F Search Results for all shows On 22/05/2025 on the Laughing Horse at the Brighton Fringe - 2025 website.

Brighton Fringe Shows

Have a look through our selection of shows... we hope we have something you'll want to see in Brighton!


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Listings for 22 May, sorted by Start Time

18:00

2 Comedians Telling Jokes

2 Comedians Telling Jokes

Comedy

2 Comedians Telling Jokes

Comedy

The Walrus / Tusk Club
MAY 22 at 18:30 (60 min) - Pay What You Want Tickets - from £2.50

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A split-bill stand-up show, featuring two of the circuit's most promising rising stars. It's pretty simple. Two of London's top up-and-coming comedians share some of their funniest gags. Vinny Shui (Portsmouth Comedian of the Year 2023) and Callum Mackenzie (Chucklemania Comedy Contest, silver medalist) cover everything from hobnobs to heartbreak, eggplants to existential dread in an hour guaranteed to make your list of fringe highlights. ...


19:00

Best of Brighton Fringe Comedy

Best of Brighton Fringe Comedy

Comedy

Best of Brighton Fringe Comedy

Comedy

a&o Hostel Bar / Meeting Room
MAY 8, 15, 22, 29 at 19:00 (60 min) - Pay What You Want Tickets - from £6

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A revolving line-up of the best comedians from around Brighton and the Fringe in a show filled with hilarity. "A solid comedy show well worth the ticket price" ★★★★1/2 - Fringefeed "The best thigh-slapping, cackling laugh of a time I've ever had. Something for everyone" ★★★★ - Fringefeed "A comedy smorgasbord" ★★★★ (GreatScott.media). "A fine set of comics, who entertained everyone in the room" (Rip It Up). ...


Charis King: Wummy

Charis King: Wummy

Theatre

Charis King: Wummy

Theatre

The Caroline of Brunswick / Upper Lounge
MAY 22 at 19:00 (60 min) - Tickets on sale soon

Character actress Charis King (BBC Radio and BBC iPlayer) is coming to Brighton with her debut character-packed one-woman comedy show ‘Charis King: Wummy’. Wummy is a 31 year old teacher, flat sharing with awful strangers in London. She attempts to break free from her mundane existence by manifesting her dream life as a yummy mummy. After all - “the easiest way to become confident is by gaslighting yourself.” Expect physical theatre, character comedy and laugh out loud moments of improvisation as Wummy transforms her appearance and becomes a social climber who is “looking for a man in finan...


It's about time

It's about time

Comedy

It's about time

Comedy

The Walrus / Hideaway
MAY 18-23 at 19:00 (0 min) - Tickets on sale soon

Rob Speight's new one hour work in progress, “It’s About Time,” brings together the clever, the curious, and the downright strange elements of time. He’s not here to give you a physics lecture, but he is here to make you think about why time never quite works the way you expect. Whether it’s trying to beat the clock or wondering where the last decade went, Rob tackles the absurdity of how we experience time—and how it seems to experience us. This is not about running late, but about the deeper stuff: how history is just a well-edited story written by whoever came out on top, how our memorie...


Alastair Clark: On The Record

Alastair Clark: On The Record

Comedy

Alastair Clark: On The Record

Comedy

The Temple Bar / Upstairs Temple
MAY 22-24 at 19:15 (60 min) - Pay What You Want Tickets - from £8

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High fidelity stand-up comedy. After almost a decade of shifting vinyl in an independent record shop, Alastair brings you a brand new hour about the stark reality of “living the dream”. A show that waxes lyrical about crate digging, needle dropping and arguing with children about Fred Durst. 'Fresh, entertaining, original and funny' The QR. 'An engaging hour' Chortle. 'Genuine talent' The Skinny. 'Heartwarming' Broadway Baby....


20:00

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

Comedy

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

Comedy

The Walrus / Tusk Club
MAY 2, 4-9, 11-16, 18-23, 25-27, 29-30, JUN 1 at 20:00 (60 min) - Buy Tickets from £7

'The Pick of the Fringe' returns to Brighton - an annual selection of the very best in stand-up comedy at the Fringe! This show is a succulent smorgasbord of fantastically funny stand-up comedy headliners, alongside the best in fresh new talent - with four different comics at each show, selected from shows all around the Fringe - every single night of the Fringe! There's something for everyone - for the biggest laughs and best comedy acts, this is the show for you! A sell-out worldwide hit show at festivals globally, including Brighton, Edinburgh, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Hollywood...


