Edinburgh Fringe Comedy
Print Interviews
For a full A-Z of interviews with performers at the 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, CLICK HERE
Emmanuel Sonubi
First published in On the Mic - Saturday, July 2nd, 2022Title of Show: Emmanuel Sonubi – Emancipated Venue: Underbelly Bristo Square – Dairy Room Time: 6.10pm Dates: 3rd – 28th August (not 15th) Photograph: Steve Ullathorne Links: Profile and Social Media Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. This year I will be bringing my debut show ‘Emancipated’ to the Fridge. This show looks at my […]
READ HERE
David Epley
First published in On the Mic - Saturday, July 2nd, 2022Performer: David Epley Show: Doktor Kaboom and The Wheel of Science! Venue Pleasance Courtyard – Beyond Time: Noon Dates: 3rd – 21st August Photographer: Fat Yeti Photography Please tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Doktor Kaboom and The Wheel of Science! Doktor Kaboom is a character-driven comedy show wrapped around absurd, but real, science demos […]
READ HERE
Dave Johns
First published in On the Mic - Saturday, July 2nd, 2022Title of Show: Dave Johns: A Comics Tale Venue: Gilded Balloon – Wine Bar Time: 8.45pm Dates: 16th – 28th August Photographer: Andrew Jackson Links: Profile and Social Media Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. This year’s show is the show I’ve always wanted to do since I first went up to the Fringe […]
READ HERE
Conrad Koch
First published in On the Mic - Saturday, July 2nd, 2022Title of Show: Conrad Koch: White Noise Venue: Pleasance Courtyard – Bunker Three Time: 9.45pm Dates: 3rd – 29th August (except 15th) Photograph: Stan Kaplan Links: Profile and Social Media Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh show, White Noise. White Noise is a funny, self reflexive and fiery conversation between myself, a white South African ventriloquist, and […]
READ HERE
Anthony DeVito
First published in On the Mic - Saturday, July 2nd, 2022Title of Show: Anthony DeVito: My Dad Isn’t Danny DeVito Venue: Just The Tonic: Bottle Room @ The Mash House Time: 7.30pm Dates: 4th – 28th August (except 17TH August) Photographer: Mindy Tucker Links: Profile and Social Media In a couple sentences, describe your show. My show is called My Dad Isn’t Danny DeVito. The show is an […]
READ HERE
Anna Clifford
First published in On the Mic - Saturday, July 2nd, 2022Title of Show: Anna Clifford: I See Dead(Ly) People Venue: Gilded Balloon Teviot – Balcony Time: 9.00pm Dates: 3rd – 28th August Links: Profile and Social Media Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, I See Dead(Ly) People Facing an existential crisis, I powered off my phone and dived head first into an […]
READ HERE
Aliya Kanani
First published in On the Mic - Saturday, July 2nd, 2022Title of Show: Aliya Kanani – Where You From, From? Venue: Just the Tonic @ The Tron Time: 7.40pm Dates: 4th – 28th August (except 15th) Photographer: Monica Pronk Links: Profile and Social Media Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. I’ve been having so much fun touring my show on stages around the world […]
READ HERE
Alison Spittle
First published in On the Mic - Saturday, July 2nd, 2022Title of Show: Alison Spittle: Wet Venue: Pleasance Courtyard – Attic Time: 5.15pm Dates: 3rd – 29th August (except 9TH) Photographer: Karla Gowlett Links: Profile and Social Media Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. Wet is a show about my relationship with positivity – body positivity, sex positivity and mental positivity. It’s all a bit […]
READ HERE
Alice Brine
First published in On the Mic - Saturday, July 2nd, 2022Title of Show: Alice Brine: Brinestorm Venue: Gilded Balloon – Turret Time: 4.20pm Dates: 3rd – 28th August (except 16th) Photographer: Links: Profile and Social Media Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. Brinestorm is a collection of my favourite stories, observations and anecdotes. It’s material from the last year or so that […]
READ HERE
Horseplay
First published in On the Mic - Friday, July 1st, 2022Performers: Kathy Maniura and Derek Mitchell Show: Horseplay: Bareback Venue Underbelly Cowgate Time: 10.30pm Dates: 4th to 28th August (not 16th) Photographer: Skye Baker Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Bareback. So Bareback is a very absurd, character driven narrative show set in an afterlife where sex and performance are banned. […]
READ HERE
Arielle Dundas and Rebecca Kaplan
First published in On the Mic - Friday, July 1st, 2022Show: Arielle Dundas and Rebecca Kaplan: Parfait Venue: Laughing Horse @ City Cafe – Hollywood Time: 12.05 am Dates: 4th to 9th August Photograph: Arielle Dundas, Mike from BK (left) / Rebecca Kaplan, JT Anderson (right) Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. Parfait is a half hour of standup from each of us […]
READ HERE
Experiment Human
First published in On the Mic - Friday, July 1st, 2022Show: Experiment Human Venue: Laughing Horse @ Dragonfly Time: 5.45pm Dates: 4th – 28th August (except Mondays) Photographer: Michael O’Reilly Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. It is […]
READ HERE
CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation
