Gilded Balloon at Appleton Tower

Being a TV fixture – he’s steadfastedly refusing to miss a single episode of QI – has clearly taken its toll on Alan Davies’s stand-up career: the beloved comic hasn’t had a new stand-up show since 2012, and it’s been aeons since he last performed at the Fringe. Where did the time go? We’ll find out in Think Ahead, in which the once boyish star of Jonathan Creek squares up to the indignities of late middle age.

One of the bigger names to crop up at the Fringe in 2025, the veteran US comedian, actor and talkshow host O’Donnell famous quit her home country for Ireland this year in protest at the second election of her longterm nemesis Donald Trump. Debut Fringe show Common Knowledge promises a look back across her life and to dig a little more into her life and career and to dig a little deeper into her recent upheaval.