Gigs
Weirdos Comedy – Launch Night!
Tim Shishodia
Adam Larter
Beth Vyse
John Kearns
Matthew Highton
Mark Stephenson (MC)
Nearest rail: Stoke Newington
Tube: Dalston Junction Overground
Buses: 67,73, 141, 149, 243, 276, 341, 393 or 476
Knock2Bag at the Soho Theatre (Soho Downstairs) – The Late Show
Award winning comedy with award winning comedians
Friday 11th May 2012 - 11.30pm-1am
Award winning comedy night Knock2Bag comes to the Soho Theatre for a very special late show on Friday 11th May 2012. Expect afterhours comedy mayhem featuring Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award winner 2011 and character comedy aficionado Adam Riches; Saturday Night Live writer and Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Newcomer Award nominee 2011 Hannibal Buress; Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Newcomer Award winner 2011 and star of BBC 2’s Fast and Loose Humphery Ker; Daniel Kitson endorsed sketch comedy from the hotly tipped for greatness Sheeps; from Channel 4’s Stand-Up for the Week and Campus, BBC 2’s Twenty Twelve, and her very own musical Sara Pascoe; and winner of Chortle Student Comedian of the Year 2011, the erratic and jittery Adam Hess. The night is hosted by the lively, unpredictable, energetic, dynamic – Chortle Award Winner for Best Compere 2010 - Jarred Christmas with accompaniment from the human beatbox Hobbit.
Advance tickets are now on sale priced £10 from www.sohotheatre.com and for more info on Knock2Bag check out www.knock2bag.co.uk.
CRAIG CAMPBELL: LIVE
Internationally acclaimed stand-up Craig Campbell as extended his first solo national tour Craig Campbell Live, for a second time, by a further 22 dates bringing the total number of shows to a massive 116. The tour sees Craig perform across the country from the far-flung Orkney Islands to the south of Cornwall, as well as taking in London’s Bloomsbury Theatre for the first time. This second extension is hot-on-the-heels of Craig’s return from the New Zealand International Comedy Festival and kicks off from 24th May.
Craig supported Frankie Boyle on his 120 date nationwide tour, performed on Dave’s One Night Stand (DAVE), Russell Howard’s Good News (BBC Three), and Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow (BBC One). He was also responsible for easing the contractions of an expectant mother who laughed so hard at his performance on Dave’s One Night Stand – in which detailed an encounter with a badger – that her waters broke.
As a natural raconteur, Craig is able to find humour in the mundane, instinctively able to entertain and amuse. Typically dressed in his beloved ‘I love cheese’ t-shirt (synthetic and a bit wiffy) and a khaki (undercover police concealment) shorts number, sometimes substituted for leather trousers, the strapping ex-athlete commands his stages with vigor, befriending the audience with boisterous reenactments from his travels.
Craig was the notorious host of Canada’s legendary Ed’s Night Party, and headline guest on numerous Canadian TV shows such as Jim Carrey Live, The Dennis Miller Show and Just for Laughs. He is a firm fringe favourite having made his Edinburgh debut alongside Tony Law and Dan Antopolski as part of comedy trio The Dinks which won great critical and box office success, leading to an invitation to perform in the Best Of Edinburgh programme in New York. He has since supported Rich Hall on his international tour and had two further successful solo shows in Edinburgh.
Craig Campbell will be performing at The Bloomsbury Theatre on 25th May 2012, 8pm
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SARA PASCOE
STAND UP LADY - 14TH APRIL 2012 - 7.45PM
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‘DON’T EVEN WANNA BE ON TELLY ANYWAY’
EDINBURGH PREVIEWS & MORE!
19th April, 16th May & 20th June – Hen & Chickens Theatre, London Tickets
2nd May – Laughter Lines Festival, Leeds – (Performing in Leeds Student Union) Tickets
9th May – E4 Udderbelly Festival, London Tickets
www.peacockandgamble.com
@EdGambleComedy @RayPeacock @peacockgamble
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Up In Arms present
I HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY – AN EVENING WITH MATT FISHER
by Joz Norris
SATURDAY 7th APRIL – The Hen & Chickens Theatre, St. Paul’s Road, Highbury & Islington, London. 09:30pm, Tickets ￡6.50
Box Office: 020 7704 2001
THURSDAY 19th APRIL – The Cavendish Arms, Hartington Road, Stockwell, London. 07:45pm, Tickets ￡4.50
Box Office: 020 7498 7464
Matt Fisher, aspiring rockstar, comedian and Billy Joel fan, and “one of the most exciting comic character creations on the up-and-coming comedy scene,” takes to the stages of some of London’s leading independent comedy venues this spring in his new one-man show. Matt, the alter-ego of critically-acclaimed comedian Joz Norris, aims to present the Ultimate One-Man Show, an evening of dance, song, comedy, observation, self-help, chat, flirtation, mime, crime and boasting in a no-holds-barred extravaganza.
