COMEDY
“Year round comedy and big name acts”
Our 80-seater venue has hosted shows by major stars including Rhod Gilbert, Jon Richardson, Josie Long, Richard Herring, Sara Pascoe, Romesh Ranganathan, Joe Wilkinson, Isy Suttie, Katherine Ryan and Josh Widdicombe. Check out who’s coming up….
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THE LOL WORD (FREE!) @ Upper Lounge
Jun 13 @ 5:15pm – 6:15pm
5:15pm
• Thu 10 June @ 8:45pm • • Sat 12 & Sun 13 June @ 5:15pm • • Wed 16 June @ 8:45pm • (1 hour) Like comedy? Like queer folk? Then you will LOVE[...]
CHARMIAN HUGHES: SHE! IMMORTAL HORROR QUEEN’S GUIDE TO LOVE @ Upper Lounge
Jun 13 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm
7:00pm
• Fri 11 June to Sun 13 June @ 7:00pm • (1 hour) How a Hammer Horror film became the biggest influence on young Charmian’s life with darkly hilarious consequences. “The combination of this diminutive,[...]
TROY HAWKE: SIGMUND TROY’D @ Upper Lounge
Jun 13 @ 8:45pm – 9:45pm
8:45pm
• Sun 30 May @ 8:45pm • • Sun 13, 20 & 27 June @ 8:45pm • (1 hour) 2020 Leicester Comedy Festival best show nominee. 2020 Perth Fringe World Comedy Weekly Award winner and[...]
SARA BARRON: WORK IN PROGRESS (FREE!) @ Upper Lounge
Jun 14 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm
7:00pm
• Mon 14 to Wed 16 June @ 7:00pm • (1 hour) Sara Barron returns to Brighton Fringe with new jokes and stories about motherhood, fatherhood, therapists, fallings out, and gettings back together. “Deliciously dark,[...]
SARA BARRON: WORK IN PROGRESS (FREE!) @ Upper Lounge
Jun 15 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm
7:00pm
• Mon 14 to Wed 16 June @ 7:00pm • (1 hour) Sara Barron returns to Brighton Fringe with new jokes and stories about motherhood, fatherhood, therapists, fallings out, and gettings back together. “Deliciously dark,[...]
SARA BARRON: WORK IN PROGRESS (FREE!) @ Upper Lounge
Jun 16 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm
7:00pm
• Mon 14 to Wed 16 June @ 7:00pm • (1 hour) Sara Barron returns to Brighton Fringe with new jokes and stories about motherhood, fatherhood, therapists, fallings out, and gettings back together. “Deliciously dark,[...]
THE LOL WORD (FREE!) @ Upper Lounge
Jun 16 @ 8:45pm – 9:45pm
8:45pm
• Thu 10 June @ 8:45pm • • Sat 12 & Sun 13 June @ 5:15pm • • Wed 16 June @ 8:45pm • (1 hour) Like comedy? Like queer folk? Then you will LOVE[...]
CANCELLED – DAVID EPHGRAVE: COVID-19, DAVID-40 @ Upper Lounge
Jun 17 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm
7:00pm
CANCELLED Unfortunately David has had to cancel his run. Apologies for any inconvenience.
IVOR DEMBINA: THIS IS NOT A SUBJECT FOR COMEDY @ Upper Lounge
Jun 17 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm
7:00pm
• Thu 17 & 24 June @ 7:00pm • (1 hour) Late addition to the Brighton Fringe. Two performances only! Edinburgh 2019 ‘Pick of the Fringe‘ award-winner Ivor Dembina presents a revised and updated version[...]
RAM OF GOD @ Upper Lounge
Jun 17 @ 8:45pm – 9:45pm
8:45pm
• Thu 17 to Sat 19 June @ 8:45pm • (1 hour) Ram will nourish you Ram will punish you Ram will come again! Welcome to the church of Ram, where sheep are people, people[...]
SASHA ELLEN: WORK IN PROGRESS (FREE!) @ Upper Lounge
Jun 18 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm
7:00pm
• Fri 4 & Fri 11 June @ 8:45pm • • Fri 18 June @ 7:00pm • (1 hour) A brand new hour of comedy from the hilariously funny, aggressively nerdy and down right adorable[...]
RAM OF GOD @ Upper Lounge
Jun 18 @ 8:45pm – 9:45pm
8:45pm
• Thu 17 to Sat 19 June @ 8:45pm • (1 hour) Ram will nourish you Ram will punish you Ram will come again! Welcome to the church of Ram, where sheep are people, people[...]
