After fixing all the World’s problems last year, living legend and national treasure in waiting, Nick Helm returns to the stage with a WIP that promises to be every bit as awe inspiring, good looking and humble as the last one. Content in development.

Double Edinburgh Comedy Award ‘Best Show’ nominee Ahir Shah is one of the fastest-rising comedians of his generation. Shah’s sharp, intellectual brand of stand-up features a blend of philosophical inquiry, political vigour, and sweet gags.

Ahir has performed internationally at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the Adelaide Fringe and Just for Laughs Montreal, and has toured in continental Europe and India.

He has performed stand-up on Live At The Apollo (BBC 2), The Now Show (Radio 4) and Stand Up Central (Comedy Central). Outside of stand up, Ahir has also been seen on shows including Have I Got News For You (BBC1), FrankieBoyle’s New World Order (BBC 2), Catastrophe (Channel 4), and Campus (Channel 4).

He has also performed and regularly writes on The Mash Report (BBC 2) and has written and starred in the short films Ahir Shah’s Summer (Sky) and Ahir Shah’s Life Lessons (BBC Three) and has developed two sitcom pilots for Channel 4.

Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated comedian, star of Mock the Week, QI, Late Night Mash & Richard Osman’s House of Games, your favourite comedian/sleep paralysis demon Olga Koch is finally doing her Marina Abramovich hour. Strap the fuck in.

Edinburgh Comedy Awards Nominee and star of Live at the Apollo, Would I Lie to You, and Frankie Boyle’s New World Order, Sara Barron returns with a blistering hour of standup. Guilt, desire, smart sex and dumb kids. Conception, rejection and wine in a can. These are the targets in a show that asks: Where is the space for self-preservation in the sentence “Family is everything”? 

‘Deliciously dark and unapologetically filthy… a master-class.’

★★★★★ Herald 

...a force to be reckoned with… a must-see ‘

★★★★★ EdFest Mag

★★★★★ Funny Women

★★★★ The Scotsman

★★★★ The Times

Cambridge local comedian Ali Warwood has curated and hosts a line up of LGBTQ+ comedians.

Featuring:

Ania Magliano:

Ania is a 22 year old comedian and writer based in London.

She has written for Frankie Boyle’s New World Order (BBC2), Newsjack (BBC R4), The Now Show (BBC R4) and is one of the 4 regular writers on the Have I Got News For You Twitter account.

Her previous shows received 5 stars from Diva Magazine, and have been recommended by Comedy Central as a ‘show not to miss’. She was a Funny Women Finalist 2020, 2Northdown New Act of the Year Finalist 2019 and Chortle Student Comedy Award Finalist 2018.

She is a former member of the Cambridge Footlights as one of the first Access Officers, and a founder of Stockings Comedy, a comedy collective for female and non-binary comedy performers.

Sam Williams:

Your Mum's favourite bleach-haired bisexual comedian, Sam Williams takes every day subject matters and twists them in "inventive" and "vivid" ways with "a relaxed and assured presence" (Chortle).

2021 Chortle Student Comedy Award Runner Up/2022 Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year Finalist.

This show is suitable for 16+, there might be some swearing but it will generally be lovely and joyful. We'd love you to come along and also BRING EVERYONE!

Alison loves to do star jumps in the water. She also likes to watch people fight in chip shops. Her two worlds collide as a fight breaks out in aqua-aerobics and she’s never felt so alive.

When the foam settles, Alison realises she’s an outwardly nice person who lives for confrontation.

Host of BBC Sounds Wheel of Misfortune, The Guilty Feminist podcast and writer for Have I Got News For You.

“A kind of genius” **** The Irish Times

“A master class in stand-up comedy” MEG.IE

Michael Akadiri is a fast rising, multi-award winning comedian. His natural charm and cheeky, observational style has already seen him make an impact on the UK comedy scene, most recently winning the Komedia New Comedy Award.

He made his TV Stand Up debut on BBC One as part of the BBC New Comedy Awards and has been casted to appear in the next series of ITV2s Stand Up Sketch Show. He has written and performed sketch collaborations with LadBible and other broadcast credits include BBC Radio 4's Fred at the Stand, panel appearances on Times Radio and hosting on BBC Radio Kent. 

Isy has been performing stand-up for nearly 20 years with three sell-out Edinburgh Fringe runs under her belt. Her show Pearl and Dean became a Radio 4 series, Isy Suttie’s Love Letters, which won a Gold Sony award. She has also performed stand up in Montreal and Australia, and may times on TV, as well as appearances on shows such as QI, Would I Lie to You and 8 out of 10 Cats. She has been nominated for three British Comedy Awards and her TV acting credits include Dobby in Peep Show and Ali in Man Down. She has published two books, a memoir called The Actual One and a novel, Jane is Trying.

Ever wondered how Mike’s Great-Aunt Zusa made it from Poland to Luton with a war nipping at her heels? Here’s your chance to find out. Just to reiterate: this s a work in progress.

As seen on Man Down (C4), Taskmaster (C4). As heard on the St Elwick’s Neighbourhood Association Newsletter Podcast and the Three Bean Salad Podcast.