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Michael Thomas Kennedy

We’re all going to die! So we might as well laugh about it. In this solo clown show, Jasper the Ghost (Michael Thomas Kennedy) will finally achieve his lifelong (and deathlong) dream of being a world-famous comedian, explore the ups and downs of being a ghost, process the harsh truths of his own death, and may even help one lucky audience member cross something off their bucket list before it’s too late.

199 Jokes Before Lunchtime: Danny Matinee!

Danny Matinee

Sell-out show, Edinburgh Fringe 2025! As featured in The Times and Telegraph Best Jokes of Edinburgh Fringe 2025! An insect joke? Tick. A tartan joke? Check. Join Danny Matinee for at least another 197 one-liners including props, pictures, 'guess the punchline', bonus puns and more. Includes a farmer gag that's corny, and an optician joke that's cornea. Suitable for all ages and for fans of Olaf Falafel, Masai Graham, Milton Jones, Mark Simmons and Tim Vine. 'Finely crafted... slick wordplay... near-faultless timing' ***** (TheEdinburghReporter.co.uk). 'A brilliant way to set up your day' ***** (UKTW.co.uk).

Absolute Improv!

TBC Improv

Big laughs, multi-year sell-out. Absolute Improv! is a family-friendly, high-energy improv comedy show created entirely from audience suggestions. For 16 years, this Edinburgh team of global improv company TBC Improv have delivered lightning-fast games, outrageous characters and unforgettable moments – returning year after year to packed houses. Every performance is completely unscripted and totally unique. Expect quick-fire scenes, big characters and joyful chaos the whole family can enjoy together. No two shows are ever the same – once it’s over, it’s gone forever. Five-star Fringe favourite. Come see why audiences keep coming back.

Achtung! The Only Sauerkraut in Town

Jürgen Strack Productions

Bauhaus meets Tommy Cooper via a Berlin beer hall. Fifty minutes of storytelling, stand-up and absurdist wit from a student of the legendary Ecole Philippe Gaulier. Less of an act, more of an experience: Jürgen explores what happens when German precision collides with honest foolishness. As seen at Altitude Comedy Festival. The only Sauerkraut you’ll need this August. 'Brilliantly mad' (Mike Gunn). 'No one does what you do' (Logan Murray, Museum of Comedy).

All Tied Up

To&Fro

Within the setting of their mundane office jobs, a clumsy clown enters and disturbs the peace of the stubborn clown, causing a ruckus by playing endless games. But when tension reaches its height, in a moment of chaos the two clowns become bound together by a singular piece of rope. Now joint at the hip, the two must work together and put aside their differences to untangle themselves and return to their normal lives. Join To&Fro in a show that demands you to lose yourself in the relentlessly funny escapism of two fools.

Among the Pigeons

TBC Improv

You suggest it, they perform it. Using your ideas, these five-star internationally reviewed improvisers build a story of life-changing moments, fully unscripted, swooping through big decisions, strange turns and moments of inspired silliness. There’s no script and no safety net, just playful confidence, sharp instincts and a willingness to follow the story wherever it flies. Every show is shaped by the audience and never repeated. Expect a full-feathered flurry of entertainment – surprising, imaginative and impossible to predict. From the Edinburgh-founded, global team behind Fringe sell-out Absolute Improv, Among the Pigeons is improvised storytelling at its best!

August McEachern: Be My Friend

August McEachern

You don’t know it yet, but you are one of August’s closest friends. In a one hour elevator pitch, August will convince you that they’re a person you might want to spend more time with. Delusional, bawdy and brimming with love, August is excited to meet you.

Behind the Laughter

Henry Churney T/A Laugh For Life Comedy (LFLC)

Laugh For Life Comedy’s Behind The Laughter is the journey of a mental wellbeing comedy teaching course. Come and see how this course has helped these individuals with their own issues as they bring to you their own original stand-up comedy performances. Showing how comedy has helped them increase their confidence, their mental wellbeing and feel party of a community. Laugh For Life Comedy will show you how mental wellbeing and stand-up comedy work in harmony using social prescribing at its best. Highly Recommended Show (FringeReview.co.uk). 2026 brings even more acts!

