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Aussie comic wins Beat The Frog contest
30/10/2018 … Australian comic Anna Spark has won the annual new act competition run by Manchester’s Frog And Bucket comedy club.
2018 Other news
Tue 30 October 2018
Mon 29 October 2018
Deborah Frances-White's guilt trip
Guilty Feminist podcast to go on the road
29/10/2018 … Deborah Frances-White has announced a UK tour of her Guilty Feminist podcast She and her guests will play 23 dates in May and June next year, with tickets going…
25 years of finding new talent
Leicester Comedy Festival celebrates its comedians of the year
29/10/2018 … The Leicester Comedy Festival will unveil its 2019 programme on Thursday, including a show celebrating 25 years of its Comedian of the Year competition.
Thu 25 October 2018
Sam Simmons creates an alternative Christmas show
Month-long run at Soho Theatre this December
25/10/2018 … Sam Simmons is returning to London this December with an alternative Christmas show.
Tamar Broadbent makes New York debut
British musical comic to play SoHo Playhouse
25/10/2018 … British comic Tamar Broadbent is to make her New York debut with her one-woman musical comedy, Best Life.
Wed 24 October 2018
New comics the Frog's spawned
Meet the finalists in Manchester club's Beat The Frog contest
24/10/2018 … The finalists have been announced for this year’s Beat The Frog World Series, the gong-style open mic competition run by Manchester’s Frog and Bucket…
Venue award for Kevin Bridges
Comic has sold more tickets for the SEC than anybody else
24/10/2018 … Kevin Bridges has been presented with an award from the operators of Glasgow’s SSE Hydro, after selling out 19 dates there in his current tour.
Mon 22 October 2018
Robin Ince announces his first Nine Lessons guests
Science-comedy shows return this Christmas
22/10/2018 … The first guests have been announced for Robin Ince’s annual Nine Lessons And Carols For Curious People gigs.