edinburgh 2018
ada campe and the psychic duck
VENUE: Studio - The Stand’s New Town Theatre, Freemason’s Hall, 96 George St, EH2 3DH
TIME: 2:50pm
DATES & PRICES: Thurs 2nd- Sun 26th August (not 14th) @ £9-£7
TICKETS: 0131 558 9005 / www.thestand.co.uk/
AGE RESTRICTION: 16+
WINNER: New Act of The Year – 2018
FINALIST (ongoing): Old Comedian Of The Year
Top Ten Funny Women Best Show - 2017
A show about wonderful women, strange encounters and a fairground mystery that occurred on the Welsh coast many moons ago... all told with the aid of the world’s only psychic duck!
Ada Campe has been performing her unique and exciting blend of comedy, variety, magic and shouting at various comedy and cabaret nights across the UK. She came top of the bill at this year’s prestigious New Act of the Year Show and was named Funny Women Top Ten Best Shows last year. She has also featured in two recent books about women in comedy; What The Frock! Book of Funny Women (2015) and Stand Up & Sock it to Them Sister (2016).
www.adacampe.com / TWITTER @AdaCampe / @NaomiPaxton
TIME: 2:50pm
DATES & PRICES: Thurs 2nd- Sun 26th August (not 14th) @ £9-£7
TICKETS: 0131 558 9005 / www.thestand.co.uk/
AGE RESTRICTION: 16+
WINNER: New Act of The Year – 2018
FINALIST (ongoing): Old Comedian Of The Year
Top Ten Funny Women Best Show - 2017
A show about wonderful women, strange encounters and a fairground mystery that occurred on the Welsh coast many moons ago... all told with the aid of the world’s only psychic duck!
Ada Campe has been performing her unique and exciting blend of comedy, variety, magic and shouting at various comedy and cabaret nights across the UK. She came top of the bill at this year’s prestigious New Act of the Year Show and was named Funny Women Top Ten Best Shows last year. She has also featured in two recent books about women in comedy; What The Frock! Book of Funny Women (2015) and Stand Up & Sock it to Them Sister (2016).
www.adacampe.com / TWITTER @AdaCampe / @NaomiPaxton
adele cliff: sheep
VENUE: Just The Wee One - Just the Tonic at the Caves, 253 Cowgate, EH1 1LG
TIME: 4:10pm
DATES: Thursday 2nd August - Sunday 26th August (Not 13th)
PRICES: £5 in advance, or Pay What You Want at the Venue
TICKETS: 0330 220 1212 / www.justthetonic.com/edinburgh-festival/
NOMINEE: 99 Club Female Comedy Bursary 2018
FINALIST: UK Pun Championship 2018
FINALIST: Funny Women Awards Regional 2018
Dave’s Funniest Jokes of the Fringe 2016 & 2017
Huffington Post’s ‘Ten Must-See New Acts’ Edinburgh Fringe 2016
FINALIST: Nottingham Comedy Festival New Act of the Year 2016
FINALIST: Bath Comedy Festival New Act of the Year 2016
One of the only female one-liner acts currently on the UK circuit today and fresh from improv and comedy writing training at the world renowned Second City Training Centre in Chicago, Adele Cliff brings her hotly anticipated debut hour to the festival.
This is a gag-packed show about individuality, searching for friends, following and fitting in. And yes, actual sheep. Adele asks all the important questions; Am I a sheep? Are you a sheep? Are ewe sheep? Ewe are sheep? Who are sheep? Why are sheep?
With jokes from both of her previous sell-out Fringe shows appearing in Dave's Funniest Jokes of the Fringe and her numerous finalist places in various comedy heats up and down the country, Adele is fast becoming one of the most sought-after acts on the UK circuit. She was also named as one of Ten Must See New Acts 2016 by the Huffington Post and has gigged at all of the major comedy festivals and clubs nationwide.
TWITTER: @Adelecliff
TIME: 4:10pm
DATES: Thursday 2nd August - Sunday 26th August (Not 13th)
PRICES: £5 in advance, or Pay What You Want at the Venue
TICKETS: 0330 220 1212 / www.justthetonic.com/edinburgh-festival/
NOMINEE: 99 Club Female Comedy Bursary 2018
FINALIST: UK Pun Championship 2018
FINALIST: Funny Women Awards Regional 2018
Dave’s Funniest Jokes of the Fringe 2016 & 2017
Huffington Post’s ‘Ten Must-See New Acts’ Edinburgh Fringe 2016
FINALIST: Nottingham Comedy Festival New Act of the Year 2016
FINALIST: Bath Comedy Festival New Act of the Year 2016
One of the only female one-liner acts currently on the UK circuit today and fresh from improv and comedy writing training at the world renowned Second City Training Centre in Chicago, Adele Cliff brings her hotly anticipated debut hour to the festival.
This is a gag-packed show about individuality, searching for friends, following and fitting in. And yes, actual sheep. Adele asks all the important questions; Am I a sheep? Are you a sheep? Are ewe sheep? Ewe are sheep? Who are sheep? Why are sheep?
With jokes from both of her previous sell-out Fringe shows appearing in Dave's Funniest Jokes of the Fringe and her numerous finalist places in various comedy heats up and down the country, Adele is fast becoming one of the most sought-after acts on the UK circuit. She was also named as one of Ten Must See New Acts 2016 by the Huffington Post and has gigged at all of the major comedy festivals and clubs nationwide.
TWITTER: @Adelecliff
Alice fraser: ethos
VENUE: Friesian- Underbelly Bristo Square, Teviot Place, EH8 9AG
TIME: 7:55pm
DATES: Weds 1st – Mon 27th August (not Mon 13th)
PRICES: £11-£9. Previews @ £6
TICKETS: 03333 444167 / www.underbelly.co.uk
Introducing the first ever human/robot double act at the Fringe! This is ETHOS. An Artificial Intelligence pursuing its program directive to determine what it is to be human - by watching a comedy show.
Award-winning writer, broadcaster and comedy performer (as well as an ex-corporate lawyer), Alice Fraser, explains art, sex, money, nuclear brinksmanship, the term “problematic”, conflict, kindness, class and cultural hypocrisy to a non-human intelligence (who has read her reviews). This is a silly, funny and smart show that explores what it is to be human. A show about the right word in the right place.
Intelligence – the next frontier. We have always been fascinated by the idea of non-human minds. From the Golem (the Jewish myth of a clay man animated by the name of God and created by Alice’s very own ancestors) to the prospect of computers able to think on a global scale and threaten civilisation. We strive to create minds and fear what we might create.
With her previous shows all receiving critical acclaim at festivals across the world, Alice has gone on to become a regular co-host on popular satirical podcast The Bugle. She has written for ABC’s weekly comedy news show The Project and ABC Radio’s A Rational Fear, her debut stand-up special was broadcast as part of ABC Australia’s Next Gen series, and she recently appeared on the new BBC Radio 4 series Welcome To Wherever You Are. Her conversational podcast Tea With Alice was awarded the 2016 AMP Tomorrow Fund grant and her new podcast Trollplay, featuring the worst of the internet and how to combat it, debuted on ABC Australia this April. She is currently working on a new Channel 4 project with Oxford Scientific Films and has given a TEDx Talk about vanity in the face of death.
www.alicecomedyfraser.com / https://player.fm/series/tea-with-alice / TWITTER: @aliterative
baby wants candy: the completely improvised full band musical
VENUE: Studio One - Assembly George Square Studios, George Square, EH8 9LH
TIME: 8pm
DATES: Weds 1st-Mon 27th August
PRICES: Previews @ £10 / Midweek £14 (£13) / Weekends £15 (£14)
TICKETS: www.assemblyfestival.com / 0131 623 3030
AGE RESTRICTION: 14+
Now fondly referred to as a Fringe institution, the musical improv smash hit wonder Baby Wants Candy is back with more brand new, ad-libbed, undefined, exhilarating 55-minute musicals, all taken from audience suggestions.
