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JAYDE ADAMS 19TH JUNE 19:45 Award-winning comedian Jayde Adams returns with a new show about being popular. Ridiculous in her pursuit of acceptance, Jayde has always found it hard fitting in - and now fitting in is currency.

‘Third funniest woman in the world.

Fact’ - Dawn French

ADAM RICHES 20TH & 27TH JUNE 19:45 Whoa. Momma. The ‘ballsiest audienceinteractor on the Fringe’ (Telegraph) and 2011 Edinburgh Comedy Award winner returns with a brand new hour of rip-roaring faff.

“A triumph of cunningly crafted, high-energy character comedy” ★★★★★ - Time Out

CHRIS BETTS 22ND JUNE 19:45 Betts is back, but he’s got a problem.

What do you do when you can’t trust the law, the elderly or even yourself?

Join him for a hilarious dissemination of human nature, featuring crooked cops and superstitious children.

EVELYN MOK 22ND JUNE 21:00 Featured on BBC 3, Channel 4 and dubbed “The Swedish Amy Schumer”

by Comedy Central, the award winning Swedish comedian Evelyn Mok explores first-generation guilt, intersectionality and adult virginity, in this confident, smart and highly anticipated debut show.

JOSEPH MORPURGO 23RD JUNE 19:45 & 19TH JULY 19:45 Outlandishly funny multimedia comedy and new voodoo from the mind of the Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and three-time Chortle Award winner, featuring surreal setpieces, vivid comic writing, subliminal pulse signals - and monsters.

KIRI PRITCHARD-MCLEAN & GEIN’S FAMILY GIFTSHOP 24TH JUNE 19:45 Kiri Pritchard-McLean: An immoral comedian’s morality tale about other people’s lack of morals.

Gein’s Family Giftshop: A multi award-winning four strong, five-star sketch group who’ll be hawking out yet another hour of ‘fluid and twisted’ (Guardian) sketch comedy.

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JOHN HASTINGS 25TH JUNE 19:45 BBC 3’s John Hastings, the funniest white comedian from Canada, was briefly vegan and is currently in love.

An Amused Moose Comedy Awardnominated comedian, he’s here to confront his fear of confrontation and prove that love starts in the toilet (not that kind, you yucky idiots).

GREAT BRITISH MYSTERIES? 29TH JUNE 19:45 Do you like mysteries? Are you the sort of person who says: ‘I wonder what that was?’. Then this is the show for you. Join Olive Bacon (Supernaturalist) and Dr Teddy Tyrell (Scorpio), in this live mockumentary adventure investigating monsters, myths and Noel Edmonds. Prepare to be mildly unnerved.

STUART LAWS 26TH JUNE 19:45 Stuart has got fast-paced, hilarious observations and he ain’t afraid to say them over the course of an hour. He does all the comedy at Turtle Canyon Comedy and supported James Acaster on tour loads. As heard on BBC Radio 4.

ELLIE TAYLOR 29TH JUNE 21:00 & 30TH JUNE 19:45 Following a sell-out 2016 Fringe and nationwide tour, the star of Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week, The John Bishop Show, 8 Out of 10 Cats and BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show presents an unmissable new hour of stand-up.

RHYS JAMES & ED GAMBLE 28TH JUNE 19:45 Rhys James: As seen on Mock the Week, Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central and Virtually Famous. “Sickeningly talented” ★★★★ - Time Out After a sell-out success in 2016, that gobby little toerag Ed Gamble is back with a brand-new lumbering beast of a comedy show. Off of Mock the Week (BBC Two), Drunk History (Comedy Central), Conan (TBS), Almost Royal (E4), Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central (Comedy Central)

BRENNAN REECE 1ST JULY 19:45 Edinburgh Best Newcomer Nominee (me) and English Comedian of the Year (also me) returns with a ‘powerfully entertaining’ (Chortle.co.uk) show about the stars (in the sky), memories (in the mind) and my Nanna (in a home).

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LLOYD GRIFFITH 1ST JULY 21:00 Inundated: Verb. One: To overwhelm (someone) with things or people to be dealt with, eg, online dating is inundated with vacuous superficial people looking for meaningless interactions based on a photo where you have to look hot. Two: Flood, eg, a man crying his eyes out. A show about overcoming the overwhelming. Star of BBC’s Taxi to Training, Drunk History (Comedy Central) and Soccer AM (Sky Sports 1).

