The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has a deserved reputation for featuring the best the comedy circuit has to offer. From first-timers to established names, every August the talent heads to Scotland to improvise, present new material and brave late-night variety shows in pursuit of laughs, ticket sales and critical acclaim.


This year some of the key festival venues, including The Underbelly, The Gilded Balloon and The Pleasance enabled performers to film their sets and upload them to YouTube. These have been pulled together at the Edinburgh Comedy channel (introduced by the inimitable Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre:







The page includes excerpts from Funny Women Fringe Award winner Bridget Christie, 2008 Malcolm Hardee Award recipient Edward Aczel and finalist in the hard-fought if.com Best Newcomer category Pippa Evans. So what are you waiting for? Get clicking for some of the best stand-up on offer at Edinburgh this year.


Have fun,

The YouTube Team