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Bristol Comedy Garden 2021: The shows that still have tickets left The festival takes place on Clifton Downs next week Bristol Comedy Garden is moving from Queen Square to Clifton Downs (Image: ShotAway) FIND OUT WHATS ON NEAR YOU WITH OUR NEWSLETTER Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. SIGN UP When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribi...

TROWBRIDGES iconic Town Hall will restart its live performance programme with a three-day festival beginning on Friday, May 28. Over the bank holiday weekend, the venue will play host to stand-ups in the restored Old Court whilst musicians will take to the stage in the Sensory Garden behind. The festival – Get Up, Stand Up – kicks off with American comedian Sara Barron, who has appeared on television comedy programmes Live at the Apollo and Would I Lie To You?, and who is one of the U...

TROWBRIDGES iconic Town Hall will restart its live performance programme with a three-day festival beginning on Friday, May 28. Over the bank holiday weekend, the venue will play host to stand-ups in the restored Old Court whilst musicians will take to the stage in the Sensory Garden behind. The festival – Get Up, Stand Up – kicks off with American comedian Sara Barron, who has appeared on television comedy programmes Live at the Apollo and Would I Lie To You?, and who is one of the U...

The weeks best comedy on demand The weeks best comedy on demand. For more streaming gigs use the search box with online as the region and the date you want. Now COLD CASE CRIME CUTS: From Jon Holmes, creator of Radio 4s trippy topical comedy The Skewer, comes this spoof true-crime podcast. Based on the music of Barry Manilow, Bob Marley, Michael Jackson and more, the authentic-sounding American public radio journalist Mason Lane gets to the bottom of mysteries such as Who Shot The Sheriff and, ...

The weeks best comedy on demand The weeks best comedy on demand. For more streaming gigs use the search box with online as the region. Today SIMON MUNNERY: THE MANCHESTER EXPERIMENT: Before Christmas, the comedian put a VHS labelled only The Manchester Experiment, 17th May 2001, into the post with a note reading: I tried this twice, it worked once. He sent it to Go Faster Stripe, the DVD label that has put out many of his shows - and with will tonight stage a one-off screening, introduced by th...

Chortle editor Steve Bennett compiles his most memorable shows of 2020 You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone… Joni Mitchell sure got that right. With the comedy industry all-but shut down in 2020, every gig staged against the odds became precious. In part, that’s because when gathering people together in clubs or theatres became outlawed, promoters got creative in their staging, creating intrinsically more memorable experiences. But more significantly, the new rarity of being ...