The Comedy Crate at The Picturedrome
2023-05-04 08:00 - 22:15 (Europe/London) | The Picturedrome, 222 Kettering Rd, Northampton, Northants, NN1 4BN, United Kingdom
Live comedy from Roger Monkhouse, Harriet Kemsley, Kwame Asante and James Cook.
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The Comedy Crate at the Charles Bradlaugh
2023-05-11 19:00 - 22:15 | The Charles Bradlaugh, 1 Earl St, northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 3AU, United Kingdom
Live comedy from Scott Bennett, Matt Bragg, James Ellis and Robyn Perkins.
Doors 7pm â€“ Show 8pm
Line ups are subject to change.

The Comedy Crate
2023-05-31 19:00 - 22:00 | Saints Coffee, 62 St Giles' St, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1JW, United Kingdom
£5.50 a ticket
New material night where 6 acts will try out some new jokes. These nights are also a showcase for upcoming acts.
62 St Gilesâ€™ St, Northampton NN1 1JW
Doors 7pm â€“ Show 8pm
Limited availability â€“ www.thecomedycrate.com/northamptontickets/saintsmay
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Jessica Fostekew - Work In Progress
2024-01-28 19:00 - 20:15 | The Charles Bradlaugh, 1 Earl St, northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 3AU, United Kingdom
Jessica Fostekew is a comedian, actor and writer whose stand up show Hench was nominated for the 2019 Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show. Itâ€™s now available as a stand up special on Amazon Prime and has been adapted into the BBC R4 stand up special â€“ Sturdy Girl Club which has been commissioned for a second series.
Jessica has appeared on numerous entertainment shows such as, BBC2â€™s Live at The Apollo, QI, Richard Osmanâ€™s House Of Games and many more. She is also a regular co-host of The Guilty Feminist (podcast with 60 million+ downloads) and host and creator of foodie hit and new chart-topping pod, â€œHooveringâ€� (recommended in the Guardian and The Independent). Jessica will also be featuring in season two of Worldâ€™s Most Dangerous Roads for Dave.
Jessica has co-written and stars in â€˜Real Friendsâ€™, a new special for Sky Shorts and has several scripted projects in development.
As an actor, she’s amassed a slew of impressive credits, including; Avoidance (with Romesh Ranganathan), Scrapper (feature), The Trouble With Maggie Cole, Cuckoo (BBC/ Netflix), Motherland, Out of Her Mind, Trigonometry and BAFTA multiple-award winning BBC drama, Three Girls. You can catch her in the feature films, Official Secrets from Gavin Hood and Greed from Michael Winterbottom.
You can also hear her regularly on BBC Radio 4 & 4 Extra on The Comedy Club, Museum of Curiosity, The News Quiz and The Podcast Radio Hour.
â€œA new fiercely funny strain of comedy that’s her ownâ€� The Independent
â€œA loud, lively and vital voiceâ€� The Evening Standard
â€œWears her smarts on her sleeve, great stuffâ€� The Guardian

Comedy Crate at The Picturedrome
2024-02-01 20:00 | The Picturedrome, 222 Kettering Rd, Northampton, Northants, NN1 4BN, United Kingdom
Patrick Monahan
Award winning Iranian-Irish stand up comedian Patrick Monahan has performed all over the world, including Dubai, Australia, New York, Norway, and almost every town and city in Britain.
His comedy cover topics such as class, family, relationships and his hilarious observations of daily life. He has performed over sixteen solo shows at the Edinburgh Festival over consecutive years, which have then toured to sell-out crowds, both nationally and internationally.
Patrick has recorded four solo comedy specials, released online and on DVD. He has made multiple television appearances on BBC One, BBC Two, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky. He was also the winner of two ITV competition series, Take the Mike and Show Me the Funny.
Darren Harriott
He shines as a dynamic and captivating comedian making waves in the circuit. With notable appearances on Live at the Apollo, BBC’s News Jack Unplugged, and CBBC’s The Dog Ate My Homework, he’s a familiar face on panel shows like Mock the Week and Don’t Hate the Playaz. He’s not just about comedy, but also gives his witty take on reality shows like The Apprentice: You’re Fired and The Great British Bake Off: Extra Slice. As a Comedy Central favorite, he’s graced shows like The Comedy Bus and Roast Battle. His creative prowess extends to writing and recording the series Black Label on BBC Radio 4.
Hailing from Birmingham and now based in London. Darren’s confident performances delve into subverting stereotypes, everyday observations, and even thought-provoking topics like religion. Having earned Edinburgh nominations and a Birmingham mural celebrating his stardom, Darren Harriott is an exciting talent leaving an indelible mark.
Eva Bindeman
Eva is a Bristol based, North East Comic bringing a warm, conversational sense of humour with a twist of the unexpected. Recently seen on BBC 1 and iplayer for the BBC New Comedy Awards, Eva is a performer to look out for this year and beyond.
Funny women “one to watch” 2022
Stand up or cider finalist 2021
SYTYF semi finalist 2019
“Superb…Very Funny” – Russell Howard.
Jonathan Elston
Jonathan has been a permanent fixture of the UK comedy circuit since beginning stand up at the age of 19.
His adaptability either as a quick witted MC or delivering a set of packed fully relatable punchlines means he is at home performing in a wide range of venues from Art centres and Parent Teacher Associations to Military bases.

