Comedy

10 Things They Hate About Me

Comedy

The Temple Bar / Upstairs Temple

MAY 22-25 at 18:45 (60 min) - Pay What You Want tickets from £12

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When it comes to relationships, Shinanne is all about the D... disappointment! She's a 40-year-old, single lady on a journey of reflection. Her eggs are hanging on like contestants in Gladiators... even her cultural references are old! The show is a hilarious account of the trials and tribulations of dating in a Tinder reality after growing up in a kissing-in-the-disco world. Inevitably she begins to ask – what's wrong with me? So begins the introspective, somewhat ridiculous and comical list of "red flags" that expose Shinanne's weaknesses in the modern dating era. "She's my favourite Iris...

Comedy

A History Comedy Show

Comedy

The Temple Bar / Upstairs Temple

MAY 9-10 at 15:00 (60 min) - Pay What You Want tickets from £8

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Award-winning comedian and history buff Raul Kohli presents a show where three comedians deliver stand-up sets on their favourite period and place in history and why, or do stand-up as their favourite character from history. So want to see stand-up comedy from Gandhi, Joan of Arc or Osama Bin Laden? Well now's your chance! A great way to laugh, learn and discover which comics you want to see at the Fringe. Hosted by Raul Kohli ***** (Guardian). 'Inspiringly Intelligent' (Paul Sinha, The Chase) 'The Bobby Thompson of our times' (Dan Jackson, author of The Northumbrians) ...

Comedy

Ashley Haden Presents Crosswords

Comedy

The Temple Bar / Upstairs Temple

MAY 30-31 at 13:45 (60 min) - Free and Unticketed

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Crosswords is exactly what is says. Top comedians and the audience do a crossword and laugh. Get together, get the clues and get laughs. Pegasus Compilation show of the year 2024...

Comedy

Ben Pope: Work in Progress

Comedy

The Temple Bar / Upstairs Temple

MAY 19-21 at 21:15 (60 min) - Paid tickets from £6

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Ben Pope ('bags of charisma' **** - Fest) is back to square one. He is tired of his old jokes and he is scared of his new ones. This show will be roughly 60mins of the latter. Come and join him as he stress-tests new stuff: a routine about teeth, some thoughts about Catholicism, plums and escape rooms. Maybe he'll even read some bits of a book he's writing. It's definitely going to be a show for fans of collage, stylistically speaking. A real ransom note of a show. Come see! The UK's print media can't be wrong: 'Pope is superb company' **** - Evening Standard 'Beautifully constr...

Comedy

Brighton Belles

Comedy

The Temple Bar / Upstairs Temple

MAY 2-4, 9-10, 16-17, 23-25, 30-31 at 17:30 (60 min) - Paid tickets from £4

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Following on from its success in 2023, 2024, 2025, this delightful, funny, award-nominated show returns with a revolving line-up of the best established and up-and-coming female comedians from around Brighton and the Fringe....

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...

Cabaret

Dr Mew's Sci-Fi Cabaret

Cabaret

The Temple Bar / Upstairs Temple

MAY 30-31 at 15:00 (60 min) - Pay What You Want tickets from £0

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A sci-fi themed show featuring cabaret acts who love sci fi and see it from a queer friendly perspective. Audience are free to cos-play. Hosted by SJ Wyatt and a cat who used to be an incel man. ...

Theatre

Flesh and Bone

Theatre

The Temple Bar / Upstairs Temple

MAY 26 at 18:45 (60 min) - Tickets available soon

Missing people from the 1960s/70s inter-communal Cypriot conflict are returning as zombies, disrupting borders and creating havoc, but not for Muppet-Joker. He's more concerned about how moving to Cyprus has landed him with emo siblings, Sage and Milton, divided by religious trauma, and their leader, Athena, who thinks she is a vampire spiritually connected to Gerard Way. Combining a real Tumblr drama with the fiery question of how we can move forward from silent tragedies, Flesh and Bone explores the intersection of the internet's hyper-individualist culture alongside collective violence....

Comedy

Flightless Birds

Comedy

The Temple Bar / Upstairs Temple

MAY 2-3, 24-25 at 16:15 (60 min) - Free and Unticketed

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Flightless Birds is a split stand-up bill featuring weird little freak Sammer Elzabali and big little freak Ramsey Smith. Sammer is the tallest guy at the small-guy convention. His subversive style stands out in the conventional crowd. His favorite movie is Surf’s Up. Ramsey does comedy the same way he makes love — into a microphone. His blend of storytelling and observational bits makes him surprisingly smart for a dumb guy — though don’t let that fool you, he’s dumb. He’s a RAW Comedy NSW State Finalist (2024), has performed at Top Secret Comedy, and has opened for Rory Lowe. His favor...

