All Entries Tagged With: "Leicester Comedy Festival"
Comedy in the dark
The carbon footprint of Ediburgh’s festivals is about to get a tiny bit smaller, all thanks to Leicester Comedy Festival as ‘Comedy in the Dark’ makes its debut in Edinburgh. In a night that’s being heralded as ‘the most fun you can have with the lights off’, LCF take this unique experience on the road [...]
Best of Leicester Comedy Festival Tour 2010
We love the Leicester Comedy Festival and are feeling a little bit of comedy-withdrawal since February’s 17 day extravaganza of funny. Well, we won’t for much longer now the Comedy Festival is off on tour. Comedy fans across the UK will be able to enjoy the best bits of Leicester Comedy Festival 2010 as organisers handpick the best [...]
The Lieutenant of Inishmore
The team (Martin McDonagh and Paul Kerryson) behind Curve‘s inaugural production, The Pillowman reunite to bring this satirical black comedy to the stage. Set in an Ireland struggling to come to terms with the aftermath of a long and hard fought civil war of sorts, it tells the tale of one pocket of a tiny community, and the death of a [...]
Leicester Comedy Festival: Jon Richardson – This Guy At Night
Fresh from a 2009 Edinburgh Comedy Awards best show nomination and a critically acclaimed sell-out run at this year’s Fringe, Jon Richardson continues his first UK solo tour. Richardson is one of the most in-demand young comedians on the UK comedy circuit today. As well as hosting the Sunday mid-morning show on BBC6 Music, Jon has recently [...]
Leicester Comedy Festival: Topping and Butch
Musical comedy double act Topping & Butch delve into political scandals, sex, drugs and celebrity – bang up to date material delivered with superb comic timing. No one is safe from their satirical song-writing prowess – MPs expenses, Susan Boyle, Swine Flu epidemics, and Lily Allen are just some of those that feature in their [...]
Leicester Comedy Festival: Frisky and Mannish
If you love a bit of a silly sing- song and your music a little bit camp, a little bit over the top and a little bit in your face, then chances are you’ll love the brilliance that is Frisky and Mannish. They are visiting Leicester for one night only this Sunday before they jet [...]
Leicester Comedy Festival Interview: Zoe Lyons
We love Zoe Lyons, you should love Zoe Lyons. To prove how awesome she is here is our interview with her. We talk about the attractive qualities of Alec Baldwin, what makes Zoe Swagger and the Saudi Arabian lesbian cabaret. David: So, we’re going to start with the Leicester Comedy Festival, as you’ve been here [...]
Leicester Comedy Festival: Ivan Brackenbury
Spoof radio host Ivan Brackenbury is back with a bang with his greatest hits collection, three hours of awesome comedy remixed into 90 minutes of hospital radio gold. The self named ‘Cheerful Earful’ hosts a very funny hospital radio request and chat show, aptly named ‘Disease Hour’. The show is complete with games, giveaways, patients’ [...]
Leicester Comedy Festival: Dinosaur Planet
Sixty five million years ago the dinosaurs disappeared.. And now they’re back through some kind of divine miracle! One-man rock opera, Dinosaur Planet, has been described as ‘like Jeff Wayne’s War Of The Worlds, except with more dinosaurs, more jokes and a better ending’. Performer, local indie legend MJ Hibbett has been touring the country [...]
Win! Tickets for Stop Messing About – CLOSED
Sorry but this competition is now closed, for more of our wonderful give prized just click here. Direct from its triumphant West End run, the Kenneth Williams’ extravaganza, Stop Messing About visits Curve as part of it first national tour. Brought to you by the team behind Round The Horne…Revisited, Kenneth Williams’ waspish wit takes [...]
Leicester Comedy Festival: Comedy Countdown
The Leicester Comedy Festival starts this Friday (5th) and 69 towers is currently buzzing about which shows we are going to see. So being the helpful souls that we are, we have put our heads together and come up with the shows to be most excited about which we will tell you daily here at [...]
Leicester Comedy Festival Preview Show
I love the Leicester Comedy Festival, not only because they have given me the God-like power of a comedy judge again this year or that a certain member of the festival team regularly fills my belly with tea and scones, but because it is genuinely awesome. Last year, despite the incredible amount of snow, it [...]
