2024 Comedy WIP season

Chloe Petts

Alan Davies

15th - 20th Jan | 7:40pm | £8

15th - 29th Jan 7:40pm + 9pm | £10

‘Rising star’ Evening Standard ‘Has the audience in stitches’ Metro

Colin Hoult 17th Jan | 7:40pm | £10 Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee. As seen in After Life (Netflix).

Zoe Brownstone 20th Jan | 9pm | £8 OnlyFans Comedy Creative Fund finalist.

Siblings and Family Friends 25th Jan | 7:30pm | £13 ‘Ferociously funny’ Guardian

A good joke is hard to find.

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Abi Clarke 17th Jan | 9pm | £7 ‘One of the Top 11 Comedy Stars of the Internet’ Independent

Johnny White Really-Really 24th - 26th Jan 7:40pm | £10 wwwww Chortle

Freddie Meredith & Rory Marshall 26th Jan | 9pm | £7.50 Sharing brand new and exciting comedy theories and ideas.

Shoot From The Hip

Micky Overman

27th Jan | 7:30pm | £15

28th Jan | 5pm + 8pm | £12

‘Well worth a shot (pun intended)’ Time Out

Jessie Cave 30th Jan - 18th Apr 7:40pm | £7 As seen in Buffering (ITV2).

‘Precision gags and delightfully silly one-liners’ Observer

John Tothill 30th Jan | 9pm | £7 wwww Guardian wwww Telegraph

Daliso Chaponda

Sarah Roberts

31st Jan | 9pm | £10

1st Feb | 7:40pm | £8

‘A real talent’ Metro ‘Brilliantly bold’ Wee Review

BBC New Comedy Award nominee 2022.

emma sidi

Lulu Popplewell

1st Feb | 9pm | £7

2nd Feb | 7:40pm | £7

As seen in Starstruck (BBC), Ghosts (BBC), and Stath Lets Flats (Channel 4).

wwww Funny Women wwww Broadway Baby

Gay Witch Sex Cult

Milanka Brooks

2nd + 9th Feb | 9pm | £7

6th Feb | 7:40pm | £10

A sticky, spooky horror comedy about gender reveal parties and demons from hell.

As seen in Benidorm (ITV) and Black Mirror (Netflix).

Freya Parker

tarot

7th + 8th Feb | 7:40pm | £8 ‘Outrageous and irreverent’ wwww Guardian

7th Feb | 9pm | £7 wwww Telegraph wwww Evening Standard

Amy Mason

ted hill

9th Feb | 7:40pm | £8

10th Feb | 7:40pm | £7

Funny Women finalist.

Shortlisted for BBC New Act of the Year.

‘Genuinely hilarious’ Broadway Baby

paddy young

milo edwards

10th Feb | 9pm | £7

11th Feb | 7:30pm | £10

‘Surely on the road to stardom’ wwwww Rolling Stone

‘Incredibly funny, extremely fast-paced’ Three Weeks

ania magliano

dan jones

12th Feb + 27th Mar 7:40pm + 9pm | £8

13th Feb | 7:40pm | £8

Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee.

Jordan Brookes 15th - 17th Feb | 7:40pm | £8 Edinburgh Comedy Award winner (2019-21).

Breakthrough Comedian of the Year.

Ada and Bron 15th Feb | 9pm | £8 Featuring Funny Women Award winner 2021.

Sophie Duker

Graham Dickson

16th + 17th Feb | 9pm | £8

19th Feb | 7:40pm | £7

As seen winning Taskmaster (Channel 4) and Celebrity Mastermind (BBC).

As seen in Pls Like (BBC) and After Life (Netflix).

will owen

AndrÉ De Freitas & Josh Weller

20th Feb | 7:40pm | £7 Leicester Square New Comedian winner 2023.

20th Feb | 9pm | £10 wwwww Sunday Express

Vlad Ilich 21st Feb + 26th April 7:40pm | £7 ‘A confident gag-packed set’ British Comedy Guide

Anu Vaidyanathan 22nd Feb | 7:40pm | £8 Welcome into the mind of a South-Indian somebody who could be anybody.

Michael Akadiri 21st Feb | 9pm | £8 ‘Supremely talented and likeable’ Metro

Kemah Bob 22nd Feb | 9pm | £7 Tour support for Hannah Gadsby, Nish Kumar and Desiree Burch.

