Twice BAFTA nominated. Twice Edinburgh Comedy Award nominated. Spencer has the story of moving house from the city to the countryside. Expect some prop-based tomfoolery, chickens rapping over looped songs. visual gags and a very angry cockerell. As also seen on Ted Lasso, Upstart Crow and Live at the Apollo.
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READ MORERoast Battle Edinburgh puts comedians head-to-head in a battle of verbal onslaughts. Not for the faint-hearted, each battler has five roast jokes to defeat their opponent.
READ MOREGather round the campfire to watch some of Scotland's top improvisers create hilarious scenes based on stories from a special guest monologist.
READ MOREJosie Long brings some fun new ideas for a new show about extinction and really big sloths to Monkey Barrel Comedy!
READ MOREThe award-winning comedian Alfie Brown is back with his first show since the fabric of his reality disintegrated.
READ MOREStar of 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Have I Got News For You and QI Kiri Pritchard-McLean is back with a brand new show!
READ MOREWith an astonishing line-up of the finest in alternative comedy, John-Luke Roberts presents a night of ridiculous carousing hosted by the “great poot” Geoffrey Chaucer!
READ MOREJoin Liam Withnail at Monkey Barrel on 14th December as he presents a special one off night of his classic stand up routines from over the years, to be filmed for his debut special!
READ MOREGreece's finest stand up comedian, George Zacharopoulos, bring his show 'The Right Swipe That Ruined My Life' to Monkey Barrel Comedy!
READ MOREJoin Rachel Fairburn at Monkey Barrel Comedy on 21st December as she tries brand new material ahead of her 2025 tour!
READ MORETiff Stevenson tells you why she’d make a good husband. There are also jokes about her actual husband in her new show 'Husband Material' at Monkey Barrel Comedy on 29th December!
READ MOREAlison Spittle returns to Monkey Barrel Comedy on 11th January with a work in progress about misogyny and M&Ms.
READ MORECatch a brand-new wild, fast, funny, and often filthy show from award-winning comic Billy Kirkwood at Monkey Barrel Comedy on 25th January!
READ MOREJin Hao Li walks you through the seascape of his mind in his sell out debut hour at Monkey Barrel Comedy on 25th January!
READ MOREAward-winning comedian Aurie Styla is back on tour, with his biggest one to date, and brings it to Monkey Barrel Comedy on Sunday 26th January!
READ MOREAward-winning comedian and professional poker player Ken Cheng is back on tour and brings his new show to Monkey Barrel Comedy on 29th January!
READ MOREFollowing a hit debut show, The Times – Top 3 Rising Stars of the Fringe is back with a fresh new hour. Catch him at Monkey Barrel Comedy on 1st February!
READ MOREColin Geddis will bring his brand new stand up show G.O.A.T. (GEDDIS ON ANOTHER TOUR) to Monkey Barrel Comedy on Thursday 6th February!
READ MOREMr Chonkers by John Norris is a solo show. A clown show. Absurd. Simple. Outrageous. Stupid. Fun. It’s terrible. An important waste of your time, but it is great.
READ MOREJoe ‘could have been a dancer’ Sutherland is bravely talking about something that, until recently, he’s suffered in silence: being a total hunk!
READ MOREIf happiness is ending up the best version of yourself, Zoe is finally getting there. Join her at Monkey Barrel Comedy as she tells you about it in her brand new show!
READ MOREJoin Chris Cantrill as he wrestles with the consequences of exile, middle-aged friendships and the best way to admit you wear a cape sometimes!
READ MOREFollowing multiple sell-out tours and barnstorming appearances at JFL Montreal and Melbourne ICF, Celya is back to tackle the big three: beauty, money and the void, in her most personal show yet.
READ MOREThe brilliantly offbeat Josh Glanc returns to Monkey Barrel Commedy on 21st February, fresh from a smash hit, sold out Fringe run.
READ MOREYou ever been so loved up you had to hit yourself over the head with a hammer to calm down? A second show has hit Paddy Young, and this time he's yearning.
READ MOREJoin Justin Moorhouse for the 'Greatest Performance Of My Life'... a poignant exploration of comedy intertwined with the essence of life's ups and downs.
READ MOREScottish Comedy Award winner Gary Meikle will bring his Neurospicy tour to Monkey Barrel Comedy on Wednesday 26th February!
READ MORERachel Fairburn is set to perform for the first-time ever a unique blend of brand-new stand-up and the best bits of her debut character comedy hour when she brings Side Eye to Monkey Barrell Comedy!
