Fringe events in Edinburgh — Monday, August 31 (evening)

10:00 am Rain National Library of Scotland

This exhibition makes a splash as we dive into Scotland’s relationship with rain – from weather forecasting, fashion and film, to rain-soaked love stories, climate, and everything…

10:00 am Exhibition: Craigmillar Tapestry Scottish Storytelling Centre

The Craigmillar Tapestry Project is a community initiative to create a series of tapestry panels representing the rich history of Craigmillar. Designed and stitched by local peopl…

10:00 am Paperback Revolutions National Library of Scotland

This display tells the story of how the humble paperback revolutionised and democratised access to books. From Penguin's first titles in 1935, to other bestsellers across the deca…

4:00 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…

5:00 pm LMAOF (for OF.TV) Monkey Barrel Comedy

LMAOF is heading to the Edinburgh Fringe! Join us for a live taping featuring some of the UK’s most hilarious comedians. Reserve your tickets now! Presented by: LMAOF | United Kin…

5:00 pm A Feast of Comedy Alchemist | St James Quarter

A two-hour comedy buffet serving up acts fresh from our comedy club, Stand Up Sanctuary. Expect outrageous punchlines, unique performances, witty humour and non-stop laughs in a s…

5:05 pm FUCCBOIS: LIVE IN CONCERT Assembly George Square Studios

The Fuccbois are the world’s biggest boyband. They’ve sold more tickets and broken more hearts than anyone, but now it’s time to say goodbye to their frosted tips forever; they’re…

5:10 pm #1 Son: The Tale of an Alternative Arab Comedian and His Father Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street)

Ricky Gervais' Spirit of Comedy Award finalist Ridwan Hussain teams up with Iraqi Sammer Elzubaidi in this brand new show. A conservative dad clashes with his son's alternative co…

5:15 pm Danny O'Brien: Sure Look, Be Grand. Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn

Buckle up – Danny O’Brien is back at the Edinburgh Fringe! The multi award-winning Irish comedian returns with his brand new 2026 show Sure Look, Be Grand after several years of t…

5:15 pm To Do Lists Pleasance Courtyard

'No one is coming to save you. Except yourself.' Ever since she can remember, Amy has written a to do list. And every day she must get through it to meet her goals. Until one day,…

5:15 pm An A to Z Guide to Dating Underbelly, George Square

A hilarious one-woman musical based on an unapologetic dating advice book that writer-performer Grace O'Keefe's own mother wrote. Publishers said it would set feminism back 20 yea…

5:20 pm Surreally Good Summerhall

Say hello to Scott – the finest "Edutainment Officer" in the business, a leading expert in overhead animation and lo-fi storytelling, a renowned descendent of the Turnbull Family…

5:20 pm Casual Receptionist of the Quarter Gilded Balloon Patter House

Ever wondered what's happening in shopfronts for all these 'Zero Tolerance Policy for Abuse Towards Staff' signs to be popping up everywhere? Based on true events, Casual Receptio…

5:20 pm Hoani Hoani Hoani Must Be Funny in a Rich Man's World Hoots @ The Apex

Winner Billy T Award 2025 NZ International Comedy Festival. Winner Breakthrough Act 2025 NZ Comedy Guild. Gotta be funny to make that money and Hoani Hotene is in Melbourne to mak…

5:30 pm Stefania Licari: I Can Make You Italian in 55 Minutes Underbelly, Bristo Square

The most authentic Italian experience in town. After sold-out seasons at Edinburgh and Adelaide Fringes, award-winning comedian Stefania Licari returns with her hit show. Expat, e…

5:30 pm Tartan Tabletop: A Dungeons & Dragons Comedy Gilded Balloon Patter House

Calling all Dungeons & Dragons fans! Tartan Tabletop are back after their biggest ever year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Get ready for improvised comedy at the roll of a dice…

5:30 pm Fysics I: Songs for Voice and Guitar Gladstone's Land

Original songs for voice and guitar by American singer-songwriter Josef Lamberti. An intimate acoustic performance with expressive guitar playing, fingerstyle instrumentals, memor…

5:30 pm One Man One Mullet: The Dan Stephens Show Hoots @ Nicolson Square

A stand-up comedy show featuring Ireland's Next Top Comic Winner 2024 Dan Stephens. He talks about the ups-and-downs of a single 37-year-old Irish man with a mullet. He is a regul…