CHRIS TURNER & CAT FM 4TH JULY 19:45 Chris Turner: Award-winning comedian and ‘virtuoso’ (Guardian) freestyle rapper brings his ‘truly masterful gags, crafted with intellectual panache’ (Chortle.co.uk) back across the Atlantic for a fourth solo show.

Cat FM: Radio for cats, by cats.

The world is ending and zombies are everywhere, but hosts Elodie (charming) and Jacques (dumb) have got the tunes, skits, and kibble to see you through. Award-winning comedians and real-life lovers Chris Turner (Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised) and Alice Winn (Adventures of the Improvised Sherlock Holmes) team up for stupidity and sketches, written by cats, about humans.

GIANTS 2ND JULY 19:45 After a sell-out debut show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe last year, Giants return with their sophomore hour. And boy, will it be great? Boy: no.

Join Barney and Will for their unique brand of musically-infused sketch comedy.

TOM LUCY 5TH JULY 19:45

HUB 3RD JULY 20:00 After an amazing Edinburgh Fringe run last year with sell-out shows and five star reviews, HUB is now a monthly feature of the Pleasance London programme, featuring the best acts as they test drive their new material.

Fresh from supporting Jack Whitehall, Rob Beckett and Shappi Khorsandi on sold-out tours, Tom brings his hotly anticipated debut show to the fringe. Tom is one of the youngest professional comedians working in the UK and in 2016 became the youngest ever winner of the prestigious Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year award.

Come and watch Tom show off for an hour in front of (hopefully) his friends.

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TIM KEY 5TH, 6TH & 10TH JULY 21:00 Late at night. Minding his own business. A new blend of poeticals, talking, standing, lights, mics, cables etc. Edinburgh Comedy Award winner years ago.

“He is a genius plain and simple” ★★★★★ - Time Out “This is sublime, busy and evocative work from a man who keeps getting better and better” ★★★★★ - List

6TH JULY 19:45 Nina Conti seeks the help of an unconventional therapist. Wanting to be liked all her life, Nina has sequestered her honest, uncensored and filthiest thoughts into the mouth of her monkey, and the irony now is that people like Monkey more than her. Will Nina find her voice again? Or will Monkey take over? A hilarious, subversive and completely unethical therapy session, improvised daily by Nina Conti and Adam Meggido (Showstopper! The Improvised Musical).

“Devastatingly witty” ★★★★ - Times

KAT BOND 6TH JULY 19:45 Award-winning character comic and critically acclaimed actress (BBC’s Call the Midwife, Sky’s The Greatest, Channel 4 Blaps, BBC Radio 4) Kat Bond has lost her family. They left her in a bin, outside Papa Johns in Luton. She has made a comedy show to find out who, what and where they are. Armed with only a loo roll as a prop, she combines stand-up, characters and clowning to bring her imagined family to life.

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THE DEATH HILARIOUS 8TH JULY 19:45 Bible-black Welsh comedy duo do sketches. They’re not a cult. They inhabit irregular folk: Creole exorcists, apelike weirdos, a homemade sex robot. But they’re not a cult. Forget what you’ve heard on the news. Also, forget your family and friends. Don’t think, honey.

Thought is a bouncer stopping you from getting into the best nightclub ever: The Death Hilarious! Shed your thoughts, pay £1,000 deposit and come bask in their terrible majesty! As heard on BBC Radio 4.

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11TH JULY 19:45 Being a millennial in the modern world is hard. But best friends Jay and Katie have all the answers. Luckily, they’re willing to share their wisdom with you. Over a riotous hour of absurd, grotesque and boldly original sketch comedy, these two idiots will make you good at everything. No refunds.

As seen on ITV2, Michael Stranney (NATY winner, Chortle Best Newcomer nominee, BBC New Comedy Award finalist) presents the debut hour from his character Daniel Duffy.

Daniel invites you to a tourist board presentation for his beloved village of Ballybeg. A surreal, immersive hour packed with warmth and imagination.

JOE SUTHERLAND 9TH JULY 19:45 London.

Paris.

Coventry.