With a full band in action, the company create the opening and closing night of a one night only smash-hit musical – every single night! Witness the plot of Kanye West Side Story be pulled out of thin air. Behold the beauty of theatre as Nicola Sturgeon, Hypnotist comes to life. Each show is a roller-coaster ride of spontaneously choreographed numbers. Unscripted, unguided, unpredictable… and often uncontrollable.
Since they began coming to the Fringe, their fan base has grown in such a force that Baby Wants Candy have sold out every single show, extra shows included, at the festival. They recently enjoyed a five star sell-out run (alongside Thrones! The Musical) at the Adelaide Fringe, and their spin-off show Shamilton (an improvised parody of Hamilton) has currently been selling out Stateside and is about to embark on a nationwide US tour. They are also set to perform at the prestigious John F Kennedy Arts Centre in Washington this July.
One of the longest running and most celebrated improv troupes in the world, Baby Wants Candy has launched the careers of various top comedic actors and writers in the US, from Craig Cackowski (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development) to Jack McBrayer (Kenneth in 30 Rock), Vanessa Bayer and Aidy Bryant (Saturday Night Live), Thomas Middleditch (HBO’s Silicon Valley) and Peter Gwinn (Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report).
www.babywantscandy.com / TWITTER @Babywantscandy
TIME: 8pm
DATES: Weds 1st-Mon 27th August
PRICES: Previews @ £10 / Midweek £14 (£13) / Weekends £15 (£14)
TICKETS: www.assemblyfestival.com / 0131 623 3030
AGE RESTRICTION: 14+
Now fondly referred to as a Fringe institution, the musical improv smash hit wonder Baby Wants Candy is back with more brand new, ad-libbed, undefined, exhilarating 55-minute musicals, all taken from audience suggestions.
With a full band in action, the company create the opening and closing night of a one night only smash-hit musical – every single night! Witness the plot of Kanye West Side Story be pulled out of thin air. Behold the beauty of theatre as Nicola Sturgeon, Hypnotist comes to life. Each show is a roller-coaster ride of spontaneously choreographed numbers. Unscripted, unguided, unpredictable… and often uncontrollable.
Since they began coming to the Fringe, their fan base has grown in such a force that Baby Wants Candy have sold out every single show, extra shows included, at the festival. They recently enjoyed a five star sell-out run (alongside Thrones! The Musical) at the Adelaide Fringe, and their spin-off show Shamilton (an improvised parody of Hamilton) has currently been selling out Stateside and is about to embark on a nationwide US tour. They are also set to perform at the prestigious John F Kennedy Arts Centre in Washington this July.
One of the longest running and most celebrated improv troupes in the world, Baby Wants Candy has launched the careers of various top comedic actors and writers in the US, from Craig Cackowski (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development) to Jack McBrayer (Kenneth in 30 Rock), Vanessa Bayer and Aidy Bryant (Saturday Night Live), Thomas Middleditch (HBO’s Silicon Valley) and Peter Gwinn (Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report).
www.babywantscandy.com / TWITTER @Babywantscandy
chris turner: we're where we were
VENUE: Upstairs– Pleasance Courtyard, 60 Pleasance, EH8 9TJ
TIME: 9:45pm
DATES: Wednesday 1st- Sunday 26th August
PRICES: Previews £6 / Early week £8 (£7) / Mid-week £9 (£8) / Weekend £10 (£9)
TICKETS: 0131 556 6550 / www.pleasance.co.uk
AGE GUIDE: 16+
REVIEW TICKETS: Pleasance Press Office - 0131 556 6557/ press@pleasance.co.uk
RUNNER UP: Westside Comedy Showdown – 2018
RUNNER UP: US Comedy Contest - 2018
NOMINEE: Best Comedy – Perth Fringeworld 2014-2017
WINNER: Best Comedy – Adelaide Fringe Weekly Awards 2016
Amused Moose People’s Choice Award - 2014
Directed by Steve Hall
Los Angeles hasn’t changed Chris - he’s a Manchester lad, born and gluten-free bread. Living in a city where everyone follows their dreams, he looks at our hopes, ambitions, and the ones we eventually give up on. Join this award winning, freestyle rapping virtuoso for sharp gags, tricksy wordplay and jaw-dropping improvised bars that would make Drake green with envy. He promises to pronounce ‘aluminium garage’ correctly.
Chris’s quotable gags and rapid freestyle raps have established him as one of the most in-demand acts on the corporate circuit and at comedy clubs around the world. After his debut show Pretty Fly won the Amused Moose People's Choice award in 2014, Chris went on to win ‘Best Comedy’ at the Adelaide Fringe Weekly Awards and four consecutive nominations at Perth Fringeworld from 2014-2017. He’s headlined for 1 million Dutch comedy fans on RTL4's flagship stand-up show The Comedy Factory and has performed live on BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music.
Chris has collaborated with Yorkshire Tea to create Blessed are the Teamakers, a tea-centric rap that went viral with over 6 million views, and in May 2017 he appeared at renowned human rights conference the Oslo Freedom Forum. He also recently won the bronze at the Westside Comedy Showdown, one of the biggest comedy competitions in the US.
He is a founding member of Racing Minds, one of the Fringe's most respected improv troupes, who boast 7 sell-out Fringe runs, a twelve-part series of Writer’s Block recorded for Audible, and who have over 600,000 Soundcloud subscribers to their 50’s style radio comedy The Wireless Podcast. Catch Racing Minds this August at the Pleasance Queen Dome, 11:55am.
http://www.christurnercomedy.com/ / Twitter: @ChrisPJTurner
TIME: 9:45pm
DATES: Wednesday 1st- Sunday 26th August
PRICES: Previews £6 / Early week £8 (£7) / Mid-week £9 (£8) / Weekend £10 (£9)
TICKETS: 0131 556 6550 / www.pleasance.co.uk
AGE GUIDE: 16+
REVIEW TICKETS: Pleasance Press Office - 0131 556 6557/ press@pleasance.co.uk
RUNNER UP: Westside Comedy Showdown – 2018
RUNNER UP: US Comedy Contest - 2018
NOMINEE: Best Comedy – Perth Fringeworld 2014-2017
WINNER: Best Comedy – Adelaide Fringe Weekly Awards 2016
Amused Moose People’s Choice Award - 2014
Directed by Steve Hall
Los Angeles hasn’t changed Chris - he’s a Manchester lad, born and gluten-free bread. Living in a city where everyone follows their dreams, he looks at our hopes, ambitions, and the ones we eventually give up on. Join this award winning, freestyle rapping virtuoso for sharp gags, tricksy wordplay and jaw-dropping improvised bars that would make Drake green with envy. He promises to pronounce ‘aluminium garage’ correctly.
Chris’s quotable gags and rapid freestyle raps have established him as one of the most in-demand acts on the corporate circuit and at comedy clubs around the world. After his debut show Pretty Fly won the Amused Moose People's Choice award in 2014, Chris went on to win ‘Best Comedy’ at the Adelaide Fringe Weekly Awards and four consecutive nominations at Perth Fringeworld from 2014-2017. He’s headlined for 1 million Dutch comedy fans on RTL4's flagship stand-up show The Comedy Factory and has performed live on BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music.
Chris has collaborated with Yorkshire Tea to create Blessed are the Teamakers, a tea-centric rap that went viral with over 6 million views, and in May 2017 he appeared at renowned human rights conference the Oslo Freedom Forum. He also recently won the bronze at the Westside Comedy Showdown, one of the biggest comedy competitions in the US.
