Tag: comedy
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Sleeping Trees : World Tour
Following the huge success of their epic movie inspired trilogy: MAFIA?, WESTERN? and SCI-FI?, the award winning sketch trio Sleeping Trees embarked on a “WorldTour”. But having lived and worked together for nine years, could their...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Naomi McDonald: Stardumb
One of the UK’s hottest young comedy talents - impressionist Naomi McDonald is smashing down the dressing room doors and rounding up a roomful of stars for the Fringe.
Stardumb reveals the secret lives and...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Olaf Falafel: There’s no i in idiot
Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree | 2 - 26 August (not
14) @ 2:45pm except 21 -25 @ 12:15pm
Critically acclaimed idiot and author, Olaf Falafel is back with another hour of surreal stupidity, inventive jokes, audience participation and the veryloosest...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Laura Lexx: Trying
The Turret, Gilded BalloonTeviot |3 -26 August (not 15) @ 17:15
Recently, Laura has been busy hosting on BBC Radio 4 Extra’s Comedy Club, winning the UK Comedy Award and being nominated for a Chortle Award… for the...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Nick Hall: Spencer
A one-man comedy play about the British Prime Minister that history forgot.
Underbelly (Clover), Bristo Square @ 13:30 August 1 - 27 (not 13)
‘I am murdered!’
It’s May 11th, 1812. The Prime Minister has just been shot dead in the lobby of...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Sid Singh: American Bot
Just the Tonic at The Mash House (Cask House)
2 - 26 (not 13) August @ 18:25
Following his first solo stand-up album, Amazing, Probably, which went to number 3 in the iTunes Comedy Chart, Sid Singh returns to the Edinburgh...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Leo Kearse: Right Wing Comedian
Pravda @ Espionage | 2 - 27 (not 14) @ 7.30pm
Scottish Comedian of the Year Leo Kearse rips into liberals in his follow up to last year's sellout hit I Can Make You Tory. He takes a...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Rory O’Keeffe: The 37th Question
One show: three possible endings.
Banshee Labyrinth (Cinema Room) 4 – 26 August @ 13:20
Stuart and Zoe meet for their first date and do ‘The 36 Questions’, an infamous psychological experiment designed to make strangers fall in love.
It works. Now, after four years as a...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Alex Kealy: A Kealy’s Heel
Political comedian & ball of anxiety Alex Kealy trains his sights on love and politics. II’s territory already covered by War & Peace, Life & Fate and Ant & Dec.
Politically everything is on fire...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Dominic Frisby’s Financial Game Show
Gilded Balloon Teviot, Billiard Room 1 - 26 August 2018 (except 15) @ 17:00
Kerr-ching!
For his much anticipated return to Edinburgh, following his widely-acclaimed show, Let’s Talk About Tax, the world’s only financial expert and comedian, Dominic Frisby has devised a...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Barry Ferns: Barry Loves You
BARRY FERNS: BARRY LOVES YOU | 3 - 27 August (not 13) @ 21:00 |Just The Tonic at The Tron
Love is an absolutely subjective term. What does love mean to you? Is it possible that Barry Loves You?...
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018 Review – Ideal Home ***
Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd star as Erasmus and Paul, long-term lovers who live a carefree life in Sante Fe, where Erasmus is a kitsch celebrity TV chef and Paul his long-suffering producer. The...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Alice Marshall The Strike
Alice Marshall: The Strike
Winner of the 2017 Brighton Fringe Best Comedy Award returns with a brand new show!
Just The Tonic @ The Caves - Aug 2nd-26th, 5.30pm
Critically acclaimed character comedian Alice Marshall returns to the Edinburgh...
Gilded Balloon launches its FIRST Winter Programme!
Gilded Balloon is proud to present a brand-new, year-round home for comedy, theatre and cabaret right in the heart of the city’s West End
Headlining Gilded Balloon’s inaugural winter programme will be Morag Fullarton’s critically-acclaimed,...
