Now voted two years running as the best comedy club in London and the southeast, and a finalist in the small business awards for the UK, Stitches Comedy Club returns to Wickham with another stellar line up! Opening the show is British Comedian of the Year Alistair Williams, fresh from his appearance on Comedy Central, and a regular at London's very own Comedy Store! Next up following shows around the world, is award winning comedian David Arnold! Headliner is none other than star off our TVs for the last 25 years, Zoe Lyons! If you love comedy and have a telly then you'll have seen Zoe on all the main shows, such as Have I Got News For You, House of Games, Live At The Apollo (many times), Mock The Week, QI, Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow, and even Celebrity SAS!! With a great cheap bar, free parking and all on your doorstep it's a night not to be missed!
Please note that the artists appearing may be subject to change
Featuring
Zoe Lyons
A comedy award nominee and a sharp and funny comedy performer who has appeared on Mock The Week. Very highly rated by fellow comedians, and regularly bringing down the Screamers Comedy Club roof.
Zoe takes a sideways view of life, picking out the many absurdities and turning them into hilarious routines which she delivers with tremendous energy. She performs her diverse material with utter conviction leaving everyone wanting for more. She won the Funny Women Competition in 2004 and the Dave, Funniest Joke Of The Fringe Award in 2008.
'Achingly funny... A cracking show' (The Melbourne Age)
'Probably the most impressive British female comic on the circuit' (The Skinny)
'Lyons has what it takes to delight any crowd' (The Guardian)
'Hugely confident, passionate, energetic... she gets better and better... Excellent' (The Daily Mirror)
'Throughout her show she unleashes non-stop rapid fire bolts of vinegar wit... I
defy anyone not to fold up with laughter at her show' (Edinburgh Evening News)
Zoe Lyons was named in Ents24's Hardest Working Comedians list of 2018 and 2016.
David Arnold is a loveable Welshman who never fails to deliver a well-rounded and polished performance that has his audience laughing throughout. Since his first gig in late 2012 David has become a firm favourite of comedy audiences throughout the South West, his first year culminated in a headline slot at The Boardmasters Festival in Newquay and a semi-final place at So You Think You’re Funny at The Gilded Balloon in Edinburgh. More recently he won the Bristol Comedy Gladiators new act grand final, and has even performed at the Download Festival!
An observational storyteller, Alistair has been performing stand-up since 2015; rising through the ranks at a rate of knots excelling in any situation he is put in. After winning the Piccadilly Comedy Club’s New Comedian of the Year 2014 award and reaching the finals of prestigious competitions (Amused Moose Laugh Off, Leicester Square New Act and Laughing Horse New Act) Alistair is already on his way to the top.
'Alistair Williams describes his comedy style as the ramblings of a moron. He must be doing something right though as he is highly regarded as one of the most exciting new acts on the UK comedy circuit' (Catfae Talent)
'He has a charming and confident stage manner and his material is fresh and very funny. He endeared himself to the audience and left the stage to a loud round of applause' (Grahame Limmer, Bearcat Comedy Club).
Following in the footsteps of the West Country’s finest comedy talent, Tom has been growing in the dark depths of the south west where he is a regular MC and headliner for those rooms no-one else can afford to drive to.
Gigging to everyone from students to the ladies of the WI this plucky comedian has developed a knack of winning over any crowd with his tales of life on the outside and his observations on the minutiae of the everyday. And if that’s not your thing he also does funny accents and pulls silly faces.