Comedy & Entertainers

Sikisa

The Barbadian stand-up won the public vote at the BBC New Comedy Awards. She’s now delighting audiences from the Comedy Store to The Guilty Feminist Live, and hosting the onstage chat show Girl Code. Her TV and podcast credits include Jonathan Ross’ Comedy Club, Off Menu and Perfect Sounds. According to The Guardian, ‘Sikisa’s ebullient personality makes the room sing.’

Abandoman

Rob Broderick invites audience suggestions on almost any subject and instantly turn them into a funky hip-hop track. Dick & Dom’s house band has been hailed as ‘Flight of the Conchords meets 8 Mile.‘ For bigger audiences, he can work as a duo.

Tom Allen

Tom is a household name. An award-winning comic with a well-spoken but often scathing line in put-downs, stories and observations.  His TV credits include The Apprentice: You’re Fired, The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice, Complaints Welcome, The Island and The Royal Variety Performance. As a presenter, Tom teases home bakers and budding entrepreneurs and rummages around our towns. To The Guardian, he is simply ‘The master of the nonstop rant.’

Cally Beaton

After joining the board of ITV, setting up her own company and serving as SVP in charge of International Sales at media giant Viacom, Cally has also started a parallel career in comedy. She brings humour and energy to workplace insights ranging from how to foster a creative, positive environment to how to inspire and lead through change.

Rob Beckett

Rob came to standup from the event industry. He’s since hosted a Saturday night game show, become a regular on panel shows including as a team captain on 8 Out Of 10 Cats, co-hosted from the jungle and won Taskmaster.

Marcus Brigstocke

The Telegraph describe Marcus as ‘a rare stand-up who makes you laugh and think.’ After hanging up his crown as King Arthur in Spamalot he’s back on Radio 4 as the friendly questioner on I’ve Never Seen Star Wars and in Radio 4’s Brig Society.

Jimmy Carr

Continuing to host 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown (and its conventional comedy panel show forebear) as well as assorted Big Fat Quizzes Jimmy remains one of the best known comedians in the country. Since opting out of a career in marketing, he’s sold over a million DVDs, toured relentlessly, and was the first British comic to film a special for Netflix.

Sir Lenny Henry

Lenny’s credits stretch from classical theatre to arena tours, TV dramas, a blues album and Comic Relief. He continues to balance comedy, drama, and entertainment and campaigns for diversity in TV.

Miles Jupp

Miles’ credits extend from Balamory to Rev. to R4’s guessing game It’s Not What You Know. The acclaimed actor, stand up and former host of The News Quiz has also appeared in films The Monuments Men and Made in Dagenham, and on the West End stage. Live, Miles looks at the world, and in particular the English regions, with utter incomprehension.

Russell Kane

Within a few years of scooping Edinburgh’s biggest award, Russell had two new BBC3 series to his credit: Live At The Electric and Unzipped. He’s since turned to Staying In With Greg & Russell, written his debut novel, guested on Celebrity Juice and compered the Real Variety Show – to massive acclaim.

Adam Kay

Initially combining life as a junior doctor with his role in the musical comedy duo Amateur Transplants, Adam has gone from the online hit London Underground song to become an acclaimed author. His debut book This is Going to Hurt has become an award-winning bestseller translated into twenty languages and adapted for television. In his follow up book Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran out of Patients, Adam reflects on what's happened since he hung up his scrubs. 

Jason Manford

Jason has presented peak time ITV shows including Comedy Rocks and Show Me The Funny, appeared in the West End in Sweeney Todd and Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and sold out the O2. Jason’s live set mixes perfectly crafted observations and traditional, warm-hearted Mancunian banter.

Michael McIntyre

The Real Variety Show discovery has become one of the biggest-selling comedy turns of all time. The ‘Monarch of Middle England’ has hosted the long-running Roadshow, judged BGT and filled arenas with Happy & Glorious. In cabaret Michael pokes fun at his cheese-obsessed offspring, and the joys of Dragons’ Den

Ian Moore

As a standup and MC that has performed all over the world, but that is also an award-winning crime author who lives in rural France with an expanding menagerie of animals, and a sideline as a specialist chutney producer, it's no surprise that his Loire Valley neighbours still don't understand what Ian does for a living. 

Al Murray

As The Pub Landlord Al has won Perrier and British Comedy Awards, starred in Time Gentlemen, Please and hosted Live At The Apollo. He’s also produced a bestselling Book of Common Sense, and successfully attracted 318 votes in the South Thanet election.

Romesh Ranganathan

Romesh has graduated from Maths teacher to mainstream success as a comedian whose askance view on ife spares no-one, least of all himself. He is one half of the popular show Rob & Romesh Vs, co-starring his comedy peer Rob Beckett. He has written for Mock The Week and starred on Russell Howard’s Good News. Romesh sees himself as a ‘tubby vegan sociopath.’

Holly Walsh

Briefly a CBBC presenter, Holly has gone on to appear on panel shows from 8 Out Of 10 Cats to Just A Minute, write for TV at home and in the US, including the acclaimed Motherland, and become a live hit. The Chortle Best Newcomer earned three Edinburgh award nominations, and her recent show was acclaimed for its ‘original lines and images that make the show a joy.’

Tom Ward

A rising comedy star and ‘a very welcome curiosity’ according to the Telegraph. Both laid-back and whimsical, Tom’s routines cover everything from how Tupperware can let you down to what it’s like to have evangelical parents.

Mark Watson

Multi-talented Bristolian comedian Mark is one of the leading live performers in the UK with his smart, sometimes surreal, occasionally ranting, but always entertaining routines. Alongside national tours, 24-hour shows, and myriad TV and radio appearances, he’s also an acclaimed novelist.

Jack Whitehall

After stand-up, hosting the BRITs and travels with his father, the Fresh Meat and Bad Education star has taken to the big screen starring in Jungle Cruise and Robots.

Josh Widdicombe

Originally a sports reporter, Josh switched to stand-up and quickly earned a nomination for the Foster’s Best Newcomer Award. The Times thinks he ‘shows confidence and charm that could sell out stadiums.’ He’s already established on Live At The Apollo and Mock The Week, and the topical Channel 4 show, The Last Leg.

James Acaster

With a wonderfully relaxed style, the five-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee tells stories about everyday trivia, how his dad lied to him as a child, what Romans would have made of texting, and safari parks with no lions (due to strong winds). The Standard have described him as ‘delightfully whimsical and deliciously daft.’