Sean Lock headlines benefit gig for The Comedy School

Sean Lock is among the comics taking part in a fundraiser for a charity which brings comedy to schools, prisons, rehabilitation centres and mental health institutions.

The Comedy School has been running for 20 years and aims to use comedy to ‘develop confidence and drive home serious messages about pressing social issues’.

Their work includes the play It’s No Joke! which tours schools across London using humour to warn of the dangers of knife crime, an initiative supported by The Damilola Taylor Trust and the Metropolitan Police.

Many comics and performers back the work of the school, including Neil Morrissey, who has said: 'The work of The Comedy School is paramount.  As far as I’m concerned it's the artist version of boxing school.  Comedy comes out of the lives of people and their experiences, so using it to deliver and communicate serious messages is as cathartic as it is informative and entertaining.  As a juvenile behaving badly myself, the attention and praise I got from performing was very rewarding.  What The Comedy School does is really worthwhile and long may it continue.'

The benefit gig will take place at the London Comedy Store on February 12 and also features Jeff Innocent, Dane Baptiste, Pippa Evans, Arnold Brown, Dana Alexander. Tickets, priced £15, are available here. 

Published: 15 Jan 2018