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Saturday 21 December - Hen & Chicken Studio
8.30pm (doors 7.45pm)  - Tickets from £16 each

Stand Up For The Weekend with ROB DEERING

and GUESTS

Stand Up For The Weekend is our flagship weekly comedy show featuring top circuit headliners and guest acts plus incredibly funny and engaging comperes who host the show. A choice of table seats, reserved row seats and unreserved row seats are available to book online.
Saturday 28 December - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)

The End Of The Year Show with MARK WATSON

and GUESTS

Pioneer of the 24 hour and 36 hour non-stop stand-up shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, novelist, Taskmaster runner-up, Mark Watson is the man who never sleeps, and if he does he invariably wakes up with a brand new stand up show. Tonight he will be showcasing new material ahead of an Australian tour in the spring.
Saturday 4 January - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets from £16

Stand Up For The Weekend with FINLAY CHRISTIE

and GUESTS

Stand Up For The Weekend is our flagship weekly comedy show featuring top circuit headliners and guest acts plus incredibly funny and engaging comperes who host the show. A choice of table seats, reserved row seats and unreserved row seats are available to book online.
Saturday 11 January - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets from £16

Stand Up For The Weekend with RIA LINA

and GUESTS

Stand Up For The Weekend is our flagship weekly comedy show featuring top circuit headliners and guest acts plus incredibly funny and engaging comperes who host the show. A choice of table seats, reserved row seats and unreserved row seats are available to book online.
Saturday 18 January - Hen & Chicken Studio
8.15pm (doors 7.30pm)  - Tickets from £16

Stand Up For The Weekend with THOMAS GREEN

and GUESTS

Stand Up For The Weekend is our flagship weekly comedy show featuring top circuit headliners and guest acts plus incredibly funny and engaging comperes who host the show. A choice of table seats, reserved row seats and unreserved row seats are available to book online.
Saturday 25 January - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets from £16

Stand Up For The Weekend with SARA BARRON

and GUESTS

Stand Up For The Weekend is our flagship comedy show featuring top circuit headliners and guest acts plus incredibly funny and engaging comperes who host the show. A choice of table seats, reserved row seats and unreserved row seats are available to book online.
Friday 31 January - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £17.50 inc fees

RAY O'LEARY

YOUR LAUGHTER IS JUST MAKING ME STRONGER

The deadpan Ray O’Leary (Taskmaster NZ) is a big brain in an ill-fitting suit. Every time he does stand-up and people laugh, he gets stronger. Soon he will be the most powerful man in the universe. When the show ends, he’ll be able to lift a car above his head.
Saturday 1 February - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets from £16

Stand Up For The Weekend with GARRETT MILLERICK

and GUESTS

Stand Up For The Weekend is our flagship weekly comedy show featuring top circuit headliners and guest acts plus incredibly funny and engaging comperes who host the show. A choice of table seats, reserved row seats and unreserved row seats are available to book online.
Sunday 2 February - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £22 inc fees

IGNACIO LOPEZ

SEÑOR SELF DESTRUCT

Spain’s Best Export(TM) Ignacio Lopez is on a mission to destroy himself, and build a better version; Leaner. Smarter. Funnier. Join the star of Live At The Apollo, Have I Got News For You, Comedy Central, QI, House of Games, & more, for a riotously funny exploration of vices, intrusive thoughts, and self improvement.
Wednesday 5 February - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £16 inc fees

MARJOLEIN ROBERTSON

O

A show about the body. Marjolein Robertson embarks on the second instalment of her standup trilogy by looking at a health condition that, left unspoken about in the past, was almost fatal. Now, shaking off the shame and armed with knowledge, Marjolein talks through menstrual health with humour and another Shetland folktale.
Friday 7 February - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £27.50 inc fees

PAUL TAYLOR

F*** ME, I'M FRENCH

Paul Taylor makes fun of the French and they love it. Or they tell him to f*** off back to England! After 3 sell-out bilingual world tours, Paul shares his story of being a British expat in France, this time 100% in English. Hold onto your berets!
Saturday 8 February - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets from £16

Stand Up For The Weekend with ROGER MONKHOUSE

and GUESTS

Stand Up For The Weekend is our flagship weekly comedy show featuring top circuit headliners and guest acts plus incredibly funny and engaging comperes who host the show. A choice of table seats, reserved row seats and unreserved row seats are available to book online.
Sunday 9 February - Hen & Chicken Studio
7.30pm (doors 6.45pm)  - Tickets £18 inc fees

ALICE FRASER

A PASSION FOR PASSION

Alice Fraser has fallen in love… with romance novels. She’s written a delirious love letter to the genre and now she has to live with the consequences. If you love romance novels, or if you have no idea how anyone could love romance novels, this is the show for you.
Thursday 13 February - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £22 inc fees

