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Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival 2016<br />

EVENTS<br />

Show And Tell present<br />

TONY LAW: FRILLEMORPHESIS<br />

The brand new stand-up art show from the multi award-winning Tony Law. Experience his frillemorphesis as he explodes into the future<br />

REGIONAL<br />

PREMIER<br />

absurdly. As seen on Have I Got News For You, 8 Out Of 10 Cats, Celebrity Mastermind and heard on Radio 4’s Tony Law’s Surreal Guide to Surreal<br />

Comedy. “One of the most delightfully zany and disconcerting comedians around” Telegraph.<br />

www.mrtonylaw.com<br />

DATES:<br />

03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21<br />

VENUE: The Cookie Map Ref: MAP 1 - A2 (27)<br />

TIME: 9.30pm (11pm)<br />

ENTRY: £14<br />

Fluid Thinking Management present<br />

TUDUR OWEN : THE NEWS WHERE <strong>YOU</strong> ARE<br />

Your local* award winning comedian Tudur Owen**, brings you locally* sourced comedy about local* things which affect your location*.<br />

*Not necessarily local to you **Tudur Owen is not local “Great material, great variety, very funny, and very Welsh.” BBC Wales<br />

www.brcomedy.com<br />

DATES:<br />

03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21<br />

VENUE: The Regent Sports & Social Club Map Ref: MAP 1 - C3 (33)<br />

TIME: 7.30pm (8.30pm)<br />

ENTRY: £5 (£4)<br />

PBJ Management present<br />

TWISTED LOAF PRESENT STALE MATE<br />

A year on, none the wiser. Or are they? Twisted Loaf hurl themselves on the stage. Nina is ripe, perhaps too ripe, even for superstar<br />

cabaret sensation Libby. Another hilarious hour of overblown ambition and extreme attitude from two of the daftest comedy loafers around.<br />

Mixing contemporary clowning and physical characterisation. “Balances on a knife edge of genius and mental illness” List.<br />

www.twistedloafcomedy.com<br />

REGIONAL<br />

PREMIER<br />

DATES:<br />

03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21<br />

VENUE: Heroes @ The Criterion Map Ref: MAP 1 - B2 (12)<br />

TIME: 10.45pm (11.45pm)<br />

ENTRY: £5 advance or Pay What You Want<br />

UCL GRATERS PRESENTS: RED LEICESTER<br />

UCL Graters Present: Red Leicester, an hour of blisteringly funny sketch comedy from University College London’s award winning<br />

sketch group. Previous shows have been described as ***** (Cream of the Fringe), “Cuttingly funny” **** (ThreeWeeks), “Extremely<br />

witty, clever and well executed” (BroadwayBaby.com), “Witty and thoughtful” (FringeGuru.com).<br />

www.cheesegratermagazine.org/<br />

DATES:<br />

03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21<br />

VENUE: Just the Tonic at Hansom Hall Map Ref: MAP 1 - B2 (16)<br />

TIME: 6.15pm (7.15pm)<br />

ENTRY: £6 (£5)<br />

VALDEMAR PUSTELNIK - A SENSITIVE VIKING (WORK-IN-PROGRESS)<br />

Danish comedian and part-time berserker Valdemar Pustelnik presents a preview of his latest show. Its gonna be a Viking Bonanza!<br />

Axes and longboats, jazz and poetry, monks and migrants, hug and hurt. Its all in there. Somehow. He is working on it. Just come<br />

and check it out!<br />

www.valdemarpustelnik.dk<br />

DATES:<br />

03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21<br />

VENUE: The Regent Sports & Social Club Map Ref: MAP 1 - C3 (33)<br />

TIME: 7.30pm (8.30pm)<br />

ENTRY: £5<br />

VALDEMAR PUSTELNIK - WANNA BE LONELY WITH ME?<br />

Danish comedian Valdemar Pustelnik presents a self-deprecating comedy about food-addiction, childhood humiliation<br />

and the painful irony of looking like a violent viking and having the courage of a 12 year-old boy.<br />

www.valdemarpustelnik.dk<br />

DATES:<br />

03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21<br />

VENUE: The Cookie Map Ref: MAP 1 - A2 (27)<br />

TIME: 9.30pm (10.30pm)<br />

ENTRY: £5<br />

“Leicester’s annual bash with a packed bill of top names” the independent<br />

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