comedy

Students stage Shakespearean parade in Exeter

Meet the fools, clowns and ordinary folk of Shakespeare’s plays on Friday 13 December in Exeter city centre.

Masters students from the University of Exeter’s Staging Shakespeare course will be in costume outside the Elizabethan Guildhall in Exeter High Street at 5.30pm ready to parade down to St Nicholas Priory (The Mint, off Fore Street), where followers will be met with a glass of punch and promenade drama performances between 6pm and 7pm.

Admission is free-of-charge and all are welcome. They will be presenting comic Shakespearean scenes in St Nicholas Priory, an...

TED meets: Andrew Lawrence

Authored by Huw Oxburgh
Posted: Wed, 11/06/2013 - 5:34pm

Andrew Lawrence is one the country's leading stand up comedians with appearences on Live at the Apollo and Stand up for the week as well as primetime comedy shows on BBC Radio 4

Andrew is bringing his unique mix of whimsy and misanthrophy to Exeter's Barnfield Theatre, TED caught up with him ahaed of the show.

Andrew you’re playing at the Barnfield Theatre this Friday are you looking forward to the show? Yeah whenever I’ve been down here in the past its always sold well with a good crowd, so yeah Exeter is a bit of a comedy town. This time of year it seems like there’s a...

Adam Kay - Bum Notes

Event Date: 
29/11/2013 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Corn Exchange

Amateur Transplants front man Adam Kay is going to sing you some smutty songs.

'This made me very, very happy' - Stephen Fry.

'Genius' - Radio 1

'This is a wonderfully funny way to spend an hour. And yes, he does The London Underground song - a comedy classic' - Scotsman.

NB - unlike the vast majority of musical comedy, this is actually funny. Book early.

Tickets: £14

Box office: 01392 665938

www.exeter.gov.uk/cornexchange

Stephen K Amos is The Spokesman

Event Date: 
20/11/2013 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Corn Exchange

Fresh from the Edinburgh Festival, Amos is hitting the road with a brand new show for 2013 and sharing with the UK the show which has been a smash hit success across Australia and New Zealand! Expect an evening of fun, warmth, big laughs and audience interaction from the master of feel-good comedy.

Listen out for Series 3 of Life: An Idiot's Guide - Coming to Radio 4 soon!

"The warmest comic around, able to riff off a crowd and make them feel good about themselves.." The Sunday Times

"It was all fabulous. But it was when riffing with the audience that Amos truly...

Adam Hills

Event Date: 
19/11/2013 - 5:15pm
Venue: 
Exeter Corn Exchange

Fresh from his triumph as host of Channel 4's critically acclaimed entertainment show 'The Last Leg', Australian funny man Adam Hills returns to the UK with his long overdue and highly anticipated new show Happyism. Happyism will see everyone's favourite Antipodean comedian take to the stage for a first-class evening of comedy with the usual anecdotes and audience participation all delivered in his refreshingly unique, laid-back style.

Adam became a household name in the UK after his part in the London Paralympics Games where he fronted the hugely successful 'The Last Leg with Adam...

Lee Nelson

Event Date: 
13/11/2013 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Corn Exchange

I've hosted Live at the Apollo, sold out my three-times extended Lee Nelson Live tour, had over two million people watching Lee Nelson's Well Good Show and I've got a brand new series, Lee Nelson's Well Funny People, coming soon to BBC3.

The time's now right... for me to come to Exeter. So get yourselves along to my brand new show for a night of qwaliteeee jokes, games and banter. Everyone's welcome.

Plus I'll be bringing Dr Bob, Jason Bent and a few others.

Go on, it's not like there's anything else to do in Exeter.

Lee Nelson brings a brand new stand-up...

Oedipuss In Boots

Event Date: 
19/12/2013 - 9:00pm to 21/12/2013 - 10:30pm
Venue: 
The Bike Shed Theatre

Fed up with the usual sickly-sweet family-friendly festive fare? Oedipuss In Boots is “a fantastically ridiculous, twisted alternative to your traditional Christmas pantomime” (★★★★ The Public Reviews).

After a sold-out run at Bristol’s Wardrobe Theatre in 2012 and a turn at Shambala Festival, Oedipuss In Boots and its all-male cast return with this new mother loving puntomime full of dark, twisted, adult humour, outrageous costumes, hilarious characters and far too much anthropomorphism for its own good. Featuring original music from Kid Carpet.

Far away in the kingdom of...

RAW comedy presents Andrew Lawrence

Event Date: 
08/11/2013 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

As seen on BBC1′s Live At The Apollo, star of his own BBC Radio 4 series How Did We End Up Like This? Andrew Lawrence presents his latest stand-up show of all new material.

‘Anyone who gives this spikily inventive performer the time of day will realise they’re in the presence of an A-list talent.’ The Guardian

‘Few people have caught the irritated, misanthropic mood of the moment better than this supreme misfit; the only wonder is that it’s taking Lawrence so long to become a national institution.’- The Telegraph

Tickets: £14 (students £12) plus booking fee....

TED's Essential Guide to what's on this weekend

Whether it's a spot of theatre that takes your fancy or you just want to have a good old guffaw at some of the region's best undiscovered comedy talent, don't plan your weekend until you have checked out our essential guide to what's on in and around ‪Exeter... ‬

THEATRE

The Mikado Friday & Saturday, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter St David’s Players present one of Gilbert & Sullivan’s best known works. The wandering minstrel son of the Mikado falls for and flirts with a girl who is engaged to her guardian Ko-Ko. Unfortunately the Mikado has decreed that flirting is...

What the Frock comedy night

Event Date: 
26/10/2013 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Voodoo Lounge, Exeter Phoenix

What The Frock! all-female comedy club makes its Exeter debut at the Phoenix Arts Centre.

What The Frock! Comedy has sold out shows in Bristol, London and Manchester… and now is delighted to announce it’s pilot event in Exeter at the Phoenix Arts Centre.

On October 26 the compere will be the inimitable Viv Groskop.

One of the hardest-working people in the country, Viv is not only a brilliant comedian (memorably described as “brave” by The Daily Telegraph following her recent support slot for Michael McIntyre!), but also a best-selling author, a prolific journalist...

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