Fringe events in Edinburgh — Tuesday, August 18 (night)

8:30 pm I Want Your Sex EIFF @ Cineworld

Stuck in a relationship going nowhere with his girlfriend Minerva (Charli xcx) and confused about his sexuality, frustrated and neurotic twentysomething Elliott (Hoffman) finds hi…

8:45 pm Trainspotting Live Pleasance at EICC

Acclaimed immersive rewiring of Irvine Welsh's classic, performed in a unique venue beneath EICC. The audience are literally part of the action, including the notorious 'worst toi…

8:50 pm Avenue Q Braw Venues @ Grand Lodge

This great favourite is back as our sell-out show of puppet mayhem returns again. We follow Princeton as he struggles through life and love. A great show not for the easily offend…

9:00 pm Hot Sounds Island: A Celebration of Japanese Jazz Fusion The Jazz Bar

The UK's first J-Fusion band performs a carefully curated set of live tracks from some of Japan's most iconic bands and artists. From Casiopea to T-Square, Masayoshi Takanaka and…

9:00 pm Daniel Kitson: Thrum The Queen's Hall

There’s the sound of somewhere else and the permanence of a plant pot and the ubiquity of a phrase and the heartbreaking brevity of a very long time. There’s figs and worms and an…

9:00 pm Mi Amor EIFF @ Cineworld

Following a spirited DJ’s search for her missing friend on an island in Gran Canaria, this tense thriller unfolds through striking imagery, a growing sense of unease and a pulsing…

9:00 pm Hungry EIFF @ Cineworld

When a group of tourists ventures off the beaten track in the vast swamplands of the Louisiana Bayou, they find themselves trapped in a claustrophobic open locale by a very large,…

9:05 pm The Faustus Project Underbelly, Cowgate

An actor makes a deal with the devil. This new version of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus features a rotating cast of brave guest performers taking on the challenges of a dev…

9:05 pm Every Ghost Story Ever Hoots @ Potterrow

Join connoisseur of the creepy Billy Bones for a whistle-stop tour of every ghost story ever told, or your money back!* *no refunds. Experience ghost stories from throughout the a…

9:05 pm JOSIAH theSpaceTriplex

Based on the autobiography of Josiah Henson. Born into slavery in Maryland, enduring 41 years of unimaginable brutality and persecution before escaping to Canada. The play dramati…

9:05 pm 44 Minutes Assembly Rooms

Four Strangers. Trapped in a cage. Desperate, they try to piece together what their captors might want from them. Soon enough, they discover that they've been thrown into a perver…

9:05 pm CABAPOCALYPSARET PBH's Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms

THE END OF THE WORLD IS NIGH! Oops, too late. BOOM! Who could see that coming? Join us, The Creative Martyrs: ukulele-plucking, kazoo-humming, cello-strumming, storytelling, singi…

9:10 pm Kanan Gill: Not This Again Pleasance Courtyard

One of India's most prominent stand-up comedians, Kanan Gill returns to the Fringe with a brand-new show. Blending everyday insight with a global sensibility, Kanan's comedy trave…

9:10 pm Mark Silcox – I Have It All [A Success Story] Gilded Balloon Teviot

Mark made his fortune in gold trading and now wants to enjoy this success with other successful friends across film, music, circus, and jugglers. Just like Graham Norton show. As…

9:10 pm The Best of Scottish Comedy The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4

The 31st year of our Fringe flagship show and there’s a reason why this multi-act lineup always sells out! A punchline-packed showcase from headliners to hot up-and-coming acts, h…

9:10 pm Ollie West: Discovery (WIP) Hoots @ Nicolson Square

Ugh. Ugh ugh. Ooga. Ooga ooga. Ugh ugh ugh. Unga bunga. Ooga ugh. Ugh. **** (Scotsman). As seen on Finn vs History, BBC Three and David Attenborough's Walking with Cavemen. Soho R…

9:10 pm Caspar Thomas: The Art of Close-Up Magic (Volume 2) C ARTS | C venues | C alto

The Scotsman’s 2025 top-highlighted show is back. Elite sleight of hand. Stunning magic. Impossible skill. Pure, intimate, close-up magic: no stooges, no electronics, no camera tr…

9:15 pm Comedy Queers Laughing Horse @ Bar 50

Comedy Queers is a spicy mix of outrageous queer comedians, cabaret and drag acts. A sell-out Fringe phenomenon since 2018. Looking for diversity? It's what we do best, babe! If y…

9:15 pm The Singer Traverse Theatre

Featuring music by Grammy Award-nominated KT Tunstall, The Singer is a new piece of gig-theatre about Joe, a deaf artist who 'sings' with his hands, and Andy, a washed-up musician…

9:15 pm Sh!t-faced Shakespeare®: Hamlet Underbelly, Bristo Square

The five-star, multi-sell-out, Fringe phenomenon is back! With its hilarious combination of an entirely serious adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet and an absolutely sh!t-faced act…

9:15 pm Rob Duncan: Printer of the Year Underbelly, George Square

In 2024, Rob Duncan was named Printer of the Year. After 15 years in the industry, he was finally recognised as a pioneer in his field. This show is an hour of printing, celebrati…

9:15 pm Blessings from a Blesbian Boomer PBH's Free Fringe @ CC Blooms

Blessings from a Blesbian (Black lesbian) Boomer is a solo LGBTQ+ 50-minute stand-up comedy show. It is 69 (pun intended) years of hilarious blessings from the adventures of a Ble…

9:15 pm Crapp's River Gilded Balloon Patter House

Returning after a sold-out run! Your favourite fabulously dysfunctional family is back... but they've taken a wrong turn into Crapp's River! This outrageous, unauthorized musical…

9:15 pm Ryan Cullen: Cullen Me Softly Monkey Barrel Comedy (Niddry Street)

Cullen Me Softly is a brand-new hour of sharp, pitch-black one-liners from a comic who isn’t afraid to stare directly into the world’s uglier corners. From the rise of racism in t…

