Eastside at the The Free Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2024

Eastside

Laughing Horse Free Festival Venue

Eastside

Fringe Venue 164 - Click here for map

51a George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2HT. Phone: 0131 226 2275

Licensed Air Conditioned

Open from 12:00 to 02:00

No under 5s. Ages 5+ until 6pm, then 18+ only

Three Rooms of Free shows, in a stylish retro venue opposite the Assembly Rooms on George Street. Cool bar, cool drinks and open until late.

This year we have two entry methods: Free & Unticketed or Pay What You Can
Free & Unticketed: Entry to a show is first-come, first served at the venue - just turn up and then donate to the show in the collection at the end.
Pay What You Can: For these shows you can book a ticket to guarantee entry and choose your price from the Fringe Box Office, up to 30 mins before a show. After that all remaining space is free at the venue on a first-come, first-served bases. Donations for walk-ins at the end of the show.

List Shows: By Room and Name | By Start Time

Shows sorted by Venue Room

Karaoke Room

A Slice of ELVIS

Comedy

A Slice of ELVIS

Comedy

Eastside / Karaoke Room

AUG 3-14, 16-27 at 19:30 (60 min) - Free & Unticketed
Book Tickets

“A Slice of ELVIS” Join comedian Mike McAlpine on his fretful, compulsive and hilarious escapades as Elvis Tribute Artist “MIKELVIS”! Mike is a well-travelled journeyman on the international tribute circuit with 30 years of ETA experience. A wealth of passion for the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll but none of the physical likeness provide Mike with plenty opportunity to observe from the festival sidelines and bring you, the viewer, his scathing, heartfelt and comical conclusions. ...

Blake it til you make it

Comedy

Blake it til you make it

Comedy

Eastside / Karaoke Room

AUG 20-27 at 18:15 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £2.50
Book Tickets

A hilarious work in progress from the most exciting new talent on the comedy scene (according to this description), runner-up of the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year Award (this is actually true), and a comic full of 'good mood comedy' (Oxford Comedy Festival) - opposed to all that bad mood comedy. Take a look into the philosophies of life, relationships, and race from a funny man with a degree in Film Studies (got a 2:1 by the way). I'll try and share some knowledge on how to always have a positive outlook on things, even when your whole family are anti-vax, or you go on a date with some...

Gigl Comedy

Comedy

Gigl Comedy

Comedy

Eastside / Karaoke Room

AUG 3-19 at 18:15 (60 min) - Free & Unticketed
Book Tickets

Gigl run some of the best comedy gigs in London, and it’s now time for their Edinburgh debut! Come along and see some of the best, up-and-coming comedians gigging in the UK right now - all for free. Four different comedians will perform each night to bring you an hour of gigls. So what are you waiting for? Come along and see what the fuss is about! “The Gigl collective are some of the best up-and-coming comedians I’ve had the pleasure to work with. Really talented; really interesting; whole bunch of new, brilliant ideas, and you’d be a fool to miss them.” – Dec Munro, co-founder of ...

Jamie Allerton Goes To The Movies

Comedy

Jamie Allerton Goes To The Movies

Comedy

Eastside / Karaoke Room

AUG 3-13, 15-20, 22-27 at 13:15 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £5
Book Tickets

Jamie loves movies. But do the movies love Jamie? In this stand-up comedy show the host of The Best Movie 2 Podcast will explore the tropes and misinformation that cinema has peppered all of our lives with, such as should divorced parents be getting back together during this hurricane? If you've ever been angry at people talking in the cinema, or you know what they call a quarter pounder in France, this is the perfect show to help you vent your frustrations. We take a light hearted look at what the movies have taught us, and if maybe they're teaching us the wrong thing (We're looking at you...

Lizzy Lenco: Full Frontal Lobe

Comedy

Lizzy Lenco: Full Frontal Lobe

Comedy

Eastside / Karaoke Room

AUG 20-27 at 15:45 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £5
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LIZZY LENCO is not right in the head and has the MRI to prove it. This is an honest and hilarious show about coming to terms with disability. Covering important topics such as body image, heavy metal and cake, Full Frontal Lobe pokes fun at the way we react to people with disabilities whilst recognising that no one has a perfect body. “Brilliant comedy, perfect balance between sharing an emotional story with dark comedy and light-humour. Really engaging performer, and loved the singing.” Golden Goose Theatre, Audience Member “Negotiating the stage with multiple broken bones, vis...

Luka Muller: Five Top Smells I Smelled Last Year (WIP)

Comedy

Luka Muller: Five Top Smells I Smelled Last Year (WIP)

Comedy

Eastside / Karaoke Room

AUG 3-27 at 17:00 (50 min) - Free & Unticketed
Book Tickets

The only stand up comedy show at the fringe with jokes, stories & a definitive list of my favourite smells from last year. I'm a comedian from Australia with a decade of experience, you may have seen or heard me on Triple J, the BBC or Channel 9. "★★★★ Personally revealing show... frank and hilarious. Affable and charming. Quality... like jazz" - The Age "Charming, easy going company, marking him out as a comic on the rise" - Chortle "★★★★★ A comedic mastermind, loveable and relatable... a true original" Funny Tonne...

