The School of Comedy Returns To The Pleasance Courtyard in Scotland, 8/23-29

The SCHOOL OF COMEDY return to the Pleasance Courtyard from August 23-29 at 4.00pm. The theatre is located at 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh, Scotland. For more information or to purchase tickets contact the box office at 0131 556 6550.

After one hit E4 Series and with another to air soon, the original class of School of Comedy are heading back to The Pleasance. The troupe, who completely sold out the last time they were in Edinburgh, return with a brand new original and unique new sketch show. 

The story of this hugely talented group of friends, from after-school club, to the Edinburgh Festival, to TV series culminates in this wonderfully ridiculous and inspiringly uplifting 50 minutes. Now on the brink of their gap year, this lot are bigger, braver and increasingly in demand in film and television comedy. Will Poulter (pictured) is already out there. Having starred in the feature film Son of Rambow and just completing filming the third Narnia movie to be released at Christmas, he's the one buying the drinks (once he turns 18). His mates Max Langdale Brown and Evie Henderson are also becoming respected performers in their own right, featuring in Peep Show and Phineas and Ferb respectively, Lilly Ainsworth has a starring role in the recent Julie Davis pilot and Charlie Wernham features in The Inbetweeners and in the upcoming series of Harry & Paul.

The show hails a return to the good old-fashioned sketch format, but with a twist. The team take on a cast of characters, often bizarre, sometimes inappropriate, unquestionably rude and occasionally just plain wrong.

Don't miss the return of some of the cracking old favourites; The Museum Perv, an art curator who will take it upon himself to inform you about the big boobies, small boobies and acorn pinkles. Van Men will introduce you to their whole new inimitable vocabulary and the ever popular South African Security Guards won't disappoint with their constant banter on biltong, dofs, sharts and shit-shats. There's also the unveiling of yet unseen characters for 2010; The Filth - two coppers from the 70's - think the Sweeney meets Life on Mars with a bit of Starsky and Hutch thrown in to the bargain. There's Leonard Lizard, a repressed homosexual city trader with a penchant for coke and cash... and meet Mafia Mamma who makes Tony Soprano look like Dale Winton.