9:15 pm Lou Wall: Where Are All The Tall Grandmas? Monkey Barrel Comedy

Where are all the tall grandmas? Be honest, you’ve never seen one, have you? So where the f#%k are they? Do they shrink? Die young? Are short kings eating them? In this hilariousl…

9:15 pm Adult Panto (Unscripted): The Improvised Adult Panto PBH's Free Fringe @ Liquid Room

Now in its fifth filthy year, The Adult Panto Tour is cumming back to Edinburgh and this time it’s totally (Unscripted). This balls-to-the-wall panto smashes in the back doors of…

9:15 pm The Body I Left in Susquehanna National Forest theSpace @ Niddry St

POV: you and hubby are fresh off the altar, driving to your Niagara Falls honeymoon, sipping on your fave bevvy. It's the middle of the night and you haven't had service for miles…

9:15 pm Puttana Summerhall

Puttana is a work that questions the boundary between body and commodity, between desire and power. In a society that normalises consumption, the buying and selling of bodies foll…

9:15 pm The Vampire Run Laughing Horse @ Home Bar

A dark and stormy night. A vampire’s castle outlined by lightning. An hour to find and kill the dreaded fiend... and one idiot trying to manage the escalating chaos. Join a fast-p…

9:20 pm How Not to Make it in America Summerhall

It's 2001. A naive young Australian actor arrives in New York. One man plays twenty-eight characters in this heartbreakingly funny award-winning play about 9/11 and chasing your d…

9:20 pm Oh My Jehovah! Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street)

Cults are funny... we know, we were born into one. Join us, Jonas and Sylas, as we tell all about our ridiculous upbringing. What did we used to believe? Why did we knock at your…

9:20 pm RapGPT: Macshane Hoots @ The Apex

'The fastest freestyle I have ever seen in my life, ever' (Simon Cowell). 'A lyrical and grammatical genius' **** (FringeFeed.com.au). RapGPT: the future of freestyle comedy – AI…

9:20 pm Otto & Astrid: The Stages Tour Assembly Roxy

Berlin's dysfunctional sibling Prince and Princess of art rock and Europop. Taylor Swift had Eras. Otto & Astrid go through stages. A lipstick-smeared sonic collision between The…

9:20 pm Emma Holland: The Dog Dies at the Start Assembly George Square Studios

I told my manager I wanted to write a show about dead dogs, and she said 'oh god' but that's not really my problem, it's her job to market it. This show isn't sad, you will leave…

9:20 pm Under the Influence Underbelly, Bristo Square

After becoming a viral sensation, identical twins Carine and Frances land in couples therapy as the world’s most co-dependent non-couple. The session erupts into a hilarious music…

9:20 pm The Duo: A Three-Person Magic Show theSpace @ Symposium Hall

The Duo is a three-person magic show featuring a magician, a mentalist and their roommate Charlie. When two best friends needed to add a third person to their show, Charlie was at…

9:20 pm Mock the Clock Hoots @ Nicolson Square

Stand-up comics hit the stage with their best material before throwing caution aside for fast-paced, chaotic improvisation. Expect quick wit, big laughs and unpredictable moments…

9:20 pm Among the Pigeons theSpace @ Niddry St

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…

9:20 pm Brendan Scannell: The Abyss Gilded Balloon Patter House

Making his Edinburgh debut, Emmy-nominated comedian Brendan Scannell descends into the depths of his brain, where his Irish mother is a life coach who is obsessed with death, his…

9:25 pm Katie Norris: Mother Succubus Pleasance Courtyard

Boys of the manosphere: prepare to be spooked. Women with cats: your leader has returned. Last year's Best Show Edinburgh Comedy Awards nominee is back and ready for a new era. A…

9:25 pm James Trickey: Split Pleasance Courtyard

After his sell out debut hour last year ended with a bang, James Trickey got more than he bargained for. This year, he's back with a vengeance (and a brand-new hour) in an attempt…

9:25 pm Andy Field: Giddy Up Pleasance Courtyard

A new hour of stand up comedy from Chortle's Student Comedian of the Year (11 years ago). As an ambitious young stand-up, a Pleasance Fringe run felt like the start of something g…

9:30 pm As Seen on TV: Prime Time Stand-Up All-Stars Hoots @ Nicolson Square

As Seen on TV brings you comedians you know off the telly, Fringe legends, and acts that've gone viral, some you'll know, some you won't. We're definitely post-watershed. Previous…

9:30 pm David Elms Describes a Room Pleasance Courtyard

Following last year's sell-out run, the critically acclaimed cult hit show returns. Together with his audience, veteran improviser Elms builds a comedy mind palace before your ver…

9:30 pm Elf Lyons is The Woman on the Edge Pleasance Courtyard

'I'm sorry, I've said too much...' Sky Arts Award-winning comedian Elf Lyons is The Woman on the Edge. A completely normal, autobiographical (and in no way complex) – observationa…

9:30 pm Lorna Rose Treen: Now That's What I Call Characters Pleasance Courtyard

Fresh off the back of three critically-acclaimed, sell-out Fringe runs, Redditch's best-loved freak Lorna Rose Treen is back with more nonsense. A surreal, silly and joyful compil…

9:30 pm TMI with TIM Laughing Horse @ Boston Bar (New Town)

Turning your stories into absolute bangers. This improvised musical/comedy act is (voluntarily) immersive and (relentlessly) fierce. Get ready to laugh, sing and clutch your pearl…

9:30 pm Ask A Stripper: The Champagne Room Laughing Horse @ Dragonfly

Raw, hilarious, unpredictable, unapologetic and unashamedly honest – this live audience Q&A will have you questioning everything you've previously heard about the sex industry. Tw…

9:30 pm Ify Nwadiwe: An Hour With Ify Nwadiwe Pleasance Courtyard

The host of Dropout's Um, Actually comes to the Fringe for the first time. Ify Nwadiwe is a stand-up, actor (Workaholics, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Adam Ruins Everything), does improv (…

