Comedy picks of the week ft. Lip Synching, Kids Improv + Laughing Cows

Lip Syncin Battle | Comedy Store | Mon 24 Aug | 7.30pm | £6
You’ve probably seen videos of Lip Sync Battle; the wildly popular Spike TV show in which wildly popular celebrities lip sync along to wildly popular songs. The Store is doing their own take on the format and it remains to be seen whether this will still be entertaining when the lip syncers aren’t, y’know, famous (although the site says there will be some unnamed guest celebrities in attendance).
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Sidekick Comedy | Via Fossa | Mon 24 Aug | 7.30pm | £2
American nerd de jour Kate McCabe (pictured) brings her big fun small budget night back to the Village. For this instalment, she’s got newbies Beckie Fox and Callum Morris-Glue along with arch-prankster Bilal Zafar and the wonderfully dark Rachel Fairburn.
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ComedySportz | Waterside Arts, Sale | Wed 26 – Thu 27 Aug | 11am-4pm | £40
Improv behemoth ComedySportz have been bringing American style competitive improv to Manchester for nigh-on 20 years. They run lots of courses to help people get into improv and this summer workshop is pitched squarely at kids 10 and over. So if you’ve got a summer-bored precocious youngster in your life, you could do a lot worse than have them burn an afternoon learning how to pretend to have a quirk at a dinner party.
www.watersideartscentre.co.uk

Laughing Cows | Frog & Bucket | Sun 30 Aug | 7pm | £7
For years, Laughing Cows have been running a roster of nights all over the place, bringing together enviable lineups of funny women. This is their flagship show at The Frog, and the lineup is strong with Beat the Frog World Series winner Penella Mellor, Ruth E Cockburn, Ellen Tomlinson, Jo Smiles and the aforementioned Kate McCabe. Go fill your boots!
www.dulcetsounds.co.uk