Comedian and harpist Caitriona Dowden invites you into the world of traditional Irish music in this award-nominated show about family history, folklore and the ways that music can connect us with our heritage. Along the way, expect stories of medieval banquets, 21st-century pub sessions and altercations with Morris dancers.

Leicester Comedy Festival Best New Show nominee 2026.
Chortle Best Newcomer nominee 2025.
Chortle Student Comedy Award Winner 2022.
'Irresistibly idiosyncratic' (TheWeeReview.com), 'Blissfully esoteric... a special talent' (Fest),
'Comedy that goes where no laughs have ever been got before... absolutely hilarious' (Scotsman).

WIP show from award-entering comedian Dominic McGovern (Chicken Shop Date co-writer, BBC New Comedy Awards, Melbourne International Comedy Festival). Join Dom as he refuses to engage with any form of self-acceptance and instead yaps at you for 55 minutes about rock climbing, Miss Piggy, and the TV show Glee.
Tour support for Sophie Duker and Olga Koch.

All quiet on the frontal lobe. This is the latest offering from Bella Hull.

BCG Next Big Thing Award Nominee 2026
As seen on Have I Got News For You
“Beautifully wrought…. a joy to watch” **** The Guardian
“Hugely entertaining” **** Evening Standard

Straight off the back of the latest season of Taskmaster, Maisie's working up her new tour show. Some jokes might work, some might not. It will be obvious which ones are which, to you and to her, but that's part of the fun. Right? RIGHT? As seen on Live At The Apollo, A League of Their Own, and QI.

I am writing a new show. It is a story about me being an estate agent on the planet Jupiter. It would be great to see you if you fancy it?

After a year away from touring, doing nothing but being nice and uncontroversial, Australia’s Special Envoy For Comedy Tom Ballard returns in 2026 with a new show packed with jokes about war and being naughty and being kind and just how extremely normal everything is right now.

You should definitely come along. What’s the worst that could happen????

It’s time for Pierre to do stand-up! It’s time for you to watch! Why not just embrace that, for God’s sake? All earthly glories fade! Co-host of the Frank Skinner, Budpod and Button Boys podcasts and as seen and heard on World’s Most Dangerous Roads (Dave), The Mash Report (BBC2), Stand Up Central (Comedy Central), The Now Show and The News Quiz (BBC Radio 4).

“Novellie is master of traditional standup” Guardian
“Packed full of belly laughs” ★★★★★ Metro
“Novellie is the best there is” ★★★★ Chortle
“Laugh-out-loud lines” ★★★★ Evening Standard

Bilal (Leicester Comedy Fest Best New Show nominee 2025 and other stuff) is back with a brand new show about his time working with Special Education needs children, his own school life, his ego, class and race but in a way that's actually funny and interesting haha.

As seen/heard on BBC 1, BBC 2, Channel 4, BBC Radio 4 and loads of other stuff that you might not find as interesting etc.

Heidi Regan is working on her 6th Standup Hour and would love to try a load of new and old jokes on you. Not with you or at you but ON you. It will be very loose, fun and, above all, a third thing.

Fresh from a sold-out Edinburgh Fringe debut, Award winning Comedian Ayo Adenekan brings fresh, new, never-heard before jokes to the stage for the first and possibly last time ever! It’s gonna be swell!

BBC New Comedy Award Finalist 2025
Comedians Choice Award Best Newcomer nominee 2025
Best Newcomer at the ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2025

Channel 4 Sean Lock Comedy Award winning Eric Rushton presents an hour of work-in-progress material.

Eric’s previous solo show, Innkeeper, was listed as one of the best reviewed shows of the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe, before transferring to the Soho Theatre and a UK and international tour.

As seen on The Stand Up Sketch Show (ITV)
“[He] knocks-off grade-A punchlines with a shrug, basking in a superlative gag rate to conceal the dark heart of his story” ★★★★ The List
“When it comes to assured off-the-wall confessional comedy he is very much hot shit.” ★★★★ Beyond The Joke

The best showcase of pure joke-writing skill on the Fringe” (Guardian). Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Glenn Moore has written too many jokes again. As seen on Live At The Apollo, Have I Got News For You, Mock The Week, Cats Does Countdown. As heard on The Dave Berry Breakfast Show on Absolute Radio, The News Quiz, Just A Minute, and his own Radio 4 series Glenn Moore’s Almanac.

“An absolutely brilliantly-crafted joy from start to finish” Mail On Sunday (5 stars)
“This is classy, gag-driven comedy at its most intense and funniest” Chortle (5 stars)

Jack spits some new gags about the state of the world, mental health, his cat, coasters and, in usual fashion, chronically overshares about his sex life. There's also a yarn about taking his dad to Amsterdam for his 70th to do shrooms for the first time to tie the whole thing together.

Come see a brand new collection of songs gags and maybe dances he's wrangling into a new show, if you like old time daftness, decaffeinated philosophy and stupid musical bits and pieces, then you'll be the right person to see this show.

