The week's best live comedy

The week's best live comedy

Monday October 7

LONDON: One of the most accomplished debut shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, Stand Up with Janine Harouni (Please Remain Seated), comes to the Soho Theatre with the American comedian giving her origin story, some reflections on transatlantic differences, and how she and her Trump-supporting father overcame their differences. It plays until Saturday.

Wednesday October 9

BRISTOL: It is a truth universally acknowledged that Austentatious, the always-entertaining improvised Jane Austen show, starts another tour today, kicking off at the Redgrave Theatre. Dates.

BRIGHTON: After a run at the Soho Theatre in London, Elf Lyons kicks off a UK tour of her Love Songs To Guinea Pigs, about her medical woes, commitment issues and animal husbandry, at the Komedia. Dates and review

Thursday October 10

BELFAST: The Tenderloins – best known as the team behind Comedy Central's hidden camera show Impractical Jokers – kick off the UK leg of their The Cranjis McBasketball World Comedy Tour at the Waterfront Hall. They are in Birmingham on Friday, Newcastle on Saturday before visiting Cardiff, Bournemouth, Glasgow, Manchester, London and Dublin. Tickets

Friday October 11

LEICESTER: Double Edinburgh Comedy Award winner John Kearns dons his false teeth and wig once more and starts his new tour at the Firebug. Expect more musings on the mundane mixed with flights of fantasy in Double Take And Fade Away. Dates.

NOTTINGHAM: There's strong line-up at the Glee tonight and tomorrow, with Britain's Got Talent musical comic Jonny Awsum, barnstorming Martin Mor, smart and sardonic Michael Fabbri and local hero Sarah Keyworth

LIVERPOOL: Hot Water features the hilariously unadorned honesty of Mike Wilmot and the Borscht Belt cheek of Sol Bernstein across its venues this weekend.

Published: 6 Oct 2019