Gilded Balloon, EdinburghThe physical assault Deol underwent in the US informs a set that comes alive when the audience join her search for agency Who wouldn't want to hold the fate of those…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe standup makes his fringe debut with songs, set-pieces and self-acceptance in a winning show Do we need more gay heroes? Daniel Foxx thinks so. If you are wa…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe smoothest of standups offers polished punchlines in a warm and perfectly wrought hour on imminent parenthood No comedy expertise is required to deduce, the …
Monkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghSome gags are queasy and others are thrillingly bleak from the Mancunian comic whose outbursts are often directed at himself This cramped space at the back of …
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghFrom a nine-year-old misfit to Sally Rooney writing a children's book, Treen's characters are pitched at a sharp angle to the real world Funny Women winner 2022…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghAssuming the guise of 'an old-school entertainment type', this fringe debutant is hypnotically unusual The fashion is for fringe newcomers to deliver solo shows…
Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh In an affecting set, the comic reflects on his younger brother's death and the importance of holding loved ones close It is said that comedy is tragedy plus time " …
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe standup delivers an energetic set about trying to live up to his parents' expectations and the ethics of his corporate day job "I am unhinged!" There's nerv…
Having built his reputation as a comic and podcaster on his candour about anxiety and addiction, Robins is facing a new comedy challenge " happiness 'There is no greater sorrow," as Dante ha…
Gilded Balloon, EdinburghHenry Naylor's well-intentioned drama about deaths in care homes lets anger cloud its judgment Hyde, Manchester, in the 1990s. Frank and Georgie's 78-year-old mum ha…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe nerdy comic takes his standup in a new direction with this partly participatory show but it doesn't exploit his strengths He may be making his 10th Edinburg…
Monkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghA clown by trade, Masli here sets about tackling the audience's problems. Her leftfield efforts to ease them are one of this fringe's true tonics At any given …
Monkey Barrel @ the Tron, EdinburghAsh's audacious conceit dares to find the funny side of tragic events, and partly succeeds, until this rawly emotional show slips comedy's moorings If you …
After the pain of the Covid years, the festival has returned with a roar. It can make a new standup's career " if they are willing to sleep in a nuclear bunker and expose their own trauma So…
Theatre Royal, GlasgowDelivering his own 'origin story', with interruptions encouraged, Acaster skilfully pieces together big-yield routines from inauspicious beginnings We all learned some…
Assembly George Square, EdinburghSeventies spy novels, sexually frustrated poultry, an April Fools' Day breakup … it's all here in the sophomore show from Rosie Nicholls and Sullivan Brown…
Assembly Roxy, EdinburghThe US writer, comedian and actor's cabaret show includes potent songs about sexuality, identity and police violence Triple-threat doesn't begin to describe the abili…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghAudiences will fall for upbeat stooge Magliano, who delivers a fun, well-wrought follow-up to last year's sellout show " and ends on a perspective-shifting twis…
Assembly George Square, EdinburghGrace stars as the Black Widow actor to poke fun at cross-racial casting, in an intricate takedown of fixed identity that will leave your mind buzzing 'An ac…
Monkey Barrel, EdinburghUnpicking relationships with swagger and a dash of Hannah Gadsby-esque introspection, the standup seems ready for the big league Olga Koch has turned 30, and " per t…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThough she emerged as 00s comedy royalty, Allen's show about kicking back against dull domesticity only raises a few smiles How to calibrate your expectations o…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghMoving beyond the gag about Rishi Sunak which dragged her into a media storm, Navabi's first fringe show introduces us to a comic of promise Leila Navabi underw…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghPlumbing the realms of the unexpected, O'Neill plays both parts of a clowning double act, masterfully testing the limits of freak-out comedy 'One banana, two ba…
Summerhall, EdinburghThe comic relives being a carer for a lovably eccentric adopted uncle in a heartfelt show that demonstrates caring's reciprocal flow The "dead dad show" is a fringe come…
Monkey Barrel at the Tron, EdinburghThis part-improvised, largely mimed and entirely chaotic comic play about guinea pigs and bank robbery is ramshackle fun Edinburgh comedy award-nominated …