Leicester
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
Leicester Comedy Festival has announced finalists for their flagship competitions Leicester Comedian of the Year, the UK Pun Championships, Silver Stand Up and their artist development project Circuit Breakers.
Nurturing exciting new talent alongside celebrating seasoned acts is at the core of Leicester Comedy Festival, and 2025 promises to be the biggest festival yet, with 720 shows taking place at 72 venues in the city and beyond.
Leicester Comedy Festival & The UK Kids’ Comedy Festival launch their February 2025 programme today and, for the first time, will offer 48-hour advanced Priority Booking for Best Friends of the Festival ahead of the general on-sale date of Friday, 1st November, at 10am.
The nominees for Leicester Comedy Festival 2024 Awards have been announced now that Leicester Comedy Festival and The UK Kids’ Comedy Festival have wrapped for 2024. This year’s festivities saw the highest ever ticket sales – with over 22388 tickets sold directly from the festival’s box office, equating to over a 10 percent increase in sales from 2023.
The final of the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year has taken place. This was the 30th edition and eight comedians, nominated by industry professionals battled it out at The Y Theatre. the night was hosted by Sindhu Vee and past winners have included Josh Widdicombe, Johnny Vegas and Romesh Ranganathan.
And the winner is...
Eva Bindeman
Blank Peng was runner-up, with Fiona Ridgewell third.
Apologies for this review running late. I was particularly busy after being one of the judges of this final, but having recently spoken to the organiser i decided I say a few things about the acts at this year's Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian Of The Year Final.
Leicester Comedy Festival has announced finalists for three of their flagship competitions as well as the incoming Circuit Breakers for 2024. Each year the festival provides an important platform for aspiring comedians as well as celebrating more seasoned comedians.
The annual Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian Of The Year Final has taken place with 14 acts battling it out for the top spot.
And the winner is...Sallyann Fellowes, who is pictured after the announcement by organiser David Hardcastle (picture by Steve Ullathorne).
Second place went to Christian Jegard and third place went to Hugh Peacocke,
Leicester Comedy Festival launches its brochure today with a record number of shows registered. There are 708 shows registered at this stage in 2024, compared to 2023 of 631 shows and pre pandemic levels of 684 shows, which is a 12 percent increase on 2023.
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