Romesh Ranganathan: Hustle
2024-02-03 15:00 | Royal and Derngate Theatre, 19-21 Guildhall Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DP
NEW SHOW ADDED – Sat 3 February 3pm

After a sell-out tour in 2022, Romesh Ranganathan is back with a brand-new show examining the human condition…are people inherently good? Is charity always a positive thing? Is hustling the key to success? Or is all this a load of rubbish we’ve made up to keep people working hard for no reason.
Join Romesh as he examines all of these issues and more while providing no real answers.
Best known for The Misadventures Of Romesh Ranganathan, The Ranganation, Rob & Romesh Vs, A League Of Their Own, Avoidance, Romantic Getaway, host of Weakest Link and For The Love Of Hip Hop.

Romesh Ranganathan: Hustle
2024-02-03 20:00 | Royal and Derngate Theatre, 19-21 Guildhall Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DP
After a sell-out tour in 2022, Romesh Ranganathan is back with a brand-new show examining the human condition…are people inherently good? Is charity always a positive thing? Is hustling the key to success? Or is all this a load of rubbish we’ve made up to keep people working hard for no reason.
Join Romesh as he examines all of these issues and more while providing no real answers.
Best known for The Misadventures Of Romesh Ranganathan, The Ranganation, Rob & Romesh Vs, A League Of Their Own, Avoidance, Romantic Getaway, host of Weakest Link and For The Love Of Hip Hop.

Jimmy Carr: Terribly Funny 2.0
2024-02-05 19:00 | Royal and Derngate Theatre, 19-21 Guildhall Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DP
Please note that this show has been rescheduled from Wed 27 September 2023 due to the temporary building closure. For more information about the closure, click here.

Star of the UK’s most streamed Netflix comedy special of 2021, Jimmy Carr is back on the road with brand new material for 2022 and 2023.
Jimmy’s show contains jokes about all kinds of terrible things. Terrible things that might have affected you or people you know and love. But they’re just jokes – they are not the terrible things. Having politcal correctness at a comedy show is like having health and safety at a rodeo.
Now you’ve been warned, buy a ticket.

Please note this is the same show that was performed on Fri 19 May 2023

Jimmy Carr: Terribly Funny 2.0
2024-02-05 21:30 | Royal and Derngate Theatre, 19-21 Guildhall Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DP
Please note that this show has been rescheduled from Wed 27 September 2023 due to the temporary building closure. For more information about the closure, click here.

Star of the UK’s most streamed Netflix comedy special of 2021, Jimmy Carr is back on the road with brand new material for 2022 and 2023.
Jimmy’s show contains jokes about all kinds of terrible things. Terrible things that might have affected you or people you know and love. But they’re just jokes – they are not the terrible things. Having politcal correctness at a comedy show is like having health and safety at a rodeo.
Now you’ve been warned, buy a ticket.

Comedy at the Bradlaugh
2024-02-08 20:00 | The Charles Bradlaugh, 1 Earl St, northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 3AU, United Kingdom
Featuring: Dan Tiernan, Lindsey Santoro, Jack Skipper, Tom Toal

Screaming Blue Murder Comedy Club
2024-02-09 20:00 | Royal and Derngate Theatre, 19-21 Guildhall Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DP
Don’t miss our comedy club with compere Dan Evans.
This season features many of comedy’s rising stars.
Doors 7.45pm Show 8pm.
Click on the dates to book.

Fri 9 February 2024
Dan Antopolski
Alex Haddow
Joe Jacobs
This show will be performed in the Royal auditorium

Comedy at the Bradlaugh
2024-05-09 20:00 - 22:30 | The Charles Bradlaugh, 1 Earl St, northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 3AU, United Kingdom
Featuring: Eshaan Akbar, Kelsey De Almeida, Kyrah Gray, Jamie Allerton.
Line ups are subject to change.

Fesshole Live: Northampton
2024-05-16 18:30 - 21:00 | The Charles Bradlaugh, 1 Earl St, northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 3AU, United Kingdom
As part of a sell-out UK tour, the million follower social media sensation is coming to town. Rob Manuel, creator of Fesshole and B3ta, brings the internet’s naughtiest, funniest, cringiest confessions to Northampton â€“ for one night only. Expect an evening of some of the best and worst confessions known to mankind as Rob digs into the bin of unpublished confessions and uncovers the depths of human grotesqueness. Full of humour & heart, this show is not to be missed!

