Leicester
The BBC has reported that comedians who performed at this year's Leicester Comedy Festival in February have still not been paid.
According to their story the delay is due to cashflow problems that the organisers of the oldest comedy festival in the UK, dating from 1994, are trying to resolve.
The team behind the Leicester Comedy Festival is to take over the city’s Abbey Park on Sunday 14th June for LCF in the Park.
The nominees for the 2026 Leicester Comedy Festival Awards have been announced, celebrating the incredible talent showcased during the Leicester Comedy Festival and the UK Kids’ Comedy Festival. This year 23,869 tickets were sold directly from the festival’s box office to 756 shows county wide.
Leicester Comedy Festival, the largest and longest-running comedy festival in Europe launches tomorrow, running until 22 February with more than 700 shows taking place across the county.
Fourteen acts made it through the heats into the final of this year's Leicester Square Theatre Comedian of the Year competition. That's a lot of fun on a Saturday afternoon and given that this is a competition for newcomers you might have expected the occasional dud.
The final of the Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian 2025 took place at the Leicester Square Theatre on Saturday night.
14 acts competed for the trophy. and the winner, chosen by the judges, was former firefighter Roman Harris. He wins a trophy and £1500.
Second place and £500 went to Lizzie Simpson. Third place and £250 went to Dom McGovern.
The other finalists, in the show compered by 2025 Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Sam Nicoresti, were:
Leicester Comedy Festival has revealed the finalists for its flagship competitions: Leicester Comedian of the Year, UK Pun Championships, and its artist development programme, Circuit Breakers.
Supporting exciting new voices alongside established names remains central to the festival, which celebrates the art of comedy - with 700 shows across the county in February 2026.
The Comedy Store Players have been named the Legend of Comedy at Leicester Comedy Festival’s annual awards ceremony tonight, in partnership with De Montfort University.
Also honoured were comedians including Helen Bauer, Jody Kamali, Kyrah Gray and Katie Norris for their outstanding performances at this year’s festival.
The nominees for the 2025 Leicester Comedy Festival Awards have been announced, celebrating the incredible talent showcased during the Leicester Comedy Festival and the UK Kids’ Comedy Festival. This year’s events saw record-breaking attendance, with over 23,880 tickets sold directly from the festival’s box office to 753 shows county wide.
The annual Silver Stand-Up competition for more mature comedians made its return to Leicester Comedy Festival on 13 February with a night of laughter.
Samantha Day was crowned winner. The other finalists were:
Julie Metcalfe
Kevin Hudson
Kevin O’Brien
Lubna Kerr
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