How to write a comic song. Writers, singers, performers - bring your notepads and learn from performer and songwriter Dillie Keane, and fellow member of the ever popular 'Fascinating Aida', Adele Anderson.

Tales of a Frenchman with a dog called Chirac. There is a love interest which seems rather one sided, and a scene depicting the ‘tapping’ of a television set. There are also songs and other stories with no televisions. Some community singing. Little dancing.

'John Hegley is to potatoes what Wordsworth has been to daffodils.' OBSERVER

'Awesomely mundane' INDEPENDENT

All hail to the ale! A lunchtime lock-in with The Guv’nor as he returns to his spiritual home, performing material from his Perrier Nominated and winning shows from 1996-99 on consecutive days. All for a fiver.

'A national treasure to cherish' ***** DAILY TELEGRAPH

'The most consistently exciting live comedian in the land for years' TIMES

Showcasing the best and brightest of 2009’s Fringe comics. A handpicked bill where comedians get to sell their show and you get to check out the talent. Different line-ups every day plus special guest host. Sixth sell-out year!

'Perfect bite sized flavour of the festival' THREE WEEKS

Thankless children Liz Black and Freya Slipper present a brand new lunchtime sketch show. Learn what befalls if you don’t take heed of the cautionary tales of our youth. ‘hilarious’ *****- ThreeWeeks, ‘lightning-fast comedy’****- Fest
'Young, glitzy, delicious and different... Sure to have you chuckling away' ***** THREEWEEKS
'Lightning fast comedy' **** FEST

After 2008’s sellout show, The Herald Pick of the Fringe Rosie Wilkinson and BBC Comedy Award Winner Helen O’Brien return with uniquely-formulated, volumeboosting sketches, giving microbiotically natural characters 300% more moisture for longer-lasting laughs.........Get the look.....Get the Domestic Goddi look.

'A blisteringly surreal reverie...funnier than Ainsley Harriott’s head in a blender' **** METRO

'Ultra talented ladies...excellent comic timing' **** ONE4REVIEW

A spectacular series of galas celebrating 25 years of Pleasance being the hottest venue on the Fringe. Top comedians from past and present perform thrilling afternoon extravaganzas every weekend.

Featuring fantastic comedians including:

*Sat 8 Aug Russell Kane, Rhod Gilbert and Sarah Millican

*Sat 15 Aug Arthur Smith and friends including Kevin Day

*Sat 22 Aug Frank Skinner and guests

*Sat 29 Aug Fascinating Aida and musical guests

Other line ups to be announced VERY soon!

Last year: a sellout Pleasance run, then the RSC’s main stage, Stratford. Kane presents a brand new blank verse play: Nigellio is an Essex banker, thus utterly finishéd. Starring Russell Kane and Sadie Hasler.

'Wonderful play from this very gifted young comedian' TIM ARTHUR, TIME OUT

'The rising star surpasses himself… Clever and funny' STEPHEN ARMSTRONG, THE SUNDAY TIMES

Sometimes the only way to stay sane is to go a little mad. Mad from life. Mad from the slowest form of suicide... Love. "Playful, intelligent and very, very funny" - Dave Gorman

'An energetic, hairy whirlwind of a man, he’s one of those performers that everyone wants to be best friends with. Comedians with that amount of natural charm are a real rarity' HENLEY STANDARD

'Witty and quirky' CHORTLE

Yes, ten years of brilliant, sell-out, industry-endorsed showcases! So grab your hot tickets too, for talent spotting the next Rhod Gilbert, Jimmy Carr, Sarah Millican, Mark Watson, Jack Whitehall and Simon Amstell, from amongst this year’s handpicked stellar crop, plus a past Hot Starlet who is now rather famous.

'The place to see tomorrow’s stars today' THREE WEEKS

Following on from the success of last year’s ‘Alpha Males’, Adam Riches delivers another collection of questionable characters all teetering on the brink.
**** The Scotsman
**** Fest
**** Three Weeks
**** The Stage
**** List
'Stomach-achingly funny' FEST
'Great in places where most character comedy doesn’t even have places. It is a smart, fresh concept made gloriously comic with brilliant, well-observed, pitch-perfect writing' SCOTSMAN

A stripped-down sketch show from two stand-up comedians. Richard Sandling and Stuart Goldsmith are proud to present the sequel to their award-winning 2008 extravaganza! An unwieldy ogre and a simpering pretty-boy – lo-fi sketches, competent banter, Peloponnesian dancing.

'Funny, fresh… positively Pythonic. Marvellously dark and dangerous' **** KATE COPSTICK, SCOTSMAN

Following sell-out runs in 2007 and 2008, the world-famous Cambridge Footlights return to the Fringe with an all-new show about deceptions and delusions.

'Must-have ticket' TIMES

R.B. Sheridan’s hilarious 18th Century farce has kept audiences in hysterics for exactly 232 years. Under Lady Sneerwell’s bitter gaze a group of scandalmongers wreak havoc in London society. Will love prevail?

The world knows the price of everything and the value of nothing; should we stockpile raindrops, roses…and whisky in kittens? After their sellout debut, this inventive duo return with their unique, effervescent sketch comedy - serving up dishes of nostalgia, notoriety and Pauline Prescott’s revolutionary plans for global economic revival.

'The most accomplished sketch comedy I have seen in years.' **** SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

'A masterclass...' **** TIMES

Alison loves cake, and needs to get over it. Savannah lives part-time in Sunnydale Rehabilitation Retreat, full-time in her head. They meet somewhere in between. Eventually one of them is left behind to remember... After their sell-out London shows, Mackenzie & McGuire bring you their comic play about two unlikely friends who meet in rehab, and the bizarre array of characters that inhabit their world.

'Absolutely hilarious. 100% the one’s to watch' WIRELESSTHEATRECOMPANY

'Mackenzie & McGuire are ACTUALLY FUNNY' PAULINE MCLYNN - FATHER TED

Bespectacled double act Phil Gilbert and Jacob Edwards proudly present their Edinburgh debut. Expect a charm offensive of epic proportions, with a hint of rivalry and a twist of mututal contempt. Anticipate a finale of either fighting or kissing.

As seen on ‘Peep Show’ and ‘The IT Crowd’.

'One of the most innovative sketch groups around…a terrific duo' TIME OUT

'Recommended' GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT

Hackney Empire New Act of the Year, star of Star Stories and Northumberland under 13’s badminton champion 1992, Fergus Craig still watches Neighbours. He’ll explain why by showing you clips from the show and some home movies from his childhood. If nothing else Jim Robinson’s death will be a hoot.

'With killer lines, great delivery and a delightful dollop of surprises, Craig was class' STAGE

'Has a refreshingly different take' INDEPENDENT

Jonny talks mostly about his late brother Arthur (a quite-highly-regarded writer of blurbs - on the back of books etc) with the aid of video, powerpoint presentation and a 2-minute biopic play. From BBC2’s Winging It & the acclaimed ‘House of Windsor’ (Total Sell-Out 2007/08), comes Jonny’s highly-anticipated debut solo show.

'Unmissable' ***** LIST

'What a show: box-fresh wit and bitingly original' **** SCOTSMAN

All-new character comedy 40 years after man landed on the moon, from writer and star of hit Radio 4 series QUARTERS. Nick recently appeared in BBC comedies REGGIE PERRIN and HORNE & CORDEN, and has just completed filming a second series of BAFTA-nominated sketch show SORRY, I’VE GOT NO HEAD. Total sell-out 2007/2008.

'One of the most talented character comedians around… Superb' TIM ARTHUR, TIME OUT

**** JULIAN HALL, THE INDEPENDENT