This Sunday, 3rd August....
NEW START TIME - 8PM
Pete Johansson (website) and mystery guest, with very special visitor to the comedy circuit, A.F. Harrold (website). 'This won't be for everybody.' - The Herald, 2003.'The best of A F Harrold's poems have a subversive humour that is quite brilliant.' - Brian Patten (link)
"Pete Johansson was by far the breakout performer this year at Just for Laughs, but more importantly made my list of best jokes of the fest twice!" - Montreal Gazette Read More...

This Sunday, 3rd August....
NEW START TIME - 5PM
Pete Johansson (website) and mystery guest, with very special visitor to the comedy circuit, A.F. Harrold (website). 'This won't be for everybody.' - The Herald, 2003. 'The best of A F Harrold's poems have a subversive humour that is quite brilliant.' - Brian Patten (link)
"Pete Johansson was by far the breakout performer this year at Just for Laughs, but more importantly made my list of best jokes of the fest twice!" - Montreal Gazette Read More...

Wed 30th July
Sully O'Sullivan
He's been declared a highlight of the New Zealand International Comedy Festival by The NZ Herald, a highlight of the Glasgow International Comedy Festival by The Scotsman, won Canada's Master's of the Universe Improv Competition, and featured on Australian TV's The Comedy Channel.
"a blast of hilarity" - Manchester Evening News (UK)
"I gasp with laughter and a small amount of beer tries to escape through my nose." - Manchester Evening News (UK)
"unforgettable comedy" - Three Weeks (UK)
"a vitriol which makes Richard Dawkins look like the Archbishop of Canterbury." - The Scotsman (UK)
"Sully's booming self confidence and no-nonsense delivery refreshed the whole genre." - Huddersfield Daily Examiner (UK)
"highlights of the gala were the guitar-toting duo Flight of the Conchords and the punk-ish Sully O'Sullivan" - The New Zealand Herald (NZ)
"hilarious stand-up, Sully is a rising star" - The Evening Post (NZ)
"appropriate inappropriateness." - The Skinny (UK)
"a whirlwind of interactive humour…..the undisputed highlight" - Orkney Today (UK)
with support from Rich Wilson 'he is one funny man'.-Frank Skinner, and resident compere you-know-who..

For the diary.. Wed 27th August: Ray Peacock with support from Susan Vale and Mick Davies..

Tickets are available now, in person from the venue £10 (£8 concessions), or from Crash Records 0113 2436743, or Jumbo Records, 0113 245 5570 (booking fees apply). Read More...

Tags: Leeds, Seven Arts

Tuesday 15th July
Kill for a Seat's Comedy Cellar, Verve, Merrion Street Leeds.
8pm £5
Verve website
Silky presents a night of fun featuring one-woman antidote to Islamophobia, Isma Almas, 'so funny I put him in my new TV show' (according to Steve Coogan) Andrew O'Neill, deadly beauty who has forgotten more about comedy than you'll ever know, Mickey Noonan, and lumpy Geordie Barry Dodds. We eat the news so you don't have to. 8pm show, £5 a ticket (we urge you to buy them in advance from the venue).
‘Silky's not pushy or hardfaced at all - just very mischievous... stand up in its purest, rawest form: it was amazing to watch. One of the bravest and most unusual sets of the festival.' Daily Post

Calling all Leeds folks.. could you tell your chums about this show? I think if we get our gang to come along, it'll help kick start a new comedy scene. We're only a little venue downstairs, but it's a lot of fun, and it'll be a very supportive environment for a change. We're not doing stand-up comedy. Just making ourselves and each other laugh, with a select crowd (i.e. those who've paid the fiver)..I've had 40 tickets printed, and if we can sell those out before the show, it'll be lovely. We can probably cram a couple more in, but only if they don't mind being friendly with strangers.
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