Comedy

Tim Minchin: Ready For This?

5-6 Sep 2008

Tim Minchin

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

19 Sep 2008

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

22-27 Sep 2008

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

14 Oct 2008

Elizabeth and Raleigh

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

15 Oct 2008

Mitch Benn

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

17 Oct 2008

Neil Innes

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

18 Oct 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

31 Oct 2008

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

8 Nov 2008

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

15 Nov 2008

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.