Ed Gamble, Alex Horne, Phil Wang and more at Just For Laughs event

Streaming service NextUp is to broadcast The Wrestling from London’s Just for Laughs Festival this weekend.

The event will feature comics Ed Gamble, Alex Horne, Phil Wang, Glenn Moore and Abi Clarke making their debuts in the ring with Rosie Jones defending her championship belt.

Meanwhile, double act Max & Ivan, who came up with the comedy-grappling crossover –  originally for the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe – will be taking part in a tag-team match.

Joe Lycett will be acting as Moore’s manager, while Aisling Bea,  Iain Stirling, Greg James and  Nish Kumar will commentate. Suzi Ruffell will MC and Jazz Emu, Nick Helm and Flo & Joan will provide music.

The event takes place at Indigo at The O2 from 8pm on Sunday – the final day of the Just for Laughs Festival which kicks off at venues across the Greenwich site tonight.

NextUp is also recording several comedy specials at The Bedford in Balham, South London, later this month in a season called Flashback Festival.

It features shows from the 2021 Edinburgh Fringe including:

• Smut, the debut stand-up hour from ‘sarky Londoner’ Lily Phillips
• British-Lebanese comedian Isabelle Farah's show about grief, Ellipsis
• About Time from comedian Sian Davies, founder of the Best in Class movement to promote working-class comics
• Friends And Nothing More from double act Britney, aka Charly Clive and Ellen Robertson
• Ted Hill’s All The Presidents’ Man, about every POTUS there has been so far
• Pete Heat’s Blimey, which mixes stand-up and magic

Free tickets to the recordings are available from Standing Room Only Audiences.

Subscription to NextUp costs £30 a year, which also includes hundreds of other live-streams including 50 shows from the Edinburgh Fringe in August, plus more than 200 on-demand comedy specials.

» Images from the photocall launching The Wresling at the O2

Published: 2 Mar 2023