Category: Comedy

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Wednesday 25 June 2025 Venue:  Theatre Royal     map   Comedy  •  Family  •  Theatre Address:   Jewry Street, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 8SB Telephone:  Box office: 01962 840440 Event:  Spy Movie: The Play! - 7.30pm - Agent Blonde has 24 hours to save the world. The only things standing in her way are dastardly villains, an outrageous plot, and… a lack of funding. When Hollywood rejects her script, a frustrated screenwriter invites you, an audience of producers, to a one-night-only presentation of The Greatest Spy Movie (n)Ever Made! From two of the minds behind The New Musketeers (Trinity Theatre) and stars of The Play That Goes Wrong and Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Spy Movie: The Play! is a new hilarious homage to Bond movies and fringe theatre suitable for the whole family. Venue's website:  theatreroyalwinchester.co.uk Venue's Facebook:   facebook.com/TRWinchester

Thursday 03 July 2025 Venue:  The Arc     map   Comedy  •  Theatre Address:   Jewry Street, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 8SB Telephone:  01962 398046 Event:  WORK IN PROGRESS: MARK THOMAS IN ORDINARY DECENT CRIMINAL - 7.30pm - Set in the years following the Strangeways Prison Riot, meet recovering addict Frankie, played by renowned political comedian Mark Thomas as he enters the brave new world of a liberal prison experiment. None of Frankie’s fellow convicts are what they seem. In the most unexpected of places, he discovers that the revolution is not dead. It’s just sleeping. A brand new play from the writer of the Fringe First winning England & Son and A Political History of Smack & Crack, Ed Edwards reunites with Mark Thomas to tell a tale of freedom, revolution and messy love. Paines Plough, Live Theatre, Theatre Royal Plymouth and Ellie Keel Productions in Venue's website:  arcwinchester.org.uk Venue's Facebook:   facebook.com/arcwinch

Friday 04 July 2025 Venue:  The Railway     map   Comedy Address:   3 St Pauls Hill, Winchester, Hampshire, SO22 5AE Telephone:  01962 867795 Event:  Paul McCaffrey – Live at The Railway - 8.30pm doors - A full show the hilariously funny Paul McCaffrey (As seen on Live at the Apollo, Russell Howards Good News and Comedy Central’s Stand up Central) Venue notes: ID is required on the door. Published times may be doors rather than start times, so please check the venue's website for full details, including age restrictions and accessibility. Venue's website:  railwayinn.pub Venue's Facebook:   facebook.com/railwayinnwinchester

Monday 07 July 2025 Venue:  The Lights     map   Comedy Address:   West Street, Andover, Hampshire, SP10 1AH Telephone:  Box office: 01264 368368 Event:  Sophie Duker and Kate Dolan - Before the Fringe 2025 - 8pm - Following on from last year’s inaugural comedy festival, The Lights is excited to bring some of the best and brightest comedians to the venue for the second ever Andover Comedy Festival. With many of the acts bringing their Edinburgh Fringe WIP shows to the stage. Venue's website:  thelights.org.uk Venue's Facebook:   facebook.com/thelightsandover

Tuesday 08 July 2025 Venue:  The Lights     map   Comedy Address:   West Street, Andover, Hampshire, SP10 1AH Telephone:  Box office: 01264 368368 Event:  Tom Rosenthal and Bella Hull - Before the Fringe 2025 - 8pm - Following on from last year’s inaugural comedy festival, The Lights is excited to bring some of the best and brightest comedians to the venue for the second ever Andover Comedy Festival. With many of the acts bringing their Edinburgh Fringe WIP shows to the stage. Venue's website:  thelights.org.uk Venue's Facebook:   facebook.com/thelightsandover

Wednesday 09 July 2025 Venue:  The Lights     map   Comedy Address:   West Street, Andover, Hampshire, SP10 1AH Telephone:  Box office: 01264 368368 Event:  Rob Auton and Marise Gaughan - Before the Fringe 2025 - 8pm - Following on from last year’s inaugural comedy festival, The Lights is excited to bring some of the best and brightest comedians to the venue for the second ever Andover Comedy Festival. With many of the acts bringing their Edinburgh Fringe WIP shows to the stage. Venue's website:  thelights.org.uk Venue's Facebook:   facebook.com/thelightsandover

