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Best of the Fringe: 7PM

8th January

19:00

Thursday

Get a taste of the Fringe ALL YEAR ROUND! With a different line-up each night, featuring some of the country's top acts, award-winning festival favourites and the very best up-and-coming talent.

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The Big Show: Friday

9th January

21:00

Friday

Join us every Friday for THE BIG SHOW, our award-winning weekend stand-up showcases, featuring a selection of top comedy talent.

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David William Bryan: Work In Progress

10th January

20:00

Saturday

Hull’s 37th finest export David William Bryan presents an hour of brand-new work in progress material.

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MC Hammersmith and Friends

11th January

19:30

Sunday

Multi-award winning freestyle rap comedian MC Hammersmith presents an evening of improvised comedy raps based entirely on your suggestions. And he will also be joined by his friends!

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Sara Pascoe: Jazz (WIP)

13th January

19:30

Tuesday

Sara’s dad has made an 18 CD Jazz interpretation of James Joyce’s Ulysses, and she would like to make some jokes about that.

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Top Banana

14th January

21:00

Wednesday

Monkey Barrel Comedy's New Material and New Act Night. New exciting acts emerging on the scene, and new material from our established pros. Plus we have a cracking headliner every show.

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Best of the Fringe: 9PM

15th January

21:00

Thursday

Get a taste of the Fringe ALL YEAR ROUND! With a different line-up each night, featuring some of the country's top acts, award-winning festival favourites and the very best up-and-coming talent.

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The Big Show: Friday

16th January

21:00

Friday

Join us every Friday for THE BIG SHOW, our award-winning weekend stand-up showcases, featuring a selection of top comedy talent.

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Robin Morgan: Let’s Overshare!

17th January

19:30

Saturday

Join Robin for more of his trademark cheeky charm, more quick wit and even more hilarious oversharing, in this brand new stand-up show from the star of Mock The Week and Radio 4’s The News Quiz.

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The Big Show: Sunday

18th January

21:00

Sunday

Join us every Sunday for THE BIG SHOW, our award-winning weekend stand-up showcases, featuring a selection of top comedy talent.

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Top Banana

21st January

21:00

Wednesday

Monkey Barrel Comedy's New Material and New Act Night. New exciting acts emerging on the scene, and new material from our established pros. Plus we have a cracking headliner every show.

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Best of the Fringe: 9PM

22nd January

21:00

Thursday

Get a taste of the Fringe ALL YEAR ROUND! With a different line-up each night, featuring some of the country's top acts, award-winning festival favourites and the very best up-and-coming talent.

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The Big Show: Friday

23rd January

21:00

Friday

Join us every Friday for THE BIG SHOW, our award-winning weekend stand-up showcases, featuring a selection of top comedy talent.

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Anna Hale: Control Freak

24th January

20:00

Saturday

Armed with killer punchlines and “emotionally revealing, musically catchy” songs (Chortle), Hale delivers an hour that’s “upbeat, tuneful, and defined by her resilience” (The Scotsman)

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The Big Show: Sunday

25th January

21:00

Sunday

Join us every Sunday for THE BIG SHOW, our award-winning weekend stand-up showcases, featuring a selection of top comedy talent.

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Best of the Fringe: 7PM

29th January

19:00

Thursday

Get a taste of the Fringe ALL YEAR ROUND! With a different line-up each night, featuring some of the country's top acts, award-winning festival favourites and the very best up-and-coming talent.

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The Big Show: Friday

30th January

21:00

Friday

Join us every Friday for THE BIG SHOW, our award-winning weekend stand-up showcases, featuring a selection of top comedy talent.

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Siblings: Dreamweavers (With Special Guests)

31st January

19:30

Saturday

After a sell out run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2025, award-winning character comedians and IRL Sisters, Maddy and Marina Bye (Byes), are back in Edinburgh but this time.. They are bringing surprise special guests along for the ride.

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The Big Show: Sunday

1st February

21:00

Sunday

Join us every Sunday for THE BIG SHOW, our award-winning weekend stand-up showcases, featuring a selection of top comedy talent.

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Larry Dean: Work In Progress

3rd March

21:00

Tuesday

Twice nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show, Larry Dean comes back to Edinburgh to workshop new material!

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Desiree Burch: The Golden Wrath

14th March

20:00

Saturday

Authentic, curious, and gleefully irascible, comedian Desiree Burch leads a madcap voyage through the Middle Ages - AKA the mid-life crisis, and its mandatory metamorphosis.

