BBC Comedy Presents
The Comedy Store / 8pm (£7)
BBC Comedy Presents returns to the Comedy Store in 2009. After last year's hugely successful show, which featured Dave Spikey, Andrew Lawrence, Lady Garden, Dan Nightingale and John Bishop, BBC Comedy will once again bring you the biggest names and hottest new talent.
Jason Cook: FEAR
The Frog and Bucket / 8.15pm (£6 / £4)
Last year he brought "Joy", a total festival sell out. This year Jason examines "FEAR".
“A total Triumph” – ***** Time Out
“This is a joy to behold and a pleasure to have witnessed.” ***** The List
***** The Metro.
Winner of last year's LOL! Award for Best Manchester Comedy Festival show.
Lee Martin for Gag Reflex Management presents: Jason Cook’s Late Night Asylum
The Frog and Bucket / 10.30pm (£5 / £3 or free if attending Jason Cook: Fear)
MC Jason Cook presents another night at the Asylum. Guaranteed to be the best of the fest with amazing comics doing amazing things. A string of special guests, sketches, stunts and lots more….
Michael McIntyre
MEN Arena / 8pm (£30)
Star of the fastest selling debut stand-up dvd of all time, Michael McIntyre’s brilliantly engaging delivery and effortless rapport with the audience have led to him to be hailed, as the best new stand up to emerge in a decade.
“The man is, quite simply, top-to-toe hilarious” ***** Daily Telegraph
Arthur Smith
The Met, Bury / 8pm (£15 / £12)
A playwright of extraordinary wit; a national treasure; author of one of the most readable autobiographies in showbiz - Stephen Fry is all these things. But let's shamble along quickly to Arthur Smith, whose show features jokes that have been given Ancient Monument status by the National Trust. Support from Mundo Jazz.
The Zoo presents: Slap & Giggle Rehearsed and The Heresy Project: Kill Your God
Slap & Giggle Rehearsed
Slap & Giggle Rehearsed
8pm (£5)
Sid Wick and James Bennison explore the upsettingly limited benefits of rehearsing their increasingly desperate comedy material, delivering an entourage of word-play, musically inept song, and trademark bizarre dribble.
“Thoroughly recommended” **** Student Direct
“Surreal” BBC Radio Manchester
“Thoroughly recommended” **** Student Direct
“Surreal” BBC Radio Manchester
The Heresy Project: Kill Your God
9.30pm (£5)
“An unadulterated war on world religion….hilarious” **** ThreeWeeks
“compulsive viewing” **** Latest7
“Hardhitting, noholds- barred comedy” Edinburgh Evening News
“Makes Richard Dawkins look like the Archbishop of Canterbury.” Scotsman
“critically acclaimed and controversial….witness history in the making“ Skinny
Includes entry to Slap & Giggle show at 8pm
“compulsive viewing” **** Latest7
“Hardhitting, noholds- barred comedy” Edinburgh Evening News
“Makes Richard Dawkins look like the Archbishop of Canterbury.” Scotsman
“critically acclaimed and controversial….witness history in the making“ Skinny
Includes entry to Slap & Giggle show at 8pm
Comedy Balloon FM-Live!
The Ape and Apple / 8.30pm (FREE)
Join Ridgeley's biggest celebs Mark Smart and Monty Sutcliffe as they perform an all-new live version of their spoof radio show, Comedy Balloon FM. Jingles, sketches, songs and, more importantly, laughs. Not suitable for children or those with unreliable bladders. Plus support.
Seymour Mace’s Pop Quiz
Folk Bar / 8.30pm (FREE)
Seymour Mace (BBC3’s Ideal) hosts a special pop trivia quiz where the audience and celebrity guests battle it out to win a whole host of prizes and bragging rights for the next year!
Beyond a Joke V Mirth on Monday – The Comedy Sound Clash
The Iguana Bar / 9pm (£3)
Beyond a Joke’s resident MC The 1 Like Fish and Mirth on Monday’s Des Sharples mix it up on stage to clash comedy, roots and music in there own unique style.
Cat’s Cradle Comedy @ Tiger Lounge presents:
Graham Goring: HEX, Lives & Videogames & Joe Lycett: The People’s Choice
Graham Goring: HEX, Lives & Videogames & Joe Lycett: The People’s Choice
8.15pm (£5)
Graham Goring: HEX, Lives and Videogames
An audio-visually enhanced stream of rapid-fire gags which skips gleefully through the videogame infused life of an emotionally stunted man-child who relates to Pac Man better than women.
Joe Lycett: The People’s Choice
The CityLife Comedian of the Year 2008 Finalist and Bath New Act of the Year 2009 brings you charming tales of the theatre, his time as a reluctant student and his struggles having a poo.
“An accomplished storyteller” Chortle
Duncan Oakley’s Favourite Things
An audio-visually enhanced stream of rapid-fire gags which skips gleefully through the videogame infused life of an emotionally stunted man-child who relates to Pac Man better than women.
Joe Lycett: The People’s Choice
The CityLife Comedian of the Year 2008 Finalist and Bath New Act of the Year 2009 brings you charming tales of the theatre, his time as a reluctant student and his struggles having a poo.
“An accomplished storyteller” Chortle
Duncan Oakley’s Favourite Things
9.45pm
An hour in the company of Duncan Oakley, Maurice the Fender Strat, Boozey booze and other friends for an infectious mix of naughty comedy and impressive musicianship not to be missed.
“I’m still aching as I write…it was very, very funny.” BBC
Ticket includes entrance to 8pm show
“I’m still aching as I write…it was very, very funny.” BBC
Ticket includes entrance to 8pm show
An Audience With.... BBC Comedy North and Baby Cow Productions
The Comedy Store / 4pm (Attendance free by advance registration )
A great opportunity for budding tv comedy writers to get advice and meet with the writers and producers of some of the best comedy shows currently on British television. Panellists include:
Jon Mountague (Exec Producer BBC Comedy North)
Jim Poyser (Producer BBC Comedy North)
Henry Normal (Executive Producer Baby Cow)
Graham Duff (Writer & Performer Baby Cow)
Attendance free by advance registration only with Philippa.usher@bbc.co.uk before 7th October.
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