SaturdaY 15TH JUNE
show listings
East Hastings Sea Angling Association and Social Club
7:30pm Jeff Innocent: Smart Casual Tour
This years British Comedian of the Year Winner and social media sensation Jeff Innocent has embarked on his first ever nationwide UK tour and he will be performing his show Smart Casual to Hastings Comedy Festival for a one-off impromptu show. Jeff is bringing his unique and hilarious cultural insights on the road for the first time in a career that has spanned almost three decades and earned him a reputation as one of the greatest living comedians the country has to offer. Highly anticipated and long overdue. This will be an hour of standup comedy that you do not want to miss. "It should be made law that every British Citizen must go and see Jeff Innocent. He's that funny." Evening Standard "Jeff Innocent delivers a masterclass in stand up comedy every time he performs” The Times Presented by LDN Comedy.
Book online to reserve seat for £18
6:15pm Jack Hester: I Am Napoleon
The story of Napolean is the greatest story in human history. The French revolution began in 1789 and ended in 1799, it was caused by social and econimic inequality, a regressive tax regime and a rich elite who refused to pay taxes to help out their improvished fellow citizens. Rich people who will not pay taxes, that sounds familiar!After ten years of bloody bitterness and terror, with France on the verge of collapse, Napolean rose to power, united the Country and built an empire. If Brexit was a modern day British revolution who will reunite the leavers and remainers? Who will be our Napolean? Jack Hester believes he can.
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Kids comedy at THE observer building
11am Jeddy Bears and Gary's Chemistry of Chaos
Multi award Nominated for ‘Best Kids Show’ at the Leicester Comedy Festival & UK Kids’ Comedy Festival awards, Hull’s comedy duo is ready to unleash a spectacle unlike anything you’ve ever witnessed with their brand new show! Expect a Chemistry of Chaos as Jeddy Bear and Gary delve headfirst into the insanity of science and test out their newfound science knowledge and skills. This will be no experiment, buckle up for mischief galore and be prepared to be swept away on a joyous roller coaster ride of merriment, games, world record attempts and pie facing madness, well what else would you expect from these festival favourites?!! Suitable for children aged 3+, accompanied by an adult.
Tickets £3
1pm El Baldiniho’s Magic Show and Workshop for Kids
Join the big funny magic man , star of Britain’s Got Talent, ITV2 and TNT Sports as he performs his comedy magic show followed by a magic workshop for children and families. Learn to do some amazing simple tricks and take them home to impress your friends and schoolmates. “He’s a gag machine!- Stephen Mulhern “I love silly stuff.. 4 yeses”- Simon Cowell This show is followed by El Baldiniho’s Comedy Workshop FREE with every purchased ticket Suitable for children aged 6+, accompanied by an adult.
Tickets £3
THE crypt
2pm Hastings Comedy Festival Newcomer of 2024 ''The Norman Award''
The Hastings Comedy Festival Newcomer of the year is back for 2024 as 8 of the best emerging comedians from the UK comedy scene take to the stage for a fantastic event of live comedy hosted by Award Winning Comedian, BBC writer, MC, and partial human Barry Ferns
Join us to see who will win this years Norman award and get to wear the prestigious 1066 battle helmet
Previous winners include Dan Harding, Sam Lake, Russell Arathoon, Michael Odewale & Matt Rouse
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8pm The RH Experience
The RH Experience are returning to Hastings Comedy Festival to celebrate their 15th year performing together with a show packed full of their unique blend of anarchic silliness and bizarre storytelling. Entirely improvised, each show is completely different, featuring sketches and songs all made up on the spot, never seen before, never seen again! Between them they have performed at Glastonbury and Latitude Festivals, Edinburgh, Brighton and Hastings Fringes, and have featured on BBC One, BBC Radio 4 & E4.
