Edinburgh Fringe

2024

Reviews

Find out about the best Fringe comedy shows here: no negative reviews, so you’ll know everything you read about is recommended.

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Featured

Joe Kent-Walters is Frankie Monroe LIVE!!! review: A laugh-a-second show

Main Character Energy review: Temi Wilkey steps into her true star power

Demi Adejuyigbe review: An original show with true ingenuity

Nic Sampson review: Yellow Power Ranger is a revelation you’ll want to see twice

Zoe Brownstone review: Razor-sharp jokes from a hopeless romantic

Lil Wenker review: Bangtail is a rootin’ tootin’ good time

Alex Franklin review: Gurl Code is complex, silly and totally original

Two Hearts review: A high-voltage hour of ear worms

Bella Hull review: An exceedingly funny and intelligent comedy voice

Derek Mitchell review: Double Dutch and Goblin show extraordinary talent

Reuben Kaye review: A sparkly, raunchy expression of queer defiance

Abby Wambaugh review: A playful and tender show from a comedian everyone should know

Paulina Lenoir review: Puella Eterna is hypnotic and a little bit magic

Knight, Knight review: Madeleine Rowe has made one of the best clown shows ever

Kemah Bob review: Smart, energetic debut is a Moment

Dee Allum review: A warm and beautifully crafted debut

Jin Hao Li review: Surreal and surprising, a dream-like debut

Edinburgh Fringe 2024 is here! And so is our annual features series. This year, it’s all about REVELATIONS: the gossip, the mysteries, the spies and the moles. Because everyone knows you can’t keep a secret at Edinburgh Fringe…

Features: REVEALED!

Features

Which of the Ladies Who Ranch are you?

Meet Julia VanderVeen’s grandmother (and her eyepatch)

Ian Lockwood: The Dark Money Funding One of The Fringe's Best Shows

Alexander Richmond in conversation with Normal Al Yankovic

Chris Weir: The Worst Gays in History, Revealed

Lil Wenker: Is the Baddest Cowboy in Texas really…a soft boy?

Mustafa Algiyadi: A front row seat to the Judgement Day budget cuts

Will Owen: Picking the Strictly Come Dancing line-up at Edinburgh Fringe

Chelsea Birkby: Are you an oversharer? Take the quiz!

Kate Hammer: How to use your star sign as a guide to the Fringe

Martin Angolo’s top 5 audience interactions (...or, what not to say to a comedian)

Luke Rollason: The showbiz secrets of a Disney star

Ruby Carr: The 10 weirdest things I have found on eBay

Katie Green: How to make your life like the Bachelorette

Is Kate Cheka the new messiah?

Paulina Lenoir: Puella Eterna's beauty routine revealed

Dan Wye’s top 5 Edinburgh dating tips

Amy Mason’s 10 simple ideas for coming out as a queer woman

Runi Talwar: 5 Secret Techniques To INSTANTLY Increase Your Luck

Reuben Kaye: How my father kept my ADHD diagnosis a secret (from me and my mother)

Kiran Saggu: 10 jobs men hate when women have

Bella Humphries: The Ultimate Playlist for Hormonal Girlies!

Amy Annette: Which mid-00s shoe are YOU?

Breaking news: Jin Hao Li finds Nessie

Abby Wambaugh: How to hypnotise your friends

Stevie Martin: What REALLY goes on behind the scenes of a preview

2 Muslim 2 Furious: Aisha Amanduri and Hasan Al-Habib spill their innermost thoughts

Zoë Coombs Marr’s Guide to Gossip

2023

Reviews

Joe Kent-Walters is Frankie Monroe LIVE!!! review: A laugh-a-second show

Main Character Energy review: Temi Wilkey steps into her true star power

Demi Adejuyigbe review: An original show with true ingenuity

Nic Sampson review: Yellow Power Ranger is a revelation you’ll want to see twice

Zoe Brownstone review: Razor-sharp jokes from a hopeless romantic

Lil Wenker review: Bangtail is a rootin’ tootin’ good time

Alex Franklin review: Gurl Code is complex, silly and totally original

Two Hearts review: A high-voltage hour of ear worms

Bella Hull review: An exceedingly funny and intelligent comedy voice

Derek Mitchell review: Double Dutch and Goblin show extraordinary talent

Reuben Kaye review: A sparkly, raunchy expression of queer defiance

Abby Wambaugh review: A playful and tender show from a comedian everyone should know

