Anesti Danelis is an award winning comedian, musician, writer, and filmmaker from Canada whose work has been featured on VICE, People Magazine, AV Club, Daily Mail UK, Extra TV and other radio and TV shows across the globe. He has an hour-long musical comedy special streaming worldwide on Next Up Comedy, has taped multiple television sets for CBC as part of the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, and has been heard on CBC radio's Laugh Out Loud. His comedic videos consistently go viral, raking in over 400...
Aug 26, 2024•41 min
As seen on Live at the Apollo, Liam Farrelly is a Scottish Comedian of the Year Award winner. He started performing stand-up aged 17 whilst still in High School and immediately went into comedy full-time after graduating. A meteoric rise through the ranks has seen him nominated for and winning a raft of awards including So You Think You’re Funny? Runner Up, Best Newcomer nominee Scottish Comedy Awards and Best Breakthrough Act nominee Scottish Comedy Awards. He’s had a guest acting role on BBC S...
Aug 25, 2024•39 min
Archie Henderson is an award-winning writer, actor, musician, and creator of viral comedy character Jazz Emu, whose videos and songs have garnered over 50 million streams. He was named as the 26th out of 50 funniest comedians of the 21st Century by The Telegraph. His musical character comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2022 (Jazz Emu: You Shouldn’t Have), was included on The Telegraph’s “Top Shows To See At The Edinburgh Fringe”, and the British Comedy Guide’s “Best Reviewed Shows At The Edi...
Aug 22, 2024•43 min
Eric Rushton won the prestigious 'Leicester Mercury Comedian of The Year' award in 2020 - an award that was previously won by the likes of Romesh Ranganathan, Jason Manford and Jonny Vegas on their way to stardom. Before that he was a Chortle Student finalist in 2016 and So You Think You're Funny? finalist 2017. He is a regular performer at the UK's biggest comedy clubs and festivals. Since his comedy debut in 2014, Eric Rushton has been mixing with the best newcomers on the comedy scene, and im...
Aug 20, 2024•39 min
Sumukhi Suresh is an award-winning writer, showrunner and stand-up comedian from India. She created, wrote and starred in two seasons of Pushpavalli, an Amazon Prime original series, which won various awards, including Best Actress at the 2020 Filmfare OTT Awards and Istanbul Film Awards. Sumukhi has created and starred in productions for various streaming platforms, including Beauty and the Feast on Disney+, Lust Stories and Comedy Premium League for Netflix Hum Doh Teen Chaar for Amazon MiniTV...
Aug 18, 2024•50 min
Elvis McGonagall is a stand-up poet, comedian and broadcaster. Two series of his sitcom “Elvis McGonagall Takes A Look On The Bright Side” have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 where he appears regularly as well as popping up occasionally on the television. Elvis is the 2006 World Poetry Slam Champion, the compere of The Blue Suede Sporran Club and performs at literary and music festivals, comedy and cabaret clubs, pubs and dodgy dives up and down the country and abroad, including appearances at: E...
Aug 15, 2024•42 min
Mustafa Algiyadi is a stand-up comedian, originally from Lybia, who now lives in Germany. He is the co-founder of the first weekly and longest running English Stand Up Comedy Club in Munich and performs all over the world, including at this years Edinburgh Festival where he’ll be performing his show Almost Legal Alien throughout August, a show about how he longs to be part of the European way of life but is confronted with some cultural differences that make it confusing, chaotic and sometimes h...
Aug 13, 2024•41 min
Mumbai based stand up comedian, Rahul Subramanian, is one of India’s most versatile comics who has, in a very short time, garnered a huge global following with over 900k followers on Instagram. He has Amazon Prime specials including releasing India's first crowd work special - Rahul Talks To People, and performs sell out shows across the world. But he’s never been to Edinburgh before. He is performing his new show, Who Are You? at the Assembly Rooms Rahul Subramanian is guest number 415 on My Ti...
Aug 11, 2024•45 min
Juliet Cowan is an actor and comedian who is returning to Edinburgh 25 years after beating Jimmy Carr, Russell Howard and Andy Zaltzman in the '99 final of So You Think You're Funny?. As an actor she recently played Amy Winehouse’s mum in the biographical film, Back to Black. She guest-starred in over 20 episodes of The Bill and starred in "The Wench Is Dead", the penultimate episode of the Inspector Morse series. She played Nicki in This Life, Carla in The Queen's Nose, air stewardess Polly Arn...
Aug 08, 2024•42 min
Chelsea Birkby's highly-acclaimed debut comedy hour No More Mr Nice Chelsea won Best Debut at the Amused Moose Awards, was nominated for Best Show at the Comedian's Choice Awards, was listed in the funniest jokes of the fringe in The Times and The Telegraph and transferred for a sell-out run at London's Soho Theatre. She is a regular at many of the UK's top comedy clubs and theatres and has performed in New York and Paris. She has written for several series of BBC's Mock The Week and her writing...