"The RH Experience are not the pioneers of tomfoolery: they are the masters" - Three Weeks ★★★★★
"A masterful, magical adventure from truly gifted improvisers" - JokePit ★★★★★
"Their sheer amount of brainpower and comedic instinct led to hilarity" - TenEighty Magazine ★★★★★
"Absurd and tear-inducingly funny" - Broadway Baby ★★★★
"Colourful, witty and dynamic" - Mumble ★★★★
"These pioneers of tomfoolery make us laugh to the point of exhaustion" - The405
Book online to reserve seat for £7 plus small booking fee/ £8.50 on the door
ELECTRIC PALACE
7:30pm Kyrah Gray (Work in Progress)
Kyrah Gray, fresh from performing in the Pleasance Reserve at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, serves up exciting new material. A finalist in 2Northdown's New Comedy of the Year Competition 2022, Kyrah recently performed as part of Comedy Central Live's digital series and O2 as part of Mo Gilligan's Black British Takeover.
Book online to reserve seat for £7/£8.50 on the door
8:45pm Jordan Brookes: (Work in Progress)
A new work-in-progress show from the longest reigning Edinburgh Comedy Award winner (2019-2021). Expect the usual mix of stand-up, clowning and utterly stupid ideas presented as if they mean anything. ‘Profound and disgusting’ ★★★★ The Skinny ‘Majestic and challenging.’ ★★★★★ List ‘Demolishes the conventions of comedy’★★★★ Guardian
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10pm Frankie Monroe
Winner -2023 BBC New Comedian Of The Year Here he is. For one night only! Can Frankie Monroe save showbiz?? Join Frankie Monroe owner and resident MC at The Misty Moon Social Club (a working men's club in Rotherham which is also a portal to hell) for a slap up feast of laughs, tricks and mucky bitter. Frankie Monroe is the debut show from the multi-award winning character comedian Joe Kent-Walters, one of Yorkshire’s finest alternative comedy acts. 2021 Chortle Student Comedy Award. "Mesmerising and unpredictable presence" Chortle
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JENNY LINd
2:30pm No Regrets
An improv group about missed opportunities. Whether it’s the road less travelled, your lost love, or that tattoo of Barbara Windsor, bring us your missed opportunities and we will show you how your alternate timeline turned out. By the power of improv, No Regrets bend the laws of time and free will to recycle your unlived lives into a great afternoon out.
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3:45pm Mike Shephard and Luke Connell: State of This
Britain’s in a right old state and bespectacled satirists Mike Shephard and Luke Connell are just the wrong men to sort it all out. Join them for an hour of silliness meandering through Britain’s past, politics and pickled eggs. Mike writes for BBC Radio and TV Comedy, including Have I Got News for You, the Now Show and the News Quiz. Luke is fresh from his debut Edinburgh Festival stand-up comedy show (**** “a lovely stage presence…this is awesome”).
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5pm Kitty Cassis: Sitting Pretty with Kitty
Everyone’s favourite Northern agony aunt ‘Kitty Cassis’ will be travelling down on the Megabus, bringing with her a vanity case full of gossip and gory details. Beautician to the stars, (if by stars you mean Deidre with the beard who works on the bins). Expect camp character comedy, hilarious parody songs and to leave with your cheeks hurting. “a vision in leopard print.. glimpses of early Caroline Aherne..” Chortle
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6:15pm Nick Elleray: Sassy Unit
Nick Elleray is an award-winning comic and he has made this show just for you. Now, if someone made you a cake, you’d be a bit of a dick to just decline it, wouldn’t you? Clearly the polite thing to do here is to buy a ticket.
3 time nominee for the BBC New Comedy Award. Finalist in Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2022.
(It cannot be emphasised strongly enough that there will not be any cake at this show.)
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7:30pm Jin Hao Li: (Work in Progress)
A work in progress from Chortle Student Awards and BBC New Comedy Awards loser Jin Hao Li. Journey into a world of gritty softness, dry wit and stories from the surreal. “Now here is a guy to watch” One4Review “Served up the unexpected” Chortle
“Had the crowd wrapped around his finger” The Saint
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8:45pm Get Real in Relationships With Dr Sheryl
Dr Sheryl is the best-selling author of Get Him to Dump YOU, Don’t Date, Aggravate and The Lovers Guide to a Successful Toxic Relationship.