‘The hardest I've laughed at the fringe this year’ ★★★★ Chortle
"A near perfect absurdist hour" Edfest.
‘Wonderfully weird’ Guardian

Hot on the heels of her critically acclaimed 2025 show Side Eye, Rachel Fairburn is back with new personalities and some old favourites for you to love and hate. Expect biting social commentary and lots of big laughs.

Rachel is a Mancunian comedian star of Live at the Apollo and Comedy Central Live, Rachel has been described by Rolling Stone as ‘very much the Rock ‘n’ Roll star of British comedy’.

Join BBC broadcaster, comedian, and Bloomsbury author Iszi Lawrence for a hilarious journey through history!

From where pirates poo to how ancient Egyptians thought, Iszi will prepare you to time travel anywhere in history. From how to crash a spitfire, to how to stop yourself being swallowed by a pterosaur.

Iszi has worked for the British Museum, The BBC and even has a popular dinosaur podcast Terrible Lizards! Fun for everyone, not just fans of The Time Machine Next Door series… perfect for ages 7+

Hasan is back at the Oxford Comedy Festival with a show of new material. After selling out his double act show “2 Muslim 2 Furious: Mecca Drift” at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2024, Hasan’s solo debut in 2025 – “Death To The West (Midlands)” – also sold out its entire run a six night run at Soho Theatre in London’s West End.

Deliciously funny – The Guardian
Hasan Al-Habib will be famous – Rolling Stone
Edgy and silly in exactly the right balance - Sara Pascoe

Winner of the BBC New Comedy Award, UK-based Japanese comedian Yuriko Kotani is going to tell stories of her experiences, thoughts and imagination as a work in progress. As seen on ‘Mandy’ (BBC2), 'The Horne Section TV Show' (C4), ‘Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central’, ‘Pointless Celebrities’ (BBC1), ‘Pls Like’ (BBC3), ‘Paul Hollywood Eats Japan’ (C4), ‘Sorry, I Didn’t Know’ (ITV) and 'Comedy Central Live'.

Multi award winning comedian, Adele Cliff, brings a work in progress show to the Oxford Comedy Festival. Expect material on love, life choices and llamas. Catch these jokes whilst they're still super fresh.

***** "Master of comedy" - Theatre Matters
***** "Truly Funny" - TLA Adelaide
***** "Guaranteed Laughs" - The Student Newspaper
**** "A-list Jokes - The Comic's Comic
**** "Heartfelt storytelling and incredibly astute observations" - Hugging comedians
**** "takes her job to be silly very seriously and it certainly pays off" - Edfringe Review
**** "funny well written" One 4 Review

Tadiwa Mahlunge is one of comedy’s fastest-rising stars. The Times (★★★★) hailed him as one of the “Top 3 Stars of Tomorrow”. The Scotsman (★★★★) praised him as “already looking like the complete, fully rounded package". The Skinny ★★★★ called him “impressively accomplished and infectiously funny.” Tipped as “one of the must-see comics” (Rolling Stone), Tadiwa has appeared on ITV2’s Stand Up Sketch Show, Comedy Central, Dave, and BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz.

What if we kissed right now? Like, obviously I’m kidding. But genuinely? I’m just asking questions. About kissing. Like what do we think of that? I’m kissi- I mean kidding! But we could! Right here! Do you have someone to practice kissing with? Do you want it to be me? X

As seen / heard on Channel 4 / HBO Max / BBC Radio 4.

'Deeply affecting and incredibly funny' ★★★★★ (The Wee Review).
'A one-woman multiverse of gleeful possibility' ★★★★½ (The Reviews Hub).
'Fabulously funny, absurd and intelligent' ★★★★ (Everything Theatre).

Following a 5 star tour of her show that is now a full special on ITVX, and launching her subsequent show as a comedy vinyl, Amy Matthews is scratching about in the dirt for new jokes and new ideas. Come and help find them with her.

This will be BRAND new stuff. How exciting! Thrilling. Daunting! Exclusive, oooooo. Playful! Whimsical! Funny.

The show is shaping up to be about what it means to support - or not support - someone dealing with alcoholism; queer joy; a stand off with a pigeon; learning to be angry; why Amy’s mum keeps milk in the car; learning about how a processing lag is affecting her life; why modern Shakespeare is so often very shite.

Amy is the official host of the English Heritage podcast and has been seen on tour with Ed Byrne, Tom Allen, Sarah Keyworth, Tom Davis and Suzi Ruffell, as well as multiple appearances on Comedy Central.

"A must-see […] a searing wit, she makes the deeply personal feel like a universal truth" - Rolling Stone.

Sara's planned a series of high kicks, insults for your granny, and thoughts on Jeffrey Dahmer's Netflix special. Then - separate but adjacent - some thoughts on Gary Barlow.

A sense of ‘this hour is flying!’ from a woman who is unusually present and regularly wild.

