Assembly | 1pm | 5-30 Aug

Multi award-winning writer, performer and actor Rob Auton is returning to Edinburgh Fringe Festival to perform a story he has written about him being an estate agent on the planet Jupiter. Following the success of his 2025-26 debut story CAN, Rob is bringing his second hour long story to the Edinburgh Fringe. 

★★★★
“Eccentric observation and wonderment...
a hymn to the preciousness of life” 
The Guardian

Pleasance | 7:30pm | 5-30 Aug
(not 12, 19 & 26)

Smash hit Irish comedian, best-selling author and podcast host Emma Doran makes her Edinburgh fringe debut with her latest stand-up show Emmaculate. The many trials and tribulations of Emma’s blended family are laid bare in this rambunctious show jam-packed with razor-sharp observations and conspiratorial gossipmongering.

★★★★
“You’d be mad to miss her”
Evening Standard

Assembly | 10:40pm | 6-16 Aug

New stand-up tour show from Mike Wozniak in which a story about a bench will be prominent. Previous experience of or strong opinions about benches not required.

Let Mike worry about that. As seen on Taskmaster, Man Down and Junior Taskmaster. As heard on Three Bean Salad podcast

Monkey Barrel | 1:55pm | 3-30 Aug

Multi award-winning 'comic genius' (Scotsman) and the breakout star of Taskmaster (Channel 4), Phil Ellis returns to the Fringe as part of his sell-out national stand-up tour.

Traverse | Various | 2, 8-30 Aug
(not Mondays)

Join award-winning comic Kate Dolan for her brand new hour of rapid-fire, off-kilter standup. In 2026, is being a fish in the river nicer than a woman on land? 'Irrepressibly funny... reminiscent of Jim Carrey'

Pleasance | 9.25pm | 5-30 Aug

Boys of the manosphere: prepare to be spooked. Women with cats: your leader has returned. Last year’s Best Show Nominee is back and ready to enter a new era.

★★★★
Guardian

★★★★
Scotsman

Monkey Barrel | 7.05pm | 3-30 Aug

Observational nerd comedy for one final time before bed from Pierre Novellie. Come and see - it will be years before he wakes up and returns.

★★★★
"Master of traditional stand up"
Guardian

Monkey Barrel | 4.35pm | 5-30 Aug (not 10 & 24)

Creator of BBC R4’s hit new sitcom ‘Do Gooders’ returns with a unique live comedy experiment… Garrett’s built an AI of himself to see if it’s better at comedy than him. Maybe he can finally retire? Join Garrett and Garrett for a blistering hour of the no-holds-barred iconoclastic stand up that has made him one of the stand out acts of his generation.

★★★★
“A masterclass"
The Telegraph

Assembly | 3.05pm | 6-30 Aug
(not 5, 12, 19 and 26)

MC Hammersmith is posh West London's leading freestyle rapper, with 500 million views online. He presents his new show: Ice Ice Nepo Baby. When MC Hammersmith turned 18, his parents (MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice) shockingly revealed he was adopted. His two famous dads helped him ascend to the top of the rap game.

He now embarks on a quest to find his biological family, the only way he knows how: by performing an hour of improvised hip hop comedy based on audience suggestions. Lightning-fast raps, explosively funny rhymes, and utterly captivating genealogical investigation!

Monkey Barrell | 8:35pm | 3-30 Aug

Join award-winning comic Kate Dolan for her brand new hour of rapid-fire, off-kilter standup. In 2026, is being a fish in the river nicer than a woman on land?

Winner of the Skinny-Fest Festival Breakthrough Award 2025 and Melbourne Comedy Festival's Golden Gibbo Independent Show Award 2025.

★★★★
“Irrepressibly funny... reminiscent of Jim Carrey”
Scotsman

★★★★
“Her performance screams star quality” Chortle.co.uk

Pleasance | 10.50pm | 5-30 Aug

When know-nothing, home-owning reviewer Felix Chatelier is invited to be a special guest at a new fringe festival, he is thrilled. But when he becomes embroiled with creepy townsfolk and horrific twists he must fight for his life and more importantly, his reputation, as he desperately seeks to answer the question “Why oh why did I only give Andrew Doherty three stars?”

Reviewers welcome at their peril.

★★★★
Guardian

Pleasance | 8.10pm | 5-30 Aug

In her highly-anticipated debut stand-up hour, Cecily takes you on a nostalgic dive into 2000s Britain, opening her book of disgusting yet comforting family recipes for the Fringe.

Born into the wobbling promise of the new millennium, like a jelly at her family table, in a new-build town that multiplies overnight, terrorised by an evil swan, raised by oddball parents, where Blair and Brown played in her child mind like a Greek tragedy.

It's offbeat, it's high-energy, it's the 2008 crash. Dinner’s ready kids, come to the table.

“Outstanding”
The Independent

Assembly | 6.55pm | 5-30 Aug

Join TV legend Beau Creme (Rory Cargill) as he hosts a retrospective on British TV, its programmes and stars (also Rory Cargill), and examines how the medium shaped 70 years of British society, as well as his own storied career.

