The best of the week's live comedy

The best of the week's live comedy.

Sunday February 9

LONDON: Dave Chappelle's in town, starting his ten-date run at Leicester Square Theatre. Tickets of course sold out instantly, starting at £100 and rising to more than £300. He's funny, but is anybody £300-worth of funny?

Monday February 10

LEICESTER: It's the UK Pun Championships as part of the ongoing Leicester Comedy festival, with Iain MacDonald, Philip Simon, Stevie Vegas, Richard Pulsford, Richard Woolford,  Chris Norton Walker, Adele Cliff and Kat Molinari all taking part in the punfight.

Tuesday February 11

LONDON: The Vault festival continues beneath Waterloo station all week, with one of the highlights being a five-night run of Alex Edelman's Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated Just For Us, about that time he hung out with a bunch of Nazis in New York. It starts tonight…

LONDON: At the Soho Theatre, Jack Rooke begins a week-long run of his joyful storytelling show, Love Letters, about his sexual awakenings.

Wednesday February 12

HOVE: Simon Munnery kicks off the farewell tour for his character Alan Parker: Urban Warrior, that sloganeering radical campaigner whose contradictory words and futile gestures have still failed to herald a new socialist utopia.  Dates. 

Thursday February 13

HULL: Comedian, choirboy and aspiring goalkeeper Lloyd Griffith embarks on a new tour of the UK, entitled Not Just A Pretty Face, fresh from supporting Jack Whitehall. Dates. 

Published: 9 Feb 2020