The organisers for the York
Comedy Festival have finally announced the line-up for the 5th –
12th June event.
Now in its second year, the festival will
include a variety of comedic forms: from live stand-up, talent competitions,
classic comedy films to street theatre.
Tickets will be available soon
and further info can be found at www.yorkcomedy.com or call 01904 652101.
FULL FESTIVAL LINE
UP
Saturday 5th
June
Omid Djalili @ The
Grand Opera House, Cumberland St. Doors:7.30pm. Tix: from £14
Street Theatre @ St Sampson’s Square.
Throughout the day. FREE
The Walk with
Howard Spencer Mosely & Richard Massara from West end of the Minster.
Leaves: 7pm Cost: £3 pay guide
This is Spinal Tap @ City Screen,
Coney
Street. Doors:
11.30pm Tix: £5
Sunday 6th June
Ken Dodd @ The Grand Opera House,
Cumberland
St. Doors 7.30pm. Tix: from £13.50
Street Theatre @ St Sampson’s Square.
Throughout the day. FREE
The Walk with
Howard Spencer Mosely & Richard Massara from West end of the Minster.
Leaves: 7pm Cost: £3 pay guide
Punch and Judy @
Monks
Cross Shopping
Park,
Huntington. From: 12pm 1pm 2pm Tix: FREE
Great Dictator @ City Screen,
Coney
Street. Doors:
1.00pm Tix: £6
Adrian Spendlow, James Christie & Wendy
Woodford @ City Screen, Coney
Street. Doors: 8pm. Tix: £3.50/£3
Monday 7th June
The National Talent Hunt with Alexis
Dubus @ Harkers, St Helen’s Sq Doors: 7.30pm Tix: £5
Street Theatre @ St Sampson’s Square.
Throughout the day. FREE
Tuesday
8th June
The National
Talent Hunt with Anthony J Brown @ Harkers, St Helen’s Sq Doors: 7.30pm Tix:
£5
The Other Side feat Nick Revell
& Rhod Gilbert @ City Screen, Coney St. Doors: 7.30pm Tix: £8
Christian Reilly, Dan Willis plus
support @ The Old White Swan, Goodramgate. Starts: 9.00 but get there early!
FREE
Kevin McCarthy, Ronnie Edwards
and Jo Jo Smith @ Orgasmic Café, Coney St. Doors: 7.30pm Tix: £10.50
JORVIK Lite feat Electric Forecast @
Friargate Theatre, Friargate. Doors: 7.30pm Tix: £6/5
Street Theatre @ St Sampson’s Square.
Throughout the day. FREE
Great
Dictator @ City Screen, Coney
Street. Doors: 18.30pm Tix: £6
Wednesday 9th June
The National Talent Hunt with
Dan Atkinson @ Harkers, St Helen’s Sq. Doors: 7.30pm Tix: £5
Flight of the Conchords & Glenn Wool
plus support @ Marzano, Lendal. Doors: 8.00pm. Tix: £10
Big Ian’s Quiz @ The Old White Swan,
Goodramgate. Starts: 9.30pm. Tix:
50p
Street Theatre @ St Sampson’s
Square. Throughout the day. FREE
The
Walk with Howard Spencer Mosely & Richard Massara from West end of the
Minster. Leaves: 7pm Cost: £3 pay
guide
The Other Side feat Andy
Parsons & Adam Bloom plus support @ City Screen, Coney St. Doors: 7.30pm
Tix: £10
Thursday 10th
June
Great Dictator @ City
Screen, Coney Street.
Starts: 1pm Tix: from £3
The Other
Side feat Chris Addison & Natalie Haynes plus support @ City Screen,
Coney St. Doors: 7.30pm Tix: £10
The
National Talent Hunt with Geoff Whiting @ Harkers, St Helen’s Sq. Doors:
7.30pm Tix: £5
Dr Andrew Jones talks
about Viking Poo @ Archaeological Resource Centre, St Saviour’s Church.
Doors: 6.45pm Tix: £3.50
Galaxy
105 with Mike Wilkinson, Danny Oakes & Bill Woolland @ Slug and Lettuce,
Back Swinegate. Starts: c8pm Tix: FREE
Street Theatre @ St Sampson’s Square.
Throughout the day. FREE
The Walk with
Howard Spencer Mosely & Richard Massara from West end of the Minster.
Leaves: 7pm Cost: £3 pay guide
Friday 11th June
The Other Side feat Priorite a Gauche
& Andy Zaltzman plus John Oliver @ City Screen, Coney St. Doors: 7.30pm.
Tix: £12
Dave Spikey @ The Grand
Opera House, Cumberland St. Doors: 7.30pm Tix: £15
The National Talent Hunt with Bill
Woolland @ Harkers, St Helen’s Sq. Doors: 7.30pm Tix: £6
Street Theatre @ St Sampson’s Square.
Throughout the day. FREE
The Walk with
Howard Spencer Mosely & Richard Massara from West end of the Minster.
Leaves: 7pm. Cost: £3 pay guide
Pinter: ‘The Revue Sketches’ @
Wentworth
College, University of
York. Doors: 7.30. Tix:
FREE
Saturday 12th
June
The National Talent Hunt
FINAL with Donna McPhail @ Harkers, St Helen’s Sq. Doors: 7.30pm Tix:
£7
Steve Faulkner & Maynard Flip
Flap @ National Railway Museum, Leeman Rd. From: 11am Tix: FREE
Street Theatre @ St Sampson¹s Square.
Throughout the day. FREE
Pinter: ‘The
Revue Sketches’ @ Wentworth College,
University of
York. Doors: 7.30. Tix: FREE
Duncan Oakley, Geoff Whiting, Ayesha
Hazarika @ The Independent, Haxby Rd.
Doors: 7.30pm Tix: £5
Street Entertainment @ The Coppergate
Centre. From: 12pm Tix: FREE
Comedy at The Races @ York Racecourse.
Doors: 11.15am Tix: FREE to racegoers
Starsky and Hutch @ City Screen,
Coney
Street. Doors:
11.30pm Tix: £5.