Join us for The Hullarious Fringe with The Bleeding Obvious
What happens when you tumble out of the big pink closet and across the LGBTQ+ rainbow in a sprawling heap? Well, life is never quite as straight as it seems!
The Bleeding Obvious has one member: Yorkshire lesbian Jessica Rowbottom who stars in a one-woman show describing her own coming-out experience through original songs and tales which are sometimes funny, occasionally poignant, frequently emotional and most definitely queer.
As she tries to find labels for her own gender identity and sexuality, Jessica recounts unexpected reactions from family and friends, dating disasters, growing up through Section 28 in the 1980s, dealing with a creepy admirer who may (or may not) be called Dave, straight people at Pride, transgender toilet panics and more.
It might even be the only show with the lyrics “demisexual panromantic polyamorous androgyne”!
*Pay what you can tickets to secure your seat with a bucket collection for the acts after each show
Join us for The Hullarious Fringe with David Ian
When you grow up gay in a small town in nineties-Kent, it is easy to think that your sexuality is the reason you don’t fit in. You dream of what life will be like when you grow up, run away to the big city and find your people. You will finally know what it’s like to be normal. Hell, maybe you’ll even be popular.
But what happens when you make that journey – literally and metaphorically – and, shock horror, find that you still don’t fit in? Maybe your sexuality wasn’t the reason you felt left out at all? What then?
In his debut solo show, stand-up comedian, David Ian explores the expectations of being a gay man and how he struggles to meet them, the disappointment of never quite knowing where the party is and if you will ever truly belong. How can you be both too gay and not gay enough at the same time?
Expect witty one-liners and intelligent jokes woven into heartwarming storytelling in this 60 minute romp through one gay man’s journey to be the best little boy in the world that will make you laugh, think and reflect on your own sense of belonging.
*Pay what you can tickets to secure your seat with a bucket collection for the acts after each show.
Part of Hull Comedy Festival at Kings.
Join Hull Comedy Festival, The Hullarious Fringe with a work in progress from Rachel Dale at Kings.
This work-in-progress show of witty wordplay is guaranteed to bring cheer and silliness into these dark times. Hull funny girl Rachel Dale (actress, comedian, crackpot) introduces her latest selection of glorious comic characters.
Join global icon Milky Whiffin (artiste, bohemian, muse) as she brazenly regales the chequered chapters of her many lives; rubbing shoulders and other body parts with the great and good, the filthy rich and the criminally insane.
Expect to also meet her sister Whiffy (yoga guru and Freedom For Farts activist), local waitress Janine, Agony Aunt with a problem Lil, and don’t leave without your Hull and Humber Shipping Forecast.
Your belly will laugh, your soul will be fed and you might need to go to confession / the toilet.
*Pay what you can tickets to secure your seat with a bucket collection for the acts after each show
Join us for The Hullarious Fringe with a work in progress from Simon Lomas.
He’s a multi award winning comedian and regarded as one of the most exciting and refreshing new acts on the circuit. Already making big waves, this ungainly and socially awkward geek will doubtless go on to big things as his distinctive style is matched by superb jokes with a highly unique delivery.
He’s already a multi-award wining act and is being widely talked about across the comedy industry – catch him now while you can!
*Pay what you can tickets to secure your seat with a bucket collection for the acts after each show
Join us for The Hullarious Fringe with Jon Pearson at this years Hull Comedy Festival at Kings.
Jon Pearson – crowned Best MC in the Midlands, 2022 – presents his unscripted, unfiltered and unplanned award-winning Leicester Comedy Festival performance plus his brand-new Spotify / iTunes album.
Tour support for Darren Harriott and Lucy Porter, Jon crafts a one-off performance of a lifetime with his quick wit and sharp comebacks that take the audience on a hilarious and captivating comedy ride.
*Pay what you can tickets to secure your seat with a bucket collection for the acts after each show
Join the Hull Comedy Festival for The Hullarious Fringe with a work in progress from Louise Atkinson
You can never complete a night out with your friends unless someone has cried over their ex, you’ve all made a new best friend in the toilets that you’ll never see again, and you’ve done three laps of the bar looking for Lisa. Seriously though, where is she?
Our friends are our chosen family. From the happiest times to breaking up with friends, grab a pint (of wine) and Louise will recount some of her funniest memories. Hopefully we find Lisa.
My debut hour examines the role friendships play in our lives. We all have the same kind of friend in our life: thoughtful, energetic, vomit-over-a-bouncer after half a WKD. However, do we appreciate these relationships as much as any other?
I examine that it’s actually friendship that forms the basis of any relationship we have and how that can be amazing but also how, when it goes wrong, a friendship break up can happen – which are devastating, not spoken about very often, but also hilarious
*Pay what you can tickets to secure your seat with a bucket collection for the acts after each show at Kings.
