The best of the week's live comedy

The best of the week's live comedy.

Sunday 29 October

MARGATE: Lefty Scum, an avowedly socialist-themed comedy and music tour with Josie Long, Jonny And The Baptists and singer-songwriter Grace Petrie, kicks off its short run at the Theatre Royal tonight. All the dates are here.

LONDON: A strong double bill at Up The Creek in Greenwich tonight features Edinburgh Comedy Award winner John Robins and exciting up-and-comer Jamali Maddix.

GREENFIELD: If you're in the vicinity of this part of Greater Manchester tonight, pun-loving, cross-dressing metalhead Andrew O'Neill, fiercely anarchic Ian Cognito, dry-witted newcomer Tony Wright and commanding crowd-wrangler Martin Mor make for an appealing prospect at the Royal George Hotel.

Monday October 30

LONDON: The final instalment of the lastminute.com Edinburgh Comedy Award showcases in the West End's Duchess Theatre boasts Jayde Adams, John Kearns, Larry Dean, Sara Pascoe and Kiri Pritchard-McLean.

LONDON: Class Acts, a benefit gig supporting of integrated education in Northern Ireland, has attracted a fine roll call of comics to the Union Chapel. Namely: Aisling Bea, Al Murray, Carl Donnelly,Jarlath Regan, Sara Pascoe and Wendy Wason

RICHMOND: Currently competing in Taskmaster on Dave, Sally Phillips appears in Surrey to perform some of her comedy characters on an impressive bill that also includes  Jo Brand, John Moloney and Seann Walsh. And it's all in aid of the SeeAbility charity.

Tuesday October 31

LONDON: Sara Pascoe's on yet another benefit! This one at the Backyard comedy club for Spitalfields City Farm also features Lou Sanders, Mae Martin, Suzi Ruffell, Tania Edwards and token male Brett Goldstein.

Wednesday November 1

LONDON: After touring almost every corner of the UK, Stewart Lee settles into a long residency at the Leicester Square Theatre, with too-many-to-count performances of his unassailably smart new show, Content Provider, in the intimate venue from now until February. Maybe they should rename it the Lee-eicester Square Theatre. Or maybe not. 


LONDON: In the same theatre after Lee's done, Finnish comic Ismo Leikola, once named The Funniest Person in the World in a competition run by Los Angeles' Laugh Factory comedy club, performs an hour of his imaginative oddball naif shtick, for one night only.

Friday November 3

NOTTINGHAM: The city's week-long comedy festival kicks off tonight, with Jimmy Carr, Barbara Nice, Iain Stirling, The Elvis Dead and Jerry Sadowitz among the highlights. Full details.

Saturday November 4

MANCHESTER: Aptly enough for Halloween week, the Elvis Dead – Rob Kemp's one-man show which sets the Evil Dead 2 to the songs of the King, is playing at the Gorilla. It was the cult hit of the Edinburgh Fringe - come and see why. And you don't have to know the film to enjoy it.

BIRMINGHAM: Stephen K Amos kicks off his latest tour of feel good observation, Bread And Circuses, at the Old Rep theatre tonight. The future schedule is here.

Published: 29 Oct 2017