Edinburgh Fringe 2025: Liebenspiel reveal Bedlam Late lineup

In an Edinburgh Fringe landscape pockmarked with midnight revues and after-hours shows, the late night programme at Bedlam Theatre is a reliable source of the weird, wonderful and borderline inexplicable. Programmed by alternative comedy promoters Liebenspiel, the 2025 lineup brings together a mix of bizarre one-offs, avant-garde riffs on familiar comedy concepts, and incredible elevator pitches that have somehow become reality. 

Here's a quick guide to this year's lineup – the shows take place in the early hours of Fri, Sat, Sun (except the first Fri) throughout the Fringe, starting at half-past midnight, with tickets available now via edfringe.com

Ronnie Eucalitto's Love Hour LIVE

"A wet, hot hour of jazz, storytelling, and gosh darn love!" It's an hour of character comedy from Lil Wenker, the comic behind 2024 Fringe hit BANGTAIL, but this time they're swapping a six-shooter and cowboy hat for a piano and a bunch of jazz standards. Expect singing, mingling and a healthy dose of audience participation. Sat 2 Aug, 12.30am

chaff comedy mag: LIVE

The brainchild of comedian Will BF and comedy producer Amber Ash, "the UK's only open source comedy mag" takes over Bedlam for a night of storytelling, poetry and alternative comedy. "here at chaff, we love reading," they say, "and by the end of this live show, so will you." A boast? A promise? A threat? Safe to assume it's a combination of the three. Sun 3 Aug, 12.30am

Appetite for Destruction: The Comedians' Cooking Slamdown

This is the spirit of the Fringe: comedians doing real-life cooking at half-past twelve on a Friday night. Brought to you by writer and producer Alex Hardy and Liebenspiel co-head honcho Benjamin Alborough, there isn't a huge amount more to report but what more do you need? Comedians. Cooking. Live. Fri 8 Aug, 12.30am

ZOOZOO

DeliaDelia and Francisco de Nata host a late night cabaret that promises to be extremely strange, pleasingly chaotic, and (appropriately for the time slot) something of a fever dream. Sat 9 Aug, 12.30am

Antiques Thunderdome

Comedians are just like you or me, in that their cupboards are also full of stuff they're trying to offload. In Antiques Thunderdome, comedians will compete in front of a panel of experts to value and then sell some of their prized possessions. If you're thinking 'that sounds like a recipe for loosely-structured memento-based chaos', you're starting to get the vibe. Sun 10 Aug, 12.30am

The Glang Show

Sean Morley's avant-garde audience participation frenzy is an absurdist whirlwind lightly masquerading as a comedy showcase (complimentary). The audience are, let's just say it, 'armed' with the ability to change any and every element of the show as it continues. We've seen award-winning comics perform at the front of a conga line, we've seen Morley MCing the gig from the rafters like the Phantom of the Opera, and it's still the only show where the command 'everyone on stage, find the person in the crowd who looks most you and bring them on stage' has been followed to the letter. Fri 15 Aug, 12.30am

Ruckus on Arrakis

Dune is a sprawling sci-fi epic set across galaxies; Gilbert & Sullivan are the operatic duo who wrote Pirates of Penzance and HMS Pinafore. Levi Meltzer and Will Spence have smashed these two together into a 'late night sci-fi panto-gameshow' that apparently involves competitive spice eating and worm-riding challenges. Unsurprisingly, it's on for one night only! Sat 16 Aug, 12.30am

Live from the Witch Trials

A collection of comics from across the Fringe come together to channel some of pop culture's best known and most beloved witches, as they compete to finally work out which witch is the witchiest witch. Sun 17 Aug, 12.30am

Character Assassination

Five comedians will compete to create a brand new comedy character – so far, so Fringe. The twist: their characters must be based entirely on the various foibles, maladies and quirks of the Bedlam audience. Fri 22 Aug, 12.30am

Kink Shame Show

Hosted by Trash Salad's Rosa Garland, Kink Shame Show is a blend of kink and comedy, bringing together clowning, performance art and cabaret. It will be sexy, it will be shocking, there will be some unexpected and unconventional stuff in here but that is literally the point of the show so we say go along with it. Sat 23 Aug, 12.30am

One Joke

The last night of the Fringe, after three-and-a-bit weeks of non-stop comedy. What this calls for is as many comedians as possible telling one joke each, then getting off the stage. Hosted by Lorna Rose Treen and Jonathan Oldfield, this promises to be a "completely contextless joke factory", and also a bit like a glimpse into the dream cycles of comedy reviewers trying to parse the events of the previous 20-odd days. Sun 24 Aug, 12.30am

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Bedlam Late takes place at Bedlam Theatre, 11b Bristo Pl, as part of the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe
Note: these shows take place in the early hours of the relevant days, and do not follow the old 'Fringe Time' system. If it says 00.30 on Friday, that's very early Friday (or still-out-on-Thursday, depending on your perspective)