Best of Edinburgh Comedy Season 2022

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ANDY FIELD Milo Edwards

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11th October

Andy is an ideas man and he’s got ideas, man. Good, bad and (mostly) stupid ones come together in this riotous hour of nonsense direct from the Fringe.

October

7:40pm

Milo hasn’t had a voicemail in a while. He’d like to talk about that, and a lot of other things, after a sell-out and critically acclaimed Fringe run.

John Luke Roberts Mark Watson

A World Just Like Our Own But…

October

Fresh from Edinburgh, John Luke Roberts presents a show about all the worlds we don’t live in, which is sneakily about the one we do.

October

(WIP)

7:40pm

The rapidly ageing national treasure presents an hour of well and badly-formed jokes and stories about the passing of time and the infinity of information. Et cetera.

Lily Phillips Will Duggan

October

Lily set out to write a show about feminism, but it ended up being partly about her dog’s vagina. Sold out throughout the Edinburgh Fringe, don’t miss it here.

October

7:40pm

One of Rolling Stone’s Top 15 Comedy Stars You Need To See and The Times’s Top 10 Jokes of the Edinburgh Fringe. Complete sell-out at Fringe 2022.

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Zoomer

Cabaret Impedimenta

14th October | 9pm

The Gen-Z comic and TikTok star brings one of the 2022 Fringe’s most sought-after shows to London for one night only. If he’s allowed to stay up.

An impossible variety show hosted by John Luke Roberts. Cabaret performers attempt to perform, while confronted by obstacles, randomly chosen by a spinning wheel.

Will Mars Kwame Asante

My Life In One-Liners Living In Sin

14th October | 9pm | £10 25th October | 7:40pm

Will’s got women problems, friendship problems, he’s in a constant battle with his weight and his hair’s leaving him. Yet the only thing he intends to do about it is make you laugh.

Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and A&E Doctor Kwame Asante is living in sin, and has come to preach to the choir!

Ted hill

All The Presidents Man

Ted Hill’s debut show about every single US president and how they saved his life. From Washington to Biden, Ted includes a joke about each and every one of them.

Cerys Bradley

Sportsperson

26th October & 2nd November 7:40pm | £8 27th October

27th October | 8pm | £8

Join Cerys as they tell you about playing sport, fitting in and how they are quite bad at both of those things. It’s also about being non-binary and wearing lycra.

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Nathan Cassidy

Observational

27th October | 9pm | £8

Multi-award winning comedian Nathan Cassidy joins a gym and a big, strong man changes his life forever. A truly uplifting and magical show.

Hannah Fairweather

Just a Normal Girl Who Enjoys Revenge

28th October | 7:40pm | £8

Award-winning comedian Hannah Fairweather is the Taylor Swift of comedy, joking about those who have previously wronged her.

Richard Stott

Afterparty

28th October | 8pm | £8

Richard Stott returns from the Fringe with a show filled with trademark storytelling and joyously acerbic one liners. Runner-up in The Times Jokes of the Fringe 2022.

Aardvark

28th October | 9pm | £8

Join Thomasin Lockwood, an awkward white woman, as she revisits the dating history of her twenties, and Roman Harris, a confessional black man in his thirties.

Horrigan & Howell

A Sketch Too Far

29th October | 7:40pm | £10 (£8)

Philip Green

90s Boy: Blair, the Lovegun and Me

29th October | 9pm | £8

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Sketch comedy that encompasses the dark, the bizarre and the stupid. A Sketch Too Far presents an hour of tightly scripted comedy with dozens of indecorous characters.

90s? brain, know Phil nostalgia

Remember the 90s? Do you have a non-typical brain, or know someone who does? Then join Phil Green as he talks 90s nostalgia and neurodiversity.

Faye Treacy

Ed Patrick

A captivating storyteller, Faye’s toured the world as a musician since she was a teenager.

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NHS junior doctor, comedian and now author (ooh, check him) Ed Patrick returns with the makings of a new show. Come and join him as he works through material.

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Alex Franklin Harriet Dyer

An absurdist, punchlinedense, tightly-scripted, musical, one-of-a-kind adventure, and the maddest hour of your goddamn life.

Dyer

Trigger Warning

Harriet Dyer is an awardwinning comedian and an experience to behold. Here lies (fresh from critical acclaim of the Edinburgh Fringe) quite the harrowing tale.

Jo Griffin Peter Fleming

Person

Peter Fleming’s Woefully Inaccurate History of the BBC

Everyone happy Everyone esteem regrets? No? is for failing at

Everyone ok? Everyone happy with their life choices? Everyone got high selfesteem and zero regrets? No? Great! Jo’s debut show is for anyone who thinks they’re failing at life.

Mark 100 years of the BBC in style with the befuddled children’s TV pioneer. Peter re-enacts classic clips from the archive, sets the record crooked and reveals shocking truths.

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1st November | 7:40pm | £8 2nd November | 9pm | £8 3rd November | 7:40pm | £10 3rd November | 8pm | £8 4th November | 7:40pm | £8 4th November | 9pm | £9 Where’s Your Head At? Catch Your Breath (WIP) Dinosaurusesuses
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Gloria is not a gorilla,

she is stuck in London Zoo. After five years of living her best gorilla life, it’s finally time for her to leave her cage and re-enter the human world.

the aid of slides, time travel and a hologram of the late Robert Kardashian,

will take you on a journey to figure out the solution for longing.

Sex. Spreadsheets. Revolution. Andrew White promises it all in an uplifting, hilarious show about discovering, loving, and expressing yourself.

