THURSDAY SHOWS
Toussaint Douglass: Let’s Cook (WIP)
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Hello friend. Come in. Take a seat. Something’s cooking.
A brand new work-in-progress show from the mind that came up with the critically acclaimed, sellout show “Accessible Pigeon Material”.
Toussaint has established himself as a live performer and writer to look out for.
Here's what people have said:
‘Douglass has cracked how to make the inside of his mind seem not just accessible, but a very fun place to spend time.’ ★★★★ Guardian
'He’s a one-off, a goofball, a charmer... the lad’s got funny bones' ★★★★ Telegraph
'The sense of comic release here is real and glorious' ★★★★ Times
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Tony Law: A work of sorts a type of Progress.
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Tony Law. A work of sorts a type of Progress.
Tony Law is relaunching the comedy. Behold new pointless ideas and surprises. A mental smorgasbord. Word salad’s. Loss of concentration. And some bits that will be accidentally clever. We will laugh for most of the hour with some resting periods.
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All Women Stand Up Comedy Special
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Unmissable Witty Women knocking out their best sets - some seasoned and a few brand new.
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McClaine Beirne: What a Year!
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McClaine Beirne brings his new show “What a Year!” to Exeter. What do you get when this sit-down comedian has the craziest year of his life? The answer is a heap of comedic ammo that delivers thrilling and hilarious stories. McClaine has performed on Rosie Jones’ Disability Comedy Extravaganza on Dave TV. After his performance Rosie Jones said that he is “Bloody Hilarious”. That same year his first show “Wheelie Funny” won the Disability Representation at the Edinburgh Fringe 2023 along with a ★★★★ 4 star review. He was also a comedic writer for BBC Wales and was Shortlisted for the BBC New Comedy Awards 2022. Definitely not one to miss.
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Get changed theatre company presents 00devon
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Roll up roll up and prepare to be shaken not stirred!
The legendary Get Changed Theatre Company (one of the UK’s foremost Theatre Companies for adults with a learning disability) celebrate their 30th anniversary with a world premiere collaboration with Exeter Comedy Festival.
Join the gang as they take on their most dangerous mission yet! We’ll plunge headlong into a world of espionage, derring-do and wild adventure in 00Devon!
Get Changed have made wildly successful takes on much loved classic movies such as Star Wars, Back To The Future, and Flash Gordon and we thought it only fair we gave old 007 a run for his money.
Expect a cheekily irreverent take on the world of Ian Fleming chock full of the classic Get Changed ingredients, hilarious characters, foot stomping live music, and song and dance routines so infectious they would give Fred and Ginger the heebie-jeebies! Villainous villains, femme fatales, gadgety gadgets, plus appearances from Exeter Comedy Festival head honchos Perrier Award Winner Will Adamsdale (Jackson’s Way), Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominee Spencer Jones (The Mind Of Herbert Clunkerdunk), and many more comics TBA, directed by Festival Regular and Edinburgh Comedy Award nominated director Ed Gaughan (Tour Director Milton Jones).
Get your tickets now for the most stupendous spy show in town!
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Time: 04/06/2026
Venue: Corn Exchange
Please note this show is excluded from all offers.
6pm (doors 5.15)
£13 incl. booking fee
Exeter Comedy Festival Screening and Q&A: Alice Lowe’s Prevenge
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Title: Prevenge
Director: Alice Lowe
Year: 2016
Length: 88 minutes
Language: English
Distributor: Kaleidoscope Films
(https://kaleidoscopefilmdistribution.com/films/prevenge/)
Synopsis:
A pitch black, wryly British comedy from the mind of Alice Lowe, Prevenge follows
Ruth, a pregnant woman on a killing spree. It’s her misanthropic unborn
baby dictating Ruth’s actions, holding society responsible for the absence of a father.
The child speaks to Ruth from the womb, coaching her to lure and ultimately kill
her unsuspecting victims.
Struggling with her conscience, loneliness, and a strange strain of prepartum
madness, Ruth must ultimately choose between redemption and destruction at the
moment of motherhood.
Having shown at Venice, Toronto the London International Film
Festival, Prevenge marked the directorial debut from Lowe, who is a true triple
threat, writing, directing, and acting in the film during her own real-life pregnancy.
Join Exeter Comedy Festival for a special screening of the viciously funny Prevenge,
Alice Lowe’s directorial debut, ten years after its initial release.
After the screening, Alice Lowe – director, writer and star of Prevenge – will be live
in conversation with her frequent collaborator (and prevenge victim), the comedian,
actor and writer Mike Wozniak.
Alice Lowe is an actress, screenwriter and director. After winning the Perrier Award
for comedy, Alice moved into television comedy and drama as an actress and writer.