Paulina Lenoir review: Puella Eterna is hypnotic and a little bit magic

Knight, Knight review: Madeleine Rowe has made one of the best clown shows ever

Kemah Bob review: Smart, energetic debut is a Moment

Dee Allum review: A warm and beautifully crafted debut

Jin Hao Li review: Surreal and surprising, a dream-like debut

Benjamin Alborough review: Unruly and lively game show achieves Absolute Monopoly

Crizards review: This Means War is pure fun from beginning to end

Lulu Popplewell review: Sharp, witty stand-up with natural comic instincts

Rosalie Minnitt review: Clementine is utter chaos and utter glee

Siân Docksey review: Radiant pole dancing comedy brings something completely new

Simon David review: Full throttle Dead Dad Show does deserve awards

Holly Spillar review: Hole is an ethereal and enthralling hour from a one-of-a-kind talent

Urooj Ashfaq review: A compelling personality that keeps everyone hooked

Tatty Macleod review: French v. English comedy with gusto and pathos

Sikisa review: Triumphant, multi-talented and a twinkle in her eye

Amy Webber review: Confident and inviting, a musical comedian with wide appeal

John Tothill review: One of the strongest comedy debuts of the year

Jodie Mitchell review: Becoming John Travulva is special — an hour is not enough

Features

Did Edinburgh Fringe 2023 really happen or was it all a big fantasy we collectively made up? Our Fantasy Fringe series considered what the Fringe could become with just a little bit of imagination…

Features

Beer mats: Stuart Laws’ ode to the silent protectors

Rhiannon Shaw interviews the small French child who’s moved into her house

Schalk Bezuidenhout: Where to sleep in Edinburgh (when you have no accommodation)

Benjamin Alborough’s Interactive game for you, the Edinburgh Fringe Tsar

Matt Hutchinson’s Fantasy Fringe: At home, fun and not entirely uphill

Kathy Maniura: The Fantasy Fringe of 3 staple Fringe objects

John Tothill: The Crete Festival Fringe

10 changes to make Edinburgh Fringe Troll-friendly

‘6:30pm, tell Russell Howard he’s smelly’: Alex Franklin’s super chill Fringe

Lachlan Werner: 7 Hot Ghoul Boss Hexes from Brew The Witch

Lorna Rose Treen: My Talentless Nephew's Fringe Festival

Elf & Duffy: What if everyone at Edinburgh Fringe mimed and gestured?

Kuan-wen Huang’s Everything Everywhere All At Once Edinburgh Fringe

Laura Ramoso’s German Mother Takes Over her Edinburgh Fringe Interview

Sophie Zucker: 5 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD DATE YOUR COUSIN

Pull up a chair at Trash Salad’s Edinburgh lettuce party

Charlie Vero-Martin and Mr Basketcase’s Edinburgh Crossword

Freya Parker: How to Stay Healthy and Cheeky at the Fringe

Larry Owens’ Diva Dinner Party With Stars of Old Broadway

‘A day at the Fringe is heaven; a year is hell’: Adam Flood’s Groundhog Fringe

Rosalie Minnitt: Every show the Succession characters would do at Edinburgh Fringe

Butt vacuums and zero gravity: At the Space Fringe with Zoe Brownstone

Simon David’s 10 Tips For A Fantastic Edinburgh Fringe!

Priya Hall’s Junior Fringe: Only toddlers allowed

Foxdog Studios: The perfect 15th Century Fringe flowchart

Tatty Macleod: Goodbye choice, hello Randomly Generated Edinburgh Fringe

Jodie Mitchell: Long live the Edinburgh Rat King Utopia

Nathan D’Arcy Roberts, interviewed by past and future Nathan

Emily Lloyd-Saini: The Fringe’s New Sight-Restricting Blinkers

Leila Navabi: F*ck the Edinburgh Fringe Festival - it’s time for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

2022

Edinburgh Fringe 2022 was a big year for debuts, so we published a series from comedians taking their first show up to the festival. Scroll through all the wonderful pieces from our Fringe Debuts series here!

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