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EVENTS Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival 2016 Get Comedy present ALFIE BROWN - WORK IN PROGRESS The ever unpredictable Alfie Brown returns to Leicester after critically acclaimed runs at London’s Soho Theatre with a brand new hour WORLD PREMIER of engaging stand up. Constantly evolving and striving for ways to innovate, Brown is pushing stand up further than where his contemporaries dare to. “Quite simply the future of British stand-up” Brian Donaldson, The List www.alfiebrown.com 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: 5pm (6pm) ENTRY: £6 Blue Light Comedy present ALFIE MOORE - WORK IN PROGRESS Cop-turned-comedian Alfie, star of hit BBC Radio 4 Comedy ‘It’s a Fair Cop’ brings an all new work-in-progress hour ahead of his International REGIONAL PREMIER tour. “a genuinely lovely, accomplished comic with a huge following both live and on the radio. Wonderful, warm, funny... with thought-provoking stuff and real shocks”. Kate Copstick, The Scotsman. – “offbeat, revealing and very funny” Daily Mail - part of the Kayal all-dayer www.alfiemoore.com 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: 2pm (3pm) ENTRY: £7 advance / £8 door Weirdos Comedy proudly presents the one and only ALI BRICE: WEAR MY HAT This show will be silly silly fun fun! Let’s all get together and have a big old silly silly fun fun time. I’d like a go on the paternoster. Please take me. “joyously bonkers” Chortle “anarchic hyper-weirdness” The Scotsman “a natural, endlessly watchable clown...a smorgasbord of fun and oddness” ShortCom “Brice is bold and relentless...a celebration of silliness; a joyfully silly show for silly people” FringeGuru WORLD 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: 4.40pm (5.30pm) ENTRY: FREE ALISON THEA-SKOT: SOME LIKE IT THEA-SKOT Alison Thea-Skot brings her surreal, joyous and unhinged character comedy to Leicester. Hang out with Celine Dion, join the Heartbreak Club and end on a finale from ‘The Woman With Feet For Hands’. Let Thea-Skot coax you into her world, where ultimately you become the hero. “Brave, silly, a little bit unhinged and very, very funny” ***** Funny Women “An exhilarating show” **** The List www.alisontheaskot.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: 7.30pm (8.30pm) ENTRY: £6 The Leicester Mercury present ALTERNATIVE BUSINESS AWARDS 2016 Join us for an evening celebrating the serious men and women who drive the region’s economy. For one night only the business community in Leicestershire show their fun side and salute 12 individuals in exciting and unique categories. Hosted by Patrick Monahan (winner of ITV’s – “Show Me The Funny”). In association with Smallman & Son, and supporting Big Difference Company, Hope Against Cancer & Lord’s Taverners. DATES: 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 VENUE: Curve Map Ref: MAP 1 - A3 (7) TIME: 6.15pm (9pm) ENTRY: £20 ALTERNATIVE <strong>COMEDY</strong> MEMORIAL SOCIETY The strange and glorious comedy night marches on Leicester, with a brilliant bill of baffling and brilliant acts. All hosted - and over-booked - by Thom Tuck (“fruity” - The Guardian) and John-Luke Roberts (“mournful” - Fest). N.B. While the show is no longer in a yurt, “don’t break the yurt” remains a permitted heckle. “Genuinely alternative and properly comedic” The Guardian. “Not always comedy” Three Weeks. www.noblefailure.org 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: 8.15pm (9.45pm) ENTRY: £8 (£6) 38 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 Avalon present ALUN COCHRANE - A SHOW WITH A MAN IN IT A man who has jokes. Jokes about manliness, womanliness, hobbies, ageing, fighting, perfume, beards, snoods, feminism, fundamentalism, and hopefully some profound understanding about life itself. “Brilliant no-frills stand-up comedy” List. He is heard on Radio 4 in Alun Cochrane’s Fun House, Just a Minute and is known as the Cockerel on Absolute Radio’s Frank Skinner Show and podcast. www.brcomedy.com 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 (9.30pm) ENTRY: £12.50 (£10) AMADEUS MARTIN - GOD CREATED BRIXTON A story about Amadeus Martin’s quest over a 30 year period, from a youngster to an adult to convince a Polish pen pal to set foot in Brixton, and how this was impossible due to its bad reputation. Living in Brixton used to embarrass Amadeus, because of the negativity attached to it. But this negativity was driven by his ignorance of the area, coupled with the media campaign for it to be this way. www.amadeusmartin.co.uk 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: 9.10pm (10.10pm) ENTRY: £8 (£6) CatFace Talent present AMIR KHOSHSOKHAN - MILK & HEDGEHOGS So You Think You’re Funny Finalist, BBC New Comedy Award finalist & The Piccadilly Comedy Club’s New Comedian of 2015, Amir Khoshsokhan tells a love story about love, hedgehogs and milk. “An act that mixed the clever with the accessible...he got funnier and funnier” Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard “So compelling is Khoshsokhan’s curious manner that even the most unpromising crowd seems utterly mesmerised” Fest DATES: 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 VENUE: Duffy’s Bar Map Ref: MAP 1 - B2 (9) TIME: 7.15pm (8.15pm) ENTRY: £5 (£3) RGR and Foundry Group present AN AUDIENCE WITH HENRY VIII His Majesty does not have syphilis. He wants to make that quite clear. And as for the wives, there were good reasons why they had to go. And since we’re asking the awkward questions, Henry has one: where is God? He’s been waiting 468 years to meet him and he’s running out of patience. A Brighton Fringe sell out, the 16th century King meets a 21st Century audience. Heads will roll. www.upstairsatthewestern.com DATES: 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 VENUE: Upstairs at the Western Map Ref: MAP 2 (54) TIME: 7.30pm (8.45pm) ENTRY: £10 (£8) Andy Wright presents AN EVENING WITH MITCH BENN Mitch features on BBC Radio 4 where he has been a regular contributor to The Now Show since 1999, and BBC Radio 2’s It’s Been a Bad Week (since 2000). He is also an occasional contributor to Jammin’ on BBC Radio 2. In 2004 he created his own aptly named series, Mitch Benn’s Crimes Against Music on Radio 4, featuring Robin Ince and Alfie Joey; this has now run to three series. www.o2academyleicester.co.uk DATES: 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 VENUE: O2 Academy Map Ref: MAP 2 (43) TIME: 8pm (9.30pm) ENTRY: £8 Church of the Martyrs present AN EVENING WITH PAUL KERENSA: LIVE & UNRUDE Writer for BBC1’s ‘Miranda’ and ‘Not Going Out’ among countless others, Paul’s the in-demand comic who plays comedy clubs and cathedrals. He’s one of the few to have appeared both at London’s Comedy Store and on Radio 2’s Pause For Thought. A decade into his stand-up career, Paul’s oneman show has played to packed-out churches and other venues. Supported by Leicester Lad John Fryer, singer/songwriter. www.martyrs.org.uk DATES: 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 VENUE: Church of the Martyrs Map Ref: MAP 2 (40) TIME: 7.30pm (10.15pm) ENTRY: £12.50 (£10) “Find everything from regular stand up to interactive comedy experiences” the daily mirror 39
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