Joe Sutherland started from the bottom, now he’s... here. This is the tale of a former model turned aspiring model, chasing fame at any cost. From the depths of poverty to the heights of the fashion industry, to the middles of a temp agency. Less rags-to-riches, more would-like-to-meet-riches.

PIERRE NOVELLIE 10TH JULY 19:45 Observational comedy for people who think they hate observational comedy, mixed with anecdotes and reasonable whimsy. Roughly an hour of excellent stand-up comedy, this show is for stand-up purists. Pierre was nominated by industry website Chortle.co.uk for the Best Club Comedian award in 2016 and 2017.

ALASDAIR BECKETT-KING

12TH JULY 19:45 The award-winning comedian Alasdair Beckett-King is legendary, in that there is little historical evidence he exists. But he does exist. His debut solo show opens a cabinet of curiosities, tackling the conundrums of impending extinction, archaic axioms, emotional repression and vegan flimflam. Come and see it, please.

Winner Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2017.

GARRETT MILLERICK 12TH JULY 21:00 I’ve just accidentally bought a house in the heart of Brexit country. I’m living an Essex based remake of Kafka’s Metamorphosis. I have become what I once feared most, I have become Jeremy Clarkson.

“It’s a full on set, but brutally funny with it” - Chortle.co.uk

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JENNY BEDE 13TH JULY 19:45 Jenny Bede returns with Eggtime; a one-woman rhapsody featuring sexy beats, massive pants and her biological clock. As seen in Episodes (BBC Two), Josh (BBC Three) and Murder in Successville (BBC Three).

Episodes (BBC Two), Josh (BBC Three) and Murder in Successville (BBC Three).

SISTERS 14TH JULY 19:45 Innovative sketch duo Sisters snake Fringe-wards, clutching their debut hour to their breast.

Sketch Off finalist 2016.

“See them now if you want to witness the birth of something special” - ThreeWeeks

BEN FOGG 15TH JULY 19:45 A once in a lifetime opportunity to see the greatest living comic of every generation. I’ve written a heart-warming, pole-stiffening watermelon of a show. I’m delightful and inspiring, like a hill-top wizard battling a sadness dragon. Like comedy? See it done properly for once.

THE NOT SO LATE SHOW WITH ROSS & JOSH 15TH JULY 21:00 Join your hosts Ross Brierley and Joshua Sadler as they take the late-night chat show to its illogical conclusion. A multimedia extravaganza from the creators of UK Garage Horse Racing.

“The funniest thing in the world” - ComedyCentral.co.uk

RACHEL JACKSON 14TH JULY 21:00 Bunny Boiler is the debut hour from rising star and ever so slightly unhinged comedian Rachel Jackson (BBC Three, Tupperware Party, Scot Squad). Part biopic, part therapy session and fully geared towards hilarity. Neuroses, paranoia and delusions of grandeur form the basis of a show unique in its charm, charisma and honesty. It’s untapped, unfiltered and unadulterated. Feel good, highly absurd and wholly original.

SAMANTHA BAINES 17TH JULY 19:45 Award-winning comedian Samantha Baines (The Crown, Bucket, BBC Radio 4) is exploring the lost women of science.

Expect facts, puns and an ear trumpet attached to a whiskey bottle. It’s science meets funny.

“One of the ones to watch” - The Evening Standard

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TEZ ILYAS 17TH JULY 21:00 Tez Ilyas feels like he’s constantly on trial. It’s time to teztify against all the assumptions the world has of him. Armed with his trademark cheek and uncompromising approach, don’t miss this slick, smart and typically subversive show.

PHOEBE WALSH 19TH JULY 21:00 We’re born alone, we live with weird people we find on Gumtree, we die alone. Phoebe does some lovely jokes about the struggles of living, working and finding true love in this post-truth world. You’ll either relate to what she’s saying or feel glad that you don’t. So, whoever you are, you should come.

RACHEL PARRIS POLICE COPS IN SPACE 18TH JULY 21:00 Fresh from sell-out runs at the Soho Theatre, globally acclaimed, multi award-winning comedy trio The Pretend Men are back in town! Together, they embark on an action packed adventure across the galaxy on a mission to find Earth, uncover the mystic legend of the Police Cops and overthrow FutureTech.

