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London Stand Up And Sketch Comedy: 29 April-5 May
Where to find funny this week Sunday: Pappy’s kick off the last-in-the-series Flatshare Slamdown podcast recording at the Phoenix pub; guests are mysterious and unannounced but we imagine they’ll be...
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Comedy Review: Hannibal Buress @ Soho Theatre
American comic Hannibal Buress exudes an easy charm as he takes to the stage at the Soho Theatre. This is his first time performing in London and on the second night of his run, he’s sold the venue...
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Comedy Preview: Domestic Science / Festival Of The Spoken Nerd
There’s a relatively new comedy-geek night in town, run by one-third of Festival of the Spoken Nerd Helen Arney and her other half, Rob Wells. It’s called Domestic Science and is inspired by this pair...
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London Stand Up And Sketch Comedy: 6-12 May
Where to find funny this week Robin Ince is at the Bloomsbury Theatre on SaturdaySunday: There’s some Really Lovely Comedy at the Black Heart, Camden from 2pm as part of the Camden Crawl. A good chance...
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London Stand Up And Sketch Comedy: 13-19 May
Where to find funny this week Sunday: Likeable puppy Spencer Brown is on at the 99 Club in Leicester Square tonight, alongside Mowten and Ed Gamble (8pm, £10 online, more expensive on the door)....
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London Stand Up And Sketch Comedy: 20-26 May
Where to find funny this week Sunday: There’s an Edinburgh preview double bill at Comedy Knights @ The Drayton Arms Theatre (8pm, £6 / £3) from Andi Osho and misanthrope Bobby Carroll. Monday: We...
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Late Night Stand Up @ Soho Theatre’s Comedy Bonk
Soho Theatre’s monthly late show ‘Comedy Bonk’ is a real treat for stand-up aficionados. This month’s line-up features the brilliantly wacky and bizarre Chris Dangerfield alongside rising star Lloyd...
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London Stand Up And Sketch Comedy: 27 May-2 June
Where to find funny this week Sunday: Sunday night is urban night at Top Secret Comedy Club in Covent Garden, with comics Josephine Lacey, Prince Abdi, Jason Patterson and Paul Ricketts (8pm, £8)....
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Festival Preview: Applecart 2012
After the hipster heaven of Field Day, the laid-back, family-friendly attitude of Applecart Festival is a welcome relief. You can relax with a pint and the Sunday supplements as a wonderful array of...
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London Stand Up And Sketch Comedy: 3-9 June
Where to find funny this week Sunday: Paul Ricketts has updated his Kiss the Badge, Fly the Flag show about multicultural England, first developed during the 2010 World Cup, for Euro 2012. We wonder...
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London’s Edinburgh Fringe Previews
Paul Sinha - who previews his show on 31 July In the run up to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August, comedy acts will be road testing their sets throughout the city. Often taking place at small...
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London Stand Up And Sketch Comedy: 10-16 June
Where to find funny this week Sunday: H Anthony Hildebrand hosts An Event of Some Kind at Camden’s Black Heart, a night of alternative comedy and music. Bec Hill, Richard Sandling, Pat Cahill, David...
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London Stand Up And Sketch Comedy: 17-23 June
Our pick of this week’s comedy gigs – plus Edinburgh previews Sunday: Comedians (Ava Vidal, Prince Abdi, Sarah Bennetto, Chris Coltrane, Ben Target and Tom Goodliffe) and funny spoken word performers...
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A Guide To Watching Live Comedy In London
Josie Long / photo by Wes Stankiewicz Many people like watching comedy on TV – after all, who doesn’t enjoy laughing? – but far fewer go out to watch comedy in London’s pubs, clubs and theatres. So...
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Comedy Preview: Greenwich Comedy Festival
This year’s Greenwich Comedy Festival is a bit earlier than usual, happening in July rather than September (we assume it’s Olympics related). What hasn’t changed is their ability to tempt great acts to...
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Comedy Preview: Do The Right Thing @ The Phoenix
Michael Legge, Jenny Eclair, Danielle Ward, Margaret Cabourn-Smith and John Finnemore In our recent guide to watching live comedy in London we mentioned the wide variety you can see in this fair city –...
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London Stand Up And Sketch Comedy: 24-30 June
Our pick of this week’s comedy gigs – plus Edinburgh previews Sunday: The Working Men’s Club is preparing for its Edinburgh debut; cheer ‘em on at the Leicester Square Theatre (12pm, £6). If you’re...
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Comedy Preview: Comedy In The Cafe @ Foyles
Tickets for smallish, pub-based comedy gigs usually cost around a fiver and for your money you get to see three or four comedians. But what if you could spend a fiver, see three or four comedians and...
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London Stand Up And Sketch Comedy: 1-7 July
Our pick of this week’s comedy gigs – plus Edinburgh previews Sunday: Michael Legge’s Private Hell – and, given the angry state of his mind, we’re not sure we want to dwell on that concept very long –...
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London Stand Up And Sketch Comedy: 8-14 July
Our pick of this week’s comedy gigs – plus Edinburgh previews Sunday: The Actually Rather Good Comedy Festival in Kings Cross looks actually, er, rather good. Previews from 18 acts, including German...
