dundee fringe 2022

 

 

Dundee Fringe brings comedy, theatre, music, workshops, events, cabaret and variety, and children's theatre to the heart of Dundee from 12th - 21st September 2025.
 

Launched in 2021 with a ten-day festival at our pop-up venue, the city's newest arts festival returns this year!

 

Dundee Fringe 2024

  • COMEDY
    Fri 12 September 2025 - Sat 13 September 2025

    Wizard of Orkney

    15:50 (60mins)

    The Wizard of Orkney showcase.

    Dorothy wants to get the megabus back to Kirkwall with her winged monkey, but she can't afford it. The Wizard runs a standup contest and a bus ticket is the winning prize....
  • COMEDY
    Fri 12 September 2025

    It Just So Happened

    16:30 (60mins)

    Three guest comedians / history buffs perform short stand-up sets based ‘on this day’ in history before exploring some possible alternative histories of Dundee people and events. With local comedians and...
  • COMEDY
    Fri 12 September 2025

    Tattoo Dave: ‘Tat’s Life’

    17:20 (55mins)

    Tattoo Dave pulls back the curtain on life as a tattooist, comedian, husband, and father, and on being the fourth funniest person at home. He’s delighted to being his sold out Glasgow International Comedy...
  • COMEDY
    Fri 12 September 2025 - Sat 13 September 2025

    Nik Coppin's Comedy World

    18:30 (60mins)

    The fun, affable and inimitable British comedian returns to the Fringe with a show consisting of hilarious anecdotes, observations and humourous banter based around his many travels around the planet.

    "Fast ...
  • COMEDY
    Fri 12 September 2025

    Richard Pulsford: The Short Joke Teller Returns

    18:50 (55mins)

    A show packed full of quality one-liners, wordplay and puns.

    UK Pun Championships Winner 2022.

    Scottish Comedian of the Year runner-up 2021.

    ...

  • COMEDY
    Fri 12 September 2025 - Sat 20 September 2025

    Imaginary Porno Charades

    22:00 (60mins)

    An hour of unstoppable panel show mayhem. You'll be glad they can last that long!

    Featuring teams of performers from across Dundee, all of them...

  • COMEDY
    Sat 13 September 2025 - Sun 14 September 2025

    Nick It For Munich

    14:20 (60mins)

    Nick it for Munich is a wild, heart-driven comedy about chasing dreams against all odds. Jamie, with nothing but a Scotland top, fights to get to Euro 2024 in Munich. No ticket, no plan, and everything to prove....
  • COMEDY
    Sat 13 September 2025 - Sun 14 September 2025

    Leslie Bloom: No More Murders in the Village

    18:00 (60mins)

    With your help, Leslie solved a murder. A most perplexing murder indeed. Now, as the national spotlight fades, we are whisked back to Toddlingham to meet fresh characters and hear new stories, as silly as ever. Sit...
  • COMEDY
    Sat 13 September 2025

    Comedy Quines

    19:00 (50mins)

    They’re funny, furious and not men!

    Bringing together the best of Dundee’s non-male comedy scene, a triple bill of talent. Hosted by Julia Knight, award-winning comedy song...

  • COMEDY
    Sun 14 September 2025

    Ye Gods!

    15:00 (60mins)

    Difficult personalities in charge? Impossible set of rules? Unbelievable back stories? Religions can be hard to fathom and even harder to follow. In this fun, light-hearted improvised show we will create a new (and...
  • COMEDY
    Sun 14 September 2025

    Excel Comedy and Mathem-antics

    17:20 (60mins)

    Themed stand-up comedy show for spreadsheet experts and rookies alike delivered by a true piece of sheet. Learn a few Excel tricks sprinkled amongst the jokes from pun-loving Excel YouTuber and Jewish math addict...
  • COMEDY
    Sun 14 September 2025

    Scott Redmond: Poetic Comedian

    18:50 (60mins)

    Scott Redmond is an internationally headlining comedian, who loves being weird. Weird you need Dadaism to justify. See him do an hour of weird characters, strange voices, and absolute top tier jokes ...
  • COMEDY
    Sun 14 September 2025

    Fernando: Attacked By A Slightly Larger-Than-Average Pigeon

    20:20 (60mins)

    Over a decade ago, Fernando was hailed as “one to keep an eye on” but then disaster struck: he was attacked by a slightly-larger-than-average pigeon and forced into a long time away from the stage due to...
  • COMEDY
    Sun 14 September 2025 - Mon 15 September 2025

    Dundee's Silly and Strange

    20:30 (60mins)