5:30 pm Sam Morrison: DUCK Gilded Balloon Teviot

Sam Morrison (Late Night With Seth Meyers, Comedy Central) follows smash-hit Sugar Daddy with DUCK, a science-obsessed attack on the human ego. He questions why everything – his J…

5:30 pm 1 Hour of Insane Magic Gilded Balloon Teviot

Cameron Gibson, Elliot Bibby and Luke Osey return for their fourth year as Insane Magic, bigger and more spectacular than ever before! Following multiple sell-out seasons, the tri…

5:30 pm Alex Edelman: What Are You Going to Do Pleasance Courtyard

Alex Edelman's last Fringe show, Just for Us, earned an Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show nomination and kicked off a journey that culminated with a run on Broadway and an HBO spec…

5:35 pm Police Cops: The Original Assembly George Square

The multi award-winning comedy blockbuster returns! With 20+ five-star reviews, globally acclaimed Police Cops bring back the show that started it all! Reloaded and supercharged f…

5:40 pm An Evening with Gerald Lloyd-Davies Summerhall

Aspiring national treasure and quintessential luvvie Gerald Lloyd-Davies amuses the audience and himself in a comprehensive career retrospective, from his humble beginnings in the…

5:40 pm David Hoare: How To Live To 100 Hoots @ Nicolson Square

Musical-One-Liner-Stand-Up Comedian David Hoare (aged 37) will teach you how to live to 100! The award winning Hoare brings his rude songs, stupid jokes and insightful expertise t…

5:40 pm Pernille Haaland: Nordic Operations Gilded Balloon Teviot

Award-winning Nordic comedian Pernille Haaland (HBO Max, Netflix, Discovery) returns diving even further below zero. From the surreal experience of gigging for NATO to navigating…

5:40 pm Parasocial Activity Gilded Balloon Patter House

Jenny meets her favourite A-List celebrity in Costa and they instantly fall in love. She knows that they are meant to be, but some jealous sceptics don't seem to agree. How far wi…

5:45 pm Aidan Greene: Stuttermilk Pancakes Underbelly, Bristo Square

Award-winning comedian Aidan Greene is Ireland's foremost stammering comedian (he's also the only one). For years he's been told not to let his stutter define him. Well... too lat…

5:45 pm Michael Shafar: Inappropriate Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn

2025 Leicester Comedy Festival Best Show Nominee. Edgy. Dark. Hilarious. In his trademark unfiltered and unapologetic style, Australian comedian, Michael Shafar, weighs into the t…

5:45 pm Prophets Assembly Roxy

A researcher from Scotland travels to Saint John, a remote British Overseas Territory in the South Pacific. Upon arrival, she finds the island is under the control of a growing re…

5:45 pm Boogie on the Bones Summerhall

A political musical play set in Soviet-era Moscow, where a youth subculture resists conformity through jazz, dance and underground culture. Music is carved onto X-ray discs and pa…

5:45 pm The Speakeasy Experience Summerhall

Hidden within the Old Dick Vet School lies a clandestine tavern where Edinburgh's rogue doctors and veterinarians gather. Surrounded by animal skulls and illicit research, you are…

5:50 pm ARCADE Pleasance Dome

Using the nostalgic aesthetic of 1980s video games, ARCADE invites participants to guide an avatar through a series of branching paths. Choices are offered, sides can be taken and…

5:50 pm ROLEPLAY Summerhall

Hey slut! A broke feminist podcaster reinvents herself as a provocative slutfluencer in pursuit of fame, only to lose herself in the performance. Darkly hilarious, gripping and su…

5:55 pm Charlie Vero-Martin: Poltergeist (WIP) Hoots @ Potterrow

Step into a surreal world of ghosts, past lives and terrifying the establishment as a mid-30s woman. Charlie hangs up her props and puppets for a stripped-back work-in-progress ch…

6:00 pm Fun-Size Wine Tasting Vegan Tipples

A fun wine tasting to easily fit in to your festival schedule. A chance to taste four wines in the centre of Edinburgh (and gain a little wine knowledge), with a top up of your fa…

6:00 pm 0 Plans: A Crowd Work Comedy Show Alchemist Cocktail Bar and Restaurant

A crowd-work and improvised stand-up comedy show with zero plans. Northern Irish comedian Reece Kidd and friends will entertain you and make you laugh. Reece has over 150 million…

