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Manchester Comedy Festival 2009 - Tuesday 20th October

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Steve Royle’s Right Royle Family Show
The Comedy Store / 2.30pm (£6 / £4 / £16 Family ticket)
Comedian, actor and formally "Mad Edgar" at Camelot Theme Park. Expect spectacular guitar juggling, amazing ping-pong ball spitting and hilarious audience participation from one of the North West's best loved fools! A great family show for kids 3 to 103!



Lady Garden and Idiots of Ants - Double header sketch show special
The Comedy Store / 8pm (£18 / £6)

Lady Garden
The hot new all-female sketch group, return to the Manchester Comedy Festival with their brand new show. A fast-paced, daring and surreal hour of comedy from six slightly disturbed young women. Winners of the inaugral LOL! Manchester new act award.
“One of the funniest, clever & sexy new sketch groups around” Time Out
“Excellent comic writing and comedy acting” Chortle

Idiots of Ants
Renowned for their off-kilter take on the world around them, Idiots of Ants have taken the comedy world by storm, having amassed millions of hits online with the most viewed BBC3 comedy clip on YouTube.
‘Very, very funny’ Evening Standard
'Very slick and very funny...marvellous' Time Out



Richard Herring - Hitler Moustache
The Frog and Bucket / 8.15pm (£9 / £8)
Reclaiming Chaplin’s moustache for comedy, Herring muses on iconography, whether racists are closer than Liberals to believing that all people are the same and why an innocent square inch of facial hair has taken the blame for Nazism.
Winner of the LOL! Manchester Best Touring show award
“He’ll be remembered as the best comic of his generation mastering every comedic art form” GQ



XS Malarkey Comedy Club
XS Malarkey @ Remedy / 8.30pm (£5 / £2)
MC Toby Hadoke presents: Mick Ferry, Jonathan Paylor, Martin Tapley & Red Redmond



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



Al Pitcher’s Picture Show
The Dancehouse / 8pm (£12 / £10)
Every day we see things we’ve never seen before, things that strike us as odd or beautiful. Not Al Pitcher. His mind is constantly twisting, flipping and distorting what he sees, igniting the mundane, into a truly unique and hilarious one-off show.


All listing for the Manchester Comedy Festival on LOL! Manchester are courtesy of www.manchestercomedyfestival.co.uk

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Manchester Comedy Festival 2009 - Saturday 17th October

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The Best in Stand Up
The Comedy Store / 8pm (£18)
MC:Paul Thorne, Hal Cruttenden, Jeff Innocent, Justin Moorhouse, Pete Johannsson



The Comedy Store / 11.30pm (£12 / £6)
MC: Paul Thorne, Hal Cruttenden, Jeff Innocent, Justin Moorhouse, Pete Johannsson



Barrel of Laughs
The Frog and Bucket / 8.15pm (£14)
MC: Chris Ramsey, Steve Harris, Steve Shanyaski, Stu & Garry.



Robin Ince - Versus the Moral Majority
XS Malarkey / 8pm (£5 / £2)
Angry tirades, then quiet musings.
“Clever comedy by a witty man for smart people” The List.
Idiots may enjoy too.
“When someone writes a history of modern comedy, they should make room for Robin Ince” The Guardian
Contains facetiousness



The Comedy Lounge
Opus / 8pm (£12)
MC: Danny McLoughlin, Andy White, Barbara Nice, Mike Milligan.



ComedySportz
Waterside Arts Centre, Sale / 6.30pm (£5 / £3)
ComedySportz is a fast-paced improv comedy show where two teams battle it out for the biggest laughs. The players create sketches, scenes and songs from whatever suggestions are thrown at them from the audience.
"...funny, more than a little bizarre, and a good afternoon of fun for all the family” * * * * Three Weeks



Hans Teeuwen
The Dancehouse / 8pm (£12 / £10)
Hans Teeuwen is a Dutch comedian, actor, writer, a singer and director. His work can be described as absurdist, apolitical and confrontational.



All listing for the Manchester Comedy Festival on LOL! Manchester are courtesy of www.manchestercomedyfestival.co.uk

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Manchester Comedy Festival 2009 - Friday 16th October

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The Best in Stand Up
The Comedy Store / 8pm (£16 / £8)
MC: Paul Thorne, Hal Cruttenden, Jeff Innocent, Justin Moorhouse, Pete Johannsson



Slaughterhouse-Live! T’witching Hour
The Comedy Store / 11pm (£8 / £6)
Late, spooky, hilarious, award-winning character-comedy featuring Monaco Varquez’s Banana Voodoo, Squeaky Dave’s Tales of Evil plus Britain’s Cleanest Comedian - Tommy Kittens.
“Effortlessly stunning performances…” Three Weeks
“Genius…sell everything you own to see them…” Echo
“I laughed 37 times,” Pete Maths



Barrel of Laughs
The Frog and Bucket / 8.15pm (£13 / £6)
MC Jason Cook, Steve Harris, Steve Shanyaski, Stu & Garry.



An Evening with Sir Arthur Conan The Barbarian
XS Malarkey @ Remedy/ 8pm (£5 / £2)
Join the master of horror Sir Arthur Conan the Barbarian (Peter Slater from BBC3s ‘Ideal’) in his quest to expose evil beings before your very eyes! An evening filled with tales of terror, magic and demonic laughter! Contains strong nonsense.



John Pinette - Show cancelled due to ill health
The Dancehouse / 8pm
Having toured America for over a decade, appeared in the Broadway smash Hairspray, supported Frank Sinatra and starred in the last ever episode of Seinfeld, legendary American stand up John Pinette plays his first UK shows outside of the Edinburgh festival.

All listing for the Manchester Comedy Festival on LOL! Manchester are courtesy of www.manchestercomedyfestival.co.uk

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