Aug 06, 2024•1 hr 5 min
Reginald D. Hunter is a comedian who’s TV appearances have included Never Mind The Buzzcocks, 8 out of 10 Cats, Live at the Apollo, QI and Have I Got News For You? He also filmed two series of the BBC2’s hugely popular Reginald D Hunter’s Songs Of The South & Songs of The Border, documenting his epic road trip through 150 years of American popular song.He reached the final of So You Think You Are Funny in 1998 during his first visit to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and was nominated for The ...
Aug 04, 2024•40 min
Our Edinburgh Month continues with Alexis Gay - a New York-based stand-up comedian, viral video comedian and former tech employee and is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe to perform her first full solo show, Unprofessional, about working in tech. Alexis has accrued many thousands of followers for her short comedy videos on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, which she writes and directs herself . Alexis Gay is guest number 411 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things ...
Aug 01, 2024•45 min
Mumbai-based Anirban Dasgupta is a stand-up comedian and screenwriter with a distinct comedic style. A former corporate salesman, Anirban has performed extensively in India and across the world including the prestigious Just For Laughs in Montreal and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. His first stand-up special Take It Easy was released on Amazon Prime Video to wide acclaim, as was Afsos, the dark comedy series he created, also on Prime. This year he makes his Edinburgh debut with his...
Jul 30, 2024•47 min
Sophie Duker is a comedian and writer who won the 13th series of Taskmaster and is a regular guest on Frankie Boyle’s New World Order. She has also appeared on Live at The Apollo, Mock the Week, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, The Last Leg and Hypothetical on Dave. Her Edinburgh Fringe Show, Venus, saw her nominated for the Best Newcomer award and gained critical acclaim and five star reviews, leading to a two week sold out run at Soho Theatre. Sophie ’s other TV and radio appearances include 8...
Jul 28, 2024•57 min
Edinburgh Month Continues with Comedian Sara Barron who has starred on shows including Live at the Apollo, Would I Lie to You? and Frankie Boyle’s New World Order. Sara has taken 3 critically acclaimed stand-up hours, For Worse (2018), Enemies Closer (2019), and Hard Feelings (2022) to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and had multiple runs in London’s Soho Theatre. Her shows have received rave reviews and she was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards. Sara’s further television ...
Jul 25, 2024•51 min
Continuing our Edinburgh Month... Canadian comedian Michelle Shaughnessy fast made a name for herself across North America. She’s had numerous appearances on television and her debut album “You Know What You Did” hit number one on the iTunes comedy charts. Her sophomore album “Botoxic” received a coveted 5 star review from Toronto’s NOW Magazine. In 2017 she was a finalist in Canada’s “Top Comic” competition and her audition video has since gone viral, with 5 million views and climbing. In 2018 ...
Jul 23, 2024•42 min
Colin Hoult is best known for his work with Ricky Gervais on Derek (Channel 4), After Life (Netflix) and Gervais and Merchant’s Life’s Too Short (BBC). His acting credits include Ghosts (BBC), Trying (Apple), Almost Never (CBBC), Four Weddings and a Funeral (Hulu), This Time with Alan Partridge (BBC), Being Human (BBC) and BBC3’s award-winning Murder In Successville. Colin is a successful character comedian – he is well known for his celebrated ‘has-been actress’ character Anna Mann and has rece...
Jul 21, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Garrett Millerick’s breakout television performance was on the hit US late-night talk show Conan. His live show Sunflower became one of the best reviewed and most talked about shows of 2018, both at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and subsequently at London’s Soho Theatre. The show was Time Out London’s No.1 Comedy Pick and saw Garrett receive a nomination for ‘Breakthrough Act’ at the 2019 Chortle Awards. Garrett has since followed up the show with Smile and Just Trying to Help. The Times called ...
Jul 18, 2024•53 min
Chloe Radcliffe is a NYC-based comedian, actor, and writer who was a staff writer on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, has a comedy feature in development with Sony, and was named a TBS Comic To Watch at the New York Comedy Festival. She starred in COMMAND Z from Steven Soderbergh alongside Michael Cera, and was nominated for a Writers Guild Award award for also writing on the series. She has been seen on Comedy Central and After Midnight with Taylor Tomlinson. Chloe sold out her full-month ru...
Jul 16, 2024•46 min
Jessie Cave is probably best known for playing ‘Lavender Brown’ in the Harry Potter films. She is also a comedian, author and illustrator. She played a lead in Buffering on ITV2 and also starred as regular ‘Heather’ in Sky One's Trollied. Her drama credits also include Black Mirror (Netflix), The Baby (HBO), Miss Scarlet and the Duke (Alibi), Call the Midwife (BBC 1) and Glue (E4). Jessie is a talented comedian who has had three critically acclaimed and sell-out solo shows. Her show Sunrise rece...