Nik Coppin's Spirit

Nik Coppin's Spirit

Comedy

Nik Coppin's Spirit

Comedy

a&o Hostel Bar / Meeting Room
MAY 8, 15, 22, 29 at 20:15 (60 min) - Pay What You Want Tickets - from £0

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Nik Coppin brings another solo with a mixture of banter and hilarious new & established material to the Fringe. Much of the show will consist of anecdotes based around his many experiences as an international globetrotting comedian, as well as his thoughts and feelings about winning the Brighton Spirit of the Fringe Award in 2024, which he received for championing local acts & charitable causes and helping to level the playing field between male and female comedians. All the profits from the show will be donated to the Haven's Community Cars charity, which recently received the King's Aw...


Helen Bauer: Work in Progress

Helen Bauer: Work in Progress

Comedy

Helen Bauer: Work in Progress

Comedy

The Caroline of Brunswick / Upper Lounge
MAY 21-22 at 20:15 (60 min) - Buy Tickets from £6

Helen Bauer has some very messy ideas of her thoughts and feelings on pretty much everything! AND BOY DOES SHE HAVE FEELINGS! Most feelings are surrounding the rules of adult female friendship and a sweet, radiated tortoise called Smooth Sides. Yep that’s right, sounds like a 5 star WIP to me too. As seen on Live at The Apollo and star of ITV2, BBC Three, Dave, Comedy Central and Radio 4....



Chloe Petts - Work-in-Progress

Chloe Petts - Work-in-Progress

Comedy

Chloe Petts - Work-in-Progress

Comedy

The Walrus / Hideaway
MAY 21-22 at 20:15 (60 min) - Tickets on sale soon

Join Chloe Petts (Have I Got News For You, Live at the Apollo, Richard Osman's House of Games) as she tentatively tries out new material for this year's Edinburgh Fringe offering. Expect tales of her dating history that she's never had the guts to share with you guys before. “One of the most compelling young comics” (Brian Logan, The Guardian)...


21:00

RPJ: Role Playing James

RPJ: Role Playing James

Comedy

RPJ: Role Playing James

Comedy

The Walrus / Tusk Club
MAY 19-22 at 21:15 (60 min) - Free and Unticketed (Just show up)

Professional Games Master and comedian James Bennison invites YOU to enter a magical world of his creation in which using the power of imagination, you will be able to fight large fire breathing lizards in subterranean lairs but which for legal reasons is completely different from any other popular roleplaying game that’s out there. Three members of the audience will need to use all their brain power and creativity to embark on a magical quest and save the day, as well as rolling gigantic twenty sided dice in the hopes the number will be high enough to guarantee success. Will you be able t...


Nathan Cassidy: It's Not The End Of The World

Nathan Cassidy: It's Not The End Of The World

Comedy

Nathan Cassidy: It's Not The End Of The World

Comedy

a&o Hostel Bar / Meeting Room
MAY 22 at 21:30 (60 min) - Free and Unticketed (Just show up)

Multi award-winning Nathan Cassidy delivers a compelling, devastating and hilarious stand-up hour full of truth, bite and who knows, a sliver of hope. ‘A master of the genre’ One4Review 2024 ★★★★ When someone has spent your entire life telling you that it’s not the end of the world, what do you do when it is? He's Best Stand-up Winner Brighton Fringe 2022/23, a Leicester Comedy Festival Best Show Nominee with multiple appearances on BBC Radio 5 Live and Times Radio, 4 Specials (3 Amazon Prime, 1 YouTube) and a million downloaded podcast Daily Notes. 'Very funn...


Mark Bittlestone: I Need a Straight Guy*

Mark Bittlestone: I Need a Straight Guy*

Comedy

Mark Bittlestone: I Need a Straight Guy*

Comedy

The Caroline of Brunswick / Upper Lounge
MAY 22 at 21:30 (60 min) - Buy Tickets from £13

*not in a romantic way - you’re all mingers and perves. Maybe you’ve come across one of his charming skits skewering gay stereotypes online? Perhaps you’ve bumped into him swilling back the lagers and chanting at the footie? Or seen him selling his underwear on Grindr and thought “hot AND funny” (and a bargain)! No? Whichever way join IG/Tiktok star Mark (BBC New Comedy Awards shortlist, 100m views) for his hotly anticipated debut hour of standup. “Catch him before he shoots off into the comedy stratosphere” Broadway Baby Mark's debut Edinburgh Fringe stand-up show played to five-star revie...