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Laughing Horse Free Festival Venue
Bar 50

Fringe Venue 151 - Click here for map

Within A&O Edinburgh City Hostel, 50 Blackfriars Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1NE  / 0131 524 1989

Food  Accessible  Wifi  Licensed
Open from 08:00 to 01:00
All ages until 10pm, then 18+ only

Located within the five-star A&O Edinburgh City Hostel, Bar 50 serves an eclectic mix of spirits and beers, along with tasty locally sourced food. The menu has dishes for everyone, from stone baked pizza’s to veggie chilli burritos and chicken Caesar salad. There’s pool tables, comfy couches and an outdoor heated smoking area.


Shows at Bar 50
List Shows: By Room and Name | By Start Time
Shows sorted by Venue Room
The Alcove 

1001 Space Adventures: Breadlove and Poophead – Interactive Children Show CHILDRENS 
AUG 1-12, 14-25 at 10:30 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £5 
🚀 Welcome to "1 Story 2 Friends: Breadlove & Poophead" where your child isn't just an audience member—they're the hero of their own interstellar adventure! This one-of-a-kind show, coming to t...
Bar 50 / The Alcove 

Alex Mitchell: Tics Towards Puffection COMEDY 
AUG 1-25 at 16:45 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £2.50 
Tics Towards Puffection is an in-depth look at Alex Mitchell's (YCLYK Disabled Comedian of the Year 2023) ever-present desire for perfection, its effect on his life, and all the reasons he may never a...
Bar 50 / The Alcove 

Andrew Roper: Social Media Warrior COMEDY 
AUG 1-25 at 18:00 (50 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £2.50 
Andrew Roper SOCIAL MEDIA WARRIOR Social Media is a transparent cesspool of shameless self promotion, worshipped by shallow insecure narcissists. HELL YEAH!! Edinburgh Veteran, Andrew Roper, is ...
Bar 50 / The Alcove 

Benny Shakes: Respect COMEDY 
AUG 1-25 at 20:30 (50 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £5 
A highly anticipated debut from the creator of Blue Badge Bunch and joint winner of the Disabled Champion Award 2023. An acclaimed stand up, Benny performs in top comedy clubs across the country. Join...
Bar 50 / The Alcove 

Cheekykita: An Octopus, The Universe 'n' Stuff COMEDY 
AUG 1-13 at 15:30 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £5 
Multi award-winning comedian Cheekykita's one-woman, tour-de-force nonsense ride... where will we end up? From sea to the universe, an octopus and other daft stuff... we will go somewhere and it will ...
Bar 50 / The Alcove 

Darren Walsh: 3rd Rock from the Pun 2.0 COMEDY 
AUG 14-25 at 11:45 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £5 
Like Ai? Like puns? Like space? Join Darren for an updated version of his evolving journey into Space and Ai. Please only come if you like puns. Seriously, there's a lot of puns. Stuff like: “Black ho...
Bar 50 / The Alcove 

Eccentrics Assemble – Guerilla Autistics Year 10 THEATRE 
AUG 2-4, 6-11, 13-18, 20-25 at 13:00 (45 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £5 
WINNER OF THE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD, NEURODIVERSE REVIEW 2023. Part two of the ECCENTRICS UNITE SHOW OF 2023 takes us further and deeper into the world of eccentrics. What is it like to live yo...
Bar 50 / The Alcove 

Heckling Masterclass, With Diploma COMEDY 
AUG 1-13 at 21:45 (50 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £5 
Award-winning stand-up comedian Ben Clover presents his latest stand-up show. The Fringe festival veteran's latest show touches on love, death, life, death, hope and then death again, with a cathartic...
Bar 50 / The Alcove 

Kieran Flynn and Rachel Baker: Two Reds Are Better Than One COMEDY 
AUG 1-13 at 11:45 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £2.50 
Come in off the wind-whipped streets of Edinburgh, into the warm embrace of two of Birmingham's silliest sausages. Astute observational humour with an irreverent and whimsical flair delivered by two o...
Bar 50 / The Alcove 

Mark Nicholas: This Is Not the Autistic You Are Looking For COMEDY 
AUG 14-25 at 15:30 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £2.50 
Winner of the ND Review Disability Champions Award and the Amateo Award 2022 brings his debut show to EdFringe. Mark is NOT your typical autist; he's rubbish at maths, he can't card count and, unlike ...
Bar 50 / The Alcove 

Millwall Jew COMEDY 
AUG 1-4, 6-11, 13-18, 20-25 at 14:15 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £5 
A welcome return for Ivor Dembina's latest solo show which he premiered at the Fringe last year. Hear what happens when a north London Jewish soccer fan moves to south London and swears allegiance to...
Bar 50 / The Alcove 

The Comedy Arcade COMEDY 
AUG 14-25 at 21:45 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £2.50 
A hit podcast brought to life; launched in lockdown and now 70 episodes in. Part game show and part chat show. Your host, London Welsh comedian Vix Leyton (me), holds an ever-changing numbered list of...
Bar 50 / The Alcove 

