The comedy week ahead

The comedy week ahead

Today

LIVE IN MANCHESTER: The Women In Comedy Festival starts this weekend and runs across various fringe through to October 26. Tonight you can see Zoe Lyons, Jo Caulfield, and Kate Smurthwaite, among others. Website

Tuesday October 14

LIVE IN LONDON: Egyptian-American comedian and occasional Hollywood actor Ahmed Ahmed is bringing his new stand-up show Ahmedica to the Soho Theatre for 17 nights from today.

LIVE IN LONDON: Stewart Lee is the big draw for the return of Feature Spot at at the 100 Club on Oxford Street, but there’s a fine supporting line-up, too, comprising Sara Pascoe, Romesh Ranganathan, Tom Rosenthal and MC Jarred Christmas.

RADIO: Mark Watson returns to Radio 4 with a new series in which he ‘Talks A Bit About Life’. Over the six-part series he attempts to answer the big questions and make sense of life, aided by Tim Key and Tom Basden. Radio 4, 6.30pm

Wednesday October 15

LIVE IN DUBLIN: Dara O Briain starts the first of four weeks at Dublin Vicar street with his new stand-up show Crowd Tickler.

Thursday October 16

LIVE IN GALWAY: The city’s Vodafone Comedy Carnival has this year been extended to 12 days, with an A-list line-up that includes Tommy Tiernan, David O'Doherty, Simon Amstell, Milton Jones, David Baddiel, Judah Friedlander, Todd Barry and The Rubberbandits. Official website

Friday October 17

LIVE IN KETTERING:The Lighthouse Theatre must be doing something right to attract a stand-up bull of this calibre, with headliner Milton Jones backed by pun-slinger Gary Delaney, Stand Up For The Week’s Romesh Ranganathan, and ex-Klangster Steve Hall, all compered by the wryly witty Fin Taylor .

LIVE IN LONDON: It’s that man again, Stewart Lee, forming part of the Roar with Laughter benefit for the Zoological Society London’s lion conservation programme. The other kings of the comedy jungle performing at the Hammersmith Apollo are Seann Walsh, David O'Doherty, Sean Lock, Ed Byrne, Phil Nichol, Lucy Porter, and host Greg Burns. Hakuna matata indeed. Tickets.

TV: Lee Mack’s Not Going Out returns for its seventh series, making it the longest-running sitcom on BBC One. Hugh Dennis joins the cast for this ten-episode series, ending with a Christmas special. 9.30pm BBC One

Saturday October 18

LIVE IN ORSETT What do you mean you’ve never heard of Orsett? This Essex village is worth a visit tonight at the Orsett Hall hotel hosts the misanthropy of Andrew Lawrence, and his polar opposite in the effusive Patrick Monahan setting the scene for the sneeringly superior headliner, Simon Evans.

Published: 12 Oct 2014