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Preston’s Frog and Bucket finds a new home

Preston's Frog and Bucket Comedy Club has found a new home - at the nearby Guild Hall.

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Sham Bodie turns 1

Manchester comedy/chat show Sham Bodie celebrates its first birthday this month - and you're all invited to the dead good party. There'll be a magician, a clown, pass the parcel and, of course, loadsa...

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Manford and Moorhouse spread Christmas cheer with food bank donations

A leading charity has praised two TV stand-ups for encouraging their fans to donate advent calendars to food banks.

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Citizen Khan wins big at 2014 RTS North West Awards

Image: @JamieJayBeats Citizen Khan has scooped two awards at the 2014 RTS North West Awards. The BBC One sitcom was awarded Best Comedy Programme at a ceremony in Manchester, retaining its crown after...

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Laughing Cows’ sweet sixteen

All-female comedy clubs celebrating with gigs in Manchester, Glossop and Lancaster.

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Justin Moorhouse launches northern TV comedy company

Justin Moorhouse and writer Jim Poyser have launched a TV production company dedicated to making comedy set in the north of England.

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Paddy McGuinness responds to Phoenix Nights rumours

"I don't get on with any of them in real life and I don't want anything to do with it."

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Phil Ellis brings Funz and Gamez to The Comedy Store

Phil Ellis is bringing his Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning show to Manchester this weekend.

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Peter Kay’s Phoenix Nights comeback confirmed

Peter Kay has confirmed details of the much-anticipated Phoenix Nights comeback.

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Two final dates added to Peter Kay’s Phoenix Nights Live run

Two final dates have been added to Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights Live run in Manchester - taking the total number of shows up to 15.

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Sham Bodie Christmas Show

What do you want for Christmas, little tyke? Comedy? Music? Outrageous party games you're frankly too old for but secretly love? Then behold! Sham Bodie has got you covered.

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Comedy-horror podcast screams into the UK

The blackly funny podcast embarks on its first-ever international tour next year, arriving in the UK in March for a week-long series of dates.

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Ellie Taylor embarks on first UK stand-up tour

The star of Snog Marry Avoid, Fake Reaction and 8 Out of 10 Cats will take her sell-out Fringe show Elliementary on the road for fourteen UK dates, beginning in February.

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Filming underway on new series of Inside No. 9

As Gein's Family Giftshop join the cast.

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Laughing Cows returns to Manchester with Suzi Ruffell

Laughing Cows is kicking off 2015 with another brilliant line-up featuring up-and-coming comic Suzi Ruffell.

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UK Women In Comedy Festival to return in 2015

The UK Women In Comedy Festival is set to return for a third year as organisers announce new dates for 2015.

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Funtime Comedy returns to Manchester

The comedy club, ran by comic Chris Tavner, returns to the Strawberry Gardens in Droylsden on Thursday 29 January with another belting line-up. And best of all, it's free.

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Review: Sham Bodie, Kraak, Manchester

Sham Bodie returned this month to an inexplicably cool new venue with a fabulous line-up that included Foster's Comedy Award nominees Gein’s Family Giftshop, character comedian Jayne Edwards and the...

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Extra tickets on sale for Phoenix Nights Live shows

Unused production seats are now on sale for the Manchester Arena performances on Wednesday 11 February, Thursday 12 February, Saturday 14 February, Sunday 15 February (matinee and evening) and Monday...

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Sham Bodie returns

After their biggest show to date this month, Sham Bodie is back in March with another great night of comedy, music, food and natter.

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Leicester Mercury Comedian Of The Year winner announced

Cumbrian comic Tom Little has bagged the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year award, it was announced today.

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Ben Tonge interview

The host and founder of Manchester’s most inexhaustibly cool monthly comedy club Sham Bodie answers our questions.

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BBC to pilot Funz and Gamez

The BBC is to pilot Phil Ellis' award-winning Edinburgh Fringe show, Funz and Gamez.

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Manchester comedy club threatened with legal action

A Manchester comedy club has been threatened with legal action over a possible copyright infringement.

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Manchester comedy club celebrates birthday

The Strawberry Gardens in Manchester celebrates the 1st anniversary of their comedy night.