Blood Me Up Marjorie!

Steve Hemsley and Aly Cranston from Project M Productions

Blood Me Up Marjorie! is a fast-paced, laugh-out-loud comedy that peeks backstage at a murder mystery. Don’t miss your chance to go behind the scenes and where nothing goes to plan. Watch a cast of chaotic characters battle to keep the murder mystery alive and their dead body dead in this razor-sharp comedy where the laughs come thick and fast. This hilarious feel-good show has been entertaining audiences across the south of England and makes its Edinburgh Fringe debut.

Bloody Knees

Bloody Knees

Psychologists say inside everyone is a child screaming to be loved. But all this adult child screams for is lager, a wank and late-night TV. Being a woman in your twenties is hard, being a terminal layabout is... not harder, but that doesn’t stop Cass whining about it. Best friend Georgie wants Cass to make something of life (and pay her half of the rent), as the audience is jettisoned through a kaleidoscope of snapshots all twenty-somethings relate to: botched interviews, unrequited ‘love’, public hysteria, and yearning for a childhood innocence you'll never return to.

Crystal Unclear: An Improvised Séance

Come restless spirits and gather here as Shellshock! Improvised Comedy presents a night of hilarious, mystic mayhem with Crystal Unclear! Each night, our mediums will guide you through a never-before-seen tale of a long departed soul, made up on the spot, based on your suggestions. Expect tall tales and terrifyingly funny twists in this narrative-driven improvised comedy show. For everyone from supernatural superfans to those who prefer to live firmly grounded in reality, come along for laughs aplenty in a unique show each night!

CUT

Paperlight Theatre

A rehearsal spirals out of control as a group of actors attempt to stage a play within a play within a play. As complications multiply, the cast begin to forget who they are playing, what the real play is and even who the real director is. What begins as a simple rehearsal soon unravels into confusion and theatrical mishaps. As reality and performance blur, the actors struggle to regain control before everything collapses. A fast-paced comedy revealing the chaos behind the scenes of theatre, packed with absurd misunderstandings and escalating onstage comedic disaster.

Improv Comedy with Box of Frogs

Box of Frogs

Join Box of Frogs for uplifting and hilarious improvised comedy as they return for their fourth triumphant year! Expect the unexpected as these quick-witted performers instantly create silly sketches, catchy songs and ridiculous characters – all inspired by your suggestions! Each show from this award-winning troupe (Best Improv Show, Derek Awards, Edinburgh Fringe 2025) is completely made-up and utterly unique! Audiences say they were 'Laughing hard the whole way through!' and it's 'So good we went back again! Genuine belly laughs'. 'Comedy royalty' ***** (Derek Awards). 'Hilariously funny' ***** (@MoreishTVOfficial).

Improvabunga!

Watch This Improv Troupe

Improvabunga! is the totally improvised movie musical adventure extravaganza. See your favourite film genres come alive on stage in an improvised romp described as 'one of the best improvisation pieces in Edinburgh' **** (EdFringeReview.com). Featuring live musical accompaniment and buzzers that you can use to control the performers. There'll be songs, there'll be tears, there'll be kisses (or slaps) and there will be funny. The Watch This Improv Troupe are back for their 21st Edinburgh Fringe and are ready to create a fantastic story before your very eyes. 'Consistently and outrageously funny' ***** (BroadwayBaby.com). Derek Awards Best Improv 2018.

It's a Mute Point

Zoe Keddie and Tori Kay, Water Horse Productions

Welcome to an average day at The Firm, where you can be electrocuted, waterboarded, strip-teased, and faxed before noon, all before coffee arrives. Clara, head of operations and part-time cult leader, runs the office with charisma capable of sending fleets of dancing men to war and back again for tea. Beside her is Marie, the newest and most competent assistant in company history, diligent but rarely heard once Clara begins. Today, however, the universe has unionised against them: systems fail, clients revolt, and disasters multiply from a single, damning mistake.

