Live comedy - Saturday 12th December

FRANKIE MONROE - Joe Kent-Walters is a multi-award winning comedian and actor from Huddersfield. He has been delighting audiences up and down the country with his idiosyncratic style of outrageous character comedy, most notably with his comic creation Frankie Monroe.

His “mesmerising and unpredictable presence” (Chortle) performing as Frankie saw him win the 2023 BBC New Comedy Award at Glasgow’s Kings Theatre. He also won the prestigious Best Newcomer award at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival. Joe is now in development with the BBC and is one of Jiksaw’s 2024 ‘Faces of Comedy.’

Joe’s debut solo show (as yet untitled) has already played to sell out crowds in London, Leeds, Manchester and Hull where the crowd “deservedly gave the act a standing ovation”

Frankie has also appeared on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown next to Susie Dent in Dictionary Corner.

ERIC RUSHTON - In January 2020 Eric won the prestigious 'Leicester Mercury Comedian of The Year' award - an award that was previously won by the likes of Romesh Ranganathan, Jason Manford and Jonny Vegas on their way to stardom.

Before that he was a Chortle Student finalist in 2016 and So You Think You're Funny? finalist 2017. Eric was the first ever winner of The Sean Lock Comedy Award in 2023.

MOLLY MCGUINNESS - Molly McGuinness is a Salford-born comedian whose natural warmth conceals razor-sharp working class observations. Since making the finals of the BBC New Comedy Awards in 2021, she’s popped up on various productions for Comedy Central and BBC Radio 4. She also won Manchester Fringe Comedian of the Year in 2021 and has provided tour support for the likes of Joe Lycett, Rachel Fairburn and Sophie Duker.

 Joe Lycett said of Molly: ‘Molly McGuinness is a brilliantly dry and very funny comic, with a super confident stage presence and some wonderfully off-center killer gags.’

MC MIKE NEWALL - A gentle, amiable power-house of a comic, Mike's timing is the envy of performers with ten times the experience and is living proof that you can't learn to be funny, some people just are. Since making his debut in 2003, he has toured the country honing his skills and is now a force to be reckoned with. His laconic style and demeanour is possible because of the strength of material and on stage presence. He also appeared in season 14 of Britain’s Got Talent.

*ACTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE