Live Nation & The Comedy Store presents
Gbemi Oladipo
Rob Deering
Ignacio Lopez
Eleanor Tiernan
With nearly 40 years’ experience in the business and as the premier name in comedy, The Comedy Store is renowned as a breeding ground for new comedy talent, and remains the place to see tomorrow’s stars today. The likes of Eddie Izzard, John Bishop, Jimmy Carr, Rhod Gilbert and Sarah Millican, have all cut their comedy teeth with us.
We bring you “The Best In Stand Up” from around the globe, showcasing the brightest names in comedy today.
Simply the funniest show you’ll see all year!
Check out several other upcoming dates across 2023!
Rob Deering
The UK’s foremost guitar-wielding, loop-layering stand-up comedian. Along with being one of the most in-demand headliners on the UK circuit, he’s toured nationally and performed solo shows at the Edinburgh Fringe many times since starting out in comedy in the year 2000. Rob has appeared on Radio and TV shows, often using his extensive knowledge of film, popular music, even as far as to win Celebrity Mastermind and a comedians’ special of the Weakest Link.
He also recently ran all over Britain for BBC 6 Music. Rob presents the podcast Running Commentary with fellow running comic Paul Tonkinson. He has run seven marathons fundraising for his favoured charity Parkinson’s UK and hosts Parkinson’s UK’s annual gig Shake with Laughter at London’s Comedy Store.
‘Bruisingly hilarious… brilliant musical comedian’ Chortle
Ignacio Lopez
Ignacio Lopez is an Irish-Moroccan-Spanish-Welsh comedian based in Cardiff. As well as hosting TV shows, headlining top comedy clubs all over the Europe and UK, and taking the piss out of British people directly to their faces, Ignacio writes sketches, sitcoms, and tweets.
“Charismatic with a waspish charm” – Chortle. During the pandemic Ignacio focused on putting more comedy content online, streaming live comedy events, running a weekly quiz, teaching people how to make Sangría, sitting on his sofa for 18 hours a day and occasionally crying in the bath.
Steadily gaining followers by the thousands with viral tweets including his witty observations about public transport and songs.
Ignacio’s videos have received over 20 million views in total across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
Eleanor Tiernan
Comedian and writer Eleanor Tiernan has featured on Stand Up For Live Comedy (BBC3), Comedy Central’s The Alternative Comedy Experience and she has supported acts including Iliza Shlesinger, Stewart Lee, Tig Notaro, Ardal O’Hanlon, Jason Manford, Jason Byrne and Reginald D. Hunter. She has been a panellist on BBC Radio 4’s News Quiz and Where’s the F In News? and The Blame Game (BBC Northern Ireland). most recently Eleanor appears in Holding, a new TV adaptation of Graham Norton’s debut novel.
Eleanor’s style is “deceptively sharp” (Fest Mag) and filled with her trademark acerbic wit.
Her solo shows regularly receive rave reviews (33 must-see shows of the 2019 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Herald Sun) and she has been featured on Sunday Times list of Top Ten Female Stand Ups To Watch and Chortle’s 2019: The ones to watch.
She has been invited to perform at Montreal Just For Laughs, Melbourne International Comedy, Kilkenny Cat Laughs. Vodafone Comedy Festival (Dublin), Latitude and Glastonbury.
Alongside her stand up career Eleanor Tiernan is a successful comedy writer, writing for ITV2’s comedy game show CelebAbility hosted by fellow comedian, and popular voice of Love Island, Iain Stirling and co-wrote an episode of Buffering for ITV2. She has written and performed on the critically acclaimed political satire show Irish Pictorial Weekly (RTÉ) for multiple series and frequently writes opinion pieces for the Irish Times, and has written for The i.
Other credits include Monumental (BBC NI), The Craig Doyle Show (RTÉ), Headwreckers (Channel Four), Stand and Deliver (RTÉ), The Panel (RTÉ), The Savage Eye (RTÉ), Republic of Telly (RTÉ) and Bad Language (BBC Radio Scotland). She also played Mary in a critically acclaimed run of John Breen play Alone It Stands in theatres across Ireland and appeared as Dolores in the RTÉ sitcom Bridget and Eamon.
“Still the greatest and most influential comedy club on the planet”
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