Comedy

The First Laugh is the South West’s premium new material stand­up comedy night where professional comedians get to try out their new material on budding audiences!

A dark comedy about a woman (sometimes funny), her vampire (kills every night) and the reality of ageing in a youth-obsessed culture.

Hot on the heels of an outstanding 2023 Edinburgh Fringe season, Connor Burns is heading out on his first UK tour! VERTIGO is a punchline-packed show featuring ugly dogs, relationships and the inevitable family drama.

To the hairdresser at [redacted] Salon: You can take my money. You can take my dignity. You can take too much off the ends. But you cannot take my right to talk about it on stage. This is a show about the worst haircut of Ania Magliano’s life.

A bunch of local theatre makers, comedians, dancers, musicians, actors and clowns are going to try some new things – and you’re invited to experience it.

In his most autobiographical show to date, ‘The Rob Auton Show’, Rob turns the pen on himself to explore the memories and feelings that create his life on a daily basis.

Fresh off the back of a sell-out debut tour, Josh Berry returns with a new stand up show. Expect a plethora of characters as well as some deep introspection as Berry delves into his own political identity, shame, and sexual repression.

Viral sensation and all round great guy Vittorio Angelone is one of comedy’s fastest-rising stars.

PaddleBoat Theatre Company presents a thrilling family whodunnit with our distinctive fingerprints all over it! Expect music, puppetry, clowning and more.

Host of hit political podcast ‘The Political Party’, Matt Forde explores the dark comedy horror that is British politics, ahead of the next election. Plus silly voices.

Fresh from her smash hit Edinburgh Fringe run and Soho Theatre sell-out debut, Chloe Petts returns with her follow-up hour.

Star of BBC’s ‘Live at the Apollo’ & ‘Would I Lie To You?’, comedian and TV’s Stephen Bailey makes a very welcome return to the stage with his brand new live show, CRASS.

A darkly comedic explosion of multimedia, verbatim, cabaret and drag; a contemporary Brechtian-style play that poses the question: How much has changed between the Hollywood of yesteryear and now?

Critically acclaimed storyteller James Rowland returns following his sellout run with a brand new show about fathers, sons and the hope that makes life liveable.

Hilarious and provocative, award-winning Rosy Carrick takes a deep dive into her earliest erotic fantasies in this exploration of power, performance and female pleasure in heterosexual relationships.

Teen Queen Mary Tudor takes to the mic to rehab her so-called “bloody” image in a gleefully vicious stand-up special. Mary tackles the drama every #queenager deals with: divorced parents, sibling rivalry and religious purges (…oops).

In 2020, the world changed forever, as three time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Kieran Hodgson moved to Scotland. Now he’s travelling around the still-just-about United Kingdom to tell you how it’s working out. For him and for the Scots.

A brand new Kid Carpet & The Noisy Animals show for early years and family audiences. Featuring their signature relaxed performance style of catchy songs, lofi puppetry, video magic and audience participation!

Jo Caulfield is quite simply one of the most consistently funny and creative comics in the country. Hot on the heels of her sell-out Edinburgh Fringe run, Here Comes Trouble is packed with brilliant routines and fantastically embarrassing stories.

Out of the swirling maelstrom he steps with his sword of jokes, multi award-winning stand-up Alasdair Beckett-King unravels life’s shallowest mysteries.

Nick Helm – the man with the golden larynx and greatest living all-round entertainer – is BACK!