He is a founding member of Racing Minds, one of the Fringe's most respected improv troupes, who boast 7 sell-out Fringe runs, a twelve-part series of Writer’s Block recorded for Audible, and who have over 600,000 Soundcloud subscribers to their 50’s style radio comedy The Wireless Podcast. Catch Racing Minds this August at the Pleasance Queen Dome, 11:55am.
http://www.christurnercomedy.com/ / Twitter: @ChrisPJTurner
elvis mcgonagall: full tartan jacket
VENUE: PBH’s Free Fringe:
French Quarter – Voodoo Rooms, 19a W Register St, EH2 2AA
TIME: 12:20pm
DATES: Sat 4th August – Sun 26th August (not Tues 14th August)
AGE RESTRICTION: 14+
He’s suffered for his poetry for many a year; now it’s your turn as Scotland’s funniest, angriest, sharpest, most sarcastic wordsmith returns to the Fringe this August.
Prepare yourself for an hour of dazzling Weltschmerz, satirical verse and anarchic wit with the 2006 World Slam Champion, BBC Radio 4 regular and walking shortbread tin Elvis McGonagall as he bellows into the void of our post-truth world. Fake news. Artisanal novichok. Piers Morgan. Yes, the good ship lollipop is sailing down the shitter. Climb aboard with Elvis as he spits his scurrilous diatribes against the powers that be. The twat. Tempted? Nah - me neither. And his cats are completely disinterested. I’ll be in the bar.
After that World Slam triumph, Elvis appeared on the first ever edition of BBC Radio 4's Sony Gold Award winning Saturday Live in 2006 and has featured on the programme regularly since then. Two series of his sitcom Elvis McGonagall Takes A Look On The Bright Side have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and he can often be heard on many other Radio 4 programmes including Today, Arthur Smith's Balham Bash, A Good Read, Recycled Radio, Archive on 4, Off The Page, Material World, Last Word, Pick of the Week and The Wondermentalist Cabaret as well as BBC World Service’s Weekend .He also wrote and presented the BBC Radio 4 documentaries A Doggerel Bard and Beacons and Blue Remembered Hills.
On TV, Elvis has been seen on BBC1's The One Show, BBC2's The Culture Show and (despite knowing nothing much about snooker) their coverage of the World Snooker Championship Final and on Channel 4's Random Acts.
Elvis performs live at literary and music festivals, comedy clubs and dodgy dives up and down the country and abroad. He is the compere of the notorious Blue Suede Sporran Club, regularly MC's events here, there and everywhere and also performs with his band Elvis McGonagall & The Resurrectors, “an unholy marriage of radical stand-up poetry and Caledonian punky-skiffle-hillbilly-blues”.
http://www.elvismcgonagall.co.uk/ / TWITTER @ElvisMcGonagall
French Quarter – Voodoo Rooms, 19a W Register St, EH2 2AA
TIME: 12:20pm
DATES: Sat 4th August – Sun 26th August (not Tues 14th August)
AGE RESTRICTION: 14+
He’s suffered for his poetry for many a year; now it’s your turn as Scotland’s funniest, angriest, sharpest, most sarcastic wordsmith returns to the Fringe this August.
Prepare yourself for an hour of dazzling Weltschmerz, satirical verse and anarchic wit with the 2006 World Slam Champion, BBC Radio 4 regular and walking shortbread tin Elvis McGonagall as he bellows into the void of our post-truth world. Fake news. Artisanal novichok. Piers Morgan. Yes, the good ship lollipop is sailing down the shitter. Climb aboard with Elvis as he spits his scurrilous diatribes against the powers that be. The twat. Tempted? Nah - me neither. And his cats are completely disinterested. I’ll be in the bar.
After that World Slam triumph, Elvis appeared on the first ever edition of BBC Radio 4's Sony Gold Award winning Saturday Live in 2006 and has featured on the programme regularly since then. Two series of his sitcom Elvis McGonagall Takes A Look On The Bright Side have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and he can often be heard on many other Radio 4 programmes including Today, Arthur Smith's Balham Bash, A Good Read, Recycled Radio, Archive on 4, Off The Page, Material World, Last Word, Pick of the Week and The Wondermentalist Cabaret as well as BBC World Service’s Weekend .He also wrote and presented the BBC Radio 4 documentaries A Doggerel Bard and Beacons and Blue Remembered Hills.
On TV, Elvis has been seen on BBC1's The One Show, BBC2's The Culture Show and (despite knowing nothing much about snooker) their coverage of the World Snooker Championship Final and on Channel 4's Random Acts.
Elvis performs live at literary and music festivals, comedy clubs and dodgy dives up and down the country and abroad. He is the compere of the notorious Blue Suede Sporran Club, regularly MC's events here, there and everywhere and also performs with his band Elvis McGonagall & The Resurrectors, “an unholy marriage of radical stand-up poetry and Caledonian punky-skiffle-hillbilly-blues”.
http://www.elvismcgonagall.co.uk/ / TWITTER @ElvisMcGonagall
felicity ward: busting a nut
VENUE: Above – Pleasance Courtyard, 60 Pleasance, EH8 9TJ
TIME: 9pm
DATES & PRICES: Previews: 1st-3rd August @ £7, 4th-26th August (not 13th) @ £13.50-£9
TICKETS: 0131 556 6550 / www.pleasance.co.uk
AGE RESTRICTION: 16+
NOMINEE: Best Comedy Show – Perth Fringe World 2017
WINNER: Best International Show – New Zealand Comedy Festival 2016
NOMINEE: Best Club Comic – Chortle Awards 2016 & 2014
WINNER: Best Australian Act – Perth Comedy Festival 2012
WINNER: Time Out Best Local Act - Sydney Comedy Festival 2012
NOMINEE: Best Show – Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2012
NOMINEE: Best Comedy – Adelaide Fringe Festival 2012
WINNER: Time Out Best Local Act – Sydney Comedy Festival 2011
The Fringe was a sadder place last year with the Felicity Ward shaped hole that was so glaringly obvious in it. But this year, after a two year hiatus, she’s hyped up, jumped up, and ready to Bust a Nut.
In fact, she’s been busting a nut since her last Fringe appearance. She got married, starred in her own Netflix special as part of the series Live From The BBC, lived with her in-laws, explored whether technology can save her from herself in her own Radio 4 series Appisodes , taken up yoga, and she regularly co-hosts the popular The Guilty Feminist Podcast.
Not only has she been raking in the critical acclaim from her various Fringe shows of late, but she recently set out to break down the stigmas around mental health and IBS in her show What If There Is No Toilet?, which she then turned into a highly successful Australian documentary Felicity’s Mental Mission (ABC1/ABC2) in 2016. She has headlined Live from the BBC on BBC2 and BBC3, starred in Josh (BBC3), appeared on Mock the Week (BBC 2), Make You Laugh Out Loud (Channel 5), Sam Delaney’s News Thing (RTUK), featured on Museum of Curiosity and David Baddiels’ Don’t Make Me Laugh (Radio 4), Ronny Chieng’s sitcom Ronny Chieng: International Student (ABC) and in Sydney's Just For Laughs Gala (The Comedy Channel, Australia). She’s opened for Katherine Ryan and Maria Bamford, made Blaps for Channel 4, co-hosts her own podcast The Unbelievable Ashes Podcast with Andy Zaltzman, toured nationwide, was invited to the curated Sydney Festival 2017 and is soon set to appear on the upcoming series Live from the Comedy Store (Comedy Central) . And, if that’s not enough, she has been commissioned to pen her own sitcom pilot in Australia.
www.felicityward.com / Twitter: @felicityward / Instagram: @felicityward
TIME: 9pm
DATES & PRICES: Previews: 1st-3rd August @ £7, 4th-26th August (not 13th) @ £13.50-£9
TICKETS: 0131 556 6550 / www.pleasance.co.uk
AGE RESTRICTION: 16+
NOMINEE: Best Comedy Show – Perth Fringe World 2017
WINNER: Best International Show – New Zealand Comedy Festival 2016
NOMINEE: Best Club Comic – Chortle Awards 2016 & 2014
WINNER: Best Australian Act – Perth Comedy Festival 2012
WINNER: Time Out Best Local Act - Sydney Comedy Festival 2012
NOMINEE: Best Show – Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2012
NOMINEE: Best Comedy – Adelaide Fringe Festival 2012
WINNER: Time Out Best Local Act – Sydney Comedy Festival 2011
The Fringe was a sadder place last year with the Felicity Ward shaped hole that was so glaringly obvious in it. But this year, after a two year hiatus, she’s hyped up, jumped up, and ready to Bust a Nut.