9:30 pm Here Comes Almost ZOO Playground

A clown in search of connection and wild delight can't decide whether to face every fear, sing to the night sky or share their talents... so they do it all (most). Presented by: N…

9:30 pm Mother, Maiden and Crone Bedlam Theatre

By the receding of my gums... Something wicked this way comes. A comedic and farcical retelling of Macbeth from the witches perspective... If the witches were a bimbo shot boy, a…

9:30 pm Smut Slam PBH's Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth

This high-energy dirty storytelling show is packed tight with true-life tales and astonishing secrets, expertly guided by Cameryn Moore, an award-winning performer and playwright,…

9:30 pm CHUCK PBH's Free Fringe @ Canons' Gait

New York comedian Carolyn Castiglia lost her maternal grandparents to a murder-suicide when she was 18 years old. Combining hilarious stand-up and heartbreaking reflection, CHUCK…

9:30 pm Filthy Funny Females Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters

Filthy. Funny. Females. A funny hour served to you by a selection of female comedians from across the globe. Comedian Katharyn Henson (Stories From the Office of a Sex Dungeon, **…

9:30 pm The Stevenson Experience: O Brother, Where Art Thou! (On stage, beside me) Assembly George Square Studios

Two-time Perth Fringe World Best Comedy Show nominees, Thurber Prize semi-finalist, over two million copies sold – Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone book series. Identical…

9:30 pm Baby Wants Candy Assembly George Square Studios

Fringe fave Baby Wants Candy is back! Total Edinburgh Fringe sell-out eight years running. One of the world's most popular comedy ensembles. You shout out the title, Baby Wants Ca…

9:30 pm boobytrapped theSpace on the Mile

Bodyswap romcom chaos erupts when Simon, a trans man, and Kevin, a cis man, meet in a gay club and are instantly drawn to each other. Their hookup derails when Kevin realises Simo…

9:30 pm Blizzard (WIP) Hoots @ Nicolson Square

I have a uniform. A suitcase that becomes a horse. Fake snow. This will have to be enough. One Polish clown attempts the most epic adventure story ever told. He carries an orange.…

9:30 pm Abi Carter-Simpson and Joe McTernan: Stand-up Couple Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn

Still going strong following a hugely successful run last year, this real-life, stand-up couple are back with a brand-new hour of hilarity and fun. Join star of Britain's Got Tale…

9:30 pm Devin Gray: Golden Retriever Energy Laughing Horse @ Kick Ass Cowgate

What does it mean to just show up, fully, messily, without the armour? Award-winning Comedy Central-featured South African comedian Devin Gray explores anxiety, love, and the terr…

9:30 pm Brainwashed Paradise in The Vault

Brainwashed is a dark comedy clown show about growing up under dictatorship in Belarus. Born in the Soviet Union and raised in a country shaped by authoritarian rule, award-winnin…

9:30 pm Aboot Time: Moulin-Esque the Scottish Moulin Rouge Le Monde

A Scottish reimagining of Moulin Rouge bursting with wild energy, fierce humour and heart-pounding spectacle. Set in a world of glamour, this show blends soaring romance, bold cha…

9:30 pm DUSK/NIGHT/DAWN Assembly Roxy

An experimental aerial pole dance explosion performed by NYC collective VERTICAL DREAMSCAPE, featuring US Pole Art Champion Donna Carnow and interdisciplinary artist Gina Alm. DUS…

9:30 pm Same Same but Different PBH's Free Fringe @ Southsider

The show that’s never the same show twice. Sam Adamson, surreal observationalist comedian, and Stacey Edwards, irrepressible musical comedian, (West End New Act finalists) are loo…

9:30 pm Whose Play Is It Anyway? theSpace on the Mile

Join your host, Barry Ruffles, and his glamorous assistant, Jenny Flannel, for a game show like no other! Eighteen pieces of theatre in 50 minutes; all you have to do is guess the…

9:30 pm Imogen Andrews: The Unlikeable Worms Pleasance Dome

Online comedy sensation (500k followers and 300 million views), Imogen Andrews makes her highly anticipated Fringe debut. Characters, sketches, song, multimedia and worms. She's b…

9:30 pm Selina Mosinski: Puss in Boots – A Working Class Fairy Tale Pleasance Dome

Before she was serving immortal lines as viral icon Charity Shop Sue, Selina Mosinski was Randy Cain: an 18-year-old stripper from Derby with a big personality, bigger ambition an…

9:30 pm Final Queen Underbelly, Cowgate

A drag circus horror-comedy. Join Australia’s own circus queen Grace Lightning as she embarks on a road trip through the Outback, dodging deadly snakes and spiders, bigoted crypti…

9:30 pm 150% Masala Comedy Showcase Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street)

Chosen for their unique voice and spice level, top South Asian comics from across the UK are invading Edinburgh for a showcase with their best jokes! Join us before our MCs, Sorab…

9:30 pm Huge Davies: Sleep Paralysis Princess Monkey Barrel Comedy (Cabaret Voltaire)

Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, Huge Davies (Cats Does Countdown, Roast Battle, Off Menu), has not slept for a decade. To mark this ten year anniversary, he’s going to tell jokes…

9:30 pm Hole! Underbelly, Bristo Square

Plug up thy hole! A religious sect in Nebraska wears butt plugs at all times because they believe a wrathful God shall suck the unplugged up, ass-first, to burn on the face of the…

9:30 pm The Séance Starter Kit™ The Speakeasy at The Royal Scots Club

Hope, fear and free shipping. The Séance Starter Kit is a horror-comedy play where a failing late-night TV infomercial collides with the supernatural. You are the studio audience…

9:30 pm The Education of Jane Cumming EIFF @ Cineworld

In early nineteenth-century Edinburgh, two women run a girls’ boarding school, trying to build an independent life in a world with little room for women outside convention. When a…

9:30 pm Salty Brine: HOW STRANGE IT IS (The Neutral Milk Hotel Show) Summerhall

Neutral Milk Hotel's indie-rock triumph In the Aeroplane Over the Sea and Anne Frank's stunning and candid The Diary of a Young Girl fuse with confessions from Salty's adolescent…

