Edinburgh Fringe 2025 comedy reviews
All we saw at this year's festival
All our reviews from the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe:
Ayoade Bamgboye: Swings and Roundabouts
Dan Rath: Tropical Depression *
Joz Norris: You Wait. Time Passes.
Ada and Bron: The Origin of Love
Dan Tiernan: All In
Ian Smith: Foot Spa Half Empty
Luke McQueen: Comedian's Comedian
The Mayor and His Daughter: A Genuine Appreciation of Comedy
Sam Nicoresti: Baby Doomer
Toussaint Douglass: Accessible Pigeon Material
Alan Davies: Think Ahead
Alice Cockayne: Licensed. Professional. Trained. Qualified
Amy Annette: Busy Body
Amy Mason: Behold!
Bebe Cave: Christbride
Brett Blake: Little Scallywag *
Cat Cohen: Broad Strokes
Christopher Macarthur-Boyd: Howling At The Moon
Daisy Doris May: Big Night Out
Danny Ward: The Holiday
David Elms Describes A Room
The Day My Sugar Daddy Dumped Me
DeliaDelia! The Flat-Chested Witch!
Devin Gray: May Divorce Be With You
Emma Holland: Don't Touch My Trinkets *
Funz And Gamez Rebootz
Josie Long: Now Is The Time Of Monsters
Gianmarco Soresi: The Drama King Tour
Grace Helbig: Let Me Get This Off My Chest
Hasan Al-Habib: Death to the West (Midlands)
Jack Barry: Let's Get Barried
Jake Roche: Neporrhoids!
Jamie Lee: My Friend Katy
Jazz Emu: The Pleasure Is All Yours
Jessica Barton: Dirty Work *
Joe Kent-Walters is Frankie Monroe: DEAD!! (Good Fun Time)
John Tothill: This Must Be Heaven
Kate Dolan: The Critic *
Laura Davis: Despair Is Beneath Us *
Lorna Rose Treen: 24 Hour Diner People
Lou Wall: Breaking The Fifth Wall *
Lucy Pearman: Lunartic
Mark Vigeant: The Best Man Show
Matt Forde: Defying Calamity
Molly McGuinness: Slob
Ozzy Algar: Speed Queen
Pat Cahill presents St Julian's Social Club
Pierre Novellie: You Sit There, I’ll Stand Here
Rachel Galvo: The Shite Feminist
Robyn Reynolds - What Doesn't Kill You *
Rory Marshall: Pathetic Little Characters
Roger O'Sullivan: Fekken
Rosa Garland: Primal Bog
Rosco McClelland: How Could Hell Be Any Worse?
Slugs
Two Hearts: Don’t Stop Throbbing *
99 Red Balloons In A Trench Coat
Abby Howells: Welcome To My Dream *
Aidan Jones: Chopin's Nocturne *
Alex Mitchell: Tough
Ali Brice Presents Eric Meat Gets the Chop
Anna Hale: Control Freak
Behemoth: Enter The Cupboard
Bella Hull: Doctors Hate Her
Ben Pope: The Cut
Bennett Arron: I Regret This Already
Carl Donnelly: Another Round
Derek Mitchell: Goblin [2025]
Desiree Burch: The Golden Wrath
Dru Cripps: Juicy Bits
Dylan Adler: Haus of Dy-lan
Ed Night: Your Old Mucker
Eric Rushton: Innkeeper
The Electric Head
Eli Matthewson: Night Terror
Foxdog Studios: Robo Bingo 2.0
Gareth Mutch: Maybe Tomorrow
Gobby Girls: The 11 Percent Club
Guy Williams: If You Mildly Criticise Me I’ll Say It’s Cancel Culture And Turn To The Alt Right *
Helen Bauer: Bless Her
Holly Spillar: Tall Child
Holy Shit Improv
I Am Claire Parry (Very Funny Stand-Up)
Jain Edwards: She-Devil
Jamie D'Souza: Brownie
Jamie MacDonald: Toxic Bastard
Jess Carrivick: For Your Consideration
Jess Robinson: Your Song
Jessica Aszkenasy: Titclown
Jessica Fostekew: Iconic Breath
Joe Tracini: Ten Things I Hate About Me
John Shuttleworth: Raise The Oof
Johnny White Really-Really: am/pm
Katie Norris: Go West, Old Maid
Lachlan Werner: WonderTwunk
Liam Withnail: Big Strong Boy
Lulu Popplewell: Love Love
Mad Ron Presents: Identity Theft
Marise Gaughan: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Marjolein Robertson: Lein
Max Fulham: Full of Ham
Old God
Oliver Coleman: The Ballad of Oliver Coleman *
Pat Rascal: Space Gravy
Pear: Phobia
Phil Ellis: Soppy Stern
Prashasti Singh: Divine Feminine
Ray O'Leary: Laughter? I Hardly Know Her! *
Reuben Solo: Someone in This Crowd Will Betray Me
Rob Auton: Can (An Hour-Long Story)
Saaniya Abbas: Hellarious
Siblings: Dreamweavers
Simple Town
Smack The Pony
Stephen Catling: Moving On... Really, Really Slowly
Stuart McPherson: Crisps And A Lie Down
Susan Harrison: Should I Still Be Doing This?
