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Our legendary comedy nights are steaming into 2025! Don’t miss three laugh-out-loud comics fearlessly taking to the mic in front of what’s sure to be a sell-out audience.
Plus, it’s Valentine’s Day, so there’s your romantic night out sorted!
Book early to make sure you don’t miss out…
Like all women who literally just celebrated their 35th birthday five years ago, Hayley Ellis is obsessed with true crime.
Sure, it’s not the most feminist of passions – but since when do we ever do what’s best for ourselves, however old we get?
Join Hayley as she navigates middle age – and as everyone agrees, the middle of anything is always the most delicious part (excluding Donuts, Avocados or plane seats), the joys of remaining (mostly) happily unmarried and the truly horrific journey of later-in-life contraception.Something for everyone.
As seen as tour support for Sarah Millican and Jason Manford.
“Sharp, clever, and very funny” – THE SUNDAY POST
“Ellis is a talent” – FEST MAG
Winner Best Show – NW Comedy Awards 2023
With over 4.5 million social media followers and countless TV appearances under his belt, Pete Firman is the UK’s top comic magician.
Join him for an evening of ‘Tricks & Giggles’, as Pete brings his trademark blend of magic and comedy from the small screen to stages around the UK with this brand-new show. Expect impossible feats, sleight of hand and big laughs from one of magic’s most exciting performers!
As seen on Amazon’s Good Omens, ITV1’s Tonight at the London Palladium and The Next Great Magician, BBC1’s The John Bishop Show and The Sarah Millican Television Programme. He’s probably also popped up on your social media feeds with his mind-boggling and regularly viral magic videos.
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‘The man from Middlesbrough sets the pace for comedy-meets-magic in the 21st century’
The Times
‘The new poster-boy for British comedy magic’
The Telegraph
‘Seamless blending of quality magic and stand-up comedy. It is a joy to watch’
Edinburgh Festivals Magazine
‘The best magic tricks in the Universe’
Independent
★★★★★ The Mirror
★★★★★ Time Out
★★★★ Independent
★★★★ Scotsman
★★★★ Metro
BACK AFTER A HILARIOUS SHOW IN 2024
Improv Wolves is a short form comedy improvisation group featuring some of the best improvisers in the Midlands. They create completely new comedy sketches on the spot, based entirely on audience suggestions.
Every show is different!
We might see a film noir detective pastiche, hear surprising confessions from some of the most famous names in history or have the dubious honour of being present for the debut of a brand new improvised song.
Improv Wolves have appeared at venues around the UK including Bath Fringe Festival, Birmingham Comedy Festival and Guildford Fringe Festival.
The Improv Wolves performers have experience working with companies including The Improlectuals, Foghorn Unscripted, Wow Impro, Birmingham Rep and The Old Joint Stock Theatre.
THIRD DATE ADDED DUE TO PHENOMENAL DEMAND
Champion of the Black Country, Jonny Cole is one of the most unique, exciting and hilariously funny acts to come out of the Black Country and unstoppable force in musical comedy.
Comparisons to Jasper Carrott and Tim Minchin (depending on the reviewers age) tell only half the story. One of the freshest and funniest new comedians to hit the comedy circuit in the last few years.
Jonny Cole is packing out comedy clubs everywhere. With his individual patter and commentary on life, coupled with his original songs, he is being described as a ‘breath of fresh air’.
Never forgetting his ‘Black Country’ roots Jonny has written original songs about life, love and loss (his Xbox) with hilarious results.
Award-deserving German Comedy Ambassador Henning Wehn takes an unbiased look at climate change, a topic sure to delight audiences and no surprise. After all, everyone loves talking about the weather.
Rain or shine, all will be fine. Or maybe it won’t. Who knows?! Come along. Or else.
We’re talking all things The Inbetweeners at this special evening with actor/comedian Joe Thomas.