6:00 pm The Distance Summerhall

He's been running his whole life. Time to catch up. When the football pitch freezes, Chris is forced into cross-country. Everyone hates it, but something in Chris ignites. A comin…

6:00 pm We Had Fun Summerhall

Where did it all go wrong? Well, it depends who you ask. Close friends Oscar and Ela navigate the fallout of a drunken sexual encounter as their conflicting versions of events are…

6:00 pm International Aufguss Masters Summerhall

Experience the world's greatest Aufguss artists right here in Edinburgh. Stunning choreography and extraordinary storytelling using steam and scent in a beautiful sauna theatre wi…

6:00 pm FLIGHT Assembly George Square

FLIGHT is an immersive audio experience in complete darkness, inside a shipping container with an interior exactly resembling a full-scale plane cabin. Exploring the Many-Worlds I…

6:00 pm Women of Will Summerhall

Jack, an aging actor, walks into a pub. Ava, a bartender auditioning, once again, for drama school, pours him a drink. Jack offers to help Ava with her monologues, and the two wen…

6:00 pm Friendliest Gilded Balloon Teviot

Drew Lausch grew up gay in Fargo, North Dakota. So he did what any emotionally stable teenager would do: invented the world's first gay superhero. Years later, he's still trying t…

6:00 pm Grappelli and Ella Valvona & Crolla

Award-winning violinist, vocalist and BBC broadcaster, Seonaid Aitken and top jazz guitarist Conor Smith present a swingin’ show to celebrate two Jazz icons – French violin master…

6:00 pm Critics' Choice Comedy Showcase Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street)

Enjoy snappy excerpts from the shows of four stand-ups you'll recognise from their posters full of stars. Different lineup every show: something to suit all comic tastes! Powered…

6:00 pm NewsRevue Pleasance Courtyard

Guinness World Record-breaking NewsRevue (47 years!), makes its debut in Pleasance One. If the news has got you down, this is your antidote. Expect four preposterously talented pe…

6:00 pm The Sumo Show HIRAKUZA Underbelly, George Square

Step into the world of Japan’s legendary national sport as former pro wrestlers collide in powerful, high action matches right before your eyes! Presented entirely in English, get…

6:00 pm A Silent Disco Dance Tour by Silent Adventures Meeting Point at Uplands Roast Coffee Shop

Following the last few years of sell-out, five-star shows, the Silent Adventures team is back with even more madness and brand new adventures to boot. Don our magical Silent Disco…

6:00 pm Ignacio Lopez: The Four Of Us Are Dying Up Here Hoots @ The Apex

Spain's Best Export, (As seen on Live At The Apollo, HIGNFY, Comedy Central and more) returns with an explosively funny show! Featuring Ignacio Lopez, with support from Ignacio Lo…

6:05 pm Extra Lives: The Interactive Video Game Concert Gilded Balloon Patter House

Extra Lives is the world's first live-scored audience RPG... and YOU control the adventure. Vote to decide what happens next while a live band performs the soundtrack in real time…

6:15 pm Steffan Alun: Windows Hoots @ The Apex

Winner of the Pegagus Award for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe 2025, the bisexual Welsh optimist returns with a brand-new hour of brilliant comedy. With strong opinions on…

6:15 pm Pasta and Passive Aggression (WIP) Hoots @ Potterrow

Tino, an Italian surviving Britain, finds comedy in passive aggression, rainy days and polite lies. Expect tales of cultural clashes, awkward encounters and the absurdities of lif…

6:15 pm I AM JOHNNY Summerhall

Boys, are you shirkin for a gherkin? Attempting openness while navigating the pressures of his troubled masculinity, Johnny finds himself off-piste in the world of spoken-word poe…

6:15 pm COMA Assembly George Square

COMA is an immersive audio experience in complete darkness. You’re lying on a bunk bed inside a shipping container. Headphones on, lights out. 360-degree sound invites you to take…

6:20 pm Tap Out! (Or I'll Hit You Again) Gilded Balloon Patter House

Realising that his life is going nowhere, a man decides to go out in a mask and pick fights with random people on the street. He knows it's reckless and amoral, but he doesn't car…

6:20 pm Katie Mitchell: Giddy Hoots @ Nicolson Square

In the Los Angeles suburb of Ilkeston, Derbyshire, there’s scams brewin’. Under the earth, seeping up between your toes from where the coal used to be. Here is a place of monsters…