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Oldham comedy club to host fundraisers

Oldham comedy club Off the Rails is to host two fundraising shows next month in aid of local charities.

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Let’s See What Happens returns

Salford comedy night Let's See What Happens returns this month for another installment of improvised storytelling and sketches

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Frog and Bucket to stage BBC comedy showcase

On Wednesday 15 April, a host of the North West's top comics show off their skills with a view to bagging a spot on a Saturday night BBC1 show.

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Frog and Bucket turns 21

To mark the occasion, the club will be unveiling a plaque to commemorate all the comics that have 'died' on its stage.

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Frog and Bucket to stage Armed Forces Day fundraiser

The Frog and Bucket comedy club are to hold a charity fundraiser this month, in aid of Armed Forces Day.

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It’s Still Life comes to Manchester

Manchester's Taurus Bar is to host a new comedy drama this week.

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Invisible Dot to programme Manchester Festival comedy

The festival's Pavilion Theatre at Festival Square will host the programme, which includes the world premiére of The Crocodile adapted by Tom Basden, Adam Buxton’s latest work and The Invisible Dot...

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Manchester show aims to find next Miranda

The Sitcom Trials returns to Manchester this month, giving audiences the chance to decide the future of comedy.

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ComedySportz want your children

ComedySportz is seeking to create the improv stars of the future with its new workshops.

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Shortlist revealed for Magners New Comedy Act 2015

Comedy fans are being asked to select the last three finalists by watching videos from the acts, and voting for their favourites online.

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Frog and Bucket launches quiz night

Manchester's longest running comedy club is to stage a monthly comedy pub quiz.

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Susan Calman signs on as Women in Comedy Festival patron

Calman joins Maxine Peake, Isy Suttie and Jo Caulfield as an official supporter of the festival, which returns for its third year in October.

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Freddy Quinne releases Edinburgh comedy album

Totaling over an hour of stand up, the album features 12 recordings of the Preston comic MCing 12 different gigs over the course of the Edinburgh festival.

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ComedySportz to host Improv Tournament

The event, hosted by ComedySportz Manchester, will take place at Sale Waterside Arts Centre on Saturday 26 September.

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New comedy night comes to Manchester

Gag Room Comedy Club will stage its inaugural night on November 27th at the city's Dulcimer Club.

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Sham Bodie bring in terrible twos with James Acaster

Four time Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and fast-rising comedy star James Acaster will headline the club's birthday bash on November 19th at Gulliver's.

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Frog and Bucket to crown World Series champion

The culmination of the club's 12th annual World Series will see the winners of the competition's four heats perform, and the winner decided by audience vote as well a panel of comedy industry judges.

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Karl Pilkington to appear at Manchester HMV

The reluctant television journalist take part in a signing and meet-and-greet event at the store on Tuesday 24 November at 5:30pm to promote the release of The Moaning of Life series 2 on DVD.

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ComedySportz goes home

Improv group ComedySportz are returning to their original home for a special birthday show this week. The group will play Chorley Little Theatre on Saturday 21 November to mark their 14th birthday....

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Great Yorkshire Fringe begin hunt for new comedy champ

The Great Yorkshire Fringe have announced details of their New Comedian of the Year 2016 competition

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Surreal new comedy night opens in Manchester

At Château le Bomb audiences will get an insight into how some of the best alternative comedians on the circuit go about crafting new jokes.

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Frog and Bucket launches comedy course

Open to complete beginners, as well as those who have already performed, the course will concentrate on how to write material, and create that all important first set.

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Tommy Cooper Show joins Greater Manchester Fringe

The acclaimed tribute show, which stars John Hewer as Cooper, is a musical celebration of the life, work and magic of Britain's favourite comedian.

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Manchester improv troupe launch adults-only show

A departure from their usual all ages shows, Bang! Bang! Comedy Improv will take place at Gulliver's every month, beginning Sunday 20 March, and will consist of improvised sketches, skits and games.

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Preview: Sham Bodie’s summer spectacular

Some of us are still wringing out our socks after this week, but Sham Bodie's summer party is just around the corner, ready to warm you up with its rays of comedy sunshine.

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