Assembly Festival announces another 90 shows

Jack Dee and Mike Wozniak are heading to the Edinburgh Fringe this year.

They are among more than 90 new shows unveiled by Assembly Festival tonight.

The next official announcement of festival shows is due next Wednesday, featuring everything that has made the early-bird deadline for cheaper registration fees, but larger venues reveal their slates – and put them on sale – in advance.  

Dee will present a memoir show drawing on favourite jokes and anecdotes from his 40-year career, while Wozniak, best known as a star of Man Down and Taskmaster, presents his new show The Bench.

Irish comic David O'Doherty returns with a new hour, while Jason Byrne marks 30 years in stand-up with an anniversary show. Rising names on the bill include Gearoid Farrelly, Grace Mulvey, MC Hammersmith and Robin Grainger.

Anarchic comedy variety and burlesque night Stamptown – which was last year staged at the 750-seat Pleasance Grand – moves to the more intimate 450-seat Spiegeltent in George Square Gardens, designed for cabaret performance.

American actor David Magidoff, who has appeared in Dexter and The Morning Show, makes his Fringe debut with Making Love with David Magidoff, an improvised comedy musical in which he interviews celebrity guests about their real-life love stories before turning them into a musical. Travis singer Fran Healy and comedian Rosie Jones are among the confirmed guests.

Australian comic Scout Boxall brings God's Favourite'to Edinburgh after winning the Pinder Prize at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival last year, and musical comedy Fuccbois, about a fictional boyband, completes the headline acts.

Poet Brian Bilston, sometimes called the poet laureate of Twitter, will also perform a show about reading and writing poetry.

Tickets will be available at assemblyfestival.com from midday.

Published: 27 Mar 2026