Andrew O’Neill rounds out a tip top week of side splitting comedy in Manchester as XS Malarkey hosts some of the city’s finest up and comers alongside some old hands and social media star Chris Turner hits up the Frog & Bucket.
Fans of ‘Epic Rap Battles of History’ are in for a treat this week as improv king, comedian and rapper Chris Turner brings his tour show to the Frog. In his most ambitious show yet the hour long show takes in jaw-dropping freestyles, hilarious stand-up, and dextrous raps to combine for some high octane musical comedy that will have even the most avowed Kanye-haters nodding their heads to the beat.
In the first of their gigs at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Dead Cat welcome anarchic stand-up Andrew O’Neill with their new tour show with a poetic but ever so long title. O’Neill promises something to be learned from the recent ‘apocalypse’ and they also promises a fair amount of jokes, which is kind and accurate. O’Neill is often pegged as an alternative comic but their hit rate of gags in their act shows the steady hand of an old circuit pro.
- Words:
- John Stansfield
- Published on:
- Mon 13 Sep 2021
Stand-up hero Rob Rouse headlines XS Malarkey this week and it’s always worth heading down to The Bread Shed to see Rouse’s unique brand of stand-up but this week there are a few other notable newcomers to keep an eye out for. Erika Ehler has been turning heads with her acidic, all too honest stand-up over the last couple of years and snapped the Chortle Student Comedy Award in 2019. Tom Lawrinson is rightly gaining plaudits for his inch-perfect observations on TikTok, and Harry Stachini is widely considered the next big comic to come out of Manchester. Of course Toby Hadoke will be there too to hold on these moving parts together. Each one worth your entry fee alone.