Comedy

1 Hour to Turn Your Life Around - All Your Problems Solved by Comedians

Comedy

a&o Hostel Bar / Front Room

MAY 4, 7, 28 at 19:00 (60 min) - Pay What You Want tickets from £10

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You have it bad? Not for long and believe us… We’ve seen worse. Bring us your insurmountable secrets. No problem or scenario too complicated, silly or gross for us to take on. We want to solve it for you and we must. Relationships, work, feuds with the local council? This is your moment to have award winning comedians take on your secrets and scenarios to make a fool proof plan which will have you leaving with a new lease on life. Or even ownership if leasing is no longer your thing. They say the best time to plant a tree is yesterday, the second best time is now. We don’t know anythi...

Childrens

101 Ways to Annoy your parents and other really old people!

Childrens

The Walrus / Hideaway

MAY 23-31 at 15:15 (60 min) - Paid tickets from £7

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Title says it all! *Evil laugh*. Don’t worry, I’ll also teach the parents how to annoy their kids as well. From multi award-winning kids comedian Matty Grey. Laugh your guts out of your butthole as he brings the chaos of his mind to the Brighton Fringe Festival. ‘Matty Grey is the master of children’s entertainment and he knocks it out of the park‘ ★★★★★ Advertiser, Adelaide ‘Matty Grey is loud, enthusiastic, and will (mildly) insult your children!’ ★★★★★ PlayAndGo.com.au Winner: Best Kids Show, Adelaide Fringe 2023....

Childrens

A Puppet Zoo Adventure!

Childrens

a&o Hostel Bar / Front Room

MAY 24-31 at 14:00 (50 min) - Paid tickets from £5

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A Puppet Zoo Adventure is a delightful blend of laughter and learning where animals come to life! Join Steph and Layla as they explore the zoo and the animals that need your help! This 45-minute interactive show is perfect for under 10s and involves ventriloquism, magic and a whole lot of laughter! 'Topped off with puppetry, great comedy, and enough energy to jump start a truck' (TheWeeReview.com, 2023)....

Childrens

Adventures: Journey through Dungeons with Dragons

Childrens

a&o Hostel Bar / Front Room

MAY 2, 9, 16, 23, 26, 28, 30 at 12:30 (60 min) - Paid tickets from £7

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Imagine a stage where dragons, wizards, and brave adventurers come alive; not from a script, but through the laughter and creativity of children. Adventures! Is kid-friendly DnD-type improv show where young audiences guide the story, shape the heroes, and even roll the dice to determine what happens next. Every performance is unique: children shout out suggestions, help solve puzzles, and sometimes even hop up to improvise as goblins, fairies, or courageous wizards. With the help of a friendly story master Donal (the comedian behind the Science Magic shows) each quest is as much about giggles ...

Comedy

Ashley Haden: Genocidal Liberal 2, Electric Boogaloo Work in Progress

Comedy

a&o Hostel Bar / Front Room

MAY 28-30 at 21:30 (60 min) - Free and Unticketed

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Every year Ashley Improves. Every year the world gets worse. Coincidence? Yes. Anyway. Ashley Haden is back with a follow up to his favourite title. Ugly comedy for an ugly world....

Comedy

Ask A Stripper: Pulling Back the G-String

Comedy

The Caroline of Brunswick / Upper Lounge

MAY 3-4, 22-24, 28 at 21:30 (60 min) - Pay What You Want tickets from £15

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Ask A Stripper is a comedy show like no other. Real life strippers reveal all in this fiercely feminist and riotously funny Q&A. Ever wanted to know what strippers eat for breakfast? How do they really spend their money? Ever dated a customer? Stacey Clare (author of "The Ethical Stripper") and Sabrina Jade (star of reality TV show "Slagwars") return to Brighton Fringe with their candid humour, razor sharp wit and iconic stage presence. No one does crowd-work like strippers can - from working long hours performing for boozed up punters, there is no heckle they can't shut down. Ask A Stripper l...

Comedy

Charge Your Belly Forward- A Stand-up Show

Comedy

The Temple Bar / Upstairs Temple

MAY 14, 21, 28 at 20:00 (60 min) - Pay What You Want tickets from £0

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Charge Your Belly Forward- A Stand-up Show: U.K. based comedian Will Hitt will be performing a 60 minute stand-up show. This show and material has been worked out over several years at comedy clubs across the U.K. (Top Secret Comedy Club, Backyard Comedy Club, Up the Creek Comedy Club, Komedia) and North America (Laugh Factory and YukYuks) as well as previous Brighton and Edinburgh Fringes and will touch on far-ranging topics such as charity, social media, plane crashes, natural disasters and sexual awakenings and how to turn vulnerabilities into strengths. Will has been performing in the U...

Comedy

CK Nath: "A Bit of Foreign Stuff" (Work in Progress)

Comedy

The Caroline of Brunswick / Upper Lounge

MAY 28 at 20:15 (60 min) - Pay What You Want tickets from £0

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High energy and full of bite! Join CK as she takes you through her life growing up in India, finding herself in the UK and the inevitable culture clash in this work-in-progress show. Blending sharp stand-up, vivid storytelling, and cheeky character work as she channels the conservative Indian mother as easily as a middle class British nanny. CK Nath is a finalist of West End New old Act 2023; So You Think You're Funny? 2022 and Komedia New Comedy Award 2024 semi-finalist and Soho Theatre Labs alumni...