Thursday 10 July 2025 Venue:  The Lights     map   Comedy Address:   West Street, Andover, Hampshire, SP10 1AH Telephone:  Box office: 01264 368368 Event:  Pierre Novellie and Jonny Pelham - Before the Fringe 2025 - 8pm - Following on from last year’s inaugural comedy festival, The Lights is excited to bring some of the best and brightest comedians to the venue for the second ever Andover Comedy Festival. With many of the acts bringing their Edinburgh Fringe WIP shows to the stage. Venue's website:  thelights.org.uk Venue's Facebook:   facebook.com/thelightsandover

Friday 11 July 2025 Venue:  The Lights     map   Comedy Address:   West Street, Andover, Hampshire, SP10 1AH Telephone:  Box office: 01264 368368 Event:  Chloe Petts and Glenn Moore - Before the Fringe 2025 - 8pm - Following on from last year’s inaugural comedy festival, The Lights is excited to bring some of the best and brightest comedians to the venue for the second ever Andover Comedy Festival. With many of the acts bringing their Edinburgh Fringe WIP shows to the stage. Venue's website:  thelights.org.uk Venue's Facebook:   facebook.com/thelightsandover

Wednesday 16 July 2025 Venue:  Theatre Royal     map   Comedy  •  Family  •  Theatre Address:   Jewry Street, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 8SB Telephone:  Box office: 01962 840440 Event:  A Midsummer Night's Dream - 7pm - Oddsocks return to Winchester with another high-energy, feel-good, family theatre show. Experience the magical and spectacular A Midsummer Night's Dream, performed in the company's inimitable fantastically funny style with live music, action and some outrageous hunting dogs! Four lovers run-off to the countryside where mysterious woodland creatures play tricks on them with hilarious results and when a troupe of amateur actors decide to rehearse in the woods the fairies intervention leads to bizarre and outrageous comedy. Venue's website:  theatreroyalwinchester.co.uk Venue's Facebook:   facebook.com/TRWinchester

Thursday 17 July 2025 Venue:  The Nutshell     map   Comedy  •  Theatre Address:   15 Kings Walk, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 8AF Telephone:  01962 808533 Event:  Discarded Nut Youth Theatre: Urinetown, The Musical - 7pm - An exhilarating, not-to-be missed experience…the funniest, most tuneful musical in town. Multi award-winning Urinetown is a hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself! Hilariously funny and touchingly honest, Urinetown provides a fresh perspective of one of our greatest art forms. Venue's website:  thenutshellwinchester.com Venue's Facebook:   facebook.com/thenutshellwinchester

Friday 18 July 2025 Venue:  The Nutshell     map   Comedy  •  Theatre Address:   15 Kings Walk, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 8AF Telephone:  01962 808533 Event:  Discarded Nut Youth Theatre: Urinetown, The Musical - 7pm - An exhilarating, not-to-be missed experience…the funniest, most tuneful musical in town. Multi award-winning Urinetown is a hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself! Hilariously funny and touchingly honest, Urinetown provides a fresh perspective of one of our greatest art forms. Venue's website:  thenutshellwinchester.com Venue's Facebook:   facebook.com/thenutshellwinchester

Saturday 19 July 2025 Venue:  The Nutshell     map   Comedy  •  Theatre Address:   15 Kings Walk, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 8AF Telephone:  01962 808533 Event:  Discarded Nut Youth Theatre: Urinetown, The Musical - 2pm & 7pm - An exhilarating, not-to-be missed experience…the funniest, most tuneful musical in town. Multi award-winning Urinetown is a hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and musical theatre itself! Hilariously funny and touchingly honest, Urinetown provides a fresh perspective of one of our greatest art forms. Venue's website:  thenutshellwinchester.com Venue's Facebook:   facebook.com/thenutshellwinchester

Friday 25 July 2025 Venue:  The Nutshell     map   Burlesque  •  Comedy  •  Special interest Address:   15 Kings Walk, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 8AF Telephone:  01962 808533 Event:  Curiosity Club: Legs Eleven: Burlesque Bingo Show - 7.30pm - Get ready for the tease of your life as burlesque meets bingo in an evening of glamour, giggles and guaranteed, gorgeous surprises. Expect liberation, laughter and a little bit of luck as we fling off more than just our inhibitions. With some very titillating prizes to be won and more Saturday Night party than you can shake a very sexy stick at, you’d be a fool to miss out on this chance to become a part of the tantalising world of burlesque bingo. Hold on to your hats and the edge of your seats! Venue's website:  thenutshellwinchester.com Venue's Facebook:   facebook.com/thenutshellwinchester

