West Coast Comedy Festival 2026
West Coast Comedy Festival 2026 at Rosehill Theatre, Whitehaven
About the show
After the side-splitting success of last year’s festival, we’re thrilled to announce that West Coast Comedy Festival will be back in 2026!
Join us for a 7-hour comedy extravaganza, packed with 5 amazing comedians, great music, and some delicious food and drink.
Featuring - Flo & Joan
Flo & Joan are a British-born, Toronto-based musical comedy duo, and sisters Nicola and Rosie Dempsey. The piano/percussion pair have headlined and played to sold-out audiences across North America and internationally including Montreal Sketchfest.
"If Flanders & Swann and Flight of the Conchords and Garfunkel & Oates had a six-way time-travelling gang-bang that somehow mixed all their DNA, the offspring might end up sounding something like Flo and Joan" – Steve Bennett, Chortle
Kiri Pritchard-McLean
With a charming stage manner coupled with a deft, quick wit it's easy to see why Nottingham Comedy Festival named Welsh comic Kiri Pritchard-McLean their Breakout Act Of The Year.
'She balances affection with an acute eye for the ridiculous to bring you a stand up set of well delivered, increasingly funny anecdotes... definitely one to watch' (Three Weeks)
'Kiri was by far the funniest and most quick witted, one to look out for in the future' (Leicester Mercury).
Kiri Pritchard-McLean featured in Ents24's 20 Hardest Working Comedians of 2018 list.
Ali Woods
Ali has reached over 100 million views with his relatable sketches and stand-up on Instagram and TikTok, and is one of the most recognisable new faces in British online comedy.
As seen on Comedy Central Live, ITV2’s Stand Up Sketch Show and heard on BBC Radio 4.
Previously tour support for Russell Kane, Adam Kay and Axel Blake.
Tom Little
Cumbrian-born stand-up comic and winner of the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2015. Tom was also in the final of the BBC Radio New Comedy Award 2014, joint third in the Beat The Frog World Series 2014 and made it through to the later stages of several other prestigious competitions in 2014, having only been performing comedy since July 2013.
'Tom's original style and inventive material stood out in what was a stellar night of strong performances' (Leicester Mercury)
'Little's showstopping set-piece... made an immediate impact and it was no surprise that the judges felt that that he was the front runner' (Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke)
'Tom Little is an exciting and unique voice on the comedy scene. No joke seems to know where it's coming from, but when it lands it'll break your brain. In a nice way. We expect big things for this lad' (Sham Bodie).