The 12th edition of the annual Cambridge Comedy Festival returns to the city with 34 shows from some of the world’s fi nest comedy performers. After two years of alfresco comedy on Jesus Green the festival returns to its original home at Cambridge Junction where the venue will be transformed into a comedy hub with four performance venues plus the Moonshine Brewery beer garden and delicious food from our street food vendors. The Jesterlarf Comedy Club will be hosting shows each night with big name headliners, whilst the other spaces feature Edinburgh preview shows and a star studded programme of award winners and the hottest emerging talent. There are also some great kid’s shows for our young chucklers.

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Cambridge Junction is fully accessible. If you would like to discuss any access requirement prior to your visit, please call us on 01223 511 511. All events have unreserved seating. All prices shown include a booking fee. Under 14s must be accompanied by an adult. See website for full details. jesterlarf comedy club

jesterlarf comedy club Wed 18 Jul Thu 19 Jul JESTERLARF COMEDY CLUB JESTERLARF COMEDY CLUB

Milton Jones, Ian Stone, Josh Widdicombe, the Kagools, Stefano Paolini, Maff Brown (MC) Rosie Jones, Laura Lexx (MC)

Multi award-winning Mock The Week regular Milton Jones headlines The Last Leg’s Josh Widdicombe headlines the show. Star of 8 Out the show with a gag-packed set of absurd brilliance. The king of the of 10 Cats Does Countdown, QI and his very own hit BBC sitcom one-liners continues to delight audiences across the UK with his utterly Josh. He’s a master observationalist and the undisputed king of the unique wordplay and very loud shirts. exasperated petty gripe. Support comes from BBC Radio 5 Live presenter and Comedy Store Support comes from the multi award winning physical comedy duo The Cutting Edge stalwart Ian Stone with his biting topical satire. Plus Kagools the undeniable purveyors of a good a time, guaranteed to bring Stefano Paolini an incredible beat-boxer and deft stand-up who a smile to your face. Plus Rosie Jones, a comedian whose cerebral palsy combines both to deliver an original, playful and hilarious look at life doesn’t slow down her penchant for mischief in the slightest. as a second generation Italian immigrant and the culture clash between Compere for the show is the uniquely gleeful Laura Lexx with her himself and his quirky family life and parents. delightfully quirky take on the world. Compere for the show is Maff Brown whose lightening quick jokes fall J1 / 8.30–10.45pm / £18 / 16+ out of him like gold coins from a pirate’s chest. J1 / 8.30–10.45pm / £18 / 16+ Fri 20 Jul Sat 21 Jul JESTERLARF COMEDY CLUB JESTERLARF COMEDY CLUB

Reginald D Hunter, Mike Gunn, Henning Wehn, Leo Kearse, Diane Spencer, Kevin McCarthy (MC) Rich Wilson, John Mann (MC)

Spellbinding and brilliantly unpredictable multi award winning US star German Comedy Ambassador superstar Henning Wehn headlines the Reginald D Hunter headlines the show with his searingly honest and show with his diplomatic master class in personal accountability and hilarious material that playfully prods sensibilities. wonderment at the foibles of British society. Wunderbar! Support comes from deadpan maestro Mike Gunn whose delightfully Support comes from Rich Wilson with hilarious tales of outrageous twisted gags and routines are comedy gold. Plus award winning Diane shenanigans and misadventure. He’s effortlessly funny, smart and filthy Spencer whose hilarious, slick and perverse humour has been compared in equal measure. Plus Scottish comedian of the year and UK Pun to Joan Rivers and Jim Jeffries. Champion Leo Kearse with side-splitting tales about being Scottish, Compere for the show is Jesterlarf regular Kevin McCarthy with his dating, buying a train ticket and Thai toilets! daft, playful and indescribable comedy. Compere for the show is John Mann with his deadpan ramblings and delightful audience banter. J1 / 8.30–10.45pm / £18 / 16+ J1 / 8.30–10.45pm / £18 / 16+ Wed 18 Jul Wed 18 Jul Wed 18 Jul ADAM BUXTON: BUG X Join Adam Buxton – comedian, writer, broadcaster, director, general music video enthusiast and YouTube comment wrangler elf lyons: tony law: – as he takes you on a whistlestop chiffchaff a lost show tour through some of the highlights from the last ten years The Edinburgh Comedy Award A new hour of absurd comedy of the big-screen music video Nominee (Best Show 2017) from the triple Chortle award showcase, BUG. presents her one woman musical winner and “ever-changing, hard- about the economy. You read that to-contain, force of nature” right. Let’s get fiscal. (Guardian).