Ten comedians performing upstairs at the New Clarence. Free admission, superb ale / food and a great time to be had. Two beer breaks! A perfect end to the weekend.
Third Sunday every month @ 7.30pm
Come early for a great value Sunday dinner. Food served until 6.30pm. First act 7.30pm, bar open until half an hour after the show.
Tom Binns is the star and co-writer of the BBC 1 Friday Night Comedy Series Hospital People. He is also an award-winning and critical acclaimed character comedian working the International Comedy Festivals and the UK Stand Up Comedy Circuit. He’s widely regarded as THREE of the best headliners working in British Comedy.
His ventriloquist act, alter egos Hospital radio DJ Ivan Brackenbury and The ‘Psychic comedium’ have won him over 30 five star reviews and many awards both at home and abroad. Including, Fosters Comedy God and Best International Comedian.
He’s been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award, Trident Comedy Award and Perth International Fringe Comedy Award (twice). He’s was voted a ‘Fosters Comedy God’, he’s won Best International Act at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival, Adelaide Fringe (twice), Nottingham International Comedy Festival and 3 Sony Gold Awards.
The sexy baby from Taskmaster is all grown up!
Back in 2019 she was a Babybel – round, sweet, pure. Now she’s vintage cheddar – extra mature and hiding in your fridge!
As seen on Live At The Apollo and literally everywhere else. Hag is her new stand-up show. Deal with it!
Best Newcomer Nominee, 2019.
‘Laugh out-loud funny’ ★★★★ (Telegraph)
‘Extremely funny’ ★★★★ (Scotsman)
‘Rips through sex and race with relish’ (Sunday Times)
★★★★ (Evening Standard)
The American stage version of the 1997 British film The Full Monty returns to Hull, for one week only.
This amateur production follows six unemployed Buffalo steelworkers, low on both cash and prospects, as they decide to present a strip act at a local club after seeing their wives’ enthusiasm for a touring company of Chippendales. As they prepare for the show, working through their fears, self-consciousness, and anxieties, they overcome their inner demons and find strength in their camaraderie.
Featuring original music and all the fun of the original film with book by Terrence McNally and score by David Yazbeck.
Presented under amateur performance rights, the last time this version of the show hit the New Theatre stage it sold out!
Part of Hull Comedy Festival
The Angelos Epithemiou Show at Social is here, standing in front of people for one night only, maybe more if he can get time off at the stables. Come and see him talk and prepare his speech for the UN.
Unwitting star of Shooting Stars (BBC Two), Dave’s One Night Stand and Channel 4’s The Angelos Epithemiou Show, this cult favourite takes a giant leap into the spotlight yet again. Shambolic, weird and wonderful; think Little Britain meets Vic and Bob meets a smattering of Ivan Brackenbury, then lower your expectations and get on board.
Angelos Epithemiou is the creation of critically acclaimed performer, Dan Renton Skinner, who has starred in such blockbuster films as The Spy Who Dumped Me, High Rise, and Swallows and Amazons for BBC Films and such TV serial-classics as The Tracy Ullman Show, Friday Night Dinner, and The Wrong Mans.
The “Spice Girls of improv” return in their five star, sell-out, totally improvised musical comedy Notflix.
Inspired by audience suggestions, the all-female cast improvise the musical version of your favourite films, creating movies with 100% more singing, 99% more women and a full live band. Because Everything is better as a musical.
Broadway World Best Comedy nominee. As seen on Sky TV, STV, BBC 5 Live.
Suzi Ruffell likes things snappy: her stand up, her decisions and her suits.
Suzi’s brand new show is all about settling down (but not settling), becoming a mother (without becoming mumsy) and still worrying about everything – of course she is – have you seen the news?
Nominated for ‘Best Kids Show’ at the Leicester Comedy Festival & UK Kids’ Comedy Festival awards, Hull’s comedy duo Jed and Gary bring you a show full of games, music, dancing and pie facing madness at Hull Truck theatre…well, what else would you expect from these festival favourites?!
Don’t miss the mayhem at this years Hull Comedy Festival!
The Leicester Mercury Champion and multi award-winner, Hull’s Jack Gleadow returns to his hometown for One Night Only as part of Hull Comedy Festival, with more old-school comedy for the modern age.
He brings jokes, gags, stories and funny sentences to Hull Truck Theatre.
The best thing to come out of Hull since the M62.
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Hull Comedy Festival: best of ‘Ull
Hull is funny!
Prepare for laughter as a selection of Hull’s multi-award winning comedy talent returns as part of the Hull Comedy Festival for the “Hullarious” showcase, for one-night-only at Hull Truck Theatre!
It’s time to see what everyone is laughing about!
