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CABVOL 1

CabVol 1 is located at 36-38 Blair Street. You can find it by searching for 'Cabaret Voltaire' on maps.

TODAY IN CABVOL 1:

Bella Hull: Mad Cow Disease

12:30PM

MB1

All quiet on the frontal lobe. This is the latest offering from Bella Hull. As seen on Have I Got News For You (BBC One), The Last Leg (Channel 4). Writer for SNL UK. 'Beautifully wrought... a joy to watch' **** (Guardian). 'Hugely entertaining' **** (Evening Standard). British Comedy Guide Next Big Thing Award nominee, Chortle Award Best Show nominee.

Ari Eldjárn: The Icelander's Guide to Europe

12:45PM

MB4

Star of Netflix and Mock the Week, Ari Eldjárn returns with a brand-new stand-up show! Iceland’s biggest comedian takes you on a hilarious journey through European habits, razor-sharp impressions and cultural contradictions. 'An immediately smart guide... filtered through personal tales and relatable observational humour' **** (Scotsman).

Eleanor Morton: The Mermaid

1PM

CabVol 1

Fresh from her new show on BBC Radio 4, award-winning comedian Eleanor Morton returns with a show all about mermaids and why she wants to be one, even though she can't swim. A show all about wanting to be beautiful, mythology, 2000s magazine sex tips, rat boyfriends, and James Cameron's submarine. Justice for Nicola Roberts.

Chris Forbes: Father Christmas

1:30PM

MB2

Critically-acclaimed Scottish comedian Chris Forbes brings Christmas to the Fringe this summer. Expect trees, tinsel and tragedy. A hilarious, heartfelt stand-up show about festive joy, family and the Christmas Day that changed everything. Blending big laughs with beautiful storytelling, the deeply personal Father Christmas is for anyone who loves, or hates, Christmas.

Ayo Adenekan: Homeland Insecurity

1:30PM

CabVol 2

BBC New Comedy Award finalist and writer for SNL UK returns following his sold-out debut, with a romantic new hour. A summer fling in hospitality spirals into something far messier. Ayo explores summer romance and the cost of chasing your dreams. Effortlessly charming and razor-sharp, Ayo blends big laughs with beautifully observed storytelling about work, desire and the chaos of catching feelings when you really shouldn't.

Rachel Fairburn: Vexy Beasts

1:35PM

O'Neill's (The Tron)

Hot on the heels of her critically acclaimed 2025 show Side Eye, Rachel Fairburn is back with new personalities and some old favourites for you to love and hate. Expect biting social commentary and lots of big laughs. Co-host of International smash hit podcast All Killa No Filla and as seen on Live at the Apollo (BBC Two), Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled (Dave), Richard Osman's House of Games (BBC Two).

Phil Ellis: Bath Mat

1:55PM

MB1

Multi award-winning 'comic genius' (Scotsman) and the new star of Taskmaster (Channel 4), Phil Ellis returns to Edinburgh on his first full national stand-up tour. Following his three big award wins at the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe, Phil, the very definition of funny bones, presents his brand-new show Bath Mat. Jam-packed with laugh-out-loud profound silliness, superbly crafted gags and constant surprises.

John-Luke Roberts: What I Talk About When I Run About, Talking

2:10PM

MB4

Fringe legend returns with his first new show in four years. Hilarious stand-up about the human condition, about how little we know about what’s going on inside our bodies and our minds, and about what it’s like to have an endoscopy on Remembrance Sunday at exactly 11am. Some poems too. Maybe a few songs.

Stuart Goldsmith: Canary

2:25PM

CabVol 1

Stuart was as scared about the climate crisis as you are. But he did the reading, and now he's terrified. Come and watch him do something about it. In his most honest, hilarious, and hopeful hour yet, Stuart Goldsmith (Live At The Apollo, Netflix is a Joke, Conan) applies his 'expert stand-up' (Sunday Times) to the apparent collapse of absolutely everything.

Nish Kumar: Angry Humour From a Really Nice Guy (Work in Progress)

2:50PM

MB3

Work-in-progress show from ‘the pre-eminent comic political polemicist of our time’ **** (Guardian). The world's in chaos. Inequality is widening, autocracy is rising, political parties are collapsing. In these divided times, what this country desperately needs is Angry Humour from a Really Nice Guy.

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