After co-writing and starring in Sightseers (which was Empire‘s Best British Film),
she moved into directing with Prevenge. Her directorial debut, in which she also
starred whilst heavily pregnant, centred around a pregnant revenge spree. The film
premiered at Venice and Toronto. Her second feature film, the rom-com Timestalker,
was released in 2024. She is currently developing drama projects for television to
write and direct and is still acting in films such as Greatest Days, TV such as Black
Mirror, and is a writer on films such as Paddington 3.
Mike Wozniak is an Exeter-based comedian, actor, podcaster and writer. His TV
credits include Man Down, Would I Lie To You, We Are Not Alone, Horrible Histories
and Taskmaster. Film credits include Prevenge (directed by Alice Lowe). Writing
credits include Man Down and Small Scenes. He also wrote and directed the short
film Sump. As a stand-up Mike has been a comedy festival regular for many years
and has penned numerous award-winning solo shows.With thanks to Mary Morris of Arvon.
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Sam Nicoresti: Baby Doomer
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Winner of Best Show at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2025
A glistening diamond hour of stand-up from “delusional trans comedian” Sam Nicoresti about love, insanity, and the hunt for the perfect skirt suit. Following a critical maelstrom of success at the Edinburgh Fringe, and three weeks of sold-out performances at London’s Soho Theatre, Sam finally brings an extended and revamped version of her breakout hit show Baby Doomer to the great unwashed (i.e. goes on tour).
From getting stuck in a dress in a TK Maxx to finding love between the standing stones of Cornwall, through sperm banks, Lord of the Rings figurines, and queer cat names, Sam Nicoresti examines life's most vital question: can you ever hope to find the perfect skirt suit?
Baby Doomer is the follow-up to the acclaimed Wokeflake. “One of the definitive documents of the trans experience in stand-up.” Chortle.
Praise for Baby Doomer
“Baby Doomer is one of the sharpest, funniest, most exciting hours of comedy at the Fringe” ★★★★★ The Telegraph
“Uproariously funny, life-affirming, angry, dumb, insightful and political all at once” ★★★★.5 Chortle
★★★★★ The List
★★★★★ One4Review
★★★★ The Guardian
★★★★ The Times
★★★★ The Scotsman
★★★★ Fest
★★★★ Three Weeks
★★★★ The Skinny
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SHARIFA BUTTERFLY: BANTER WITH A BUTTERFLY
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BANTER WITH A BUTTERFLY
Sharifa Butterfly is neurodivergent babe who sometimes makes life choices that should end her… but somehow don’t.
From questionable men to questionable ideas, she turns chaos into comedy and survives every plot twist with lip gloss intact.
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Lou Wall: Where Are All The Tall Grandmas? (WIP)
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Lou Wall is a multi-award-winning comedian, composer and content creator known for their genre-defying, politically savvy, and musically driven comedy.
In 2023, Lou won the prestigious Moosehead Award and premiered Lou Wall vs The Internet at Melbourne Fringe and Edinburgh—going on to win Best of the Festival at the 2024 Sydney Comedy Festival and earning a nomination for Most Outstanding Show at the 2024 Melbourne Comedy Festival for their show "The Bisexual's Lament".
In 2025, Breaking the Fifth Wall opened to critical acclaim with a Melbourne Comedy Festival Award nomination.
On-screen, Lou has written and performed on ABC’s WTFAQ (2023), and appeared in ABC America’s Reef Break and ABC Australia’s FISK.
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Paul Hilleard: acatnamedpeaches
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BBC New Comedian of the year 2024 & Channel 4 Sean Lock finalist 2025 Paul Hilleard puts the final touches to his debut hour.
Content includes: market towns, God, kissing gates, the class system, hot food, relationships, yoga, landlords, Epstien.
Be kind to yourself and others.
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SOLD OUT:
Daniel Kitson – Work In Progress.
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Daniel Kitson is working on a new show.
He’s hoping, once again, to make something better than before: Really funny, maybe a bit
sad, intermittently thought provoking, slightly audacious and, ideally, completely
unfathomable.
He started properly thinking about it in the middle of January and it needs to be finished by
August. So. That should give you a sense of how far through the process, these particular
shows are likely to be – a lot of marble and not much sculpture, essentially.
On the upside, they’ve been priced accordingly and will last no more than 90 minutes.
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Time: 04/06/26 @22:30-00:00
Also on at AND 05/06/26 @21:00-22:30 06/06/26 @19:30-21:00
Venue: The Bootlegger
£9 incl. booking fee
Ed Tripp: All the Rage
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(former Bard of Exeter) returns to Exeter Comedy festival with ‘All the Rage’ – a fast-paced, music-infused, comedy poetry show.