6:20 pm Claire Robin: NUN SLUT Gilded Balloon Patter House

Convent. Clown. Communion. An absurd journey through religion and the body, Nun Slut is a delightful mashup of physical comedy, sketch and cabaret. Join "fearless" performer Clair…

6:20 pm Big Dog Gilded Balloon Patter House

Eve lands a ghostwriting job for a major true crime podcaster. Should be easy, right? She's intelligent and doesn't care about rising through the ranks. Besides, she has her own h…

6:25 pm ARCADE Pleasance Dome

Using the nostalgic aesthetic of 1980s video games, ARCADE invites participants to guide an avatar through a series of branching paths. Choices are offered, sides can be taken and…

6:30 pm 2 White Guys Rapping: Macshane and Delby Hoots @ The Apex

'The fastest freestyle rap I've ever seen in my life!' (Simon Cowell). 'One of the best shows this Fringe season' **** (AdelaideFringe.com.au / FringeFeed). As seen on Britain's G…

6:30 pm An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman Hoots @ The Wee Red Bar

After back-to-back sell-out runs at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and hit appearances at top festivals across Ireland and the UK, this explosive triple headline stand-up show is b…

6:30 pm 1 in 2 Men Think They Could Land A Plane – Could You? Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street)

Nearly 50% of men (but only 20% of women) surveyed were "confident" they could land a plane, without training. If you've daydreamed hero scenarios, if you love (or loathe) travel,…

6:30 pm HR The Musical Gilded Balloon Patter House

A performance revue like you'll never get in an office, this riotous workplace satire takes on the ridiculous in the form of the blues, rap, plainchant and more to see what's not…

6:30 pm FLIGHT Assembly George Square

FLIGHT is an immersive audio experience in complete darkness, inside a shipping container with an interior exactly resembling a full-scale plane cabin. Exploring the Many-Worlds I…

6:40 pm Not My Audience! The Stand-Up Panel Show You Control! Hoots @ The Apex

The Fringe's long-running, cult-hit comedy panel show that you influence in real time is back. Three top comics answer your daft questions, perform the stand-up you want to see an…

6:40 pm Krystyna Hutchinson: Congrats On Not Killing Yourself! Gilded Balloon Patter House

Stand-up meets storytelling in this unflinching and darkly funny solo show from comedian Krystyna Hutchinson. Raised by a mentally ill mother and an emotionally distant father, Kr…

6:45 pm COMA Assembly George Square

COMA is an immersive audio experience in complete darkness. You’re lying on a bunk bed inside a shipping container. Headphones on, lights out. 360-degree sound invites you to take…

6:50 pm Ramsey Smith: Keep the Receipt Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street)

Ramsey has reckoned with death but is unsure what to do in the meantime. Lucky for you he has decided to fill this time with stand-up comedy. Leicester Square New Comedian 2026 fi…

6:50 pm Paul Savage: Comic, Relieved Hoots @ The Apex

Paul Savage has some mad stuff happen to him: he's been kidnapped, carjacked and accidentally did a jailbreak of a psychiatric ward. All whilst volunteering for charity. Come see…

6:55 pm Courtney Büchner: One of the Girls Pleasance Courtyard

A show that will make you laugh, cringe and text your best friend immediately. Following her sold-out Edinburgh Fringe Debut, I Wrote this Show Last Night, and her five-star follo…

7:00 pm Max Fulham: Memory Foam Pleasance Dome

After last year's sold-out debut, Max is back and sorting through some boxes, but what will he find? Most likely a mixture of puppet characters, sketches and stand-up for you to r…

7:00 pm ARCADE Pleasance Dome

Using the nostalgic aesthetic of 1980s video games, ARCADE invites participants to guide an avatar through a series of branching paths. Choices are offered, sides can be taken and…

7:00 pm Adi Parmar: Sunny Boy Gilded Balloon Teviot

Is fatherhood REAL or is it a lie made up by BIG childhood to sell MORE therapy? Join Adi Parmar (gay), as he recalls his unforgettable childhood in North India (India) and his un…

7:00 pm Flamenco Fringe YOTEL Edinburgh

Daniel Martinez returns with his new venture: Flamenco Fringe. Each year, Daniel brings incredible flamenco artists to the stage for a thrilling, authentic flamenco tablao. 2026's…

7:00 pm 1 MC and 3 Absolute Killers (of Comedy!) Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn

