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.

This year Mark's Edinburgh show has the audience coming up with policy
ideas to change the world for the better and at each show a policy is
voted on by the audience to form a manifesto.

Ideas range from
regional legal issues like abolishing 'breach of the peace' in
Scottish common law to the visionary and universal notion of forcing
the government to give everyone the day off work on their birthday !
After 13 shows Mark takes the manifesto to Scotland's politicians in a
public debate. A cross party group of MSPs has agreed to discuss the
policy ideas voted on by Mark's audience to see if there is a way to
make any of these policies become a reality.

Pleasance Beyond FREE, BUT YOU WILL NEED A TICKET. Tickets limited to 4 per person. Unfortunately, we're unable to remove the website booking fee on a performance by performance basis; to avoid the booking fee, please call the Box Office.

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.

STRICTLY NO UNDER 14s. 14-17 YEAR OLDS MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADULT. 14-17'S CANNOT APPROACH THE BAR. 18+ PERMITTED.

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

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

Over The Road venues are located a short walk from the main courtyard on the corner of Roxburgh Place and Drummond Street.

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 15 Aug Arthur Smith, John Hegley, Janey Godley, Lisa Rea, Daniel Sloss, Hattie Hayridge

*Sun 16 Aug Includes Simon Amstell, Lucy Porter, Idiots of Ants and Mickey Flanagan

*Sat 22 Aug Frank Skinner and guests

*Sun 30 Aug Fascinating Aida and musical guests The Tiger Lillies and Camille O'Sullivan

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.

ADVISORY: NO UNDER 12s

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

Rob Castell and Tom Sadler, aka The Bodega Brothers and co-creators of 2008’s hit show ‘Barbershopera’, bring you a set of hot, fresh tunes and fearless social commentary, including MC Stands for Middle Class, Green Party Get Sexy and The Dinosaurs Were Gay. Multi-instrumental, soaring harmonies, ridiculous rhymes.

ADVISORY: NO UNDER 16s

'Sadler and Castell’s songs achieve a tricky balance… a beautifully rendered line instantly followed by an unexpectedly bawdy one. Bravo!' **** CHORTLE

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

Writers’ Guild Award winner Colin Hoult (Zimbani, Colin and Fergus, Al Murray’s Multiple Personality Disorder ITV1) invites you to a truly original tragi-comic character show that will shock, tickle and appall.

'Sheer comic gold' METRO

Pleasance Hut and Baby Grand are located a short walk from the main courtyard on Drummond Street.

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.

ADVISORY: NO UNDER 13s

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

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.

ADVISORY: NO UNDER 16s

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

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

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

Featuring Bristol Revunions, Cambridge Footlights, the Oxford Revue and the Durham Revue.

Jack always wanted to be a real man, like the ones in the audience at Top Gear, but unfortunately he likes Smirnoff Ice and doesn't look good with his shirt off.

'Shoo-in for stardom' EVENING STANDARD

'Sickeningly young wunderkind' TIME OUT

This show is suitable for over 14s only.

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