Catch 22 Comedy Club
Featuring Ivan Brackenbury, Justin Moorhouse, MC Jason Cook
Fri 24 July
8.15pm
F:£9 T:£11
NEW! Reserve your Catch 22 seats in advance. New ticket price available for table seats.
A special Edinburgh Festival preview show from Ivan Brackenbury:
"Funnier than an entire series of Alan Partridge" Daily Telegraph
"For simple laugh 'til you ache humour, Ivan Brackenbury is the hit of the Fringe...." Evening Standard
For Justin Moorhouse, Channel 4’s Phoenix Nights, sell-out tours and a multi award-winning radio show have made him a household name in his native North of England. "Easily my favourite comedian" Jimmy Carr
Jason Cook returns to host and as ever, there will be a newer act in the middle.
Please contact ARC Box Office to book table seats.
Catch 22 presents Beat The Gong!
Age 16+
Fri 14 Aug
8.15pm
F:£6.50
Vote with you laughs in new comedy creation Beat the Gong! 12 wannabee comedians will each aim to beat the gong by keeping audience judges amused for a full five minutes. If you like them, roar your approval. If they are not funny, get them off!
Think X-Factor without the glam, but with added hilarity (not always for the right reasons). Guarenteed laughs from Gongmeaister and MC Matt Reed and a support act.
Fancy yourself as gon-beating stand-up? Please contact ARC Box Office.
Please contact ARC Box Office to book table seats.
Catch 22 Comedy Club in ARC in the Park, Preston Park
Age 16+
Fri 28 Aug
8.15pm
F:£9
A consummate stand-up who employs a deadly combination of charm and menace to exert a masterful control over any audience, Roger Monkhouse’s trademark stage-prowling style and curious, inimitable manner have established him as one of the hottest names on the comedy circuit. Bill Woolland will be opening the show with his mischievous scouse humour.
Matt Reed is back as compere and will be introducing a great new act.
This event takes place in Preston Park.
Stewart Francis
Sat 10 Oct
8pm
F:£12 C:£10
Lonely, well-endowed, white Canadian male, with dreamy hazel eyes, 6 foot 4 inches, 40+, now living in London. Many interests including sports, cheese, hearing laughter and prompting encores. Seeks free thinking, slim audience, with nice legs, 18-75.
Stewart Francis is an internationally acclaimed stand-up comedian, accomplished actor and writer. Star of BBC2’s Mock the Week and Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, he is definitely one of Canada’s finest exports.
"A brilliant comic brain…..this stand-up cracks some of the best one-liners I've ever heard" The Guardian
Stewart Lee
Tues 13 Oct
8pm
F:£16
Following his acclaimed BBC TV series, Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle, Stewart is touring a brand new live stand-up comedy show, If You Prefer a Milder Comedian, Please Ask For One.
The co-writer of Jerry Springer The Opera follows his award-winning UK tour 41st Best Stand-up Ever with a furiously downbeat set inspired by an altercation in a High Street coffee chain.
"The funniest, most cliché-free comedian on the circuit" Ricky Gervais
"Surreally brilliant" The Times
John Bishop
Sat 21 Nov
8pm
F:£12 C:£10
John is the age Elvis was when he died. Crisis?
John’s engaging brand of observational humour mines his varied and colourful life experience. From fatherhood to cycling around the world, from a successful career in the corporate sector to playing semi-professional football and from working as a night club doorman to being voted the person most likely to turn on the Liverpool City Christmas lights, no two shows are ever the same with John.
John has appeared on Channel 4’s 8 of 10 Cats as well as in the teen series Skins, and has his own commercial radio show, The John Bishop Sunday Service.
"Bishop is a born storyteller" Independent on Sunday
"If you fail to laugh like a lunatic, check yourself into a mortuary; you are probably dead" Metro.