Thursday 7 November - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £17 inc fees

SOOZ KEMPNER

CLASS OF 2000

The award-winning, viral sensation is hitting the road with a brand-new tour bringing together her sell out fringe 2023 hit and it’s much anticipated 2024 follow up.
Friday 8 November - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £16 inc fees

IAN STONE

IAN STONE IS KEEPING IT TOGETHER

Ian Stone is a hugely experienced broadcaster, podcaster, writer and a brilliantly funny comedian. His new show Ian Stone Is Keeping It Together is his debut tour after producing multiple solo shows for the Edinburgh Fringe.
Saturday 9 November - Hen & Chicken Studio
8.30pm (doors 7.45pm)  - Tickets from £16 each

Stand Up For The Weekend with STUART GOLDSMITH

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 10 November - Hen & Chicken Studio
4pm & 8pm

AURIE STYLA

THE AURATOR TOUR

EXTRA SHOW DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND - After a year of performing worldwide, award-winning comedian Aurie Styla is back on tour, with his biggest one to date. Join him as he talks about this wild world, and his journey to make sense of it, in The Aurator!
Wednesday 13 November - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)

ALI WOODS

AT THE MOMENT

Award-winning stand-up comedian and multi-viral online sketch sensation Ali Woods comes to Bristol on his debut stand-up tour!
Thursday 14 November - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £20 inc fees

MARK THOMAS

GAFFA TAPES

Jokes, rants, politics, play and the occasional sing song from veteran award-winning, political commentator, agitator and comedian, Mark Thomas. If you don’t know what he does ask your parents.
Friday 15 November - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £21.50 inc fees

LUCY PORTER

NO REGRETS

The irrepressible Lucy Porter bounces back into action with a show all about regrets. Frank Sinatra had too few to mention, but Lucy’s got hundreds, and she’s prepared to go into graphic detail about all of them. Disastrous dates, professional calamities, ruined friendships and parenting fails.
Saturday 16 November - Hen & Chicken Studio
8.30pm (doors 7.45pm)  - Tickets from £16 each

Stand Up For The Weekend with MATT STELLINGWERF

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.
Friday 22 November - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £16 inc fees

ROBIN MORGAN

THE SPARK

As featured on BBC Two’s Mock The Week and BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz, Robin Morgan is back on the road with a hilarious brand new show, The Spark - his biggest tour to date.
Saturday 23 November - Hen & Chicken Studio
8.30pm (doors 7.45pm)  - Tickets from £16 each

Stand Up For The Weekend with ERICH McELROY

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 entire show. A choice of table seats, reserved row seats and unreserved row seats are available to book online.
Sunday 24 November - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £20 inc fees

MARK THOMAS

GAFFA TAPES

Jokes, rants, politics, play and the occasional sing song from veteran award-winning, political commentator, agitator and comedian, Mark Thomas. If you don’t know what he does ask your parents.
Friday 29 November - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)  - Tickets £18.50 inc fees

CARL HUTCHINSON

TODAY YEARS OLD

What has quickly become an annual tradition, Carl Hutchinson is back for a third consecutive back-to-back tour. His storytelling skills AND ability to hold an audience is second to none.
Saturday 30 November - Hen & Chicken Studio
8.30pm (doors 7.45pm)  - Tickets from £16 each

Stand Up For The Weekend with PAUL McCAFFREY

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 1 December - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)

JEFF INNOCENT

SMART CASUAL

EXTRA DATE DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND - British Comedian of the Year Winner and social media sensation Jeff Innocent is embarking on his first ever nationwide UK tour. Highly anticipated and long overdue. This will be an hour of standup comedy that you do not want to miss.
Saturday 7 December - Hen & Chicken Studio
8.30pm (doors 7.45pm)  - Tickets from £16 each

Stand Up For The Weekend with ANDREW BIRD

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

Stand Up For The Weekend with RACHEL FAIRBURN

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 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)  - Tickets £18 & £21

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)

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!
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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?”