COMEDY YOU CAN’T IGNORE

EVENTS
Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival 2016
MLA Talent present
AN EVENING WITH WOODY ALLEN(ISH)
Acclaimed actor Simon Schatzberger plays Woody Allen performing his iconic 1960’s stand up material. The performance is spell binding
as you are transported back to Woody’s early stand up in Greenwich Village. A must see for any Woody fan and lover of American stand up.
www.woodyallenish.com
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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: 6.15pm (7.10pm)
ENTRY: £8
AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHNNY VEGAS
Johnny Vegas started his stand up career in the 1990s & quickly became perhaps the most fearlessly confessional stand-up comedian
in the UK. In 1997 he won the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year and went on to huge acclaim at gigs across the UK. More recently,
he met a knitted monkey, drank tea and became one of Britain’s best-loved comic actors. Join him in an in depth interview with Festival
Director Geoff Rowe. As part of Beyond a Joke.
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: 12pm (1pm)
ENTRY: £6
Glorious Talent present
ANDREA HUBERT - WORK IN PROGRESS
Join comedian and BAFTA Rocliffe award winner Andrea Hubert for an afternoon of uplifting work-in-progress comedy (including some
horrific anecdotes about her Jewish mother, a long bit about the vagaries of depression and a jaunty little tale about how she once killed
a dog by accident, then lied about it.)
www.gloriousmanagement.com/artist/andrea-hubert
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: 3.30pm (4.30pm)
ENTRY: £5
ANDREW BIRD - WORK IN PROGRESS
A work in progress show about trying to think what you think about things, worrying too much what other people think while not having
anytime to think. Trying not to think negative. When do you think you feel grown up? Maybe you could think about coming to the show. What
do you think? Writer 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown “Funny, likeable and effortless” Time Out “Comedy gold...going to be a star” The Scotsman
www.comedy-festival.co.uk
DATES:
03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
VENUE: The Cookie Comedy Club @ The Globe Map Ref: MAP 1 - C4 (28)
TIME: 9.30pm (10.30pm)
ENTRY: £5
Andrew Bridge presents
ANDREW BRIDGE - AART
What time is it? It’s time for Aart. Get inside your now, eat you’re Mind Pie and journey into Art with Mikey. “Any show that makes me laugh,
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|feel good about myself and leave my nostrils filled with that reassuring smell of plasticine is just about the greatest anything ever” ****The Skinny
As seen on BBC Scotland / Pick of the Fringe “The best Character Comedy you have yet to see” Colin Hoult (Derek )
www.andrew-bridge.com
DATES:
03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
VENUE: Bob’s BlundaBus Map Ref: MAP 1 - B2 (4)
TIME: 7.15pm (8.15pm)
ENTRY: £5
RBM present
ANDREW LAWRENCE - UNCENSORED
LIVE AT THE APOLLO star, Andrew Lawrence, is one of the most subversive and intelligent comedians to emerge in recent years, recently
recorded his fourth series for BBC Radio 4. He brings you his most honest, fearless and uncompromising stand-up show to date.
“Hilarious audience banter - he is in a class of his own.” Edinburgh Evening News.
www.andrewlawrencecomedy.co.uk
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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: 9.30pm (10.30pm)
ENTRY: £8
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