Childrens

Fraser Sums - Discover The Magic Of Maths

Childrens

The Temple Bar / Upstairs Temple

MAY 23 at 12:30 (60 min) - Tickets available soon

Fraser Sums is a MathMagician who combines his love for Maths and Magic to entertain, engage and educate audiences on both Ready to discover the magic of maths?...

Comedy

Full Blown Irish

Comedy

The Temple Bar / Upstairs Temple

MAY 1-4 at 20:00 (60 min) - Pay What You Want tickets from £5

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"What does it mean to be Irish....drunk, hilarious... mentally ill...all the above..Cork vagrant Mark O'K is here to let you know anyone can get infected, it doesn't matter where ya fell out of your mother being Irish is a state of psychosis..drink drugs and sausage rolls, Mark and some of Ireland's "Most wanted" comedians are going to show you just what it means to be "Full Blown Irish " ...

Theatre

Gerry Carroll - Young

Theatre

The Temple Bar / Upstairs Temple

MAY 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 at 12:30 (60 min) - Paid tickets from £4

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An Ordinary Man, A Hero of the Land of the Young. A solo clown odyssey written and performed by Gerry Carroll (age 73 and not slowing down). Long ago, the warrior-poet Oisín rode off with the golden-haired Niamh to Tír na nÓg – the Land of the Young, where time stands still. Three hundred years later he came home... and instantly turned into a wrinkly old man. Gerry has a soul-crushing office job, discovers clown and comedy, and explores what it’s like when you slowly turn into a wrinkly old man. What happens when we leave the Land of the Young? In this joyous and unexpectedly moving hou...

Comedy

Halfway over the Hill: Stories from the over 40

Comedy

The Temple Bar / Upstairs Temple

MAY 31 at 16:15 (60 min) - Free & Unticketed

Expect looking for glasses that are on your head and rants at the internet! Welcome to Half way over the Hill: stories froth over 40s, A show for all! Join 3 Stand-up comedian who are all half way over the hill, all 3 over the age of 40 for jokes and antidotes of what life is like in 2026 for them. Whether you join to laugh at, or to learn what it is like to, grow old(er) expect great tales of the olden days of the 90 and 00s....

Comedy

Hereditary

Comedy

The Temple Bar / Upstairs Temple

MAY 2-4 at 15:00 (60 min) - Pay What You Want tickets from £5

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Hereditary is a stand-up comedy show that dives headfirst into the absurd contradictions of Irish identity, exploring themes of family, generational trauma, alcoholism, sex, and the surreal experience of serving in the Irish Army as a peace-loving hippy. The show blends razor-sharp wit with heartfelt storytelling, using personal anecdotes and observational humor to unpack the paradoxes that shape who we are. Rooted in the tradition of confessional stand-up, the form will be dynamic and conversational, allowing space for improvisation and audience interaction. Set against the broader context of...

Comedy

James Regal - People Pleaser

Comedy

The Temple Bar / Upstairs Temple

MAY 23-25 at 13:45 (60 min) - Pay What You Want tickets from £5

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Can a chronic people pleaser ever get what they really want in life? Wouldn't it just be more fun to be an arsehole to everyone instead? Fresh from a successful run at Edinburgh Fringe, James Regal, recounts a life spent avoiding confrontation - from pretending to understand Spanish, to Covid marriage struggles and a cringeworthy sex club faux pas. Winner of Dov's Best Jewish Joke of the Edinburgh Fringe 2024. 'Sharp and witty' (Michelle Wolf). 'One of the top joke writers we've seen coming out of Europe' (Brian Moses, Roast Battle). 'Loose, raw, and genuinely funny, with stories that ...

Comedy

LJ DA FUNK in... Horny Organic Farmer Lady Shuffle

Comedy

The Temple Bar / Upstairs Temple

MAY 15-16, 22-24, 29-30 at 20:00 (60 min) - Paid tickets from £4

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New Venue. New Time. Same Nonsense! Brighton Fringe legend LJ DA FUNK returns with yet another hour of incomprehensible frivolity. Suitable mainly for weak-spirited aficionados of aggravated pomp. The show may or may not have something to do with the title. At the time of writing it does not. ...

Comedy

Mandeep Singh Presents Singh When You're Winning - A Clown's Journey Through F1 (Work in Progress)

Comedy

The Temple Bar / Upstairs Temple

MAY 10, 17 at 16:15 (60 min) - Pay What You Want tickets from £10

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The silly world of clown meets the thrilling world of F1 in this ridiculous comedy caper. After the success of his last solo show ("rib ticklingly funny " 5* - North West End), Mandeep Singh is back this time setting his sights on reaching the podium in the world's most popular sport. "A brilliantly charismatic comedian...without a doubt one to watch" EdFringe Review ...