ALEX HORNE, SEVEN YEARS IN THE BATHROOM
12TH – 17TH MARCH, THE SOHO THEATRE
From 12th March 2010, Chortle Award Winning comedian Alex Horne will perform his new show Seven Years in a Bathroom – the ultimate stat-based fun-packed thought-provoking experimental-and-sometimes-stupid hour-long comedy show – in venues nationwide, including a run at London’s Soho Theatre.
Alex Horne has spent more than a decade building shows around niche subjects like bird watching, Latin, dictionaries and quantum mechanics including Making Fish Laugh which saw him nominated for the Perrier Best Newcomer Award. Now he’s decided to raise his game. Alex is going to have a crack at life itself, and to mark this massive shift he’s going to write the rest of this in the first person.
I like statistics. I particularly like the one that says, “If the history of the earth is condensed into a single year then humans only arrive at five to midnight on New Year’s Eve”. That’s a good one. Mainly because it makes you think, blimey, just in time; isn’t the earth old and isn’t my tiny life insignificant.
I’m going to show you exactly what it would look like if a human life was condensed into one hour. That’s the big idea. You may well have heard that in your life you’ll spend two years queuing, two weeks kissing and three months opening jars, well, now you’re going to see what that would look like in the context of your entire life. There will also be some jokes, but mainly it’ll be a typical human existence squeezed into an hour.
There will, of course, be some nifty presentation techniques (I’ve moved on from PowerPoint to the mighty Keynote), but the big news is I’ll be attempting several things for the first time ever in public: wearing a bathrobe, drinking exactly 100 ml of cider and simulating sex to name a few. It’ll be about as rock and roll as a geek like me could ever dare dream!
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Red In The Face, Tuesday 6th March 2012, McQueen
Henry Paker
Star of ‘Russell Howard’s Good News’, winner of Leicester Comedian of The Year and writer for ‘Mock The Week’ and ’8 Out Of 10 Cats’. An incredible act who you frequently see on TV.
Simon Fielder
A wonderful MC who has performed across the country at venues like Highlight, Jongleurs and The Comedy Store
Paul T. Eyres
One of the best young talents on the circuit and a frequent act at clubs like Jongleurs and Big Night Out.
Duncan Pow
A fave at McQueen, Duncan returns with more hilarious stories and anecdotes
£8 Tickets, £5 for UCL Students
Max and Ivan’s Roffle Club [Time Out Critics' Choice] ASTONISHINGLY STRONG LINE-UP FEATURES…
Frisky and Mannish // Loretta Maine // Late Night Gimp Fight // Delete the BanJax // Dregs // Elliot Tiney //
Dregs
Sharp and stylish cool kids Max Dickins and Mark Smith, dropping sketch comedy bombs all up in your area.
“Obvious talent with a keen eye for untapped funny” Chortle
“Sharp, quick, well delivered…unique …something rather special” Three Weeks
★★★★ Broadway Baby ★★★★ National Student ★★★★ Three Weeks
Late Night Gimp Fight
Chortle Award-winning all-conquering sketch monstrosity. Dark, twisted and completely fantastic.
“Sketch Comedy doesn’t get much better than this” – The Scotsman
“Their gloriously bad taste may be the key to a bright future” – The Guardian
“Quite brilliant” – The Times
“A Gloriously funny Spunkstorm of bad taste” - Chortle
Delete the BanJax
‘Surreal, energetic, hysterically funny, missing this act would be like skipping Christmas.’ THREE WEEKS ★★★★★
‘Simply put, Banjax are adorably funny… I left grinning from ear to ear’ THE BRITISH COMEDY GUIDE ★★★★★
She’s just a gal with a guitar, a winning smile and an extensive criminal record. Some of the sharpest, darkest musical comedy there is.
