The best of the week's live comedy

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Tuesday August 10

LONDON: The new Blue Tick Festival puts comedians' online work on to the big screen. The ten-day event at the Rio Cinema in Dalston features the likes of The Pin, Bilal Zafar, Chris Fleming and Alistair Green, who kicks things off today by introducing his compilation of sketches, Volume One. The full festival schedule is here

Thursday August 12

LONDON: Adam Kay is back in the West End with a brief extra run of This Is Going To Hurt, the stage version of his NHS diaries that's probably outsold the Bible by now. The show will continue to tour the UK throughout the autumn, and all the dates are here.

LONDON: A good line-up at the Comedy Store this weekend comprises Dane Baptiste, Stephen K Amos, Tom Ward and Sally-Anne Hayward. It gets even better when they are joined by Rosie Jones tomorrow and Susie McCabe on Saturday,

Friday August 13

LONDON: The enjoyably provocative Fin Taylor is shouting his comedy from the rooftops tonight… two of them. The stand-up is playing both the Busey rooftop bar in Peckham, alongside the boyish Ed Gamble, and Roof East in Stratford with Phil Wang and Angela Barnes. The East London gig kicks off a weekend of shows, with line-ups so good you might forget the fact you're on the roof of a shopping centre multi-storey car park. If the rain holds off.

NORWICH: Richard Herring talkies the LST out of RHLSTP as his hit interview podcast moves from the Leicester Square Theatre to the Norwich playhouse for two recordings tonight.

Saturday August 14

LONDON: Comedy is back at the imposing Union Chapel in Islington with a fine line-up of Bridget Christie, Nish Kumar, Sophie Duker and Suzi Ruffell bringing the funnies.

READING: Just The Tonic brings a treat of a show to Popworld tonight, with grizzled globe-trotter Glenn Wool, cheery Jake Lambert, polished Jimmy McGhie, and skilful storyteller Nick Page.

NOTTINGHAM: The same club's East Midlands site also has a great bill, headlined by imaginative oddball Milton Jones. Tickets

Published: 8 Aug 2021