The Prince Andrew Tate Appreciation Hour COMEDY 
AUG 1-25 at 23:00 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £5 
A compilation of some of the worst human beings doing comedy. Award-winning hilarious acts every night, top Gs and royal playboys, getting nasty and being messed up. Late-night, dark humour, diverse l...
Bar 50 / The Alcove 
The Garden Room 

(ex)Bag Boys COMEDY 
AUG 1 at 19:15 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £5 
Liam GreenJacket and Joe Blair, the (ex)stoma boys, have got a brand new bag! Their award pending show brings you three fab comedians, a bag full of prizes and some stunning insight into the world of ...
Bar 50 / The Garden Room 

A Crowdwork Hour COMEDY 
AUG 1-11, 13-25 at 13:45 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £5 
Raul Kohli is a loud & proud Briton. The people, the quirks, Toby Carvery. What's not to love? Growing up as a son to an Indian Hindu dad & Geordie Sikh Mum in the far north of Newcastle belonging ev...
Bar 50 / The Garden Room 

A Cut Above COMEDY 
AUG 1-25 at 20:00 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £2.50 
A variety of some of the best and up-and-coming comedy acts from around the Fringe with new and established material. This isn't cut from the same comedy cloth as most showcases, this is A Cut Above....
Bar 50 / The Garden Room 

A Sensible Hour and Live COMEDY 
AUG 1-12, 14-25 at 21:15 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £2.50 
On The Edge Comedy is a Brighton institution, bringing fresh faces from the UK circuit to our stage all year round, and now we're available at the other end of the UK! During the Fringe we up our game...
Bar 50 / The Garden Room 

Around the World in 80 Puns COMEDY 
AUG 1-11, 13-25 at 11:15 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £2.50 
Glaswegian comedian and author Iain MacDonald embraces the international aspect of the festival as he takes you on a punventure around the world in this hilarious show in which he has a joke for each ...
Bar 50 / The Garden Room 

At the End of Kaliyuga CHILDRENS 
AUG 1-25 at 10:00 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £2.50 
At The End of Kaliyuga is about Brahma (the creator), Vishnu (the preserver), and Shiva (the destroyer) who are known as the holy trinity of Hinduism, deciding the fate of the Earth as we come to the ...
Bar 50 / The Garden Room 

Comedy Queers COMEDY 
AUG 1-25 at 22:30 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £5 
Comedy Queers is a spicy mix of outrageous queer comedians, cabaret and drag acts. A sell-out Fringe phenomenon since 2018. Looking for diversity? It's what we do best, babe! If you’ve seen enough ci...
Bar 50 / The Garden Room 

Disabled Cants COMEDY 
AUG 1-25 at 17:30 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £5 
A revolving lineup of disabled comedians and friends present an irreverent comedy show for your enjoyment. We're not brave, we're not inspiring, we're just here to make you laugh and park in the disab...
Bar 50 / The Garden Room 

Embrace Me: A Solo Show About Dating and Disability That is Also Funny COMEDY 
AUG 1-10 at 15:00 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £2.50 
Dating's tough enough, but try dating when it's also hard to walk. Jack was born with spina bifida, a rare neurological condition that left him with a leg brace and a bad limp (not funny). He's also ...
Bar 50 / The Garden Room 

Joshua Robertson: Enable Me COMEDY 
AUG 11-18 at 15:00 (60 min) - FREE 
Enable Me explores the ups and downs of being a disabled dad and family life. Drawn from Joshua’s experiences, he sheds a unique light on daily life through a once able bodied person’s eyes. Now, as J...
Bar 50 / The Garden Room 

Late Night Comedy Death Camp COMEDY 
AUG 1-18, 20-25 at 23:45 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £5 
Returning for its fifth year, Henry Ginsberg presents a possibly anarchic, probably slightly depraved and almost certainly alcohol-fuelled showcase of the best stand-up comedy from the Fringe. Hopeful...
Bar 50 / The Garden Room 

Lee Kyle: Throwing Bottles Into the Sea COMEDY 
AUG 1-13 at 18:45 (60 min) - FREE 
Lee Kyle ('Glorious' the i) has been throwing messages in bottles into various seas, due to a mixture of longing for solitude, company and a good story for a fringe show. And, oh my word does he have...
Bar 50 / The Garden Room 

McClaine Beirne: Wheelie Hilarious COMEDY 
AUG 14-25 at 18:45 (45 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £2.50 
After winning an award on his first show, McClaine Beirne is back! Bringing his second 45-minute comedy show to Edinburgh. This sit-down comedian uses his disability and mixed cultural background as s...
Bar 50 / The Garden Room 

PG Hits! The Best in Family-Friendly Stand-Up Comedy! COMEDY 
AUG 1-11, 13-18, 20-25 at 12:30 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £5 
Three top stand-ups perform their very best routines just as they do in comedy clubs up and down the country and abroad, just without the swearing! PG Hits is a professional stand-up comedy compilatio...
Bar 50 / The Garden Room 

The Bite – Mixed-Bill Stand-Up COMEDY 
AUG 1-11, 13-18, 20-25 at 16:15 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £5 
TBC ...
Bar 50 / The Garden Room 

