Comedy

VLADIMIR MCTAVISH, BILLY KIRKWOOD, KEARA MURPHY, JAMIE DALGLEISH, ELEANOR MORTON, compere VIV GEE

The high winds in Edinburgh are now easing, with transport and schools expected to be back on a normal footing tomorrow. Bawbag is receding.

FRIDAY FIX - XMAS PARTY featuring Bruce Morton, Michael Redmond, Jay Lafferty, Pearse James, Elaine Devlin.

Vue Cinemas are to screen for one night only 'Lee Evans - Roadrunner - Live At The 02' in 3D as a world first for a stand-up comedian on Sunday 27th November at 69 sites across the UK and Ireland.<

FRIDAY FIX - HORROR SHOW featuring Bethany Black, Damien Crow, Sian Bevan, Special Guest, The Last Battle (live band).The first Fix after the summer.

The Edinburgh International Festival may have come first, but generally it's the Fringe that Edinburgh is best-known for. There's really nothing quite like it - "the largest show on Earth".

The stats bear that out: the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe saw 41,689 performances of 2,542 shows in 258 Fringe venues. It's a sprawling, anarchic, sleepless month of live performances. There were also 607 free shows at the 2011 Fringe.

Born in the Autumn of 2008 Kabarett has become one of Scotland's best known year-round cabaret shows. In 2011 we celebrate our third birthday and have a Twisted Carnival of neo-cabaret delight planned in the finest cabaret joint in town, The Voodoo Rooms (Ballroom) with performance from:

Leah Debrincat / Cherry Loco / Amelie Soleil / The Creative Martyrs / Puff Uproar / Dizzy Godiva & Mr. Elders / The Redettes + Host Dee Itsy

Following another sell-out Fringe season Basil, Sybil & Manuel are back in Edinburgh for 7 shows from Sept 16 to 20.

The Festival of Politics 2011, which runs from 20 - 27 August, presents a diverse programme of events bringing together politics, media and the arts through performance, discussion and debate.

Edinburgh's historic Assembly Rooms venue on George Street has two well-known tenants for next year, including the Fringe, f

The Edinburgh International Film Festival starts a week tomorrow. The EIFF moved from August to June for more "breathing space", but this month's Edinburgh events calendar is still brimming with "festivals" of one kind or another.

As the promoters of the Great Edinburgh Run say, a 5k or 10k jog through the capital is a great way to see the Old and New Towns in all their glory in a fun, energetic fashion. "Make a weekend of it in Scotland's historic capital city," says the web site.

The Leith Festival is a community event for young and old with comedy, music, art, dance and more.

Dom Joly’s career path could hardly be described as uninteresting, and his first live show, ‘Welcome To Wherever I Am’ spends much of its time looking at what Dominic John Romulus Joly got up to over some twenty years in television and other ‘meeja’. Joly is an undeniably engaging performer, and kept his Queen’s Hall audience comfortably in hand (and sometimes in check) for an easy-going two hours or so.

Patrick Monahan, Paul Savage, Phil Buckley, Andrew Learmonth, compere Billy Kirkwood, Live Music from Withered Hand.

Comedians

PATRICK MONAHAN

The Fringe Society, the body that publishes the Fringe programme, has opened nominations for the newly established Participants’ Council. The deadline for submitting nominations is 6 May 2011.

SHAZIA MIRZA, SIMON FIELDER, FERN BRADY, ROBERT PARKER, compere BRATCHY plus RANDAN DISCOTHEQUE live

Comedy

SHAZIA MIRZA

This is an utterly delightful, frequently hilarious, and charming piece of nostalgia that proves to be an auspicious debut from director Richard Ayoade, better known from TV’s "The IT Crowd". It’s a visual and aural treat, beautifully shot and bordering on parody of the nouvelle vague and thoroughly reminiscent of the kind of fashionable imagery decking the pages of 90’s fashion mag The Face.

John Shuttleworth is the flawless fantasy creation of actor Graham Fellows who, back 1978, also created an alter ego of the character Jilted John, giving him a hit and a memorable TOTP appearance.<