9:35 pm Mary Mac – Hail Mary: The Tartan Songstress Assembly George Square Studios

Born and raised in Glasgow, Mary has since taken her Tartan Trail across the world! From cabaret and theatre stages of the UK to cruise ships from the Caribbean to Copenhagen! Fro…

9:35 pm Stop Playing Jacob's Ladder With My Spine ZOO Southside

'There are ants in your drawers. There is food in your microwave. There is blood on the food. There are ants in the blood. They are watching you eat. You have a nosebleed.' Blendi…

9:35 pm Abby Govindan: Pushing 30 Pleasance Courtyard

A new show about dating, getting older and breaking generational curses, from Forbes 30 Under 30, Abby Govindan. Fresh from her international tour and critically acclaimed Off-Bro…

9:35 pm Sam Serrano: Mars The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4

2020 – I was the victim of a hate crime. 2026 – I’m monetizing it in a stand-up show. As seen on Comedy Central and UKTV. 'Killer lines' (Chortle.co.uk). Support for Tom Stade and…

9:35 pm Merlesque: How an Adult Woman Became a Mermaid theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall

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, Ell…

9:35 pm Mr Gary's Adult Kids Show Laughing Horse @ City Cafe

Join Gary G Knightley as he brings some of his favourite acts to the party. Expect Fringe favourites, up and comers and everything in between. This is a compilation show dressed u…

9:40 pm Jamie Wolf: Psycho Gilded Balloon Teviot

A story about loss, grief and the meaning of life, Psycho should be a slow, plodding, tear-jerker of an hour. Instead, join Jamie as he shares an uproariously funny, heartwarming…

9:40 pm Aideen McQueen: Wo-Manosphere Gilded Balloon Teviot

In Wo-Manosphere, Aideen McQueen becomes sober, spiritual and... insufferable! She now finally understands dating, boundaries, attachment and the male loneliness epidemic, she eve…

9:40 pm Adults Only Magic Show Assembly George Square Studios

'An absolute riot!' ***** (TheatreWeekly.com). Brace yourself folks – this is not your nana's magic show. Back and naughtier than ever for their fifth filthy year at Edinburgh Fes…

9:40 pm 33 Years Single Hoots @ The Apex

As seen on Britain's Got Talent! Australia’s most eligible bachelor Daniel Delby had his first girlfriend at 33... for six weeks. Come and see his awkward dating history turned in…

9:40 pm Homunculus theSpaceTriplex

Art is the best revenge. The Off-Off-Broadway camp cult sell-out hit makes landfall in Edinburgh at last! It’s their umpteenth break-up, but this time feels different to artist an…

9:40 pm The First Annual Inaugural Grief Awards Paradise in Augustines

You're invited to The First Annual Inaugural Grief Awards! After losing his father to pancreatic cancer in 2020, Andreas Tsironis grieved. He grieved pretty hard. Now, he's decide…

9:40 pm How to Art Underbelly, Cowgate

Two bananas wake up duct-taped to the wall of an art gallery. Three artists, two auctions, one audience. Get ready to bid! An award-winning clown-fruit mash-up about making art, s…

9:40 pm Austin Walker’s One-Man Variety Show C ARTS | C venues | C aquila

Hollywood’s southern-fried Florida Man delivers a dose of nostalgia, featuring musical numbers, characters and a one-of-a-kind multimedia experience. A living homage to American t…

9:40 pm Jonathan Oldfield: Exquisite Corpse Pleasance Courtyard

The Oxford English Dictionary describes a corpse as (1) a body or (2) spoiling a performance by laughing. Jonathan Oldfield will be using both definitions in his highly anticipate…

9:40 pm Divas of Soul theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall

Following the success of Divas of Jazz, we return with an evening celebrating the voices that have shaped soul music across generations. Tracing the journey from roots to the pres…

9:40 pm Will Hitt: Burying The Dead Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street)

London-based comedian and begrudging generational talent Will Hitt brings a new show to the Fringe. Worked out over years in comedy clubs across the UK (Top Secret Comedy Club, Ho…

9:45 pm Phil Nichol: The Naked Racist Gilded Balloon Teviot

20th anniversary of the 2006 Edinburgh Comedy Award winning show. The unhinged re-telling of an Amsterdam trip gone wrong ending with an epiphany of epic proportions. 'You won't s…

9:45 pm 0% British – Evenings: An Irish Stand-Up Comedy Show Alchemist Cocktail Bar and Restaurant

Warning: absolutely no British comedians were involved in this show. Three Irish headliners take to the late-night stage for an unmissable evening of no-holds-barred stand-up. Pre…

9:45 pm DIVAS: From Stage To Screen Assembly Rooms

The DIVAS are back... bigger, better and beltier! The five-star production is back for 2026 with a cast of professional singers and live band to celebrate some of the greatest DIV…

9:45 pm Sophie's Surprise 29th Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows

Get in losers, Sophie is turning 29 (again!). Part circus spectacle, part comedy mayhem, and all-out 90s nostalgia, featuring world-class performers from Cirque du Soleil, La Cliq…

9:45 pm Tori Morancay: Le French c'est Freak theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall

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…

9:45 pm Jordan Brookes: The Part of You That's Always Screaming Pleasance Dome

The award-winning Elvis of comedy continues his residency at the gates of Hell, with a new show inspired by an absolutely shocking incident on a train. Have you ever felt seen and…

9:45 pm Chad Goes Deep – Chill Towards Enlightenment Assembly George Square

Chill Towards Enlightenment is a satirical self-help seminar from the creator of Chad Goes Deep, with over 1 million followers online. According to Chad's research, the world is c…

9:45 pm House of Life Underbelly, George Square

House of Life is back. One part sermon. One part purge. Three parts party. 'The show that turns strangers into friends' (Lyn Gardner) is ready to cure your existential dread with…