Takashi Wakasugi: Comedy Samurai *
Tamsyn Kelly: Hot Titty Bungalow
Tape Face: 20
Thor Stenhaug: One Night Stand Baby
Tiff Stevenson: Post-Coital
Tony Law: Law and DisOrganizeder
Zoë Coombs Marr The Splash Zone *
Alex Stringer: Happy Hour
Amelia Hamilton: Forget Me Not
Andrew Doherty: Sad Gay AIDS Play
Andrew O’Neill: Escape
Andrew Watts: Love Tory
Andy Barr: The Hotly Anticipated 4th Debut Hour from Rising Star, Andy Barr
Caitriona Dowden: Dance Like Everyone's Dancing
Caroline McEvoy: Train Man
Christian Dart: Gumshoe!
Couplet: Honey Honey Moon Moon
Ed Mulvey: Pregnant Gollum
Edy Hurst's Wonderful Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Himself
Glenn Moore: Please Sir, Glenn I Have Some Moore
Heidi Regan: Jekyll and Heidi
Jacob Nussey: Primed
James Trickey: Don't Count On Me
Jena Friedman: Motherf*cker
Jessica Durand: Over The Top
Jessie Nixon: Don't Make Me Regret This
Jo Caulfield: Bad Mood Rising
Joe Sutherland: Miss World
Kate Owens: Cooking With Kathryn
Leeds Tealights: Never Not Forever
Les Keen: The Man Who Invented A Catchphrase
Liam Tulley: Baldilocks
Liz Guterbock: Nice
Michelle Wolf
The Oblivion Boys with Gayle Tuesday
Paul Campbell: The Lost Tapes of Somerfield
Robin Grainger: People Pleaser
Rosie O'Donnell: Common Knowledge
Sam Jay: We The People
Sam Michael: The World’s Oldest Man
Seaton Smith: Trauma Bonding
Shalaka Kurup: Get A Grip
Sharon Wanjohi: In the House
Sketch Show Bingo!
Sooz Kempner Is Ugly
Sophie Garrad: Poor Little Rich Girl
Ted Milligan: United
Thanyia Moore: August
Tom Rosenthal: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I Am
Urooj Ashfaq: How to Be a Baddie
Will Rowland: Sunshine by Candlelight
Alice-India: See You In Hell
Ben Goldsmith: CrimeLandTown
Britt Migs: Dolphin Mode
Cabbage the Clown: Cinemadrome
Comedy Arcade [2025]
David's One-Man Band (F*ck You, Steven)
Deage Paxton: Inappropriate
Dean Coughlin: Oblivious Sausage
Dusty Creases: Dance Your Life Away
Hot Concrete: Too Hot (and Too Concretey) For TV
Jenny Ryan: Björn Yesterday
Joe Sib: California Calling
Just The Two of Us!
KC Shornima: Detachment Style
Laser Kiwi: Everybody Knows
Lily Blumkin: Nice Try
Loser Lion Party Bus
Luke Connell: Bloody Marvellous
Nate Kitch: Something Different!!!!!
Paul Merryck: Ambulance for One
Pedro Leandro: Soft Animal
Rodney Black: Who Cares? It’s Working
Sam Williams: Touch Me Not
Su Mi: Thismotherphucker
Theo Mason Wood: Legalise Kissing
Will & Noah: Too Much Time On Their Phones
The Britpop Hour with Marc Burrows
Durham Revue: Sketch Marks The Spot
Finlay and Joe: Pretend It's Fine
Fistymania!
Holly Gow: How Can(t) I Help?
Nick Hornedo: Watch This When You Get Home
A Night of Drama
Samantha Day: The Great British Menu (Of Petty Complaints)
Tim Reeves: Give This A Miss
Douglas Widick: Paperclip
Narin Oz: Inner Child(ish)
Michael Welch: All Rizz, No Filter
Star rating not relevant
Chortle Student Comedy Award Final 2025
Reuben Solo: Someone in This Crowd Will Betray Me
So You Think You’re Funny? 2025 grand final
* = seen earlier this year, most commonly at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Published: 26 Aug 2025
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