EVENTS
Leicester Comedy Festival 2021 TERRIBLE TALES AND INCREDIBLE BEASTS WITH THADDEUS BENT
WORLD PREMIERE
Can you take a Unicorn on the bus? Is it safe to keep a Dragon in my suburban allotment? Can you feed a Jacalope pop rocks? These are all good questions and they may or may not answered in an exciting hour of silly stories and stupendous beasts with master storyteller Thaddeus Bent and his wonderous minagerie of badly behaved mythical creatures! Just for an hour of terrible tales and brilliant puppets, with laughs and magic thrown in! https://www.thewonderousfunderstorm.com/ CHILDREN'S, STORYTELLING DATES:
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Venue: LCF Online Events
Time: 14:00 (15:00) Entry: FREE
UTC Artist Management present
TEZ ILYAS: ROUGH DRAFT Tez Ilyas is back! As silly, smart and subversive as ever, join him for this brand-new hour of hilarious stand-up. Star of The Tez O'Clock Show (C4), TEZ Talks (BBC Radio 4) and Man Like Mobeen (BBC Three). **** 'Radiantly entertaining' The Times. **** 'Blackburn's Chris Rock' The Guardian. **** 'Tez Ilyas' political stand-up is candyfloss with a razorblade inside: sweet and familiar at first, then shockingly, painfully sharp' The Telegraph https://tezilyas.com/ SOLO SHOW DATES:
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Venue: LCF Online Events
Time: 19:00 (20:00) Entry: £5-£8
Big Difference Production present
THE (NOT SO) LATE NIGHT COMEDY CLUB ONLINE Our traditional Late Night Comedy Club comes back online this year! Join us every Saturday for a brilliant line up handpicked by the Festival team! Guests include Myra Dubois, Louise Young, Nathan Caton, Jen Ives, Jen Brister, Pete Otway, Esther Manito, Thanyia Moore, Rosie Jones, Laura Lexx, Michael Odewale, Jessica Fostekew, Angela Barnes, Sunil Patel & more... MIXED BILL DATES:
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Venue: LCF Online Events
Time: 21:00 (22:25) Entry: £5
Big Difference Company present
THE AFTER WORK FESTIVAL SPECIAL Join us to unwind & have a laugh after work - with this special online festival show. Featuring your host double act Shelf (The LOL Word, BBC3, LADBible), and enjoy performances from Ignacio Lopez (ITV Show me the funny, BBC Wales), Tanyalee Davis (as heard on Radio 4, BBC 2 & 5live, Live at the Apollo), Thanyia Moore (Funny Women Champion 2017, semifinalist BBC New Comedy Award 2018) and star of Live at the Apollo Larry Dean. MIXED BILL DATES:
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Venue: LCF Online Events
Time: 18:30 (20:00) Entry: £5
Watch Live on Twitch - Donations Welcome
THE BOOK CLUB (WITH STEVIE MARTIN) An interactive improvised hour where Stevie Martin (English literature BA Hons graduate 2010) discusses this week's book that has definitely not been made up on the spot with a highly academic guest (past professors include Richard Herring, Jordan Brookes, Kiell Smith-Bynoe). The Book Club welcomes everyone provided you've read the novel in advance & hold a degree from Oxford, Cambridge, Oxbridge or Reading. www.Twitch.tv/5tevieM IMMERSIVE, CHARACTER DATES:
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Venue: LCF Online Events
Time: 19:00 (20:00) Entry: FREE
Enter Edem
WORLD PREMIERE
THE BOWER OF LOVE!
There is a universal language, and baby, that's the Bower of Love... Bonkers, bright and hilarious, take a look at dating through the eyes of love birds, penguins, and even some pigeons! Bringing us all together on a disco dancefloor, it's simply the nest as we get crazy in laughter with Lionel the Lovebird, Dolly the Bower Bird and DJ P-Cox in the ridiculous and silly Bower of love! https://www.enteredem.co.uk/touring-shows-and-experiences/#bower CHARACTER, SATIRE DATES:
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Venue: LCF Online Events
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Time: 18:30 (19:00) Entry: FREE
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