NATHAN CASSIDY: BUMBLEBEE @ Upper Lounge
Jun 19 @ 3:30pm – 4:30pm
3:30pm
• Sat 5 & Sun 6 June @ 7:00pm • • Sat 19 & Sun 20 June @ 3:30pm • (1 hour) Multi-award winning comedian Nathan Cassidy’s hilarious and thrilling true crime stand-up show for[...]
ROBIN MORGAN: WORK IN PROGRESS (FREE!) @ Upper Lounge
Jun 19 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm
7:00pm
• Sat 19 & Sun 20 June @ 7:00pm • (1 hour) A work in progress of the fourth hour from Robin Morgan (as seen on ‘Mock The Week’. As heard on ‘The Now Show’.[...]
RAM OF GOD @ Upper Lounge
Jun 19 @ 8:45pm – 9:45pm
8:45pm
• Thu 17 to Sat 19 June @ 8:45pm • (1 hour) Ram will nourish you Ram will punish you Ram will come again! Welcome to the church of Ram, where sheep are people, people[...]
NATHAN CASSIDY: BUMBLEBEE @ Upper Lounge
Jun 20 @ 3:30pm – 4:30pm
3:30pm
• Sat 5 & Sun 6 June @ 7:00pm • • Sat 19 & Sun 20 June @ 3:30pm • (1 hour) Multi-award winning comedian Nathan Cassidy’s hilarious and thrilling true crime stand-up show for[...]
ROBIN MORGAN: WORK IN PROGRESS (FREE!) @ Upper Lounge
Jun 20 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm
7:00pm
• Sat 19 & Sun 20 June @ 7:00pm • (1 hour) A work in progress of the fourth hour from Robin Morgan (as seen on ‘Mock The Week’. As heard on ‘The Now Show’.[...]
TROY HAWKE: SIGMUND TROY’D @ Upper Lounge
Jun 20 @ 8:45pm – 9:45pm
8:45pm
• Sun 30 May @ 8:45pm • • Sun 13, 20 & 27 June @ 8:45pm • (1 hour) 2020 Leicester Comedy Festival best show nominee. 2020 Perth Fringe World Comedy Weekly Award winner and[...]
ANNA MORRIS: KID-LIFE CRISIS @ Upper Lounge
Jun 21 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm
7:00pm
• Mon 21 June @ 7:00pm • (1 hour) Award-winning character comedian Anna Morris (Channel 4’s ‘Lee and Dean’) brings her BBC Radio 4 stand-up show to the stage. For the first time in her[...]
LILY PHILLIPS: SMUT @ Upper Lounge
Jun 22 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm
7:00pm
• Tue 22 & Wed 23 June @ 7:00pm • (1 hour) ‘SMUT’ is the long anticipated show by newcomer Lily Phillips, that was going to be about feminism but is now going to be[...]
LILY PHILLIPS: SMUT @ Upper Lounge
Jun 23 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm
7:00pm
• Tue 22 & Wed 23 June @ 7:00pm • (1 hour) ‘SMUT’ is the long anticipated show by newcomer Lily Phillips, that was going to be about feminism but is now going to be[...]
CHELSEA BIRKBY: SEXISTENTIALISM (FREE!) @ Upper Lounge
Jun 23 @ 8:45pm – 9:45pm
8:45pm
• Wed 23 June to Fri 25 June @ 8:45pm • (1 hour) Do you have a body or are you a body? Do you love da club? Do you know why existentialists are the[...]
CANCELLED – DAVID EPHGRAVE: COVID-19, DAVID-40 @ Upper Lounge
Jun 24 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm
7:00pm
CANCELLED Unfortunately David has had to cancel his run. Apologies for any inconvenience.
IVOR DEMBINA: THIS IS NOT A SUBJECT FOR COMEDY @ Upper Lounge
Jun 24 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm
7:00pm
• Thu 17 & 24 June @ 7:00pm • (1 hour) Late addition to the Brighton Fringe. Two performances only! Edinburgh 2019 ‘Pick of the Fringe‘ award-winner Ivor Dembina presents a revised and updated version[...]
CHELSEA BIRKBY: SEXISTENTIALISM (FREE!) @ Upper Lounge
Jun 24 @ 8:45pm – 9:45pm
8:45pm
• Wed 23 June to Fri 25 June @ 8:45pm • (1 hour) Do you have a body or are you a body? Do you love da club? Do you know why existentialists are the[...]
VLADIMIR McTAVISH: 60 LAST MINUTES TO SAVE THE WORLD @ Upper Lounge
Jun 25 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm
7:00pm
• Fri 25 to Sun 27 June @ 7:00pm • (1 hour) Global warming, fake news, Brexit, climate change, terrorism. At the start of this decade, he UK was f***ed and the rest of planet[...]