READ MOREAfter sell out shows at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2023 and 2024, Alexandra Haddow brings her UK debut tour across the UK in 2025, with a date at Monkey Barrel Comedy on 1st March!
READ MOREAhir Shah presents his award-winning stand-up show “Ends” at Monkey Barrel Comedy on 6th March!
READ MOREDon't miss an hour of laughs and self-analysis from one of Scottish comedy's rising stars, when Stuart McPherson brings his show Horse to Monkey Barrell!
READ MORESimon Evans skilfully weaves comedy, pathos and narrowly averted cancellation into an unforgettable two hours of unique entertainment.
READ MOREDon't miss this double-award nominated sophomore stand-up hour from Chelsea Birkby at Monkey Barrel Comedy!
READ MOREJoin Micky Overman at Monkey Barrel Comedy on 14th March as she desperately fights against her old coping mechanisms, whilst contemplating love, the art of gift giving and Ozzy Osbourne!
READ MORECritically acclaimed comedian Jamali Maddix is back on the road with a brand new tour show: Aston, and brings it to Monkey Barrel Comedy in March.
READ MOREWhat would you do if you became a millionaire overnight? Stand-up comedian and rising star from Belfast, William Thompson will answer this question in his brand-new tour show!
READ MOREEdinburgh Comedy Award nominee Catherine Bohart brings her hit show Again, With Feelings to Monkey Barrel Comedy!
READ MOREAcclaimed stand up Kemah Bob takes their unmissable, critically acclaimed debut stand-up show on tour after a sell-out Fringe run and stops off at Monkey Barrel Comedy on Sunday 30th March!
READ MOREWhat has quickly became an annual tradition, Carl Hutchinson is back for a third consecutive back-to-back tour with a date at Monkey Barrel Comedy on Thursday 3rd April.
READ MOREThe critically-acclaimed John Tothill brings his fantastic new show on his debut UK tour to Monkey Barrel Comedy on 5th April.
READ MORERobin Grainger brings his new show Refurb to Monkey Barrel comedy on Friday 11th April.
READ MOREFreshly minted viral superstar Patrick Spicer is hitting the road for his first-ever tour of the UK, Ireland, and mainland Europe. Catch him at Monkey Barrel comedy on April 18th!
READ MOREMC Hammersmith returns to Monkey Barrel Comedy for another evening of improvised comedy raps based entirely on your suggestions!
READ MOREScottish Comedian of the Year winner and host of the Some Laugh podcast, Marc Jennings returns to Monkey Barrel Comedy on 1st May with his new show!
READ MOREFollowing his sell-out debut show, viral sensation Horatio Gould brings his much-anticipated show, Return of the Space Cowboy, to Monkey Barrel on Saturday 3rd May!
READ MOREIt's time for Ed Night to sling a microphone over his shoulder and start hopping on boxcars bound for every corner of this dusty old isle to tour his new stand-up comedy show, The Plunge.
READ MORERob Copland brings his show 'Gimme (One With Everything)', a high-octane extravaganza of clowning and stand-up, to Monkey Barrel Comedy on Sunday 18th May!
READ MORECome and see Stephen Buchanan work out his new show for the Edinburgh Fringe for half the price.
READ MOREThe first ever comedy show performed entirely by a horse. Made by award-winning Elf Lyons, performed by Treacle.
READ MOREStand up sensation and social media star Kae Kurd returns with his highly anticipated brand new tour: What’s O’Kurd. Catch him at Monkey Barrel Comedy in October 2025!
READ MOREComedian Thomas Green is taking new show Brainstorm across the UK in 2025 with a date at Monkey Barrel Comedy on Saturday 3rd October!
READ MOREScotland's silliest surgeon, Dr. Bonk, is back with his hit SELL-OUT SHOW 'Dr Bonk's Macarbaret', an evening of drag, burlesque, music, comedy, and medical mayhem!
READ MOREMarvel as resident duo Stu & Garry weave comedy magic from your suggestions in our long-running improvised show.
READ MORELet your hair down at the end of the week with fabulous Friday fun at The Stand Comedy Club Edinburgh!
READ MOREJoin us at The Stand Comedy Club Edinburgh for a mixed-bill five act show every Saturday!
READ MORETalk about doing what it says on the tin! Here you go a carload of simply the best comics on the contemporary Scottish circuit.
READ MOREFrom the utterly sublime to the unapologetically ridiculous, Monkey Barrel Comedy presents a night of comedy at the cliff's edge of surreal humour.
READ MORESusan Morrison, host of BBC Radio Scotland's 'Time Travels', will take you through some of Scotland's seediest, skankiest and scandalous history. And the funniest.
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