In fact, she’s been busting a nut since her last Fringe appearance. She got married, starred in her own Netflix special as part of the series Live From The BBC, lived with her in-laws, explored whether technology can save her from herself in her own Radio 4 series Appisodes , taken up yoga, and she regularly co-hosts the popular The Guilty Feminist Podcast.
Not only has she been raking in the critical acclaim from her various Fringe shows of late, but she recently set out to break down the stigmas around mental health and IBS in her show What If There Is No Toilet?, which she then turned into a highly successful Australian documentary Felicity’s Mental Mission (ABC1/ABC2) in 2016. She has headlined Live from the BBC on BBC2 and BBC3, starred in Josh (BBC3), appeared on Mock the Week (BBC 2), Make You Laugh Out Loud (Channel 5), Sam Delaney’s News Thing (RTUK), featured on Museum of Curiosity and David Baddiels’ Don’t Make Me Laugh (Radio 4), Ronny Chieng’s sitcom Ronny Chieng: International Student (ABC) and in Sydney's Just For Laughs Gala (The Comedy Channel, Australia). She’s opened for Katherine Ryan and Maria Bamford, made Blaps for Channel 4, co-hosts her own podcast The Unbelievable Ashes Podcast with Andy Zaltzman, toured nationwide, was invited to the curated Sydney Festival 2017 and is soon set to appear on the upcoming series Live from the Comedy Store (Comedy Central) . And, if that’s not enough, she has been commissioned to pen her own sitcom pilot in Australia.
www.felicityward.com / Twitter: @felicityward / Instagram: @felicityward
imran yusuf: saint, sinner, sufi
VENUE: Studio - The Stand’s New Town Theatre, Freemason’s Hall, 96 George St, EH2 3DH
TIME: 5:30pm
DATES & PRICES: Thurs 2nd- Sun 26th August @ £10-£8
DAYS OFF: Mon 6th, Mon 13th, Tues 14th August
TICKETS: 0131 558 9005 / www.thestand.co.uk/
NOMINEE: Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Award – 2010
Imran Yusuf became the very first comedian to achieve the Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nomination from the Free Festival in 2010 and the champion of the egalitarian revolution of the free scene. Now you can see him in a paid venue like the plush capitalist he really is.
Everyone is offended, everyone is a victim, no one is happy. Having made a career from challenging prejudice with witty rebuttals to humanise myself to my adopted countryfolk, I became bored of the assembly line nature of profiteering from victimisation. Is the problem of society really the right-wing media? Is it really the opportunistic demagogues seeking fame and fortune from the throngs of disaffected mouth-breathing underclass ignoramuses? Or is it the wanton disregard to take ownership of my own prejudices and admit that I have been as racist, sexist and homophobic as those I accuse of discriminating against me whilst screaming “Woe is me, the pariah! I am not to blame; that is the fault of others whom serve me to overlook my own faults”.
This is a no-nonsense show deeply cognisant of the shared human experience, of taking ownership of my own hypocrisy, realising that we become who we judge and accepting the bitter-sweet truth that from our tragic history has emerged an opportunity to embrace a greater potential. The Saint is all things Godly and good, The Sinner is all things devilish and bad. Between these two impostors, delicately oscillates the wandering, wondering path of masterful surrender…
Born in Kenya of Indian descent, Imran was raised in London by a family expelled from Uganda and yet became an original voice that embodies the multi-cultural wealth of modern Britain. After making his debut to critical acclaim and an award nomination in 2010, he went on to appear on Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow (BBC1), completed two nationwide tours and fronted his own TV pilot The Imran Yusuf Show (BBC3) before starring as ‘Ed’ in sitcom Fried (BBC3) that began his entry into the acting world. In 2015, Imran hosted the first ever HaLOL comedy night which celebrates the growing talent of British Muslim comedy in the UK before becoming Director of HaLOL Entertainment, a role in which he aspires to create a more accessible road for minorities in the industry and to champion a more humanizing narrative amidst the sensationalist hysteria.
http://www.imranyusuf.com / TWITTER: @imranyusuf / INSTAGRAM: @imranyusufcomedy
TIME: 5:30pm
DATES & PRICES: Thurs 2nd- Sun 26th August @ £10-£8
DAYS OFF: Mon 6th, Mon 13th, Tues 14th August
TICKETS: 0131 558 9005 / www.thestand.co.uk/
NOMINEE: Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Award – 2010
Imran Yusuf became the very first comedian to achieve the Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nomination from the Free Festival in 2010 and the champion of the egalitarian revolution of the free scene. Now you can see him in a paid venue like the plush capitalist he really is.
Everyone is offended, everyone is a victim, no one is happy. Having made a career from challenging prejudice with witty rebuttals to humanise myself to my adopted countryfolk, I became bored of the assembly line nature of profiteering from victimisation. Is the problem of society really the right-wing media? Is it really the opportunistic demagogues seeking fame and fortune from the throngs of disaffected mouth-breathing underclass ignoramuses? Or is it the wanton disregard to take ownership of my own prejudices and admit that I have been as racist, sexist and homophobic as those I accuse of discriminating against me whilst screaming “Woe is me, the pariah! I am not to blame; that is the fault of others whom serve me to overlook my own faults”.
This is a no-nonsense show deeply cognisant of the shared human experience, of taking ownership of my own hypocrisy, realising that we become who we judge and accepting the bitter-sweet truth that from our tragic history has emerged an opportunity to embrace a greater potential. The Saint is all things Godly and good, The Sinner is all things devilish and bad. Between these two impostors, delicately oscillates the wandering, wondering path of masterful surrender…
Born in Kenya of Indian descent, Imran was raised in London by a family expelled from Uganda and yet became an original voice that embodies the multi-cultural wealth of modern Britain. After making his debut to critical acclaim and an award nomination in 2010, he went on to appear on Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow (BBC1), completed two nationwide tours and fronted his own TV pilot The Imran Yusuf Show (BBC3) before starring as ‘Ed’ in sitcom Fried (BBC3) that began his entry into the acting world. In 2015, Imran hosted the first ever HaLOL comedy night which celebrates the growing talent of British Muslim comedy in the UK before becoming Director of HaLOL Entertainment, a role in which he aspires to create a more accessible road for minorities in the industry and to champion a more humanizing narrative amidst the sensationalist hysteria.
http://www.imranyusuf.com / TWITTER: @imranyusuf / INSTAGRAM: @imranyusufcomedy
Jake howie: read my lips
VENUE: Just The Wee One - Just the Tonic at the Caves, 253 Cowgate, EH1 1NN
TIME: 9:30pm
DATES: Thursday 2nd August - Sunday 26th August (Not 13th)
PRICES: £5 in advance, or Pay What You Want at the venue
TICKETS: 0330 220 1212 / www.justthetonic.com/edinburgh-festival/
FINALIST: New Variety Lives New Act of the Year (NATYS) 2018
WINNER: New Act of The Year - Reading Comedy Festival 2015
WINNER: Blackout @ Up the Creek 2015
WINNER: New Act of the Week @ Comedy Cafe Theatre 2015
Warm, quick-witted and ready to bring some well-needed positivity to 2018, newcomer Jake Howie brings his frank take on life, love, sex and politics to this year’s Fringe.
They say a loose pair of lips could sink a ship, but you have to talk truth to give reality a flip. And reality in 2018 needs the hard word, so there’s never been a better time to get lippy. Jake Howie doesn’t pay lip service - there’s no time for niceties when the world is drowning in disillusion. Join him as he takes you on a journey through the lens of an eternal optimist trying to grapple with the wild truths of today. All you have to do is shut your mouth, open your eyes and Read My Lips.
