2025 Comedy WIP Season

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DARA Ó BRIAIN

16th Jan | 8pm | £20

BRAINSLUTS

27th Jan | 7pm | £5

‘A masterclass in intelligent, no-frills stand-up’ Guardian AMELIA

28th Jan | 7:30pm | £8.50

A night packed with short films and live script readings from some of the funniest minds in the industry.

29th + 30th Jan | 7:30pm | £15

As seen on MichaelMcIntyre’s BigShow and heard on Radio 4’s The Now Show

31st Jan | 7:40pm | £9

As seen on Britain’sGotTalent, LiveattheApollo and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

A rehearsed read-through of a new comedy play by Dan Bishop.

28th Jan | 7:40pm | £8

The only female stand-up rap comedian in the UK (as far as she knows).

‘One of the most exciting young comics around’ wwwww Telegraph

30th Jan + 3rd Apr 7:40pm | £8 5th Feb | 7:40pm | £8

‘Sweet, smart, refreshingly silly’ Guardian

ADA & BRON KATHY MANIURA

6th Feb | 7:40pm | £7

Drag king character comedy about the obnoxious London Cycling Man.

6th Feb | 9pm | £8.50

A character comedy show for lovers of the strange, weird, and sexy.

PEDRO LEANDRO ALEX MACKEITH

7th Feb | 7:40pm | £8

Winner of the Musical Comedy Awards 2020.

ROSALIE MINNITT

8th Feb | 7:40pm | £9

Creator of smash-hit comedy Clementine (Telegraph’s Funniest Shows of the Fringe 2024).

7th Feb | 9pm | £9

‘A beautiful bright-eyed joy’ Everything Theatre

SINDHU VEE

8th Feb | 9pm | £8

As seen in Netflix’s Matilda: The Musical and Amazon Prime’s ThePardeepsof Pittsburgh.

PIERRE NOVELLIE JIN HAO LI

11th Feb | 7:40pm | £7

12th Feb | 7:40pm | £10

Three-time Chortle Award nominee, as seen supporting Frank Skinner in the West End. Nominee

KYRAH GRAY

13th Feb | 7:40pm | £7

As seen on ComedyCentral Live and at the O2, as part of Mo Gilligan’s Black British Takeover.

KATE CHEKA

13th Feb | 9pm | £9

Winner of the Funny Women Stage Award and Chortle’s Best Newcomer nominee.

LOU WALL SAM WILLIAMS

14th Feb | 7:40pm | £8

As seen on ITV2’s Stand-up Sketch Show , and with over 100 million views online.

LIAM

15th Feb | 7:40pm | £7

Winner of the Best of the Fest Award at Sydney Comedy Festival 2024.

ROB AUTON

WITHNAIL 19th Feb | 7:40pm | £10 15th Feb | 9pm | £7

‘Astonishing... The crowd can’t get enough’ wwwww Independent

‘Funny, baffling, and deeply moving’ Telegraph

GLENN MOORE MAX FULHAM

20th Feb | 7:40pm | £8

A ‘brilliant’ act (Mel Giedroyc), who’s catapulting ventriloquism into the 21st century.

20th Feb | 9pm | £10

As seen on LiveattheApollo, MocktheWeek and 8 Out of10 Cats Does Countdown.

BEBE CAVE

21st Feb | 7:40pm | £9

‘Full of madcap ideas… A riot from start to finish’ Broadway Baby

JOE KENT-WALTERS

22nd Feb | 7:40pm | £10

Winner of Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2024.

ANNA HALE

24th Feb | 7:40pm | £9

Winner of Audience Favourite at the Musical Comedy Awards 2024.

OZZY ALGAR

26th Feb | 7:40pm | £9

A dark character comedy and clown hour, from the finalist of Sketch Off 2024.

WILL OWEN

21st Feb | 9pm | £7

Winner of the Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year Award.

ALICE COCKAYNE

22nd Feb | 9pm | £8

‘Smart whilst spectacularly dumb’ Skinny

CHLOE PETTS

25th + 26th Feb 7:40pm + 9pm | £10

As seen on Have I Got News ForYou,HouseofGames and Hypothetical.

marlon Davis

27th Feb | 7:40pm | £7

As seen on LiveattheApollo, LiveFromtheComedyStore and Don’tHatethePlayaz.

HOLLY SPILLAR

27th Feb | 9pm | £7

‘The vocal chords of Mitski, the wildness of Kate Bush’ wwwww West End Best Friend

PHIL ELLIS

28th Feb | 9pm | £10

Best Show nominee at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2023.

LULU POPPLEWELL

28th Feb | 7:40pm | £7

‘Biting wit and playful punchlines’ British Comedy Guide

CAROLINE MCEVOY

1st Mar | 7:40pm | £7

Semi-finalist for So You Think You’re Funny? and Komedia New Act of the Year.

ANDREW FROST ROSA GARLAND

4th Mar | 7:40pm | £9

The brain and body behind the sell-out queer cult hit Trash Salad.

