Edinburgh Festival: Ticket offers

Today we have 60 free tickets to give away at the Assembly Rooms (venue 3). Five pairs are available for each of the following shows:

James Stephen III (7.30pm). From America, a stand-up and musician who has won rave reviews from, among others, Bill Clinton;

Jim Breuer (9.20pm). Robin Williams meets Jim Carrey in this wonderfully warm stand-up from New York;

Corky and the Juice Pigs (10.10pm). The evergreen Canadians present their History of Comedy;

Simon Bligh (11.30pm). Perrier nominated in 1995 for his show about all things Japanese, this year Bligh returns to stand-up;

The Wow Show (6pm). Whose Line Is It Anyway?'s Steve Frost and cohorts take the Supper Room by storm;

Alex Lyons, Martyr to Arthur (12 midnight). From Kilkenny in Ireland, the former Saatchi copywriter who describes himself as "the bastard son of William Shatner and Gary Glitter".

n To take advantage of either of these offers take a copy of today's 'Independent' to the Assembly Rooms box-office. All tickets are available on a first come, first served basis only