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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 📺 whats-on

September 04

• Edited (Sep 04, 2026)

🤩 REWIND THE FRINGE DATE ANNOUNCEMENT! 🤩

We're letting you lot know before anyone else that this year's 'Rewind The Fringe' is happening from Friday, 25 September to Sunday, 27 September.

What is Rewind the Fringe and how does it work?

A lot of comedians take their Edinburgh Fringe shows on tour after August, meaning some streams were strictly one-night-only. However, the vast majority of comedians we streamed last month have agreed to bring their shows back for Rewind the Fringe!

If you missed a performance during the festival, or want to relive your favourites, you’ll have exclusive access to stream them over a single weekend.

We’ll announce the official lineup once the final details are locked in. But we couldn't wait to share one upgrade: all 5 of Monkey Barrel’s Big Shows are officially confirmed for Rewind!

Keep an eye out for the full lineup drop coming soon! 🫶

Kai A.

in 📺 whats-on

September 03

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Comedy Knockout with David Ward - September 1st - Catchup

Comedy Knockout is a comedy competition where new acts battle it out for a chance at winning a coveted weekend spot at the Backyard Comedy Club, where they’ll get to perform alongside some the countries top comedians.12 people go head to head with their best comedy material – then the audience votes who goes through to the next round where we’ll be left the finalists, who will then give you more of the funny before the final vote where the winner is crowned. Let the funniest win!Our night’s Host and Referee will be David WardThe comedy rumble in the concrete jungle

Comedy Knockout - Catch-up is here! 😁

Missed the recent livestream? Catch-up for this show has been scheduled in the platform and will be available from September 3 2026 until September 10 2026. Enjoooy!

Kai A.

in 🗣️ the-pub

September 03

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Some behind-the-scenes pics of Fringe 2026! We're properly exhausted but feel super proud. If you went up to Edinburgh, post some pics in the comments so we can all reminisce.🤗

Kai A.

in 📺 whats-on

September 01

Who's watching the livestream tonight?!

ME!!!!!!!! 🎉

100 %

6 votes

Kai A.

in 📺 whats-on

August 31

What's on this week?

Hey everyone! We're back to regular scheduling (for now 😜). Here's what's happening this week.

Live from @backyardcomedyclub, Comedy Knockout is a comedy competition where 12 new acts go head to head with their best comedy material – and the audience votes who goes through each round until the end. Let the funniest win!

P.S. I've seen your comments about Stuart G. Check out my latest reply on the thread here.

Kai A.

in 🏦 support-and-alerts

August 29

• Edited (Aug 29, 2026)

Hey guys! Apologies for the back and forth. We got Stu G's livestreaming working. Heck yeah! Come join now. 🤩

Kai A.

in 🏦 support-and-alerts

August 29

Checking re Stuart G!

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?