingly funny' (WhatsOnStage.com). View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
2 Aug–3 Aug Thu & Fri 3.50–4.50pm Preview performance.	Underbelly, Edinburgh
4 Aug–26 Aug Mon–Sun 3.50–4.50pm	Underbelly, Edinburgh
6 Aug–7 Aug Mon & Tue 3.50–4.50pm Two-for-one ticket offer available.	Underbelly, Edinburgh

Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Date	Location
The big daddy of arts festivals, the Fringe has it all. The facts and figures speak for themselves: nearly 1.9 million tickets sold in 2011 for 41,689 performances of 2,542 shows in 258 venues. It's the biggest celebration of theatre, comedy, cabaret, children's shows, dance, physical theatre, musicals, operas, exhibitions and music in all its forms in the world. View full details
3 Aug–27 Aug Times vary	Various venues, Edinburgh

Enterteasement
Date	Location
A spell-binding mix of comedy, magic and burlesque featuring performances from the like of mind reader Colin McLeod, burlesque acts Daiquiri Dusk and Scarlet Fever and comedians Anna Devitt and Graham Mackie. View full details
22 Jun 7.30pm	The Hold (Underneath The Admiral Bar), Glasgow

The Ginge, the Geordie and the Geek: All New Show 2012
Date	Location
Just the Tonic in association with DAA Management. After three sell out years, including selling 7000 tickets last year, the boys return once again, fresh from filming their new BBC pilot to bring you a brand new hour of truly uplifting silliness, surrealism and 80's anthems. Performing the show twice daily at 4.45pm and then again at 7.45pm, there's now no excuse to miss the biggest selling sketch show at the Fringe. So if you like your comedy served extremely funny, order a portion of… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
2 Aug–3 Aug Thu & Fri 4.45–5.45pm & 7.45–8.45pm Preview performance.	Just the Tonic, Edinburgh
4 Aug–26 Aug Times vary	Just the Tonic, Edinburgh
6 Aug–7 Aug Mon & Tue 4.45–5.45pm & 7.45–8.45pm Two-for-one ticket offer available.	Just the Tonic, Edinburgh

Jo Caulfield's Comedy Collective
Date	Location
Jo Caulfield hosts an evening of experimental stand-up, sketches, characters and there's even a rogue game show featuring some of Edinburgh's finest. View full details
19 Jun 8.30pm 17 Jul 8.30pm	The Stand, Edinburgh

Junior Melting Pot
Date	Location
Budding comedy writers from the past eight years hand over their material to a young bunch of thesps from the Lyceum Youth Theatre who'll bring sketches and skits to life on stage. View full details
3 Jun 4.30pm	The Stand, Edinburgh

Kieran & Joe: Edinburgh Previews
Date	Location
Sketch comedy spoofing a friendship training course. View full details
16 Jun–30 Jun Jun 16, 30, 7pm 14 Jul–28 Jul Jul 14 & 28, 8.30pm	Leicester Square Theatre, London WC2H

Little Wander Edinburgh Comedy Festival Previews
Date	Location
Whimsical storytelling from Elis James, plus sketch comedy from Sheeps. View full details
10 Jun Jun 10, 8pm	The Moon Club, Cardiff

Max and Ivan Are… Con Artists
Date	Location
Phil McIntyre Entertainments by Arrangement With Dawn Sedgwick Management. Six ex-cons, one final job. The Hacker. The Smooth Talker. The Mercenary. The Driver. The Architect. And Graham (he does HR, mainly). All are reunited by the Ringleader to conduct one final sting - taking down a sinister oligarch. If we told you any more, we'd have to kill you. Luckily, that's more or less the plot. An epic narrative sketch comedy heist from Max and Ivan. Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award Winners/Total… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
1 Aug–3 Aug Wed–Fri 3.30–4.30pm Preview performance.	Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh
4 Aug–27 Aug Mon–Sun 3.30–4.30pm	Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh
6 Aug–7 Aug Mon & Tue 3.30–4.30pm Two-for-one ticket offer available.	Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh

Max & Ivan Are…Con Artists
Date	Location
Sketch comedy from the Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning duo. View full details
22 Jun Jun 22, 8pm	The MAC, Belfast

