This year, amongst the 3000+ shows slated for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023, there’s a healthy contingent of returning acts. Explore our ‘Fringe Favourites‘ series as we shine a spotlight on the best of the returning performers. With our extensive experience and knowledge of the Fringe, theQR presents a definitive guide to the top returning #EdFringe 2023 shows, based on Tweets I made years earlier!
So here are 5 Guaranteed Laugh-Fests at EdFringe 2023
A deservingly big name, but he does the work BEFORE he gets to Edinburgh instead of charging you £20 to see him practice.
Paul Foot – the stuff of Fringe legend. It’s time you stopped being someone who hasn’t seen Paul Foot, because that’s just sad.
Mark Simmons has been crafting tremendous jokes in a PBH dungeon for many years. Strap on an axe and seek him out, I hear the loot’s epic.
I first discovered President Obonjo in 2018 – where he absolutely killed a 10 minute guest slot – to three people! He’s just that good.
I see Daniel every August (in a gig, not a social call). He wears a tracksuit and says things on the cliff-edge of things he shouldn’t, then pushes the audience over that cliff and laughs at them.