Jake started as an improv performer in his hometown of Auckland and went on to appear in TV commercials, professional theatre shows and even on New Zealand’s longest running soap opera. He moved to London to pursue a career in stand-up in 2013 and soon started gracing the country’s finest comedy clubs. He has performed at the Camden Fringe, the Brighton Fringe, the Leicester Comedy Festival, the Bath Comedy Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe and went on to win the Reading Comedy Festival New Act of the Year, The Blackout at Up the Creek, New Act of the Week (five times!) at the Comedy Café Theatre as well as becoming a finalist at the prestigious New Variety Lives New Act of the Year competition.
TWITTER: @JakeHowieComedy
TIME: 9:30pm
DATES: Thursday 2nd August - Sunday 26th August (Not 13th)
PRICES: £5 in advance, or Pay What You Want at the venue
TICKETS: 0330 220 1212 / www.justthetonic.com/edinburgh-festival/
FINALIST: New Variety Lives New Act of the Year (NATYS) 2018
WINNER: New Act of The Year - Reading Comedy Festival 2015
WINNER: Blackout @ Up the Creek 2015
WINNER: New Act of the Week @ Comedy Cafe Theatre 2015
Warm, quick-witted and ready to bring some well-needed positivity to 2018, newcomer Jake Howie brings his frank take on life, love, sex and politics to this year’s Fringe.
They say a loose pair of lips could sink a ship, but you have to talk truth to give reality a flip. And reality in 2018 needs the hard word, so there’s never been a better time to get lippy. Jake Howie doesn’t pay lip service - there’s no time for niceties when the world is drowning in disillusion. Join him as he takes you on a journey through the lens of an eternal optimist trying to grapple with the wild truths of today. All you have to do is shut your mouth, open your eyes and Read My Lips.
Jake started as an improv performer in his hometown of Auckland and went on to appear in TV commercials, professional theatre shows and even on New Zealand’s longest running soap opera. He moved to London to pursue a career in stand-up in 2013 and soon started gracing the country’s finest comedy clubs. He has performed at the Camden Fringe, the Brighton Fringe, the Leicester Comedy Festival, the Bath Comedy Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe and went on to win the Reading Comedy Festival New Act of the Year, The Blackout at Up the Creek, New Act of the Week (five times!) at the Comedy Café Theatre as well as becoming a finalist at the prestigious New Variety Lives New Act of the Year competition.
TWITTER: @JakeHowieComedy
james hancox: sports for the unsporty
VENUE: The Bubble - Assembly George Square Theatre, George Square, EH8 9LH
TIME: 4pm
DATES: Previews: 2nd-3rd August @ £8
8th, 9th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd August @ £11 (£10)
4th, 5th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 17th 18th, 19th, 24th, 25th, 26th August @ £12.50 (£11.50)
6th & 7thAugust 241 @ £12.50 (£11.50)
No performance Mon 13th August
TICKETS: www.assemblyfestival.com / 0131 623 3030
NOMINEE: BEST COMEDY AWARD – FRINGE WORLD PERTH 2018
Do you have the heart of an athlete, but the skills of a toddler? Then this is the show for you! Self-appointed Sports Personality Of The Year James Hancox has always been rubbish at sports. As a response, he’s invented his own and plans to unveil them to the world, one fringe show at a time, in his debut solo hour.
If you can’t beat them, just make up a different game and beat them at that instead. Part referee, part coach, part idiot; the mustachioed improviser creates scenes of sporty silliness with audience-based sketch, improvised power ballads and half the contents of the local pound shop. It’ll leave the crowd feeling like the champions they were born to be.
Entering the comedy world in 2010 as one half of award-winning duo Abandoman, James has played a whole variety of stages, from London Apollo to Glastonbury Festival, as well as sold-out shows at the Edinburgh, Perth and Adelaide Fringes. He has appeared on several TV and radio shows, including 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown and The Stephen K Amos Show, and won Hackney Empire’s New Act of The Year. Earlier this year, James was nominated for the Best Comedy Award 2018 at Fringe World Perth.
http://mrjameshancox.com/ / TWITTER: @mrjameshancox / INSTAGRAM: @mrjameshancox
TIME: 4pm
DATES: Previews: 2nd-3rd August @ £8
8th, 9th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd August @ £11 (£10)
4th, 5th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 17th 18th, 19th, 24th, 25th, 26th August @ £12.50 (£11.50)
6th & 7thAugust 241 @ £12.50 (£11.50)
No performance Mon 13th August
TICKETS: www.assemblyfestival.com / 0131 623 3030
NOMINEE: BEST COMEDY AWARD – FRINGE WORLD PERTH 2018
Do you have the heart of an athlete, but the skills of a toddler? Then this is the show for you! Self-appointed Sports Personality Of The Year James Hancox has always been rubbish at sports. As a response, he’s invented his own and plans to unveil them to the world, one fringe show at a time, in his debut solo hour.
If you can’t beat them, just make up a different game and beat them at that instead. Part referee, part coach, part idiot; the mustachioed improviser creates scenes of sporty silliness with audience-based sketch, improvised power ballads and half the contents of the local pound shop. It’ll leave the crowd feeling like the champions they were born to be.
Entering the comedy world in 2010 as one half of award-winning duo Abandoman, James has played a whole variety of stages, from London Apollo to Glastonbury Festival, as well as sold-out shows at the Edinburgh, Perth and Adelaide Fringes. He has appeared on several TV and radio shows, including 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown and The Stephen K Amos Show, and won Hackney Empire’s New Act of The Year. Earlier this year, James was nominated for the Best Comedy Award 2018 at Fringe World Perth.
http://mrjameshancox.com/ / TWITTER: @mrjameshancox / INSTAGRAM: @mrjameshancox
lloyd langford: why the big face?
WINNER: Best Show – Leicester Comedy Festival 2018
NOMINEE: Best Comedy (Russell Howard’s Good News) - TV Choice Award
NOMINEE: Best Comedy - Celtic Media Awards (Here Be Dragons)
WINNER: Best Comedy - Radio Academy Award Bronze (Here Be Dragons) 2014
NOMINEE: Sony Award 2011
NOMINEE: Breakthrough Act – Chortle Awards 2008
VENUE: Banshee Labyrinth, 29-35 Niddry St, EH1 1LG
TIME: 10pm
DATES: Thurs 2nd – Mon 27th August (not 10th, 11th, 12th August)
The ever-charming Port Talbotian returns to the Fringe a newly made double-champion after recently winning BBC1’s Celebrity Mastermind and the Leicester Comedy Festival’s Best Show award 2018 with his much-loved combination of jokes, personal anecdotes, petty grievances and offbeat observations.
Lloyd’s new show ‘Lloyd Langford: Why The Big Face?” has already played to sold out audiences at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival. He turns his pin-sharp comedic eye on to topics as diverse as terrorism, garden birds and the British inability to cope with a balcony. It’s a gag-filled and often frank examination of the ridiculous situations he finds himself in, whether stranded in New York due to a snowstorm with friends and fellow comedians James Acaster, Ed Gamble and John Robins, or trapped in a malfunctioning robotic massage chair at a Japanese airport.
Lloyd’s many TV appearances, alongside his recent championship on Celebrity Mastermind, include QI (BBC1), Never Mind the Buzzcocks (BBC2), Russell Howard’s Good News (BBC2), Dave’s One Night Stand (Dave) as well as a regular panellist on Ask Rhod Gilbert (BBC1). He has also contributed as a writer for Live at the Apollo and has penned jokes for the likes of Rhod, Simon Amstell and Frankie Boyle.
He’s no stranger to radio either, be it co-hosting regularly on the Rhod Gilbert Show (BBC Radio Wales) or appearing on Rhod Gilbert's Bulging Barrel of Laughs (BBC Radio 2), The Unbelievable Truth (BBC Radio 4), The News Quiz (BBC Radio 4) and The Jon Richardson Show (BBC 6 Music). He is co-writer and performer on the BBC Radio Wales Sony Award winning sketch show Here Be Dragons.
