Wells Comedy Festival 2018
Wells Comedy Festival 2018 ! Wells Comedy Festival first shows announced for 2018 James Acaster, Limmy, Sara Pascoe, Tim Key, Mark Watson, Hal Cruttenden, Desiree Burch, Paul Foot and many more head to England’s smallest city for Somerset’s weekend-long comedy festival The Wells Comedy Festival – now in its fourth year – is back, bigger and better, for 2018, announcing the first batch of shows for this year’s Somerset shindig. Over the bank holiday weekend of May 25-27 England’s smallest city plays host to a ‘weekend-long stand-up jamboree’ (The Guardian), with dozens of comedy shows taking place at six venues in Wells, all within walking distance of one another. Comics performing at the three-day fest include ‘Mock the Week’ regular James Acaster, cult Scottish comedy hero Limmy screening his Vines, multi-award stand-up and author Sara Pascoe, Edinburgh Comedy Award-winner and ‘Alan Partridge’ star Tim Key, Bristolian wonder Mark Watson, ‘Live at the Apollo’ stars Hal Cruttenden and Desiree Burch, and absurdist master Paul Foot. Also announced are shows from TV names including ‘The Chase’s Paul Sinha, ‘Live at the Apollo’ star Dane Baptiste, ‘Never Mind the Buzzcocks’ favourite Tony Law, local hero Richard Herring with his hugely popular podcast and ‘Upstart Crow’s Spencer Jones. There are Edinburgh Comedy Awards-nominated comics galore, including double award winner John Kearns and fellow nominees Joseph Morpurgo, Elf Lyons, Ahir Shah, Lucy Pearman, Ben Target, Adam Hess, Mat Ewins, Kwame Asante, Gein’s Family Giftshop and Steen Raskopoulos. And that’s not all, there are also shows from YouTube sensations The Brett Domino Trio, character comic Colin Hoult and Radio 4 sketch stars Lazy Susan.
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