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Tom Lucy: Golden Boy

2nd April

19:30

Thursday

Award winning comedian Tom Lucy is embarking on his biggest solo tour with his brand new show ‘Golden Boy’. ‘Watch him live and you’ll understand the excitement’ (The Guardian)

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Cally Beaton: Namaste Motherf*ckers

8th April

19:30

Wednesday

Namaste Motherf*ckers is the new show from Cally Beaton (QI, Live at the Apollo), a quick-witted, unexpected and unapologetic insight into life in midlife. 'Gripping, perceptive and uplifting' (Chortle)

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Best of the Fringe: 9PM

8th January

21:00

Thursday

Get a taste of the Fringe ALL YEAR ROUND! With a different line-up each night, featuring some of the country's top acts, award-winning festival favourites and the very best up-and-coming talent.

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The Big Show: Saturday

10th January

17:00

Saturday

Join us every Saturday for THE BIG SHOW, our award-winning weekend stand-up showcases, featuring a selection of top comedy talent.

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The Big Show: Saturday

10th January

21:00

Saturday

Join us every Saturday for THE BIG SHOW, our award-winning weekend stand-up showcases, featuring a selection of top comedy talent.

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The Big Show: Sunday

11th January

21:00

Sunday

Join us every Sunday for THE BIG SHOW, our award-winning weekend stand-up showcases, featuring a selection of top comedy talent.

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Top Banana

14th January

19:00

Wednesday

Monkey Barrel Comedy's New Material and New Act Night. New exciting acts emerging on the scene, and new material from our established pros. Plus we have a cracking headliner every show.

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Best of the Fringe: 7PM

15th January

19:00

Thursday

Get a taste of the Fringe ALL YEAR ROUND! With a different line-up each night, featuring some of the country's top acts, award-winning festival favourites and the very best up-and-coming talent.

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The Big Show: Friday

16th January

19:00

Friday

Join us every Friday for THE BIG SHOW, our award-winning weekend stand-up showcases, featuring a selection of top comedy talent.

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The Big Show: Saturday

17th January

17:00

Saturday

Join us every Saturday for THE BIG SHOW, our award-winning weekend stand-up showcases, featuring a selection of top comedy talent.

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The Big Show: Saturday

17th January

21:00

Saturday

Join us every Saturday for THE BIG SHOW, our award-winning weekend stand-up showcases, featuring a selection of top comedy talent.

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Top Banana

21st January

19:00

Wednesday

Monkey Barrel Comedy's New Material and New Act Night. New exciting acts emerging on the scene, and new material from our established pros. Plus we have a cracking headliner every show.

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Best of the Fringe: 7PM

22nd January

19:00

Thursday

Get a taste of the Fringe ALL YEAR ROUND! With a different line-up each night, featuring some of the country's top acts, award-winning festival favourites and the very best up-and-coming talent.

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The Big Show: Friday

23rd January

19:00

Friday

Join us every Friday for THE BIG SHOW, our award-winning weekend stand-up showcases, featuring a selection of top comedy talent.

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The Big Show: Saturday

24th January

17:00

Saturday

Join us every Saturday for THE BIG SHOW, our award-winning weekend stand-up showcases, featuring a selection of top comedy talent.

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The Big Show: Saturday

24th January

21:00

Saturday

Join us every Saturday for THE BIG SHOW, our award-winning weekend stand-up showcases, featuring a selection of top comedy talent.

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Top Banana

28th January

19:00

Wednesday

Monkey Barrel Comedy's New Material and New Act Night. New exciting acts emerging on the scene, and new material from our established pros. Plus we have a cracking headliner every show.

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Best of the Fringe: 9PM

29th January

21:00

Thursday

Get a taste of the Fringe ALL YEAR ROUND! With a different line-up each night, featuring some of the country's top acts, award-winning festival favourites and the very best up-and-coming talent.

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The Big Show: Saturday

31st January

17:00

Saturday

Join us every Saturday for THE BIG SHOW, our award-winning weekend stand-up showcases, featuring a selection of top comedy talent.

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The Big Show: Saturday

31st January

21:00

Saturday

Join us every Saturday for THE BIG SHOW, our award-winning weekend stand-up showcases, featuring a selection of top comedy talent.

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Ria Lina: Riabellion

19th February

19:30

Thursday

Following her killer debut tour, Riawakening (Top Ten Best Stand-up Shows of 2024 - Telegraph), the wickedly funny Ria Lina realised she wasn’t just awake, she was ready to rebel.

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Jessica Fostekew: Iconic Breath

11th March

19:30

Wednesday

Jess can feel herself becoming an emotional wildebeest right when her world (and the whole world, thanks) demands cool, collected ultra detached saint-like kindness and understanding. "S**t". ★★★★ (Times)

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Mark Simmons: Jest to Impress

16th March

19:30

Monday

Mark is back on tour in 2026 with Jest to Impress, a brand new show packed with even more expertly crafted one-liners. 'A talented comic with an artisan's grasp of joke writing' **** Chortle

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Tom Lucy: Golden Boy (St Luke's)

3rd April

20:30

Friday

Award winning comedian Tom Lucy is embarking on his biggest solo tour with his brand new show ‘Golden Boy’. ‘Watch him live and you’ll understand the excitement’ (The Guardian)

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The Big Show: Friday

9th January

19:00

Friday

Join us every Friday for THE BIG SHOW, our award-winning weekend stand-up showcases, featuring a selection of top comedy talent.

