Get Off! Live Comedy has announced two nights of cutting-edge comedy to celebrate its launch this November. The shows will aim to raise much needed funds to help the company in its work to eradicate sexual harassment within the live comedy industry and will feature Sara Pascoe, Nish Kumar, Russell Howard, Daliso Chaponda, Kiri Pritchard-McLean and many many more of the UK’s favourite comedy names.
Get Off! Live Comedy was established in 2020 by a group of comedians who are passionate about making their workplace one of the safest out there. It is an industry created and funded independent Human Resource service that will seek to implement and support a long term cultural change to tackle sexual harassment within live comedy. Following a year of intensive industry consultation, lots of boring meetings about insurance and some scary ones with lawyers Get Off! Live Comedy is now ready to go!
“Tackling sexual harassment seems like a Herculean task and it is, but we’ve been heartened by how passionate and committed everyone we’ve spoken to in live comedy is to ending it”- Kiri Pritchard-McLean
The company will provide free training, support and dedicated HR specialists for the live comedy scene.
During the pandemic the organisation has run on skeleton staff operating using minimal funds from benefactors. Get Off! Live Comedy now want to move forward with a means tested membership, gathered from venues, that provides a comprehensive level of service, training and support to venues, their staff and freelancers alike. However, the company are mindful of the battering the industry has taken in the last few years so they will be holding some fundraisers around the UK with some of the country’s best comedians. This will allow them to receive a much needed injection of cash before they open their doors and also to raise awareness the company’s aims.
The first two fundraisers are on sale now with more planned across the UK in 2022.
The fundraisers will also coincide with the launch of a survey into sexual harassment in the Comedy industry which has been developed in partnership with the University of Sunderland.This questionnaire will help Get Off! Live Comedy to get an overview of where the industry currently stands. The company will then be able to focus resources where they are needed and provide industry-wide standards with which to work moving forward.
Listings information
Venue: The Comedy Store, 1a Oxendon St, London, SW1Y 4EE
Dates: Wednesday, 17thNovember
Time: 8pm
Box Office: 020 7024 2060
Online: thecomedystore.co.uk
Featuring: Sara Pascoe, Nish Kumar, Nina Gilligan, Kiri Pritchard-Mclean, Sikisa Bostwick Barnes and Russell Howard.
Venue: The Frog and Bucket Comedy Club, 102 Oldham St, Manchester, M4 1LJ
Dates: Tuesday, 23rdNovember
Time: 7pm
Box Office: 0161 236 9805
Online frogandbucket.ticketsolve.com
Featuring: Daliso Chaponda, Nina Gilligan, Stephen Bailey, Bethany Black, Erika Ehler, Kiri Pritchard-Mclean and Rachel Fairburn.
