"As far as comedy goes, he's pretty much cracked it" - The Scotsman

Ed Night is an award nominated and critically acclaimed stand-up comedian, actor, and writer.

His recent online sketches have garnered tens of millions of views across Instagram and TikTok, as well as a nomination for the Chortle awards 2024.

His 2025 show, Your Old Mucker was nominated for the prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Show, and was a critical and sellout success, receiving praise from The Times, The Telegraph and The Guardian and placing Ed in an elite club of acts to have been nominated for both Best Newcomer and Best Show at the Edinburgh Fringe.

"So bleakly funny... you felt winded" - The Guardian

In 2024 he made his highly anticipated return to the Edinburgh Fringe, his first since 2019, with his show The Plunge. The show was a runaway success, receiving critical acclaim as one of the best reviewed shows of the festival as well being listed by Rolling Stone as one of The 12 Stand Out Shows of Edinburgh Fringe 2024 and receiving a nomination for the Best Show at the Chortle Awards 2025. He took the show on a national UK tour in 2025, which took in a soldout run at London’s Soho Theatre and the Albany Theatre in London, and was listed by the i Paper, The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph as the best comedy to see in 2025.

In 2017 his debut hour at the Edinburgh Fringe, Anthem For Doomed Youth, saw him become one of the youngest ever nominees for the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer, and netted him a position as the co-host of BBC Radio 1’s first piece of comedy commissioning for ten years.

“ Ed Night’s universe is a joy to inhabit – witty, weird and utterly his own” – The Telegraph

That same year he was nominated for the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year award. His 2018 sophomore show, An Aesthetic, sold out its entire run at the Edinburgh Fringe and he performed the show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2019, where he also featured in their prestigious opening night gala on ABC.

His follow-up show, Jokes of Love and Hate, received widespread critical acclaim and was awarded pick of the Edinburgh fringe by critics from both The Times and The Scotsman.

“This is comedy as poetry - so good it seems effortless” – London Evening Standard

His writing has been featured on shows such as The Mash Report, 8 out of 10 Cats, The News Quiz, Mock the Week, and Comedy Central’s Roast Battle, on which he also appeared. He’s lent his skills as an actor to many strange and intense characters in some of the country’s most popular comedy shows, most recently playing The Pot Hole Man in BBC 3’s Broadcast Award-winning Zen Motoring, White Luther in Channel 4’s Complaints Department, and recurring character Karl Fink in BBC Radio 4’s Icklewick FM

“an everyman with a winning sense of absurdity”– The Times

“This is comedy as poetry - so good it seems effortless” – London Evening Standard

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