THE INDEPENDENT ★★★★
THE METRO ★★★★
TIME OUT ★★★★
Elliot Tiney
Recommended by:
THE GUARDIAN
THE INDEPENDENT
GRAZIA
TIME OUT
HOTLIST
CHORTLE
THE UDDERBELLY FESTIVAL
SCOTT MILLS on RADIO 1 (like, every week)All hosted by MAX AND IVAN [EDINBURGH COMEDY AWARD-WINNERS], performing the newest, freshest and most exhilarating excerpts from their 2012 Edinburgh Fringe show!
[N.B. Frisky and Mannish filled the 400-seater Udderbelly to capacity, but Max & Ivan have somehow managed to convince them to play downstairs at the LST. What are you waiting for? BOOK NOW!]
Amused Moose Laugh Off 2012 – London & Southern England Heats
Tickets £6.50 www.henandchickens.com 020 7704 2001 or 08444 771 000
Hen & Chickens Theatre, 109 St Pauls Road, N1 2NA
Tickets £6.50 www.henandchickens.com 020 7704 2001 or 08444 771 000
Sun 26 Feb at 8.15pm: AmusedMoose LaughOff heat 4.
Come along and vote for your favourites amongst the contenders battling for fame, fortune and a place in the next round, including Aisling Bea, Jon Todd, Jack Samuel Warner and Michael Clarke, who are compered by Torchwood’s Tom Price.
Hen & Chickens Theatre, 109 St Pauls Road, N1 2NA
Tickets £6.50 www.henandchickens.com 020 7704 2001 or 08444 771 000
Mon 27 Feb at 7pm: AmusedMoose LaughOff heat 5.
Come along and cote for your favourites amongst the contenders battling for fame, fortune and a place in the next round, including Adam Hess, Joz Norris, Matthew Giffen, Chris McIlroy, Mugging Chickens, Bobby Freeman, Bruce Cochrane and Nathaniel Metcalf, who are compered by Rob Beckett (AmusedMoose LaughOff 2010 winner),
Hen & Chickens Theatre, 109 St Pauls Road, N1 2NA
Tickets £6.50 www.henandchickens.com 020 7704 2001 or 08444 771 000
Mon 12 March at 7pm: AmusedMoose LaughOff Quarterfinal 1
Come along and vote for your favourites amongst seven of the best 500+ London entrants to AmusedMoose LaughOff, compered by Mark Dolan of C4′s Mad Bad Ad Show and Balls of Steel. Amongst the contenders in the first quarterfinal are Gareth Cooper, Jonathan Hearn, Tom Toal and Jim Down, who’ll battle it out by each featuring ten minutes of their very own finely crafted comedy material for a place in the semi-final, then on to fame and like recent winners Jack Whitehall and Sarah Millican.
At: Hen & Chickens Theatre, 109 St Pauls Road, N1 2NA (Tube: Highbury & Islington)
Tickets £6.50 www.henandchickens.com 020 7704 2001 or 08444 771 000
Sunday 1st April: Sitting Room Comedy at the Rehab Bar, 18-20 Parliament Street, Harrogate HG1 2QZ
4pm North of England heats of AmusedMoose LaughOff (supported by 2entertain), hosted by Tom Taylor (Free)
A great bunch of excited newly discovered comedians who have won through from the 60+ entrants, will have their first taste of public acclaim this afternoon, so come in to talentspot the next Sarah Millican and vote for your favourites.
8pm North of England Quarterfinal of AmusedMoose LaughOff (supported by 2entertain), hosted by Carly Smallman £6
The quarter final will see North of England’s six best upcoming stand-ups perform to become the North of England winner, which ensures a place in the UK & Ireland semi-finals of AmusedMoose Laugh Off (supported by 2entertain) at AmusedMooseSoho in London, prior to prestigious Final which is a feature of the Edinburgh Fringe, with the Trophies presented by the Chief Executive of the Fringe and MD of 2entertain, the UK’s leading dvd publishers.
Evening tickets in advance on www.SittingRoomComedy.com
Entries on www.AmusedMoose.com/LaughOff
Adam Hess & Chris Turner
Saturday 11th February – 7.50pm & Sunday 12th February – 3.20pm
Venue: Kayal, 153 Granby Street, Leicester, LE1 6FE
Join award-winning comedians Adam (Chortle Student Comedian of the Year) and
Chris (BBC New Comedy Award Finalist) for an hour of jokes, sketches and songs.
