Candace Bryan is an American standup comedian and writer based in London. In 2025, she had jokes featured on both The Guardian's and the Telegraph's ‘Best Jokes of the Fringe’ lists and on BBC Scotland, and she was shortlisted for Chortle's Hotshots. She's also a nine-time winner of The Bill Murray’s Roast Battle and has twice been a Funny Women Best Comedian nominee. Her writing has been published in Cosmopolitan, Allure, and Vice.

“One of the most exciting new voices on the London comedy circuit.” ★★★★ – Edinburgh Reviews

Candace Bryan: ‘Don’t Be Ridiculous, Everybody Wants This’

On the kitten heels of her 2025 “triumphant debut” (Edinburgh Reviews) comedian and writer Candace Bryan (“★★★★★ Laugh out loud funny” EdfringeReviews) returns to Edinburgh with a new hour of fast-paced, joke-heavy standup about the struggle between her love of online shopping and her personal politics, ‘Don’t Be Ridiculous, Everybody Wants This’.

It’s easy to become a shopaholic when the mall is literally in your pocket. These days, you can order a fedora on Deliveroo and leave online reviews for everything from a toilet brush to the Bible. You can even get into debt buying a poke bowl with Klarna’s pay-in-3 scheme. In Don’t Be Ridiculous, Everybody Wants This, Candace eviscerates modern consumerist culture and confesses how her own mind and wallet have been seduced by it.

A ‘theoretical minimalist’ trying to reconcile her constant urge to spend with her left-leaning morals, Candace asks: Is it OK to want to look hot at a protest? Is her love of hats the reason she can’t afford a home? Is doomshopping the new doomscrolling? The result is a sharp and refreshing perspective on trying to find happiness in an increasingly worrying world.