Feel like a laugh? Want to express yourself or watch others express themselves? Check our comedy and performace listings below...
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Fri 24 May
Oxford Fringe: Absolute Improv!
Laugh your socks off hilarious improv! Fast-paced show that will haveyou coming back for more. 3-time Edinburgh Fringe smash hit! Scottish and international improvisers create witty sketches based on your suggestions. Arrive ready to shout odd ideas and see them transformed into fabulous scenes to give your stomach muscles a workout! All ages welcome.
Old Fire Station
Fri 24 May
Oxford Fringe: Gary Colman - Grind
Reluctant hedonist and professional snowboarder has it all. Then gets married, gets kids, gets an ulcer. A joyous, uplifting show about the crushing banality of life. “Fearlessly funny… best deadpan act since Jack Dee… it’s unsurprising that Frank Skinner’s a fan” GQ; “Highly inventive and very funny” Frank Skinner.
Old Fire Station
10pm
Sat 25 May
Sean Meo + Henry Ginsberg + Andy Robinson + Andrew O’Neill
Price: £14.50
The Glee Club (former Jongleurs), 3 Hythe Bridge Street
Entry from 07:15 PM, No entry after 08:00 PM
Mon 27 May
The Oxford Imps
The Oxford Imps have been performing their ‘Whose line is it anyway?’ style improvised comedy in Oxford for nine years, as well as taking it Europe, the US and an annual Edinburgh Fringe run. In their feel-good show they create entirely improvised scenes, songs, stories and more based on audience suggestions.
This season: Monday 22nd April - Monday 10th June
8pm (doors 7.30pm - recommended to secure a seat!)
£3.50 for a two hour show
The Wheatsheaf
8pm
Mon 27 May
Oxford Fringe: Gary Delaney 2 - This Time It Isn’t Personal (A Preview)
From Mock the Week and Dave’s One Night Stand. Gary’s just turned 40, but he’s not bothered by it. Also his Dad is in fine health. So instead he’s written some new jokes. Help him figure out which should be immediately put down for a good school and which should be quietly drowned in a bucket. Chortle award nominee, double Sony Award winner and writer for many TV shows. “Master of the one-liner” The Scotsman; “A hugely impressive collection of exquisitely crafted gags by one of Britain’s grandmasters of the one-liner.” Chortle. Not for bairns and sensitive souls.
Old Fire Station
8.30pm
Wed 29 May
Oxford Fringe: Daliso Chaponda
Daliso Chaponda is an African comedian but his comedy career has been built on jokes about Westerners. His first three shows were predominantly critiques of the insane behaviour of westerners. He still thinks Westerners are crazy but for his latest one man show he’s focusing his humorous eye on Africa. Westerners are insane but to be perfectly honest, Africans are even crazier. Corruption, tribalism, colonialism, HIV epidemics, absolute dictatorships, ivory smuggling, witch doctors… Daliso’s latest show covers all these and more subjects. Laughrica has already been across Africa and now it’s coming to the UK.
Old Fire Station
7pm
Wed 29 May
Oxford Fringe: Mike Wozniak
His wife’s parents have moved in. Permanently. Not so much a show as a person getting out of the house. But fear not, Wozniak has more show business in his moustache than he does in his little finger. Where do you keep yours? Let’s find out if we get around to it. “Just could be the new comedy hero”. Time Out wrote that ages ago. “Completely hilarious, highly recommended” 3 News said that. They are real and based in New Zealand. Wozniak has a total of 43 stars from an undisclosed number of reviews.
Old Fire Station
10pm
Thu 30 May
Oxford Fringe: Pat Cahill
START is the debut hour of mixed stupidity from Chortle Best Newcomer 2012 Pat Cahill. Once it starts you’ll get: gags, tunes, turns and bits, pausing occasionally to breathe/fart/wink. Once it stops, you can go.
“This quirky performer has true star quality and bags of originality, mixing physical humour, gimmicks, wordplay and comedy songs. Imagine a cross between Sean Lock and Eddie Izzard and you might be getting somewhere, but nowhere close.” – Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard.
Old Fire Station
8.30pm
Fri 31 May
Oxford Fringe: Alfie Brown - The Revolting Youth
Today’s youth: disenchanted and disengaged; our rights vanishing, we remain oblivious. Instead of submitting to criminal corporations and elitist politics, we must be reborn as renegades. Sounds LOL.
Old Fire Station
10pm
Fri 31 May
Oxford Fringe: The Beta Males
Chortle-award sketch-storytellers and stars of BBC Radio 4′s Sketchorama The Beta Males return to Oxford after three sell-out Edinburgh Fringes with 60 minutes of old favourites and exclusive new material from their upcoming Edinburgh show.
Old Fire Station
8.30pm