“Beautifully crafted one-liners, witty wordplay and deadpan delivery” – BBC
“Virtually batters the audience into laughter” – Chortle
“A masterclass in audience interaction…A great show” **** – The Skinny
Listen to Chris Turner’s Interview on Humour Me!
Venue Website: http://www.kayalrestaurant.com
Tickets:
Saturday: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/148824
Sunday: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/146898
Phone: 08700 600100
Matt Richardson
Sunday 19th February
The Crumblin Cookie, 68 Highstreet, Leicester, LE1 5YP
Doors open: 6.50pm – Start time: 7pm – End Time: 8pm
Venue: The Crumblin Cookie – Entry: Free – Ticket No: 01162531212
Listen to Matt Richardson’s interview on Humour Me
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Words Words Words Comedy Club
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Funny Women London Nights – Friday 27th January
The Leicester Square Theatre
Lucy Beaumont was a finalist in the 2011 Guilded Balloon’s nationwide stand-up comedy competition So You Think You’re Funny? Lucy has also been elected to be mentored by Jeremy Dyson (League of Gentlemen) as part of Northern Laughs, a BBC initiative aimed at finding new comedy writing talent in the North of England.
Leanne Davis started out performing a one woman piece that she performed at Latitude 2010 and was based on her own experience of her father having buried the family dog alive (accidentally). Her character of Wendy is however fictional. Mostly…
London based comic Hannah Warman always delivers a set packed full of jokes, energy and silliness. Hannah performs stand-up all across the UK, including performed for the full run of Edinburgh fringe festival in 2009 and 2010, and a week’s run at Brighton fringe 2010. “Exuberant with genuine comedy nuggets.**** (4 stars)” Three Weeks
Sara Shulman is the editor of Comedy Blogedy, which features interviews, reviews and all sorts of news about comedy. Having only started gigging in December 2011, Sara is a very new act but is looking forward to embracing the performance side of the comedy circuit!
Actress, comedian and writer Laura Lexx was a 2009 finalist at both the Chortle and Paramount Student comedy awards and has been up and down the UK since then delighting audiences with her ”razor sharp wit”, “joyously cheery persona” and childish delight in all things silly.
Kerry Gilbert was a finalist in last year’s Funny Women Awards and is a regular performer on the live comedy circuit. She took her first one-woman comedy show ‘Kerry Gilbert Gives Love a Bad Name’ – a collection of funny twisted love stories – to the Edinburgh Comedy Festival in 2010.
Book Tickets
Mae Martin – “Mae Day: I’m Not Waving, I’m Drowning”
Friday 3rd February – 9:30pm – The Hen and Chickens Theatre
“She’s gentle but intelligent, sweet yet sharp, and it’s a winning combination…after the night is over, it’s Mae Martin people are talking about. She’s the gem in an evening of outstanding comic talent.” – Spoonfed.co.uk
* * * * “She knows how make an audience laugh… Full of the confidence of a veteran comedian…There are moments of brilliance from this lady and I’m crossing my fingers she’ll be back in Edinburgh next year, not drowning but walking on water” – SCOTSGAY
“A one-woman laugh riot!” – MOONEYONTHEATRE.COM
Book Tickets - £7.50
Lolitics – Tuesday 24th January
It’s going to be another wonderful line-up, with political jokes from NICK DOODY, KATE SMURTHWAITE, TIERNAN DOUIEB, NADIA KAMIL, MATT GREEN and BRODERICK CHOW. Political jokes, Tory smashing, radical ideas and happy-fun goodtimes. As always, the whole event will be compered by CHRIS COLTRANE.
Upstairs at The Black Heart, 2-3 Greenland Place, NW1 0AP, Camden Town
£3 entry, doors 8pm
Also on Friday 20th January…
Red In The Face Comedy Club at The Hopsital Club, Covent Garden, Doors: 7pm Show: 8pm
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Click here for the full listings at Monkey Business Comedy Club over the Festive Season!
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Sunday 18th and Monday 19th December 2011 – The Riverside Studios, Hammersmith - 7.30pm
School of Comedy – the after-school club so good that it got its own TV show – is presenting two evenings of comic genius live.
