Winner of the Best Kids’ Show at the 2024 Leicester Comedy Festival.

After a sell out run at last year’s Fringe, comedian and children's author Olaf Falafel is dishing up another frying pan full of family-friendly comedy.

The comedy show comedians take their kids to is back and even funnier!

Join Olaf Falafel (if that is his real name) for an hour of kid's comedy which will be the stupidest he has ever let trickle from his brain. Expect sausage birds, radioactive bogies and truth-telling cheese. There will definitely be a time-travelling portal to the future, some farts and a live drawalong.

Be there or be a dodecahedron!

Time Out Top 10 Kids' Shows 2024.

The Times Edinburgh Festival Family Highlights 2024

'Olaf Falafel is a perfectly ridiculous festival must see' Shaparak Khorsandi

'My son’s favourite comedian, which is upsetting given my profession' Geoff Norcott

'Very very very silly' Josie Long

Age guidance
4 + years

Studio
£12 | £10 under 16s | Family and Friends (4 people) £40

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•  16 Apr from £10
•  16 Apr from £10

65 million years ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth…

30 years ago, a movie about dinosaurs ruled the box office…

This season, you are invited to Hold On To Your Butts!

Hold On To Your Butts is a must see shot-for-shot parody of the greatest dinosaur film of all time. After selling out in New York and at the Edinburgh Festival, this wildly inventive tour-de-force of comedy, Foley sound and physical theatre is coming to Norden Farm.

Don’t walk, run to get your tickets!

'Painfully funny... made us cry actual tears of laughter... a pure joy from start to finish' Critics’ Pick - Time Out New York

Age guidance
8+ years

Courtyard Theatre
£18 I £16 Supporters and Under 16s

Family & Friends (4 people) £56
Groups must include at least one adult and one under 16. Please contact our Box Office team on 01628 788997 to take advantage of this offer.

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•  19 Feb from £16

Multi-award winning stand up comedian, actor and writer Paul Chowdhry will be warming up for his forthcoming tour.

Renowned as the most successful British Indian stand up comedian in British history, Paul’s career is marked by numerous accolades and ground-breaking achievements. In a remarkable feat, Paul completed his Family-Friendly Comedian nationwide UK tour from 2021 to 2023, which saw three extensions due to overwhelming demand, as well a tour through the US, Canada, and the UAE.

This tour garnered widespread praise, culminating in a sold-out run at the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2023, where it earned rave reviews and ratings ranging from 4 to 5 stars. Paul’s Family-Friendly Comedian tour show was released by SKY as a special in 2024.

Paul became the first British Asian stand-up comedian to sell out the 10,000-seat Wembley Arena, with approximately 100,000 tickets sold across his 'Live, Innit' tour. His unforgettable performance at Wembley Arena was voted one of the venue’s top ten shows of 2017 by the public.

Paul is set to host the new series of Live at The Apollo after first making an appearance in 2012.

Studio
£20

•  21 Feb SOLD OUT

If life is a journey, Zoe’s has had more than its share of potholes and diversions.

From diving with sharks, to sitting in a shed in Vietnam with a former health secretary (and discovering that MPs aren’t the only parasites she has to worry about). Navigating the road to happiness can be exhausting and baffling. Zoe’s begun to think that even Wim Hof would prefer to be tucked up with a nice hot water bottle every now and then.

But Zoe’s been on that road long enough now that she’s felt a change – not as in the menopause. A real change. If happiness is ending up the best version of yourself, Zoe is finally getting there. She is where she needs to be. She is… werewolf.

The host of BBC’s Lightning, a regular on Have I Got News For You, QI, and Mock The Week – and a survivor of Celebrity SAS Who Dares Wins and World’s Most Dangerous Roads on Dave – Zoe is one of the country’s best-loved comedians. 

'A hugely enjoyable mix of brutal put downs and richly funny stories, Lyons has what it takes to delight any crowd' Guardian

​'A tremendously good comic operating at a vertiginous level.' ★★★★​ The Wee Review

'Confident and razor sharp' Observer 

Age guidance: 14+ years

Supported by Alex Kealy.

Courtyard Theatre
£17

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•  28 Feb SOLD OUT

Finally, the UK has a new government. That can only mean one thing: new people to take the piss out of.

Leading political comedian and satirist Matt Forde (British Scandal, Spitting Image, The Last Leg) makes this his personal mission.

'Possibly the best political comedy show on the Fringe' ★★★★★ The Telegraph

'Our foremost satirical stand-up... Whatever your politics, you’ll find excellence here' The Sunday Times

'Demand to see Forde in action at the Pleasance outstrips supply – the place is rammed…dependably slick' The Daily Telegraph

'The excellent Matt Forde… even more accurate than Starmer’s needling voice' The Spectator

Courtyard Theatre
£18

Matt's website

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•   7 Mar from £18

A Berk’s Nest production in association with United Agents

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Taskmaster loser and Ted Lasso star Nick Mohammed (and his critically acclaimed alter-ego Mr. Swallow) works up his brand new show ahead of a national tour. As per - expect magic, music and a whole load of brand new mistakes.

Nick Mohammed is one of the UK’s most celebrated comedians, actors and writers. Nick has received feverish critical acclaim for his previous Mr. Swallow shows Dracula, Houdini and A Christmas Carol (ish) alongside his first UK tour The Very Best and Worst of Mr. Swallow.

Mr. Swallow has appeared in Dictionary Corner on numerous episodes of 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown along with entertaining the great and the good at the 2024 BAFTA Film Awards, with frankly terrifying results!

Nick plays Nate in Apple TV’s hit multi award-winning series Ted Lasso, for which he was nominated twice for Outstanding Supporting Actor at the Emmy Awards. He also starred in Sally Wainwright’s Renegade Nell (Disney+) and Steven Moffat’s Douglas Is Cancelled (ITV). Nick created, wrote, and starred (alongside David Schwimmer) in his own Sky TV hit show Intelligence. Other appearances include Stath Lets Flats (Channel 4), Inside No. 9 (BBC), This Time with Alan Partridge (BBC), and he’ll soon be seen starring alongside Bryce Dallas Howard and Orlando Bloom in Prime Video’s Deep Cover. He was one of the worst contestants in the history of Channel 4’s Taskmaster.

Praise for past Mr. Swallow shows:

‘Split-your-sides hilarious’ ★★★★★ Evening Standard

‘Giddy, draft, and dazzling… incontrovertibly hilarious’ ★★★★★ The Guardian

‘Go and see it!’ ★★★★★ Time Out

‘Monstrously funny’ ★★★★★ Metro

‘Comic perfection’ ★★★★★ The Stage

‘Hilarious… Chaos that is carefully, craftily cultivated’ ★★★★★ The Reviews Hub

‘A brilliant comic creation… you may end up with a pain in your side or sore face muscles from laughing so hard’ ★★★★★ Broadway World

‘Uniquely joyous, there’s scarcely a dull moment in this one-off comic masterclass’ ★★★★ The Times

‘An irresistible comic creation… Pure entertainment and genuinely impressive’ ★★★★ The Telegraph

Studio
£16

•  11 Mar SOLD OUT