Comedy Crate - Gary Delaney, Zoe Lyons, Nathan Caton and Paul Revill
2024-05-17 20:00 - 22:00 | Delepre Abbey, London Rd, Northampton, Northants, NN4 8AW, United Kingdom

Comedy Crate - Alexandra Haddow & Peter Rethinasamy
2024-06-05 20:00 - 22:30 | Waterside Bar, University of Northampton, University Drive Waterside Campus, Waterside Place, Northampton, Northampton, northamptonshire, NN1 5PH, United Kingdom

Terry And Friends - Comedy Crate
2024-06-13 19:30 - 21:30 | The Charles Bradlaugh, 1 Earl St, northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 3AU, United Kingdom

Comedy Crate - Chloe Petts & Eleanor Tiernan
2024-06-17 20:00 - 22:30 | The Lab, 95-97 Charles St, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 3BG, United Kingdom

Comedy Crate - Tom Stade & Gareth Mutch
2024-06-23 18:00 - 20:00 | Northampton Museum And Art Gallery, 4-6 Guildhall Rd,, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DP, United Kingdom

Comedy Crate - Scott Bennett & Sara Barron
2024-07-08 20:00 - 22:30 | The Lamplighter, 66 Overstone Rd, Northampton, northamptonshire, NN1 3JS, United Kingdom

Jon Pearson: What Have You Been Up To?
2024-07-17 20:00 - 22:30 | VnB, 10 St Giles' Square, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DA, United Kingdom

Comedy Crate - Markus Birdman & Jacob Nussey
2024-07-27 18:00 - 20:30 | Cheyne Walk Club, 2 Cheyne Walk, northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 5PU, United Kingdom

SOLD OUT Comedy at the Bradlaugh
2025-01-17 20:00 - 22:30 | The Charles Bradlaugh, 1 Earl St, northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 3AU, United Kingdom
Ian Stone
Scott Bennett
Russell Arathoon
Abbie Edwards
Osman Shibli

Comedy evening
2025-01-29 19:00 - 22:00 | Saints Coffee, 62 St Giles' St, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1JW, United Kingdom
Wednesday 29th January, 7pm doors, 8pm start â€“ Comedy evening w/ @thecomedycrate (Tickets available via their site)

The Anglia Comedy Allstars
2025-01-31 19:30 - 21:30 | The Deco, The Deco, Abington Square, Northampton NN1 4AE
The Anglia Comedy Allstars return at The Old Savoy – Home of The Deco Theatre, Northampton in January, with a great line-up featuring the fantastic Alan Davies, Angela Barnes, Glenn Moore & Matt Richardson.
Alan Davies is best known as the much-lauded resident dunderhead on Qi, and charming but reticent crime solver Jonathan Creek. Davies’ virtuosic storytelling and whip-smart funny bones combine as he heads to Greenwich to headline a stellar stand-up show.
“One of the best stand-up comics out there” – The Guardian
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After a career in health and social care, Angela Barnes took the plunge and embarked on her life-long dream to be a comedian. Within just a couple of years she had won the BBC New Comedy Award in 2011 and has now gone on to star in BBC Two’s Mock The Week, Live At The Apollo and Hypothetical on Dave.
???? “She’s just a gloriously down-to-earth, straight talking and extremely funny comic” – Edinburgh Festivals Magazine
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Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominee Glenn Moore (Mock The Week, Live at the Apollo and The Dave Berry Breakfast Show) is one of the best joke writers of his generation and is back on the road with brand-new material. Expect a “comedy masterclass” (The Times) and a high-energy barrage of the most jokes you’ve ever heard humanely fit into one stand-up show.
???? “the best showcase of pure joke-writing skill” – The Guardian
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Your compere for the evening is recent star of ITV’s Dancing on Ice, Matt Richardson. Matt is a multi-award winning stand-up comedian, as well as being named Heat Magazine’s Weird Crush of the Year in 2014…
Matt is the former host of the Xtra Factor and has appeared on shows such as Nevermind The Buzzcocks, Celebrity Juice and Pointless Celebrities.
????? “An explosive show that left people with bellies aching from laughter” – Voice
This show is not to be missed!
STRICTLY OVER 18s ONLY.
Please note that the line-up may be subject to change without notice.
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PLEASE NOTE …
• Any customers continually disrupting the show, using their mobile phones, heckling, shouting out or talking WILL be asked to leave.
• Line-ups are correct at time of purchase, but may be subject to change. No refunds will be offered for changes to the line-up but we will always endeavour to replace with like for like performers. Customers may not be notified of any changes made to shows with multiple comedians performing.
• Tickets are non-refundable, barring a full show cancellation. If a show is cancelled all tickets will be refunded in full.
• Ticket holders consent to the recording and filming of themselves as members of the audience.

