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Some of the best comedy in the Fringe’s first week
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STUART LAWS IS ALL IN Monkey Barrel, 1–25 Aug (not 14), 12.20pm, £5. Stuart Laws reflects on the day his life changed forever when he risked everything in a Vegas poker tournament.
1PM
AHIR SHAH: DOTS Monkey Barrel, 2–25 Aug, 1.45pm, £7–£8. Preview 1 Aug, £5. Nominated for Best Show at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards in 2017 and 2018, Ahir Shah returns to the Fringe with a new hour of thought-provoking stand-up.
2PM
ROB AUTON: THE TIME SHOW Assembly George Square, 2–26 Aug (not 13), 2.50pm, £10–12 (£9–£11). Previews 31 Jul & 1 Aug, £7. Following on from previous shows about hair, sleep, water, faces, the sky, yellow, and talking, Auton now turns his attention to time. The chat about cutting daylight savings has got thinking lots of deep yet funny thoughts about time, and he’s here to share them.
3PM
LOU SANDERS: SAY HELLO TO YOUR NEW STEP-MUMMY Monkey Barrel, 2–25 Aug (not 14), 3.15pm, £8. Preview 1 Aug, £5. Lou overshares, chats about spirituality and gives everyone some much unwanted advice.
SIMON MUNNERY: ALAN PARKER URBAN WARRIOR FAREWELL TOUR The Stand, 2–26 Aug (not 12), 3.20pm, £12 (£10). Preview 1 Aug, £6. Once the most radical, now the only radical. The bedsit anarchist returns with the old gold, the old truths and some new truths (based on the old truths).
RICHARD BROWN: HORROR SHOW (WORK IN PROGRESS) Scottish Comedy Festival at Nightcap, 3–24 Aug (not 12), 3.30pm, £5 (£4). Previews 1 & 2 Aug, £3. Rising Scottish star Brown highlights the connections between terror and laughter as he confronts an ever-changing world.
4pm, £9–£11 (£8–£10). Previews 31 Jul–2 Aug, £8. Glenn Moore follows up last year’s Edinburgh Comedy Award nomination with a new hour of jokes.
GIANTS ARE FJORD Pleasance Courtyard, 3–25 Aug (not 13), 4.30pm, £9.50–£11.50 (£8.50– £10.50). Previews 31 Jul–2 Aug. Iconic Norwegian Eurodance duo Fjörd are back. After a three year ‘sabbatical’, the legendary Scandinavian pop duo are recording a new live album. A new character hour from comedy double act Giants.
OLGA KOCH: IF / THEN Monkey Barrel, 3–25 Aug (not 14), 4.30pm, £7. Previews 1 & 2 Aug, £5. Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee Olga Koch is back. In her feminist investigation into what happens when we can’t separate love and technology, Olga teaches you how to code and explores what happens when our expectations for love, happiness and Michael Bublé no longer compute.
JOHN KEARNS: DOUBLE TAKE AND FADE AWAY Monkey Barrel, 2–24 Aug, 4.45pm, £9. Double Edinburgh Comedy Award- winner presents his fourth show.
GARRETT MILLERICK: SMILE Just the Tonic at The Tron, 1–25 Aug (not 12), 5pm, £7. The critically acclaimed Breakthrough Act 2019 Award nominee returns with a defiant battle cry against the gloom.
MAISIE ADAM: HANG FIRE Gilded Balloon Teviot, 3–26 Aug, 5pm, £10.50–£11.50 (£9.50–£10.50). Previews 31 Jul–2 Aug, £6. 2018 Best Newcomer nominee and Amused Moose National New Comic 2018 winner Maisie Adam returns to Edinburgh with her second hour, working out who is to blame and for what.
5PM
JOHN-LUKE ROBERTS: AFTER ME COMES THE FLOOD (BUT IN FRENCH) DRIP SPLOSH SPLASH DRIP BLUBBP BLUBBP BLUBBPBLUBBPBLUBBP!! Assembly George Square, 2–26 Aug (not 14, 21), 5.30pm, £10–£12 (£9–£11). Previews 31 Jul & 1 Aug, £8. The critically acclaimed idiot returns with a brand-new hour of extraordinary daft-hearted comedy, following a complete sell-out at last year’s Fringe.
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GRACE CAMPBELL As the daughter of New Labour spin doctor Alistair Campbell, she would certainly have had options to enter mainstream party politics. But instead, Grace Campbell co-founded the feminist activism collective Pink Protest and is now launching her Fringe comedy career with a show about a childhood lived along the corridors of power. Gilded Balloon Teviot, 3–26 Aug (not 13), 3.15pm, £10–£11 (£9–£10). Previews 31 Jul–2 Aug, £6.
4PM
GLENN MOORE: LOVE DON’T LIVE HERE GLENNY MOORE Pleasance Courtyard, 3–25 Aug,
SARAH KEYWORTH: PACIFIC Pleasance Courtyard, 3–25 Aug (not 13), 5.45pm, £9–£11 (£8–£10). Previews 31 Jul–2 Aug, £7. Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee
FERN BRADY: POWER AND CHAOS Monkey Barrel, 2–25 Aug (not 12), 6pm, £8–£10. Preview 1 Aug, £6. Following two shows that sold out
and winner of the Herald Angel Award returns with a brand new hour of comedy about the little things. 6PM
through word of mouth alone, Brady is back for another fine hour.
FLO & JOAN: BEFORE THE SCREAMING STARTS Assembly George Square, 3–25 Aug (not 10), 6pm, £12–£13 (£11–£12). Previews 1 & 2 Aug, £8. Following a sell-out run last year, the musical comedy sisters have a new hour of their dark and waggish songs.
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