From a reprise for Adam Riches and John Kearns’s batshit tribute to Michael Ball and Alfie Boe to the return of a slew of Gen X US comedy legends, it’s another side-splitting month on the London stage.
There are far, far too many one-off, multi-performer comedy nights in London for us to compile a single coherent page with our favouites on, which is entirely to London’s credit. So do check individual bills of comedy clubs online for that sort of thing. But if you’re looking for an individual comedian with a full headline show then this page is here to compile the Time Out editorial team’s top choices, often with our reviews from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
The best comedy clubs in London.
The best new theatre shows to book for in London.
What is it? Noughties provocateur Sarah Silverman returns after a long time focussing on her home turf: she hasn’t played a UK show since 2013.
Where is it? London Palladium.
Why go? Is Silverman still the same outrageous woman we last saw back in the day? Probably, yeah, although now in her mid-fifties new show Postmortem is billed as a cathartic affair exploring loss and grief (albeit amusingly).
What is it? Virtuoso ventriloquist comic Conti mounts a weeklong West End engagement with her latest show in which she puts her trademark mouth mast on hapless audience members for what is described as ‘an unparalleled, unscripted new show that delves deep into who we are, hijacking faces to spark a bold, hysterical reality warp’.
Where is it? Duke of York’s Theatre.
Why go? Okay, Conti’s stick is a bit cosy these days: blah blah mask blah blah monkey blah blah audience interaction. But by heck does she get results!
What is it? The absurdly successful comedy theatre troupe Mischief follow up The Play That Goes Wrong, Magic Goes Wrong, The Comedy About a Bank Robbery etc etc with a new one about Cold War spies.
Where it it? Noël Coward Theatre.
Why go? Mischief offer solid old fashioned comedy laughs ever time, and while the wheel is never going to be reinvented, they’re nothing if not reliably amusing.
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