Comedy

Mark Row: Every Day's A School Day

Comedy

The Temple Bar / Upstairs Temple

MAY 2-4, 9-10 at 18:45 (60 min) - Free ticketed

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They say that every day's a school day, which is never more true than when you're a teacher stuck in the classroom with no obvious means of escape. Fortunately, Mark Row has discovered that it's not just the kids that can learn something valuable, as he reflects on the lessons he's learned along the way that have kept him out of trouble! Whether it's the good advice he was given by the wise people in his life, or the mistakes that he has realised never should be repeated, there is one thing that always rings true - if you're not learning, you're laughing! Razor sharp, totally original. H...

Comedy

Nerine Skinner: Decisions, Decisions (Work in Progress)

Comedy

The Temple Bar / Upstairs Temple

MAY 8 at 18:45 (60 min) - Paid tickets from £6

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BGT Semi-Finalist, Nerine Skinner, has always been indecisive and needs your help. Ever since she was little making the smallest decision has been tricky and when you have so many ideas, how do you pick what to use? Especially when your mind questions everything! In 2023 Nerine came runner up in the Funny Women Awards and in 2024 took her debut show to Edinburgh, "Nerine Skinner: The Exorcism of Liz Truss" receiving 5-star reviews and a sold out run. Join Nerine in her second work in progress hour as she asks for your help to decide what should be in her show. Stand up, songs and character com...

Comedy

One's Clean, One's Not

Comedy

The Temple Bar / Upstairs Temple

MAY 26 at 20:00 (60 min) - Pay What You Want Tickets - from £5

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Callum Mackenzie is a clean comic. Vinny Shiu is not. This show is both of them, back to back. Two of London's top up-and-coming comedians bring their contrasting styles to the stage. 'One's Clean, One's Not', offers something for every comedy palate. Moving from innocent to indecent, over the course of one hilarious hour. ...

Comedy

Petfood!

Comedy

The Temple Bar / Upstairs Temple

MAY 3-4 at 21:15 (60 min) - Tickets available soon

As seen on Channel 4, Jack McMinn (Musical Comedy Awards 2025 Runnerup) and Absana Rutherford present 'Petfood!', a critically acclaimed hour of sketches, cabaret, music and more! Join us for laughs, tears (from laughing), and some surprises along the way (probably more laughs and tears, realistically). "Left a real impact" - LONDON EVENING STANDARD "Surprised and delighted... Sometimes absurd and never serious" - FUNNY WOMEN "Unique and delightful" - DAILY INFO "A night of fun and frivolity... incredibly talented" - BRIGHTON FRINGE OFFICIAL 2025 ...

Comedy

Ray Fordyce: Quincunx

Comedy

The Temple Bar / Upstairs Temple

MAY 6-10 at 20:00 (60 min) - Free and Unticketed

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Quincunx is Ray Fordyce's favourite word. It means a pattern of five and there are five areas of his life he want's to talk about and how they all connect. From growing up in a rough neighbourhood of Dundee, to student life to being a massive gay-mer, Ray shares it all on stage. ...

Comedy

Rice Guys Finish Last (Work in Progress)

Comedy

The Temple Bar / Upstairs Temple

MAY 6 at 21:15 (60 min) - Free and Unticketed

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MAY 13, 20, 27 at 20:00 (60 min) - Free and Unticketed

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Two comedians: one Chinese (Marco), one Arab-Kenyan (EJ). It might sound like an unlikely pairing, but one thing’s certain – they’ve both had hilarious experiences trying to make sense of the world. Expect charming storytelling, sharp one-liners and self-deprecating humour as they unpack growing up in the 90s, navigating culture, religion, sexuality and their parents. These fast-rising London comics have performed across the country – now they’re teaming up to share their stories side by side in this work in progress show. Is it perfect harmony… or a culture clash waiting to happen? ...

Comedy

Richard Stott: (Title TBC)

Comedy

The Temple Bar / Upstairs Temple

MAY 16 at 18:45 (60 min) - Paid tickets from £5

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Richard Stott (As seen on Comedy Central, ITV2’s Stand Up Sketch Show and BBC 1. Runner up in Dave’s Jokes Of The Fringe 2019, Guardian Jokes of the Fringe 2023) is back with a new show diving into love, masculinity, disability and the awkward journey to maturity. ★★★★ - The Skinny ★★★★ - Three Weeks ★★★★ - Broadway Baby ...

