The week's best live comedy

The best of the week's live comedy, picked from the 5,903 events Chortle currently has listed. Use our search panel to check out our full listings by date and region.

Sunday February 13

LEICESTER: The city's major comedy festival continues all week. Tonight's pick is Rob Rouse's silly No Refunds at the Brewdog Tickets. Full details of the week's events are on the Leicester Comedy Festival website.

Monday February 14

LONDON: Luisa Omielan hosts her traditional Valentine's night bash, back in person at the Clapham Grand after all the unpleasantness . Come for her funny, incisive and inspirational stand-up show, God Is A Woman, stay for the wild after party.

Tuesday February 15

LONDON: Comedian Isabelle Farrah brings Ellipsis, her thoughtful comedy-drama show about trying to make people laugh while suffering from grief, to the Pleasance Theatre for the rest of the week. It was one of the breakouts of last year's depleted Edinburgh Fringe. Review and tickets.

Wednesday February 16

CARDIFF: Nigel Ng, the comic best known for his hugely successful online videos featuring his alter-ego Uncle Roger, kicks off his Haiyaa World Tour in Cardiff - which will eventually go across Europe, North America, Australia and Asia following the 11 UK dates. Ng, who amassed more than 345 million views on YouTube and 1.2 million Instagram followers, recently launched a podcast, also called Haiyaa, and a Comedy Central online sketch series. Nigel Ng tour dates.

LONDON: Phil Wang headlines a typically impressive Objectively Funny gig at the Signature Brew tap room in Haggerston. Sophie Duker, David Mills, Sarah Mills, and Jamie D'Souza round out the bill.

Thursday February 17

MANCHESTER: Mischievous Carey Marx and Laura Lexx, who hides a steely edge behind an easy charm, are twin attractions at the Comedy-Store-in-exile gigs at Escape To Freight Island tonight. Up-and-comers Connor Burns and Harry Stachini complete the line-up.

Friday February 18

LONDON: Consistently top-flight comedy at the Hackney Comedy Experience in EartH tonight with TV faves Isy Suttie, Lou Sanders and Phil Wang, plus Luisa Omielan, who ought to be a TV fave…

Saturday February 19

LONDON: There's easily more than a century of comedy experience on stage at the excellently intimate Downstairs At The King's Head in Crouch End tonight, as veterans Arthur Smith, Charmian Hughes, Steve Gribbin and Steve N Allen (as seen on the Mash Report) share the bill.

Published: 13 Feb 2022