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Comedy Events in Edinburgh in January 2025

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Events in Edinburgh

The Comedy Cellar at Canon’s Gait

5th September 2024 - 27th July 2025

Get ready for a rib-tickling night of laughter with "The Good, The Bad and The Irish," as we have the craic every Thursday to Sunday, hosted by the hilarious Michael Porter!

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The Best of Scottish Comedy

Selected dates between 12th September 2024 - 30th January 2025

Talk about doing what it says on the tin! Here you go a carload of simply the best comics on the contemporary Scottish circuit.

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Showtime @ The Comedy Attic

25th October 2024 - 20th December 2025

Join us for Showtime at The Comedy Attic every Friday and Saturday for the best comedy this glorious city of Edinburgh has to offer!

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The Saturday Show The Early Show!

Selected dates between 30th November 2024 - 31st May 2025

Join us at the Stand Comedy Club Edinburgh for a mixed-bill act show!

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Cab-arette Showtour

1st December 2024 - 30th March 2025
Various Locations Edinburgh

Enjoy a unique comedy musical Showtour in a taxi... be driven around Edinburgh, whilst entertained by Lola and her variety of characters!

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Edinburgh’s Christmas: Swamplesque

5th December 2024 - 4th January 2025

After taking Australia by storm and smashing box office records at Edinburgh Fringe 2024, Swamplesque, everyone's favourite ogre-inspired burlesque and drag parody, returns to celebrate Christmas!

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Dr. Bonk’s Macarbaret

Selected dates between 21st December 2024 - 15th March 2025

Scotland'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!

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Stand Up Horror

Selected dates between 21st December 2024 - 15th March 2025

Actor, writer and tour guide Alex Staniforth invents a horror story every night. You decide what the characters do, find and sometimes - yes sometimes - even love!

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The Best of Scottish Comedy - Hogmanay Specials

27th December 2024 - 2nd January 2025

Talk about doing what it says on the tin! The Stand's flagship contemporary Scottish comedy show returns for Hogmanay!

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Alison Spittle: high value woman WIP

11th January 2025

Alison Spittle returns to Monkey Barrel Comedy on 11th January with a work in progress about misogyny and M&Ms.

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Tony Law: The Law Also Rises

12th January 2025

Multi award-winning super loon Tony Law returns to the Stand Edinburgh with a new show of nonsense and absurdity.

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Colin Hoult: Colin

14th January 2025

The 2022 Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee heads back out on tour. This time as himself, Colin!

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Kathy Maniura: The London Cycling Man (WIP)

15th January 2025

Award winning character comedian Kathy Maniura brings this work in progress show about an obnoxious London Cycling Man to Monkey Barrel Comedy on Wednesday 15th January!

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Kunal Kamra - Live in Edinburgh

16th January 2025

Kunal is known for his new thoughts & off beat comedy style and he brings it to Monkey Barrel Comedy on Thursday, 16th January!

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Clown Extravaganza

17th January 2025 - 17th January 2026

Catch Phil O'Shea and friends perform ridiculous, experimental clown and comedy in the Banshee Labyrinth Cinema Room on Friday 17th January!

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Craig Hill: I’ve Been Sitting On This For A While!

17th January 2025 - 18th January 2025

Don’t miss this unfiltered and hilarious evening with Scotland’s favourite high octane Kilty Pleasure as Craig Hill brings his new show to the Howden Park Centre!

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Krystal Evans: A Star is Burnt (WIP)

17th January 2025

Krystal is back with a brand new hour of stand up about the horrors of working in restaurants, being married to a chef, having kids, and finding comedy.

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Bruce Fummey - Scotland Built The World WIP

19th January 2025

Scotland’s hysterical, historical tour guide is back with a work in progress show. Catch him at The Stand, Edinburgh on 19th January!

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Marcel Lucont’s Whine List

21st January 2025

The multi-award-deserving deadpan Frenchman returns with his acclaimed interactive show, in which he serves up a unique Whine List from the audience’s past woes and misdemeanours.

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Rachel Galvo: The Shite Feminist

23rd January 2025

Comedian, actress, singer and writer, Rachel Galvo brings her raunchy one woman show, The Shite Feminist, to Monkey Barrel Comedy on Thursday 23rd January!

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Billy Kirkwood: Silly (WIP)

25th January 2025

Catch a brand-new wild, fast, funny, and often filthy show from award-winning comic Billy Kirkwood at Monkey Barrel Comedy on 25th January!

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Jin Hao Li: Swimming in a Submarine

25th January 2025

Jin Hao Li walks you through the seascape of his mind in his sell out debut hour at Monkey Barrel Comedy on 25th January!

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Aurie Styla: The Aurator Tour

26th January 2025

Award-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!

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Tony Carroll - Think I’m Ars*d 2025 Tour

28th January 2025

Get ready for an evening of chaos, laughter, and a party atmosphere when Tony Carroll brings his Think I'm Ars*d Tour to The Stand Edinburgh!

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Ken Cheng: The Big Brain Show for People with 3,000 IQ - CANCELLED

29th January 2025

Award-winning comedian and professional poker player Ken Cheng is back on tour and brings his new show to Monkey Barrel Comedy on 29th January!

