Edinburgh Fringe 2026
Unmissable comedy
at the Fringe.
Ayoade Bamgboye · All Killa No Filla · Celya AB · Chris Parker · David Elms · Ify Nwadiwe · Jack Rooke · Joseph Morpurgo · Kemah Bob · Kiell Smith-Bynoe · Kristen Schaal · Morgan Rees · Paddy Young · Rob Copland · Sophie Duker · Tom Towelling · Two Hearts
Zoe Coombs Marr
Celya AB: We Must Stop Meeting Like This
After writing for Saturday Night Live UK and selling out shows across the UK, Celya AB returns to the Fringe.
Expect 'exceptional, not to mention impressively original' (British Comedy Guide) jokes and sharp observations from 'one of the most gifted joke writers of her age' (Chortle)
Tour support for Nick Mohammed and Sarah Keyworth. As seen on Live At The Apollo and the Off Menu podcast.
'A superb contriver of pithy, memorable punchlines’
★★★★ Scotsman
Chris Parker: Take A Good Hard Look At Me
Hello! I won't sugar coat it in the blurb.
I'm just a 35-year-old gay man, who was told there was something special about him as a kid, standing in front of an audience asking them to take a good hard look at me! The New Zealand superstar stand-up (Taskmaster New Zealand, Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee) returns to the Fringe!
'Chris Parker is the real deal, a brilliant comedian who will leave you scream-laughing
★★★★★ TimeOut
'By the time the show ends, you'll have sore sides from laughing'
NZ Herald
David Elms Describes A Room
Following last year's sell-out run, the critically acclaimed cult hit show returns.
Together with his audience, veteran improviser Elms builds a comedy mind palace before your very eyes.
'David's very clever. He's made a show that's funny, original and different every time'
Tim Key
'A lesson in the transcendent power of collective imagining'
★★★★ Guardian
'One of the most original and artistic comedy shows on the fringe'
★★★★ Chortle
Ify Nwadiwe: An Hour With Ify Nwadiwe
The host of Dropout's Um, Actually comes to the Fringe for the first time.
Ify Nwadiwe is a stand-up, actor (Workaholics, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Adam Ruins Everything), does improv (The Big Team at UCB), plays tabletop RPGs on the internet (Dimension 20, Critical Role), writes for TV (Twisted Metal, Grand Crew, Tigtone), and writes for video games (Apex Legends and Borderlands 4).
Now he's bringing his latest stand-up hour to Edinburgh!
Ify Nwadiwe: Big Facts
The host of the internet's nerdiest panel show brings his own game show to Edinburgh!
Big Facts is the panel show where the facts are weird and the lies are weirder. QI meets Would I Lie To You in this brand-new game show, featuring guests from across the festival. Sharp, silly, and genuinely surprising, it's the show where being right and being convincing are two very different skills.
Jack Rooke: Good Grief
Following last year's sell-out run, the critically acclaimed cult hit show returns.
BAFTA winner and recovering spoken-word artist Jack Rooke (Creator of Hulu/C4's Big Boys), revives his debut comedy-theatre hour, a decade on from its first Fringe run.
Featuring the original show (co-written with his nan) and new content, this retrospective explores grief, milking having a dead dad for personal/professional gain, the innocence of writing just for oneself before the interference of "telly wankers" and the palpable regret of his own decline into becoming said "telly wanker".
'Good Grief 2.0 [is] a delightful and still affecting watch’
Guardian
'Engaging, frank and humorous’
New York Times
Joseph Morpurgo: Highlander 70
The Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and cult favourite returns.
A decade ago, Joseph discovered something in a car boot sale. Something very special indeed. But all is not as it seems. Is it ever?
Now, the cult performer is back with his first new show in nine years - a relentlessly imaginative whirlwind of character comedy, DIY animation, ancient physical media, and some damn fine steak and spaghetti. Think: John Hughes meets David Lynch meets a half-remembered fever dream
'A rich, multilayered comedy experience, that’s both retro and cutting edge'
★★★★★ TimeOut
‘The UK’s foremost alchemist of “found” comedy and irreverent, cross-media mash-up humour’
★★★★★ Scotsman
Kemah Bob: Love Child
The acclaimed stand-up (The Guardian's 10 best comedy shows of 2024) returns with her much anticipated second hour.
Kemah is having a growth spurt. She’s done with her extended adolescence as the stoner who almost got kidnapped in Thailand. That’s so 2024. It’s 2026, and it’s time to put on her big girl pants.
Giraffes. VHS porn. Ketamine-infused breast milk. The challenges of being a woman who has inherited her dad's lips. The "utterly charismatic" (Fest) Kemah Bob is back, and she's tackling it all.
‘Chest-achingly funny'
★★★★ Skinny
'A delight to witness on stage'
★★★★ Fest
'Kemah's presence is captivating’
★★★★ DIVA
Kiell Smith-Bynoe’s Kool Story Bro
Following a huge debut national tour and sell-out runs across London and Edinburgh, Kiell Smith-Bynoe (Ghosts, Taskmaster, Stath Lets Flats) is bringing his smash-hit improv show back to the Fringe.