9:45 pm Lil Wenker: BOYKING Pleasance Courtyard

All hail BOYKING! Eight-year-old Prince Wilfred (Willy for short) seeks power at all costs including but not limited to: death, destruction and dastardly deeds. Nowhere near in li…

9:45 pm Chelsea Birkby: Is In Full Control The Entire Time Pleasance Courtyard

Do we make our own choices? Twice Comedian's Choice Best Show nominee returns with an hour about control (or the illusion of it) and how you can get it too. Expect 'charm by the b…

9:45 pm Tom Towelling Teaches You to Knit Pleasance Courtyard

Highly anticipated stand-up debut from the winner of the Channel 4 Sean Lock Comedy Award 2025. Expect songs, dancing and lessons on the threads that knit us together. As seen on…

9:45 pm Late Bite: Mixed-Bill Late-Night Stand-Up Laughing Horse @ West Nic Records

Come see an intoxicating blend of new talent and established acts (different line-up nightly). A perfect way to sample an eclectic and unpredictable bite of Fringe craziness. You…

9:45 pm Laughing Horse Fringe Comedy Selection Laughing Horse @ Bar 50

See the very best comedians, selected from across the Fringe, alongside hot new talent and fresh Fringe newcomers, with a different comedy line-up daily at each show in this selec…

9:45 pm Paul Dennis: Title Explained In Blurb – The Musical. Well… sort of. Hoots @ The Apex

"Make the title self-explanatory", they said. Yeah. You can't say that to an autistic person and expect them not to hemorrhage. The show is funny songs and stories about office fr…

9:50 pm To My Wife's Next Lover Greenside @ Riddles Court

As his melanoma worsens, a young husband is forced to reflect on how his wife will have to live and love after his passing. He begins to document his favourite things and advice a…

9:50 pm Sam Rhodes: Toy Cocoon Hoots @ The Apex

'When I was a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. Then, I failed to succeed, so I got those childish things straight back out'. After…

9:50 pm AI Campfire [Return] Venue 13

Welcome... Come closer... This is no ordinary fire. Step into an intimate, immersive campfire where mythical forces of nature meet in the shadow of a changing world. Once again gu…

9:50 pm Aquarius Rising Greenside @ Riddles Court

Stuck in a codependent and toxic relationship, Aries drives blindly down a boulevard of broken dreams. His life, a shit storm of dysfunction. Aquarius Rising is a darkly hilarious…

9:50 pm Human Jukebox theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall

Forget your troubles and get happy with the hottest new game show to hit the UK in years! Featuring six different theme nights: Throwback, Country/Folk, Broadway, Divas and more!…

9:50 pm 2 Queers in Tears? Greenside @ George Street

A fast-paced, funny and tender two-hander following queer drama school students navigating identity, friendship, cultural wounds and the journey to becoming their authentic selves…

9:50 pm Stamptown Assembly George Square Gardens

New York Times Top Comedy Pick (2021-2025), Edinburgh Fringe Sold Out Run (2017-2025). A raunchy and chaotic full-on fever dream, Stamptown is 80 minutes of pure spectacle featuri…

9:50 pm The Only Man Who Won't F*ck Me ZOO Playground

Kat has it all figured out: a rent-stabilized Brooklyn apartment, a clinically tight pussy and a business built on knowing what men want. She's the witchy brunette you hooked up w…

9:55 pm The Meeples: XXX Greenside @ George Street

The world’s most famous puppets have lost their funding, been kicked off TV and are now hunted by ICE. Broke and desperate they throw a filthy, drug-fuelled cabaret packed with li…

9:55 pm Alcohol Free Comedy Hoots @ Nicolson Square

Top comedians cover everything from booze-fuelled chaos to sober living and the blurry middle ground. It's the stories from wild nights out, morning-after regrets, decisions to qu…

9:55 pm GOSS Assembly Roxy

Award-winning dancer and comedian Sam Burkett is here for the freshest gossip – and they want it LIVE. Watch them spin your stories into a hilarious blend of improv comedy and exp…

9:55 pm New Zealand Comedian, New Zealand Comedian, New Zealand Comedian Laughing Horse @ City Cafe

Up-and-coming NZ comedian and serial OCD sufferer Danny Sewell presents his funniest hour of comedy to date. Winner of Best Up-and-Coming Comedian at the 2022 NZ Comedy Guild Awar…

10:00 pm Momme Domme Braw Venues @ Grand Lodge

You’re invited to an exclusive preview of How To Be A Domme 101, hosted by performance artist and aspiring institutional darling Peggy Mitchell. Each night, four women arrive read…

10:00 pm A-List Burlesque and Cabaret Laughing Horse @ The Counting House

A-List Burlesque and Cabaret delivers glittering tease, sharp comedy, soaring vocals and unapologetic spectacle. This acclaimed cabaret company has been performing since 2017, bui…

10:00 pm B*tch Eat Dog Greenside @ George Street

A new kind of IUD insertion leads to rats being shoved down a cervix. Punch and Judy perform a gender-swapped adaptation of Moby Dick. A tradwife hawks her questionable raw milk w…

10:00 pm 3's Comedy: Nights Laughing Horse @ West Nic Records

The sun has gone down and the lights have come up so that means it's time for comedy. 3's Comedy: Nights brings together three of the best young acts of the new wave of Australian…

10:00 pm Purple Park Comedy Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree

Purple Park Comedy is a dynamic stand-up showcase born in New York City and built around one mission: highlight the voices that reflect the true diversity of comedy today. Featuri…

10:00 pm Sjur Hjeltnes: Go Go Go Cake and Piano Gilded Balloon Patter House

This show is a celebration of useless and delicious things such as art, music and cake. Things that have no practical application whatsoever. Not sensible, smart and efficient thi…

10:00 pm John Robertson's The Dark Room Gilded Balloon Patter House

Come play the legendary Fringe live-action videogame! Win money or ya die! New deathtraps for 2026! The Dark Room fuses improv, gaming and stand-up into the Fringe's most deranged…

