Aisling Bea 

Featuring tales of travel, home, immigration, history, sex, babies, music, lovers and enemies, Bea will pack a lot into her stand-up return. Older Than Jesus is both a delightful and factual title.  
Whitehall Theatre, Dundee, Thursday 16 April; Music Hall, Aberdeen, Saturday 18 April; King’s Theatre, Glasgow, Sunday 19 April.

Amy Mason 

Directed by Jessica Fostekew, Behold! is the story of author (she won the Dundee International Book Prize in 2014) and comic Mason being hacked and losing everything except the gifts that her tormentors started sending her. 
The Stand, Glasgow, Wednesday 25 March; The Stand, Edinburgh, Thursday 26 March.

Ayoade Bamgboye 

The current holder of Edinburgh’s Best Newcomer crown takes Swings And Roundabouts, the show which garnered that prize, on the road. It’s possible she may have tweaked the set since August but the bulk of it, about an outsider’s view of Britain (she’s Nigerian), will no doubt remain intact.
Monkey Barrel, Edinburgh, Saturday 23 May; The Stand, Glasgow, Wednesday 3 June.

Catherine Bohart 

Borrowing Trouble is the intriguing title of the new set from this Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated Irish comic whose last show, Again, With Feelings, was described as something which ‘refines gossip to a high art’. 
Glee Club, Glasgow, Wednesday 11 November; Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh, Thursday 12 November.

Celya AB

Here’s the blurb for AB’s new show: ‘Have you ever forensically over-thought your life choices? Are they all somehow connected to a passing comment your Spanish teacher made when you were 15? Has it impacted everything from your love life to your career?’ Funny and insightful answers to those questions are on the way.
The Stand, Glasgow, Wednesday 23 September.

Fatiha El-Ghorri 

Cockney Stacking Doll is the twice-divorced Hackney-born comic’s debut touring show which will seek to smash one stereotype after another. El-Ghorri also publishes her first book later this year.  
The Stand, Glasgow, Wednesday 27 May; The Stand, Edinburgh, Thursday 28 May.

Flo & Joan 

The dynamic musical sisters are back on tour. With Feeling is the name of this one, as the Dempseys aim to back up what we once said about them: ‘Musical comedy hasn’t been in such safe hands for years.’ Don’t let us down... 
Pavilion Theatre, Glasgow, Tuesday 10 November; Tivoli Theatre, Aberdeen, Wednesday 25 November; Whitehall Theatre, Dundee, Thursday 26 November; Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh, Saturday 28 November.

Game Of Crones 

Pre-pandemic, A&E Comedy aka Abigail Dooley and Emma Edwards hit the live circuit together for the first time and they’re back with a new show which celebrates women in their prime. 
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, Saturday 4 & Sunday 5 April.

Harriet Kemsley 

‘Previously on’ Would I Lie To You? and 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Kemsley now delivers Floozy, a show about mushrooms, dating and chaos.
Monkey Barrel, Edinburgh, Thursday 12 November; Òran Mór, Glasgow, Friday 13 November.

Jessica Fostekew 

Exploring aspects of her personality inherited from various family members, Fostekew skewers the likes of podcasters and her own offspring. Iconic Breath is what all this is called.
Monkey Barrel, Edinburgh, Wednesday 11 March; The Stand, Glasgow, Thursday 12 March.

Kathy Maniura 

Character comic Maniura once performed on a Royal Mile stage in the rain with only her parents in attendance. Things have picked up a bit since then, and with The Cycling Man, she merges two ideas: drag kings and central London male cyclists kitted out to the nines in full Lycra despite only travelling a short distance. 
Monkey Barrel, Edinburgh, Saturday 23 May. 

Laura Lexx 

This acclaimed comic and podcaster will reveal a lot (probably not all) about the process of trying to love yourself during a decade-long marriage. Lexx’s last show was called Slinky and here she keeps up the symbolic toy-based titles with Yo-Yo.
Blackfriars, Glasgow, Thursday 1 October; Eden Court, Inverness, Friday 2 October; Lemon Tree, Aberdeen, Saturday 3 October; Monkey Barrel, Edinburgh, Sunday 4 October. 

Laura Smyth 

Born Aggy asks one central question: when all your dreams have been fulfilled, is it fine to still get annoyed at, well, everything? The former teacher turned stand-up attempts to figure it all out.
Monkey Barrel, Edinburgh, Wednesday 11 November; Glee Club, Glasgow, Thursday 12 November.