A rotating line-up of the sharpest stand-ups on the Fringe. Absolute Killers is your nightly dose of guaranteed laughs; no flab, no fillers, just three great comics and a top-tier…

7:00 pm Amazing Chicken Pad Thai Masterclass Krua Thai Cookery School

Pad Thai. The legendary and the best. The world-famous noodle dish from Thailand. Pad Thai is not just noodles, beansprouts and peanuts as you've experienced, there are many more…

7:00 pm LMAOF (for OF.TV) Monkey Barrel Comedy

LMAOF is heading to the Edinburgh Fringe! Join us for a live taping featuring some of the UK’s most hilarious comedians. Reserve your tickets now! Presented by: LMAOF | United Kin…

7:00 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…

7:00 pm Kim Blythe: Puzzle Gilded Balloon Patter House

Sold out Fringe run 2025 and Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow nominee 2025 and 2026. CLUES – Single Item (1) Foolish Bird (5,5) Onstage Routine (5,2) Stage Presentation (4) Pr…

7:00 pm Tell Me Summerhall

Two timelines collide in this bold fusion of dance and circus, offering a fresh perspective on HIV. When Grace receives a diagnosis, she is transported back to the 80s alongside M…

7:00 pm Steak Out Gilded Balloon Teviot

Two nights before Christmas, an Edinburgh granny, her boyfriend, her son and her one-year-old grandson rob Smedley's of Stockbridge (a butcher's shop in a wealthy Edinburgh neighb…

7:00 pm FLIGHT Assembly George Square

FLIGHT is an immersive audio experience in complete darkness, inside a shipping container with an interior exactly resembling a full-scale plane cabin. Exploring the Many-Worlds I…

7:05 pm Gavin Webster: The Last Ever Punk Rocker Hoots @ Nicolson Square

I'm a punk rocker and proud of it. Look, I don't wear the "clothes", I don't live on cheap amphetamine sulphate, I'm not an anarchist, I'm not in a 4-piece band that plays four to…

7:10 pm David O'Doherty: At This Stage Assembly George Square

An evening of low-voltage song and chatter from the increasingly dishevelled Lidl Bruno Mars. In addition to his comedy and not being Chris O’Dowd, David co-hosts the What Did You…

7:15 pm Horrorshow Summerhall

Dan's got a rucksack full of stolen weed and a plan that'll definitely work. Ollie's got his A-level reading list and serious reservations. They've been mates their whole lives. T…

7:15 pm COMA Assembly George Square

COMA is an immersive audio experience in complete darkness. You’re lying on a bunk bed inside a shipping container. Headphones on, lights out. 360-degree sound invites you to take…

7:20 pm Gearóid Farrelly: No Pressure Assembly George Square Studios

After surviving hospital stays, a sick cat, and a nerve-wracking stint on Dancing with the Stars, Gearóid Farrelly returns with No Pressure. In this candid and hilarious hour, he…

7:25 pm Tom Evans: All You Weed Is Love Hoots @ The Apex

Five years into stand-up comedy with very few prospects both professionally and relationship-y. Tom went to Liverpool to do an open mic spot. The day after he decided to move to T…

7:30 pm 5 Headliners for £10 Hoots @ The Wee Red Bar

The smash hit sell-out 2023-2025 show returns! Five top-level circuit comedians perform their very best material, one after the other. No picking on the audience, no MC in between…

7:30 pm Enterteasement: Comedy! Magic! Burlesque! Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street)

Looking for something fun and different? Enterteasement showcases award-winning magicians, international burlesque stars, and ‘As Seen on TV’ comedians. With a 4.8-star average ra…

7:30 pm The Plot Summerhall

5th November. 1605. London. A plot foiled. A trial imminent. A story rewritten. Two brothers stand accused of high treason for a plot they bet their lives to pull off, and on the…

7:30 pm Aufguss x Nils Frahm Summerhall

A meditative, moving Aufguss show choreographed to the transcendental music of German minimalist composer Nils Frahm. Aufguss is a sauna ritual which circulates steam and scent th…

7:30 pm FLIGHT Assembly George Square

FLIGHT is an immersive audio experience in complete darkness, inside a shipping container with an interior exactly resembling a full-scale plane cabin. Exploring the Many-Worlds I…

7:35 pm ARCADE Pleasance Dome

Using the nostalgic aesthetic of 1980s video games, ARCADE invites participants to guide an avatar through a series of branching paths. Choices are offered, sides can be taken and…

