The best of the week's live comedy

Sunday April 2

GLASGOW: The city's international comedy festival comes to an end tonight. Rich Hall at the Garage, Nick Mohammed at Tramway, Phil Wang at the King's Theatre and many more . And if you're quick you can get to the closing gala, also at the King's, at 3pm with Janey Godley, Paul Black, Liam Farrelly, Marc Jennings, Scott Agnew, Weegie Hink Ae That?! and Jay Lafferty - all compered by Susie McCabe.

Monday April 3

LONDON: The regular No Direction Home gig at the Soho Theatre features a line-up of refugee comedians plus top-level pros Jessica Fostekew and Nish Kumar.

LONDON:The Comedy Store hosts  Stand Up for GamesAid, in aid of various children's charities supported by the gaming industry. Hosted by Imran Yusuf, the line-up includes Ria Lina, Laura Smyth, Alasdair Beckett-King, Pete Firman and Scott Bennett. 

Tuesday April 4

LONDON: Again at the Comedy Store, Phil Nichol's monthly Cray Cray cabaret night features exasperated political comic Mark Steel, ace storyteller  Desiree Burch, quirky Josh Pugh,​ The Flop's  'band of idiots', Pat Riarchy the drag king persona of a jaded old-school comedian, and house musicians David Tims & His Bigish Band

Thursday April 6

LONDON:  Glenn Moore, Jordan Brookes, Ken Cheng, Celya AB and  Lorna Rose Treen are among the appealing bill at  The Star of Kings as Country Mile Comedy Club returns, fundraising for FareShare UK.

Friday April 7

BRIGHTON: Alasdair Beckett-King’s first UK tour kicks off at Komedia tonight. ​​In The Interdimensional ABK, the internet star, acclaimed stand-up and Mock The Week (RIP)  regular jumps backwards and forwards between our, rather miserable, timeline into an altogether more appealing one. Alasdair ​Beckett-King tour dates

LONDON: Assured American comic Tom Papa, whose latest special What A Day landed on Netflix in December, comes to Leicester Square Theatre – or Leichester Square Theatre as his website spells it - for warm-hearted observational comedy likely to draw on his family life, and the realities of being a middle-aged bloke.

Saturday April 8

LEEDS: There's a strong bill at the Hi-Fi tonight featuring four circuit stalwarts guaranteed to bring the funnies: Barry Dodds, Scott Bennett, Stephen Bailey and Tom Little 

BRIERLEY HILL: A rare club date for Jack Dee as he performs a 45-minute extended set at Funny Beeseness in the Black Country. Old misery-guts is supported by master of the old-school Jewish shtick  Sol Bernstein and brash, crude and very funny Ninia Benjamin. Resident host Wayne Beese comperes.

Published: 2 Apr 2023