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The Big Show: Saturday

10th January

19:00

Saturday

Join us every Saturday for THE BIG SHOW, our award-winning weekend stand-up showcases, featuring a selection of top comedy talent.

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The Big Show: Sunday

11th January

19:00

Sunday

Join us every Sunday for THE BIG SHOW, our award-winning weekend stand-up showcases, featuring a selection of top comedy talent.

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Sara Pascoe: Jazz (WIP)

12th January

19:30

Monday

Sara’s dad has made an 18 CD Jazz interpretation of James Joyce’s Ulysses, and she would like to make some jokes about that.

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Sara Pascoe: Jazz (WIP)

14th January

19:30

Wednesday

Sara’s dad has made an 18 CD Jazz interpretation of James Joyce’s Ulysses, and she would like to make some jokes about that.

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Tony Carroll: Think I'm Ars*d?

15th January

19:30

Thursday

Tony Carroll, co-host of the Hot Water's Green Room Podcast, has been a standout in the comedy scene since 2010. His natural charisma and quick wit make him a hit with audiences every time.

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Grace Mulvey: Work In Progress

16th January

20:00

Friday

A new work in progress show from BBC Galton & Simpson comedy winner Grace Mulvey, an Irish stand-up taking the UK comedy scene by storm

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The Big Show: Saturday

17th January

19:00

Saturday

Join us every Saturday for THE BIG SHOW, our award-winning weekend stand-up showcases, featuring a selection of top comedy talent.

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The Big Show: Sunday

18th January

19:00

Sunday

Join us every Sunday for THE BIG SHOW, our award-winning weekend stand-up showcases, featuring a selection of top comedy talent.

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Live from the UK (BBC R4)

21st January

19:30

Wednesday

Join Angela Barnes (Mock The Week, Live At The Apollo) for Radio 4's flagship stand-up series, live from Monkey Barrel Comedy.

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Tom Mayhew: Destroy Capitalism or Die Tryin' (WIP)

22nd January

20:00

Thursday

As heard on BBC Radio 4 and nominated for the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the year, this show is about capitalism, rap music and Bob the Builder. Can we fix it? Who bloody knows.

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Garrett Millerick: Work In Progress

23rd January

20:00

Friday

Creator and star of BBC R4’s hit new comedy Do Gooders brings his ‘Big Hitting Stand Up’ (Guardian) to Edinburgh for an evening of the no holds barred iconoclastic stand up that has made him one of the stand out live acts of his generation.

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The Big Show: Saturday

24th January

19:00

Saturday

Join us every Saturday for THE BIG SHOW, our award-winning weekend stand-up showcases, featuring a selection of top comedy talent.

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The Big Show: Sunday

25th January

19:00

Sunday

Join us every Sunday for THE BIG SHOW, our award-winning weekend stand-up showcases, featuring a selection of top comedy talent.

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Top Banana

28th January

21:00

Wednesday

Monkey Barrel Comedy's New Material and New Act Night. New exciting acts emerging on the scene, and new material from our established pros. Plus we have a cracking headliner every show.

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The Big Show: Friday

30th January

19:00

Friday

Join us every Friday for THE BIG SHOW, our award-winning weekend stand-up showcases, featuring a selection of top comedy talent.

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The Big Show: Saturday

31st January

19:00

Saturday

Join us every Saturday for THE BIG SHOW, our award-winning weekend stand-up showcases, featuring a selection of top comedy talent.

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The Big Show: Sunday

1st February

19:00

Sunday

Join us every Sunday for THE BIG SHOW, our award-winning weekend stand-up showcases, featuring a selection of top comedy talent.

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Larry Dean: Work In Progress

3rd March

19:00

Tuesday

Twice nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show, Larry Dean comes back to Edinburgh to workshop new material!

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Thomas Green: Brainstorm

13th March

19:30

Friday

After a significant self-discovery, Green realises his life is a whirlwind full of tangents of his own making, navigating through the impulsive, random and stupid.

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Tom Rosenthal: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I Am

19th March

19:30

Thursday

Star of Friday Night Dinner (C4) and Plebs (ITV), this is Tom’s much awaited return to stand-up following his critically-acclaimed 2019 show, Manhood.

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Cally Beaton: Namaste Motherf*ckers (St Luke's)

7th April

20:30

Tuesday

Namaste Motherf*ckers is the new show from Cally Beaton (QI, Live at the Apollo), a quick-witted, unexpected and unapologetic insight into life in midlife. 'Gripping, perceptive and uplifting' (Chortle)

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