5th Mar | 7:40pm | £10

‘Andy is a brilliant magician’ Derren Brown

ALISON SPITTLE DOM MCGOVERN

5th Mar | 9pm | £7

BBC New Comedy Award nominee and co-writer of

6th Mar | 7:40pm | £10

‘There are very few comics doing what Spittle does today’ wwwww Irish Times

RAJ POOJARA

6th Mar | 9pm | £10

As seen on the BBC New ComedyAwards and as tour support for Jamali Maddix and Dylan Moran.

ANDREW DOHERTY

8th Mar | 9pm | £8

A new horror-comedy combining lawyers, ghosts and the plot of the Saw films.

ARE YOU GAY OR ARE YOU BLACK?

8th Mar | 7:40pm | £10

There can be only one winner... let the games begin. With Ayoade Bamgboye + Will Owen.

THE COMEDY RESERVE TRYOUTS 2025

10th + 11th Mar | 7:40pm | £7

Join us as we hand-pick four comedians to take to the Edinburgh Fringe.

12th Mar | 7:40pm | £7

As seen in Dave’s LiveAtThe Moth Club , Channel 4’s Peaked and EveryoneElseBurns , and BBC Three’s Funboys

ELE MCKENZIE SARAH ROBERTS

13th Mar | 9pm | £7

‘Grotesque… utterly selfabsorbed’ Chortle

AMY MASON

‘A cracking show from a distinctive comic’ wwww Scotsman

JAMES TRICKEY

13th Mar | 7:40pm | £9 14th Mar | 7:40pm | £7

Best New Show nominee at the Leicester Comedy Festival 2024.

JESSIE NIXON DARRAN GRIFFITHS

14th Mar | 9pm | £7

‘She doesn’t remind me of anyone I’ve seen before, which is a good sign’ Beyond the Joke

SEANN WALSH

19th Mar | 7:40pm | £7

As seen on StrictlyCome Dancing,I’maCelebrity…Get Me Out ofHere! and Live atthe Apollo.

15th Mar | 7:40pm | £7

Shortlisted for British Comedian of the Year three times.

GARRETT MILLERICK

20th Mar | 9pm | £8 20th Mar | 7:40pm | £10

Two London natives; one from West and one from East. (Guess which is which!)

‘Smart, wide-ranging, playful and devastatingly funny’ wwww Chortle

ROHAN SHARMA

21st Mar | 7:40pm | £7

Winner of the Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year Award 2024.

Tom BrACE BILAL ZAFAR

21st Mar | 9pm | £10

27 Mar | 7:40pm | £10

‘Charmed,

TAL DAVIES SHARON WANJOHI

27th Mar | 9pm | £7

As seen on ComedyCentral Live , ITV2 and BBC Three.

LINDSEY SANTORO

29th Mar | 7:40pm | £7

Winner of Next Up’s Biggest Award in Comedy, as seen as tour support for Joe Lycett and Russell Kane.

ALANA JACKSON

3rd Apr | 9pm | £8

Winner of So You Think You’re Funny? 2024.

28th Mar | 7:40pm | £8

As seen as tour support for Milton Jones, Paul Chowdhry and Josh Pugh.

ALI WOODS

29th Mar | 9pm | £8

Known for his viral online sketches and as tour support for Russell Kane and Adam Kay.

SHALAKA KURUP

4th Apr | 7:40pm | £7

Winner of West End New Act of the Year 2023.

FREYA MCGHEE SOPHIE GARRAD

5th + 25th Apr

7:40pm + 9pm | £12

Finalist of So You Think You’re Funny?, with over 60 million views online.

5th Apr | 9pm | £7

Finalist for the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year Award 2023.

CABBAGE THE CLOWN MARJOLEIN ROBERTSON

9th Apr | 7:40pm | £9

Winner of Not Another Drag Competition, with over 6 million views online.

TOM LUCY

10th Apr | 9pm | £9

‘Believe the hype, this guy is hilarious’ Jack Whitehall

11th Apr | 9pm | £10

Semi-finalist for the Funny Women Awards, as seen supporting Kiri PritchardMcLean.

10th Apr | 7:40pm | £7

‘Able to mine an everyday observation to almost absurdist lengths’ wwww List

JESSICA ASZKENASY

Comedian / clown / tittywoman Jessica Aszkenasy’s debut hour.

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12th Apr | 7:40pm | £10 11th Apr | 7:40pm | £7

‘Assertive, boisterous, in-yourface style’ Chortle

KATIE NORRIS SOFT PLAY

12th Apr | 9pm | £8

Maria Telnikoff and Vidya Divakaran come together to play every great duo in history.

16th Apr | 7:40pm | £10

‘Wonderfully batty and unapologetic’ wwww Guardian

TAMSYN KELLY

LIZ GUTERBOCK

17th Apr | 7:40pm | £8

One of The Guardian’s 10 Best Jokes of Edinburgh Fringe, and Dave’s #2 Joke of the Fringe 2023.

JOHN TOTHILL

23rd Apr | 7:40pm | £8

As seen on ComedyCentral Live and as tour support for Fiona Allen.

JAZZ EMU HUDSON HUGHES

23rd + 24th Apr | 9pm | £11

‘A raging, manic mishmash of character comedy and anarchic jokes’ wwwww One 4 Review

24th - 26th Apr | 7:40pm | £10

‘The breakout comedy act of 2023’ wwww Guardian

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