ROB NEWMAN

WHERE THE WILD THINGS WERE

Rob Newman's epic stand-up show goes from cave paintings to car-free cities, by way of Imperial Rome's chariot ban, Rapper’s Remorse, and the dance steps of Homo Ergaster.
Saturday 15 February - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets from £16

Stand Up For The Weekend with STEVE BUGEJA

and GUESTS

Stand Up For The Weekend is our weekly flagship comedy show featuring top circuit headliners and guest acts plus incredibly funny and engaging comperes who host the show. A choice of table seats, reserved row seats and unreserved row seats are available to book online.
Sunday 16 February - Hen & Chicken Studio
8.15pm (doors 7.30pm)  - Tickets £22 inc fees

RICHARD BLACKWOOD: LIVE

Richard Blackwood brings his jam packed hour of pure heavyweight punchlines and anecdotes. Get set for a night that's not just comedy – it's a rollercoaster of laughter, stories, and a sneak peek into Richard's incredible 30-year journey.
Thursday 20 February - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £18.50 inc fees

CONNOR BURNS

1994

From one of the most exciting emerging new stars in the UK’s live stand-up scene,1994 is Edinburgh native’s Connor Burns third solo hour. A prolific joke writer, his Scottish-level cynicism and self-deprecation punctuates a disarmingly relaxed persona and an intelligent, razor-sharp wit.
Saturday 22 February - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets from £16

Stand Up For The Weekend with LINDSEY SANTORO

and GUESTS

Stand Up For The Weekend is our weekly flagship comedy show featuring top circuit headliners and guest acts plus incredibly funny and engaging comperes who host the show. A choice of table seats, reserved row seats and unreserved row seats are available to book online.
Wednesday 26 February - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £17.50 inc fees

MELANIE BRACEWELL

ATTACK OF THE MELANIE BRACEWELL

Fresh off a sell-out Edinburgh Fringe run, Melanie Bracewell is taking her show “Attack of The Melanie Bracewell” around the UK! This is a story of revenge. A story of justice. Mostly, it's Melanie's signature style of goofy, punchline-heavy comedy that has earned her sell-out shows all around the world. But also the revenge bit.
Sunday 2 March - Hen & Chicken Studio
4pm (doors 3.15pm)  - Tickets £19 inc fees

MATT FORDE

END OF AN ERA TOUR

Finally, the UK has a new government. That can only mean one thing: new people to take the piss out of. Leading political comedian and satirist Matt Forde (British Scandal, Spitting Image, The Last Leg) makes this his personal mission.
Thursday 6 March - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £22 inc fees

SHABAZ ALI

I'M RICH, YOU'RE POOR

Join Shabaz Ali as he takes to the stage in his debut live comedy tour. Jam packed with his roaring, on point and hugely requested observations of the mindboggling lengths that are taken to present a ‘perfect’ life online.
Friday 7 March - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £16 inc fees

JAKE LAMBERT

THE SUNSHINE KID

Jake Lambert returns to Bristol for a second date on his first national tour. Described as "A joke machine" by The Telegraph, the show will see the comedian talk about trying to navigate his way through everyday life, why he has a fear of being normal, and asking why we all feel the need to ask strangers what breed their dogs are.
Sunday 23 March - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £20 inc fees

ESHAAN AKBAR

LIVE 2025

Eshaan Akbar is back doing jokes on tour! Eshaan’s previous tour, the Pretender, was described by The Times as “pretty sick” (not an actual quote) so this one is likely to be mad good.
Friday 28 March - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)

SCOTT BENNETT

STUFF

Award-winning Comedian and Award-winning Product Designer, Scott Bennett is desperately trying to cleanse his life of stuff, but is this even possible anymore? As heard on BBC Radio 4!
Wednesday 2 April - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £17.50 inc fees

SIMON MUNNERY

ON TOUR

Simon Munnery – ‘one of the all-time great British stand-ups’ (Stewart Lee) – is back on tour in 2025. Expect all your classic Munnery one-liners, sketches and anecdotes from the British Comedy Award nominee, serial innovator and ‘Perennial fringe maverick’ (The Guardian).
Thursday 3 April - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £20 inc fees

RIONA O'CONNOR & OLGA THOMPSON

THIS IS ALL TOO MUCH

The Irish & Greek comedy sensations are finally leaving their couches after 8pm to bring you their brand new shows! With over 1 million followers, a writers award and viral videos by the bucket load, these West End and Hit Edinburgh Fringe ladies will make you laugh 'til you leak.
Thursday 10 April - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £19.50 inc fees

MRS SMITH

SEE ME!

