Fringe
NextUp – the ‘Netflix of UK stand-up’ – is bringing The Biggest Award in Comedy back to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for 2025. And in true Fringe tradition, it’s grown. Again.
That’s right. The trophy now stands at a magnificent 2 metres and 3 centimetres tall - a whole 1cm bigger than last year’s monstrous monument to mirth. Once again, it's not just figuratively big…it's genuinely, inconveniently enormous.
Comedy streaming service NextUp has announced their Edinburgh Fringe streaming line-up
This year’s line-up includes Josh Glanc (Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee), Alison Spittle (Nowhere Fast, BBC Sounds), Andrew O’Neill (pictured, BBC Radio 4, author of A History of Heavy Metal), Diona Doherty (Derry Girls), and the Chortle Comedy Awards.
Whether you’re Fringe FOMO-ing from afar or just want to see what the hype is about, you can stream it all live with a NextUp membership.
Another Edinburgh Fringe venue, Banshee Labyrinth, has dropped a show fronted by Philip Simon, one of the comedians whose runs at Whistlebinkies have been cancelled.
Simon has issued the following on Facebook:
"Following on from the news that my and Aaron Levene’s long running compilation show, Jew-O-Rama, was being cancelled by Whistlebinkies due to concerns over “staff safety”, yesterday I learnt that my solo show, Shall I Compere Thee in a Funny Way? was being dropped by Banshee Labyrinth.
Introducing US stand up Britt Migs, who debuts at this year’s Fringe with her show ‘Dolphin Mode’ at the Underbelly George Square. ‘Dolphin Mode’ premiered last year to a sold-out audience at Caveat in New York and went on to sell out The Second City Blackbox (as part of the New York Comedy Festival) as well as the Knockouts Comedy Festival in March this year.
The Edinburgh Fringe is less than two months away and this week Beyond The Joke kicks off its Edinburgh preview coverage with an interview with Amelia Hamilton, who is making her full-length debut at the Fringe this year. Claiming to be the only female stand-up rap comedian in the UK, her show Forget Me Not is set to an original soundtrack of live rap. Hamilton brings her character blend of wit, charm, and musical talent in this high-energy stand-up hour with “a proper gag in every line”- Chortle.
Seven Dials Playhouse has unveiled the seven companies selected for this year’s 7from7 programme – its flagship artist development initiative delivered in partnership with Pleasance Theatre Trust.
Now in its second year, 7from7 offers tailored support to emerging theatre-makers preparing for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Each chosen company receives free rehearsal space, financial backing and bespoke mentoring as they develop bold new work for the world's biggest arts festival.
Edfest.com‘s new LOVE THE FRINGE DAY on Saturday 2nd August will offer deals and discounts for ticket buyers and performers alike. After a successful launch in 2024, the Love the Fringe initiative from the EdFest.com group of venues is back and bigger than before.
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has launched the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme.
This year’s programme features work from 3,352 shows across 265 venues.
A new website called FringeRat has launched to help people discover comedy acts among the hundreds at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Visitors to the site are shown a short video of a randomly selected act. They can either click “Get tickets” to go to the Fringe website and see details of the act’s show, or click “Scamper on” to see another act.
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