Thurs 21, Fri 22, Sat 23 & Sun 24 - Thurs 28, Fri 29 & Sat 30 @ 8pm

previewing the best stand up & comedy at the 2011 Edinburgh Festival
Thursday 21 July 8pm
AL STICK "Dry ingenious gags set him apart as one to watch." - chortle.co.uk
STEVE HALL At Least You'll Get Some Good Material Out of This "The most intelligent stand-up you've never heard of" (GQ).
Friday 22 July 8pm
CATIE WILKINS A Chip Off The Odd Block
RICHARD HERRING What is Love, Anyway? "Stimulating and exhilarating….Utterly hilarious" ***** Chortle
Saturday 23 July 8pm
JEN BRISTER BBC New Comedy Award semi-finalist
JIGSAW
DAN ANTOPOLSKI (Triple Perrier Nominee, Dave Award Winner 2009, "Hilarious, imaginative and wonderfully cheap." Independent) joins forces with TOM CRAINE(Times Top Five 2010, "Wise, funny and lyrical" Observer
and NAT LUURTSEMA (Chortle Newcomer Nominee 2008), "Disgustingly talented" Guardian
Sunday 24 July 8pm
KERRY GODLIMAN The comedy wonder of Godliman has been in hot demand. Star of ‘Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow’,
ANDY ZALTZMAN A deserved festival staple...Andy Zaltzman brings forth another mighty barrage of stand ups The List
Thursday 28 July 8pm
NAZ OSMANOGLU "Naz is a hard gigging, high performance comedy machine." The Sun
RICHARD SANDLING "Expect Big laughs" The Guardian
Friday 29 July 8pm
Jimmy McGhie and Wittank
JIMMY McGHIE
Artificial Intelligence
Jimmy returns to the festival after two critically acclaimed years with more thoughtful, character-rich, anecdotal stand-up.
For anyone who's ever been in a conversation with someone smarter and couldn't quite busk it.
Jimmy shares his wealth of experience in a show about pretending to be cleverer than you are.
'See him now before you have to queue round the 02' - The Scotsman 'Real soul and panache' - Chortle
WIT TANK
Big characters, inventive sketches and fast-paced fun for those who enjoy a riot but would rather sit in a theatre and laugh.
Hotly tipped as ones to watch for the future, come and be charmed by three men who take silly very seriously.
Hurry, this is important.
"A roundly successful slab of high-octance/highbrow character comedy...a formidable sketch troupe" **** The List
'WitTank are going places' **** Metro "There are probably more original and fresh ideas
in the first ten minutes of Wit Tank than many sketch shows fit into an entire hour" **** Chortle
Saturday 30 July 8pm
Hari Kondabolu and Tom Allen
HARI KONDABOLU
Hari is a comedian and writer based in New York City. According to the Seattle Times, Hari is "a young man reaching
for the hand-scalding torch of confrontational comics like Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor."
In the UK, he has appeared on BBC 3's Russell Howard's Good News EXTRA
and will be making his Edinburgh Fringe Festival debut this summer at Comedy Zone.
TOM ALLEN
Edinburgh regular and star of BBC's Sony award winning Bleak Expectations.
"one of the funniest acts on the circuit GQ Magazine "Lively, charismatic...the cream of the crop" Time Out

tickets £9 (£7)

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