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About Us
The Museum of Comedy was founded by Leicester Square Theatre director Martin Witts in 2014, opening rather fittingly on April Fool’s Day. Based in the repurposed crypt of the Grade I listed St George’s Church, the Museum blends its venerable architecture and historical artefacts with thoroughly modern performance spaces and a well stocked bar that caters to a range of tastes. The Museum i
s fast gaining a reputation as a space for up and coming comedians making their way in the comedy industry. Regular shows such as the Monday Club provide comedians with an opportunity to try out fresh jokes in a relaxed atmosphere, while the Museum plays host to the New Comedian of the Year and Sketch Off competitions on an annual basis. Winners and finalists include Rob Beckett, Rachel Parris and Bilal Zafar, to name just a few! There’s even a Not So New Comedian of the Year competition for those who’ve been in the comedy game for a while but haven’t had that big break yet! As well as these events, the Museum is an increasingly popular venue for artists to perform new material in an intimate setting, with acts such as Frankie Boyle, Stewart Lee and Bridget Christie performing work in progress shows in recent years. Adding an extra touch of character to our venue are the numerous comedy artefacts that adorn the Museum. While enjoying a pre-show drink, patrons will be greeted by Steve Ullathorne’s ‘The Comic Collection’, a display of portraits of Britain’s best loved current comedy stars, and are invited to peruse items ranging from Bill Bailey’s iconic 6-neck guitar to the back door of the Trotter's Reliant Regent! Other props of interest include original Spitting Image heads, Little Tich’s shoes and many more! Lovingly assembled by Martin, the Museum boasts one of the most extensive collections of comedy memorabilia found in one place. Facilities
Facilities at the Museum include The Comedy Crypt, a state of the art traditional performance space hosting all kinds of comedy performances, from stand up and theatre to cabaret and podcast and radio recordings. https://www.museumofcomedy.com/whats-on/
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After sold out runs in New York, LA and Edinburgh - Sophie Sucks Face is coming to London next month! Sophie Sucks Face is a new musical about love, in**st, widowhood, and American-Israeli relations hailing from writer/performer Sophie Zucker
💋 https://loom.ly/yCY29kk 💋
Next week, Kym Nelson, a former yoga teacher-turned-comedian, confesses all about the yoga industry and reveals some larger-than-life characters based on yoga teachers she's met in the industry! Guaranteed, you'll never look at yoga in the same way again!
🧘♀️ https://loom.ly/rDiG8-A 🧘♀️
🎟️Update! As of this moment, there is ONE ticket on sale for big bloody winner Frankie Monroe tomorrow night - and an EXTRA SHOW on Dec 16th at 4pm 🏆
🍻 https://loom.ly/zTOskNk 🍻
Shoot From The Hip return to the crypt *TOMORROW* with their award-winning, viral improv comedy to the Museum of Comedy – featuring chaotic games, epic scenes, and ever-so-slightly unhinged performances!
🤠 https://loom.ly/m9-87GY 🤠
Another Monday Club? Go on then! Next week features: Alexander Bennett, Blank Peng, Sam Nicoresti, Ian Lane Andrea Hubert, Denis Krasnov, Catie Wilkins, Luca Cupani, Joe Bates, Kathy Maniura, Matt Smith, Declan Kennedy, Neil O'Rourke, Luke Nixon, Tim Shishodia, MC Tony Dunn
🎟️ https://loom.ly/mU4XBd8
Line-up announced for the annual British Comedy Guide Pro Talent Awards! Congrats to Omar Ibrahim, Kit Loyd, Low Effort Sketches, Jane Postlethwaite & Maxine Wade on making the final, hosted by icon Shaparak Khorsandi!
🏆 https://loom.ly/XHsw2g4 🏆
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Next month, join distinguished zoological linguist Dr John D.O.G. Dolittle, PhD (yours truly and the very same), as he regales you with startling stories from yesteryear, and possibly thiseryear. Thank you so much everyone.
“Very quick” ★★★★ - Broadway Baby
🦙 https://loom.ly/dmcaYMU 🦙
Tomorrow night! Rising stars from the UK comedy scene! A showcase of new and emerging stand-ups, fresh from the Above Your Nerve comedy course. See the comedians of the future here first.