McNeil and Pamphilon
Date	Location
Ditto Productions by Arrangement With Debi Allen Associates. The award-winning double act return triumphantly to Edinburgh for a third year after sell-out shows in 2010/11. Come see why critics have compared them to Morecambe and Wise, Reeves and Mortimer and The Mighty Boosh! As seen on BBC and MTV. ★★★★★ 'Face-achingly funny' (ThreeWeeks). 'The key to a great double-act is chemistry - McNeil and Pamphilon have enough to start their own laboratory. Their excellent show never falters… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
1 Aug–3 Aug Wed–Fri 4.30–5.25pm Preview performance.	Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh
4 Aug–27 Aug Mon–Sun 4.30–5.25pm	Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh
6 Aug–7 Aug Mon & Tue 4.30–5.25pm Two-for-one ticket offer available.	Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh

Melting Pot
Date	Location
Okay audience, you're in charge now. Vote for the best of the new sketches and skits from local comedy types and revel in the fact that you've probably cheered up a writer's night. View full details
13 Jun 8.30pm 11 Jul 8.30pm	The Stand, Edinburgh

NewsRevue
Date	Location
Canal Cafe Theatre. Guinness World Record-breaking Fringe favourites mock the year's news events, mercilessly lampooning those in the public eye. No one is safe - politicians and celebrities alike come under fire in a turbo-charged barrage of bladder-threateningly funny songs and sketches that are so close to the bone you can almost see white. The sing-off between Cameron and Salmond, in a hilarious re-working of Destiny's Child's Independent Women, makes it worth the ticket price alone. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
1 Aug–3 Aug Wed–Fri 6.20–7.20pm Preview performance.	Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh
4 Aug–26 Aug Mon–Sun 6.20–7.20pm	Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh
6 Aug–7 Aug Mon & Tue 6.20–7.20pm Two-for-one ticket offer available.	Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh

No Poofs No Piano
Date	Location
HyHo Productions. Following their hugely successful global tour of Ruislip, the City of Edinburgh cautiously welcomes sketch show mavericks No Poofs No Piano to our humble Fringe. Join comedy's favourite sons and their cavalcade of unforgettable characters for an explosion of laughter and rakish tomfoolery. An hour of stupendous buffoonery and high jinks awaits. Ages 16+. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
3 Aug–4 Aug Fri & Sat 2.05–2.55pm Preview performance.	theSpaces on the Mile, Edinburgh
6 Aug–7 Aug Mon & Tue 2.05–2.55pm Two-for-one ticket offer available.	theSpaces on the Mile, Edinburgh
8 Aug–18 Aug Mon–Sat 2.05–2.55pm	theSpaces on the Mile, Edinburgh

Oyster Eyes Presents: Some Rice
Date	Location
Oyster Eyes. Oyster Eyes are doing it again and this time they're really doing it. Breakthrough stars of Where Did All the Dogs Go?, The Chicken Gang and Daddies Chocolates! bring you their really good new show. Hot on their own heels, Oyster Eyes want to show you some cool jokes and a medley of sweet sketches, all in the world famous fashionable style. Come on down, take off your shoes, wash your hands and enjoy some rice for God's sake. Ages 14+. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
2 Aug–3 Aug Thu & Fri 10.25–11.25pm Preview performance.	Underbelly, Edinburgh
4 Aug–26 Aug Mon–Sun 10.25–11.25pm	Underbelly, Edinburgh
6 Aug–7 Aug Mon & Tue 10.25–11.25pm Two-for-one ticket offer available.	Underbelly, Edinburgh

Simply The Jest: Middle Class Tripe
Date	Location
Sketch comedy celebrating the absurdities of middle class life. View full details
30 May May 30, 9.30pm	The Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter

Spanktacular!
Date	Location
James Wren, Leon Fleury/Corrie McGuire for Objective Talent Management. The late night show of the Fringe returns to Udderbelly for three Spanktacular nights! James and Leon bring their stellar five star night back after 2011's total sell-out, for sketch, character, musical and stand up comedy with the traditional gratuitous nudity. 'What the festival should be about' (List). 'Comedy and legendary party night … if you haven't experienced this night, get down there right away!' (Time Out). View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
12 Aug–25 Aug Sat 12.50–2.50am	Underbelly Bristo Square, Edinburgh

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