Who wants to see backstage photos of comics all sweaty and grimey just after they've come offstage? You're in the right place. Back for a second year is Edinburgh is Funny's 'Behind the Fringe' series. More photos will be added each day this week (all photos by Nick Collett.)

• Click here for the 2010 Behind the Fringe gallery

All eyeliner and American Apparel, Russell Kane manages a grimace

Thom Tuck with flying V uke, Simba toy and post-show pint at the Pleasance Dome

Lou Sanders in serious mode after one of the most unserious shows on the Fringe (review here)

Comedy dish Joel Dommett of Skins/Popatron fame

Holly Walsh has a good scratch backstage at the Pleasance Courtyard

The debonair Tom Allen looks relaxed following his highly popular chat show

Sweat fiend Nick Helm (review here)

Backstage at the shadowy Underbelly with sketch duo Dregs (Max Dickins left, Mark Smith right), with sidekick John Dredge between them, in more ways than one

One of the big-name imports at this year's Fringe, Margaret Cho (review here)

An Edinburgh stalwart – Carey Marx

Delete the Banjax looking timeless and really rather magnificent

Josie Long having a whale of a time by the looks of it (review here)

One of the Best Newcomer nominees, Hannibal Buress

Downstairs at the Tron pub with the rakish Tom Bell and props (review here)

Oddball sketch trio Sheeps are herded backstage at the Pleasance Courtyard (review here)

Best Newcomer victor Humphrey Ker is caught literally with his trousers down

A nominee for the main award this year, Australian surrealist Sam Simmons

Finales don't get much messier than that of The Boom Jennies (l-r Catriona Knox, Anna Emerson and Lizzie Bates), snapped here with food-fight sous chef Spencer Jones

Sarah Campbell and Amy Hoggart, aka Christmas For Two

Self-confessed 'child of privilege' Tom Rosenthal

Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler take the party backstage at the Assembly, following their variety show Hot Tub

The most geeky show title this year must go to Claudia O'Doherty for What Is Soil Erosion?

Audacious rookie Ben Target, a Free Fringer who finishes his show in unusual fashion

Alex Horne (second right) with his Horne Section

Richard Herring on the stairs of the Udderbelly Pasture

Neil Hamburger, aka Gregg Turkington behind the Assembly stage

Lizzie and Sarah Daykin, aka sibling rivalry double act Toby

Tony Law in full 19th century explorer mode (review here)

Australian political comics Aamer Rahman and Nazeem Hussain, aka Fear of a Brown Planet

Globe-trotting Canadian stand-up Glenn Wool backstage at the Assembly (review here)

Alternative comedy legend Simon Munnery at the Stand Comedy Club

Political comedy behemoth Andy Zaltzman in a shirt that at the very least won't show up any sweat (review here)

Andi Osho of Stand Up for the Week looks relaxed after coming offstage. As part of her show this year she goes on a date with an audience member each evening

A spooked-looking Eric Lampaert, one of this year's debutants

Jigsaw – a newly formed sketch trio comprising stand-ups (l-r) Nat Luurtsema, Tom Craine and Dan Antopolski (review here)

Critics darling Adam Riches looks exhausted after his bombastic show at the Pleasance Courtyard (review here)

Matthew Crosby of sketch group Pappy's has gone solo this year, with a little help from his tech, Pegs

Tim Key, who this year followed up his 2009 award-winning show with Masterslut (review here)

Another former winner of the Edinburgh Comedy Award, David O'Doherty, with some props from his 2011 show in which he plays a fictional Antarctic explorer

Character comic Lee Fenwick, aka Mick Sergeant, a former shipyard worker from Sunderland

Anti-comedian Ed Aczel in mischievous mood at the Underbelly

New double act Louise Ford (left) and Yasmine Akram let some air into their Pleasance Hut box (review here)

A particularly high-octane stand-up, debutant Naz Osmanoglu

Cariad Lloyd, a character comic performing on the Free Fringe this year who has been nominated for the Best Newcomer award

Another character comic Colin Hoult in high spirits

One of last year's Best Newcomer nominees, young sketch group Late Night Gimp Fight offer up a range of emotions after their show

Candid stand-up Diane Spencer at the Gilded Balloon (review here)

Chris Martin, a rookie at the Underbelly this year, on a kind of post-show comedown

Another newbie, James Acaster, with Willoughby the bear, who plays a starring role (review here)

The wonderfully unpredictable Lewis Schaffer snapped outside his Free Fringe venue, the Counting House

Musical comedian Rob Deering emitting and injecting fluid

Alex Horne in his time-saving device, the jumpsuit (review here)

A late-night show by duo Totally Tom is a no-less sweaty affair

Confrontational American absurdist Dr Brown cools off in the recesses of the Underbelly

Another Best Newcomer award nominee this year: Josh Widdicombe with a well-earned pint (review here)

John Kearns attempts a display of affection towards his Dinner Party sidekick Pat Cahill

Another Free Fringer, Richard Sandling is snapped at the Canon's Gait pub

Show Me the Funny star Tiffany Stevenson backstage at the Stand

A shattered Joe Wilkinson (review here)