🎤 https://loom.ly/6VPNuxE 🎤
Step into the world of raw creativity and untamed artistry at Soho School of Burlesque’s Scratch Night! An intimate and exhilarating evening where work-in-progress and lesser-known acts are the main event.
💕 https://loom.ly/08ECnGQ 💕
Tomorrow we bring you AYN's rising stars from the UK comedy scene! A showcase of newish and established acts, bringing you longer sets, funnier jokes, and banging material from their new shows. See the comedians of the future here first.
🎤 https://loom.ly/6VPNuxE 🎤
Next month we welcome back acclaimed double-act The Electric Head (Al Ronald & Cy Henty) as they continue to take reality by surprise, in their brand new, entirely unplanned, and unscripted long-form improv show
‘A surreal, mirth-laden, epic flight of fancy which you simply have to experience for yourselves.’ ★★★★
🐙 https://loom.ly/dFOp6Lw 🐙
Strap in lads, this year is - yet again - The Year Of The King. Watch these heroes explore gender in performance by drawing on a beard, achieving new levels of crazy with shoulder pads and thrusting their dicks about on stage. Join the rising stars from the UK Drag King scene, in a showcase of new and emerging artists, fresh from the Above Your Nerve course, TOMORROW!
👑 https://loom.ly/A2t5yNE 👑
The Free Association Presents WINNER - the greatest sporting story never told. A hilarious improvised homage to your favourite sporting biopics, from Rocky to Cool Runnings, Chariots of Fire to the Mighty Ducks!
🏅 https://loom.ly/ivCNMvw 🏅
300 Comedians, 25 Heats, 3 Months! But we've finally pick the TOP 14 to be beamed up to our mothership for the grand final at Leicester Square Theatre for a cash prize and coveted title of 'New Comedian of the Year'
🏆 Sun 3 Dec at 7.00pm 🏆
Congrats to: Christian Jegard, Hugh Peacocke, JR, Kathleen Hughes, Lauren Carroll, Leah Davis, Maple Zuo, Maria Fedulova, Marty Gleeson, Riggs, Sallyann Fellowes, Sam Roulston, Samira Banks & Stephen Catling
🎟️ https://loom.ly/Di_DhWk 🎟️
Alert! Alert! Our Sketch Off competition for sketch groups, character acts and the just plain bonkers is open for entries for 2024!
📣 https://loom.ly/LFCj9jE 📣
Tomorrow night! A showcase of new work, joyously exploring how the worlds of q***rness and theatre interact, creating q***r utopias both onstage and off. From the next generation of Above Your Nerve theatre-makers.
🎭 https://loom.ly/kGjgXuY 🎭
Come and watch Louise Atkinson Comedy's award-winning, 5 star, debut show all about friendships next month. Love your mates but they're a drunken liability? Same, mate. Listen as Louise tells us about her mates. The good, the bad and the ugly.
"Reminiscent of Victoria Wood & Peter Kay" - Stuart Maconie
👭 https://loom.ly/OdJLbeM 👬
Are you ready to make some noize for the boyz?
Boyz Nite is a variety night celebrating trans men, trans masc and butch non-binary performers hosted by Cerys Bradley.
We have comedy. We have drag. We have poetry and we have much, much more.
🎄 https://loom.ly/wWkhuD0 🎄
Our mini-season of British Comedy Guide's 'Comedian's Choice' nominated shows continues next month with Matt Price, Sid SIngh, Louise Atkinson & Sophie Zucker!
🎤 https://loom.ly/Y_1vl0E 🎤
On sale from GEOFF ALDERMAN FREE RANGE ! Like proper jokes? Like something a bit edgy? This is the show for you.
"… solid punchlines... deliciously mean." - Steve Bennett
“a penchant for the slightly darker gag.” - Hungerford Comedy Club
🐓 https://loom.ly/egLPITw 🐓
🎟️On sale! Sid Singh Comedy won the 2023 Comedian’s Choice award for Best Performer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for his show about helping beat Donald Trump and Joe Biden in court. What's your excuse not to watch it?