It wasn’t long after audiences were first introduced to hapless sixth-formers Will McKenzie, Neil Sutherland, Jay Cartright and Simon Cooper that The Inbetweeners became one of the nation’s best loved shows. With its endlessly quotable lines and outrageous laugh-per-second banter, the sitcom attracted record-breaking viewing figures and inspired two incredibly successful feature films.
Celebrating seventeen years since the show’s debut, Joe Thomas aka Simon Cooper is here in-conversation all about the series and taking questions from the audience. Hearing all about Joe’s favourite Inbetweeners moments and behind the scenes misadventures, as well as its impact on his own life as an actor/comedian, this promises to be an exciting evening of humour and insight from one of the nation’s best loved young sitcom stars.
We’ll also, of course, be touching on Joe’s other work, including Fresh Meat, White Gold and TaskMaster!
Joe is happy to stay around for a short while after the show, meet fans and take pictures.
HOMEWORK
Circa 2007, Joe Thomas was a budding actor/writer headed for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival alongside university writing partner, Simon Bird. While performing their two-man show The Meeting, the pair were spotted by Iain Morris and Damon Beesley, TV producers who were developing an as-then untitled E4 sitcom about four hapless sixth-formers, chronicling their various misadventures.
Later titled The Inbetweeners, the series went on to become Channel 4’s most-watched show ever, winning a Rose D’or for Best Situation Comedy and spawning two feature films, the first of which broke records for having the most successful opening weekend for a comedy film in the UK.
So come along, bring your friends (ooh, friends!), and enjoy an evening of hilarity and insight into the nation’s best loved teen sitcom from one of its key stars.
Age 14+
Award-winning, international touring comedian Nabil Abdulrashid returns with a riotous new stand-up show.
As seen on Live at the Apollo, Have I Got News For You, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and the Last Leg. As heard on Off Menu with James Acaster and Ed Gamble and Hoovering with Jessica Fostekew.
★★★★ “A potent, mischievously entertaining voice” Scotsman
★★★★ “Abdulrashid is emerging as one of comedy’s most honest chroniclers of life’s complexities and contradictions” Guardian
★★★★ “Pinch-me clever and painstakingly bold…never predictable, often hysterical – and overall a joy” Time Out
EXTRA DATE ADDED DUE TO PHENOMENAL DEMAND
You might have seen him on Strictly Come Dancing, Would I Lie to You, Have I Got News for You,
The Royal Variety, QI, Blankety Blank, The Last Leg, and tons more as well.
He’s been called an “overnight success” – Even though he’s been doing this for yonks!
Chris McCausland is hitting the road again with another masterclass in stand-up comedy that
has literally been yonks in the making –
The last tour was a sell-out, so get your tickets now!
Recommended age: 16+
Following a series of sell-out shows at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, last summer, comedy legend Bobby Davro hits the road for his first tour in over a decade.
Everything Is Funny If You Can Laugh At It is a masterclass in stand-up from one of Britain’s best loved comedians at the top of his game
“…a polished performance of predictably old-fashioned but expertly delivered gags.” – The List
..if more modern comedians had a fraction of his showmanship, the circuit would be a jollier place …spot on delivery… bulletproof professionalism” Chortle
Bobby Davro says: “With the laughter still ringing in my ears from the month of Edinburgh gigs, I thought I’d take the show on the road and catch up with my fans around the country. I hope to prove two things – You’re never too old for a good gag and everything is funny if you can laugh at it. So if you like to laugh, come along – and don’t forget, if you’re on the frontline, you’re in the punchline!
Over the past four decades, Bobby Davro has appeared on a huge variety of television shows, his popularity was at its highest during the mid-1980s with his own Saturday night ITV shows, Bobby Davro on the Box, Bobby Davro’s TV Annual and Bobby Davro’s TV Weekly.
He also made appearances on the popular comedy impressions sketch show Copy Cats. He then went on to play Vinnie Monks in BBC’s EastEnders in 2007 and has appeared on a host of reality shows including Celebrity Big Brother, Dancing On Ice and Celebrity Come Dine With Me.
He has headlined for over fifteen years in pantomime across the country and his live stand-up shows are legendary!