CHELSEA BIRKBY: SEXISTENTIALISM (FREE!) @ Upper Lounge
Jun 25 @ 8:45pm – 9:45pm
8:45pm
• Wed 23 June to Fri 25 June @ 8:45pm • (1 hour) Do you have a body or are you a body? Do you love da club? Do you know why existentialists are the[...]
ROSS DRUMMOND & HARRY MONAGHAN: THE JERK STORE (FREE!) @ Upper Lounge
Jun 25 @ 10:30pm – 11:30pm
10:30pm
• Fri 25 & Sat 26 June @ 10:30pm • (1 hour) The Jerk Store. Comedy Record Label, Podcast Network and monthly night. Financially crippling? Almost certainly. Undeniably fun? You got it! And now, a[...]
JOE WELLS: EVERYTHING IS AN ATTEMPT TO BE HUMAN @ Upper Lounge
Jun 26 @ 3:30pm – 4:30pm
3:30pm
• Sat 26 June @ 3:30pm & 8:45pm • • Sun 27 June @ 3:30pm • (1 hour) William Blake said that everything is an attempt to be human. Autistic comedian Joe Wells can relate.[...]
VLADIMIR McTAVISH: 60 LAST MINUTES TO SAVE THE WORLD @ Upper Lounge
Jun 26 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm
7:00pm
• Fri 25 to Sun 27 June @ 7:00pm • (1 hour) Global warming, fake news, Brexit, climate change, terrorism. At the start of this decade, he UK was f***ed and the rest of planet[...]
JOE WELLS: EVERYTHING IS AN ATTEMPT TO BE HUMAN @ Upper Lounge
Jun 26 @ 8:45pm – 9:45pm
8:45pm
• Sat 26 June @ 3:30pm & 8:45pm • • Sun 27 June @ 3:30pm • (1 hour) William Blake said that everything is an attempt to be human. Autistic comedian Joe Wells can relate.[...]
ROSS DRUMMOND & HARRY MONAGHAN: THE JERK STORE (FREE!) @ Upper Lounge
Jun 26 @ 10:30pm – 11:30pm
10:30pm
• Fri 25 & Sat 26 June @ 10:30pm • (1 hour) The Jerk Store. Comedy Record Label, Podcast Network and monthly night. Financially crippling? Almost certainly. Undeniably fun? You got it! And now, a[...]
JOE WELLS: EVERYTHING IS AN ATTEMPT TO BE HUMAN @ Upper Lounge
Jun 27 @ 3:30pm – 4:30pm
3:30pm
• Sat 26 June @ 3:30pm & 8:45pm • • Sun 27 June @ 3:30pm • (1 hour) William Blake said that everything is an attempt to be human. Autistic comedian Joe Wells can relate.[...]
VLADIMIR McTAVISH: 60 LAST MINUTES TO SAVE THE WORLD @ Upper Lounge
Jun 27 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm
7:00pm
• Fri 25 to Sun 27 June @ 7:00pm • (1 hour) Global warming, fake news, Brexit, climate change, terrorism. At the start of this decade, he UK was f***ed and the rest of planet[...]
TROY HAWKE: SIGMUND TROY’D @ Upper Lounge
Jun 27 @ 8:45pm – 9:45pm
8:45pm
• Sun 30 May @ 8:45pm • • Sun 13, 20 & 27 June @ 8:45pm • (1 hour) 2020 Leicester Comedy Festival best show nominee. 2020 Perth Fringe World Comedy Weekly Award winner and[...]
RABBIT IN THE HEADLIGHTS (FREE!) @ Upper Lounge
Jun 30 @ 8:00pm – 10:30pm
8:00pm
Brighton’s original comedy open mic night is back! Come and see a mix of new acts learning their trade, and old pros trying new material, for FREE! Donations taken at end in support of Campaign[...]
RABBIT IN THE HEADLIGHTS (FREE!) @ Upper Lounge
Jul 7 @ 8:00pm – 10:30pm
8:00pm
Brighton’s original comedy open mic night is back! Come and see a mix of new acts learning their trade, and old pros trying new material, for FREE! Donations taken at end in support of Campaign[...]
THE COMEDY EXPERIMENT (FREE!) @ Upper Lounge
Jul 10 @ 4:00pm – 6:30pm
4:00pm
Alicia and Fran welcome you to their monthly comedy open mic gig, hosted by Fran Kissling. Acts range from brand new to seasoned pros trying out new material. For a spot, please message the Facebook[...]
RABBIT IN THE HEADLIGHTS (FREE!) @ Upper Lounge
Jul 14 @ 8:00pm – 10:30pm
8:00pm
Brighton’s original comedy open mic night is back! Come and see a mix of new acts learning their trade, and old pros trying new material, for FREE! Donations taken at end in support of Campaign[...]
