Boyle confirms run at 2018 Fringe

Frankie Boyle has become one of the biggest name comics to confirm a run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

He has announced four shows at the 3000-capacity Edinburgh Playhouse during the first week of the event in August.

Boyle, who appeared at the EICC during last year’s Fringe, has already sold out a 12-date run of “work in progress” shows at The Stand Comedy Club in Glasgow in July and August. Boyle, who started out performing at The Stand in Edinburgh more than 20 years ago, returned to the BBC for the first time last summer with his series New World Order. Publicity material for the Playhouse shows on 7-10 August states: “Watch Frankie’s consciousness pilot an old man’s body around the stage, telling jokes about some very important things that you don’t care about.”