Hundreds of Edinburgh Fringe 2023 shows announced

Big Four put their programmes on sale

The ‘big four’ Edinburgh Fringe venues have today put hundreds of shows on sale for 2023.

It is the second major announcement from the Pleasance, Underbelly, Gilded Balloon and Assembly, with shows going on sale on their own websites before the official Fringe box office release on Thursday.

Here are some of the comedy highlights.

Pleasance

Smack The Pony star Fiona Allen, pictured. is doing her first ever show – On The Run - about family, marriage, and things that truly annoy her.
Andy Parsons is back at the Fringe after 17 years with Bafflingly Optimistic.
Late Night Mash host Rachel Parris presents a work-in-progress hour of stand-up and songs.
Ivo Graham presents Organised Fun, promising quizzes, tangents, and fluster’ ahead of a UK tour
Double Edinburgh Award nominee Darren Harriott presents a new show drawing on his upbringing.
Kieran Hodgson, as seen on Two Doors Down and Channel 4’s Prince Andrew musical, commutes from his new home of Glasgow every day for a month to present Big in Scotland.
Pink Tinge. Skin Pigeon is an hour of characters, comedy, content and costumes from Chortle's Best Newcomer 2023 Lorna Rose Treen.
Janine Harouni is back with Man’oushe exploring her Arab roots, pregnancy, and what happens when your mail order DNA test does not go to plan
Fresh off his HBO Max stand-up special Trash White, produced by Conan O’Brien, Moses Storm makes his Edinburgh debut with Perfect Cult.
Mark Watson returns to consider the search for meaning that we're all on in Search
Comedian and international cheese judge Marcus Brigstocke explains the joy of a fine whine in Cheese and Whine.
Chortle’s frenetic daily showcase, Fast Fringe, is back in a new venue – Queen Dome – at 7pm.
Plus shows from: Simon Brodkin, Ania Magliano, Myra Dubois, Nabil Abdulrashid, Leila Navabi, Annabel Marlow, Bronwyn Sweeney, Daniel Foxx, Dan Jones, Darran Griffiths, John Tothill, Horatio Gould, Lindsey Santoro, Louise Young, Lulu Popplewell, Mary O’Connell, Matty Hutson, Paddy Young, Tadiwa Mahlunge, Benji Waterstones, Mamoun Elagabm William Thompson, Alexandra Haddow, Josh Weller, Freya Parker, André de Freitas, Adrian Bliss, Ikechukwu Ufomadu, Jodie Mitchell, William Stone, Courtney Pauroso, Liz Guterbock, Chloe Radcliffe. Martin Urbano, Huge Davies, Zach Zucker, Flat & the Curves, Josh Jones, Luke Kempner, Max & Ivan, Matt Forde, Rosie Holt, Siân Docksey , Tamsyn Kelly, Aaron Simmonds, Crizards, Jonny Pelham, Pete Heat and Cambridge Footlights.

Gilded Balloon

New York’s Petting Zoo Comedy makes its Fringe debut, where stand-ups attempt to perform while handling exotic creatures - anything from a tiny chinchilla to a giant boa constrictor - while a professional wildlife educator teaches the audience;
There are new shows from Michelle Brasier, Njambi McGrath, Jay Lafferty, Juliette Burton, Susan Riddell and Patrick Monahan.
Debuts include Ciarán Bartlett, Kuan-Wen Huang, Mark Black, Kathy Maniura, Michael Welch and Louise Atksinson.
Robin Ince brings Weapons of Empathy to the Fringe, a new show celebrating the wondrous places books can take us.
RuPaul’s Drag Race favourites Baga Chipz, Victoria Scone and Anita Wigl’it, plus, ‘America's most potty-mouthed and politically outspoken drag quartet’, The Kinsey Sicks.

Underbelly

Britain’s Got Talent winner Jon Courtenay on how sudden fame and lockdown made him go a bit ‘mental’.
Bilal Zafar is back with a show about how his housemate tried to get him arrested five times.
Joe Sutherland returns has seen the success of Gervais, Chappelle and wants a piece of the action. But does a queer, socialist, vaccinated comic, have what it takes to cross over to the dark side?
In ImPerfect, acclaimed American comedian Myq Caplan offers advice to his past self on subjects ranging from traditional marriage to polyamory, quantum mechanics to psychedelics, Moby Dick to Nintendo
The Daily Show's Sophie Zucker presents Sophie Sucks Face a one-woman musical about love, death, and incest.
Clown comic Sigmund the Viking presents a n epic Norse journey into masculinity, myth, sacrifice (personal) and sacrifice (literal).
Former Daily Telegraph music critic Tom GK presents a stand-up show about being diagnosed with a rare genetic disease, neurofibromatosis type-II
Plus shows from Paul Foot, Geoff Norcott, Emmanuel Sonubi, Mitch Benn Sooz Kempner, Alice Fraser, Austentatious, Elliot Steel, Ashley Blaker, Eme Essien, Tom Lawrinson, Stefania Licari, and many more

Assembly

Big names, Clive Anderson and Simon Evans join the previously announced David O’Doherty, Ed Byrne, Frank Skinner, Frankie Boyle, Jason Byrne, Reginald D. Hunter and Susie McCabe.
Fringe debuts from Nurse Georgie Carroll, Joe & Rory, Matt Hutchinson, Dahn Rozario, Dane Simpson, Matt Storer and Lou Wall.
Other stand-up shows from Sian Davies, Chris Grace, Geraldine Hickey, Chris Ken, Stephen Mullan and Anuvab Pal
Character comedy, satire, and sketches with The Briefing with Melissa McGlensey; Japanese comedy kings Jarukaru, Jody Kamali and Grubby Little Mitts. John-Luke Roberts brings back his absurd Cabaret Impedimenta; Jonny & The Baptists celebrate Ten Thankless Years; and Jazz Emu and The Cosmique Perfectión invite you to a concert in their Pleasure Garden.
.Improv from Baby Wants Candy; Georgeprov: An Improvised Theatrical Experience, St. Doctor's Hospital and Shamilton! The Improvised Hip Hop Musical.
And Marcel Lucont presents A Gameshow For Awful Children;