James Acaster explores his love/hate relationship with standup by relinquishing control of his set and accepting a healthy dose of audience interference – AKA heckling. With his wiry observational eye and incomparable wit, Acaster shares hilarious on-the-fly meta-analysis of his own material,...
On December 17th 2019, I, James Acaster, filmed my 2019 tour show Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 at EartH in Hackney. It was a show about the best year of my life (1999) and the worst year of my life (2017), I wore a very nifty jacket for it and I looked extremely cool.
A documentary following five comedians: Amy Gledhill, Sikisa, Josh Jones, Lily Phillips and Anthony DeVito at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2022. A funny, intimate showcase of what it's like for comedians to bring their debut show to the festival.
Inspired by the mostly alarming state of the world his children are growing up in, and a genuine, urgent desire to do something about it, this show is about empathy. 99 percent of the world's population is made up of other people: why can't we understand them? As scrawny and impassioned as ever,...
The Ruislip-based stand up has resolved to tell the truth, the whole truth and almost nothing but the truth. After an argument with his therapist about being too closed off, Stuart has resolved to come clean: sperm and all.
Lockdown is over, the boy is back in town: after two years of global/domestic chaos, Ivo blasts through his most urgent concerns of the early 2020s, plus a few from the late 1990s, in a critically acclaimed show ("mastering his craft with motormouthed finesse...if self-deprecation were a sport,...
This special was filmed at the end of the Edinburgh Festival at Carnivore. Outside of the festival, this room is used for storage but I thought it looked pretty cool. This show is the culmination of doing hundreds of sets coming out of the pandemic and loving stand-up again after a longer break...
"It has been a period of upheaval and uncertainty with COVID and the political situation. You will be amazed by my capacity to somehow take all these things personally." Your Power, Your Control is a new show from the former host of Late Night Mash and one of The Guardian's Top Top Fifty Comedians...
Milo Edwards hasn’t received a voicemail in some time. He’d like to talk about that, and quite a lot else. Nominated for Best Show at the Leicester Comedy Festival 2023, as well as having critically-acclaimed runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Voicemail...
South African-born Manxman Pierre Novellie is anything but quiet when it comes to emergency trousers, the apocalypse, anatomically-correct Halloween costumes, and Christmas Day with The Queen. “Quiet Ones” was recorded in September 2021 at the Pleasance Theatre in London.
A ward-winning musical comedian and improviser Rachel Parris gives us her fresh, life- affirming collection of songs, stories and stand-up here in the live recording of her hit solo show Best Laid Plans. Reflecting on childhood hopes for the adults we thought we’d become, and sticking a joyful...
Last year Stuart started telling the truth on stage and was diagnosed autistic: he got the best reviews he’s ever got and his show was a must-see. He's back baby! And has to lean into it further. It’s funny, it’s real, it’s immaculately structured and it’s a chance to see a comedian at...
Award-winning comedian Pierre Novellie’s latest stand-up special explores why he finds most things a 6/10 - and why he doesn’t see eye-to-eye with anyone else on what makes a 0/10 or a 10/10
Stuart Laws ('You'll struggle to find a comedian with a better jokes per minute rate... like a one-man episode of Arrested Development' Fest) acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe and tour show Stuart Laws is All In. The show sees Stuart reflect on the day his life changed forever: when he risked everything...
