Check out these six excellent highly recommended shows appearing at this year’s Edfringe: Rosie Jones, Jack Dee, Susie McCabe, Eric Rushton, Lindsey Santoro and Tony Cantwell.
ROSIE JONES – I CAN’T TELL WHAT SHE IS SAYING
Following her hugely successful tour, BAFTA-nominated, self-professed prick and star Rosie Jones brings her acclaimed stand-up show I Can’t Tell What She’s Saying to the Edinburgh Fringe this year. During her month-long run of dates, Rosie will be talking about the big stuff: being single, the pressures of representing huge sections of the population, and gravy. Oh, and boobs!
Rosie said: “I am so excited to be doing a full run at the Edinburgh Festival. It’s my first full run in seven years! I can’t wait to get up there, eat my first kebab from Palmyra, and watch as many comedy shows as humanly possible. Oh yeh, and I can’t wait to perform my show. It is pretty funny if I say so myself.”
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Pleasance Courtyard, Cabaret Bar
5th-30th August (not 17th) at 4pm
Tickets & information:
https://rosiejonescomedy.com/
LINDSEY SANTORO – IT WAS LIKE THAT WHEN I GOT HERE
Lindsey Santoro returns to the Edinburgh Fringe – following the huge success of her Fringe debut which won NextUp’s Biggest Award in Comedy and earned her an Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nomination – with her new show It Was Like That When I Got Here.
Lindsey is back but she’s not learnt anything and things haven’t improved. She’ll take her audiences on another wildly haphazard adventure through her life, tackling the chaos that constantly surrounds her, in a desperate attempt to be a confident woman. Always finding herself surrounded by completely absurd yet relatable situations, Lindsey attempts to work out why she is like this. Is any of it normal and how can she stop dragging people down to her level?
Monkey Barrel Comedy, CabVol2
19th-30th August at 12.05pm
Tickets:
https://www.lindseysantoro.co.uk/
SUSIE McCABE: COMING OF RAGE
Following a sellout and very highly acclaimed run at the King’s Theatre as part of the Glasgow International Comedy Festival – Susie’s brand, new show Coming Of Rage will be at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. The Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow award winner will be back in one of its largest Fringe venues – Assembly’s Gordon Aikman Theatre.
Susie is back and she has more to say than ever. After a health scare at 44 she was on a path to a more stress-free life…. Then her life came crashing down around her, followed by having to show her mum how to live in the modern tech world. All this on top hot flushes and the state of the world today….it’s been some twelve months for Susie, but she is still standing and determined to have her say.
Assembly George Square Theatre, Gordon Aikman Theatre
5th – 30th August at 8.45pm
Tickets:
https://susiemccabe.com/
TONY CANTELL: YOU CRY WEIRD
Fresh from writing and starring in his acclaimed RTE sitcom Good Boy, Ireland’s second-best comedian Tony Cantwell brings his hilarious show You Cry Weird to this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
What makes you cry and what does that say about you?
Tony has cried for some wild reasons over the years. This is his big swing to figure out why! Why did he set a kid’s bike on fire when I was eleven? Why did a compliment about his knob in school make me cry? And why did watching Bluey make him cry harder than any other point in his life?
You Cry Weird is the story of what happens when a grown man bursts into tears on an old treadmill in front of fourteen and a half straight men, and what he discovered when he started therapy the next day.
Jersey at Underbelly, Bristo Square
17th-30th August at 10pm
Tickets:
https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/tony-cantwell-you-cry-weird
ERIC RUSHTON – COULD WELL BE IN
Following Eric’s second UK tour and a highly acclaimed run last year’s Fringe, he brings his brand-new show Could Well Be In to Edinburgh’s Monkey Barrel this August.
This year Eric’s looking at life through the lens of the three D’s – dating, depression and darts. He’ll take us on a recent journey through his life over the past year where he gained not that much and then had it all taken away.
To help work it all out, he’ll ask the big questions: Is it worth putting in so much effort to gain just a little bit more? And What does it really mean to own your own car?
Monkey Barrel Comedy 2
5th – 30th August at 1.55pm
TICKETS:
https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/eric-rushton-could-well-be-in
JACK’S JOKE SHOW
Who doesn’t like jokes? If your answer to that question is “Me!” then steer well clear of this show. Celebrating 40 years in standup comedy, Jack takes us on a memoir of all his favourite old stories. Jokes and funny anecdotes have intrigued Jack for as long as he can remember. Now he has assembled the best of them to form a new show that offers a glimpse of the influences that led him into and helped shape his comedy career.
Firmly established as one of Britain’s biggest and best-loved comedy stars, Jack Dee has captured the imagination of audiences and critics alike with his dry humour and deadpan delivery over the last four decades.
Assembly Rooms, Ballroom
17th-23rd August 2026 at 16.45
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