by At this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe there are over 25,000 different comedy shows. Well, no. Actually, there are only 1,214 comedies to choose from. It just feels much more. When the 384-page printed program with theater, music, dance and cabaret could be seen at 265 venues, it was almost bent into my doom.
So much fun, so little time. The Oasis tour even ends in August, even though these aging Britpop hairstyles forget, this is the only edge that counts. And I’m here to help. For those who are planning a visit to Edinburgh below, there are ten shows that they really have to see. And here an additional hack-Wenn you go early, there is reduced preview and 2-for-1 offers. Immerse yourself and enjoy.
The Edinburgh Fringe runs from August 1st to 25th. Preview of July 29. Tickets and information for all subsequent shows can be found at Edfrings.com
Punch the pony
Glastonbury has his legends level and now Edinburgh is entering the Heritage Act. This year’s Fringe includes the alternative comedy icon Peter Richardson, which is discussing his comic films and Qi of Alan Davies, which is driving his first new live tour for a decade. But perhaps the most welcome nostalgia binge is the blow of the pony trio of Sally Phillips, Doon Mackichan and Fiona Allen in conversation. Her pioneering C4 show has shown that female comics could be as silly as male comics. We could take this for granted now, but 25 years ago this three was revolutionary.
Gilded balloon, August 17th – 20
Vittorio Angelone
Vittorio Angelone broke through in 2022 with a show in which he discussed his Italian/Irish roots and used Brian Friels’ celebrated game translations as a framework. It was a brave, self -confident step, and Angelone has built up a buzz with a winning, instinctive style that is both self -ironic and quietly charismatic. His new show, you can no longer say anything, offers further considerations about his Belfast education and put them in a broader context.
Monkey Barrel, August 1st to 24th (not August 12th)
Bridget Christie
Christie is one of a number of earlier winners of the comedy award from Edinburgh, who return to the Triumph scene. Another Tim Key – see below – was the winner in 2009. Christie won in 2013 because of her feminist skewers of pens that were made especially for women in a BIC. Since then she has found it famous to mix political ideas and a sensitivity of the clowns. She recently consolidated her premiere league status with the C4 series The Change, in which she wrote and played in the leading role. Her run in Edinburgh is the first opportunity to catch your new show Jacket Pictato Pizza before going on tour.
Monkey barrel, 2nd to August 9th
Rosie O’Donnell
Hollywood comes to Edinburgh with Rosie O’Donnell this year and gives her Fringe debut – not a long flight that has moved to Ireland from the USA. In HERE & NOW, O’Donnell will look back on her eventful career in order to get a chat show shows from her early, unnoticed stand-up to fame and hit films. When it comes to the part “now”, she should have a very current inspiration – Donald Trump recently spoke about revoking her US citizenship and calling her a “threat to humanity”.
Gilded balloon, 1st – August 10th 10
Ivo Graham
Ivo Graham has become a marginal game in recent years and has often made the best of his Scottish stay by performing more than one show. This year he has trilogy. A stand-up show, Orange Crush, which he has called his most personal show so far and affects “hats, haters and heroes of the hometown”. Then there is a piece, Graham back in the green, the continuation of his autobiographical carousel and a DJ battles with stand-ups on the decks. At some point the eloquent chaosing comic will take some sleep, but you cannot buy tickets to see that.
Pleasance, 12th to 24th August, Graham back in the green, Pleasance, 13th to 24th August, Comedians DJ Battles, La Belle, August 23, August 23
Tom Rosenthal
Tom Rosenthal is best known to play one of the string games at the long-standing C4 sitcom Friday evening dinner, but he recently played in serious stage spectacles and played Khlestakov in the government inspector at the Chichest festival. He received very positive reviews for his performance, but future roles have to wait now because after running in his runs, what people say I am.
Assembly Roxy, July 30th – August 24th
Tim Key
Tim Key has become an ubiquitous face on television in the past decade. He was in the first episode of Inside No. 9 and had the very first lines in the very last episode. His career has now increased another level with his deleted role with Carey Mulligan in warm and funny film The Ballad of Wallis Island. However, Key worships live performance and brings a new show in the fringes, its latest hybrid of unusual poetry and gnomic observations, this time with the title Loganberry (his last show was Mulberry, so that there seems to be a fruity topic).
Pleasance, July 30th to August 17th (not 4, 5, 6, 11, 15)
Jordan Gray
The extravagant use of Comedian Gray of Language, Big Hair and Essex Accent initially made inevitable comparisons with Russell Brand, but Jordan established her own identity with her second show, is that a ck in your pocket or are you only here to kill me? What infectious melodies and open stands inpeted and discusses the topics that are rich from transgender, the threats of murder and cause controversy by withdrawing naked live on Friday evening. After you have caused a sensation with your debut, is it a bird? This sequel confirms that gray is not a flash in the pan.
Assembly, July 30th to August 24th (not 6, 12, 19)
Jessie Nixon
Jessie Nixon, Bristol breeder and now in London, plays her first show in full length. Don’t make me what the denominational comedy combines with satirical songs and poems. Nixon certainly has an interesting story of origin. She was taught at home and privately trained and received a long list of academic qualifications and a criminal register on the way. She says that this show is a dilapidated Catholic, Queer, occasionally disturbed for everyone who is “mentally ill, or ever cried in a changing room for her own well -being.”
Assembly, July 30th to August 24th (not 11)
Emmanuel Sonubi
The stand-up sonubi based in London may look like a bouncer with whom his muscles broke out of his T-shirt, and in fact he has worked in safety, but lately has opened his comedy for him. In life after Nahmod -Sonubi, Sonubi shows how he rated his priorities after he had almost died of heart failure. He certainly has a story to tell and turn on the moment he steps on stage, he is a commanding presence, although nowadays he defends himself with his cutting joke rather than with his full biceps.
Pleasance, July 30th to August 25th (not August 12th)