⚖️ https://loom.ly/TmslAaM ⚖️
Next week, join Frankie Monroe owner and resident MC at The Misty Moon Social Club (a working men's club in Rotherham which is also a portal to hell) for a slap-up feast of laughs, tricks and mucky bitter.
🔥 https://loom.ly/zTOskNk 🔥
Shoot From The Hip return to the crypt in a weeks' time, with their award-winning, viral improv comedy to the Museum of Comedy – featuring chaotic games, epic scenes, and ever-so-slightly unhinged performances!
🤠 https://loom.ly/m9-87GY 🤠
Monday! Every Monday! It's The Monday Club! ft: Patrick Spicer, Samantha Day, Gabriel Ebulue, Frances Keyton, Karen Hobbs, Dick Denham, LJ Da Funk, Oh Standfast, Jake Baker, Sarah Roberts, Julius Howe, Marty Gleeson, J B Carter + MC Tony Dunn
🎟️ https://loom.ly/mU4XBd8 🎟️
Next month, comedian Matt Price tells the true story of why he is no longer obsessed with true crime, in his Comedian's Choice Award-nominated show!
"Fearlessly funny” - The Scotsman ★★★★
🐐 https://loom.ly/_e9FbOQ 🐐
Next week we bring you AYN's rising stars from the UK comedy scene! A showcase of newish and established acts, bringing you longer sets, funnier jokes, and banging material from their new shows. See the comedians of the future here first.
🎤 https://loom.ly/6VPNuxE 🎤
Next month, Kym Nelson, a former yoga teacher-turned-comedian, confesses all about the yoga industry and reveals some larger-than-life characters based on yoga teachers she's met in the industry! Guaranteed, you'll never look at yoga in the same way again!
🧘♀️ https://loom.ly/rDiG8-A 🧘♀️
Namaste Blisters is written and performed by Kym Nelson, a stand-up comedian and comedy writer who studied at clown school (yes, it's a thing!),…
25 Nov! Rising stars from the UK comedy scene! A showcase of newish and established acts, bringing you longer sets, funnier jokes and banging material from their new shows. See the comedians of the future here first.
🌟 https://loom.ly/6VPNuxE 🌟
Strap in lads, this year is - yet again - The Year Of The King. Watch these heroes explore gender in performance by drawing on a beard, achieving new levels of crazy with shoulder pads and thrusting their dicks about on stage. Join the rising stars from the UK Drag King scene, in a showcase of new and emerging artists, fresh from the Above Your Nerve course!
👑 https://loom.ly/A2t5yNE 👑
In one month best pals and Northern Clowns: The Lovely Boys and Freddie Hayes bring the alternative pantomime of your dreams to The Museum of Comedy. Expect song and dance; “he’s behind you” and lots and lots of pies in the face
“Cracking physical comedy”- Chortle
“Tremendous knockabout chemistry”- The Scotsman
🌱 https://loom.ly/ldsNfY8 🌱
Next Monday! Every Monday! It's The Monday Club! ft: Patrick Spicer, Samantha Day, Gabriel Ebulue, Frances Keyton, Karen Hobbs, Dick Denham, LJ Da Funk, Oh Standfast, Jake Baker, Sarah Roberts, Julius Howe, Marty Gleeson, J B Carter + MC Tony Dunn
🎟️ https://loom.ly/mU4XBd8 🎟️
🎟️ On Sale! Vaguely-Christmas-themed-sort-of-ish stand-up comedy. In her debut hour, Lulu Popplewell chats about crack, Love Actually, The Daily Mail and sings a song.
‘Highly recommended’ – Stephen Fry
🦞 https://loom.ly/bjYxmKQ 🦞
🎟️ On Sale! South London’s favourite comedy cabaret Piñata is hopping on the Thameslink to Central for one Christmassy night only!
Expect up-and-coming stars of the London comedy scene mixed in with tinsel, mince pies and sitting on Santa’s knee. Piñata to finish.
🍬 https://loom.ly/6poyVg4 🍬
He only went and won it!