Jimmy Carr: Laughs Funny
2025-02-13 19:30 - 21:00 | Royal and Derngate Theatre, 19-21 Guildhall Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DP
Jimmy Carr’s brand new live tour, Laughs Funny, is on sale now. Jimmy Carr laughs funny and he wants to make you laugh by being funny. All new material.

David O’Doherty: Tiny Piano Man
2025-02-20 20:00 | Royal and Derngate Theatre, 19-21 Guildhall Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DP
The dishevelled prince of €10 eBay keyboards tries to make you feel alive with a new pageant of laughter, song and occasionally getting up from a chair. It’s gonna be a big one. Star of 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Live at The Apollo, The Great Celebrity Bake Off 2024 and Along For the Ride with David O’Doherty.

New Material New Act Comedy
2025-02-20 20:00 - 22:30 | Saints Coffee, 62 St Giles' St, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1JW, United Kingdom
Saints Coffee

Comedy Crate at The Picturedrome
2025-03-06 20:00 - 22:30 | The Picturedrome, 222 Kettering Rd, Northampton, Northants, NN1 4BN, United Kingdom
Double Headliner
Bobby Mair
Originally from Canada, Bobby Mair is a uniquely talented stand up comedian that can set any comedy room ablaze. Winner of multiple comedy competitions, Bobby has opened for global touring comedians, including Bill Burr, Bill Maher, and Doug Stanhope.
Since moving to the UK, he has established himself as a stand out headliner with many TV appearances, including Roast Battle (Comedy Central), 8 Out of 10 Cats (Channel 4) and Russell Howard’s Good News (BBC Three).
He was also the host of the reality horror show, Killer Camp (ITV2), and starred in the reality sitcom, Bobby and Harriet: Get Married (Vice).
Charlie Baker
Charlie’s versatile talents as a stand-up comedian, actor, and highly acclaimed jazz-singer have seen him earn a reputation as ‘a superior take on the modern showman’ (Guardian). On screen, he has starred in countless shows including The Last Leg, Harry Hill’s Tea Time, Comedy Central at the Comedy Store, The Great British Bake-Off: An Extra Slice, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Richard Osman’s House of Games, Edinburgh Comedy Fest Live, The Dog Ate My Homework and Channel 4’s Comedy Gala. Charlie also starred in the leading role in Harry Hill’s Tony! The Tony Blair Rock Opera at London’s Park Theatre.
‘Quick and easy wit and energetic style’
The Leicester Mercury
Sarah Johnson
A fun, lively and stand-out act who always is a great addition to any line-up. In 2017 she was voted ‘Best Midlands Comedy Breakthrough Act’ as well as receiving a nomination for ‘Best New Show’ at Leicester Comedy Festival.
A proud and fierce mother and wife, Sarah harnesses the energy of the stresses of being organised and multitasking whilst funnelling it through the reality that our bodies and modern life are gross and therefore should be laughed at through a microphone to strangers.
Barry Dodds
He charms audiences with his unique brand of disarming wit and wry, and down-to-earth observational humour. Finalist in various high profile competitions such as Jimmy Carr’s Comedy Idol and Jongleurs Last Laugh Comedy Search.
Awarded ‘Best MC’ at the Midlands Comedy Awards 2016.
Supported Jason Manford on tour.

Charles Bradlaugh - March 13th
2025-03-13 20:00 | The Charles Bradlaugh, 1 Earl St, northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 3AU, United Kingdom
Venue: The Charles Bradlaugh 1, Earl Street, NN1 3AU.
Times: Doors 7pm â€“ Show 8pm
Featuring: Phil Nichol, Tony Law, Alexis Roy, Martin Westgate
Price: £13 NO Booking Fee
Line ups are subject to change.

Katherine Ryan: Battleaxe
2025-03-14 20:00 | Royal and Derngate Theatre, 19-21 Guildhall Road, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DP
Star of UKTV’s hugely popular new series Parental Guidance as well as Comedy Central’s upcoming Out of Order with Rosie Jones and Judi Love, TV’s beloved Katherine Ryan makes a hugely welcome return to the stage with her brand-new live show, Battleaxe, which will embark on a major UK and European tour in 2024.
Katherine is the creator and Star of Netflix’s smash hit The Duchess along with two global Netflix comedy specials: In Trouble and Glitter Room as well as 2022’s Missus on Sky / Now TV. She also hosted Backstage With Katherine Ryan for Amazon Prime and starred in Sky’s Romantic Getaway with Romesh Ranganathan. Get your tickets now to see a true masterclass in how to enter your Battleaxe era.