J2 / 7–8.15pm / £17 / 14+ J3 / 7.30–8.30pm / £10.50 / 16+ J3 / 7.30–8.30pm / £10.50 / 16+

Wed 18 Jul Wed 18 Jul Wed 18 Jul SIMON BRODKIN IS NOT LEE NELSON Irrepressible prankster and acclaimed character comedian Simon Brodkin, steps out from behind his Lee Nelson persona catherine Olaf Falafel: to perform some unmissable bohart There’s No i In Idiot stand-up as himself. “Unfunny pillock” Catherine Bohart is the bisexual, Critically acclaimed idiot and The Deputy Prime Minister OCD daughter of a Catholic author is back with another hour Deacon and she’s got a hell of of surreal stupidity, inventive a lot to say about it. As seen on jokes, audience participation and Frankie Boyle’s New World Order. the very loosest of themes.

J2 / 9–10pm / £10.50 / 16+ J4 / 7–8pm / £6 / 16+ J4 / 8.30–9.30pm / £6 / 16+ Thu 19 Jul Thu 19 Jul Thu 19 Jul Griff Rhys Jones: Where Was I Join the star of Not the Nine o’Clock News, Smith & Jones and Three Men In a Boat for a hilarious evening of comedy George Egg: Geoff Norcott: - observations, anecdotes, DIY Chef Traditionalism reminiscences and outright lies The comedian who cooks on stage The satirical comic, and star – from forty years of travelling presents an inspiring evening of of The Mash Report is trying to down rivers and up mountains, stand-up whilst preparing three hold modern views, but worries into Africa, out of India, and plates of food using power tools, that tradition is becoming a across the arid wastes of the BBC. office equipment, hair-dressing dirty word. appliances and more. J2 / 7 – 8.50pm / £18 / 14+ J3 / 7.30–8.30pm / £10.50 / 16+ J3 / 9–10pm / £10.50 / 16+

Thu 19 Jul Thu 19 Jul Thu 19 Jul Thu 19 Jul Tom Stade: I Swear To… (Preview) After last year’s smash-hit tour, the comedy legend returns Tom Ward: Ashley Blaker: Adam Vincent: Popcorn Lung Observant Jew Stuck In The with a new show, picking up Suburbs With You just where he left off. Armed with his usual swagger and The critically The internationally The Last Leg writer playful sense of mischief, acclaimed hip-haired acclaimed comedian explains how family Tom ponders generational comedian returns for a and producer (Little demands, societal conundrums and more. closer inspection of his Britain) comes to expectations and “Mischievous, high-spirited, no favourite themes; love, Cambridge direct from unfulfilled joys are nonsense stand-up” Chortle freedom and aloneness. his Broadway run. controlling his life.

J4 / 7–8pm J4 / 8.30–9.30pm J4 / 9.45–10.45pm J2 / 9.30–10.30pm / £10.50 / 16+ £6 / 16+ £6 / 16+ £6 / 16+ Fri 20 Jul Fri 20 Jul Fri 20 Jul Jo Caulfield: Killing Time Jo Caulfield is a Edinburgh Festival favourite and she is taking up a brand new show. Guaranteed big laughs and The Elvis Dead Jarred Christmas: big rants. Remarkably “Cut-throat, razor sharp-witted, Average urban comedy that goes down a Cult classic horror movie Evil Jarred recently had a DNA treat. Like a sociology textbook, but Dead 2 reinterpreted through test and found the results were with jokes” The Times the songs of Elvis Presley! An extremely disappointing. Join Edinburgh Comedy Award him as he explores his own nominated underground hit. averageness.

J2 / 7–8pm / £10.50 / 16+ J3 / 7.30–8.30pm / £10.50 / 16+ J3 / 9–10pm / £10.50 / 16+

Fri 20 Jul Fri 20 Jul Fri 20 Jul Simon Evans: Genius Ever since he was a small boy, all Evans really wanted was to be recognised by the world as a man of genius. He has, until now, Christopher Darren Harriott: remained thwarted. Macarthur-Boyd: Visceral “A masterclass in socio-political Home Sweet Home comedy... The Show is called The debut hour from the next The “properly funny” (Times) Genius. It comes very close.” big thing in Scottish comedy. Edinburgh Comedy Award Best The Scotsman As heard on BBC Radio 1 and Newcomer nominee returns with BBC Radio 4extra. a brand new show.