    Anyone who has lived in Dundee knows that it has a habit of collecting very strange and wonderful people. This year at the Dundee fringe join some of the funniest voices this city has to offer for an hour of the...
  • COMEDY
    Mon 15 September 2025 - Tue 16 September 2025

    Silly, Billy, Jilly

    16:10 (45mins)

    Georgia Dunn is a Comedian and Performance Artist. 'No, Jilly!' mixes the forms of mock lecture parodies and stand up comedy. Comedy characters Bella F. Ashley (a communist academic) and Dane Sawdust (a creative...
  • COMEDY
    Mon 15 September 2025

    400 Second Nerd Talks

    17:20 (60mins)

    Three people will give short talks about their nerdy passion, the catch? Each has 20 slides exactly and each slide moves automatically after 20 seconds (Petcha Kutcha style). A fourth talk will be comedians...
  • COMEDY
    Mon 15 September 2025

    Ryan Cullen - Cullen Them Softly

    20:20 (60mins)

    If Milton Jones is the Obi-Wan Kenobi of one-liners, then Ryan Cullen is Darth Vader. Not many comedians can write a gag that elicits a gasp, laughter, then cheers followed by applause from an audience, it’s...
  • COMEDY
    Mon 15 September 2025 - Tue 16 September 2025

    For Your Entertainment

    21:00 (60mins)

    Get ready to laugh for a cause! For Your Entertainment brings five top comedians together for one unforgettable night of comedy, all in support of the Scottish Huntington’s Association. Join us for big laughs,...
  • COMEDY
    Tue 16 September 2025

    Ray Fordyce: Quincunx

    18:50 (60mins)

    Quincunx is Ray Fordyce's favourite word. It means a pattern of five and there are five areas of his life he want's to talk about and how they all connect.
  • COMEDY
    Tue 16 September 2025

    Onboarding

    20:30 (60mins)

    Four plucky interns are all that remains from the numerous rounds of interviews, but there’s only two spots left. They must now split into two teams and show off their skills to impress the CEO and secure their...
  • COMEDY
    Thu 18 September 2025

    Stevie Wicks and Toilet Turmoil

    16:20 (30mins)

    Musician and Comedian Stevie Wicks takes you on a journey through his medical history and his bowel (honestly, he talks a lot of ….. well, you know). There will be (bad) singing and talking about Crohn’s...
  • COMEDY
    Thu 18 September 2025

    Richard Pulsford: Yorkshire Mum, Immigrant Dad

    18:50 (55mins)

    Multi-award-winning stand-up comedian Richard Pulsford takes a nostalgic tour into his parents’ past to try to understand how it made them who they were, and therefore the person who he is. With a dad from...
  • COMEDY
    Thu 18 September 2025

    Chris Beattie: Regeneration Game

    20:20 (45mins)

    Doctor Who looms large in Chris Beattie's life. More than he'd prefer, frankly. In this laugh-out-loud, and surprisingly intimate show, Chris unpacks tales of life, love, and loss through the lens of that gloriously...
  • COMEDY
    Fri 19 September 2025

    Judie Boom's LOOK BUSY

    15:50 (45mins)

    When the robots have taken our jobs, what on EARTH will we do with our time?

    In this solo interactive comedy, Judie fires her confetti-cannon of a brain at AI, automation, and the future of work. Through a...
  • COMEDY
    Fri 19 September 2025 - Sat 20 September 2025

    Diceblitz: A Double D&D Adventure

    20:30 (60mins)

    In the city of Keiller's Rest, competition is fierce. When two parties take on the same quest, will they work together, or sabotage each other at every turn? One story, from different perspectives, across two live,...
  • COMEDY
    Sat 20 September 2025 - Sun 21 September 2025

    Around The World in 80 Puns

    14:20 (60mins)

    Embrace the international aspect of comedy as Iain MacDonald takes you on a pun-venture around the world in which he has a joke for each and every country. You tell him the country – he'll tell you the joke!
  • COMEDY
    Sat 20 September 2025

    Dinner with President Obonjo

    15:50 (50mins)

    President Obonjo has got a whole country in stitches as he attends his first State Visit to the UK.
  • COMEDY
    Sat 20 September 2025

    Harun Musho'd: A History Of The Last Conservative Government, In Their Own Stupid Words

    20:20 (60mins)

    Harun Musho’d reads from the memoirs of David Cameron, Theresa May, Liz Truss, Nadine Dorries, Matt Hancock and Boris Johnson, so you don’t have to. He will fact check them. You laugh. That’s the...
  • COMEDY
    Sun 21 September 2025

    Craig Wilson: Who?

    20:20 (60mins)

    Craig Wilson is the most forgettable man in the world.

    After sell out festival shows in 2023 and 2024, people can’t stop talking about ‘that guy at the weekend who was a...