10:00 pm Footstomping Live Scottish Music WHISKI Bar & Restaurant

Join us at the multi award-winning Whiski bar and restaurant for a vibrant foot-stomping good time, as we showcase many traditional Scottish music bands during August. Toes will b…

10:00 pm 3 out of 4 Twats Laughing Horse @ West Port Oracle

3 out of 4 Twats are a dynamic collective who have had sell-out shows at GICF and Edinburgh Fringe since 2022. Led by Backbone Comedy’s Jimi Longmuir, the full run at West Port Or…

10:00 pm F*cking Famous PBH's Free Fringe @ Carbon

Molly Sharpe is a famous pop star touring her new album, F*cking Famous, and this show is a stop on her world tour. Tonight, Molly must put on the show of a lifetime. By herself.…

10:00 pm Free Live Music Stramash

Stramash is a lively, 700-capacity live music venue and sports bar in the heart of Edinburgh's Old Town. Located in the Cowgate, the massive venue is housed within the former Free…

10:00 pm Good Pill Hunting Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters

Fresh from a hit run at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Zach Riley brings his solo hour Good Pill Hunting to Edinburgh. But what's it about? Well it's about his dead…

10:00 pm Sami Abu Wardeh Hates You Pleasance Courtyard

It seems hate is the sole domain of the far right, and Sami asks – can people who care start hating again? Can hate help us? And most importantly – can hate be funny? Award-winnin…

10:00 pm Where is Sikisa? (WIP) Monkey Barrel Comedy (Cabaret Voltaire)

An 'irresistible force of nature' **** (BeyondTheJoke.co.uk), Sikisa returns with a work in progress. Following the success of her award nominated 2025 Edinburgh Fringe show Servi…

10:00 pm Nerdy and Dirty: Part Classroom, Part Classless Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap

Did you know what undiagnosed STD can cause mental disorders? Or which wild animals can be gay? Or anything about duck penises? Zoltan Illes, a former international biology teache…

10:00 pm Dinosaurs Greenside @ Riddles Court

Dinosaurs begins when Claire comes home to an unexpected guest: a real-life dinosaur rummaging through her apartment. After retracing her steps, she concludes the dinosaur is a st…

10:00 pm Sophia Wren: The Best Girl in the World Gilded Balloon Teviot

Sophia, 'main character of the world,' remembers a teenagehood spent fantasizing about injuries that would earn her the attention she craved. Now an adult trapped inside her own d…

10:00 pm Absolutely! One-Liner Jokes! Braw Venues @ Grand Lodge

The show contains an hour of quick-fire one-liner jokes and short stories about the most important things in life. There is also a little musical comedy. (Some Guy Called) Dave Be…

10:00 pm SpitNights – Poetry Meets Improv Jazz theSpace @ Symposium Hall

Combining the most exciting talent on the jazz and poetry scene, where no two events are ever the same. The one rule of the show: no rehearsals. Just explosive interludes, hilario…

10:00 pm Tony Cantwell: You Cry Weird Underbelly, Bristo Square

If you didn’t laugh, he’d cry. Dublin Fringe Award nominee Tony Cantwell has cried for some wild reasons over the years. A TV show about dogs. A drunken run on a treadmill. Gettin…

10:00 pm I'm Still Not That Girl Braw Venues @ Hill Street

Award-winning dark comedy following Jessica Lia Berry through grief, dating, bad decisions, fake engagements, pregnancy scares, and the messy search for self-worth. Blending story…

10:00 pm Beth and Ben: Your Place in the Workplace Braw Venues @ Hill Street

Ever wanted to murder HR, sexually assault a puppet and sing a workplace song? Join Strategists Beth and Ben as they induct a cohort of new-starters into ENTITY, a global superpow…

10:00 pm Sarah Roberts: Scary Movie 7 Monkey Barrel Comedy

Do you think we’re ever truly forgiven? Sarah has never gotten over anything. Not because she’s annoying, because she’s cursed. Oh, and she needs your soul for something. Nothing…

10:00 pm The Cheesecake Burlesque Revue theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall

Canada’s Cheesecake Burlesque Revue, winners of the Burlesque Hall of Fame Best Large Group 2024, are celebrating 20 joyously ridiculous years of burlesque brilliance! This high-e…

10:00 pm Skintown EIFF @ Cineworld

Set in 1994 Northern Ireland during the IRA ceasefire, best friends Vinny and Jonty party with friends, cut deals and make plans to escape small town life. The uncertainty and ins…

10:00 pm Pretty Babies EIFF @ Cineworld

Two young girls flee their hometown drawn by the seductive promise of the Hollywood they imagine from the old classics they idolise. Embarking on a road trip for which they're ill…

10:05 pm Unexplained Live theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall

Described by the Guardian as 'the world's spookiest podcast,' with over 80 million streams, Unexplained has beguiled listeners for over a decade with real-life tales of the strang…

10:05 pm Gag Writer Greenside @ George Street

Melissa has been a sex worker for 30 years, and has loved every second and sequin. Reality TV star, columnist, actor and author, as well as unashamed tart. Join for a romp through…

10:05 pm Goose's Big Game Show Assembly George Square Studios

Goose's Big Game Show is fully interactive, fast-paced and different every single night. Teams, rivals and champions are all made in the same hour. Real prizes, exhilarating topic…

10:05 pm William Thompson: Touch Grass Monkey Barrel Comedy at O'Neill's (The Tron)

The government wants to ban under-16s from social media, but is it really that bad? Having been raised by the internet, Belfast comic William Thompson ponders if other generations…

10:05 pm A Gay Masseur's Guide to Happy Endings Greenside @ George Street

A broke actor in New York turns to “gay massage” to make rent. What follows is a darkly funny, unfiltered descent into sex work, addiction, blurred boundaries and the relentless n…

10:10 pm Raves R Us Underbelly, Cowgate

As seen at Glastonbury – the show that turns into a rave is back. Toys"R"Us has shut its doors for good. Charlie and his mates are left jobless, skint and spiralling in a crumblin…