Theatre

ExtraOrdinary

Theatre

The Walrus / Tusk Club

MAY 28 at 21:15 (60 min) - Paid tickets from £8

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Can you ever be Extra if you've only ever been Ordinary? What happens when you've been quiet for so long that you don't even know what your real voice sounds like? Elaine has spent too long being seen and not heard, and sometimes barely that. We meet Elaine stuck in a rut of a toxic relationship, and losing herself in the noise of the world around her. Straight-laced and a sucker for rules, she yearns for something more. Find out what happens when she meets the effervescent Clementine. Can she break familial cycles and ensure she finds her own voice? **Trigger Warnings** menti...

Comedy

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

Comedy

The Walrus / Tusk Club

MAY 1, 3-8, 10-12, 14-15, 17-22, 24-26, 28-29, 31 at 20:00 (60 min) - Tickets £7-£10

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"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...

Childrens

Madame Chandelier's Grand Theft Opera

Childrens

a&o Hostel Bar / Front Room

MAY 28-29 at 15:15 (60 min) - Tickets available soon

When Madame Chandelier’s daughter gets sucked into her video game and is kidnapped by the evil Queen of the Night, there’s only one thing to do – gather opera’s fiercest characters for an epic boss battle. Will Carmen, Tosca, and Madame Butterfly help defeat the ultimate boss, or will all arias lead to death? Fun for the whole family! **** “Expert Timing” The Guardian **** “A true diva... phenomenal. Madame Chandelier could be the ticket that opens up opera to new audiences” Broadway Baby...

Comedy

My Name is Spring Day and Other Stupid Facts

Comedy

The Caroline of Brunswick / Upper Lounge

MAY 28-29 at 19:00 (60 min) - Paid tickets from £5

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Did you know that Eyes Wide Shut is a Christmas movie or that David Bowie’s penis was a once described in an interview as ‘the swinging pendulum of a grandfather clock?’? Watch Live at the Apollo comedian Spring Day prove that not only is truth stranger than fiction, it’s a lot funnier too. A joke heavy storytelling show that perfectly balances the fun with the pathos… It would make a very good movie’★★★★ On the Mic Wow, does Spring Day have an amazing story to tell'★★★★ Beyond The Joke ‘A sharp set with great punchlines’★★a...

Comedy

Nick Elleray: Don't Bring a Smile to a Frown Fight

Comedy

The Walrus / Hideaway

MAY 28-29 at 20:15 (60 min) - Paid tickets from £8

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'Life-affirming', 'wildly physical' and 'apt to induce wonder in the viewer': these are all phrases Nick Elleray has used to describe Cirque de Soleil. Since exploding onto the London comedy scene in the first part of the second decade of the first century of the current millennium, Nick has been seen as a comedian's comedian, a niece's uncle and a landlord's tenant. Many attempt to follow the path he has trod. Most of them succeed (it's actually quite a well-trodden path with clear signs and good facilities). But all agree that the real Nick Elleray experience can't be appreciated without ...

Comedy

RPJ: Role Playing James

Comedy

The Walrus / Tusk Club

MAY 18-22, 25-26, 28-29, 31 at 18:30 (60 min) - Free and Unticketed

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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 role-playing game you may have heard of. 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 y...

Comedy

Snails Of The Unexpected

Comedy

The Walrus / Hideaway

MAY 28-29 at 19:00 (60 min) - Paid tickets from £8

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Chaos Theory have been performing sketch and character comedy for several successful years. The group consists of performer/writers Mykila Durkan, Maria Beadell, Yasser Kayani and Bruce Williams and director/writer Stephen Dinsdale. Between them they have played a puddle in an advert, stripped naked for Danish TV, been the face of British Gas in the Olympics, worked with David Icke, worked with Dario Fo and written for BBC Films, BBC TV, ITV, BBC Radio Four, and London's West End. The performers are all experienced stand up comedians in their own right and perform together as Chaos Theory. The...

Comedy

The Pun Liner Show

Comedy

The Walrus / Hideaway

MAY 27-28 at 12:30 (60 min) - PWYC

MAY 27-28 at 14:00 (60 min) - PWYC

THIS WILL BE UPDATED IN DUE COURSE - for now I want to get the application in before the Fringe Early Bird. A heady mix of comedy, humour, poems, song, jokes, gags, lyrics and wordplay. Served as smooth as you like, provided you don’t like it that smooth. Family friendly. Rude people unfriendly. Age 12+. 'Levity is the soul of Brit' (Shakespeare)....

Comedy

The SMALL Stuff (working title)

Comedy

The Walrus / Hideaway

MAY 28 at 21:30 (60 min) - Tickets available soon

Daniel dissects the minutiae of everyday life. Whether it’s the perils of exchanging pleasantries with an eager-to-SMALL talk new neighbour in the communal hallway of his building, or deciding from the age of eight he couldn’t dance and would need to build a life without dancing, because even if he’d had the required rhythm, the range of extrovert facial expressions and gestures needed to sync with the actual dance moves were beyond him. OR the etiquette of chitchat at the urinal of an adult learning centre if you haven't yet even spoken to a classmate in your evening class who, having posi...

Comedy

Vladimir McTavish: 2026 (Work in Progress)

Comedy

The Temple Bar / Upstairs Temple

MAY 28-31 at 18:45 (60 min) - Pay What You Want tickets from £10

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Following the sell-out success of his 2025 Edinburgh Fringe show "The Last Chance Saloon", Vladimir McTavish returns to Brighton with some "2026 Hits The Fan". Hilarious personal observations and new insights into the state of the world in 2026. "One of the finest acts on the Scottish comedy circuit" (Guardian) "Inspired comedy brilliance" (Australian Stage)...