Just Blokes

Water Horse Productions

A gay man, a total virgin, a soldier and Buddha walk into a bar. Just Blokes, new Scottish writing, explores male relationships today through sharp dialogue and uncomfortable honesty, challenging masculinity, vulnerability and the quiet pressures men place on themselves and each other. When silence is treated as strength and humour as the universal bandage, what remains unspoken? The piece asks how men can better advocate for themselves and for one another, questioning stoicism as survival, laughter as the best medicine and the Irish goodbye as the only way to leave a party.

Merlesque: How an Adult Woman Became a Mermaid

Elle Rochford

Merlesque is ultimately a tale about a tail. Dr. Elle Rochford is a policy expert uprooted by America’s 2024 presidential election. Finding her PhD useless in a dry job market, Elle decides to get wet. A real fish out of water epic, Merlesque is the true story of how she transformed from a statistician into a birthday party mermaid. Because sometimes all you can do is lean into the absurdity, challenge fascism, and keep treading water.

Not Black Enough

Nate Fleming

This show mines the depth of human identity while deftly exploring all sides. Who am I kidding? This show is just me proving how Black I am. Because I am so Black. Nate takes us on a journey through his life using storytelling from his childhood and beyond to fix racism in America. In one show he fixes all of American racism. I promise you.

Out Damned Traitor!

Shakespeare's School

All the worlds a stage and Claudia Winkleman is its mighty director. In Out Damned Traitor!, the greats of Shakespeare’s plays take to the Roundtable – but little do they know, under the cover of Birnam Wood, fair is foul and foul is fair. Will faithful blood make our traitors hands unclean? Well, revenge is a dish best served at the Fringe. Join us for a night of poisn'd chalices and blood stained hands. With daggers drawn and trust undone, will the faithful stand when the final banishment falls?

Outlaugh: Edinburgh

Outlaugh Comedy

Outlaugh is a cut-throat comedy and social strategy competition show using the rules of the reality show Survivor. Over the course of six shows, twelve comedians will face off in comedic challenges for immunity, while the losers have to vote each other out at tribal council. Every show will feature unique comedy challenges and live eliminations, with a chance for audience members to help their favourite contestants with hidden advantages. Twelve comedians. Six shows. One (similar to / legally distinct from) Survivor.

Scally-wankers

Surely Not Productions

Join Davvy Scabies on our tongue-in-cheek, adult only, panto inspired adventure. With unhelpful heroes, questionable magic and lots of audience engagement, Scally-wankers is ready to take you on a riotous adventure you won’t soon forget. Whether you’re here for the nonsense, the naughtiness or the narrative, there’s something for everyone to grab onto (pun intended). With re-written songs and unbelievably crude jokes, you might need a drink (or five). So buckle up, settle in and prepare to set sail.

Silly Goose!

Silly Goose Comedy

We're all a bit silly from time to time aren't we? Well, we're on the hunt for the Silliest Goose in town! Join us and three comics as we discuss your silliest stories, whether it's saucy scandals, funny first dates or office outrages. There are prizes to be won for the Silliest Goose. So come down and tell your story! Or don't... and just watch as the best in the business make you honk with laughter over other's misfortune!

Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote

Tim Benzie

The cult hit returns with a new episode! Don't miss this hilarious interactive screening of the classic Murder, She Wrote episode Menace, Anyone? 'It has the BEST host' (Time Out London). 'A complete triumph' (Scotsman). ***** (BroadwayWorld.com). Catch this unique night featuring games, prizes and audience participation, with special permission from NBC Universal Television. See the show that has played to sell-out audiences across the UK, Ireland, the USA and Australia, as well as the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023-2025, Adelaide Fringe, and the Murder, She Wrote Festival in Mendocino (Cabot Cove) 2025 and 2026.

