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Welcome
Birmingham Comedy Festival 2001-2011: Celebrating a decade of top comedy

Yes!
Birmingham's near legendary comedy festival returns for a gut-busting anniversary year to laugh in the face of the global recession with another guffaw-inducing line-up of quality stand-up comedy, film, theatre, visual arts, cabaret, music, magic and much more. You want entertaining? You got it!
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Birmingham Comedy Festival 2011

Find out who's on and where with our full day-by-day listings to 2011's festival which features such acclaimed acts as Russell Kane, Jack Whitehall and Stephen Merchant, as well as the multi-award winning West End smash, Legally Blonde: The Musical.

There's also appearances from Lucy Porter, Phil Nichol, Patrick Monahan, Mrs Barbara Nice, Ivan Brackenbury, Jo Enright, Rob Rouse, Andy Parsons and the inspiring Boy With Tape On His Face.

Look out too for Bulgarian artist Nedko Solakov, black and white classics from Laurel and Hardy, raconteur Howard Marks, leading comics Adam Hills and Paddy McGuinness, a range of musical acts, back-stage bickering from The Panto Girls, magic, mind-reading, pub quizzes, James Cook's Charity Crawl, and dozens of top local comedians.

See our What's On/ Day-by-Day Diary for further details on each show, or download the latest full listings. And don't forget we have lots of shows for under £10 and also for FREE!

Russell KaneLegally BlondeStephen Merchant

11 Oct 2011: Look out for Boris Nicoli at Birmingham FoodFest on Saturday afternoon.
Andrew Bird (Thu) has been cancelled. Contact The Electric for full refund.

6 Oct 2011: The Boy With Tape On His Face will now also be appearing at The Glee Club with Phil Nichol and Lucy Porter on Friday 14 October 2011.
Read interviews with The Boy, Hal Cruttenden, Stephen Merchant, Steve Day, Patrick Monahan and Rosie Wilby in this week's Birmingham Post; Hal and Pat in BrumNotes; and Stephen Merchant in Midlands WhatsOn.

5 Oct 2011: Catch a free screening of monster/ comedy classic Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (12 Oct) courtesy of Juniper Film Club. Watch the trailer.

2 Oct 2011: Purity announce a series of FREE beer tastings at festival shows. Try out a tipple of UBU, Mad Goose or Gold at Legally Blonde (4 Oct), The Glee Club (6-7 Oct), Howard Marks (11 Oct), Hal Cruttenden (14 Oct), Russell Kane (16 Oct).

30 Sept 2011: Read an interview with Legally Blonde's Claire Sweeny in today's Birmingham Mail: Don't trust Claire Sweeney with your tresses.

29 Sept 2011: Win a pair of free tickets to Highlight via Scene Cental.

From 26 Sept 2011: Listen out on Kate Lawler's Kerrang! Radio show from 3pm for your chance to win some amazing festival prizes every day over the week, including tickets, DVDs, exclusive Purity Brewing goodies, meet-and-greets and much much more! www.kerrangradio.co.uk

23 Sept 2011: Read interviews with The Boy..., Hal Cruttenden and Patrick Monahan in today's Birmingham Mail.

18 Sept 2011: New show! Rhod Gilbert's mate and Show Me The Funny finalist, Dan Mitchell at The Red Lion on Friday 7 October.

10 Sept 2011: New show! Aaaaaaaaagh! It's the Monster Stand up Show featuring Masai Graham & Harriet Dyer, and it's free! If you're at ArtsFest, check out the Birmingham comedy stall!

Lucy PorterRob RouseHoward Marks

Previous News:

6 Sept 11: New shows at The Electric: Show Me The Funny runner-up (and Leamington lad) Stuart Goldsmith and Andrew Bird.
2 Sept 11: If you're going to the ace Moseley Folk Festival this weekend, look out for our brochures in the merch' tent. More details of both Half A Dog shows added: ...Friends and 2 Half An Hours.
25 Aug 2011: Patrick Monahan wins ITV1's Show Me The Funny.
24 Aug 2011: New addition, and another musical act: Richard Digance (12 Oct); Shazia Mirza'll be joining the bill for Barbara Nice and Gals.
23 Aug 2011: The festival appears in the Guardian's 'best cultural events for autumn 2011' list. They say: "This year's do has everything...." We say YEH!
22 Aug 2011: Look out for the brilliant Patrick Monahan on ITV's live Show Me The Funny final on Thursday night, and (hopefully) catch him live at the Old Joint Stock in the festival on 11 Oct.
21 Aug 2011: Jack Whitehall's sold out!
17 Aug 2011: The full 2011 festival line up is officially announced .. and we're very excited by it all! Woo-hoo!
July 2011: Those festival dates for our 10th anniversary year are Friday 7 to Sunday 16 October 2011.
July 2011: Purity Brewing Co. are officially our lead sponsor - for the second year - while we're also pleased to welcome back The Ticket Factory, who are also supporting the festival for a second year in a row. See Sponsors for details

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