7:40 pm Spooky Dookie: Cool New Planet!! Gilded Balloon Patter House

When? The dawn of time. Who? Two upstart planet designers pitching their idea for a brand new planet called Earth. Weaving together sketches, songs and improv, this show provides…

7:40 pm Magic Lantern Anthology Summerhall

Let the Magic Lantern Anthology guide you through future folklore and forgotten myths. Through the power of puppetry, science and light, puppeteer Jacob Graham lures you into dist…

7:40 pm Best of So You Think You're Funny? The Gilded Saloon

An unmissable line-up of fresh talent starring Reb Day, Joel Walker and Rachel Porter – finalists from the UK's biggest new comedy competition! See the best emerging comedians bef…

7:40 pm Nothing Personal Gilded Balloon Patter House

After her sold out Dublin Fringe run, Ally Ryan brings Nothing Personal to Edinburgh. Megan's a struggling comedian who discovers that audiences love bad date stories. To get mate…

7:45 pm The Speakeasy Experience Summerhall

Hidden within the Old Dick Vet School lies a clandestine tavern where Edinburgh's rogue doctors and veterinarians gather. Surrounded by animal skulls and illicit research, you are…

7:45 pm The Terribly Credible Definitely Edible Tale of the Town of Cropshire Assembly Roxy

Welcome to Cropshire: a world of welly-wearing farmers, weather reports, and perpetually confused politicians. A nationwide ban on vegetables causes chaos in the community. Luckil…

7:45 pm Raymond Mearns is Looking for Trouble Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn

Every time I open my mouth I seem to offend somebody! That's the price we pay for living in a world full of morons! Socrates said if you don't want to be criticized, say nothing,…

7:50 pm Justina Seselskaite: Settled Hoots @ Hilton (Bread Street)

A sharp, witty show developed through sold-out previews and major comedy festivals across the UK. Praised by BlizzardComedy.co.uk as a 'masterclass in full-length storytelling', i…

7:50 pm 1 Irishman: A Stand-up Comedy Show Hoots @ The Apex

1 Irishman is a stand-up comedy show from Irish comedian Reece Kidd. This show has sold out for the last three years. Reece has over 150 million views online. Come see his new jok…

7:50 pm Claudwick. Hoots @ Nicolson Square

Claudwick is young, wealthy and heir to a large fortune from a noble family. Being raised in some backwater town, he decides to leave his ivory tower and invest in a renovated war…

8:00 pm Doris, Dolly and the Dressing Room Divas Gilded Balloon Patter House

Secrets, songs and love lives of five legendary divas! Three make-up girls bitch, compete, harmonise and laugh as they entertain us with hilarious, heartbreaking, irreverent tales…

8:00 pm Gone Native The Royal Oak

Two native singer-songwriters return to the Fringe with their five-star sell-out show featuring original and traditional songs of Edinburgh and Scotland. ‘Quality voice!’ (Edinbur…

8:00 pm FLIGHT Assembly George Square

FLIGHT is an immersive audio experience in complete darkness, inside a shipping container with an interior exactly resembling a full-scale plane cabin. Exploring the Many-Worlds I…

8:00 pm Baba Hoots @ Nicolson Square

Join Romanian-Moroccan Muslim Jewish but also baptised clown Halima Habil in an hour of professional silliness. Baba, a woman trapped in a world of generational repetition, predes…

8:00 pm The Heterosexuals Gilded Balloon Patter House

A deep dive into the shocking world of heterosexuality! They walk among us!! But where did they come from? And what do they think they're wearing? Find out in this explosive solo…

8:05 pm Reuben Solo: Someone in This Crowd Will Betray Me [Revenge Edition] Gilded Balloon Teviot

I came here to tell jokes and figure out who's going to betray me. And I'm all out of jokes. After months spent touring worldwide, Reuben returns with knives in his back and a cam…

8:10 pm Tattoo Dave – Tat’s Life Hoots @ The Apex

Tattoo Dave lifts the lid on life as a tattooist, comedian, dog whisperer, social media raconteur, husband and father, and on being the fourth funniest person at home. 49 years of…

8:10 pm ARCADE Pleasance Dome

Using the nostalgic aesthetic of 1980s video games, ARCADE invites participants to guide an avatar through a series of branching paths. Choices are offered, sides can be taken and…