Jay Lafferty

Rich Spalding

23rd Feb | 7:40pm | £12

23rd Feb | 9pm | £8

‘Absolute dynamite’ Fest

Will this show go well enough for me to quit my job?

Aaron Simmonds

Darran Griffiths

24th Feb | 7:40pm | £10

29th Feb | 7:30pm | £12

wwww Scotsman wwww Metro

Tour support for Russell Howard and Iain Stirling.

Josephine Lacey

Susie McCabe

6th Mar | 7:40pm | £7

6th Mar | 9pm | £7

Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year nominee.

Fastest-selling Glasgow Comedy Festival act for three years running.

katie Norris

tamsyn kelly

7th Mar | 7:40pm | £7 ‘Flamboyantly silly’ wwww Guardian

7th Mar | 9pm | £7 ‘Hilarious’ Independent wwww Funny Women

Lou Taylor

Ray Badran

9th Mar | 7:40pm | £7

9th Mar | 9pm | £8

‘Lou Taylor is a funny bitch’ Self Esteem

the comedy reserve try outs 2024 11th + 12th Mar | 7:40pm | £7 Hosted by Abby Wambaugh.

New Zealand Comedy Guild’s Best International Guest Comedian.

Jo Griffin 14th Mar + 2nd May 7:40pm | £7 wwww Chortle wwww List

Katie Green 14th Mar | 9pm | £7 Funny Women finalist 2020.

‘Latina’ Chortle

Kyrah Gray 21st Mar | 9pm | £7 As seen on Comedy Central Live.

John Meagher’s Irish Takeover 15th Mar | 7:40pm | £10 Start St. Patrick’s Day weekend with the best Irish comedians.

Jin Hao Li 23rd Mar | 7:40pm | £7 Chortle Student Comedy Award and BBC New Comedy Award loser.

Alex Kealy

Runi Talwar

27th Mar | 7:40pm | £8

28th Mar | 7:40pm | £7

‘Five comedians to see if you like James Acaster’ Edinburgh Evening News

As seen on Have I Got News for You (BBC) and Hypothetical (Dave).

Joe Thomas

Christopher hall

8th - 21st Apr 7:30pm, 7:40pm + 9pm | £10

10th Apr | 7:40pm | £7

As seen on The Inbetweeners and Taskmaster (Channel 4).

15 million likes on TikTok.

Jack Skipper

Alexandra Haddow

10th Apr | 9pm | £7

11th Apr | 7:40pm | £7

‘Delivery that commands the room’ Chortle

‘A whole lot of laughs’ Skinny

Suchandrika Chakrabarti 11th Apr | 9pm | £7 Writer for Have I Got News for You (BBC) and BBC Radio 4.

John Meagher 12th Apr | 7:40pm | £10 Tour support for Patrick Kielty.

DEE ALLUM

TAL DAVIES

13th Apr | 7:40pm | £7

13th Apr | 9pm | £8

Chortle Awards Best Newcomer nominee.

Funny Women finalist. British Comedian of the year semifinalist.

fatiha el-ghorri

Charlie George

18th Apr | 9pm | £7

19th Apr | 7:40pm | £7

As seen on The Jonathan Ross Show (ITV) and The Russell Howard Hour (Sky).

LGBTQ Comedian of the Year winner.

Rob Copland

Neil Delamere

19th Apr | 9pm | £8

22nd + 23rd Apr 7:30pm | £16

‘Polished and heaps of fun’ wwww Wee Review

Isobel Rogers 24th Apr | 7:40pm | £7 ‘Brilliant’ wwwww EdFest Magazine

Horatio Gould 25th - 27th Apr 7:40pm + 9pm | £15 ‘A very special comic’ Scotsman

As seen on Live at the Apollo (BBC).

Eric Rushton 25th Apr | 7:40pm | £8 ‘Gloriously and unpretentiously daft’ Rolling Stone

work in progress men 30th Apr | 7:40pm | £7 A work in progress drag king show.

josh jones

raj poojara

1st May | 7:40pm | £7

1st May | 9pm | £8

As seen on 8 Out of 10 Cats (Channel 4) and CelebAbility (ITV2).

Tour support for Jamali Maddix and Dylan Moran.

josh glanc

su mi

2nd May | 9pm | £8

4th May | 7:40pm | £10 BBC New Comedy Awards finalist.

wwww Guardian wwww Scotsman

Not part of the Work In Progress season.

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