Jul 14, 2024•1 hr 13 min
Steve Bugeja is one of the circuit’s most exciting comedians. Steve hosted the BBC Radio 4 series Economics with Subtitles and has made numerous appearances on TV shows including The Russell Howard Hour (Sky One), Love Island: Aftersun (ITV2), Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central (Comedy Central) and Zoe Ball on Saturday (ITV1). Steve is the co-creator and star of ITV2’s hit sitcom Buffering in which he plays the role of Finn. Steve as well as co-writing every episode was also the associate produce...
Jul 12, 2024•46 min
As seen on BBC’s Live at the Apollo, Spring Day is an American stand-up comedian, writer and actor living in London. Spring’s uniquely acerbic and sassy style of comedy is always a crowd pleaser, or shocker... A fluent Japanese speaker and a mild cerebral palsy haver, Spring began her career headlining at the Tokyo Comedy Store whilst based in Japan. She has written, produced, directed and performed seven solo shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She has also written for and appeared in BBC T...
Jul 09, 2024•44 min
Jason Manford is one of the biggest comedians in the UK as well as a hugely successful actor, presenter and singer. He’s had multiple sell out area tours, presented and appeard on some of the biggest shows in the UK such as Children In Need, QI, team captain on 8 Out Of 10 Cats, one of four judges on ITV's Starstruck and he came in second place as the Hedgehog on The Masked Singer. He has also starred in numerous stage musicals in the West End and across the UK such as Sweeney Todd, The Producer...
Jul 04, 2024•1 hr 7 min
Kim Leadbeater MBE has been a Labour MP since 2021. She is MP for Batley and Spen which is where her sister, Jo Cox, also sat until her tragic murder in June 2016. As of June 2023 she is chair of the all-party parliamentary groups on Sport and Tidy Britain, co-chair of the groups on Political Literacy and on Tackling Loneliness and Connected Communities. In 2020, she was appointed President of West Yorkshire Scouts. In 2018, Kim was awarded the UK's one thousandth Points of Light award by Prime ...
Jun 30, 2024•55 min
Catherine McCafferty is an actor and stand-up who splits her time between LA and NYC. This summer (2024) Catherine will be taking her solo show: (Not) That Bad, to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Recently Catherine wrapped her second feature a queer rom-com: Crush streaming now on Hulu. She had the pleasure of attending the Austin Film Festival with an original script she wrote, and has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, Dallas Comedy Fest, Portland Comedy fest and the Vail Comedy Fest. Bothered,...
Jun 27, 2024•41 min
Madeline Smith is an actress best known for playing Bond girl Miss Caruso in Live and Let Die with Rodger Moore but also had larger roles in the Hammer horror films The Vampire Lovers, Taste the Blood of Dracula, Tam-Lin, Theatre of Blood and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell. She stared in comedy films including Up Pompeii, Up the Front and Carry On Matron and the musical film Take Me High with Cliff Richard. Her television credits include Doctor at Large, The Two Ronnies, His and Hers wit...
Jun 23, 2024•54 min
Milo Edwards is a critically acclaimed stand-up comedian and podcaster (with Trashfuture). He was a member of the Cambridge Footlights and a student comic before moving to Moscow in 2015, where he became a TV performer. He has taken 3 critically acclaimed and award nominated shows to Edinburgh and his 4th for 2024, How Revolting! Sorry To Offend, has already earned him a second Best Show nomination at Leicester Comedy Festival. He has written for Mock The Week (BBC2), Hello America (Quibi), Brea...
Jun 20, 2024•54 min
Stevie Martin is an actor, writer, comedian and podcaster. She has built a significant following and acclaim for her prolific online output which includes a series of regular viral sketches with Lola-Rose Maxwell which have amassed over 20 million views (3 million of which on Tiktok) two hit podcasts (Nobody Panic with Tessa Coates and Might Delete Later with Gina Martin) which collectively receive over 100,000 downloads a month. A writer published everywhere from Vice to the Guardian, Stevie’s ...
Jun 16, 2024•49 min
Dr Benji Waterhouse is a front-line NHS doctor specialising in psychiatry. He is also an award-winning stand-up comedian who performs sell-out shows at the Edinburgh Festival. He has written for the Guardian and Independent , and was included in a list of 'Inspiring Psychiatrists’ by the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He has a special interest in psychedelic research and worked on the ground-breaking study featured in the BBC documentary ‘The Psychedelic Drug Trial’. Last May he appeared in the...
Jun 13, 2024•55 min
James O’Brien is best known for his daily current affairs programme on the radio station LBC, with over 1.2 million weekly listeners, he has also presented and appeared on a variety of TV shows including ‘Newsnight’ and ‘Have I Got News For You?’. James is an award-winning writer whose journalism has appeared everywhere from the TLS to the Daily Mirror and was a former editor of the Daily Express gossip column. His first book, How To Be Right, was a Sunday Times bestseller and won the Parliament...
Jun 10, 2024•1 hr 6 min