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Late Night Comedy Rave

31st January 2025

Adam Flood brings an experimental night of electronic music and live comedy to Monkey Barrel after hyped sellout shows at Edinburgh Fringe!

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Comedy Events in East Renfrewshire

Here's a selection of Comedy Events you can find over on our sister site, What's On East Renfrewshire:

Catch Your Breath: The Secret Life of a Sleepless Anaesthetist

Catch Your Breath: The Secret Life of a Sleepless Anaesthetist

31st January 2025

NHS anaesthetist, comedian and author Ed Patrick injects Giffnock with a gut-punch hilarious show about becoming a junior doctor, the NHS and the pitfalls of modern medicine!

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Okomedy - Clarkston Comedy

Okomedy - Clarkston Comedy

26th January 2025

Enjoy a night of comedy from some of Scotland's favourite comedians at Okomedy in Clarkston on Sunday 26th January featuring Susie McCabe!

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Comedy Events in Fife

Here's a selection of Comedy Events you can find over on our sister site, What's On Fife:

Craig Hill: I’ve Been Sitting On This For A While!

Craig Hill: I’ve Been Sitting On This For A While!

25th January 2025

Don’t miss this unfiltered and hilarious evening with Scotland’s favourite high octane Kilty Pleasure as Craig Hill brings his new show to the Adam Smith Theatre in January!

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Comedy Events in Glasgow

Here's a selection of Comedy Events you can find over on our sister site, What's On Glasgow:

Aurie Styla: The Aurator Tour

Aurie Styla: The Aurator Tour

26th January 2025

After a year of performing worldwide, award-winning comedian Aurie Styla is back on tour, with his biggest one to date! He'll bring The Aurator Tour back to The Stand Glasgow on January 26th!

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Tony Carroll - Think I’m Ars*d 2025 Tour

Tony Carroll - Think I’m Ars*d 2025 Tour

27th January 2025

Get ready for an evening of chaos, laughter, and a party atmosphere when Tony Carroll brings his Think I'm Ars*d Tour to The Stand Glasgow!

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Tony Law - The Law Also Rises

Tony Law - The Law Also Rises

13th January 2025

Multi award-winning super loon Tony Law returns to The Stand Glasgow with a new show of nonsense and absurdity!

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Comedy Events in Lanarkshire

Here's a selection of Comedy Events you can find over on our sister site, What's On Lanarkshire:

Singin’ I’m No A Billy He’s A Tim

Singin’ I’m No A Billy He’s A Tim

Selected dates between 31st January 2025 - 22nd February 2025

Des Dillon's smash hit comedy, Singing I'm No A Billy He's A Tim, comes to Airdrie Town Hall as part of it's 20th Anniversary tour!

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Bring It On Events Presents Billy Kirkwood, Mick Murphy, Scott Forbes & Rob Kane

Bring It On Events Presents Billy Kirkwood, Mick Murphy, Scott Forbes & Rob Kane

10th January 2025

Five-time Scottish Comedy Award winner Billy Kirkwood is joined by top Scottish comedians Mick Murphy, Scott Forbes and Rob Kane for a night of comedy at Cumbernauld Theatre on Friday 10th January!

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Comedy Events in Renfrewshire and Inverclyde

Comedy Events in Stirling

Here's a selection of Comedy Events you can find over on our sister site, What's On Stirling:

Connor Burns - 1994

Connor Burns - 1994

30th January 2025

From one of the most exciting emerging new stars in the UK's live stand-up scene, 1994 is Edinburgh native Connor Burns third solo hour, don't miss him live at the Tolbooth Stirling!

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Stirling Ghostwalk

Stirling Ghostwalk

6th December 2024 - 27th December 2025

Join Stirling Old Town's most grumblesome Ghoul, the Happy Hangman, Jock Rankin, on a creepy, comic guided ghostwalk!

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Events in Other Areas

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Popular Events

Christmas at the Botanics
Explore the sights and sounds of Christmas in this magical after dark experience when it returns to the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh!
Edinburgh’s Christmas: The Polar Ice Bar
Take some time to ‘chill’ at the Polar Ice Bar, the coolest bar in the city, where your table, chairs and glasses are sculpted entirely from ice.
Jonny & The Baptists: The Happiness Index
Jonny & The Baptists bring The Happiness Index to the Traverse Theatre... a new personal and political show about our desire, and the country's struggle, to just be happy.
Cinderella
Join returning panto favourites Allan Stewart, Grant Stott and Jordan Young with a new magical pantomime for all the family at the Festival Theatre!
Castle Of Light
Enjoy the Defender of the Nation illuminated in a spectacular after-dark trail when Castle of Light returns with an all-new show for its fifth year at Edinburgh Castle!

Popular Listings

Corn Exchange Haddington Edinburgh Playhouse Festival Theatre Edinburgh Howden Park Centre Livingston Kings Theatre Edinburgh National Museum of Scotland O2 Academy Edinburgh The Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh Traverse Theatre Usher Hall