COMEDY LISTINGS - MAY 2013

It's May! The sun is out and there's a distinct whiff of summer in the air, but for how long??? The answer - I DON'T CARE - this isn't a blog about the fricking weather, you know. It's about comedy and there's positively oodles of it coming up this month, as the new season really kicks into gear and we start to edge towards Edinburgh preview territory.

Andrew Lawrence is Coming to Get You. Yes, you.

So you've got your telly faves Andy Parsons, Micky Flanagan and Julian Clary at De Mont, but the ones I'm really looking forward to this month are Andrew Lawrence on the 5th and the awesome line-up for Set List on the 14th (both at JTT), as well as Scott Bennett and Anthony King at the Looking Glass, and another cracking line-up from Bottle Rocket on the 18th. Always worth seeing the circuit's only occultist metal transvestite comic Andrew O'Neill too. Don't forget Handmade Festival at the end of the month, which features some top comedians as well as lots of music, film and art across several venues.
Anyhoo, that's just my baboon-headed opinion - take a look at the full line-up for yourselves...

Thu 2nd - Big Value Auditions @ Just the Tonic

Fri 3rd - Praha ha ha ha @ Praha, Hinckley
Fri 3rd/Sat 4th - Gary Delaney, Paul McCaffrey, Diane Spencer, Eric Lampaert @ Just the Tonic

Sat 4th - Carl Donnelly, Andrew Ryan, Carl Hutchinson, Jessica Fosketew @ The Y

Sun 5th - Andrew Lawrence tour show @ Just the Tonic

Tue 7th - Comedy & Cocktails @ Manhattan 34
Wed 8th - Nibbles with Giggles @ Entropy
Thu 9th - Big Value Auditions @ Just the Tonic

Fri 10th - Tickled Pig Regional Final @ The Crumblin Cookie
Fri 10th  - Ola, Roger Monkhouse, Mark Olver + Guest @ Just the Tonic

Sat 11th  - Susan Murray, Roger Monkhouse, Mark Olver + Guest @ Just the Tonic

Tue 14th - Set List: Tony Law, Paul Foot, Henning Wehn, Andrew Maxwell, Mitch Benn @ Just the Tonic

Tue 14th - Kerry Leigh, Ruth E. Cockburn, Otty Winters, Maureen Younger @ Duffy's Bar
Tue 14th - DLCF presents Chris Stokes, Joey Page, David Morgan, Matt Holins @ Crumblin Cookie
Wed 15th - Scott Bennett, Anthony King, Tom Dylan, Robert Monckton @ The Looking Glass

Wed 15th - Andy Parsons @ De Montfort Hall
Thu 16th - Big Value Auditions @ Just the Tonic

Fri 17th/Sat 18th - Gareth Richards, Joel Dommett, Jojo Smith, Tom Toal @ Just the Tonic
Sat 18th - Doc Brown, Rob Beckett, David Morgan, Liam Mullone @ The Y

Sat 18th - The Same Faces Improv @ The Criterion
Mon 20th - An Evening with Mark Little @ Sileby Conservative Club
Wed 22nd - Micky Flanagan @ De Montfort Hall

Thu 23rd - Should I Stay or Should I Go? @ Kayal
Thu 23rd - Big Value Auditions @ Just the Tonic
Fri 24th - Julian Clary @ De Montfort Hall

Fri 24th - Rudi Lickwood, Holly Walsh, Carl Hutchinson, Chris Mayo @ Just the Tonic

Fri 24th to Sun 26th - Handmade Festival feat Robin Ince, Rob Deering, James Acaster @ Firebug
Sat 25th - Rudi Lickwood, Holly Walsh, Carl Hutchinson, Tim Clark @ Just the Tonic

Thu 30th - Big Value Auditions @ Just the Tonic

Fri 31st / Sat 1st- Andrew O'Neill, Rod Woodward, Ben Van Der Velde + Guest @ Just the Tonic

Lemme know through the usual channels if I've missed anything that you know of, there's a good chap.
Ta-ta for now, old bean...