01/03/2022

There can’t be too many comedy touring shows this year revolving around the throwing of a bread roll. Nish Kumar’s Your Power, Your Control strongly features that time he was on the receiving end of a baked-product hurling at a charity gig. For a while he was an undisputed rising star of the British stand-up scene with one excellent Edinburgh Fringe show after another and media appearances ranging from hosting Newsjack on the radio and The Mash Report on TV,…

27/01/2022

After stealing the show at the Royal Variety Performance not once but twice in recent years, Welsh comedian Rod Woodward returns to his home town to play at the New Theatre for the first time in his career on Saturday 26th February 2022. Despite numerous awards and TV credits to his name, Canton born Rod believes playing the grand old venue is “a serious itch he needs to scratch”. “I’ve been fortunate to play most of the other great Welsh…

14/08/2020

The other weekend was rather strange.  We found a large toad in our garage.  How it got in there is a complete mystery.  However, we released him back into the wild in a local reen.  Next up we saw a bloke catch a two-foot long pike in the same reen.  Then we saw this swan on a Lilo in the reen.  Finally saw a life-size imitation crocodile on a canal bank in Rogerstone.  I have got to stop drinking!  …

14/05/2019

  Due to popular demand, we are delighted to announce that comedian, choirboy and co-host of Soccer AM, Lloyd Griffith has added an additional six dates, including two at London’s Soho Theatre on 5th and 6th April 2019, to his All Rounder UK tour, which begins at The Stand Edinburgh on 29th January 2019. The tour will now take in a total of thirty dates and will conclude at Abbey Tavern, County Dublin on 25th May 2019. Tickets available now…

15/04/2019

Carl Marsh: We all know of your character Lee Nelson, even some might actually think he is a real person but what sort of experience do you want the audience leave with after seeing the show? Simon: Good question, funnier is what they will leave with. It’s part of the mini-tour, which I’m sure you know, that’s part of the Lee Nelson tour. The Serious Joker tour. I think this is something like the fourth leg of the tour. The…

08/02/2019

AFTER stealing the show at the Royal Variety Performance last year, Cardiff comedian Rod Woodward returns to St David’s Hall on Saturday 2 March. Rod performed at the venue as part of The Journey Starts Here tour in April 2015 and brought the house down with his support slot for Welsh national treasure Max Boyce in February 2017. Now, he’s back with his hilarious new show I’m Not Being Funny, But… Named Best Variety Newcomer and winner of BBC’s Funny…

05/06/2017

  Saturday 31 March, 7.30pm – TICKETS ON SALE NOW BRUTALLY honest political correspondent Jonathan Pie attempts to smash the system from within at St David’s Hall on Saturday 31 March 2018 – and tickets are on sale now! Following a sell-out 2017 UK tour ending at the London Palladium, the world’s most frustrated fictitious news reporter returns with his sharply observed and hilarious satire of current affairs entitled Back to the Studio. Since first appearing in September 2015, Jonathan Pie (created…