8:10 pm Michael Shafar: Inappropriate Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn

2025 Leicester Comedy Festival Best Show Nominee. Edgy. Dark. Hilarious. In his trademark unfiltered and unapologetic style, Australian comedian, Michael Shafar, weighs into the t…

8:15 pm COMA Assembly George Square

COMA is an immersive audio experience in complete darkness. You’re lying on a bunk bed inside a shipping container. Headphones on, lights out. 360-degree sound invites you to take…

8:15 pm 101 Impressions in One Hour Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn

Cal Halbert is one of the UK's top all-round entertainers, and the top comedy impressionist working the UK comedy circuit. As one half of The Mimic Men, he appeared on Britain's G…

8:20 pm Robin Grainger: Lemonade Assembly George Square

Robin Grainger returns to Edinburgh with another hysterical show about happiness. 'A masterclass in comedy... Fully deserves his place amongst the top echelons of current comedian…

8:20 pm Madeleine Brettingham: Legend Gilded Balloon Teviot

What does it take to become a legend? Fuelled by pork scratchings and a lust for glory, 2025's So You Think You're Funny? winner Madeleine Brettingham presents her highly anticipa…

8:20 pm Christopher Hall: Pizazz Gilded Balloon Teviot

Showman, jester, attention chaser, Christopher Hall is back with his sparkling new show Pizazz. Come along on the dream night out, he'll give you a hilariously fun soirée and you'…

8:20 pm John O'Keeffe: Surviving Myself Hoots @ The Apex

After a sold-out 2025 run, the hit show returns! Accepting responsibility for life's disasters with sharp, self-deprecating humour. From therapy struggles, to awkward relationship…

8:20 pm CVNT Assembly George Square

Winner: Best Comedy, Melbourne Fringe 2024 and Weekly Comedy Adelaide Fringe 2025 and 2026. Hollywood Fringe Tour Award 2026. Sold-out seasons. No more good girl. An unhinged, hil…

8:20 pm The Pleasance Comedy Reserve Pleasance Dome

Catch four of the best up-and-coming comedians, hand-picked by the Pleasance, in the 22nd year of the Comedy Reserve. This year's line-up features Ciara O'Connor, Eli Hart, Laura…

8:30 pm Guy Branum: Be Fruitful Gilded Balloon Teviot

Emmy and Golden-Globe winning comedian Guy Branum goes on a joke-dense slide show journey through religion and science arguing that he, as a clinically obese gay man, does not ser…

8:30 pm FLIGHT Assembly George Square

FLIGHT is an immersive audio experience in complete darkness, inside a shipping container with an interior exactly resembling a full-scale plane cabin. Exploring the Many-Worlds I…

8:30 pm Grappelli and Ella Valvona & Crolla

Award-winning violinist, vocalist and BBC broadcaster, Seonaid Aitken and top jazz guitarist Conor Smith present a swingin’ show to celebrate two Jazz icons – French violin master…

8:30 pm Lost the Plot: An Improvised Musical Gilded Balloon Patter House

Get lost in a new musical every night. Give us a location and we'll provide the rest. Expect glittering harmonies, hilarious characters and heart-wrenching drama... all made up en…

8:35 pm Phil Cooper: Deckchair Hoots @ The Apex

Phil's great-grandfather was a decorated WWI veteran; Phil once tried to cook soup in a kettle and ended up with third-degree burns. This charmingly chaotic hour pits a hero's leg…

8:40 pm Lawrence Dodd: This Can't Be It Gilded Balloon Teviot

Playful, chaotic clowning meets existential confusion as one man desperately tries to make sense of life. Perpetually derailed, deluded and paralysed by overwhelm, Big Loz Dodd ar…

8:40 pm Time Travel Postman Gilded Balloon Patter House

A clown (Sevrin Willinder) needs the audience's help to deliver letters across time and space. Through joyful participation, you are invited to embrace the unexpected, explore the…

8:45 pm PLASTIC Summerhall

Minyoung Kim is a composer and soloist from Seoul, who combines geomungo - a traditional Korean string instrument – with jeongga – traditional Korean singing based on poetry and e…

8:45 pm Nuns! Assembly George Square Studios

Nuns!: A medieval comedy created by Dog Complex Theatre in collaboration with globally acclaimed Police Cops. The Place: Bavaria. The Year: Medieval. The Teeth: Rotten. Sister Ger…

