WIN tickets to Gein's Family Giftshop & Goose at the Little Theatre!

Hello comedy fans, it's been a while, hope you're keeping well...
I also hope you've been keeping up with the city's recent comedy happenings, using the regular listings and updates that are posted by the lovely folks at Leicester Fridge on their facebook page.

Here at Leicester Comedy Scene, we're pretty excited to have been contacted by the agents for award-winners Goose and Gein's Family Giftshop, to spread the word about their fantastic double-header happening at the Little Theatre on May 25/26, and to offer a pair of free tickets for each show to you lucky people! These really are two fantastic shows, so I would highly recommend clearing a space in your diary to go and see them...

Nominations announced for Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival awards

The awards panellists for Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival held their annual bunfight last night, and the nominations have been announced for this year's awards, to be announced at the annual ceremony on Monday 21st March.

The nominations in full are:

Best Show:
Andrew O’Neill is Trapped Down A Well
Grainne Maguire: Great People Making Great Choices
Joanna Neary: Faceful of Issues
John Gordillo: Progress in Work
Pat Cahill: Panjandum

Best Debut Show:
Dude Looks Like A Lady
Glenn Moore: Glengarry Glen Glenn
Lucy Thompson: Lady
Pete Otway: Six Years From Then
Rob Kemp: Hubris

Best Venue (over 200 capacity):
Curve
De Montfort Hall
Just the Tonic - Leicester at Hansom Hall
The Little Theatre

Best Venue (under 200 capacity):
Manhattan34
The Cookie
The Criterion Free House
The Globe

Best New Venue:
Bob's Blundabus
BrewDog Leicester
O2 Academy Leicester
Peter Pizzeria
The Soundhouse

Best Promoter:
Jokes On Us
Dead Cat Comedy Club
Just the Tonic
The Cookie Comedy Club
Bottle Rocket Comedy Club

Contribution to the Festival:
Love Loughborough, Loughborough College and Melton BID
Everards Brewery
Leicester Fridge
Bob Slayer & Heroes

Make Me Happy community award:
Feed Bellies Not Bins
Fine and Funny Dining
Laughing with LOROS
Loving Laughing
Sharon Lockyer & Centre for Comedy Studies Research

Liberty Award for spirit of the festival:
Anthony King
Jokes On Us
St Martins Square & Comedy Box
14/48 Leicester
High Sheriffs of Leicestershire & Rutland
Weirdos Comedy

Best Poster: vote for your favourite here
President Obonjo Stole My Identity
Karen Sherrard: A Fete Worse than Death
Rob Kemp: Hubris
Michael Brunstrom: The Haywain Reloaded
Paul Foot's Game of Dangers
Adam Broomfield-Strawn: Falling Dumb
Ian Hall: IANertia
Jasper Cromwell Jones & Friends

Well done to all those nominated and good luck! :)

DLCF 2016 REVIEW - our favourite shows of the festival

.....and it's all over for another year. 

The biggest ever Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival ended yesterday with the final 35-ish shows of a whopping 780 that have taken place over the last 3 weeks.

Personally I probably saw around 30-35 shows (a little less than usual, having missed the middle of the festival due to illness), so obviously I missed plenty of great ones (particularly gutted not to have seen John Kearns). But I'm glad to say the ones I did see were of a consistently high quality, with these ones in particular standing out:

DLCF PREVIEW: PART ONE - We Could Be Heroes (at the Criterion)

Here we go again comedy fans - Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival is once again fast approaching, and so begins Leicester Comedy Scene's annual series of preview posts giving you the lowdown on what's in store at the 2016 festival. This year, each preview post will be centred around a venue or series of venues, in order to give you a broad flavour of what's going on where this year. Since a lot of press coverage focuses on the big TV acts appearing at De Montfort Hall or Curve, I thought I'd start by exploring a small and friendly corner of the festival, with a distinctly alternative flavour...

Heroes @ The Criterion & Bob's Blundabus.

This man used to be a jockey: Bob Slayer

5 Mixed bill showcase events that will help you decide what to see at the Comedy Festival

Face it, folks. The holiday period is over.
The leftovers have been guzzled, the hangovers suffered, the previously fart-filled house has been aired, and a nation is wearily going back to work and grudgingly re-adjusting to normal life.


It's not all doom and gloom though, because it means there's now less than a month to go until Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival starts - HOORAY!!! The fest proper begins on Wednesday Feb 3rd at which point over 700 shows will be occurring in the city and county, for 19 solid days of laughter. You can find official festival brochures all over the city, and all the shows are searchable online at the festival's website

Brochures available at a bar, cafe, takeaway near you!

Obviously it's pretty tough choosing from 700 shows, but luckily for us there are a few mixed-bill showcase gigs happening before then, to help you decide who to see at the festival: