...and yes, it is only January

In what will be depressing news for comedians trying to get their Edinburgh Fringe shows together, the first offerings for this year’s festival have already gone on sale.

Tickets are already available for German comic Henning Wehn, Irish sketch trio Foil Arms And Hog, The Thinking Drinkers and bawdy late-night line-up show Spank!

Plus more will go on sale at 10am tomorrow, including  Daniel Sloss, Jimeoin and Craig Hill.

Wehn’s  Get On With It, which premiered last Fringe, returns to the Queen’s Hall at 7pm for a full run.

Foil Arms And Hog – real names Sean Finegan, Sean Flanagan and Conor McKenna – present their new show Swines at the Underbelly’s biggest space, the 900-seat McEwan Hall, at 9pm.

The Thinking Drinkers,  Ben McFarland and Tom Sandham,  are back for a ninth year of their booze-based shows, with a look at history’s greatest drinkers in Heroes Of Hooch, at the Underbelly Bristo Square at 8.30pm.

Sloss will be performing just one night of his tour show X - which was also at last year’s Fringe – at the Edinburgh Playhouse on August 15. It’s a full two-and-a-half hour show, including support from  Kai Humphries.

Jimeoin will be performing at his 26th festival, returning to the Pleasance for his new show Ramble On! at 8.40 nightly.

And Hill will at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre – whose programme is put together by Pleasance – with his 21st festival show, Bottoms Up, at 7.20pm.

Also returning is late-night compilation show Spank!, with tickets on sale now, and Chortle's daily Fast Fringe, which will be on sale soon.

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The Pleasance has also confirmed the return of improvised musical Showstoppers and of Paul Merton's Impro Chums, in which the Have I Got News For You regular will be joined by Suki Webster, Richard Vranch, Lee Simpson and Mike McShane.

Assembly will feature David O'Doherty's new show Ultrasound, a full run of Stewart Francis' farewell tour Into The Punset and the return of musical duo Frisky & Mannish after five years with their new show, Poplab.

Published: 30 Jan 2019