Sitting Room Comedy Club

Sitting Room Comedy Club

Sitting Room Comedy Club

The Empress, Harrogate

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About the show

Critically acclaimed comedy night featuring four of the very best stand-up comedians from the UK and international circuits.

Please note that the artists appearing may be subject to change

Featuring

Christian Reilly

Christian Reilly appearing at this event

Now a solo headline act all over the globe, Christian uses his improvisations, sharp wit, youthful energy, guitar skills and vocal mimicry to target histrionic rock bands, musical theatre and morose indie musicians with his charming onstage confidence machine-gunning impossibly catchy tunes with hysterical lyrical content. His solo Edinburgh Festival Show, ‘Lost In Music’ was sold out, critically acclaimed and was the winner of the 'Spirit Of The Fringe' Award.

In 1999 Christian started playing guitar and singing for the American comic polymath Rich Hall. High points included winning the Perrier Award in 2001 for "Rich Hall is Otis Lee Crenshaw", being on subsequent CD and DVD releases, seeing the world, appearing on stage with Seinfeld star Michael Richards and getting on Late Night with Conan O' Brien.

He was a regular on a BBC radio show with the Richard Herring, called That Was Then, This Is Now that was critically acclaimed

and lasted for 3 series. This led to a key role in Herring’s groundbreaking podcast, As It Occurs To Me which ran for three years and won a Chortle award for best internet comedy and appearances on Radio 2’s ‘Jammin’.

'So much biblical gusto and zest it is impossible not to be possessed by his optimistic persona' (Broadway Baby).

'If you’re a fan of Bill Bailey or Rich Hall, you’re probably a Christian Reilly fan already' (The Guardian).

‘LOLternative Rock’.

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Faizan Shah

Faizan Shah appearing at this event

Faizan Shah has found great success in his very short career, he won the Gong Show, Stockton Arc gong, finalist in the Beat the Frog World Series and Liverpool Breakthrough Act of the Year and a semi finalist for the BBC New Comedy Award. He was also shortlisted for Best Breakthrough Act 2023. Faizan moved to the UK as a child and his well crafted jokes make light of growing up in an immigrant household in his trademark deadpan manner.

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Tom Taylor

Tom Taylor appearing at this event

Multi-award winning comedian Tom Taylor has received high praise from audiences and critics alike.

In 2013 Tom reached the final of the prestigious So You Think You’re Funny? competition, the following year he was a finalist in the Hobgoblin Comedy Award and in 2015 he took home the award for Comedian of the Year at the inaugural Great Yorkshire Fringe. Most recently he picked up the Audience Favourite Award at the Musical Comedy Awards 2017 and reached the final of English Comedian of the Year 2018.

A favourite of live bookers across the UK, Tom has also supported Simon Munnery, John Kearns and Abandoman on tour and performed on Radio 2 and Radio 4 as part of the BBC Radio New Comedy Award.

In addition to his stand-up talents, Tom is an accomplished actor and writer having penned and performed two one-man murder mysteries, A Charlie Montague Mystery: The Game’s a Foot, Try the Fish and The Man with the Twisted Hip. Following two sell-out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Tom embarked on a national tour of both shows in autumn 2017.

"Excellent … beautifully daft" - Sunday Times

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on Wednesday 9 September 2026