Huge congrats to Joe! For the rest of you, here are two chances to catch him & some pals at London's Museum of Comedy soon! 🍻
Tomorrow night our most alternative and divine Drag & Cabaret rising stars return! Bringing you new acts, with more strangeness, more filth and even more nightmare. Watch the best of Above Your Nerve’s “Alternative Drag and Cabaret” and “A Course for Kings” graduates, fresh from the advanced course!
💋 https://loom.ly/gtbQSbo 💋
Next week, a showcase of new work, joyously exploring how the worlds of q***rness and theatre interact, creating q***r utopias both onstage and off. From the next generation of Above Your Nerve theatre-makers.
🎭 https://loom.ly/kGjgXuY 🎭
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Next month we welcome back acclaimed double-act The Electric Head (Al Ronald & Cy Henty) as they continue to take reality by surprise, in their brand new, entirely unplanned, and unscripted long-form improv show ‘A surreal, mirth-laden, epic flight of fancy which you simply have to experience for yourselves.’ ★★★★ 🐙 https://loom.ly/dFOp6Lw 🐙
Our mini-season of British Comedy Guide's 'Comedian's Choice' nominated shows continues next month with Matt Price, Sid SIngh, Louise Atkinson & Sophie Zucker! 🎤 https://loom.ly/Y_1vl0E 🎤
From the brain behind The Jain Edwards Show, NorthWave draws on a daft Northern theme, and creates iconic new moments and hilarious happenings. If this doesn’t smack barm pea wet your appetite, next month we don’t know what will! 🥧 https://loom.ly/txnIKLc 🥧
Our mini season of British Comedy Guide's 'Comedian's Choice' nominated shows begins tomorrow with 'Furizo: A Man Looking for Trouble' and continues into December <3 🎤 https://loom.ly/Y_1vl0E 🎤
Tomorrow night we welcome back acclaimed double-act The Electric Head (Al Ronald & Cy Henty) as they continue to take reality by surprise, in their brand new, entirely unplanned, and unscripted long-form improv show ‘A surreal, mirth-laden, epic flight of fancy which you simply have to experience for yourselves.’ ★★★★ 🐙 https://loom.ly/dFOp6Lw 🐙
🎟️ From the brain behind The Jain Edwards Show, NorthWave draws on a daft Northern theme, and creates iconic new moments and hilarious happenings. If this doesn’t smack barm pea wet your appetite, we don’t know what will! 🥧 https://loom.ly/txnIKLc 🥧
Next week we welcome back acclaimed double-act The Electric Head (Al Ronald & Cy Henty) as they continue to take reality by surprise, in their brand new, entirely unplanned, and unscripted long-form improv show ‘A surreal, mirth-laden, epic flight of fancy which you simply have to experience for yourselves.’ ★★★★ 🐙 https://loom.ly/dFOp6Lw 🐙
🎟️ From the brain behind The Jain Edwards Show, NorthWave draws on a daft Northern theme, and creates iconic new moments and hilarious happenings. If this doesn’t smack barm pea wet your appetite, we don’t know what will! 🥧 https://loom.ly/txnIKLc 🥧
🎟️ A whole gaggle of fabulous Above Your Nerve course showcases are on sale now! These one-off events ALWAYS sell out, and for good reason... get your tickets ASAP! 👠 https://loom.ly/DBlvWFY 👠
🎟️ A whole bunch of fabulous Above Your Nerve course showcases are on sale today! These ALWAYS sell out, and for good reason. Get your tickets ASAP! 👠 https://loom.ly/DBlvWFY 👠
Tomorrow! Born Yesterday is a podcast experiment conducted by comedians Andy Barr & Alexander Bennett. The pair have been cloning themselves and the clones are idiots - they know nothing, they were literally born yesterday. Guest comedians for their first live show are: Ania Magliano , Joz Norris, Mary O'Connell and Michael Brunström! 👶 https://loom.ly/yp2A49E 👶
The "Spice Girls of improv" return 29 Sep in their five-star, sell-out, comedy Notflix: The Improvised Musical. Inspired by audience suggestions, an all-female cast improvise the musical version of your fav films, creating movies with 100% more singing, 99% more women and live band! 📺 https://loom.ly/cHkrMFE 📺