J2 / 8.30–9.30pm / £15.50 / 16+ J4 / 7–8pm / £6 / 16+ J4 / 8.30–9.30pm / £6 / 16+ Sat 21 Jul Sat 21 Jul Sat 21 Jul Zoe Lyons: Entry Level Human This hugely popular comic returns with a fresh crop of quick- fire observational gags, delivered with utter conviction not to charlie baker Comedy Collision mention proper laugh-out-loud one-liners. Join the star of Harry Hill’s Tea A showcase of the best emerging “Top of her game, in command Time as he serves up a hilarious local comedy talent. Featuring of her material, her audience and hour of stand-up comedy. Trevor Bickles, Nelson T her stage.” Chortle “An absolute romp” Chortle Gombakomba, Adele Cliff, Martin Westgate, and Rob Knighton (MC). J2 / 7–8pm / £10.50 / 16+ J3 / 7.30–8.30pm / £10.50 / 16+ J3 / 9–10.15pm / £6 / 16+

Sat 21 Jul Sat 21 Jul Sat 21 Jul Sat 21 Jul Andrew Maxwell: Shake A Leg A world-class hour of whip- smart personal and political Henry Paker Sara Barron: Maisie Adams: comedy from everyone’s favourite For Worse Vague Irish funnyman and Celebrity Mastermind champion. One of Join “one of the funniest The reigning queen The So You Think the planet’s most natural comic men on the planet” of New York’s live You’re Funny? winner talents, where anecdotes and (Guardian) as he debuts storytelling scene presents a work in observations are interwoven with a brand new hour of delivers her debut hour progress ahead of her razor sharp political and social stand-up. that’s filthy, fun and Edinburgh debut. commentary. incisive.

J4 / 6–7pm J4 / 7.15–8.15pm J4 / 8.30–9.30pm J2 / 9–10pm / £10.50 / 16+ £6 / 16+ £6 / 16+ £6 / 16+ Sat 21 Jul Charlie, Glenda and Graham her goat Sat 21 Jul go on a hilarious musical rollercoaster The Greatest of showbiz, adventure and emotion. Comedy Club Goat Of All Time A fresh, funny and fantastical story 4 Kids starring award-winning comedian, Just ‘cos you’re a kid, doesn’t Family singer and dancer Charlie Baker Show (Harry Hill’s Tea Time, Dog Ate My mean you should miss out on the Homework, Doctor Who) and BAFTA- best stand-ups and sketch acts winning CBBC Class Dismissed actress of the Festival! Just ‘cos you’re Sam Battersea. Live clip-clop hip-hop an adult at a kids’ show, doesn’t soundtrack accompanies our hero on mean you can’t also have the best her journey from 0-100% confidence time! Since 2005, Comedy Club with her magically tuneful farmyard 4 Kids have been persuading their friend. Jokes! Songs! A goat! (plastic). favourite performers to strut their Family stuff for family audiences. Show Smiles! (Not plastic). J2 / 2.30–3.30pm / £10 adult / £6 child / Family of 4: £28 / 5+

J2 / 5.15 – 6.15pm / £10 adult / £6 child / Family of 4: £28 / 7+ Sat 21 Jul SESKA performs incredibly silly magic tricks - repeats them again but food and drink SESKA: Spot with a crazy added difference. ...And The Difference when you spot the difference you Renowned local restauranteur La win a fab prize! A party atmosphere, Maison Du Steak and Pull Me hilarious entertainment and a Chéri will be serving up some Family competition all in one. Crazier than delicious French street food from Show finding a penguin in your fridge - their vintage Renault Estafette when Seska comes to town. Kids inside the beer garden. Caffe laugh out loud, dads fart out loud and Mobile will offer a selection of mums faint at his feet! homemade cakes and pastries as well as freshly ground coffee whilst local ice cream supremo Jack’s Gelato will present a mouthwatering selection of unusual flavours.

J2 / 4–4.45pm / £10 adult / £6 child / Family of 4: £28 / 4+