20TH JULY 19:45 Rachel (Austentatious, The IT Crowd, Murder in Successville) has been invited to be a guest speaker at her old school, but what kind of a role model is she really? Through stand-up, character and musical comedy, she explores what messed up message she can possibly offer to impressionable young minds.

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JON POINTING 20TH JULY 21:00 In this much anticipated debut show, Jon Pointing presents Cayden Hunter, an actor who will demonstrate the importance of selflessness and sharing through this (nonparticipatory) workshop.

“Keenly observed and impeccably performed” ★★★★ - Chortle.co.uk

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ANNIE MCGRATH & ED GAMBLE 21ST JULY 19:45 Annie returns to Edinburgh with another one. Annie has written and performed on ITV2, Channel 4, BBC Radio 4 Extra and BBC Radio Wales.

“A real master of deadpan... delightfully dry” - Skinny After a sellout success in 2016, that gobby little toerag Ed Gamble is back with a brand new lumbering beast of a comedy show.

“A master of unlocking the humour in everything” ★★★★ - List

FUNZ AND GAMEZ 23RD JULY 13:00 They’re back! Why? Money. After a failed BBC pilot and numerous nonappearances on TV and radio, Phil’s resurrected the Edinburgh award winning (Panel Prize still counts) cult hit Funz and Gamez in a last ditched attempt to get on TV. Join Bonzo, Jim the Elf and Uncle Mick in a brand new format that Phil’s created, called A comedy panel show. Still full of funz, gamez and prizez for the kidz.

“The antihero of kid’s shows” - Times “delighting both children and (on a rather different level) adults alike” - Telegraph

PHIL ELLIS & ROB AUTON

PHIL ELLIS & GLENN MOORE

22ND JULY 19:45 Soon after winning the Edinburgh panel prize in 2014 for Funz and Gamez, Phil was cryogenically frozen until scientists could find a cure for his rare and non-sexually transmitted disease. That’s definitely the reason you haven’t seen him on TV. “Genuinely, endlessly hilarious” - The Scotsman` Rob Auton: This show is a comedy/ theatre/spoken word show about hair and hairs. This show is suitable for people who have, or have had hair and hairs.

“A genuine original” - Guardian

23RD JULY 19:45 “Paul Ellis’s show was a series of errors” - Broadway baby ”Hilarious throughout” - Telegraph Glenn Moore presents his second ‘relentlessly silly, gag-laden show’ (The List). This time he’s living with his granddad and trying to solve the case of a missing person. As heard on BBC Radio 4 and Radio X. ★★★★ - Herald, List, Edinburgh Festivals Magazine

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MATT FORDE & AHIR SHAH 24TH JULY 19:45 Matt Forde, the UK’s leading political comedian and host of Unspun, presents a show completely changed by events which haven’t yet happened.

“Possibly the best political comedy show on the Fringe.” ★★★★★- Telegraph In an age of global socio-political turmoil, Shah presents a show about freedom, fascism, complacency, complicity, resistance, and milk.

“Burning passion at his fingertips and the gags to back up his fire” ★★★★★ - List

THUNDERBARDS & IAIN STIRLING 26TH JULY 19:45 With a potent combination of heartfelt absurdity, high-concept silliness and sweat-drenched toil, Thünderbards will stop at nothing to make your day great again. Stars of BBC Radio 4’ s ‘ Sketchorama’ . ★★★★ - List, Telegraph, Broadway Baby, ThreeWeeks “Hugely entertaining” - Daily Mail BAFTA-winning comedian Iain Stirling returns after a summer narrating ITV2’s Love Island and five consecutive sell-out runs. A show about how this new world of instant gratification has affected our ability to find long term happiness.

“Provides an intriguing twentysomething perspective on the current state of his nation’” - Guardian

THUNDERBARDS & MATT RICHARDSON 25TH JULY 19:45 Critically-acclaimed sketch duo Thünderbards return to Edinburgh with their 4nd hour of gag-laden comedy, filled with their trademark off-beat jokes, fast-paced sketches and overwhelming politeness.

“Laugh out loud funny” - Scotsman A lot has happened to Matt Richardson since his last tour. A lot of it is quite strange. Most comedians hope to win accolades and make people laugh, very few end up with Heat Magazines Weird Crush trophy. High Wattage Charisma (Guardian) from the hilarious and charming (Mirror) host of Virgin Radio’s Drive-time show.

