Newcastle Alternative 2019 Comedy Festival

Newcastle Alternative 2019 Comedy Festival – This October

▶︎ THIS OCTOBER – TICKETS & INFO HERE ◀︎

THE THINKING DRINKERS – HEROES OF HOOCH

Saturday 12th October | Doors 5pm | Show 6:30pm

The Thinking Drinkers return with a BRAND-NEW SHOW, a hilarious and intoxicating look at history’s greatest drinkers.

Enjoy five free drinks as the award-winning experts reveal how alcohol has inspired pioneering explorers, politicians and painters in equal measure, from Plato and Picasso, to Nelson, Napoleon and Norm from Cheers.

You’ll learn a lot, laugh a lot and, don’t forget, you get five free drinks.

‘Pioneers of alcohol based comedy’ Sunday Times

‘A terrific show. The best value for money in town’ ★★★★ Scotsman

‘Hugely funny, genuinely fascinating’ ★★★★ Edinburgh Evening News

Tickets: £16 Available Here

DANE BAPTISTE: WORK IN PROGRESS

Sunday 20th October | Doors 8pm | Show 9pm

Original, provocative and exceptionally prolific, Dane Baptiste is hailed as one of the most exciting acts to break in years.

The London born stand up made comedy history as the first black British act to be nominated for a Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and has written and starred in his own BBC sitcom series.

‘A comical genius’ ★★★★★ EDINBURGH FESTIVALS MAGAZINE

‘Masterfully crafted’ ★★★★★ HERALD

Tickets: £13 Available Here

VIKKI STONE – SONGBIRD

Friday 18th October | Doors 5:30pm | Show 6:30pm

Multi award-winning comedian and musician Vikki Stone ‘Musical genuis’ Absolute Radio returns with an all new show of her trademark comedy songs and stand up. As seen and heard on BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show, BBC One’s John Bishop Show and the BBC Proms Podcast.

‘The lovechild of Victoria Wood and Tim Minchin’ Scotsman

Best New Show Nominee Leicester Comedy Festival 2019

★★★★ Scotsman
★★★★ Three Weeks
★★★★ Sunday Herald
★★★★  Broadway Baby

Tickets: £13/£11 Available here

ABIGOLIAH SCHAMAUN: DO YOU KNOW WHO I THINK I AM?!

Sunday 13th October | Doors 5:30pm | Show 6:30pm

She’s a myriad of paradoxes.

A hardcore yoga bunny with surprisingly squishy thighs.

A boring heteronormative disguised as a luscious lady lover.

She grew up in the conservative Midwest of America to become an unabashedly liberal UK-based comic.

Nothing is what it seems. Especially Abigoliah Schamaun.

Join the critically acclaimed stand-up as she takes to the road for her debut nationwide tour, on the back of a sell out Edinburgh Festival season and appearances on the top rated The Guilty Feminist and Global Pillage podcasts.

‘Damningly perceptive and very funny… she has a tightrope-treading ability the match of anything by Chris Rock or Bill Burr’ Scotsman

‘Confident and brilliantly funny with a knack for a turn of phrase that turns the simplest comment into a solid laugh’ ★★★★ Broadway Baby

Tickets: £12 Available Here