First published in On the Mic - Friday, July 1st, 2022Title of Show: CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation Venue: Underbelly Bristo Square – Ermintrude Time: 3.10pm Dates: 5th – 28th August Photographer: Matt Crockett Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation is an improvised murder mystery with a twist. No one knows who the killer […]
READ HERE
Indoor Kids
First published in On the Mic - Friday, July 1st, 2022Performers: Noa Rosenberg and JR Atkinson Show: Indoor Kids Venue: TheSpace @ Surgeon’s Hall Time: 11:10pm Dates: August 22-27 Photographer: Serge Tully Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. Indoor Kids is an original show that blends sketch, stand-up, and musical comedy, ushered forth from the legendary Chicago scene that birthed […]
READ HERE
Harun Musho’d
First published in On the Mic - Friday, July 1st, 2022Title of Show: Harun Musho’d: Why I Don’t Talk to People About Terrorism Venue: PBH’s Free Fringe @ Legends Time: 5.20pm Dates: 6th – 28th August (not Wednesdays) Title of Show: A Political Breakfast Venue: PBH’s Free Fringe @ Natural Food Kafe Time: 9.30am Dates: 6th – 28th August Photographer: Alina Kisina […]
READ HERE
Alex MacKeith
First published in On the Mic - Friday, July 1st, 2022Show: Alex MacKeith: Thanks For Listening Venue Underbelly Bristo Square (Dexter) Time: 2.45pm Dates: 3rd – 28th August (except 15th) Photographer: Karla Gowlett Links: Profile and Social Media Hi Alex! Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Thanks For Listening. Hi! It’s a musical comedy show featuring me and an acoustic guitar. […]
READ HERE
Abigail Rolling
First published in On the Mic - Friday, July 1st, 2022Title of Show: Abigail Rolling: Shit Lawyer Venue: Just the Tonic Nucleus Time: 5.50pm Dates: 4th – 28th August (not 15th) Photographer: Michael P Hood Links: Profile and Social Media Hi Abby. Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Shit Lawyer. Dark. Funny. Underfunded. And that’s just me. The criminal justice system is too. […]
READ HERE
Jenny Bede
First published in On the Mic - Thursday, June 30th, 2022Show: Jenny Bede: The First Pregnant Woman in the World Venue Underbelly Clover Time: 6:55pm Dates: 3rd – 29th August (except 15th) Photographer: Matt Stronge Links: Profile and Social Media Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, The First Pregnant Woman in the World. It’s about experiencing something colossal and life changing that […]
READ HERE
Ania Upstill
First published in On the Mic - Thursday, June 30th, 2022Performer: Ania Upstill Show: Transhumance Venue Laughing Horse @ The Counting House Time: 11:45am Dates: August 4th – 16th Photographer: Luke Neville Links: Profile and Social Media Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. Transhumance is my solo clown show about being a trans person and feeling like neither of the options of […]
READ HERE
Sam See
First published in On the Mic - Thursday, June 30th, 2022Show: Sam See: Government Approved Sex Venue: Laughing Horse @ Counting House, The Attic Time: 7:30pm Dates: 4th to 28th August Photograph: Nicholas Yeo Stylist and Ropework: Nicholas Wong Links: Profile and Social Media Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. I was asked to run a series of panels about love and sex […]
READ HERE
JD Shapiro
First published in On the Mic - Thursday, June 30th, 2022Performer: JD Shapiro Title of Show: I’m With Stupid Venue: Gilded Balloon Teviot Time: 9pm Dates: 3rd – 29th August (not 15th) Links: Profile and Social Media Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. I’m with Stupid are stories me growing up poor In North New Jersey and Hell’s Kitchen- […]
READ HERE
Dalia Malek
First published in On the Mic - Thursday, June 30th, 2022Title of Show: Dalia Malek: Another Castle Venue: Just the Tonic – Mash House (Snifter Room) Time: 3.15pm Dates: 4th-28th August 2022 (not 15th) Photographer: David Korman Links: Profile and Social Media Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Dalia Malek: Another Castle “Another Castle” is a reference to the Super Mario Bros. (1985) Nintendo […]
READ HERE
Cambridge Impronauts
First published in On the Mic - Wednesday, June 29th, 2022Title of Show: The Cambridge Impronauts Present: Keeping Up with the Kimprov Venue: Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose Time: 11pm Dates: 3rd – 28th August Photographer: Becca Tyson Link: Profile Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. The Director, Persephone, has been working with the rest of the Impronauts to create an Improvised show in the […]
READ HERE
Terry Geo
First published in On the Mic - Wednesday, June 29th, 2022Performer: Terry Geo Show: Blink and You’ll Miss It Venue: @theSpace – Symposium Hall Annex Time: 3pm Dates: 5th – 13th August Photographer: Ken Geo Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. Blink and You’ll Miss It is a LGBT+ dark comedy drama, highlighting the wonders and fragility of life. An actor shares hilarious […]
READ HERE
Martin Bearne
First published in On the Mic - Wednesday, June 29th, 2022Performer: Martin Bearne Title of Show: Broken Funnies Venue: Greenside @ Riddles Court Time: 2.55pm Dates: 15th – 27th August (not 21st) Photographer: F and M Media Links: Profile and Social Media Hi Martin. Tell me about your 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Broken Funnies. It’s something different for me this year, it’s a […]
READ HERE