Saturday 9 November - Hen & Chicken Studio
8.30pm (doors 7.45pm)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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.
Sunday 15 December - Hen & Chicken Studio
7.30pm (doors 6.45pm)
CatGPT - THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CATMAS
CatGPT is the mostly true tail of a Welshman’s attempts to bring back to life his beloved dead cat Lentil by using sophisticated robotics, sensors, complex AI and visuals.
Saturday 21 December - Hen & Chicken Studio
8.30pm (doors 7.45pm)
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.
Friday 31 January - Hen & Chicken Studio
8pm (doors 7.15pm)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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?”
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Show Title:
ALI WOODS
Show Date:
13/11/2024