Dr Sheryl is the world’s most famous relationship expert and will provide invaluable and no-nonsense advice if you are in a relationship, single and looking for love or not single and wish you were.
Her controversial techniques are demonstrated with audience participation and one lucky couple will be jetted off for a date in the Maldives
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10pm Paul Merryck: Ambulance For One
Paul Merryck re-emerges from the Essex Swamplands with a new show that will cleverly deconstruct the dialectic of modern stand-up comedy, by a telling a lot of stupid jokes and daft short stories, tenuously held together by the narrative thread of a crap middle-aged bloke who spends his life in the pub.
Is it character comedy? Yes, it is, as ‘Paul Merryck’ is the complex comedic construct of comedian Paul Merryck, who in a devotion to method acting techniques hitherto unknown within the lower echelons of the UK Comedy Circuit, has spent the last 40 years of his life being an utterly useless bastard, only in order to be true to his art and bring you ‘Paul Merryck’.
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pump house
5pm Aidan Goatley
Aged 18, comedian Aidan Goatley woke up with his first tattoo which prominently displayed the name ‘Edith’ and he has no idea why.
Who was Edith? After 34 years, Aidan thinks he’s found the answer in a story that involves, self-harm, survival and rather surprisingly, too many Jason Statham films.
The Winner of the ‘Best Comedy Show’ at the 2023 Buxton fringe and creator of the worldwide fringe hit ’10 Films with my Dad’ returns with a brand-new show which talks openly about a difficult subject while adding enough jokes to show how he presents ‘positive heart-warming comedy like no one else is doing.’ - Romesh Ranganathan
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6:15pm Louise Atkinson: She’s Got The Look (Work in Progress)
Winner of the Amused Moose Best Debut Show, nominee for NextUp! biggest Award in Comedy & nominee for Comedians Choice Award, Louise Atkinson brings you a show about how we falsely perceive people based on how they look. 'Her innate funny bones reassure you that you’re in safe hands.' -Chortle -'Reminiscent of Victoria Wood & Peter Kay.' - Stuart Maconie 'An instantly likeable comic.' - The Arts Desk
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the good place
7:30pm Rebekka Turner: Bexual Healing
Bexual Healing is a show of time travelling hijinks as we come across four unlikely socially awkward female characters from the 1920s-1990s. Each one struggles with a neurodiverse stereotype n one way or another, each one looking for acceptance. Bex’s Chainsaw Moussaka was the main course, this is the After 8 Bint! "Rebekka Turner plays several highly funny characters with a 'League of Gentlemen' edge." Simon Topping, Extra Topping Comedy, 2023. "Darkly nonsensical". The Londonist 2021.
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8:45pm Will Rowland: Masterpiece in Progress
The New Comedian of the Year finalist and co-creator of Crizards (**** The Guardian) uncurls from his sleeping spot in the airing cupboard to ponder life's most pressing issues: the decline of civilisation, the degradation of the natural world, and the dwindling acceptance of invitations to his birthday barbeques. Praise for Crizards: ★★★★ The Telegraph ★★★★ Broadway Baby ★★★★ The List ★★★★ Entertainment Focus ★★★★ The Skinny ★★★★ Edinburgh Festivals Magazine ★★★★★ Broadway World ★★★★★ The Reviews Hub ★★★★★ EdFringeReview ★★★★★ North West End
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10pm James Tricky: Don’t Count On Me (Work in Progress)
What happens when a chartered accountant and maths graduate throws it all away for a comedy career? Join award winning new act James Trickey for 45 minutes of stand-up as he works towards a hotly anticipated debut show! Nominated for Best New Show at Leicester Comedy Festival. ‘Magnificent... Such well developed writing skills’ (Chortle.co.uk). ‘One to watch... naturally hilarious’ (edfringereview.com). BBC New Comedy Award Shortlist
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