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URL:https://bob.guide/events/birmingham-comedy-festival-2025
SUMMARY:Birmingham Comedy Festival 2025
DESCRIPTION:Birmingham Comedy Festival returns from Friday 3 to Sunday 12 O
 ctober 2025 with more than 90 performances featuring big-names\, emerging 
 acts and the very best comedians from the West Midlands.\n\nAmong the many
  highlights are appearances from Babatunde Aléshé (Oct 4\, The Alexand
 ra\, Bham)\, Kane Brown (Oct 5\, Town Hall\, Bham)\, Australian ‘silly
  billys’ Aunty Donna (Oct 2-3\, Alexandra\, Bham)\, Elliot Steel (Oc
 t 10\, The Glee Club\, Bham)\, Emmanuel Sonubi (Oct 9\, The Glee Club\, 
 Bham)\, Geoff Norcott (Oct 4\, Town Hall\, Bham)\, Henning Wehn (Oct 1
 1\, Town Hall\, Bham)\, and Irish comedians Chris Kent (Oct 8\, The Glee
  Club\, Bham) and Jason Byrne (Oct 10\, Town Hall).\n\nActors/writers St
 eve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith also bring their inventive anthology TV
  series Inside No.9 to the stage (Oct 7-11\, Dec 2-6\, The Alexandra\, B
 ham)\, while the festival’s annual Laurel and Hardy film screenings re
 turn with an animal themed triple-bill (Oct 9\, West Midlands Police Museu
 m\, Bham\; plus Oct 4\, Coventry and Oct 12\, Stourbridge).\n\nThe always 
 popular Birmingham Comedy Festival Free Half-Dayers (Part 1\, Oct 5\; Pa
 rt 2\, Oct 12) are also back. Heading to the (almost) neighbouring Cherry 
 Reds and The Victoria for consecutive Sunday afternoons\, acts appearing i
 nclude Eric Rushton (Channel 4 Sean Lock Award)\, Finlay Christie (ove
 r 12 million likes on TikTok) and Jamie D’Souza (The Stand Up Sketch S
 how) who test out new material. Birmingham Comedy Festival Breaking Talen
 t Award Winner 2023 Hasan Al-Habib also appears with the finished versio
 n of his debut show\, Death To The West (Midlands). Having performed a wo
 rk-in-progress version at a previous edition of the festival\, this will b
 e the first time Hasan’s completed show is aired in the city.\n\nOther v
 isitors to the Free Half-Dayers include the award-winning Rob Kemp with 
 his inventive Beetlejuice/ Beatles mash-up\, Beatlesjuice\; Andy Robins
 on and James Cook\, recording a new episode of their pop music podcast
  Shooby Dooby Doo Wop\; Tal Davies\, who presents a read-through of her 
 work-in-progress sitcom\; and improv troupe Behind The Headlines with th
 eir improvised Peaky Blinders parody.\n\nOthers visiting the 10-day even
 t include Lily Phillips\, Leicester Mercury Comedian Of The Year 2024 E
 va Bindeman\, Sikisa\, Kyrah Gray\, Marcel Lucont (with his award-winning
  family show)\, Welsh/ Spanish comic Ignacio Lopez\, Jonny Awsum\, Nate K
 itch\, Jaz Mattu\, Joe Sutherland\, Rachel Baker\, Hannah Weetman\, Richar
 d Dadd\, Low Effort Sketches\, and the University of Birmingham’s Foot
 notes.\n\nThe whole shebang officially kicks off with the prestigious Bir
 mingham Comedy Festival Breaking Talent Award 2025 (Oct 3\, The Glee Club\
 , Bham) featuring five of the very best new and emerging acts from the reg
 ion: BAB\, Abbie Edwards\, Abbie Hale\, Harry Jenkins and Ryan S Lewis. Th
 e night also features a special set from previous winner\, Josh Pugh\n\nFo
 r full details see: bhamcomfest.co.uk
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