Comedy of the Week ft. Women in Comedy Festival & Bobby Mair

Bobby Mair | The Pub/Zoo | Tue 25 Oct | 7.30pm | £5/3
You might recognise Bobby Mair from his numerous television appearances, or more recently you’d recognise him as the man with a megaphone stood outside the Venezualan embassy reading out ‘the internet’ to Wikileaks leader and recently grounded without wifi naughty boy Julian Assange. It’s this sense of mischief and apple cart shaking that Mair thrives upon. He’s not here for your approval and his mind often goes to places yours won’t admit it frequents but he will always make you laugh. You just might not be comfortable with the reason why.
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Kiri Pritchard-McLean | The Castle Hotel | Wed 26 Oct | 8pm | £2
The unseen member of Gein’s Family Giftshop takes centre stage with new show ‘Hysterical Woman’ in which she attempts to make ‘whining funny for an hour’ and succeeds in spades. Part of the ‘Women in Comedy Festival’ that takes place until Sunday you’ll struggle to find a smarter show than Kiri’s look at what it is to be funny and why women are constantly qualified with the all too regular ‘funny… for a girl’. A jewel in the crown in one of England’s best comedy festivals.
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Cheekykita | The Castle Hotel | Sat 29 Oct | 6.30pm | £6/4/2
Described as ‘The Mighty Boosh on crack’, the strange alien horror clown Cheekykita brings her new show ‘Tittitutar Town’ and lauded at the Prague comedy festival Cheekykita is a Japanese kaiden made flesh. Kita plays all the inhabitants of the titular Tittitutar, each stranger than the last. One for fans of weird horror comedies like The League of Gentlemen’ or the darker episodes of Boosh Cheekykita is a one of kind performer that demands to be seen live.
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Festival Wrap Party | Frog and Bucket | Sun 30 Oct | 8pm | £10/15/20
If you don’t get the chance to check out the many varied acts that are performing shows throughout the Women in Comedy Festival then do try to make it to the closing party in which they will be particularly focusing on the North West’s current crop of talent followed by an after party til late. Hayley Ellis, Kate McCabe and Sophie Willan are all fine ambassadors for the Manchester scene with Willan especially certain of super stardom very soon. A cracking night to round off a great festival.
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