Lloyd has performed at comedy festivals all over the world from Melbourne to Montreal, and occasionally tours as part of comedy collective GIT with Dan Atkinson and Jon Richardson.
http://lloydlangford.com/
NOMINEE: Best Comedy (Russell Howard’s Good News) - TV Choice Award
NOMINEE: Best Comedy - Celtic Media Awards (Here Be Dragons)
WINNER: Best Comedy - Radio Academy Award Bronze (Here Be Dragons) 2014
NOMINEE: Sony Award 2011
NOMINEE: Breakthrough Act – Chortle Awards 2008
VENUE: Banshee Labyrinth, 29-35 Niddry St, EH1 1LG
TIME: 10pm
DATES: Thurs 2nd – Mon 27th August (not 10th, 11th, 12th August)
The ever-charming Port Talbotian returns to the Fringe a newly made double-champion after recently winning BBC1’s Celebrity Mastermind and the Leicester Comedy Festival’s Best Show award 2018 with his much-loved combination of jokes, personal anecdotes, petty grievances and offbeat observations.
Lloyd’s new show ‘Lloyd Langford: Why The Big Face?” has already played to sold out audiences at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival. He turns his pin-sharp comedic eye on to topics as diverse as terrorism, garden birds and the British inability to cope with a balcony. It’s a gag-filled and often frank examination of the ridiculous situations he finds himself in, whether stranded in New York due to a snowstorm with friends and fellow comedians James Acaster, Ed Gamble and John Robins, or trapped in a malfunctioning robotic massage chair at a Japanese airport.
Lloyd’s many TV appearances, alongside his recent championship on Celebrity Mastermind, include QI (BBC1), Never Mind the Buzzcocks (BBC2), Russell Howard’s Good News (BBC2), Dave’s One Night Stand (Dave) as well as a regular panellist on Ask Rhod Gilbert (BBC1). He has also contributed as a writer for Live at the Apollo and has penned jokes for the likes of Rhod, Simon Amstell and Frankie Boyle.
He’s no stranger to radio either, be it co-hosting regularly on the Rhod Gilbert Show (BBC Radio Wales) or appearing on Rhod Gilbert's Bulging Barrel of Laughs (BBC Radio 2), The Unbelievable Truth (BBC Radio 4), The News Quiz (BBC Radio 4) and The Jon Richardson Show (BBC 6 Music). He is co-writer and performer on the BBC Radio Wales Sony Award winning sketch show Here Be Dragons.
Lloyd has performed at comedy festivals all over the world from Melbourne to Montreal, and occasionally tours as part of comedy collective GIT with Dan Atkinson and Jon Richardson.
http://lloydlangford.com/
mark thomas: check up. our nhs at 70
VENUE: Traverse 1 - The Traverse, 10 Cambridge St, EH1 2ED
TIMES & DATES: Sat 4th @ 9:15pm / Sun 5th, Sat 11th, Sat 18th @ 10am / Tues 7th, Sun 12th, Tues 14th, Sun 19th, Tues 21st @ 1pm
Weds 8th, Weds 15th, Weds 22nd @ 4pm / Thurs 9th, Thurs 16th, Thurs 23rd, Sat 25th @ 7pm
Fri 10th, Fri 17th, Fri 24th, Sun 26th @ 10pm
PRICES: Sat 4th @ £15 (£9) / Sun 5th-Sun 26th @ £21.50 (£16.50)
TICKETS: 0131 228 1404 / www.traverse.co.uk
RUNNING TIME: 85 mins
Since last August, Mark toured his 2017 sell-out Fringe show A Show That Gambles on the Future before devising and touring a whole other brand new show, Showtime From the Frontline, in which he, alongside two Palestinian comics, re-enacted their time setting up a comedy club in Jenin. The show opened to rave reviews and sell-out audiences and gave Mark just enough time to turn his attention back to the UK and to his next project, our very own National Health Service.
Mark is 54, the NHS is 70, and the UK national average life expectancy is 84. If Mark makes it to 84, the NHS will be 100. What will they both look like?
Based on a series of interviews with leading experts in and on the NHS, residencies in hospitals and surgeries, and with theatre director Nicolas Kent, Mark uses his own demise to explore the state we’re in; what's going wrong in our NHS, how it can go right, and what the future might hold for us all.
www.markthomasinfo.com / TWITTER: @markthomasinfo
TIMES & DATES: Sat 4th @ 9:15pm / Sun 5th, Sat 11th, Sat 18th @ 10am / Tues 7th, Sun 12th, Tues 14th, Sun 19th, Tues 21st @ 1pm
Weds 8th, Weds 15th, Weds 22nd @ 4pm / Thurs 9th, Thurs 16th, Thurs 23rd, Sat 25th @ 7pm
Fri 10th, Fri 17th, Fri 24th, Sun 26th @ 10pm
PRICES: Sat 4th @ £15 (£9) / Sun 5th-Sun 26th @ £21.50 (£16.50)
TICKETS: 0131 228 1404 / www.traverse.co.uk
RUNNING TIME: 85 mins
Since last August, Mark toured his 2017 sell-out Fringe show A Show That Gambles on the Future before devising and touring a whole other brand new show, Showtime From the Frontline, in which he, alongside two Palestinian comics, re-enacted their time setting up a comedy club in Jenin. The show opened to rave reviews and sell-out audiences and gave Mark just enough time to turn his attention back to the UK and to his next project, our very own National Health Service.
Mark is 54, the NHS is 70, and the UK national average life expectancy is 84. If Mark makes it to 84, the NHS will be 100. What will they both look like?
Based on a series of interviews with leading experts in and on the NHS, residencies in hospitals and surgeries, and with theatre director Nicolas Kent, Mark uses his own demise to explore the state we’re in; what's going wrong in our NHS, how it can go right, and what the future might hold for us all.
www.markthomasinfo.com / TWITTER: @markthomasinfo
pelican comedy: fisk
VENUE: Bedlam Theatre, 11 Bristo Place, EH1 1EZ
TIME: 8pm
DATES: Weds 1st-Mon 27th August (Not 8th, 15th, 22nd)
PRICES: £8/£6
TICKETS: 0131 6290430 / www.bedlamfringe.co.uk
Prepare yourself for an hour of the most surreal and physical style of comedy as critically acclaimed Pelican bring a brand new, mad cap, uplifting and hugely entertaining show to this year’s Fringe.
Formed by ex-Cambridge Footlights Sam Grabiner, Jordan Mitchell and Guy Emanuel, Pelican blend sketch, improvisation and physical theatre to create the finest comedy narratives with a vibrant aesthetic and an infectious energy. Their colourful characters and inventive stagecraft create a whirlwind hour of utterly unique sketch comedy that fuses intelligent, well-crafted plot lines with moments of playfulness, silliness and improvisation.
After meeting as members of the Cambridge Footlights, Pelican went on to train at the prestigious L’Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Paris, and then with the renowned physical comedy company Spymonkey. They collaborated together on theatrical productions STIFF! (Footlights Harry Porter Prize-winner 2014) and Amygdala Wonderland (shortlisted Papatango New Writing Prize 2015) before first heading to the Fringe in 2015. They returned the following year to a sell-out month at the Assembly Roxy, swiftly followed by sell-out London dates and a US tour. They performed last year’s show, The Cat Man Curse, at London’s Vault Festival, Paris Fringe and the Brighton Fringe before garnering excellent reviews in Edinburgh, and will return to London this June for a final run at London’s Soho Theatre.
Directed by Lucy Moss, whose credits include London’s West End’s Six: The Musical and the smash Fringe hit Hot Gay Time Machine, this is inventive comedy that aims to uplift.
www.pelicancomedy.com / TWITTER: @PelicanComedy
TIME: 8pm
DATES: Weds 1st-Mon 27th August (Not 8th, 15th, 22nd)
PRICES: £8/£6
TICKETS: 0131 6290430 / www.bedlamfringe.co.uk
Prepare yourself for an hour of the most surreal and physical style of comedy as critically acclaimed Pelican bring a brand new, mad cap, uplifting and hugely entertaining show to this year’s Fringe.
