Add to your event list
Please note: Info provided by the Event Organiser
The popular comedy club continues its 2025 season at HITCHIN TOWN HALL.
22nd May’s Hitchin lineup include
Standup from MARK THOMAS
(Time Out Comedy Award-winner & Perrier nominee)
(Seen & heard on ‘The Mark Thomas Comedy Product’, ‘Dispatches’, ‘Mark Thomas: The Manifesto’, ‘Loose Talk’ & ‘The Mary Whitehouse Experience’)
????? (Guardian)
‘The strong ratio of hard-hitting matter to gag-rich mirth is a feat that makes other stand-up look idling and irrelevant’ ???? (Telegraph)
‘Involving, inspiring, furious and funny’ ???? (Times)
Stand-up from RIA LINA
(Seen on ‘Have I Got News for You’, ‘QI’, ‘Live at The Apollo’ & ‘Mock the Week’)
‘Fearless, provocative and very funny’ ???? (Scotsman)
‘Sharp, satirical…ridiculously gifted’(Evening Standard)
‘Engaging, endearing and eye-opening’ (Time Out)
'Electrified the audience with her relaxed yet biting wit' ???? (ThreeWeeks)
Hosted by DAVID EPHGRAVE
(Featured in The Times, Daily Telegraph, Comedy Central, i Newspaper, Scotsman and Edinburgh Evening News best Fringe jokes lists.)
‘As smooth as they come’ (BBC)
‘Refreshingly down-to-earth…devastatingly witty’ (EdFest Magazine)
Tickets £18. Presale/general sales dates TBA.
Line-up may be subject to last-minute alteration.
Please note that the artists appearing may be subject to change.
Mark Thomas
TV's comedy guerilla with his own shrewd take on governmental and corporate exploitation. Mark Thomas is well versed in the art of creative mayhem and over the years his troublemaking has changed laws, cost companies millions and annoyed those who most deserved to be. “One of Britain's greatest storytellers…beautifully-paced and structured…a passionate humanity that surpasses most other work at the Fringe" (The Scotsman). 'A brand of comedy that carries a far weightier purpose than to simply generate laughs.. Cuckooed leaves a lasting impression' (Sunday Herald) 'A clever, funny and angry show... an excoriating, heartfelt monologue...Thomas the polemicist deploys the comedian's eye for a situation's dark absurdities' (The Guardian) 'Thomas's show ruefully tots up the cost of personal betrayal' (Sunday Times) 'Bracing, brilliant and necessary... Mark Thomas is the most intelligent of the modern leftist stand-ups... an unmissable hour' (Theatre Cat). Mark Thomas was named in Ents24's top 20 hardest-working comedians 2017 and 2016.
See Mark Thomas tour dates
David Ephgrave
Comedian, actor, musician and podcaster - and back end of the duo Doggett & Ephgrave. Featured among The Times’ Best Jokes of 2022 Edinburgh Fringe, the Daily Telegraphs 20 Funniest One-liners of the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe and Comedy Central's 35 Funniest Jokes of the Year (2017) plus i Newspapers 50 Best Jokes, The Scotsmans 40 Best Jokes and Edinburgh Evening News 40 Funniest One-Liners of 2018 Edinburgh Fringe lists. Theatre credits include John Lennon & Paul McCartney in 'The Roy Orbison Story', Buddy Holly in 'Buddy Holly and the Cricketers' and Richard in the West End production of 'Dreamboats and Petticoats'. "As smooth as they come" (BBC)
See David Ephgrave tour dates
Ria Lina
Fearless, provocative, and very funny, Ria Lina is a highly accomplished comedian, writer and actor. After a critically acclaimed stand out debut on Mock The Week (BBC), Ria has quickly become a household name. A hugely admired act on the UK comedy circuit, this multi-award-winning artist commands respect from the moment she walks onstage and delivers with natural ease, energy and fierceness.'... electrified the audience with her relaxed yet biting wit' (ThreeWeeks) Ria is the only Filipina comedian in British stand up and she also has a BSc in Experimental Pathology, an MSc in Forensic Science and a PhD in Virology under her belt, so it’s not only Ria’s comedy that’s highly intelligent. 'I have no doubt she will hold her own so easily that she'll have a hand free to hold someone else's too' (The Guardian) 'engaging, endearing and eye-opening' (Time Out) ''Fearless, provocative and very funny... wonderfully on-the-edge stuff... There isn't a comedy venue in the country that shouldn't be fighting for her' (The Scotsman) '... slickly done - the girl's got talent' (Chortle).
See Ria Lina tour dates
rated excellent
Hitchin Town Hall
Brand Street
Hitchin
SG5 1HX
- Website:
- facebook.com/hitchintownhall
See all events at Hitchin Town Hall
Find places to stay near Hitchin Town Hall
on Thu 22 May 2025