Saturday 09 August 2025 Venue:  Theatre Royal     map   Comedy  •  Family Address:   Jewry Street, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 8SB Telephone:  Box office: 01962 840440 Event:  Horrible Histories: Gorgeous Georgians & Vile Victorians - 1.30pm & 4.30pm - We all want to meet people from history! The trouble is everyone is dead! So it's time to prepare for Horrible Histories live on stage with the acclaimed production of Gorgeous Georgians and Vile Victorians! Are you ready to swing with a Georgian king? Does the Duke of Wellington get the boot? Would you stand and deliver to dastardly Dick Turpin? Can you help detectives find the headless man? Dare you dance the Tyburn jig? Will you be saved by Florence Nightingale? Find out what a baby farmer did and move to the groove with party Queen Victoria! Don't miss this horrible history of Britain with the nasty bits left in! Venue's website:  theatreroyalwinchester.co.uk Venue's Facebook:   facebook.com/TRWinchester

Thursday 04 September 2025 Venue:  The Lights     map   Comedy  •  Theatre Address:   West Street, Andover, Hampshire, SP10 1AH Telephone:  Box office: 01264 368368 Event:  The Pantaloons - Hamlet - 7.30pm - Join the critically-acclaimed Pantaloons Theatre Company as they put on a frantic disposition to tackle Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy in their own anarchic style. When he discovers that his uncle has murdered his father, married his mother and traitorously taken the crown of Denmark there’s only one course of action for Hamlet: feign madness, frequently monologue and take swift revenge. But outrageous fortune has other plans for the poor Prince of Denmark... With live music, audience interaction, brevity-boosting abridgements, comic turns and tragic twists there’s only one question: To be there, or to be square? Venue's website:  thelights.org.uk Venue's Facebook:   facebook.com/thelightsandover

Thursday 11 September 2025 Venue:  The Arc     map   Comedy Address:   Jewry Street, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 8SB Telephone:  01962 398046 Event:  TOM HOUGHTON: DEEP - 7.30pm - 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?” In a world full of relentless click bate, online distractions, and brain rotting content, Tom’s racing brain finally became too much for him. Having left the Western world behind, Tom found himself in Indonesia where he plunged into a journey of self-discovery. He submerged himself as far down in the ocean as possible, while asking the most profound questions of what truly makes someone who they are. And now he’s bringing his discoveries to you. It’s time to go “Deep” Venue's website:  arcwinchester.org.uk Venue's Facebook:   facebook.com/arcwinch

Sunday 21 September 2025 Venue:  The Arc     map   Comedy Address:   Jewry Street, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 8SB Telephone:  01962 398046 Event:  HAL CRUTTENDEN: CAN DISH IT OUT BUT CAN’T TAKE IT - 7.30pm - Hal is back with a brand-new tour for 2025 with a show that promises to stick it to ‘The Man’, as long as ‘The Man’ doesn’t stick it back to him. Venue's website:  arcwinchester.org.uk Venue's Facebook:   facebook.com/arcwinch

Friday 26 September 2025 Venue:  Theatre Royal     map   Comedy Address:   Jewry Street, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 8SB Telephone:  Box office: 01962 840440 Event:  Ardal O'Hanlon: Not Himself - 7.30pm - After an alarming experience at the supermarket, Ardal reflects on who he is as a man and a comedian. He examines his own ethnic and religious background. And thinks twice about the very core of his identity as a voice of reason. Is everything a big lie? With no major trauma of his own to draw on for material, apart from the drag of getting older, he also turns his gaze outwards at the joys and follies of contemporary life. Towel Animals? A.I.? Chair Yoga? Cauliflower as a main course? Yes. Yes. Yes. And Yes. No current idiocy is left un-examined. With a highly developed sense of the ridiculous, and proper comedy bones, Not Himself, is a testament to the healing power of humour. And the joy of jokes. Venue's website:  theatreroyalwinchester.co.uk Venue's Facebook:   facebook.com/TRWinchester