10:10 pm The Hunger theSpace @ Niddry St

Megan and Deborah live alone on their farm in the Yorkshire Dales. What was once their home has now become their only refuge from an increasingly dangerous outside world. They hav…

10:10 pm Houdini Speaks to the Living theSpace on the Mile

The year is 1924. Harry Houdini is at the peak of his fame, touring the country with performance-lectures that expose fraudulent mediums and challenge the growing Spiritualist mov…

10:10 pm Dru Cripps: Juicy Bits Hoots @ Potterrow

"Master clown" Dru Cripps presents his phenomenally successful loopstation-based shenanigans – a show so good it earned five 5-star reviews, sold out Edinburgh completely, and add…

10:10 pm Rattlepole! An Improv Shakespeare Show Greenside @ Riddles Court

Rattlepole! is a completely improvised Shakespearean comedy in which a ten-strong cast creates a brand-new play every night from audience suggestions. Inspired by the Bard’s langu…

10:15 pm Chortle Student Comedy Award Final Pleasance Courtyard

Come and witness the future of stand-up as one rising star will be crowned Britain's funniest student after a nationwide hunt by leading comedy website Chortle. Previous finalists…

10:15 pm Tom Short: I Get ChatGPT To Write My Edinburgh Show Hoots @ Nicolson Square

Award-winning comedian Tom Short attempts to become famous by outsourcing his Edinburgh show to artificial intelligence – and the audience. What could possibly go wrong? Blending…

10:15 pm Darren Gaffney: The Full Gaffney Scottish Comedy Festival @ Waverley Bar

Born in rural Ireland, in the often-forgotten Irish County of Cavan – 20 minutes from the border with Northern Ireland. Gaffney grew up on Irish farms where the hardcore Irish way…

10:15 pm Late Night in Canada Laughing Horse @ The Counting House

The nation's most popular (and only) late night talk show. Host Gord pulls double duty as the band and interviewer, kicking things off with a monologue before welcoming a fresh li…

10:15 pm Leo Mahr and Jonny Bennett: Two Hot Gays Telling Jokes Laughing Horse @ Bar 50

Two incredibly hot (you decide) gay men, one British, one Swiss(ish), cover everything from Kylie to K-holes, Le Creuset to cruising, with some musical comedy to keep things inter…

10:15 pm Not Another Quiz Night Gilded Balloon Teviot

The critically acclaimed, sell out, unmissable late-night hit is back, bigger than ever! Join Jake Bhardwaj and "celebrity" guests for the most chaotic, high-energy quiz show in t…

10:15 pm Best of Burlesque Assembly Rooms

The longest running Burlesque at Fringe (and Scotland) returns with a 'New School' of international emerging artists. Fastest rising stars on the scene. Scintillating striptease,…

10:15 pm Mar’s Market Presents: Impress the Vaudevillian PBH's Free Fringe @ The Street

Mar’s Market crashes into Edinburgh Fringe with a bedazzled cabaret riot. Presided over by vaudevillian diva Mar (part 1920's starlet, part unhinged queen), this is a variety show…

10:15 pm Verity Sharpe: Landlord's Wet Dream Underbelly, Bristo Square

'Charismatic and chaotic' (BingeFringe.com), comedian Verity Sharpe brings their debut show to the Edinburgh Fringe. Landlord's Wet Dream dives head first into the UK housing cris…

10:15 pm Mad Ron Presents Identity Theft – The Gameshow Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters

Expect the absurd as Uxbridge's third hardest man and multi award-winning Mad Ron presents a hilariously surreal game show, where he tries to guide his comedy apprentice as a glam…

10:15 pm UNDERGROUND MONK SHOW Assembly George Square Gardens

Monks find magic water. Magic water makes dreams come true. Monks go crazy. Starring acclaimed clowns and monks Max Baumgarten (Opium), Dee Marcucci (Absinthe), John Norris (Mr Ch…

10:15 pm Pins & Needles Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull

Pins & Needles is a high-voltage stand-up comedy show where ink meets irreverence. Hosted by New York comedians Justin Hartmann and Taylor Drew, this no-holds-barred showcase feat…

10:15 pm Bunny! Summerhall

Meet Bunny, an aspiring theatre starlet looking for her big break. She's also a serial killer, streamlining the talent pool through cold-blooded murder to increase her chances of…

10:15 pm Snapshot EIFF @ Cineworld

Newly unearthed footage from late 19th-century London reveals the complex fate of an all-ladies ghost-hunting society in this transfixing horror feature debut from director Joseph…

10:20 pm Lover on the Radio Paradise in The Vault

All through the night, lonely souls call the hotlines at the Troika Communication Tower looking for something. Whether it’s sex, God’s guidance or a song for the drive home, the v…

10:20 pm Big Naked Variety Show Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street)

The sell-out comedy runs away to the circus! See the very best magicians, jugglers and contortionists as you've never seen them before (unless you've been very lucky). Raw and unc…

10:20 pm Best of the Queer Fringe Gilded Balloon Patter House

A mixed-bill line-up of the best LGBTQ+ stand-up comedians from across the Fringe from the UK's first LGBTQ+ stand-up comedy club, The Queer Comedy Club. Fresh from our two TV ser…

10:20 pm IKEA WARS Gilded Balloon Patter House

IKEA WARS is back! It's time once again to enter the flat pack thunderdome! Two Fringe performers go head-to-head in the ultimate home improvement indignity – building IKEA furnit…

10:20 pm Cult Hoots @ Potterrow

Join the cult. A fully immersive experience where the audience are initiated into their own unique cult. Incorporating real world recruitment tactics CULT is a show like no other;…

10:20 pm Share the Craic Underbelly, George Square

This act has earned their spot on this year’s Underbelly programme at the Edinburgh Fringe as the winner of the Magners Share The Craic comedy search. After weeks of nationwide ta…

10:20 pm INTRUSIVE theSpace @ Symposium Hall

INTRUSIVE is a psychologically charged drama about anxiety, intrusive thoughts, and the weight of unspoken experiences. Set during a seemingly ordinary night with friends, the sto…

