The week's best live comedy

The week's best live comedy.

Sunday October 27

WOLVERHAMPTON: The city's Funny Things comedy festival runs all week, including a tour date from Mock The Week punster Gary Delaney tonight. Details of all the gigs are available on the event's website.

LONDON: Expect more than custard pies as Comedy Canteen offers two hours of 'stand-up and silliness', all themed around food. Acts at the 3pm gig at the Bill Murray include DIY chef George Egg, tech geeks Foxdog Studios, Sooz Kempner, Eleanor Morton and Cassie Atkinson.

BIRMINGHAM: Guaranteed high-jinks as overenthusiastic housewife/entertainer Barbara Nice brings her Comedy Playground to the Glee tonight.

Monday October 28

LONDON: The final Dave's Edinburgh Comedy Award West End showcase at the Duchess Theatre features nominees Ivo Graham, Jayde Adams, Jordan Brookes and Goodbear.

LONDON: Sean McLoughlin brings his blistering show Hail Mary to the Top Secret Comedy Club. Read our review here.

Tuesday October 29

LONDON: Stewart Lee unveils his new show in two parts at the Leicester Square Theatre, where it runs until the end of January. In the first 60-minute sets, Tornado, he questions his position in the comedy marketplace after Netflix mistakenly listed his show as 'reports of sharks falling from the skies are on the rise again. Nobody on the Eastern Seaboard is safe'. And Snowflake questions his worth in a society demolishing the liberal values he has been keen to espouse. The whole run is close to being sold out, then Lee will tour the show in the spring.

CANTERBURY: The Marlowe Theatre hosts another night of top-drawer comedy, featuring The Mash Report's Nish Kumar, current Taskmaster contestant Ed Gamble, feverishly inventive Adam Hess and winningly frank Felicity Ward.

Wednesday October 30

HULL: A two-and-a-half week comedy festival kicks off with a showcase of local talent at the Bonus Arena, including Steve Rimmer - who talks about his experiences of being a bomb disposal engineer.

Thursday October 31

LONDON: US comic Tom Segura comes to the UK with his Take It Down tour, playing the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith tonight and the Salford Lowry on Saturday, before a couple of Irish dates at the Olympia Theatre, Dublin, next week. The comic has three Netflix specials and is also known for his podcast Your Mom's House, which he presents with his wife Christina Pazsitzky.

Friday November 1

LONDON: Not only do you get Milton Jones at the The MCT at Alleyn's school in Dulwich, you also get two Dave's Edinburgh Comedy Award best newcomer nominees Huge Davies and Janine Harouni, and the always entertaining, Laura Lexx. A fine time guaranteed

Saturday November 2

TAUNTON: Arthur Smith will be talking about his new book, 100 Things I Meant to Tell You at Queen's College. The book brings together stories, poems and articles gathered over a colourful lifetime on the comedy circuit.

BROMLEY: There's an excellent bill t the Churchill Theatre tonight, with the cerebral, fact-loving Paul Sinha, the not-in-the-slightet-bit-celebral Raymond & Mr Timpkins Revue, and established circuit, TV and radio regular Shappi Khorsandi

Published: 27 Oct 2019