8:45 pm COMA Assembly George Square

COMA is an immersive audio experience in complete darkness. You’re lying on a bunk bed inside a shipping container. Headphones on, lights out. 360-degree sound invites you to take…

8:45 pm ARCADE Pleasance Dome

Using the nostalgic aesthetic of 1980s video games, ARCADE invites participants to guide an avatar through a series of branching paths. Choices are offered, sides can be taken and…

8:50 pm Rob Nother: Another Way Hoots @ Nicolson Square

Dangerously confident, Rob Nother is sure he's living life the right way. Everyone else knows he isn't. From shamelessly pimping out his Irishness, to devising free travel schemes…

9:00 pm Glenn Wool Is Luv (Sic) Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn

In a thoughtful (yet close to the bone) stand-up tale, Fringe legend Glenn Wool as he recounts the bumps, scrapes, highs and lows of receiving the shock news of a surprise divorce…

9:00 pm 0 to 2 mph In Under 60 Minutes Hoots @ The Apex

Zoom zoom zoom! The boys are back! Last year was their first sell out run, now they're taking it for granted. With new accolades: Chortle Student Finalist and Hastings Comedian of…

9:00 pm Tia Rey: Oot Ma Banger The Gilded Saloon

In her 20s, Tia took enough psychedelics to frighten a shaman – mushrooms, acid, ayahuasca – and somehow came out the other side more herself than ever. This show is a funny, hone…

9:00 pm Nathan Cassidy: Ewwww! Hoots @ Potterrow

Multi award-winning Fringe legend with an extraordinary new stand-up show. Contains full-frontal nudity! Ewwww! After a throwaway comment from a 20-year-old, Nathan begins to unra…

9:00 pm Meteors Summerhall

Grief. Stars. Mums. Lasagne. 'Among the more than a thousand works on offer in the Fringe, Meteors is likely a standout – both entertaining and emotional, offering a chance for re…

9:00 pm Werewolf Summerhall

Attention: multiple new occurrences are now confirmed and verified. Healthy citizens must report to their safehouses by sunset and shelter in place. Three ill-equipped wardens kee…

9:00 pm Sauna Sessions Arts Club – The Hottest Club in Town Summerhall

You, your mates, hot sauna, cold plunge, our resident DJs on the decks, plus a host of special guests. Surprising, delighting theatrics, comedy, music, Aufguss and much more in th…

9:00 pm FORIEGNER Summerhall

This foreigner hopes his genius performance gets him naturalised or deported. A dizzying solo that refuses to explain Sohrab's experience as an Iranian asylum seeker. A paradoxica…

9:00 pm Joshy in Paris Gilded Balloon Patter House

Aussie comedian Joshua Hauville presents a spectacular comedy cabaret that shares the story of a gay Australian trying to make it as a creative superstar in the piss-ridden street…

9:00 pm Wanted: Drag or Alive! Brewhemia

Skinny Minnie rides into town with a price on her head and a story she swears is mostly true. Once the crown jewel of the circuit, now a fugitive of her own reputation, she’s trad…

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…

9:10 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 Bryn Woz: SMUT Assembly Roxy

Former burlesque superstar Entendre Entendre invites audiences to the launch of her memoir, SMUT, recounting her many, MANY lovers. The wild, weird, and unfortunately true, tales…

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…

9:20 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 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 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…

9:25 pm Jacob Hatton: Ruins Hoots @ Nicolson Square

Archaeology for perverts. An excavation of the soul. Also, some actual old things: castles... pottery... your mum. A spiky, filthy, uplifting hour of stand-up by Jacob Hatton abou…

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 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 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 Sasha Nezlobin: I'm Fine Pleasance Dome

A legendary stand-up arena comedian who left Russia after making anti-war jokes and supporting the LGBTQ community, now makes his way in the West. The creator of hit Russian TV sh…

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…

9:40 pm (No) Refunds Gilded Balloon Patter House

(No) Refunds is an interactive game show play hosted by Tiffany Gold, an old-school American host and model presenter all-in-one who quite literally depends on your entertainment.…

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…

9:40 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 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…

9:45 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…

9:45 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…

9:50 pm Jamie Kilstein: Can't Tie Knots Gilded Balloon Teviot

If the friend who talked you out of suicide killed himself, is it still possible to live like there IS a tomorrow? The acclaimed writer, actor, comedian and radio host returns to…

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…