Leicester Comedy Festival

Bingo meets tech. Join IT consultants, Lloyd and Pete in their interactive show for introverts. This is a new bingo show: expect robots, comedy and chaos. Play along on your charged phone (but in a fun way).

This unique comedy experience returns to the Leicester Comedy Festival off the back of sell-outs at Edinburgh Fringe 2023.

A special version of this unique comedy experience. It's still comedy, and it's still dark... a perfect family show for Half-Term giggles.

The world’s first live comedy documentary. Saddle up for a rapid ride through a really real film that no-one seems to have heard of and join sketch comedian/ documentarian Will BF for a bucking bronco of sketches, songs, and even a video game, as you journey through the wild west.

After a sellout 5 star run of the Edinburgh Fringe with a pole dancing comedy show about dread, Siân Docksey presents a new show about: more dread. Also Vin Diesel, capitalism and unfriendly Belgian ballet dancers.

Award-winning comedian Chris Cantrill (The Delightful Sausage, Alma’s Not Normal) and director Sam O’Leary (Inside No. 9, Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared) host an evening of comedy short films, bizarro music videos and truly effed-up viral oddities.

A brand new work in progress show about refusing to take things seriously, like show titles and blurbs. Andy's good at stand up and has done lots of good things, so this show will be good as well. Just believe it.

Fresh from supporting Nigel Ng (Uncle Roger) on his sold-out mammoth world tour performing in venues such as The London Palladium and The Hammersmith Apollo, the heart-throb of low-energy comedy Danny Clives returns to the Leicester Comedy Festival with his new show about being alive, almost being dead and how he survived a car crash.

Stuart Laws ("A one-man episode of Arrested Development" –Fest) and Matt Sandstorm (unreviewed) are a new two-man comedy duo. They’re Doomsday preppers who are delighted to give the audience a chance to learn more about the dangers of the world and then sign up to their militia, with free access to a bunker when all goes Doomsday.

New jokes and some real big feelings from award-winning comedian Chris Cantrill. He’s working on a new show about long term friendships, the passage of time and moths. Come and see the show in its embryonic form where he’ll almost certainly slag someone off he shouldn’t.

*win two separate comedy competitions connected to the Leicester Square Theatre in London and then come to Leicester Comedy Festival to do a split hour. You know, The Double Leicester.

Join Frankie Monroe owner and resident MC at The Moon Room Social Club (a working men's club in Rotherham that is also a portal to hell) for a night of laughs, tricks and mucky bitter.

Bangtail is a one-woman clown adaptation of the classic spaghetti Western, exploring the modern man’s Wild West: the middle American office space.

Relax and calm down. A brand-new wet and mild work-in-progress from alternative comedian and clown Mikey Bligh-Smith. No thrills. No spills. I promise this isn’t going to be stressful.

As a lapsed Catholic obsessed with the Middle Ages, Caitriona Dowden spends a lot of time thinking about saints. In fact, she is pretty sure that she has what it takes to become one, and has decided that the best way to make that happen is through the medium of a standup comedy show.

What is anything, I do not know!? The basically-award-winning* "real WTF comic?" (Chortle), brings a love letter of his past present & future. Expect Chess, Poems, Bags & Big Ideas.

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

Katie Norris (Winner of the Musical Comedy Awards 2023, BBC New Comedy Award Semi-Finalist 2023) is coming to Leicester with her hotly anticipated debut hour.

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.

Jonny Pelham (As seen on Live at the Apollo, Mock The Week, Alan Davies As Yet Untitled) is coming back to Leicester with a brand-new show. He's writing this blurb in September, and currently has only one new joke, and it's about a microwave, will he have more jokes in February?

Witty and inventive, with a sharp eye for satire and poetic lyrics to match, Isobel Rogers unmasks our shadier selves as we all navigate, or fail to navigate, relationships and our own lives in an increasingly jittery and superficial world, whilst keeping it all warm-hearted and wryly hilarious.

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.