Comedian Tom Stade to Appear at The Stand
Tom Stade’s 60 date Autumn tour comes to Edinburgh in November.
Canadian stand-up, Tom’s, affable and easy going wit is, as always, in evidence. A free flowing show focusing on a Mid-life crisis and middle...
Stand up comedy featuring Seymour Mace (and burgers)
There will be a night of live, alternative stand up comedy at the Braid Hills Hotel, Morningside on 3 November 2017 with Seymour Mace.
The line up includes MC GARETH WAUGH "One of the fastest rising...
Your deepest desires revealed in song
The Singing Psychic is back at the Edinburgh Fringe – she always knew she would be.
This time the amazing Polish visionary unveils her brand spanking new game show packed with songs, 70s-style team games (including Fourtunes)...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Sh!t I’m in Love with you Again
Rachelle Elie can tell you more about love and relationships than Gwyneth Paltrow, Madonna and Katy Perry could ever do – and she’s laying it all on the line.
The Outstanding Canadian Comedy Award winner is bringing her...
Discover the Difficulties of Romance at this Year’s Edinburgh Fringe
Discover the
Difficulties of Romance at this Year’s Edinburgh Fringe
Show Title: Schutte the Unromantic
Written and performed by Katy Schutte
Katy Schutte is a Funny Women finalist and winner of the Best Comedy Show Latest Awards at Brighton...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Sixth Night: Shakespeare For Those With Short Attention Spans
Rolling In The Aisle Productions presents:
Sixth Night: Shakespeare For Those With Short Attention Spans
How do you bring Shakespeare to the Edinburgh Fringe? Cut down one of his most famous plays and give it a...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – NAKED AMBITION
In 1997 Simon Morley created the global smash hit and Edinburgh Fringe
favourite Puppetry of the Penis. Now he bares all in a slightly
different way, in a show that looks back on twenty years' worth...
Just Festival 2017
Just Festival 2017: Press Release
The world is in a difficult place at the moment. From the domestic to the global, the personal to the political, for those who wish to make the world a...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – The Second Coming by Simply Surreal
The Second Coming is a farcical, contemporary retelling of the Nativity story.
This debut performance of The Second Coming by Dougal Thomson is a thoroughly humorous and modern examination of faith and miracle in the 21st century. The play...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – The Agony and the Ivories
Bill Larkin (Comedy Central's "Premium Blend") stands behind his keyboard for an evening of original comedy songs. The Los Angeles Times calls him “bitingly satirical”. Weird Al Yankovic himself says he’s “a big fan”. Intended for...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – NewsRevue 2017
NewsRevue may be back every year but it’s always an entirely new show!
This Guinness World Record-breaking, Fringe First-winning, Perrier finalist, news-based song and sketch show is where you should come if you’re in need of a cathartic...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Olaf Falafel presents The Marmosets Of My Mind
Critically acclaimed idiot, Olaf Falafel is back with another hour of surreal stupidity.
Who knows what it'll involve, probably conkers, maybe sandpaper. Whatever it is, he personally guarantees your money back if you actually learn something of...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Prom Kween
From the team who brought you the sell-out hits Dizney Rascal; Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho and How to Win Against History; winner of a VAULT Festival Comedy Award and an Underbelly Untapped Award...
Inspired by true...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Carmen Lynch: LYNCHED
“I don’t think I’m going to live a long life because I’ve never seen any really tall old ladies.”
In her UK debut hour LYNCHED, Carmen Lynch (The Late Show with David Letterman, The Late...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Andrew Doyle: Thought Crimes
Andrew Doyle doesn’t know his left from his right. But then, neither does anyone else. A staunch left-winger, Andrew has somehow found himself accused of being on the Dark Side. Partly it’s because he’s...
Topically Tinsel at The Traverse
By John Kennedy and Phyllis Stephen
Christmas-Pud cookin' and brandy flaming hot news reaches The Edinburgh Reporter from our friends at The Traverse Theatre announcing their Autumn/Winter season that promises some seriously Christmas chill-outs.
As the...
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