Joe Kent-Walters is back for more as Frankie Monroe, Chloe Radcliffe and Stuart Laws have works in progress at XS Malarkey, and there’s a belting Title Fight at GRUB.

Chloe Radcliffe and Stuart Laws at XS Malarkey | Tue 6 May | 6.30pm | £3/6

There’s a special triple show at XS Malarkey this week as Stuart Laws and Chloe Radcliffe to bring you a WIP-WIP-Tour Show three-hander at 53Two on a Tuesday night. Laws will be providing the first WIP at the earlier time of 6.30pm before handing over to Radcliffe for her new show Say When? Laws will then return to present his most recent tour show, Stuart Laws Has To Be Joking for a special filmed performance. All for the same ridiculously low XS Malarkey price, you’ll get 3-4-1 as well as a bonus Toby Hadoke as a treat!

53Two, Arch 19 Watson Street, Manchester M3 4LP
Title Fight at GRUB | Wed 7 May | 7pm | £3/6

Jack Nicholl’s Title Fight returns for some May Day Mayhem as the best of Manchester’s comedy scene put up their metaphorical dukes and battle it out for supremacy at GRUB on Wednesday. The likes of Jess Perillo, Adam Evans and Alison Whitehead will be creating new works of comedic art with titles chosen by their opponent, with the outcome always being the most unexpected and hilarious. A midweek boost that hits you like a bolt from the blue.

GRUB, 50 Red Bank, Manchester M4 4HF
Joe Kent-Walters is Frankie Monroe at Fairfield Social Club | Thu 8 May | 7pm | £15

After a bumper year where he followed up winning the BBC New Comedy Award with a Best Newcomer victory at the Edinburgh Fringe, Joe Kent-Walters is kicking on with a pretty great 2025 too. Especially in Manchester, where he has already sold out two performances of his blisteringly funny character act Frankie Monroe. Here he’ll be right at home at Fairfield Social Club for his hat-trick of Manchester gigs before starting afresh with a new Frankie adventure in August once more. Don’t miss out again.

Fairfield Social Club, 6 Irk Street, Manchester M4 4JT
Tue 6 May - Thu 8 May
Words:
John Stansfield
Published on:
Tue 6 May 2025