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Get ready for Edinburgh Fringe 2026!🥳🎉If you're new here, Fringe, the biggest arts festival in the world, is legendary for launching comedy stars…but it’s also legendary for completely draining your bank account. But the good news is we're doing the heavy lifting (and the walking) for you. 🤫 We’ve scouted the absolute best rising comics and we're streaming the festival's hottest shows straight to your screen. This August, get ready for pure, unfiltered, front-row Fringe brilliance from the comfort of your couch. Oh, and obviously you guys will be the first to know about the lineup...coming soon! Any predictions/wishes/desires/dreams? 🤗 Welcome to Ask a Comedian - our little corner of the NextUp community for getting closer to the people who do the mindblowing, and surprisingly full-on job of making people laugh. 🎭This channel is a place to drop questions for comedians about anything comedy. From writing and finding ideas, prep and pre-show routines, nerves and confidence, gigs that went great (and gigs that didn’t) to touring, crowd work, heckles, bombing, you name it! Ask what you’re curious about, whether you’re a comedy nerd, a casual watcher, or someone who performs. Keep it respectful (obvs!)How it works: We’ll post when we're meeting up with a comedian to film their special or chatting with them, you leave your questions in the comments and we’ll pick 3–5 to put to them, and share the answers back here. 🎤

Kai A.

in 🏦 support-and-alerts

August 29

• Edited (Aug 29, 2026)

Hey guys! I'm going to call it and let you all get on with your evenings. Not sure what the error is - but we will reschedule. (At least Fringe can go on for a little longer). Not the triumphant ending we wanted. 🤣😭

Karen D.

in 🏦 support-and-alerts

August 29

No STU for me either

Kai A.

in 🏦 support-and-alerts

August 29

Checking re Stuart G!

Al N.

in 📺 whats-on

August 29

Has Stu Goldsmith started for anyone?

Karen D.

in 🔬 show-discussions

August 29

Chris Cantrill and Chris Forbes got awards for shows curated by NextUp 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Kai A.

in 📺 whats-on

August 29

Fringe What's On Today?🤩

It's the home stretch NextUppers - today is the last day of Fringe livestreams (😭). It's been the best month - and our Team has LOVED seeing your excitement every single day.

But it's not over just yet - so let me stop being soppy. Haha! Tonight we have, Stuart Goldsmith (9pm) and the final Monkey Barrel Big Show (11:15pm). Ft. Ayo Adenekan, Jenny Gorelick, Frankie Munroe and possibly a few other familiar faces.

Let's end this on a high note! Some more BTS images are coming your way next week too so we can relive the fun!

David B.

in 🏦 support-and-alerts

August 28

Annoyed that at around 19:45 the app (on Roku tv) was showing the livestreams as starting in 2hours 15min and 4hours 15min - ie 22:00 and 00:00.

Thinking that the app must be correct I went off and did other things for 2 hours, only for it now to show the 2nd livestream starting at 22:00.

Annoyed as I was looking forward to both of tonight’s shows.

I’ve not watched many livestreams before. Does this happen often? Were you aware it happened today? Is it a client app bug or was the server info incorrect?

Kai A.

in 📺 whats-on

August 28

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Fringe What's On Today?🤩

Huge Davies (8pm) and Geoffrey Asmus (10pm)! Omg it's gonna be a great Friday evening.🔥

P.S. We'd love to see your streaming set-up. Don't forget to snap a pic and tag NextUp on the socials.

Kai A.

in 🗣️ the-pub

August 27

And the winner is...SAM ELEY IS BASIL CRUMBWICK! 🏆

A special congrats to our amazing runner-ups: Scout Boxall and Dane Buckley. Thank you for voting, NextUppers! Basil now has to figure out how on earth to get this 2m trophy back home. 🤣

Kai A.

in 📺 whats-on

August 27

• Edited (Aug 27, 2026)

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Fringe What's On Today? 🤩

I actually can't believe we have 3 three days left of livestreams - anyone else a bit emotional? 😭

But for now, let's soak up as much comedy as we can. Today we've got Rachel Fairburn (8pm) and Rosco McClelland (10pm).

See you later!