The Cripple Monologue COMEDY 
AUG 19-25 at 15:00 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £2.50 
This show from Saoirse Smith (The Cripple Monologues) shows the funny side of what it's like to be disabled. She will make you laugh with her unique funny stories. ...
Bar 50 / The Garden Room 
Upstairs 

001– Laughing Matters (Work in Progress) COMEDY 
AUG 1-25 at 22:15 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £5 
I left Israel to live in Berlin, because it is ironically safer, my mother would disagree as she is a holocoast survivor and therefore kind of needy, so i moved to the one country she would never visi...
Bar 50 / Upstairs 

45 Degrees of Perspiration COMEDY 
AUG 19-25 at 12:15 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £2.50 
Prepare for a great show full of laughter and enlightenment as comedian Ben Harrington tackles one of the most pressing issues of our time in his latest comedy show, "45 Degrees of Perspiration" Ben...
Bar 50 / Upstairs 

A Chip Off the Gold Block COMEDY 
AUG 1-12, 14-25 at 16:00 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £2.50 
A transatlantic middle-aged Jewish atheist divorcee walks into a bar... .this is the debut standup show from Leslie Gold (as seen at the Comedy Store). Expect bold storytelling, batshit family drama, ...
Bar 50 / Upstairs 

Addiction: The Truth SPOKEN WORD 
AUG 12-16 at 18:30 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £2.50 
Kevin McCarron is an experienced stand-up comedian, and a Doctor of Philosophy. He has also been a drug addict and an alcoholic. In this presentation, he will mock the most cherished beliefs which hav...
Bar 50 / Upstairs 

All in the Name of the Father the Mother and Holy Ghosting COMEDY 
AUG 1-2, 5, 8-9, 12, 15-16 at 12:15 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £2.50 
The show is autobiographical. About growing up as a vicars daughter. Being a student at Gordonstoun, where our King Charles went. It’s about the relationships and finding herself self along with rebe...
Bar 50 / Upstairs 

Annie and Angela's Dumbgenz and Dragqueenz COMEDY 
AUG 1-5, 7-12, 14-19, 21-25 at 17:15 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £5 
Following a disasterous pub crawl, 40-something BFF’s Annie Sup and Angela Bra fall through a lipsync-hole into a parallel dimension of musical comedy tucked full of swords and sassery. Are they for r...
Bar 50 / Upstairs 

Barbara Fernandez Singing, Sagging and Shagging CABARET 
AUG 1-5, 7-12, 14-19, 21-25 at 21:00 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £5 
"True stories from a true crazy" A cheeky, hilarious, mellifluous romp through one singer’s colourful past of cult-loving husbands, wacky record producers, shaggable therapists and diverse pharmaceut...
Bar 50 / Upstairs 

Bex Turner: Bexual Healing COMEDY 
AUG 1-11 at 18:30 (50 min) - FREE 
It’s a pun, although some of the characters might be witty and off the wrist. This is the intercourse before the dessert, whoops sorry I mentioned Bex... Bexual Healing is a retro character comedy s...
Bar 50 / Upstairs 

British Broadcasting Crisis COMEDY 
AUG 21-25 at 09:45 (60 min) - PWYC 
There’s nothing good on TV any more, at least, that’s what the public seem to think. Join two downtrodden TV executives as they try to find something, anything, that the public will watch. Expect wack...
Bar 50 / Upstairs 

Dan Fardell: Don't Look Back COMEDY 
AUG 1-12, 14-25 at 14:45 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £2.50 
Join Brighton comedy stalwart and regular host of On The Edge comedy, Dan Fardell, in his new hour of stand-up, in which he tells a very personal story that we can all relate to, about finally facing ...
Bar 50 / Upstairs 

Movies Through an Irish Lens COMEDY 
AUG 1-2, 5, 8-9, 12, 15-16, 19-25 at 13:30 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £5 
Movies through an Irish lens- Terry O' Neill is a comedian and an actor. He has been in films, but so far not to many people have wanted to see them. Marty Scorsese wont return his calls and Quentin h...
Bar 50 / Upstairs 

Nearly Stallion Story COMEDY 
AUG 17-24 at 18:30 (60 min) - FREE 
"The Italian Stallion show" is an original interactive show featuring over 50 real-life stories about a near hero of London Bridge 2017 and a former Italian stripper, Joe Palermo, known by the younger...
Bar 50 / Upstairs 

Rachel Morton-Young: Dutch Courage COMEDY 
AUG 1-12, 14-25 at 19:45 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £2.50 
In her show, “Dutch Courage”, British comedian Rachel Morton-Young takes you on a stroll down Amsterdam's cobbled streets, where bicycles rule, and everyone embraces the unconventional. She provides a...
Bar 50 / Upstairs 

The Alternative Book Club COMEDY 
AUG 1-2, 5, 8-9, 12, 15-16, 19-25 at 11:00 (60 min) - Pay What You Can Tickets - from £2.50 
The Alternative Book Club presents an unconventional comedy show about books where there is absolutely NO required reading. Prepare to be entertained – and informed – by a phenomenal line up of award-...
Bar 50 / Upstairs 

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