Sunday 28 September 2025 Venue:  Theatre Royal     map   Comedy Address:   Jewry Street, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 8SB Telephone:  Box office: 01962 840440 Event:  Winchester Comedy Festival: Babatunde Aleshe: High Expectations - 7.30pm - Join the multi-award-winning comedian as he guides us through family life, his new found fame and the joys of Costco in this hilarious new stand up show. As seen on Taskmaster (Channel 4), Live at the Apollo (BBC), Celebrity Gogglebox (Channel 4), Would I Lie to You (BBC) and The Last Leg (Channel 4). Venue's website:  theatreroyalwinchester.co.uk Venue's Facebook:   facebook.com/TRWinchester

Thursday 02 October 2025 Venue:  The Lights     map   Comedy Address:   West Street, Andover, Hampshire, SP10 1AH Telephone:  Box office: 01264 368368 Event:  Hal Cruttenden: Can Dish It Out But Can't Take It - 8pm - Hal is back with a brand-new tour for 2025 with a show that promises to stick it to ‘The Man’, as long as ‘The Man’ doesn’t stick it back to him. With his trademark hard-hitting ‘take no prisoners’ comedy (this is what Hal told me to write!!!) he will be hilariously pontificating on subjects like middle aged dating, social media, the insanity of modern politics and the fact that his daughters love him but don’t respect him. He believes that, after you’ve seen the show, you’ll feel exactly the same way. Venue's website:  thelights.org.uk Venue's Facebook:   facebook.com/thelightsandover

Friday 17 October 2025 Venue:  The Lights     map   Comedy Address:   West Street, Andover, Hampshire, SP10 1AH Telephone:  Box office: 01264 368368 Event:  Stephen K Amos - Now We're Talking - 8pm - 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. The gloves are off and I’m packing a punchline, so let’s speak easy and laugh freely. Join me for freestyling musings and merrymaking to get your belly aching! After all, in jokes we trust... Venue's website:  thelights.org.uk Venue's Facebook:   facebook.com/thelightsandover

Thursday 30 October 2025 Venue:  Theatre Royal     map   Comedy Address:   Jewry Street, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 8SB Telephone:  Box office: 01962 840440 Event:  Mark Watson: Before It Overtakes Us - 7.30pm - 20 years in stand-up for the Taskmaster cheeky texts icon, multi-award-winner, YouTube cult figure, Radio 4 favourite and recently Baby Reindeer actor: Watson returns after seasons at the Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Edinburgh comedy festivals. Venue's website:  theatreroyalwinchester.co.uk Venue's Facebook:   facebook.com/TRWinchester

Saturday 15 November 2025 Venue:  Theatre Royal     map   Comedy Address:   Jewry Street, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 8SB Telephone:  Box office: 01962 840440 Event:  Ross Noble: Cranium of Curiosities - 7.30pm - Roll up, roll up! Or use a more conventional form of transport to get to the show. It's entirely your choice. Unless you accidentally become trapped in a barrel*. Should that happen, then just find an incline and start rolling to see the one and only Ross Noble! He is the Wizard of Waffle, The Rambler Royale, The Noodlers' Noodler, and he's back live on stage to tour a tornado of tangents. What the show will be about is anybody's guess, but that's all part of the fun when you look inside his Cranium of Curiosities. *We strongly advise trying not to get trapped in a barrel before or during the performance. Despite the expression "barrel of laughs", it may impede your enjoyment of the show. Venue's website:  theatreroyalwinchester.co.uk Venue's Facebook:   facebook.com/TRWinchester

Wednesday 18 March 2026 Venue:  The Lights     map   Comedy Address:   West Street, Andover, Hampshire, SP10 1AH Telephone:  Box office: 01264 368368 Event:  Pete Firman: Tricks & Giggles 2026 - 7.30pm - With over 4.5 million social media followers and countless TV appearances under his belt, Pete Firman is the UK's top comic magician. Join him for an evening of Tricks & Giggles, as Pete brings his trademark blend of magic and comedy from the small screen to stages around the UK with this brand-new show. Expect impossible feats, sleight of hand and big laughs from one of magic's most exciting performers! Venue's website:  thelights.org.uk Venue's Facebook:   facebook.com/thelightsandover

 

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