Thao Cao: What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Funnier
Review from the Women In Comedy festival
12/10/2026 … Thao Cao, a dry and deadpan Australian comic, certainly has some gripping stories to underpin her show built around near-death experiences.
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Mon 12 October 2026
Tasmin Sarkany: Now That's What I Call Bach
Review from the Women In Comedy festival
12/10/2026 … Though there have been some notable exceptions, from Victor Borge to Rainer Hersch, classical music has a reputation for taking itself so very seriously.
Bella Humphries: Big Sister Energy
Review from the Women In Comedy festival
12/10/2026 … Bella Humphries is a fizzing ball of cheery vitality, gushing away about her responsibilities as the eldest of seven children and how she doesn't want children…
Fri 09 October 2026
Jordan Brookes: The Part of You That's Always Screaming
Review of the innovative comedian's latest show
09/10/2026 … For a man forever playing with the form of stand-up, Jordan Brookes is relatively conventional with his latest offering.
Thu 08 October 2026
© Steve Ullathorne Susan Calman: Tall Tales
Review of the comic's first tour in ten years
08/10/2026 … She has spent the last decade not as a comedian but as a TV personality, from Strictly to her camper-van tours to being Channel Five’s face of cruise ships.
Wed 07 October 2026
© Stephanie Sian Smith Harriet Kemsley: Floozy
Review of the comic's latest tour
07/10/2026 … Floozy, Harriet Kemsley says, is an aspirational state.
Tue 06 October 2026
Emer Maguire: Perfectly Chaotic
Review from the Women In Comedy festival
06/10/2026 … It seems like half of Manchester’s Irish expat community has come out to see Emer Maguire on her first UK visit as a touring comedian.
Stanela Khalil: Beirut-ish
Review from the Women In Comedy festival
06/10/2026 … Like many an immigrant comedian, Stanela Khalil understandably uses her status as a cultural inbetweener to drive her comedy – too Irish for Beirut, too Lebanese…