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OLAF FALAFEL’S STUPIDEST SUPER STUPID SHOW – NEW IMPROVED RECIPE

Childrens

Venue:The Counting House, 38 West Nicolson Street Edinburgh EH8 9DD
Phone: 0131 667 7533
Links: Click Here for venue details, Click here for map
Ticket Prices: Pay What You Can Tickets - from £5  
Room: The Ballroom
JUL 31, AUG 1-12, 14-18, 21-24 at 11:30 (60 min)
 
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OLAF FALAFEL’S Stupidest Super Stupid Show So Far

Winner of the Best Kids’ Show at the 2024 Leicester Comedy Festival

After a sell out run at last year’s Fringe, comedian and children's author Olaf Falafel is dishing up another frying pan full of family-friendly comedy.

The comedy show comedians take their kids to is back and even funnier! Join Olaf Falafel (if that is his real name) for an hour of kid's comedy which will be the stupidest he has ever let trickle from his brain. Expect eggy brollies, truth-telling cheese and award-winning jokes. There will also be a live drawalong - we might draw a poo on a pogo stick but you’ll have to come along to find out!

Be there or be a dodecahedron!

Time Out Top 10 Kids' Shows 2024
The Times Edinburgh Festival Family Highlights 2024


"Olaf is a very funny plonker and I fully recommend taking your family to see this plonker so they can learn that being a plonker is one of the most fun things in the world"
Alex Horne

“Olaf Falafel is a perfectly ridiculous festival must see”
Shaparak Khorsandi

“Olaf strikes that brilliant comic balance of producing a show that can be enjoyed throughout by kids and grown ups. Me and me son loved it!”
Chris Ramsey

“My son’s favourite comedian at the fringe, which is upsetting given my profession.”
Geoff Norcott

“Very very very silly”
Josie Long

"Superbly idiotic, and idiotically superb"
Stuart Goldsmith

"Olaf is a very funny plonker and I fully recommend taking your family to see this plonker so they can learn that being a plonker is one of the most fun things in the world"
Alex Horne

“Finely-crafted idiocy”
Mark Watson

"A sprawling bungalow of blissful belly laughs.”
★★★★★
Get Your Coats On

“Go see this show. Especially if you are with children!”
★★★★★
Phoenix Remix

“This show is disruptive, daft and downright brilliant. Take your kids. Twice.”
★★★★
Everything Theatre

"Utterly delighting the children with perfectly pitched humour.”
★★★★
Theatre Weekly

"An absolute treat, as enjoyable for the adults as it is for the children.”
★★★★
Broadway World

“All kinds of weird and wonderful and we are 100% here for it!”
★★★★
Edinburgh Festival For Kids

“The king of puns, worldplay and pranks is on scintillatingly silly form”
★★★★
The List


News and Reviews for this Show

August 3, 2025 Fest
Kids review
Oran and Roo, both seven, are delighted by the sheer volume of poo jokes.

What happens in the show?
Oran: Silly things!

Roo: There’s lots of jokes and videos and plenty of talk about poo.

O: They talk about poo and it’s funny.

R: It’s very funny and they showed a video and he dropped cheese onto a book and words that were in the holes of the cheese he readed and it was a pretty funny joke.

What was the joke?
R: I can’t remember the joke.

What did you like most about the show?
R: When we drawed a poo on a pogo stick.

O: Oh yeah, that was funny. A poo on a pogo stick is jumping on me.

R: No it’s jumping on me.

O: Me!

R: Me!

O: Me!

R: Both of us.

O: Me!

R: Me!

O [returning to the original question]: Everything.

[Later]: He was an idiot.

Was there anything you didn’t like?
R: No

O: No

What did your grown-up think about the show?
It was a fun hour – well-practised, engaging crowd work and truly the least terrifying front row experience I’ve ever had. Five stars for the video of a squirrel sliding down a pole alone. He’s a likeable character, even if he did say some mean things about reviewers to us, the reviewers.

Would you tell your friends to go to the show?
O: Maybe.

Would you tell Alba?
O: Yes. [to Alba] He’s a stupid guy! Olaf Falafel!

R: [nods solemnly] Click Here

August 3, 2025  The List
The Fringe veteran has crafted a delightful deluge of dunderheadedness for the Free Fringe.

Fringe veteran Olaf Falafel is many things: author, illustrator, dad, football team coach, comedian and complete idiot, to name but a few. Thankfully that’s the perfect skill set for a family show that’s been packing the bairns in for years (it’s lovely watching show returners get excited when their favourite bits are announced).

The format is nice and simple: a screen keeps us all on track as we hurtle between rounds of pass the parcel, funny videos made funnier (a highlight) and audience participation, all with their own jingles and interspersed with pun-tastic dad jokes that get the kids giggling and the grown-ups groaning. Some of the wordplay might just skim the heads of the very youngest, but it doesn’t matter: the next bit is never too far away and it’s all so silly that attention never wanes.

Draw Something Stupid sees the whole room coming together to draw a poo on a pogo stick: so yeah, kids do still have attention spans. It’s hard to over-emphasise just how appealing Falafel’s ramshackle charms are to the young team, evidenced by a sold-out crowd; even the Free Fringe is subject to market forces so if missing out would break your ankle-biter’s wee heart, then definitely book ahead. Click Here

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