The Sound Within with Eisenberg and Stern

Created and Performed by Kayla Eisenberg and Marguerite Stern

World-renowned vocal coaches, voice practitioners, and "gurus of the throat", Carol Eisenberg and Julie Stern host The Sound Within – an undeniably live musical journey that celebrates the miracle of the organic voice (and demystifies non-truths about the status quo in the entertainment industry). Eisenberg and Stern have launched the careers of countless musical artists – including Savvy&Jacqui, The Almond Brothers and The Plain White Jeans – whom they invite on stage to perform chart-topping hits in this two-person musical character comedy.

Theologist

Panad Productions®

Raised Catholic and at one time considering priesthood, Oli Riordan has studied Catholic theology for a decade for the same reason every other bisexual atheist studies Catholic theology. You have to know your enemy. Join Oli (Dublin's Next Top Comic runner-up 2019 and Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian of the Year semi-finalist 2025) for his debut hour as he delves into the world of Catholicism and the Bible as only he can, pausing only to point out the silly, interesting and thoroughly relatable aspects of the world's best-selling, but least read, book.

Tori Morancay: Le French c'est Freak

Tori Morancay's debut solo show, Le French c'est Freak, dives into Frenchness, fiascos and bad decisions with bold, self-deprecating comedy. Raised in France and now based in New York, Tori unpacks cultural confusion, and the chaos of chasing love and applause with an accent she has no intention of losing. Sharp, high-energy and unapologetically honest, this is a feverish hour about identity, dating disasters and the glamour of falling apart.

Trans Butch: Glorious Dog Woman

Ash Routh

Gather round pups, and let mother butch (Ash Routh) take you for a walk through werewolf media, kink and shame. Trans Butch: Glorious Dog Woman is a one tran show about finding community, identity and an insatiable love for the moon. This show contains partial nudity, audience participation and the ritualised sacrifice of deadnames.

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Little Green Men

An incompetent CIA station chief, his new British-Korean interpreter, and an immortal Korean guerrilla find themselves entangled in reckless covert ops and secret psychedelic brainwashing experiments in 1952 Seoul. Flash forward to the present day where conspiracy king Andy Payne has been banned from every major platform and now takes his underground broadcast live, ranting about the lizard people and government mind control. History as hallucination, disinformation as fact, and conspiracy theories on acid.

WEBBER!

Grant Sharkey

The most audacious, hilarious musical about the life of Andrew Lloyd Webber returns! Marvel as young Webber is guided through life by Margaret Thatcher to achieve a lordship and fulfil his ultimate goal of becoming filthy rich and f*cking useless. Will he ever become a lord? Will he ever get to vote on cutting tax credits for the poor? Find out in WEBBER! Starring Laura Clare Reid and Grant Sharkey. Score, book and lyrics by Grant Sharkey. 'Gleefully filthy!' (Scotsman). 'An absolute hoot!' (BritishTheatreGuide.info). 'Riotous!' (SpeakTheSpeech.co.uk). 'Funny as Hell' (StageToPage.co.uk).

Written Off

The Dutch Cords Theatre Company

In Written Off, Phil Deed and Sal Powers have typed themselves into a difficult corner. Phil is a best-selling romantic novelist, brilliantly marketed to Gen Z by his bulletproof agent / publicist, Sal. Together, they’ve forged a life-affirming genre for the social media age – and accidentally become emotionally entangled in the process. But Phil's grown to despise the saccharin-sweet characters that have made them a fortune, and wants to take the genre to an altogether darker place. This new comedy-drama explores a creative partnership, where head and heart are pulled in drastically different directions.

Zero F*cks

Zero

Zero, a New York City based improv comedy team, bring their quick wit and disgusting American humor to the Fringe with their debut show, Zero F*cks. This no-holds-barred comedy show is different every time, as they improvise a brand-new show on the spot based on an audience member’s suggestion. Come see this hot, funny and tastefully crass gaggle of New York performers known for their work at venues such as The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, Second City, Brooklyn Comedy Collective, iO Theater, The People’s Improv Theater, Magnet Theater and more. Chaos will ensue!