Exploring queer identity, intrusive thoughts, living, loving and laughing during a pandemic. Alice is going to break your heart and mend it all over again.

Would you rather have sex or eternal bliss? Absurd character comedy from Kathy Maniura and Derek Mitchell. Expect big characters, original musical numbers and wigs.

A whirlwind show examining the multiple roles you play in your life, how you make decisions, and coming to terms with certain aspects of your personality as you get older.

Posey Mehta Suchandrika Chakrabarti Andrew White Alice-India Horseplay Vix Leyton 7th November | 7:40pm | £8 8th November | 7:40pm | £8 9th November | 7:40pm | £10 9th November | 9pm | £8 10th November | 7:40pm | £8 11th November | 7:40pm | £8 I Am Not A Gorilla I Miss Amy Winehouse (But Not in a Gay Way) Be Brave! (or whatever) Bareback Pedestrian
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Suchandrika

The Comedy Arcade

November

Part game show, part chat show. Host Vix Leyton holds a bingo ball of surprise subjects for four comics to compete with related stories and anecdotes to win points.

Finlay & Joe Lil Saffron Bryony Byrne

Perpetual Hype Machine

November

Watch as Finlay and Joe shovel comedy coal into the furnace of their patented content generation device, the Perpetual Hype Machine. An antidote to doom-scrolling.

Ragu to Riches Fan/Girl

November

Join Lil Saffron in his quest for culinary greatness as he takes on grime obsessed health inspectors and celebrity clown chefs. A hip hop musical comedy.

November

7:40pm

It’s 1998. Geri Halliwell is leaving the Spice Girls, David Beckham is wearing a sarong and a 10 year-old girl is pretending to be Eric Cantona. Absurd, optimistic and joyful.

Sasha Ellen Katie Pritchard

Creeps and Geeks

November

Why can’t men and women be on the same team?

Sasha Ellen takes a hilarious journey into unsafe spaces, encountering prosecco pests, level 9 healers and strangely sexy quiz masters.

Disco Ball

7:40pm

Party with carnage-wielding, mayhem-manifesting, awardwinning, human disco ball Katie Pritchard, in her debut musical-comedy hour, as she tries to figure out who she is.

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Joseph Parsons

Equaliser

16th November

Passionate about football and with the World Cup in Qatar about to commence, this is a show about being a gay sports fan for those who love sport and those who hate it.

The Awkward Silence

Enter the Vortex

& 18th November 7:40pm

Award-winning sketch men The Awkward Silence present a mind-bending parade of vignettes, voices and vagabonds from beyond our reality.

Anthony Jeannot Dalia Malek

The Middle Bit Another Castle

November

One day you’re a student at a protest and the next you’re a 30-something who still doesn’t know what they want to be when they grow up. Total sell-out Fringe run.

Lucinda Spragg

November

Travelling to London from the US, Dalia Malek invites you to join her journey through personal failures, career blunders, health woes, and finding love.

Ali Brice

Another Evening With I Tried to Be Funny, But You Weren’t Looking

November

Leader of the Regain Party. Freedom fighter/icon. Agitator extraordinaire. Professional feather ruffler. Lucinda’s back from the Edinburgh Fringe and she has yet more things to say.

November

Ali Brice is embracing life after almost losing it. A sincere, heartfelt and happy show, expect silly stories, big questions and jokes aplenty from a ridiculous man with a stupid moustache.

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Sid Singh Eleanor Conway

Illegally Funny Talk Dirty To Me

Illegally Funny Talk Dirty To Me

23rd November | 9pm

Sid Singh: comedian, human rights lawyer and idiot. In a world where no one knows who to listen to anymore, Sid explores what it means to actually be smart.

Sid Singh: comedian, human rights lawyer and idiot. In a world where no one knows who to listen to anymore, Sid explores what it means to actually be smart.

November | 7:40pm | £10

23rd November | 9pm | £8 24th November | 7:40pm | £10

Following her first US tour and millions of views over lockdown for her blunt takes on dating and being a childfree badass, this awardwinning stand-up is back.

Following her first US tour and millions of views over lockdown for her blunt takes on dating and being a childfree badass, this awardwinning stand-up is back.

Sid Singh Eleanor Conway Richard Todd

Richard Todd

Transferable Skills

Transferable Skills

November | 9pm | £8 (£7)

November | 9pm | £8 (£7)

Todd has a time machine and he’s not afraid to use it. Within reason. Let’s not get ahead of oursleves. Or behind. Or parallel.

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Todd has a time machine and he’s not afraid to use it. Within reason. Let’s not get ahead of oursleves. Or behind. Or parallel.

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SCAN

Andy Field

Milo Edwards

John Luke Roberts

Mark Watson Lily Phillips Will Duggan

Finlay Christie Cabaret Impedimenta Will Mars

Kwame Asante

Ted Hill Cerys Bradley Nathan Cassidy

Hannah Fairweather Richard Stott Aardvark

Horrigan & Howell Philip Green

Faye Treacy Kwame Asante

Ed Patrick Alex Franklin Harriet Dyer Jo Griffin Peter Fleming Posey Mehta

Suchandrika Chakrabarti Andrew White Alice-India Horseplay Vix Leyton

The Comedy Arcade

Finlay & Joe Lil Saffron Bryony Byrne

Sasha Ellen Katie Pritchard Joseph Parsons

The Awkward Silence

Anthony Jeannot The Awkward Silence Dalia Malek

Lucinda Spragg Ali Brice

Sid Singh Eleanor Conway

Richard Todd

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