Ever wondered what your teacher was thinking? Let Facebook's Mrs Smith enlighten you! Following her sellout debut at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2023 she is stepping out from behind her mask of anonymity on tour, and is ready to tell all....
Friday 11 April - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £19 inc fees

RACHEL FAIRBURN

SIDE EYE

Rachel Fairburn, star of Live at the Apollo and co-host of All Killa No Filla, is a renowned stand up and “rock’n’roll star of British Comedy” Rolling Stone, is bringing not only her (“Bright, brave and bitterly enjoyable” The Skinny) stand-up comedy out on the road but also some brand-new characters along for the ride.
Sunday 13 April - Hen & Chicken Studio
7.30pm (doors 6.45pm)  - Tickets £19 inc fees

NABIL ABDULRASHID

URBAN BATTUTA

Award-winning, international touring comedian Nabil Abdulrashid returns with a riotous new stand-up show. As seen on Live at the Apollo, Have I Got News For You, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and the Last Leg.
Thursday 17 April - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £17.50 inc fees

TOM LAWRINSON

BURIED ALIVE (AND LOVING IT)

Everything is awful but that’s okay, argues Tom Lawrinson in his ridiculously entertaining show about family and growing up in a Spanish subterranean cave. A show for siblings who shared a rubbish childhood and comedy fans alike.
Friday 2 May - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £18.50 inc fees

MC HAMMERSMITH

TOUR 2025

MC Hammersmith is the world's leading freestyle rapper to emerge from the ghetto of middle-class west London. He presents an evening of improvised comedy raps based on your suggestions.
Wednesday 21 May - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £17.50 inc fees

ABIGOLIAH SCHAMAUN

LEGALLY CHEEKY

Abigoliah Schamaun thought she had it all; the flat, the career, the life partner. This US transplant was living The American Dream...in London. Then one day, the Wicked Witch of Westminster, told Abigoliah to click her sparkly heels and go ‘home’. In that moment, everything changed. To lose would mean losing everything.
Thursday 22 May - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £16.50 inc fees

NATHAN CATON

MY BIG FAT BLASIAN WEDDING

It's official. Nathan Caton's married and off the market - sorry ladies... and gentlemen! What should've been the happiest time of his life turned out to be the most stressful and expensive time ever. The end result? Well, it was either therapy or turn it into comedy. Nathan chose the latter...
Thursday 29 May  - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £17 inc fees

JACK SKIPPER

SKINT

Carpet-fitter turned comedian Jack Skipper delivers his debut, Edinburgh Comedy Award nominated, stand-up hour with a show about how he went from a tradesman with no qualifications to a full-time comedian (with no qualifications) – offering insights into the endeavours of a working-class father struggling to navigate his way through life.
Friday 19 September - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £18 inc fees

CHRIS KENT

OFFLINE

Cork’s own Chris Kent returns with a brand new show ‘Offline’. He tries to give up the internet and navigate life without asking his phone what to eat, where to go or how to get home. He longs for a simpler time of playing ‘Snake’ and constructing emojis himself.
Friday 26 September - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £20 inc fees

STEPHEN BAILEY

TART

Star of BBC’s Live at the Apollo, Would I Lie To You? and Channel 5’s The Madame Blanc Mysteries, comedian and TV’s Stephen Bailey makes a very welcome return to the stage with his brand new live show, TART, touring in 2025.
Thursday 2 October - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £22 inc fees

SAM AVERY

THUNDERSTORM!

In his trademark punchy style, Sam Avery takes you on a whirlwind journey through the chaos of the modern world - from parenting disasters to culture wars, conspiracy theories to political morons.
Friday 10 October - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £18 inc fees

JOSH BAULF

LOVELY STUFF

After bursting on to the comedy scene with his razor-sharp wit and a string of viral videos, Josh Baulf embarks on his debut solo tour! With his trademark charm and killer punchlines, Josh delves into the hilarities of millennial life.
Thursday 6 November - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £24 inc fees

STEPHEN K AMOS

NOW WE'RE TALKING!

How good’s a laugh? My joke book is overflowing, so let’s get talking about what gives me the ick and what makes me tick. It’s time to get down to the nitty gritty. No filter, no limits.
Thursday 13 November - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £22 inc fees

NEIL DELAMERE

ACHILLES NEIL

Join Neil Delamere as he takes on life's absurdities in his own inimitable way. A celebration of the altogether too frequent weaknesses that make us human. Don't miss the hilarious Achilles Neil.
Friday 14 November - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £16.50 inc fees

ELLIOT STEEL

SOFT BOI CORE

Elliot Steel returns with more of his biting wit and trademark dark sense of humour about the hellish year he, and humanity, has had. Seen on Comedy Central's Roast Battle and Comedy Central at the Comedy Store.
Thursday 20 November - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £21.50 inc fees

TOM HOUGHTON

DEEP

After a phenomenal, sold-out, international tour. Plus, a second round of supporting Milton Jones. The man who asked us, “Do you ski?” is turning everything upside down and asking, “Do you scuba?”