ED GAMBLE & LEE NELSON 27TH JULY 19:45 Ed Gamble, off of Mock the Week (BBC2), Drunk History (Comedy Central), Conan (TBS), Almost Royal (E4), Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central (Comedy Central), Edinburgh Comedy Fest Live (BBC3), Man Down (C4) as well as countless other things (3 other things).

“Creative and clever humour that leaves the audience in stitches.” ★★★★ - Edinburgh Festivals Magazine Lee Nelson returns with his brand-new, best ever stand-up show. All profits from the show go to Lee. “Comedy legend” - The Sun “You should be ashamed of yourself” - Sepp Blatter

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IAIN STIRLING & MATT RICHARDSON

MATT FORDE & PHIL WANG

28TH JULY 19:45

29TH JULY 19:45 Matt Forde: Ultra-topical comedy as seen on The Royal Variety Performance, Mock the Week, The One Show and Question Time. Now with added Trump.

“A first-class comic” - Guardian “Singlehandedly fulfilling comedy’s brief of taking our political masters to task.

Combining spot-on impressions with up-to-the-minute observations” ★★★★ - Mail on Sunday

Iain Stirling, as seen on Drunk History (Comedy Central) The Nightly Show (ITV) and The Dog Ate My Homework (CBBC).

“Possesses all the born-with-it-oryou’re-not-qualities associated with the world’s leading comics” - List A lot has happened to Matt Richardson since his last tour. From interviewing millionaire dogs in LA, to having his phone nicked by Kate Moss - its been an odd, but fun, few years.

Now Matt can finally tell people about it, as well as talking about everything else on his mind.

Phil Wang is a son of the British Empire.

But in a world suddenly intent on building walls and bolstering borders, what is a Commonwealth man to do?

A blistering new hour of comedy gold – that’ s what.

“Brilliant... His technique is flawless, his observations astute” - Chortle

THIRD WHEEL 29TH & 30TH JULY 15:30 Polly and Eve are driving around the UK with their best mate Dylan in a Wizard of Oz lunchbox. At his funeral, they are handed the box along with posthumous instructions to take him on the trip he never got to go on.

Set to witty Sondheim-esque narration from the onstage band, ‘Party in the Sky’, this is a story about grief, love and facing up to both.

“Quickfire, zinger-filled scripting” ★★★★ - Scotsman “Hilarious...Laughs at every turn” ★★★★ - Sunday Times

PHIL WANG & KIERAN BOYD 30TH JULY 19:45

Phil has been on Have I Got News For You, Live At The Apollo, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and the shortlived but much-loved BBC3 sit-com Top Coppers.

“Certain belly laughs” ★★★★ - Sunday Times Kieran Boyd: A man who sits down to urinate; a coward. A stand-up comedy show about fear, silly words, and wee.

“Wryly funny...engaging and wellexecuted”- Fest “Impressively funny...Terrific material” - Scotsman

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UNDERGROUND Caledonian Road - Piccadilly line (5 minutes walk), Holloway Road Piccadilly line (15 minutes walk).

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OVERGROUND Caledonian Road and Barnsbury (15 minutes walk).

On performance days the Box Office will remain open until the start of the final performance.

TICKETS

Tickets can be collected anytime during Box Office opening hours or posted to you for an additional 50p.

Please note tickets sold are non-refundable and cannot be exchanged. Latecomers may not be admitted. £1 booking fee per ticket, capped at £5.

BUS Bus 393 stops right directly outside the theatre with buses 17, 91, 259 and N91 all stopping at Caledonian Road Underground Station, 5 minutes walk.

PARKING Metered on-street parking is available outside the theatre Mon to Fri 10am 4:30pm with free parking evenings and weekends.

ACCESS

Pleasance Theatre strives to provide access for all. Our Main House is fully accessible via a lift from street level, we have infra-red hearing system in both performance spaces, accessible toilets and Guide Dogs are welcome. Sadly at present our StageSpace does not have step free access. Our aim is to make your visit as enjoyable as possible for further information or to discuss any access requirements please contact the Box Office. access@pleasance.co.uk 020 7609 1800

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