Comedy

Sajeela Kershi - Rebel Without Applause! WIP

Comedy

The Temple Bar / Upstairs Temple

MAY 9, 16, 23, 30 at 16:15 (60 min) - Free and Unticketed

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Multi-award winning comedian/writer/broadcaster (Winner AWA, Argus Angel & Star of Edinburgh Award Best show) returns to Brighton Brighton Fringe with her hilarious new show about our inner Rebel! Whether you're a Rebel with/without a cause, pause or menopause. It's time for ALL the Rebels from Gen X,Y and Zee to unite! Are you ready comrades? Then lets get this S**t Sorted in Solidarity! (Seen/heard/written for various TV/Radio (BBC, C4, ITV, Comedy Central TalkTV & much more) 'Smart, funny with a mischievous glint' (Times) 'Should be made available on prescription' (Skinny)...

Comedy

Sam See: Sam See It, Sam Say It, Sam Sorted (WIP)

Comedy

The Temple Bar / Upstairs Temple

MAY 16-17, 23-24 at 15:00 (60 min) - Pay What You Want tickets from £5

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★★★★★ One4Review ★★★★.5 The Edge ★★★★ Fest Mag ★★★★ The Age After years of unique comedy hours about being illegally gay, sex education, and emotional storytelling, Sam's been told by his agent to do a normal stand-up show. He's been instructed to have no slideshows, no crowdwork, no edu-tainment, and NO HEARTFELT MESSAGES. Just jokes, so that he can be a mainstream TV comedian with viral online clips. Can he do it? Join him as he tries to find out if he can truly be a "successful" stand...

Cabaret

Shelley and Friends Work in Progress Show

Cabaret

The Temple Bar / Upstairs Temple

MAY 6-7 at 18:45 (60 min) - Pay What You Want tickets from £0

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MAY 17-18 at 20:00 (60 min) - Pay What You Want tickets from £0

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She’s an award-winning balloon wizard turned stand-up comedian, inflating laughter one joke at a time. Catch Shelley and friends work-in-progress show — with characters, some tunes sonmuch more, it’s still taking shape, but it won’t leave you deflated! ...

Comedy

STAY AT HOME SON - WIP

Comedy

The Temple Bar / Upstairs Temple

MAY 4 at 16:15 (60 min) - Tickets available soon

MAY 2-3 at 13:45 (60 min) - Tickets available soon

In his new show 'Stay at Home Son', Londoner (boo, hiss) Jonathan dives into the world of messed-up-millennials and resetting the expectations of being a Gay Sugar-Daddy. With his wit, charm, looks and jokes this high-energy stand-up hour is sure to be the massive hit of this years Brighton Fringe. Nominated for no awards, and never a sold-out show - Jonathan is fresh meat. This is a chance to see him before he hits the big time so don't miss out. *Not written by Chat GPT. ...

Comedy

The Goth-father

Comedy

The Temple Bar / Upstairs Temple

MAY 24-27 at 21:15 (60 min) - Paid tickets from £8

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REVENGE IS A DISH BEST SERVED GOTH In 1983, ATHOS DARK created Gothic Rock with his band The Leeds 6, featuring future members of The Cure, The Cult, Sisters of Mercy and Bauhaus. Who all betrayed him. Now, after 40 years in the wasteland, Athos Dark is back. And you are invited to the launch of The Leeds 6’s new greatest album: EXILE. With special guest bass player: CROW MAGGIE So back-comb your hair, apply the purple lipstick and pull up your fishnet tights. Lads, it’s time for mayhem, music and the chicken dance....

Comedy

The Queen, Shakespeare and Me

Comedy

The Temple Bar / Upstairs Temple

MAY 18-21 at 18:45 (60 min) - Paid tickets from £8

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Affectionate musical comedy tribute to a thoroughly modern, fully empowered female role model – a woman who headed up a country & united a commonwealth for over 70 years, earning respect, admiration & affection from around the world. This powerful, colourful lady head of state reflects on her long life and reveals her "all" to her people – her undying love for her corgis, the men in her life, her singlehanded success at forging peace processes, her unexpected, delightful designs for leading the country, with a surprise "coming out" at 96. "Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinit...

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)...

Theatre

Wheel of Failure

Theatre

The Temple Bar / Upstairs Temple

MAY 15 at 18:45 (60 min) - Tickets available soon

A washed-up game-show host’s big break died in a lawsuit, his wife left, his kids hate him, and now he’s clinging to one last shot at redemption. With only his ten-year-old indentured sidekick, Orphan, and a cardboard cutout of his ex-wife, he runs a disastrously homemade game show featuring gems like Whose Drink Is Mine and Wheel of Shit From My House. Created by real-life father/son duo William and Jimmy Kontos, it’s an interactive comedy where no matter how many points you score… it still all adds up to failure. ...