Listings: Comedy, Fringe

Grab your top tickets to talent-spot this year's stellar crop of industry approved breakthrough comedians, plus some who are already rather famous! Every showcase is different, so keep coming back.

Just A Minute/One Show Gyles won multiple five stars for his last Edinburgh sell-out. Now the award-winning raconteur and ex MP explores the secrets of How to Be Happy. 'Incredibly funny, wildly indiscreet' (Daily Mail).

Super strength, X-ray vision and lightning fast speed can be fantastic fun if used for personal gain, without saving the world. 'Hudson is an astounding comic, magician and mind reader' ★★★★ (ThreeWeeks), ★★★★ (Metro).

Observational humour from the Dublin-stand-up and actor about reaching middle age.

Oh, the controversy. Gavin Webster has opinions and by God he's going to share them whether you like it or not.

The cult Australian comedian, not for the faint of heart, brings another show brimming in foul-mouthed rants and questionable taste to the Fringe.

A night of comedy madness from this highly-acclaimed sketch show featuring surreal characters and 80s power ballads.

Songs, sketches, falsetto and violence, laced with a sci-fi theme from the ever popular Sock Puppets.

Typically subversive humour from Lee as he works on material for the latest series of Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle. Please note: this is a work in progress show.

Doyen of the alt.comedy scene gracing the Fringe with his presence for the first time in ages.

A host of comedians who provide something more anarchic than your typical comedy evening, busting out their best comedy moves, with a line-up that change each time.

Scotland's funniest follow in the footsteps of previous winners Sarah Millican, Jimmy Carr and Kevin Bridges, and pack their best jokes into a 10-minutes sketch to see who will be crowned king or queen of comedy.

Endearingly shambolic political yet absurdist humour.

Not Sir Alex Ferguson (no, we didn't know he was called that either), but our favourite mysterious cult 1980s Canadian stand-up who wears a Mexican wrestling mask instead.

Rarely has there been a title that more accurately describes a show than this one.

Presumably inspired by those ridiculous Bic For Her biros the internet went crazy for this year, Christie's latest show also looks at the sensuality of a good mac and getting all up in the patriarchy's grill. Good stuff.

Feisty and outspoken humour as the Canadian stand-up presents new material about the absurdities of everyday life.

After a massive year of live touring, television, his debut DVD release and parties comes the new stand-up show from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man-half-Xbox. ‘Hysterical … A stunning show’ (Sunday Express). ‘Genuinely funny’ (Time Out). www.danielsloss.com.

Once he was a hedonist. Now he's married with kids and an ulcer, which is just as fun. (It's probably not.) Gary talks about the ways in which life has slowly but surely ground him down.

After a triumphant Radio 2 series, the New Age guru, psychic and medium returns; passing on messages, making predictions and telling fortunes. 'Fantastically original and funny enough to kill you from asphyxiation' (Magic Circle Magazine).