John Kearns: Tilting at Windmills
Date: Wed 10 Jun 2026
Venue: Nottingham Playhouse
Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Comedy in England - Midlands - East Midlands
Stand-up comedy listings. These line-ups are as accurate as we can make them, but things change, and it may be worth checking before you travel.
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David Eagle, James Dowdeswell, James Sherwood
Date: Thu 11 Jun 2026
Venue: Southwell The Final Whistle
Price: £16.00
Funhouse Comedy Club
Show starts: 20:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Fri 12 Jun 2026
Venue: Loughborough Town Hall
Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel
Date: Fri 12 Jun 2026
Venue: Leicester De Montfort Hall
Price: £20
Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Sat 13 Jun 2026
Venue: Leicester Peter Pizzeria
Price: £16.00
Plus: Kazeem Jamal,Adam Beardsmore
Show starts: 20:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Sun 14 Jun 2026
Venue: Nottingham Royal Concert Hall and Theatre Royal
Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Sun 14 Jun 2026
Venue: Leicester The Y Theatre
Price: £22.15
LOL: Ladies Of Laughter. Plus Tej Dhutia, Noreen Khan and Samira Banks
Show starts: 20:15 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Date: Mon 15 Jun 2026
Venue: Derby Bar One
Price: £8.00
New act gong show
Show starts: 20:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel
Date: Fri 19 Jun 2026
Venue: Nottingham Playhouse
Price: £20
Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Sat 20 Jun 2026
Venue: Leicester Peter Pizzeria
Price: £16.00
Plus: Trevor Bickles
Show starts: 20:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Auld Pals: An Evening with the Stars of Still Game
Date: Sun 21 Jun 2026
Venue: Derby Vaillant Live
Show starts: 18:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Thu 25 Jun 2026
Venue: Grantham Railway Social Club
Price: £17.00
Funhouse Comedy Club
Show starts: 20:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Sat 27 Jun 2026
Venue: Leicester Peter Pizzeria
Price: £16.00
Plus: Ben Treloar,Faizan Shah
Show starts: 20:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
David Eagle, Laura Lexx, Scott Bennett
Date: Thu 2 Jul 2026
Venue: Ashby-de-la-Zouch Lyric Rooms
Price: From £17.00 to £25.00
Funhouse Comedy Club. Plus: Eddy Midgley
Show starts: 20:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Manford's Comedy Club
Date: Fri 3 Jul 2026
Venue: Matlock The Loft
Price: £11
Comics: Will Duggan, Barry Dodds
Plus: Jordan Ducharme, Howard Walker
Show starts: 20:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Dan Tiernan, Mike Rice, Ross Noble
Date: Sat 4 Jul 2026
Venue: Nottingham Metronome
Just the Tonic
Show starts: 19:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Andrew Bird, Diane Spencer, Jack Campbell, Jules Oliver, Paul 'Silky' White
Date: Sun 12 Jul 2026
Venue: Derby Bar One
Price: From £7.00 to £14.00
Edinburgh Festival Preview All-Dayer
Show starts: 14:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Thu 13 Aug 2026
Venue: Loughborough Town Hall
Price: £26.75
Work in progress
Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Thu 20 Aug 2026
Venue: Anstey The Kneaded Pint
Price: £12.50
Part of Anstey Comedy Festival. Plus: Jay Neale, Kevin Daniel, Chloe Reynolds
Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Alex Hylton, Esther Manito, Michael Akadiri, Rob Mulholland
Date: Fri 21 Aug 2026
Venue: Anstey The Kneaded Pint
Price: £15
Part of Anstey Comedy Festival. Plus: Jay Neale
Show starts: 20:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Alex Hylton, Josh Pugh, Shaparak Khorsandi, Tiff Stevenson
Date: Sat 22 Aug 2026
Venue: Anstey The Kneaded Pint
Price: £19.50
Part of Anstey Comedy Festival. Plus: Jay Neale
Show starts: 20:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Fri 4 Sep 2026
Venue: Derby Vaillant Live
Show starts: 18:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Carl Jones, Ingrid Dahle, Noise Next Door, Rod Woodward
Date: Fri 4 Sep 2026
Venue: Coalville Century Theatre
Price: £15
Show starts: 20:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Sat 5 Sep 2026
Venue: Loughborough Town Hall
Price: £21.75
Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
John Cleese and the Holy Grail
Date: Sun 6 Sep 2026
Venue: Buxton Opera House
Show starts: 19:00 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Russell Howard: Don’t Tell The Algorithm
Date: Thu 10 Sep 2026
Venue: Leicester De Montfort Hall
Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Jason Manford: A Manford All Seasons
Date: Thu 10 Sep 2026
Venue: Nottingham Royal Concert Hall and Theatre Royal
Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Thu 10 Sep 2026
Venue: Leicester The Y Theatre
Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Russell Howard: Don’t Tell The Algorithm
Date: Fri 11 Sep 2026
Venue: Leicester De Montfort Hall
Show starts: 19:30 (Doors open approx 30 mins earlier)
Date: Sat 12 Sep 2026
Venue: Nottingham Metronome