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EVENTS Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival 2016 Off The Kerb Productions present SEANN WALSH: WORK IN PROGRESS Catch Seann, star of BBC1’s Live at the Apollo, E4’s Virtually Famous, ITV’s Royal Variety Show, as he returns to Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival with a brand new work-in-progress hour. **** Independent - ***** Scotsman - “Unquestionably the best observational comic of his generation” The Guardian. WORLD PREMIER DATES: 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 VENUE: The Cookie Map Ref: MAP 1 - A2 (27) TIME: 8pm (9pm) ENTRY: £8 SET LIST: STAND-UP WITHOUT A NET What if someone else wrote a set list of outrageous & original topics for the world’s best stand-up comedians, and they had to perform it with literally zero seconds to prepare? Unforgettable spontaneous comedic genius as seen on Sky Atlantic. “For anyone genuinely interested in comedy and comedians,this is the must-see show of the festival”*****SCOTSMAN www.setlistshow.com DATES: 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 VENUE: Just the Tonic at Hansom Hall Map Ref: MAP 1 - B2 (16) TIME: 9.15pm (10.15pm) ENTRY: £7.50 Shakespeare Martineau present SHAKESPEARE MARTINEAU (COMEDY) CURRY CLUB Join Shakespeare Martineau for hilarious comedy, amazing food and serious networking for the region’s professionals. Featuring a VERY special guest! For further information please contact Daljit Flora - Daljit.Flora@shma.co.uk DATES: 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 VENUE: Chutney Ivy Map Ref: MAP 1 - A3 (6) TIME: 12pm (2.15pm) ENTRY: By invite only SHAPPI KHORSANDI LIVE “She has plenty to say, and says it with pointedness and potency.” The Guardian Star of Live At The Apollo, Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, and Have I Got News for You and Q.I Is back with a brand new show for 2016. She’s has whip-crack jokes and is effortlessly funny as she handles every subject with a razor sharp wit. “makes live comedy thrilling” London Evening Standard. www.justthetonic.com/leicester-comedy DATES: 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 VENUE: Just the Tonic at Hansom Hall Map Ref: MAP 1 - B2 (16) TIME: 8pm (10pm) ENTRY: £14 (£12) SHAZIA MIRZA: THE KARDASHIANS MADE ME DO IT After three girls left Bethnal Green to join ISIS, Shazia contributed to a piece for BBC Radio. Her contribution received record numbers of complaints. The Kardashians Made Me Do It tells of this and the confusion it caused as she looks into the nature of offence, the dangers of politically correct liberalism versus the sinister and terrifying intrusion of ISIS into the lives of young British Asian women. www.shazia-mirza.com DATES: 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 VENUE: The Regent Sports & Social Club Map Ref: MAP 1 - C3 (33) TIME: 9pm (10pm) ENTRY: £7 (£6) NCF Comedy SHERAZ YOUSAF: THE PURSUIT OF MANLYNESS What if you were taught how to be a man? But you weren’t yet a man. So you un-taught yourself, and then you learned again from someone else, and they were also wrong. So you decided to read a book about it. And then looked on the internet. And then went to something where there were other men. And they told you how to be a man. What kind of man would you be? www.sherazyousaf.com REGIONAL PREMIER DATES: 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 VENUE: Kayal Map Ref: MAP 1 - B3 (17) TIME: 10.30pm (11.30pm) ENTRY: £5 124 OFFICIAL TICKETING PARTNER WANT TICKETS? visit www.comedy-festival.co.uk or call the box office 0116 242 3595
Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival 2016 EVENTS Heroes & Lindsey Warnes Carroll present SHIRLEY’S SUPER SMASHING SUNDAY FUNDAY CLUB Share in the joys of Shirley as she presents a range of different activities every festival Sunday, suitable for all ages to join in with. Perform, make things, listen to silly stories, sing-along, dance and be part of something unique. The fun begins on the 7th with the critically acclaimed interactive performance “The Further Adventures of Shirley” and continues on the 14th & 21st with “Shirley & Friends” REGIONAL PREMIER DATES: 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 VENUE: Heroes @ The Criterion Map Ref: MAP 1 - B2 (12) TIME: 1.30pm (3pm) ENTRY: £5 advance or Pay What You Want Glorious Management present SHORT & CURLY: A CURLY NIGHT IN (WORK IN PROGRESS) Join Short & Curly for a Curly night in watching the telly... on the stage! What should they watch first? Film Noir, A Musical Horror or a Classic Superhero programme. More ludicrous spoofage from the madcap pair. “Quick changes and even quicker wit” ThreeWeeks “fantastically good fun” Broadway Baby www.shortandcurlycomedy.co.uk WORLD PREMIER DATES: 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 VENUE: The Cookie Map Ref: MAP 1 - A2 (27) TIME: 2pm (3pm) ENTRY: FREE Funhouse Comedy present “SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO?” GONG SHOW 12 new comedians battle it out in comedy’s answer to Britain’s Got Talent and The X-Factor. Each comedian performs for two minutes and then the judges with their red and green glowsticks vote on whether to keep them on or send them off! Lots of fun and laughs. Compere is Nottingham funnyman Spiky Mike. www.funhousecomedy.co.uk/html/fun_house_comedy_venues_leicester.html DATES: 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 VENUE: Kayal Map Ref: MAP 1 - B3 (17) TIME: 8pm (10.30pm) ENTRY: £6 advance SHOW TRYOUT: PANELBEATERS Come see comedians Gary Delaney, Caimh McDonnell and friends do a live run-through of the new show they are developing. Panel Beaters aims to do for the panel show what the Fast Show did for sketches. There’ll be no politics, just punchlines, loads of punchlines - and like all good episodes of Game of Thrones, somebody dies at the end. DATES: 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 VENUE: Firebug Map Ref: MAP 1 - B2 (10) TIME: 8pm (9pm) ENTRY: £3 SILVER STAND-UP This unique evening showcases the shortlisted entrants aged 55+ vying for the Silver Stand Up Award! “Anything that provides an antidote to all the young upstarts taking over the comedy scene has to be a good thing” Alexi Sayle. In aid of Big Difference Company registered charity 1135167. If you would like to enter please call us on 0116 261 6812 DATES: 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 VENUE: The Belmont Hotel Map Ref: MAP 1 - C4 (26) TIME: 6pm (7pm) ENTRY: £5 (£4) SIMON DONALD’S SCHOOL OF SWEARING Stuck for a word to describe something you do to your genitals? Need an aggressive taunt to shout at a policeman? Maybe you’re struggling to describe somethings that’s come out of your arse? School of Swearing has all the answers. “As funny with a microphone as he was with a pencil” Guardian “Genuinely interesting and utterly hilarious” Broadway Baby “Subversive cerebral filth” List “Superb inventive comedy” Stage www.simondonald.com DATES: 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 VENUE: Heroes @ The Criterion Map Ref: MAP 1 - B2 (12) TIME: 9.30pm (10.30pm) ENTRY: £5 advance or Pay What You Want “One of the best comedy festivals in the world” the guardian 125
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