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Saturday 11 July to Saturday 1 August
Split Your Riversides
Once again Riverside Studios previews a feast of comedic delights guaranteed to tickle your funny bone.
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 | Mon 06 Jul - Mon 20 Jul
Frankie Boyle Preview Shows
Frankie Boyle works through an hour’s worth of brand new jokes and ideas in preparation for forthcoming projects.
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 | Sat 11 Jul
Phil Nichol
Ridiculously deadpan one-liners, fantastically sublime comic poems and quietly engaging comedy songs interspersed with the hairbrained musings of an idiot.
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 | Sat 11 Jul
Stephen K Amos
Forget the credit crunch, this is the show that’s full to the brim with more fun, warmth, bonhomie, joy, love and laughter than ever before.
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 | Sun 12 Jul
Carey Marx
Da-doo doo doom doom, ba-boo boo boom boom, da-doo doo doom doom, doomy gloomy gloomy boom boom.
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| Sun 12 Jul
Gordon Southern
A scrapbook of stories and jokes to treasure and keep.
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| Fri 17 Jul
Michael Fabbri
An hour of fun comedy rambling and light-hearted tales of madness and despair.
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 | Fri 17 Jul
Stephen Carlin
Stephen Carlin comes to Riverside with a brand new hilarious stand-up show.
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 | Sat 18 Jul
Reg D Hunter
A masterful, playful comic ... gets more ideas into 50 minutes than some comics in a career. - Times
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 | Sat 18 Jul
Jimmy McGhie
A disastrous party wrecked Jimmy’s relationship and his confidence. Now he shares the hilarious story in an hour of stand-up.
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 | Sun 19 Jul
4 Poof and a Piano
The fabulous foursome are storming back with another helping of frisky footwork and musical madness.
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 | Tue 21 Jul
Richard Herring
Richard Herring muses on iconography, the positive side of racism and why an innocent square inch of facial hair took the blame for Nazism.
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 | Tue 21 Jul
Dan Atkinson
Dan Atkinson's brand new hour of inventive, intelligent comedy.
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 | Wed 22 Jul
Tom Craine
Tom Craine’s debut show peeks cautiously at reassurance. No stone is left unturned, although he may ask you to check for earwigs first.
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 | Wed 22 Jul
Domestic Goddi
Helen O’Brien returns with uniquely-formulated, volume boosting sketches, giving microbiotically natural characters 300% more moisture for longer-lasting laughs.
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 | Thu 23 Jul
Jamie Kilstein
Jamie Kilstein tackles the thorny topic of American imperialism and the politics of rich v poor.
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 | Thu 23 Jul
Becoming Marilyn
Norma Jeane meets Marilyn Monroe in this sparkling, powerful and fascinating portrait of an icon.
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| Fri 24 Jul
Becoming Marilyn
Norma Jeane meets Marilyn Monroe in this sparkling, powerful and fascinating portrait of an icon.
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 | Fri 24 Jul
Alistair McGowan
Expect sharp observations, poetry and romance, animals and surrealism, love and anger, wordplay and ‘greenery’ as well as footballers and film stars.
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 | Sat 25 Jul
Jon Richardson
Alone with his thoughts for a year, Jon Richardson is now ready to unleash the funniest of them.
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| Sat 25 Jul
Alistair McGowan
Expect sharp observations, poetry and romance, animals and surrealism, love and anger, wordplay and ‘greenery’ as well as footballers and film stars.
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 | Sun 26 Jul
Shappi Khorsandi
Expect sensitive insight mixed in with whip-crack jokes as you are taken on a cerebral journey by one of the most talented female comics to emerge in the last twenty years.
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 | Wed 29 Jul
Wil Anderson
Wil returns with an hour of the funniest stuff he could think of to say in a row.
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 | Fri 31 Jul
Laura Solon
The 2005 Perrier Award winner and star of Radio 4’s Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking brings us a brand new character comedy show.
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 | Sat 01 Aug
Russell Kane
Kane presents a brand new blank verse play: Nigellio is an Essex banker, thus utterly finishéd.
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