Overthinking It

Comedy

Overthinking It

Comedy

Eastside / Karaoke Room

AUG 4-27 at 14:30 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £2.50
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Ori Halevy, a well known Israeli TV and cinema writer and founder of Epic Comedy Berlin, will split his mind and an hour with the Edinburgh fringe veteran German comedian Francesco Kirchhoff to bring you 2 hours condensed into 1 so you know there will be no dead air or dead Jews....

Sex and Drugs and Getting Old

Comedy

Sex and Drugs and Getting Old

Comedy

Eastside / Karaoke Room

AUG 3-8, 10-19 at 15:45 (50 min) - Free & Unticketed
Book Tickets

Solo debut from established and popular London based comedian. Expect good jokes, funny stories and the odd burst on the harmonica. Andy Zapp literally proves that these days you have to be old to be funny....

The Den

A Collection of Nothing

Comedy

A Collection of Nothing

Comedy

Eastside / The Den

AUG 20-27 at 14:50 (60 min) - Free & Unticketed
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Kayvan Khazaee, Adrian Hanlon and a special guest will entertain you for an hour of stand up comedy. Kayvan Khazaee is a half Iranian, half Geordie who is also partially sighted. With an anecdotal style, he talks about cultural struggles being brought up in the North East, alongside battling life with a rare eye condition. Join Adrian for a good hearty laugh. Adrian is an observational comic with a mixed-race heritage that includes Irish traveller. His everyday comical observations, authentic anecdotes and razor-sharp joke telling rails against class stereotypes with tongue-in-cheek se...

An Irish Work in Progress

Comedy

An Irish Work in Progress

Comedy

Eastside / The Den

AUG 4-13, 15-21, 23-26 at 16:05 (60 min) - Pay What You Can
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Rising Irish comedian Mike Rice is working through some brand-new stories and jokes about cows, the Dali Lama, insomnia and the power of the human mind. Mike has millions of views online and has featured on BBC, RTE, and BBC Radio 1. 'The best new comedian I’ve seen in years' (Karl Spain). '50 minutes of jokes that make you laugh out loud' (EdinburghGuide.com)....

Can You Put This in the Bin For Me?

Comedy

Can You Put This in the Bin For Me?

Comedy

Eastside / The Den

AUG 4-27 at 17:20 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £2.50
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Feeling trashy, come see the best comedians as they work out what material of theirs is good and what should be thrown in the bin, and yes you are encouraged to be vocal about it :)...

Can You Tell Me Where This Is?

Comedy

Can You Tell Me Where This Is?

Comedy

Eastside / The Den

AUG 4-27 at 12:20 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £2.50
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We gathered the top comedians in Edinburgh to go on every night with 15 minutes of their best stuff, every day a different lineup, every day a different show because why see them do an hour when you can save time and see their best 15?...

Dog Dies Under Porch - A Comedy!

Comedy

Dog Dies Under Porch - A Comedy!

Comedy

Eastside / The Den

AUG 16-27 at 13:35 (60 min) - Free & Unticketed
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Follow Bug the dog on a surreal journey of music, dance, hypnotism, & experimental visual effects. This one woman show, written and performed by Becky Cumberland, comments on death, purpose, and both the human and canine need for companionship. Becky Cumberland is a comedian who has performed in NYC at The Annoyance, The Brooklyn Comedy Collective, The P.I.T., & The Magnet Theater and in LA at Elysian Theater & Lyric Hyperion....

Glass Crumpet's Sketch Show

Comedy

Glass Crumpet's Sketch Show

Comedy

Eastside / The Den

AUG 3-19 at 14:50 (60 min) - Free & Unticketed
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From Glass Crumpet, comes an all-new Sketch Show. Founded in 2022, Glass Crumpet is a Manchester-based comedy group with the ethos of making comedy accessible to everyone, regardless of their income, who promote comedy by the working class, for the working class. Returning to the Fringe after making their debut with SalFunni 2022, Glass Crumpet brings laughter, mystery and intrigue with their detective-based Sketch Show. With something for everyone, Glass Crumpet are one not to miss....

I'm Positive!

Comedy

I'm Positive!

Comedy

Eastside / The Den

AUG 3-13 at 13:35 (60 min) - Free & Unticketed
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I'm Positive! is the comical journey of Geena Andrews and her life with an STI. Getting kicked out of sex-ed, first sexual experiences, a big herpes scare at a young age, to the prophecy fulfilled and the denial that came with it, and finally- acceptance. This show is both an educational and a hysterical way to look at our sexual health and our own self worth. ...

Marcus Ryan - The Hitchhikers Guide to Comedy

Comedy

Marcus Ryan - The Hitchhikers Guide to Comedy

Comedy

Eastside / The Den

AUG 3-27 at 18:35 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £5
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20 years - 50 countries - Endless Stories. An international crowd favourite, Marcus Ryan (ABC, Gruen, Project, Nova, WatchMojo, BBC, SiriusXM) is a true 'Vagabond of Comedy' he has sold-out tours on 6 continents & 50 countries, a multiple award-nominated comedian (JFL Montreal, Perth, MICF) & award-winning storyteller (The Moth). He’s snuck into countries & learnt another language all just to tell jokes. An hour of wild true adventures of crime, drugs, sex & near death from a life on the road searching for the meaning of life. Instead he found himself at 42, stuck living with his paren...

The Lounge

A Little Killing Hurts No One

Comedy

A Little Killing Hurts No One