Tickets are priced at £12 and available from the Riverside Box Office on 020 8237 1111 or www.riversidestudios.co.uk.
Videos of School of Comedy
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Max and Ivan’s Roffle Club
Leicester Square Theatre - 11.12.11 – 8.30pm
Featuring:
HUMPHREY KER: Fosters Comedy Award Winner (Best Newcomer), Penny Dreadful, tall genius.
TOTALLY TOM: Awesome, Youtube-smashing Best Newcomer-nominees. Razor sharp and awesome.
BEC HILL: One of the funniest Twitterers around (according to TimeOut) and even better in person.
SARA PASCOE: Sickeningly talented actress/writer/comedian.
THE PAJAMA MEN: Record-breaking globe-trotting double act. See ‘em live. Here. A rare and wonderful treat.
All hosted by MAX AND IVAN (Edinburgh Comedy Award Winners) performing NEW THINGS that MIGHT become their EDINBURGH 2012 SHOW. YEAH!
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Laughter Shock Website
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25th October 2011
Showtime: 8.00pm
A line-up of hand-picked comedians from the London circuit. Featuring : Andrew West, Ash Frith, Chris Fraser, Damien St John, David Hannant, Magda the Cleaning Lady, Robbie Ormrod, Ryan Cull, Sam Wong, Simon Caine and Steph Peart and MC Tez Ilyas.
www.gagsterscomedy.co.uk
Red in the Face – Comedy and Cabaret
Tuesday 4th October @ McQueen
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Bexley Comedy Club – Tuesday4th October
Line-up: Joe Acres, Fredrik Andersson & more as well as regular MC Jonny Williams and a headline act from Marc Lucero.
Doors: 7:45pm Show: 8pm
Bexley Comedy Club, The Kings Head, High Street, Bexley Kent DA5 1AA
07791580833
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Comedy Gold -Wednesday 21st September
Upstairs at The Old Queen’s Head,
44 Essex Road, Angel, N1 8LN
Doors 7pm. Show 8pm.
Line-up: Lucy Porter, Pete Firman, Danielle Ward, David Armand, Aisling Bea & Tom Hayward
£7.50 each on the door
Table reservations: You can book a table for free bookings@comedy-gold.co.uk
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Laugh Out London – Free Comedy Night
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Wisecrack Comedy Club – Launch Night!
3rd October 2011
7:30pm – 1:00am
Running the 1st and 3rd Monday of the month
3rd & 17th Oct, 7th & 21st Nov, 5th & 19th Dec
Upstair @ Central Station pub, 37 Wharfdale Road, London, N1 9SD
Sahar Mirhadi and Lucy Jagger host a night of comedy with:
Phil Wragg, Kieran Coyle, Henry von Stifle, Graeme Wright, Phil Jones, Trev Tokabi, Joe Charman, John Pendal, Joz Norris, Mina Znaidi
For more information please contact wisecrackcomedy@gmail.com / 07757363252
Facebook: facebook.com/groups/wisecrackcomedy Twitter: @wisecrackcomic
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Comedy Bin: Comedy Showcases
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Start of the new Comedy Season at
Monkey Business Comedy Club
Monkey Business Comedy Club is launching the new comedy season at The Oxford in Kentish Town as well as at its previous venue The Sir Richard Steele’s in Chalk Farm.
Russell Brand, Noel Fielding, Lee Nelson, Harry Hill, Milton Jones, Chris Addison and Patrick Monahan, the winner of ITV’s stand-up comedy contest Show Me The Funny, are amongst just some of the many acts that have performed at the club.
The big opening night commences on Saturday 3rd September 2011. MC’d by Tatiana Ostrakova, the very strong line-up includes:
Lucy Porter
Paul Kerensa
Stefan Gephausen
Gary Coleman
Jean-Paul Luttrell (the 15 year-old stand up )
Tickets cost £12 or £10 for concessions. Lifetime memberships are availbale at just £3 – membership cards can be used at both venues.
15% off great food at The Oxford if you’re attending the show. It is suggested you arrive around 7pm to relax and enjoy the food in time for the show.
To see the food menu or reserve a table, click here.
Tickets can be reserved:
Email: monkeybusinesscomedyclub@yahoo.co.uk (no credit card is needed)
Telephone: 07932 338 203
Online: We Got Tickets