RABBIT IN THE HEADLIGHTS (FREE!) @ Upper Lounge
Jul 21 @ 8:00pm – 10:30pm
8:00pm
Brighton’s original comedy open mic night is back! Come and see a mix of new acts learning their trade, and old pros trying new material, for FREE! Donations taken at end in support of Campaign[...]
RABBIT IN THE HEADLIGHTS (FREE!) @ Upper Lounge
Jul 28 @ 8:00pm – 10:30pm
8:00pm
Brighton’s original comedy open mic night is back! Come and see a mix of new acts learning their trade, and old pros trying new material, for FREE! Donations taken at end in support of Campaign[...]
RABBIT IN THE HEADLIGHTS (FREE!) @ Upper Lounge
Aug 4 @ 8:00pm – 10:30pm
8:00pm
Brighton’s original comedy open mic night is back! Come and see a mix of new acts learning their trade, and old pros trying new material, for FREE! Donations taken at end in support of Campaign[...]
BITTER SOUR: BRING BACK MY GHOULZ @ Upper Lounge
Aug 7 @ 7:00pm – 10:00pm
7:00pm
Haus of Fakewell Presents: Bring Back My Ghoulz! It is summer 1984 and it’s time for your parents to send you to your annual summer camp trip! You arrive and start to settle in your[...]
RABBIT IN THE HEADLIGHTS (FREE!) @ Upper Lounge
Aug 11 @ 8:00pm – 10:30pm
8:00pm
Brighton’s original comedy open mic night is back! Come and see a mix of new acts learning their trade, and old pros trying new material, for FREE! Donations taken at end in support of Campaign[...]
THE COMEDY EXPERIMENT (FREE!) @ Upper Lounge
Aug 14 @ 4:00pm – 6:30pm
4:00pm
Alicia and Fran welcome you to their monthly comedy open mic gig, hosted by Fran Kissling. Acts range from brand new to seasoned pros trying out new material. For a spot, please message the Facebook[...]
RABBIT IN THE HEADLIGHTS (FREE!) @ Upper Lounge
Aug 18 @ 8:00pm – 10:30pm
8:00pm
Brighton’s original comedy open mic night is back! Come and see a mix of new acts learning their trade, and old pros trying new material, for FREE! Donations taken at end in support of Campaign[...]
RABBIT IN THE HEADLIGHTS (FREE!) @ Upper Lounge
Aug 25 @ 8:00pm – 10:30pm
8:00pm
Brighton’s original comedy open mic night is back! Come and see a mix of new acts learning their trade, and old pros trying new material, for FREE! Donations taken at end in support of Campaign[...]
RABBIT IN THE HEADLIGHTS (FREE!) @ Upper Lounge
Sep 1 @ 8:00pm – 10:30pm
8:00pm
Brighton’s original comedy open mic night is back! Come and see a mix of new acts learning their trade, and old pros trying new material, for FREE! Donations taken at end in support of Campaign[...]
RABBIT IN THE HEADLIGHTS (FREE!) @ Upper Lounge
Sep 8 @ 8:00pm – 10:30pm
8:00pm
Brighton’s original comedy open mic night is back! Come and see a mix of new acts learning their trade, and old pros trying new material, for FREE! Donations taken at end in support of Campaign[...]
THE COMEDY EXPERIMENT (FREE!) @ Upper Lounge
Sep 11 @ 4:00pm – 6:30pm
4:00pm
Alicia and Fran welcome you to their monthly comedy open mic gig, hosted by Fran Kissling. Acts range from brand new to seasoned pros trying out new material. For a spot, please message the Facebook[...]
RABBIT IN THE HEADLIGHTS (FREE!) @ Upper Lounge
Sep 15 @ 8:00pm – 10:30pm
8:00pm
Brighton’s original comedy open mic night is back! Come and see a mix of new acts learning their trade, and old pros trying new material, for FREE! Donations taken at end in support of Campaign[...]
RABBIT IN THE HEADLIGHTS (FREE!) @ Upper Lounge
Sep 22 @ 8:00pm – 10:30pm
8:00pm
Brighton’s original comedy open mic night is back! Come and see a mix of new acts learning their trade, and old pros trying new material, for FREE! Donations taken at end in support of Campaign[...]
RABBIT IN THE HEADLIGHTS (FREE!) @ Upper Lounge
Sep 29 @ 8:00pm – 10:30pm
8:00pm
Brighton’s original comedy open mic night is back! Come and see a mix of new acts learning their trade, and old pros trying new material, for FREE! Donations taken at end in support of Campaign[...]