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Comedy in London tonight and this week

Stand-up, improv and new material nights across London. The rooms above pubs are where the good stuff is; the arena shows are on here too when they are worth it.

What to expect

288 listings filed under Comedy. The busiest rooms are Museum of Comedy, JK Comedy Club Covent Garden and City Comedy Club. Concentrated in Soho, Bloomsbury and Covent Garden.

Nearby

Every listing here has been checked against the venue that is putting it on.

Saturday

24 October
  1. Comedy £16.50 plus £1.50 booking fee

    Hen & Chickens Theatre: Too Many Cuckoos

    19:30 to 21:00 Hen & Chickens Theatre, Islington

    A musician bets he can last a week without his credit card, and when busking fails on the first day his friends get dragged in.

Tuesday

27 October
  1. Comedy £12.50

    The Bill Murray: Material Girls Comedy

    20:00 The Bill Murray, Islington

    Material Girls Comedy at the Bill Murray, on stage 20:00. Angel Comedy's ticketed room, round the corner from the free one at the Camden Head.

Monday

2 November
  1. Comedy £13 plus booking fee

    Hen & Chickens Theatre: Shake it Up: The Improvised Shakespeare Show

    19:30 Hen & Chickens Theatre, Islington

    ShakeItUp Theatre improvise a brand new Shakespeare play in the Bard's own language, built from audience suggestions.

Wednesday

4 November
  1. Comedy £12.56 Sold out

    The Bill Murray: Pernille Haaland: Nordic AF

    18:30 The Bill Murray, Islington

    Pernille Haaland: Nordic AF at the Bill Murray, on stage 18:30. Angel Comedy's ticketed room, round the corner from the free one at the Camden Head.

Tuesday

10 November
  1. Comedy £9.50 plus booking fee

    Hen & Chickens Theatre: Lonely Stupid Violent

    21:30 to 22:30 Hen & Chickens Theatre, Islington

    Frankie Browne's debut stand-up hour, on intrusive thoughts, bad eyesight and anxieties about life online.

Wednesday

11 November
  1. Comedy £9.50 plus booking fee

    Hen & Chickens Theatre: Lonely Stupid Violent

    21:30 to 22:30 Hen & Chickens Theatre, Islington

    Frankie Browne's debut stand-up hour, on intrusive thoughts, bad eyesight and anxieties about life online.

Friday

13 November
  1. Comedy £9.50 plus booking fee

    Hen & Chickens Theatre: Lonely Stupid Violent

    21:30 to 22:30 Hen & Chickens Theatre, Islington

    Frankie Browne's debut stand-up hour, on intrusive thoughts, bad eyesight and anxieties about life online.

Monday

7 December
  1. Comedy £13 plus booking fee

    Hen & Chickens Theatre: Shake it Up: The Improvised Shakespeare Show

    19:30 Hen & Chickens Theatre, Islington

    ShakeItUp Theatre improvise a brand new Shakespeare play in the Bard's own language, built from audience suggestions.

Tuesday

8 December
  1. Comedy £15 plus booking fee

    Hen & Chickens Theatre: The Wild Geese Unplucked

    19:00 to 21:30 Hen & Chickens Theatre, Islington

    David Kitchen, a fan since 1983, on why the 1978 Richard Burton and Roger Moore film The Wild Geese is so underrated.

Sunday

13 December
  1. Comedy £15 plus booking fee

    Hen & Chickens Theatre: The Wild Geese Unplucked

    19:00 to 21:30 Hen & Chickens Theatre, Islington

    David Kitchen, a fan since 1983, on why the 1978 Richard Burton and Roger Moore film The Wild Geese is so underrated.

Sunday

20 December
  1. Comedy £14, concessions £12, plus booking fee

    Hen & Chickens Theatre: Ugly Little Love Songs

    19:30 to 20:30 Hen & Chickens Theatre, Islington

    The first outing of Ugly Little Love Songs, billed as a veritable cornucopia of amorous malaise.

Monday

21 December
  1. Comedy £9.50 plus booking fee

    Hen & Chickens Theatre: Nathan Cassidy: The Unbearable Tragedy of Being Happy

    19:30 to 20:30 Hen & Chickens Theatre, Islington

    Nathan Cassidy attempts a stand-up show about being happy, which he counts as a disaster for a comedian.