Comedy Picks of the Week ft. Sara Pascoe, Knightmare Live & James Mullinger

Sara Pascoe | Sat 25 Oct | Gorilla | 8pm | £10/£8
Another last Saturday of the month, another all-star line-up at Group Therapy. Hopefully Gorilla will have washed the stage thoroughly for anything that remains from the last ‘comedian’ that stood on the stage (it was Dapper Laughs, he’s the worst), as Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Sara Pascoe headlines. In itself this would be enough for a cracking night of comedy, having appeared in The Thick of It, QI, Live at the Apollo and more, Pascoe is one of the best comics currently on the circuit. But to add to this, they also have celebrated misanthrope Michael J Dolan, unpredictable diction-meister Liam Pickford and GT’s favourite MC in Danny McLoughlin.
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Birthday Girls | Sat 25 Oct | Gullivers | 9.30pm | £6
Consisting of three of the five members of sketch quintet Lady Garden, Birthday Girls are back in the city where they first formed as part of the Women in Comedy festival. After a highly acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Birthday Girls are here to offer you offbeat skits, odd characters and try-hard dancing. The beauty of this sketch group is in the detail, as they have toured for a long enough time to riff off each other expertly. BBC-approved, both televisually and radio-ally (?), Birthday Girls offer a good dose of party vibes for a Saturday night at Gullivers.
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Quippopotamus | Sun 26 Oct | Fuel | 8pm | FREE
Your free comedy dose for the week comes from Fuel’s upstairs room, as Sidekick Comedy host Kate McCabe takes over as master of ceremonies for Manchester’s most bat-shit comedy night. Michael J Dolan makes his second appearance of the week trying out new material that will no doubt be wonderfully dark, and all the thoughts you’ve hard yet dare not speak. Popular bodybuilder and occasional body popper Jayne Edwards will also be on stage, alongside a couple of Quip debutants in Stan Skinny and Tom King – both set to bring a new brand of surreality to Withington.
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Knightmare Live – Level 2 | Tue 28 Oct | The Lowry | 8pm | £18
After sell-out shows last year, and another bumper year at the Fringe, we enter level 2 of Knightmare Live. Join the dungeon master and his pals as they lead unwitting audience members and comics through the nostalgia and terror of the dungeon. Fun for those that have no idea about the original show due to the wit of the hosts – and for those with a soft spot for the chroma key 1980s adventure, you’ll be wrapped in a warm blanket of memories and comedy.
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James Mullinger (pictured) | Thu 30 Oct | The King’s Arms | 7.30pm | £7/£5
If you’ve seen any of Danny Dyer’s performances post Human Traffic you’ll know how ripe for parody they are, but James Mullinger’s new show, How a Middle Class Feminist Fell in Love with Danny Dyer, goes down quite a different route. As GQ Magazine’s film editor, Mullinger has seen his fair share of movies, and for some reason this has lead to his deep love for the self-proclaimed ‘ledge’ that is Danny Dyer. And why not: Dyer’s ubiquity in British cinema has to be embraced or it will subsume us all. Don’t be a ‘mug’, get yourself to The King’s Arms and have a giggle.
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Thanks to @johnwinsagain