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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.

Friday

6 November
  1. Comedy £14.25

    Museum of Comedy: New Comedian of the Year 2026 Quarter Final

    19:00 to 21:00 Museum of Comedy, Bloomsbury

    A quarter final of Leicester Square Theatre's New Comedian of the Year: the acts who got through the heats. Age 16+.

  2. Comedy

    City Comedy Club: Friday night, 8pm

    20:00 to 21:30 City Comedy Club, Shoreditch

    A drink is included in the ticket, alcoholic or not. Seating is allocated, so you are shown to a seat rather than fighting for one. Doors half an hour before, over 18s, ID checked.

  3. Comedy Late

    City Comedy Club: the late show, 10pm

    22:00 to 23:30 City Comedy Club, Shoreditch

    The late one. An hour straight through with no break, which is the format that suits a room this size after ten at night. Doors half an hour before, over 18s, ID checked.

Saturday

7 November
  1. Comedy £15

    JK Comedy Club Soho: Saturday afternoon comedy

    16:00 to 17:45 JK Comedy Club Soho, Soho

    A host and four professional comedians, a new bill every week. Sixty seats above the Spice of Life, two minutes from Leicester Square. Doors fifteen minutes before, over 18s, ID on the door.

  2. Comedy £15

    JK Comedy Club Covent Garden: Saturday night comedy

    20:00 to 21:45 JK Comedy Club Covent Garden, Covent Garden

    A host and four professional comedians, a new bill every week. Two hundred seats at Arboretum, and doors open a full hour before, so there is time to eat first. Over 18s, ID on the door.

  3. Comedy £15

    JK Comedy Club Piccadilly Circus: Saturday night comedy

    20:30 to 22:15 JK Comedy Club Piccadilly Circus, Soho

    A host and four professional comedians, a new bill every week. Fifty seats at BOX Piccadilly, about as central as a comedy room gets. Doors fifteen minutes before, over 18s, ID on the door.

  4. Comedy £16 advance, £19 on the door

    Downstairs at the King’s Head: Comedy Cabaret

    20:30 Downstairs at the King's Head, Crouch End

    Joe Bor, Liam McGough, Maureen Langan (US), Paul F Taylor and Philip Simon, with Windsor compering the Saturday bill.

  5. Comedy £29.90

    Museum of Comedy: Gary Faulds: Panic at the Midlife Disco

    19:00 to 21:20 Museum of Comedy, Bloomsbury

    The Glaswegian comedian on the midlife crisis as it actually arrives: children getting older, the waistline going, and mortality moving into view. On stage 19:00. Age 16+.

  6. Comedy

    City Comedy Club: Saturday brunch show, 4pm

    16:00 to 17:30 City Comedy Club, Shoreditch

    A one hour set with no interval and drinks included, which makes it the rare comedy show you can do in the afternoon and still have an evening. Doors half an hour before, over 18s, ID checked.

  7. Comedy

    City Comedy Club: Saturday night, 6pm

    18:00 to 19:30 City Comedy Club, Shoreditch

    A drink is included in the ticket, alcoholic or not. Seating is allocated, so you are shown to a seat rather than fighting for one. Doors half an hour before, over 18s, ID checked.

  8. Comedy

    City Comedy Club: Saturday night, 8pm

    20:00 to 21:30 City Comedy Club, Shoreditch

    A drink is included in the ticket, alcoholic or not. Seating is allocated, so you are shown to a seat rather than fighting for one. Doors half an hour before, over 18s, ID checked.

  9. Comedy Late

    City Comedy Club: the late show, 10pm

    22:00 to 23:30 City Comedy Club, Shoreditch

    The late one. An hour straight through with no break, which is the format that suits a room this size after ten at night. Doors half an hour before, over 18s, ID checked.