Some of Hull’s best comedy talent will be showcased at one of Hull Venue’s test events this summer.
As well as testing the arena’s balcony seating, the event will act as a launch for the Hull Comedy Festival and showcase some of the emerging comedy talent from the city.
Jed Salisbury will host the event with performances from Steve Rimmer, Lois Mills, Jack Gleadow, Gary Jennison and David Smith. As a special treat there will be a headline set from Angelos Epithemiou.
Come and spend some time with Angelos Epithemiou as he guides us all through this difficult period in the history of our planet. Nothing is off the agenda, North Korea, Trump, Brexit. Angelos tackles it all head on! He also does jokes and there is an opportunity to have a sing along with him, should you play your cards right
Larks in Transit is a compendium of travellers’ tales and the general shenanigans of twenty years as a travelling comedian.
With musical virtuosity, surreal tangents and trademark intelligence, Bill Bailey tackles politics, philosophy and the pursuit of happiness.
Plus, he fashions a symphony from a ringtone, tells the real story of Old McDonald, and a re-imagines the Stars and Stripes.
Two decades of touring larks from a comic described by the Daily Telegraph as ‘the brainiest comic of his generation’.
A new stand up show from multi-award winning comedian Marcus Brigstocke.
As we divide each other up into more and more unpleasant categories of evil, it is time to establish, once and for all, what is good and what is bad. Who better to arbitrate in these challenging divisive times than Lucifer himself?
The Devil no longer runs Hell day to day. He’s retired now and plays Golf at Mar-a-Lago, but the Dark Lord is still on the board of The Underworld, and attends a bi-annual meeting to advise on how to make eternal damnation sustainably hot, how to keep a thousand minions on a zero hours contract, and what to do about Jacob Rees Mogg.
Jeremy Hardy is in his 4th decade as a stand-up this year. That’s a more dramatic way of saying he started 34 years ago and, without a lottery win, probably has at least another 34 years to go.
In 2014, the tenth series of Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation was broadcast on Radio 4 and more recently his brand-new series Jeremy Hardy Feels It. He is also well known for his appearances on The News Quiz and I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue.
He is also on the road all year round and has never stopped doing live shows since 1984. He’s continuing his tour this autumn!
Dave Johns is one of the most respected and best-loved stand up comics working today.
He has appeared as a guest on some of the nations best love comedy Panel shows including 8 Out Of 10 Cats, Never Mind The Buzzcocks and As Yet Untitled, hosted by Alan Davies.
Dave is also a multi-award-winning film actor, starring in what critics have described as one of the most important, hard-hitting and devastatingly moving films of 2016, Ken Loach’s I Daniel Blake, which won the coveted Palme D’or award at the Cannes film festival 2016, plus picking up numinous film awards worldwide.
Critically acclaimed and award winning Stand Up comedian, host of his own TV entertainment show and Stand Up show on Comedy Central, Celebrity Juice regular and the only person to ever put Katie Hopkins in her place; Chris Ramsey brings his 2018 live tour to Hull City Hall.
Tom Binns is widely regarded as two of the best headliners working in British Comedy.
His alter egos Hospital radio DJ Ivan Brackenbury and psychic Ian D Montfort have won him over 30 five star reviews, and many awards both at home and abroad, including the Fosters Comedy God and Best International Comedian award.
We can’t stop the future from arriving, no matter what drugs we’re on. But even if nearly every part of us becomes robotic, mechanical fingers crossed we’ll still have our minds.
Hopefully we’ll use them for things like compassion, instead of just chasing what’s ‘better’ like a hamster on a wheel. If we can do that, we’re on the yellow brick road to happiness.
With a little help from monk Gelong Thubten and neuroscientist Ash Ranpura, How to be Human is the show you need to help you upgrade your mind as much as you’ve upgraded your iPhone.
Back by popular demand, Back To Ours will be welcoming the utterly faaaaaaabulous Ceri Dupree back to his one-man, 21-woman show.
With stunning new costumes, routines, jokes and songs, you’ll see great impersonations of some of the greatest female stars the world’s ever seen, all adorned in spectacular jaw-dropping attire.
As Ceri says,“If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing!”
Ceri Dupree will bring a touch of Las Vegas glitz and glamour to the beautifully renovated Trinity market with this pacey, quick-changing show, bouncing with energy, style and showmanship.
Lou Yates, Back to Ours Director, says; ‘We had such a laugh when Ceri came to William Gemmell – it’s one of our favourite memories from the festival last year. We’re really happy to announce we’re bringing him back to Hull. He’s an absolute pro in every sense of the word, having performed everywhere from the Savoy to West End nightclubs – it’s going to be another cracking evening.’
Tickets can be purchased through Hull Box Office from Saturday 28 April at 10am.
Ian Smith returns to Goole, with a work in progress of his fifth Edinburgh Fringe solo show.
This is the follow up to 2017’s ‘Snowflake’ – the critically acclaimed show which won the Amused Moose Comedy Award People’s Champion and ThreeWeeks Editors’ Award.
Time-travelling magicians Morgan & West bring a magical extravaganza to a millennium near you!
Not content with their lot as the nineteenth century’s greatest magical duo, the pair present a conjuring spectacular to the audiences of the modern day. A show brimming over with baffling magic, unparalleled precognitive powers, and a totally genuine ability to travel through time!
An unforgettable evening of magic, mystery, and the unexplainable.
Everyone’s favourite 1970s classic TV comedy, Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em is back with Joe Pasquale starring as the loveable accident-prone Frank Spencer, Sarah Earnshaw as his wife Betty and Susie Blake as his disapproving Mother-in-Law, Mrs Fisher.
The most successful sitcom of the decade gave us the hapless Frank and his long-suffering wife Betty, with catchphrases galore and a never-ending list of disasters with roller-skating escapades and runaway chickens.
The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society are putting on a 1920s murder mystery, but as the title suggests, everything that can go wrong… does!
As the accident prone thesps battle on against all the odds to reach their final curtain call, hilarious results ensue! Hailed “a gut-busting hit” by the New York Times, The Play That Goes Wrong has won a host of celebrity endorsements from the likes of Joanna Lumley, to Ant & Dec.
Don’t miss this brilliantly funny comedy that’s guaranteed to leave you aching with laughter!
Magicians Morgan & West present a marvellous magic show, full of crazy capers for the young, old, and everyone in-between!
Expect the unexpected, believe the unbelievable, but do not dare miss the unmissable Morgan & West! Can everyone’s favourite duo of deception finally find fame, fortune, and a box of fondant fancies?
