Helen Bauer headlines XS Malarkey, Kate-Lois Elliott presents her debut tour at Creatures and The Laughienda gifts us free laughs during a thrifty January.

Helen Bauer at XS Malarkey | Tue 14 Jan | 7.30pm | £3/6

A genuine treat this Tuesday and a chance to chase away some mid-January blues with the chaotic energy of Helen Bauer at XS Malarkey. Bauer has steadily built a huge and loyal following thanks to her frank and outrageous confessional comedy, as well as absolutely smashing a set on Live At The Apollo and creating the hilarious podcast Trusty Hogs with Catherine Bohart. Go see her now before her throng gets any bigger!

53 Two, Arch 19 Watson Street, Manchester M3 4LP
The Laughienda at Lion's Den | Thu 16 Jan | 7.30pm | FREE

More midweek pick-me-ups here courtesy of Manchester’s premier free comedy club The Laughienda this Wednesday night. Now in their fifth year of operation they always book in a heap of fresh talent mixed with old pros trying out new material to a crowd of comedy savvy regulars. Make yourself one of them.

Lions Den, 253 Deansgate, Mews, Manchester M3 4EN
Kate-Lois Elliott at Creatures Comedy Club | Sun 19 Jan | 6.30pm | £5

After a sellout run at Edinburgh Fringe, Kate-Lois Elliott brings her award-winning, critically acclaimed debut hour to Creatures. In ‘How To Belong Without Joining a Cult’, Elliott looks at her own mother’s involvement in a secretive cult and her own seduction by the clutches of an equally militant operation, teenage girls.

Creatures, 42-44 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LE
Tue 14 Jan - Sun 19 Jan
Words:
John Stansfield
Published on:
Mon 13 Jan 2025