Part cabaret, part confessional, Ed will blend unsettling new poems with “remixed” musical fan favourites.
He may even try some crowd work too. God help us.
“Tripp doesn’t so much straddle or have one foot in the camps of comedy and storytelling but instead finds perfect harmony between them – each element of humour accentuating the spoken word, each poetic structure lifting stories to new heights.
Tripp’s poetic moments are a treat, cohesive and engaging, and for newcomers, is the finest introduction to the marvels of spoken word”
Corr Blimey Review
‘Seek Edward out like buried treasure’ - Spencer Jones, Comedian and Actor
‘Utterly unexpectable and very moreish’ - Kate Copstick, The Scotsman
‘Absurd and Hysterical, he had the audience in stitches’ - Razz Magazine
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Amy Mason: Brand New Show (work in progress)
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Amy Mason: Brand New Show (work in progress)
Very outing of a new show that might be about the fact that my guinea pigs are gay and how that’s a weird way to teach your kids the facts of life – or maybe, one might argue, the best way? It also might instead be about that bit in the Wizard of Oz when she opens the door and everything goes technicolour. Maybe that’s how the guinea pigs felt when the fell in love? Anyway, can you help me make it a show please?
As heard on Radio 1, Radio 6 and Radio 4. One of the best reviewed shows of Edinburgh Fringe – British Comedy Guide.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “Deadpan, daring, and enticingly honest” Broadway World
★ ★ ★ ★ “Thrillingly funny” The Scotsman
★ ★ ★ ★ “The comic timing is exquisite” London Theatre 1
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STEVIE MARTIN & ADAM RICHES DO 30 MINS OF NEW MATERIAL EACH
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STEVIE MARTIN & ADAM RICHES DO 30 MINS OF NEW MATERIAL EACH
Stevie Martin (Taskmaster, Mitchell and Webb Aren't Helping) is writing new jokes - come and have a laugh while she fannies about for god's sake.
"Ingenious and joyous"
★★★★ The Guardian
"Hilarious"
★★★★ The Scotsman
"Proper funny"
★★★★ The List
THEN:
Some box fresh work-in-progress action from Adam Riches (pictured).
"There’s no-one else quite like him"
★★★★★ Independent
"The ballsiest audience-interactor on the Fringe"
★★★★★ The Telegraph
"Like playtime on cocaine"
★★★★★ Chortle
"Never less than brilliant"
★★★★★ Fest
"A triumph of cunningly crafted, high-energy character comedy"
★★★★★ Time Out
“A unique experience”
★★★★★ The Scotsman
The Independent
“Quite simply, he is mind blowing, so if you fancy your mind being blown Paul Foot is
one of the few comedians working today who can do it for you”
The Mirror
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Paul Foot: The Future [WIP]
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Hello and OMG. Everything’s wrong in the world. When did optimism end?
Remember years ago when people were excited for the future, with predictions of
people flying around on jet packs, friendly robots that wheeled themselves round the
kitchen making tea, and solar powered bidets? Well, we don’t have fun visions for
the future like that anymore, do we?
In this show, which, much like human civilisation, is a Work-in-Progress, Paul tries to
find a way forward for humanity that isn’t environmental collapse, war and pointless
arguments. His medium is stand-up comedy, his allotted time is 58 minutes to one
hour, his message is hope (hopefully).
Chortle Awards 2024 Best Show Nominee
(ISH) Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2023 Best Show Winner
Next Up Biggest Award in Comedy 2023 Nominee
“Funnier and more daring than I’ve ever seen him…Has the audience laughing so
hard they’re about to leave their bodies”
Chortle
“He’s a comedy genius, one of the funniest things I’ve seen. Sublime, original and brilliant”
The Independent
“Quite simply, he is mind blowing, so if you fancy your mind being blown Paul Foot is
one of the few comedians working today who can do it for you”
The Mirror
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Mike wozniak: the bench
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SOLD OUT
New stand-up tour show from Mike Wozniak in which a story about a bench will be prominent. Previous experience of or strong opinions about benches not required. Let Mike worry about that.
As seen on Taskmaster, Man Down and Junior Taskmaster. As heard on Three Bean Salad podcast.
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MAGGIE IRVING: STAND-UP WORKSHOP
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Stand-up comedy is a skill—and you can learn it.
Ever wanted to try it? Step up and give it a go.
Join Maggie Irving, expert comedy coach and performer, for a fun, fast-paced session on
writing and performing comedy. Learn insider tips, try your own material, and get laughing.
Open to beginners, performers, writers and creatives.
Expect to:
• Learn how jokes work
• Try your own material
• Laugh—a lot
£15
Exeter City Gate
Thursday 4 June, 5–6.30pm
Come curious. Leave funnier.
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