Leicester Comedy Festival

Comedian, author, and journalist Marc Burrows returns from the culture wars to ask 'who am I?' and 'why is everything like this?' An hour of nerdy jokes about sex, music, identity and modern life being rubbish.

Double act Shelf are often mistaken for teenage boys, but it's time to grow up and become teenage men. Anecdotes and songs about children's comedy, the Instagram algorithm, confronting your toxicity, and more.

Join Leicester Comedy Festival Best Appearance nominee Jamie D'Souza as he cooks up a hilarious new show! It's all about moving out of his family home. Expect lots of jokes about his landlord. (If my landlord is reading this, please ignore, and be kind with the deposit xo).

Since 2016, award-winning Improbotics has brought robots to stages worldwide! In this science comedy show, human actors perform with artificial intelligence. Improvisers are controlled by AI chatbots: the result is unpredictable human-machine hilarity.

Following on from his critically acclaimed 2023 fringe show, join Steve, star and creator of ITV2's Buffering, as he builds up his brand new show. This year he is talking about society's obsession with success and his own experience of achieving his dream of having a sitcom.

For millennia, men have written about sex and their work has been called Great Literature. But when women do it they are accused of only writing about what they know. All The Men Are Going To Hate Me is about one woman’s attempt to write The Great (Female) Novel of the 21st Century.

With a mixture of stand-up & video, comedian Lou Taylor discusses her life, relationship, childhood, and much more. You will be taken back to the late '90s where Lou grew into her role as a very naughty school girl (not in a sexy way), no teacher was safe from her gob (again not in a sexy way).

At some point during a Bollywood film a beautiful woman will perform an elaborate musical number about how hot she is then disappear. This woman is completely irrelevant to the plot, but who cares? She’s the best part of the film. She’s the Item Girl.

A new work in progress show from Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee Paddy Young. As seen on Channel 4, ITV2, Sky and Stewart Lee’s recommendation list

A play about ordering a curry from award winning idiot ensemble. Written by Adam Larter.

WiFi Wars returns with the live comedy game show where you all play along! Log in with your smartphone or tablet and compete in a range of games, puzzles and quizzes to win the show, and prizes!

An hour of new material from comedian Dee Allum. Dee was a finalist in the 2022 BBC New Comedy Award competition, and started her comedy career performing sketches with the Cambridge Footlights.

A debut work-in-progress of standup, characters and sketches about cultural confusion and finding the funny in gibberish. From award-nominated comedian and actor Derek Mitchell (Ted Lasso), whose characters and sketches have amassed tens of millions of views on Instagram and TikTok.