Esther Manito:

After a sold-out, rave-reviewed tour last year, Esther Manito is back — this time embracing the sheer joy of having absolutely no dignity. She’s tried elegance. She’s aimed for sophistication. But somehow, chaos always wins. Because really — how do you keep your poise when you’re juggling kids, aging parents, and the crushing weight of unmet expectations? From failed attempts at being sexy, sudden hearing loss, and awkward encounters with dodgy drug dealers, to the brutal realities of a waxing session gone sideways — nothing’s off limits.

As seen and heard on Live at the Apollo (BBC One), The Stand Up Sketch Show (ITV), Hypothetical (Dave), The Prank Podcast Show (4OD), The News Quiz (Radio 4) and Mark Watson Talks a Bit About Life (Radio 4).

★★★★ “Manito skilfully weaves her own personal story with a wider look at gender issues in society” - Evening Standard

★★★★ “An absolute riot from start to finish” - Everything Theatre

★★★★ “Effervescent…Incisivley funny’ - The Skinny

Matt Richardson:

Being loud, brazen and a little bit lairy was all Matt Richardson needed to propel himself onto the comedy circuit aged 18 and be presenting national telly by 22. But faster than you can say ‘Celebrity Coach Trip’ he suddenly finds himself in his 30s, so what’s next for the lad? Matt has moved to the countryside, settled down, and is trying his hardest to not make rude jokes. It’s not going as well as he’d hoped…

Attempting to navigate a world of mate’s kids, mortgages and village life is proving a challenge for the guy who can’t resist causing a scene. How do you age with grace and dignity when it’s at odds with all the personality traits that got you this far?

As seen on Dancing on Ice, The Stand Up Sketch Show, Love Island: Aftersun (ITV2), Comedy Central’s Roast Battle and many more.

‘High wattage stand-up’ - The Guardian

'Hilarious and Charming' - The Mirror

★★★★★ ‘One of the top comedians in Edinburgh this year’ - Theatreweekly.com

★★★★★ ‘An explosive show that left people with bellies aching from laughter’ - Voice Magazine

'Sharp, funny and warm' - Heat Magazine

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).
'Extremely funny' **** (Scotsman).
'Truly one of the best comedians around' **** (DIVA).
'Laugh-out-loud funny' **** (Telegraph).
'Not scared to push the boundaries' **** (Fest).
**** (Skinny).
**** (Evening Standard).
**** (Times).

What would you like to see a show about? Email me 24hrs before the show…
This is such a crazy ambitious idea that I’m only doing one preview. It might not work.

Send all your best show suggestions to me at: KateSmurthwaitesBrandNewShow@proton.me

Introducing, a death defying genre mashup: comedy and rave. This brand new show blends a traditional stand-up show (you’re sat, Adam is stood, he does jokes, you laugh), cut with his cult hit show “Late Night Comedy Rave” (comics performing live over big beats). The latter was nominated for Best Comedy Show at Newcastle Fringe in 2025, and his debut standup hour was just released on BBC Sounds.

A new standup show hour, set in a nightclub, about an attempt to stay young and stupid.

This is a seated gig, you may dance in your mind.

Broadway World ★★★★

Ed Fringe Review ★★★★

Broadway World ★★★★

Stutter’s Pick of The Fringe ★★★★

As seen on ITV2’s The Stand Up Sketch Show.

BBC New Comedy Award Nominee

Following multiple sell out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and Soho Theatre, Celya AB (Live At The Apollo, Off Menu, Just For Laughs, Writer on SNL UK) is working on her new show. Expect new jokes on the A-Side and unformed ideas on the B-Side.

''As we've come to expect from Celya, the quality of joke writing here is exceptional, not to mention impressively original’' - British Comedy Guide
""The UK's Parisian comedy star is making waves"" - The Guardian
'‘One of the most gifted joke writers of our age"" - ★★★★ Chortle
Tour support for Maria Bamford and St Vincent.

★★★★★ Pepper and Salt
★★★★ The List
★★★★ Entertainement Now
★★★★ Scotsman
★★★★ The Skinny
★★★★ Broadway World

Grace Jarvis has fallen in love and is unbearably happy (now), but, true to form, the process of falling in love was stressful enough to kill a small animal.

One of Rolling Stone's 12 Must-See Comedy Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2025
"Outwardly winsome & internally complex, Jarvis is a delight" - The Scotsman (UK)
"One of the smartest and funniest comedians coming up in Australia right now" - Zachary Ruane (Aunty Donna)
"Her energy is infectious and her jokes tightly wound" - The Guardian (AU)

This show is a Work in Progress.
Catherine Bohart - as seen on Live at the Apollo, QI and LOL Ireland is back with a new show. Well, the beginnings of a new show. Well, she’s certainly thinking about beginning a new show. Certainly she’s certain she should be. Come watch this Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominee humble herself before you while she tries new jokes as you give her real time feedback.