BALHAM COMEDY FESTIVAL 2025

Solo Show 

PICTURED: Stephen K. Amos

STEPHEN K. AMOS

“Now We’re Talking!” – solo show 

How good is having a laugh? Stephen K. Amos’ joke book is overflowing and he wants to share it with you. He’ll be telling you what gives him the ick and what makes him tick in his brand new show Now We’re Talking! Stephen will get down to the nitty gritty. No filter, no limits. The gloves are off and he’s packing a punchline. He’ll be free-styling musings and merrymaking to get your belly aching! After all, in jokes we trust… right?

Stephen has charmed audiences all over the world, for many years, with his honest, natural material and his excellent crowd interactions. He regularly tours the UK, and around the world, and he has just finished performing his show Oxymoron to sold out audiences in Australia. Also a gifted actor, Amos has impressed critics with his recent stage performances as Alfred P. Doolittle in the London Coliseum’s production of My Fair Lady, and Benny in My Night With Reg – for which he was nominated Best Supporting Performer at the What’s On Stage Awards. A regular face on TV screens, he has appeared on: QI (BBC2), Pilgrimage: The Road To Rome (BBC2), The Project (ABC TV), Live at The Apollo (BBC1), Prejudice and Pride (BBC4); and a familiar voice on radio: Tinga Tanga Tales (BBC Radio), What Does The K Stand 4 (BBC R4), Life… An Idiot’s Guide to (BBC R4). 

“You’ll laugh until you actually cry.” – SUNDAY EXPRESS

TICKETS: £15 plus booking fee

BALHAM COMEDY FESTIVAL – FULL LISTINGS

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Banana Cabaret is delighted to bring you our 13th critically acclaimed Balham Comedy Festival from Friday 4th – Saturday 12th July.

It’s 8 nights of choice standup comedy – celebrity and household name acts, rising stars and comedians’ comedians, first-timers and festival favourites, solo shows – there are comedians to satisfy every comic taste, all wrapped cosily in the round at our beautiful venue.

There are two acts on each of the solo show dates. The rip-roaring Best of Banana Cabaret shows each feature four superb comedians plus compere.

Balham Comedy Festival 2025 spans eight nights and features an amazing twenty-five comedians, performing in our home of 42 years, the Bedford’s iconic round Club Room where Banana Cabaret has hosted the likes of Eddie Izzard, Michael McIntyre, Sarah Millican, Jack Whitehall, Kerry Godliman and Romesh Ranganathan.

The festival is presented by Banana Cabaret – one of London’s longest-running premier comedy clubs – loved by comics and audiences alike and always one of the best lineups in town – and is co-produced by Banana Cabaret’s Dave Vickers and award-winning comedian John Moloney. Balham Comedy Festival alumni include Lee Mack, Sara Pascoe, Rhod Gilbert, Zoe Lyons, Joe Lycett and more.

WEDNESDAY 9th JULY – LATE SOLO SHOW: Doors: 9pm / No meals / Show: 9.15pm – 10.15pm. Guests to be seated by 9pm.

*Acts subject to change

 

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