Stephen Gordon is a Scottish comedian with an English accent - which is either his best bit or his biggest problem, depending on the room. He spent twenty years studying how great comedy works from every possible angle. He performed in musical theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe from the age of sixteen. He busked on the streets of Scotland writing improvised comedy songs about strangers, which led to support slots for America's Got Talent finalist Piff the Magic Dragon and The Blanks - the a cappella band from Scrubs. He was signed to a record label and played over a thousand live shows. He went viral via the Mirror and LADBible for a comedy song performed to Professor Brian Cox. He spent years flyering the Royal Mile for established acts including Howard Read and Joe Wilkinson, filling 500-capacity rooms and learning from the inside how the Fringe actually works. ‘Notes: Comedy B-Sides’ is the show he always wanted to see - the comedy geek who finally got the keys to the green room and decided to leave the door open.

‘Notes: Comedy B-Sides’

Comedian, producer and Edinburgh obsessive Stephen Gordon (Mirror, LADBible) brings ‘Notes: Comedy B-Sides’ - a late night rotating format show - to the Edinburgh Fringe.

In an era of meticulously rehearsed solo hours, ‘Notes: Comedy B-Sides’ pulls back the curtain on the messy, brilliant and chaotic process that comes before the polished show. Every comedian has a Notes app full of half-formed premises, 3am voice memos, and ideas that went somewhere unexpected and never made it into the hour. This is the show where four rotating comedians open their phones and perform them live - whether they're ready or not. A different lineup every night. The green room made public.

Will our brave, bare-all, acts find a fully formed idea hiding in plain sight? Will the voice memo from 2am last Tuesday turn out to be the funniest thing anyone in that room has ever heard? Or will it be a single word with three question marks and absolutely no context? In the middle of the night, in the most atmospheric room in Edinburgh, anything can happen – and that's exactly the point.