Leila Navabi 

Animation, electropop tunes and stand-up merge here for Relay, South Wales comic, writer and composer Navabi’s show about building a family on her own terms and against quite a lot of odds.
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, Saturday 16 May.

Lorna Rose Treen 

Referencing everything from Twin Peaks to NormalPeople, Treen drags Now That’s What I CallCharacters across the country featuring former staples of her sketch armoury plus some newer ones.
Òran Mór, Glasgow, Thursday 19 March; Monkey Barrel, Edinburgh, Friday 11 September. 

Lucy Beaumont

There’s some strong competition for the best touring title of 2026, and the Hull comic is surely among the frontrunners for this non-existent prize with Bad At Quiz Shows, Good With Weirdos. The ensuing entertainment will no doubt prove both statements beyond any reasonable doubt.
Tivoli Theatre, Aberdeen, Tuesday 3 November; Whitehall Theatre, Dundee, Thursday 5 November.

Maisie Adam

She’s been on Taskmaster and Last One Laughing, but now the Yorkshire stand-up is back doing her on-the-road thing with Whatsherface. Households will all know thingy’s name in the not too distant future.
Whitehall Theatre, Dundee, Monday 21 September; Tivoli Theatre, Aberdeen, Tuesday 22 September; Pavilion Theatre, Glasgow, Wednesday 23 September.

Olga Koch 

When you hear the phrase ‘genre-defying’ related to a stand-up comedy show, you wonder what that could even entail nowadays. Still, when it comes to St Petersburg-born comic Koch, you wouldn’t put it past her. FatTom Cruise is her new one.
The Stand, Glasgow, Monday 12 October; Monkey Barrel, Edinburgh, Friday 16 October.

Rachel Fairburn

Vexy Beasts has the All Killa No Filla podcaster and genial Geordie comic bringing us some new personalities and old favourites for you to both love and hate such as a nepo baby, a middle-class rock star and a truly terrifying mother.
The Stand, Glasgow, Saturday 17 October; Monkey Barrel, Edinburgh, Sunday 18 October.

Serena Terry 

With Therapy, Derry’s Terry promises a ‘new tour, new trauma, new meds’, as she zeroes in on her journey to recovery.
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, 6 September; SEC, Glasgow, Friday 16 October; Music Hall, Aberdeen, Saturday 17 October.

Sindhu Vee 

Once her North American tour is completed, Vee will be getting all Swanky for UK audiences with a work about a rather ridiculous question someone asked her once. They’ll be regretting it now. 
Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, Saturday 5 September.

Sophie Garrad 

Stand-up, presenter, actor and, inevitably, content creator, Garrad’s Poor Little Rich Girl is a comedic act of vengeance upon the person who dubbed her as such in a Pizza Express. 
Monkey Barrel, Edinburgh, Saturday 2 May.

Stevie Martin

You may have most recently seen her in Mitchell & Webb’s pretty decent TV sketch return while those online videos made during lockdown are still worth a look. Now she’s back on stage with her extended (dates wise) Clout show. 
The Stand, Glasgow, Wednesday 22 April; Monkey Barrel, Edinburgh, Friday 24 April.

Susan Calman 

The former corporate lawyer and now very much ‘the lady off the telly’, Calman gets back to her stand-up roots with the heavily ironic Tall Tales: she’s not (tall) but she has some (tales) to regale us with. 
Eden Court, Inverness, Friday 11 September; Perth Concert Hall, Thursday 17 September; EICC, Edinburgh, Friday 18 September; then touring until Friday 13 November.

Susie McCabe 

Scotland’s stand-up superstar in the making (you don’t win the Billy Connolly Spirit Of Glasgow award without then going serious places) keeps on trucking with new piece Coming Of Rage in Glasgow and her ongoing Best Behaviour into the early ‘summer’.
King’s Theatre, Glasgow, Friday 27 & Saturday 28 March; Tivoli Theatre, Aberdeen, Thursday 9 April; Eden Court, Inverness, Friday 10 April; then touring until Saturday 16 May. 

Urzila Carlson 

The self-deprecating South African-New Zealander has done it again with Fatty On A Yacht. Her last touring show, You Don’t Say, did staggering business globally so there’s no reason to doubt this won’t follow the same path.
Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, Wednesday 9 September; EICC, Edinburgh, Friday 11 September.

Main picture: Matt Stronge. 

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