The most popular comedy shows in London

Like your laughter with a side of PERi-salted chips? You're in luck. We've teamed up with Nando's to create the Extra Hot Comedy Club, which will see top-tier comedians perform at Nando's restaurants around the country. London's headliner is master satirist (and recent Time Out cover star) Munya Chawawa, alongside the excellent Kyrah Gray and Sikisa as emcee. But that's not all! Two awesome up-and-coming comedians will also perform at each gig. They were selected in a hotly contested judging process that involved submitting videos via Instagram and being chosen by a panel which included Time Out editors, Nando's representatives and the great Munya Chawawa himself. You can check out the full list of winners here. Further afield, you've got Larry Dean headlining Birmingham on April 7, Chris Hall in Brighton on April 22, and Grace Campbell in Newcastle on April 28.  Now for possibly the best bit: tickets are just £15 and include a delicious Nando's feast, including two drinks. Winner winner, chicken dinner.  Tickets are currently sold out, but more will be released on Monday March 17. 

Britain’s favourite ascerbic adopted Canadian returns with a show of two halves. The first part of Battleaxe is classic Ryan standup in which she – by all accounts – goes full heels in on the disgraced etc Russell Brand. The second sees her turning comedy agony aunt (of sorts) by addressing various dilemmas texted in by the audience during the interval. 

Lo-fi comedy genius Daniel Kitson emerges from his bunker in March to host five juicy bills of affordable Monday night comedy as a fundraiser for beloved London community radio station Resonance FM.  The bills are as follows:  Mar 3 -  Lloyd Griffith, Roisin Conaty, Rose Matafeo, Sean Mcloughlin Mar 10 – Rosie Jones, Ivor Dembina, Ania Magliano, Spencer Jones Mar 17 – Rob Auton, Lucy Pearman, Bridget Christie. Mar 24 – Ceyla AB, Andy Zaltzman, Sam Campbell Mar 31 – Alice Snedden, John Kearns Kitson will act as host at all shows.

In his latest dizzyingly high concept show, avant comedy legend Stewart Lee bemoans his irrelevance – something he’s been been bemoaning for decades, often with zeitgeisty results – in a new show in which he promises to unleash a new, callously offensive stage persona to compete with the likes of Ricky Gervais and Dave Chappelle. The Man-Wulf is, apparently, ‘a tough-talking werewolf comedian from the dark forests of the subconscious who hates humanity’. Expect nuclear levels of irony. 

15 acts compete in this heat of the 2013 Laughing Horse New Act of the Year competition, plus MC Lewis Bryan.