We're looking forward to our opening night for comic play 'Little Boxes' with Joann Condon TONITE, for four nights only! “A joyful delve into one woman’s life, celebrating the successes, the heartbreak, and everything in between.” The Plays the Thing 📦 https://loom.ly/UAmGLnA ❤️
Next week! Born Yesterday is a podcast experiment conducted by comedians Andy Barr & Alexander Bennett. The pair have been cloning themselves and the clones are idiots - they know nothing, they were literally born yesterday. Guest comedians for their first live show are: Ania Magliano , Joz Norris, Mary O'Connell and Michael Brunström! 👶 https://loom.ly/yp2A49E 👶
We're looking forward to our opening night for comic play 'Little Boxes' with Joann Condon this Thursday - four nights only! “A joyful delve into one woman’s life, celebrating the successes, the heartbreak, and everything in between.” The Plays the Thing 📦 https://loom.ly/UAmGLnA ❤️
Sep 27! Born Yesterday is a podcast experiment conducted by comedians Andy Barr & Alexander Bennett. The pair have been cloning themselves and the clones are idiots - they know nothing, they were literally born yesterday. Guest comedians for their first live show are: Ania Magliano , Joz Norris, Mary O'Connell and Michael Brunström! 👶 https://loom.ly/yp2A49E 👶
The "Spice Girls of improv" return 29 Sep in their five-star, sell-out, comedy Notflix: The Improvised Musical. Inspired by audience suggestions, an all-female cast improvise the musical version of your fav films, creating movies with 100% more singing, 99% more women and live band! 📺 https://loom.ly/cHkrMFE 📺
🎟️On sale! Born Yesterday is a podcast experiment conducted by comedians Andy Barr & Alexander Bennett. The pair have been cloning themselves and the clones are idiots - they know nothing, they were literally born yesterday. How do you explain everything to someone who doesn't know anything? Every episode, guest comedians attempt to find out - and we've got two live ones coming up this month! 👶 https://loom.ly/yp2A49E 👶
🎟️On sale! Born Yesterday is a podcast experiment conducted by comedians Andy Barr & Alexander Bennett. The pair have been cloning themselves and the clones are idiots - they know nothing, they were literally born yesterday. How do you explain everything to someone who doesn't know anything? Every episode, guest comedians attempt to find out - and we've got two live ones coming up this month! 👶 https://loom.ly/yp2A49E 👶
The "Spice Girls of improv" return *TOMORROW* in their five-star, sell-out, comedy Notflix: The Improvised Musical. Inspired by audience suggestions, an all-female cast improvise the musical version of your fav films, creating movies with 100% more singing, 99% more women and live band! 🍿 https://loom.ly/I329vE0 🍿
The "Spice Girls of improv" return 27 Aug in their five-star, sell-out, comedy Notflix: The Improvised Musical. Inspired by audience suggestions, an all-female cast improvise the musical version of your fav films, creating movies with 100% more singing, 99% more women and live band! 🍿 https://loom.ly/I329vE0 🍿
On 7 Sep and every first Thursday of the month we're hosting 'WINNER,' The Free Association's improvised sports biopic! It’s funny, it’s sad, it’s triumph over adversity. Will our crack team overcome extreme training montages from mysterious mentors, despairing family members, and vicious rivals? Win or lose, it’s all improvised. AND IT’S LIVE! 🎟️ https://loom.ly/digP56o
The "Spice Girls of improv" return 27 Aug in their five-star, sell-out, comedy Notflix: The Improvised Musical. Inspired by audience suggestions, an all-female cast improvise the musical version of your fav films, creating movies with 100% more singing, 99% more women and live band! 🍿 https://loom.ly/I329vE0 🍿
Coming up this week we've got Stand Up! We've got Improv! We've got Romance! We've got Characters! We've got plastic skeletons! And More!
Still a few tickets left for Michael Akadiri this Thursday! Not only is Michael an award-winning comedian (Komedia New Comedy Award) - he's also a junior doctor on the NHS frontlines! How did he get here? And now he's here, is he ready for this? http://ow.ly/PhwA50JBGYQ
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