Formed by ex-Cambridge Footlights Sam Grabiner, Jordan Mitchell and Guy Emanuel, Pelican blend sketch, improvisation and physical theatre to create the finest comedy narratives with a vibrant aesthetic and an infectious energy. Their colourful characters and inventive stagecraft create a whirlwind hour of utterly unique sketch comedy that fuses intelligent, well-crafted plot lines with moments of playfulness, silliness and improvisation.
After meeting as members of the Cambridge Footlights, Pelican went on to train at the prestigious L’Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Paris, and then with the renowned physical comedy company Spymonkey. They collaborated together on theatrical productions STIFF! (Footlights Harry Porter Prize-winner 2014) and Amygdala Wonderland (shortlisted Papatango New Writing Prize 2015) before first heading to the Fringe in 2015. They returned the following year to a sell-out month at the Assembly Roxy, swiftly followed by sell-out London dates and a US tour. They performed last year’s show, The Cat Man Curse, at London’s Vault Festival, Paris Fringe and the Brighton Fringe before garnering excellent reviews in Edinburgh, and will return to London this June for a final run at London’s Soho Theatre.
Directed by Lucy Moss, whose credits include London’s West End’s Six: The Musical and the smash Fringe hit Hot Gay Time Machine, this is inventive comedy that aims to uplift.
www.pelicancomedy.com / TWITTER: @PelicanComedy
scott bennett: leap year
VENUE: Just the Tonic - Mash House Snifter Room, 37 Guthrie Street, EH1 1JG
TIME: 5:55pm
DATES: Thurs 2nd-Sun 26th August (not 13th)
PRICES: £5 in advance, or Pay What You Want at the venue
TICKETS: 0330 220 1212 / www.justthetonic.com/edinburgh-festival/
English Comedian Of The Year – Semi-finalist (ongoing 2018)
Chortle’s ‘One To Watch’ – 2018
Best Live Show - Midlands Comedy Awards 2016
Finalist - Amused Moose Comedy Award Top Ten Fringe show 2015
Runner Up - English Comedian of the Year 2014
Nominee - Buxton Fringe Best New Show 2014
Directed by John Gordillo
What does it mean to follow your dreams when you feel like you have so much to lose? This year’s Chortle’s One To Watch Scott Bennett will tell you as he has finally made a decision that has changed his life and the lives of his family. This is a show about sacrifice, support, love and discovering who you really are.
With a highly likeable, warm and engaging delivery, Scott has rapidly established himself as one of the fastest rising stars on the UK’s comedy circuit today. His debut hour was nominated for the highly acclaimed Amused Moose Comedy Award in 2015 and he has since gone on to perform in a support slot for Michael McIntyre and can currently be seen supporting his comedy hero Rob Brydon on his latest nationwide tour. He is a regular writer and performer on the Panelbeaters podcast, contributor to BBC Radio 4’s News Quiz and has written for various high profile acts such as Jason Manford. Scott is currently writing for Chris Ramsey’s new Comedy Central series, The Chris Ramsey Show, and you will soon hear Scott featuring on Helen Lederer’s new BBC podcast Knock Knock.
Scott and his wife have also starred in their own self-financed film and web series, the pilot for which, Caravan of Love, was recently selected for the Beeston Film Festival. Their series Pillow Talk is online now.
http://www.scottbennettcomedy.co.uk/ / TWITTER @scottbcomedyuk
TIME: 5:55pm
DATES: Thurs 2nd-Sun 26th August (not 13th)
PRICES: £5 in advance, or Pay What You Want at the venue
TICKETS: 0330 220 1212 / www.justthetonic.com/edinburgh-festival/
English Comedian Of The Year – Semi-finalist (ongoing 2018)
Chortle’s ‘One To Watch’ – 2018
Best Live Show - Midlands Comedy Awards 2016
Finalist - Amused Moose Comedy Award Top Ten Fringe show 2015
Runner Up - English Comedian of the Year 2014
Nominee - Buxton Fringe Best New Show 2014
Directed by John Gordillo
What does it mean to follow your dreams when you feel like you have so much to lose? This year’s Chortle’s One To Watch Scott Bennett will tell you as he has finally made a decision that has changed his life and the lives of his family. This is a show about sacrifice, support, love and discovering who you really are.
With a highly likeable, warm and engaging delivery, Scott has rapidly established himself as one of the fastest rising stars on the UK’s comedy circuit today. His debut hour was nominated for the highly acclaimed Amused Moose Comedy Award in 2015 and he has since gone on to perform in a support slot for Michael McIntyre and can currently be seen supporting his comedy hero Rob Brydon on his latest nationwide tour. He is a regular writer and performer on the Panelbeaters podcast, contributor to BBC Radio 4’s News Quiz and has written for various high profile acts such as Jason Manford. Scott is currently writing for Chris Ramsey’s new Comedy Central series, The Chris Ramsey Show, and you will soon hear Scott featuring on Helen Lederer’s new BBC podcast Knock Knock.
Scott and his wife have also starred in their own self-financed film and web series, the pilot for which, Caravan of Love, was recently selected for the Beeston Film Festival. Their series Pillow Talk is online now.
http://www.scottbennettcomedy.co.uk/ / TWITTER @scottbcomedyuk
thrones! The musical
VENUE: Assembly George Square Theatre – George Square, EH8 9LH
TIME: 10:30pm (Running time 75 mins)
DATES: Weds 1st- Sun 26th August
PRICES: Previews @ £10 / Midweek £14 (£13) / Weekends £15 (£14)
TICKETS: 0131 623 3030 / www.assemblyfestival.com
AGE RESTRICTION: 14+
Orlando Fringe Patron’s Pick - 2018
Orlando Fringe Critics’ Choice Award: Best Original Score - 2018
Orlando Sentinel Best of the Fest - 2018
Following three total sell-out years (extra shows included) and a five star sell-out run at this year’s Adelaide Fringe, alongside sell-out shows in LA and Chicago, the smash-hit must-see show of the Fringe is back, bigger and Lannister-badder than ever with a prime slot in the 500 capacity George Square Theatre.
No Game of Thrones on TV this year? No problem. The team behind musical improvisation sensation Baby Wants Candy will guarantee your fix of fantasy, satiate your desire for violence, and provide your year’s supply of sweltering sex scenes and silliness in this even further extended version of this acclaimed musical parody phenomenon.
Cramming all seven aired series into 75 minutes, the talented cast sing and dance their way through their own warped idea of Westeros and their own hilarious version of the popular series’ plots and twists, with a few extra of their own thrown in for mirthful measure.
When you play the Game of Thrones, you win or die… or just enjoy the best hour of your life!
www.thronesthemusical.com / www.babywantscandy.com / TWITTER @Babywantscandy
TIME: 10:30pm (Running time 75 mins)
DATES: Weds 1st- Sun 26th August
PRICES: Previews @ £10 / Midweek £14 (£13) / Weekends £15 (£14)
TICKETS: 0131 623 3030 / www.assemblyfestival.com
AGE RESTRICTION: 14+
Orlando Fringe Patron’s Pick - 2018
Orlando Fringe Critics’ Choice Award: Best Original Score - 2018
Orlando Sentinel Best of the Fest - 2018
Following three total sell-out years (extra shows included) and a five star sell-out run at this year’s Adelaide Fringe, alongside sell-out shows in LA and Chicago, the smash-hit must-see show of the Fringe is back, bigger and Lannister-badder than ever with a prime slot in the 500 capacity George Square Theatre.
No Game of Thrones on TV this year? No problem. The team behind musical improvisation sensation Baby Wants Candy will guarantee your fix of fantasy, satiate your desire for violence, and provide your year’s supply of sweltering sex scenes and silliness in this even further extended version of this acclaimed musical parody phenomenon.
