Comedy

Unicorn Comedy brings you an amazing line-up of the best comedians from the South West, all delivering exciting new material

After entertaining millions of people online with his no-nonsense guides, wine expert, broadcaster, and author Tom Gilbey is hitting the road.

Gary Meikle returns to the stage with another new show which has quickly become the yearly norm for him now.

Join television presenter, author, actor, and singer Tom Read Wilson for The A – Z of Me – an irreverent, whistle-stop tour of the alphabet.

Join award-winning stand-up Daniel Foxx as he navigates dating in your 30s, Le Creuset addiction and 12-step skincare routines, all while trying very hard to emanate love and light.

It’s been raining all summer. The village pub’s closing down. And a wild storm threatens to scupper the harvest show… Riddlestick Theatre present a new musical comedy telling tales of folk intrigue.

Step inside A Small Enclosed Room with Alfie Murphy – a funny and fearless dark comedy where fantasy tangles with reality. With sharks, cardboard cut-outs and a rap about Devon, acclaimed autistic artists Cian Binchy and Anna Constable invite you into a world that’s playful, surprising and quietly profound.

Want to vocalise your bare bones vision? Maybe you would like to hear people read your script out loud? New to this and have a curiosity about making something from scratch? Start here!

See the Melbourne and Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated star comb through recent history in an immersive and genre-defying new show. Directed by Jet Vevers.

Exeter Laughter Lab returns to Exeter Phoenix with another unforgettable night of live stand-up comedy, featuring one of the UK’s most electrifying headline acts alongside an outstanding supporting line-up.

A one-woman play about when said woman did a play she doesn’t remember doing. Join her in this fictional retelling of the astonishing time she played Ariel in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, whilst spiked. One minute she was in her campus bar, about to leave for the show, the next… blackout.

Swindon’s own Sam Michael brings his debut solo show ‘The World’s Oldest Man’ to Exeter Phoenix.

It’s 2026 and King Herod is leading a self-development pyramid scheme. Join award winning clown, Riss Obolensky, for an hour of frivolity, shock and redemption. In a post-truth world punctuated by conspiracy, division and collapse, it’s time to forgive… yourself.

There’s the sound of somewhere else and the permanence of a plant pot and the ubiquity of a phrase and the heartbreaking brevity of a very long time. There’s figs and worms and an old dog rejecting a blanket. And. There’s music, more or less throughout, at least two funny voices and upwards of three jokes.

A screening of a selection of the best of the Comic Strip films starring Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson, Alexei Sayle, Dawn French and John Sessions, followed by a live Q&A with Comic Strip members, including director Peter Richardson.

Get the bubbly out of the fridge, because for ONE NIGHT ONLY we’re taking the East all the way West, and travelling to Exeter to immortalise the campest, loudest and silliest moments from everyone’s favourite soap in DRAG!

Does AI spell the end of humanity, or the dawn of a new utopia? Fringe First Winner Joe Sellman-Leava might be a technophobe, but he’s going to try and find out!

Designer-performer Dylan Howells weaves psychological illusions and fragmented memories into a magical, chilling tale of a home that won’t stay still.

Join Spork! this Halloween for another spectacular & spooky spoken-word event, featuring the annual “Dead Poets Slam,” and the gruesome twosome of silly poetry; Chris “Ghostly” White, and Edward “Dead Wood” Tripp.

Fresh off the success of her critically acclaimed show ‘Slinky’, multi award-winning comedy star Laura Lexx is back with her brand new show ‘Yo-Yo’.

Should you know about your dad’s seduction techniques? In 2025, Milo Edwards found a box of old letters in the back of his late Mother’s wardrobe. Catamaran is a show about his parents, the letters they wrote and the 1980s.