Featuring a celebrity guest every night, a cast of the UK's best improvisers and stories from you, the audience, to inspire the comedy!
Previous special guests have included: Amelia Dimoldenberg, Lily Allen, Jamie Demitriou, Adam Buxton, Mo Gilligan, Lolly Adefope and Nish Kumar.
Previous improvisers have included: Emma Sidi, Lola-Rose Maxwell, Graham Dickson, Lara Ricote, Janine Harouni, Nic Sampson, Brendan Murphy and Rob Gilbert.
Kristen Schaal: The Legend of Crystal Shell
The brand new comedy play from Kristen Schaal (Bob's Burgers, BoJack Horseman, Flight of the Conchords) comes to Edinburgh for five nights only.
The Legend Of Crystal Shell is about an extraordinary soul who has been hiding from the world because of a fantastic secret. She now prepares to execute her long-held dream: a solo dance interpretation of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. Kristen Schaal is an Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and Melbourne Best Show winner.
Co-starring John Roberts (Bob's Burgers), with music by Big Black Delta and directed by Frank Smith.
Morgan Rees: What A Bummer
Following a sold-out 2024 tour, acclaimed stand-up and online sensation Morgan Rees is back with previews of his hugely anticipated brand-new show.
A stand-up show about the trials and errors of falling in love and keeping the spark alive, the spiral-inducing limbo of awaiting a diagnosis, and the experience of being a white Welsh valley boy integrating into a proud Gujarati family.Co-starring John Roberts (Bob's Burgers), with music by Big Black Delta and directed by Frank Smith.
'A fine storyteller... with tremendous heart and warmth'
★★★★★ Scotsman
Paddy Young: Will Sir Be Laughing Alone?
You’re born alone, you die alone. That’s true enough. But what happened to that part in the middle?
Big Year for Pad. SNL (UK, but still a big deal), a bunch of awards (hate bringing them up), and plenty of bit-parts to boot. But what’s it all about? I’ve fallen in love more times than you’ve had hot dinners and I’ve fumbled every single one of them. But I don’t even think about that shit anymore.
Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee in 2023
'Young is surely on the road to stardom”
★★★★★ Rolling Stone
'One of British comedy’s most intriguing new voices’
★★★★ Independent
Rob Copland: ONE (more please)
Once one has one, one wants more please and comedian Rob Copland is back and he's asking for more.
Who else is more-ing for one more. More for me, more for you, more for whoever wants to poke their head around the corner with us.
Winner of the Edinburgh Comedy Awards Victoria Wood Prize in 2024, and Chortle’s Comedian's Comedian Award in 2025. As seen on Channel 4’s Tell Me When You're Bored
'A virtuoso of silliness and a performer of fantastic energy'
★★★★★ Chortle
'Rarely has an existential scream been this much fun'
★★★★ Guardian
Sophie Duker: Hot Beef Injection
Duker’s back on her bullshit. And this time, she’s done with dudes. Promise.
The people’s princess of provocation returns with a beefy hour about sex and privilege.
Taskmaster Champion and Just For Laughs International New Face. As seen crushing Live at the Apollo, House of Games, Celebrity Mastermind and Celebrity Pointless. Sell-out Fringe runs since 2019.
‘Obscenely good… Charisma to burn’
Rolling Stone
''Laugh-out-loud funny'
★★★★ Telegraph
Tom Towelling Teaches You To Knit
The highly anticipated stand-up debut from the winner of the Channel 4 Sean Lock Comedy Award 2025.
Expect songs, dancing and lessons on the threads that knit us together.
As seen on Channel 4's A Comedy Thing. Winner, Musical Comedy Awards 2024. Winner, Birmingham Breaking Talent Award 2024.
'Entrancingly funny'
British Comedy Guide
'Clear case of funny bones'
Chortle
Two Hearts: Don’t Stop Throbbing
Critically acclaimed musical comedy powerhouses Laura Daniel (Taskmaster NZ) and Joseph Moore (has also been on TV) return with last year's explosive must-see show!
From the minds behind SNL UK's 'Pub Song', step into a concert-like experience and forget about the horrible world we live in with this boiler-room set of uplifting hits (largely about the horrible world we live in). It is physically impossible to fall asleep during this show.
'A masterclass in musical comedy'
LMAOnaise
Zoe Coombs Marr
The highly anticipated stand-up debut from the winner of the Channel 4 Sean Lock Comedy Award 2025.
Expect songs, dancing and lessons on the threads that knit us together.
As seen on Channel 4's A Comedy Thing. Winner, Musical Comedy Awards 2024. Winner, Birmingham Breaking Talent Award 2024.
'Entrancingly funny'
British Comedy Guide
'Clear case of funny bones'
Chortle