Cramming all seven aired series into 75 minutes, the talented cast sing and dance their way through their own warped idea of Westeros and their own hilarious version of the popular series’ plots and twists, with a few extra of their own thrown in for mirthful measure.
When you play the Game of Thrones, you win or die… or just enjoy the best hour of your life!
www.thronesthemusical.com / www.babywantscandy.com / TWITTER @Babywantscandy
tori scott is #thirsty
VENUE: The Dairy Room - Underbelly, Bristo Square, Teviot Place, EH8 9AG
TIME: 10:15pm
DATES: Weds 1st August – Mon 27th August (not 8th, 15th & 22nd August)
PRICES: Previews £6.50 / Weekdays £9.50 (£8.50) / Weekends £10.50 (£9.50)
TICKETS: 0131 510 0395 / www.underbelly.co.uk
Direct from sell-out shows in New York, LA, London, Mexico and Provincetown, newcomer Tori Scott celebrates poor life choices and an unconditional love of vodka in her riotous Edinburgh Fringe debut.
Join Tori and her band The Shame Spirals on an audacious musical journey of slurred autobiographical stories and songs she stole from other people. Desperate to escape Trumpland for a month and be let loose on Scotland, Tori sings and self-deprecates her way through an hour of sassy political commentary and shameless personal adventures. Through the music of Queen, Lady Gaga, Edith Piaf, Pink and more, she shares her own self-coping mechanism in dealing with her home-country’s ‘life crisis’ and being a female navigating her own way in New York. All of this, with a dirty vodka martini in hand.
The Time Out New York’s ‘Top 10 Cabaret Performer’ has performed several times in London to critical acclaim and has graced the stage of the prestigious New York institute Joe’s Pub at The Public, who are co-producing this show alongside Robin Rayner (producer of Fringe First Award-winning Fabric), for the past five years. On television, she's counted to 20 as a singing garbage woman on Sesame Street and dubbed the vocals of a singing hooker on HBO's Cathouse: The Musical. Her debut album Plan B! was recorded live at Joe’s Pub and released on Chicken Ranch Records last December.
http://itstoriscott.com/ / TWITTER: @ItsToriScott
TIME: 10:15pm
DATES: Weds 1st August – Mon 27th August (not 8th, 15th & 22nd August)
PRICES: Previews £6.50 / Weekdays £9.50 (£8.50) / Weekends £10.50 (£9.50)
TICKETS: 0131 510 0395 / www.underbelly.co.uk
Direct from sell-out shows in New York, LA, London, Mexico and Provincetown, newcomer Tori Scott celebrates poor life choices and an unconditional love of vodka in her riotous Edinburgh Fringe debut.
Join Tori and her band The Shame Spirals on an audacious musical journey of slurred autobiographical stories and songs she stole from other people. Desperate to escape Trumpland for a month and be let loose on Scotland, Tori sings and self-deprecates her way through an hour of sassy political commentary and shameless personal adventures. Through the music of Queen, Lady Gaga, Edith Piaf, Pink and more, she shares her own self-coping mechanism in dealing with her home-country’s ‘life crisis’ and being a female navigating her own way in New York. All of this, with a dirty vodka martini in hand.
The Time Out New York’s ‘Top 10 Cabaret Performer’ has performed several times in London to critical acclaim and has graced the stage of the prestigious New York institute Joe’s Pub at The Public, who are co-producing this show alongside Robin Rayner (producer of Fringe First Award-winning Fabric), for the past five years. On television, she's counted to 20 as a singing garbage woman on Sesame Street and dubbed the vocals of a singing hooker on HBO's Cathouse: The Musical. Her debut album Plan B! was recorded live at Joe’s Pub and released on Chicken Ranch Records last December.
http://itstoriscott.com/ / TWITTER: @ItsToriScott
voldemort and the teenage hogwarts musical parody
VENUE: Studio One - Assembly George Square Studios, George Square, EH8 9LH
TIME: 5pm
DATES: Weds 1st-Mon 27th August (not 14th)
PRICES: Previews @ £10 / Midweek @ £13 / Weekends @ £15
TICKETS: www.assemblyfestival.com / 0131 623 3030
AGE RESTRICTION: 14+
Before Voldemort became He Who Must Not Be Named, he was just Tom Riddle, another moody teenager at Hogwarts. Join him in the Fringe’s brand new hilarious musical adventure as he learns the ways of love, proper snake maintenance and The Unforgivable Curses.
Fresh from sold out performances at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles, two of the co-creators of Fringe sell-out smash-hit Thrones! The Musical bring you a Harry Potter musical parody that is sure to leave you spellbound. Packed with magic, hormones and more than a few murders, Voldemort and the Teenage Hogwarts Musical Parody tells the little-known tale of how Tom Riddle was once in a rock band with a giant squid, how he learned how to kiss from a snake, and that he once had a Hufflepuff girlfriend…
CHRIS GRACE
Chris Grace co-created Thrones! The Musical and has appeared seven years in a row at the Fringe with Baby Wants Candy. He originated the role of Christian Grey in 50 Shades! The Musical at the Mound and off-Broadway, and performs comedy all over the world. He has appeared on NBC’s acclaimed drama This Is Us, Comedy Central’s Broad City, ABC Digital’s Serious Music, and frequently appears as the character Jerry on NBC’s sitcom Superstore.
ZACH REINO
Actor, writer and composer Zach is house performer at LA’s famous Upright Citizens Brigade where he performs with many shows, including Baby Wants Candy. His television appearances include Crazy Ex Girlfriend, Conan and A.P. Bio, and he has written for ABC Digital, Nickelodeon, FunnyorDie and more. He is also co-writer/co-composer of Fringe smash hit Thrones! The Musical and co-hosts Off Book: The Improvised Musical Podcast with his writing partner Jessica McKenna.
Co-written by Richie Root and Fiona Landers. Additional music by Scott Passarella.
http://voldemortshow.com/ / TWITTER @ voldemortshow
TIME: 5pm
DATES: Weds 1st-Mon 27th August (not 14th)
PRICES: Previews @ £10 / Midweek @ £13 / Weekends @ £15
TICKETS: www.assemblyfestival.com / 0131 623 3030
AGE RESTRICTION: 14+
Before Voldemort became He Who Must Not Be Named, he was just Tom Riddle, another moody teenager at Hogwarts. Join him in the Fringe’s brand new hilarious musical adventure as he learns the ways of love, proper snake maintenance and The Unforgivable Curses.
Fresh from sold out performances at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles, two of the co-creators of Fringe sell-out smash-hit Thrones! The Musical bring you a Harry Potter musical parody that is sure to leave you spellbound. Packed with magic, hormones and more than a few murders, Voldemort and the Teenage Hogwarts Musical Parody tells the little-known tale of how Tom Riddle was once in a rock band with a giant squid, how he learned how to kiss from a snake, and that he once had a Hufflepuff girlfriend…
CHRIS GRACE
Chris Grace co-created Thrones! The Musical and has appeared seven years in a row at the Fringe with Baby Wants Candy. He originated the role of Christian Grey in 50 Shades! The Musical at the Mound and off-Broadway, and performs comedy all over the world. He has appeared on NBC’s acclaimed drama This Is Us, Comedy Central’s Broad City, ABC Digital’s Serious Music, and frequently appears as the character Jerry on NBC’s sitcom Superstore.
ZACH REINO
Actor, writer and composer Zach is house performer at LA’s famous Upright Citizens Brigade where he performs with many shows, including Baby Wants Candy. His television appearances include Crazy Ex Girlfriend, Conan and A.P. Bio, and he has written for ABC Digital, Nickelodeon, FunnyorDie and more. He is also co-writer/co-composer of Fringe smash hit Thrones! The Musical and co-hosts Off Book: The Improvised Musical Podcast with his writing partner Jessica McKenna.
Co-written by Richie Root and Fiona Landers. Additional music by Scott Passarella.
http://voldemortshow.com/ / TWITTER @ voldemortshow