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London Stand Up And Sketch Comedy: 15-21 July
Our pick of this week’s comedy gigs – plus Edinburgh previews Sunday: At the Greenwich Comedy Festival (7.30pm, £18.50-£24), Mark Watson headlines with David O’Doherty, Elis James and Seann Walsh –...
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London Stand Up And Sketch Comedy: 22-28 July
Our pick of this week’s comedy gigs – plus Edinburgh previews Sunday: We think today is the best day of the Cringe Festival at the Cavendish Arms. See Josh Widdicombe, Pat Cahill and Tim Shishodia,...
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London Stand Up And Sketch Comedy: 29 July-4 August
Our pick of this week’s comedy gigs Sunday: Alan Davies (pictured) is going back to the Edinburgh Festival after an age spent acting and doing QI, and we get to see the show first at the Criterion...
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Comedy Review: The Unexpected Items Present OlymPIC And Mix @ Hen & Chickens
If you’ve spent enough time on the internet, you’ve probably heard of The Unexpected Items. They’re the Gap Yah people. Their new sketch show is billed as “Olympic themed” but it isn’t so much about...
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Comedy Review: Not The Adventures Of Moleman @ Camden Fringe
Not the Adventures of Moleman seem like perfectly nice guys. Keep that in mind for the rest of this review: whatever is said here, they certainly enjoy what they do and put in an enthusiastic...
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London Stand Up And Sketch Comedy: 5-11 August
London’s comedy scene has decamped to Edinburgh, but there are still good gigs on Sunday: See the legendary Comedy Store Players: Paul Merton, Neil Mullarkey, Richard Vranch, Lee Simpson, Andy Smart...
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Comedy Review: Tony Izzett & Friends @ Camden Fringe
If you want proof that character comedy is both alive and well and a whole lot more sophisticated than a half-talented stand up belming around and being mildly racist in charity shop spectacles*,...
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London Stand Up And Sketch Comedy: 12-18 August
London’s comedy scene has decamped to Edinburgh, but there are still good gigs on Sunday: We liked Staple/face at the Camden Fringe and you can still see the last performance of their Friends with...
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Comedy Review: Sarah Campbell @ Camden Fringe
There’s a 12-year-old child in the audience. Normally, this wouldn’t be worth a comment in a short-ish comedy review, maybe if this was a tabloid piece about the decline of morals in parenting, taking...
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London Stand Up And Sketch Comedy: 19-25 August
London’s comedy scene has decamped to Edinburgh, but there are still good gigs on Sunday: There’s topical sketches and songs at the Canal Cafe Theatre with the News Revue team (9pm, £10 / £8.50). It’s...
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Comedy Review: Onions And Dragons / 15% Of The Seagull / Deadpan Alley @...
Elizabeth Bower Elizabeth Bower: Onions and Dragons @ Etcetera Theatre We’ll see Making Faces‘s audience parents and raise you a possible grandmother at Onions and Dragons, here to see her possible...
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London Stand Up And Sketch Comedy: 26 August-1 September
Where to find funny this week Sunday: Jeff Innocent (pictured) might look like he’ll throw you out of a club, but you should experience his very sharp comedy for yourself. Go to Greenwich for Sunday...
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London Stand Up And Sketch Comedy: 2-8 September
Where to find funny this week Sunday: Junior Simpson hosts at the Dover Street Comedy Club, with Imran Yusuf and Alistair Barry the main acts (8.30pm, £10 / £15). Monday: Abnormally Funny People put on...
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London Stand Up And Sketch Comedy: 9-15 September
Where to find funny this week Sunday: Sara Pascoe headlines Lost in Laughter at the Lost Theatre on Wandsworth Road, with ones-to-watch Ian Smith and Jessica Fostekew (7.30pm, £8 / £5). Monday: Paul...
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London Stand Up And Sketch Comedy: 16-22 September
Where to find funny this week Sunday: Simon Amstell (pictured) is doing a three-night run of his nationwide tour Numb at the Invisible Dot. We loved this show, so snap up tickets while you can (7.45pm,...
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Comedy Review: Idiots Of Ants – Model Citizens @ Soho Theatre
OH GOD. The unbearable agony of loving a show so much that you want to run out and tell everyone how great it is and they must go now NOW, and not wanting to say anything for fear of spoiling it. This...
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London Stand Up And Sketch Comedy: 23-29 September
Helen Arney / photo by Idil Sukan Where to find funny this week Sunday: If you’ve never seen Doc Brown in action you should remedy that at the first opportunity, and there’s a pretty good opportunity...
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Comedy Review: Helen Arney — Voice Of An Angle @ Soho Theatre
From the outside, Helen Arney’s show Voice of an Angle might appear worrisome. There’s a pun in the title. There’s a lot of Powerpoint. There’s a ukulele. But stay with us here. The thing about comedy...
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London Stand Up And Sketch Comedy: 30 September-6 October
Where to find funny this week Sunday: Today you can pick from a day long festival at The Phoenix supporting charity KIDS, with sets from Richard Herring, Catie Wilkins, Michael Legge, Sarah Bennetto,...
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Comedy Preview: Joking For Justice @ The Bloomsbury Theatre
Ava Vidal will be performing at Joking for Justice The World Development Movement’s annual comedy benefit gig, Joking for Justice, is back for a third year with a line-up that is better than ever....
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