A silly, high-energy and nostalgic show from a rising sketch comedy star with over 10M views online.

★★★★★
"Shows like this are the epitome of the Fringe. A blissful 60 minutes of silliness."
Broadway World

Pleasance | 9.25pm | 5-30 Aug

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 to fill his boots with as much as you'll give him.

★★★★
"A seamless, polished delight that guarantees one thing: you will leave laughing"
The List

★★★★
"A very funny comedian"
Beyond The Joke

"Trickey has certainly got it"
The Guardian

Assembly | 6.10pm | 5-16 Aug

When Frank Skinner puts together a new stand-up show, he does all his experimenting in half- hidden rooms above pubs. For the necessarily small audiences, it’s a bit like watching Doctor Frankenstein building his monster, trying 6 or 7 tracheas before he gets the one that fits perfectly, and doing his best to make sure the stitches are neat and equidistant.

Now Skinner brings his stand-up laboratory to Edinburgh. You too can witness his successes and failures, in this work-in-progress show, as a new monster is put together.

Pleasance | 8pm | 5-30 Aug

Fresh from wrapping up his biggest tour yet and a second series of The Matt Forde Focus Group on BBC R4, leading political comedian and satirist Matt Forde (The Royal Variety Performance, Spitting Image, HIGNFY, British Scandal) embarks on a mission with impossible odds: find joy amid global political turmoil, the rising tide of populism, and his own ongoing health challenges - several years on from a bone cancer diagnosis.

★★★★★
“Laugh-a-minute stuff...he deserves his inevitable standing-ovation as never before”
Dominic Cavendish, The Daily Telegraph

Gilded Balloon | 9, 15 & 20 Aug
9 – 1.15pm | 15 – 11.45am | 20 – 1.15pm

Following 10 years of sold-out shows in London's West End, Matt Forde (Spitting Image, The Last Leg) returns to Edinburgh for three live podcasts. The UK's leading political podcast has over nine million downloads, is regularly an iTunes Top 10 Comedy podcast and was listed by The i Paper as one of the 50 Greatest Podcasts. Previous guests include Tony Blair, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Nicola Sturgeon, Angela Rayner, Anthony Scaramucci and Alastair Campbell.

★★★★★
Telegraph

★★★★
Chortle.co.uk

★★★★
Sunday Times

Assembly | 6.10pm | 17-30 Aug

Join us for CROWD WORK: an interactive comedy show which sees three comedians flexing their comedy muscles and taking on whatever the audience throws at them. 

Championing your weird and wonderful stories, unpacking your confessions and diving into your dilemmas. 

First launched earlier this year at Leicester Square Theatre - expect an evening where nothing is prepared and everything is possible! 

Three comedians. One crowd. Absolute chaos.

Pleasance | 1.50pm | 5-30 Aug

Welcome to Upstate Wherever, USA. Way back in the year two-thousand-who-cares, Kyle and Andy were more than friends. More than brothers, dammit! They were bandmates! But the real Kyle McCarren was a complicated dude. A bit of an asshole. Worst of all, he’s dead — and he won’t let Andy forget it.

Sometimes the easiest way to tell people about a buddy of yours is to write a musical. In this musical seance that's equal parts Bo Burnham and Tick, Tick... Boom!, you’re invited to meet the legend himself: The Real Kyle McCarren.

Pleasance | 4.50pm | 5-30 Aug

Flo & Joan's award-winning Edinburgh Fringe smash-hit returns. Watch as an icon of the musical theatre world finally turns the spotlight onto the one story he’s yet to tell: his own.

"#1 Show of the Year"
Guardian

“By rights, this theatrical tour de force deserves a 38-year run in the West End and similar on Broadway.”
Rolling Stone

“A triumphant spoof of Andrew Lloyd Webber? It’s better than Cats”
Sunday Times

Assembly | 1pm | 18-30 Aug

This year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe goers will have the chance to see an hour of Pierre Novellie’s best and finest bits from the last decade of his sell-out stand-up shows. In ‘Do the One About…’,

Pierre will be delighting audiences with his signature style of masterful observational comedy that his seen him receive rave reviews and award wins over the years.

★★★★
“Novellie is the best there is at what he does, a comic of unrivalled quality and consistency.”
Chortle

★★★★★
“Packed full of belly laughs”
Metro

Pleasance | 3.55pm | 19-24 Aug

Hot off his first ever international show, Ed Gamble Live, which saw him perform sold out performances across major European cities before heading to the USA and Canada, as well as his extended and biggest UK and Ireland tour to date, Hot Diggity Dog’, which played venues nationwide before heading to Australia and New Zealand, Ed is returning to the Fringe with an hour long work in progress comedy show. Topics! Angles! Takes! All will doubtless feature.

Come witness the sheer delight on his face as he nails a new routine / the crumbling realisation that a routine doesn’t work. Either way, it will be an event…

“A consummate comedian. Slick delivery, efficient gag writing, great rapport with the audience”
Mail on Sunday

Pleasance | 3.55pm | 5-12 Aug

One of “the world’s top comedians” (The Sunday Times) performs 8 intimate work in progress shows.