10:20 pm I Was Never Here theSpace @ Niddry St

This sleeper agent is on his most important mission ever. Only problem – he has no idea what it is. From the clown/game show creators of last year's Edinburgh Fringe hit Help Me!!…

10:20 pm 18+ Magic – The Magic Show Your Mum Shouldn't See theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall

After a completely sold-out debut run, Ivor Harden is back at the Edinburgh Fringe with the X-rated magic show your mum definitely should not see. Expect jaw-dropping illusions, g…

10:25 pm 27 Club Assembly George Square

Winner of the Best Music Award at Adelaide Fringe and featuring music and lore from Joplin, Winehouse, Cobain, Morrison and Hendrix, this must-see live rockumentary will get you p…

10:30 pm Couture C ARTS | C venues | C alto

An original piece making its international debut, Couture tells the story of an aspiring playwright and seamstress, who is presented with the opportunity to write for a major thea…

10:30 pm Stephen Catling: Clown Fish Out Of Water Hoots @ Potterrow

When clowns can't breathe water and fish can't breathe air – what's a poor Clown Fish to do in this cruel world? In 2025, Catling (Keep It Fringe Award Winner 2023, Malcolm Hardee…

10:30 pm Midnight Train to Nowhere theSpace @ Niddry St

Farah Price never expected visitors. Not on the Northern line – and certainly not at midnight. But strange things can happen on empty carriages. When Farah finds herself surrounde…

10:30 pm Another Compilation Show Beginning With A Laughing Horse @ Bar 50

Tom Mayhew (as heard on BBC Radio 4, as seen watching Bargain Hunt) presents a compilation show of his favourite comedians that are free at the time. It should be a laugh. Present…

10:30 pm Theologist theSpace on the Mile

Oli Riordan studied Catholic theology for the same reason every other bisexual atheist studies Catholic theology. You have to know your enemy. Join Oli (Dublin's Next Top Comic ru…

10:30 pm This Little Thing of Ours theSpace @ Venue 45

Frankie Coglione comes from a long line of mafiosos, all with the worst luck imaginable. But Frankie is different. He’s determined not to just make his fortune, but to change it.…

10:30 pm Halfway Home theSpace on the Mile

Halfway Home follows the rippling effects of addiction and confronting mistakes of a past life. Davie is just out of prison and cooped up with his policeman-hopeful brother, Fredd…

10:30 pm Girlhood in the Bathroom Gilded Balloon Teviot

Girlhood in the Bathroom is a new Australian musical set entirely in a club bathroom on New Year's Eve. Amidst the chaos of the female bathroom, five 20-something-year-old girls n…

10:30 pm Festival Music Nights C ARTS | C venues | C aquila

Jive along to jazz, party to punk rock, cavort to classics and experience electro-pop with our cherry-picked musical assortment. A powerhouse of bands and soloists from across the…

10:30 pm Magic Faraway Cabaret with Mister Meredith PBH's Free Fringe @ Voodoo Rooms

Delighting and confusing people since 2009, Mister Meredith returns with his infectiously joyous and unpredictable variety show. Who will appear tonight? Perhaps magic, sideshow,…

10:30 pm Comedy Against Humanity (321... on Fire!) Laughing Horse @ Home Bar

Comedy Against Humanity (321... on Fire!) is a high-energy, audience-interactive improv experience where the crowd drives the chaos and no two shows are the same. Inspired by the…

10:35 pm Eve and Adam theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall

Tr*mp got elected – again, the environment is f*cked and capitalism rules. But this show isn’t about that – Eve and Adam explores a modern-day woman, obsessed with enemies to love…

10:35 pm Padlocked! theSpaceTriplex

Guy prepares himself for a bondage session with his Grindr hook-up, the alluring but elusive Fabio. Once the chains are on, there’s no escape – certainly not from Guy’s problems.…

10:40 pm Feral C ARTS | C venues | C aurora

From the Latin feralis, meaning a plant or animal that returns to a wild state after being domesticated (or, alternatively, one that never was). A vocal-sound performance delving…

10:40 pm B48Y Crash Lands on Earth! Assembly George Square Studios

Greenside locals were shaken last night after a UFO ploughed straight into the infamous gay nightclub [redacted] on Greenside Place. Witnesses say they thought it was part of a dr…

10:40 pm Graham and Steen Monkey Barrel Comedy

Graham Dickson (All My Friends Hate Me) and Steen Raskopoulos (The Office Australia) are back baby for three shows only! These self-confessed “sweet boys" of improv, stars of lege…

10:40 pm Rhino Conservation Erotic Novel Hoots @ The Apex

Rhinos are going extinct and human birth rates are declining across the West. Two young men have taken it upon themselves to Make Cum Great Again by creating the ultimate erotic e…

10:40 pm Bottoming for Jesus ZOO Southside

A show about holes... and the lengths we go to fill them. At fifteen, Michael R Speciàle converted himself to Mormonism – no missionaries required. A closeted gay teenager in the…

10:40 pm Paul Hilleard: Grogg Monkey Barrel Comedy (Niddry Street)

BBC New Comedian of the Year 2024, Channel 4's Sean Lock Award finalist 2025 and winner of Chortle Hotshots 2026 debuts this Fringe! Hailing from Pontypridd in the South Welsh Val…

10:40 pm 123movies.com Gilded Balloon Patter House

A chaotic, chronically online, sketch comedy version of the Oscars. You'll meet all the usual award ceremony characters – hosts, winners, fashion correspondents and Stephen Graham…

10:45 pm BATSU! Underbelly, George Square

Edinburgh, are you ready? Warriors, are you ready? The cult hit from New York and Chicago, BATSU! returns to the Fringe after a wildly successful, sold out 2025 run. This high-ene…

10:45 pm WENCH Underbelly, George Square

The year is 1645. England is gripped by whispers of witchcraft, and Martha Tallow is guilty by popular demand. From Felix Le Freak (Drag Idol UK winner) comes a darkly comic, one-…

10:45 pm WEBBER! theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall

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 f…