Comedy
Tim Minchin: Ready For This?
In London, they reckon he's the "Next big thing in musical comedy" (The Times) and "The best musical comedian since Bill Bailey" (Time Out)
In Melbourne, they say he's "Witty, smart and unabashedly offensive" (The Age)
In New York, they call him "Dazzlingly daffy... so refreshing" (NY Times)
Josie Long
All of the Planet's Wonders (shown in detail)
Fresh from a run at The Edinburgh Festival, this is critically acclaimed Josie Long's new show for 2008
Hopefully this show will be so big and so small that you'll need a telescope and a microscope. At different times.
Mark Watson
The shows on the 24th and 25th will be filmed for a forthcoming DVD.
Mark returns to The Bloomsbury Theatre with a brand new show that is guaranteed to have you in stitches!
"A brilliant stand up."
Evening Standard
"If a tornado could be bumbling and lovable while blowing things around, the experience would be similar to a Mark Watson stand-up set."
The Guardian
Elizabeth & Raleigh: Late But Live
Potatoes, tobacco, Elizabethan dance, cross-dressing, xenophobia and laughs galore from the team behind Johnson And Boswell: Late But Live, which played to critical acclaim at the Traverse Theatre at Edinburgh 2007.
Mitch Benn and the Distractions
From BBC Radio 4's 'The Now Show' and 'Crimes Against Music' and BBC1's 'The One Show', 'The Country’s leading musical satirist' (The Times) is back on tour with his band. Following the release of his latest single Sing Like An Angel.
Neil Innes and Fatso
An obesity time bomb no one should miss!
An evening of music and merriment with material drawn from Fatso, The Rutles, Rutland Weekend Television, Monty Python and The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, featuring original members Neil Innes, Brian Hodgson, John Halsey, Billy Bremner and Roger Rettig.
Edinburgh and Beyond 2008
Paramount Comedy and Avalon Promotions Ltd present the Edinburgh & Beyond Live Tour sponsored by Magners Irish Cider.
Fresh from their Edinburgh Festival shows, four of Britain's finest comic talents come together for the must-see tour of the year.
Jason Manford
The multi-award winning Comedian and star of 8 Out of 10 Cats, Live at the Apollo, and XFM, embarks on his first live national tour with this exciting and hilarious show, that will have audiences begging for more.
Chris Addison
Star of Bafta-winning comedy The Thick of It and his own new-for-2008 BBC2 sitcom Lab Rats, Mr la-di-da smartypants Addison is also regarded as one of the most versatile comics in the country. With his pacy, energetic routines and faultless delivery, he has charmed audiences and critics alike as a top class purveyor of smartarse daftness, whimsy, perspiration, lies and jokes, and got two Perrier nominations for his trouble.
Maz Jobrani
Appearing for the first time in the UK and coming straight from the hugely successful sell out 'Axis of Evil Comedy Tour' in the US, Middle East and Australia, with regular appearances on 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno', 'The Late Late Show' and Comedy Central's 'Premium Blend', Max Jobrani an Iranian-American comic, brings his original and hilarious stand up show to London.










