Adam Riches, Valentine's & N2O Festival: Editor's Choice - Comedy

Adam Riches, Valentine's & N2O Festival: Editor's Choice - Comedy

10 February, 2012
by: Emma

Every Friday, our editors bring you their personal highlights of the week ahead. Emma McAlpine selects her top three gigs.




Monday 13th February-Saturday 17th March 

Adam Riches: Bring Me The Head of Adam Riches @ Soho Theatre
The top Edinburgh award-winning show of 2011, Bring Me the Head of Adam Riches! comes to the Soho Theatre this month: a jam-packed hour of well-organised chaos and larger-than-life characters. If you don't like audience interaction, this may not be the show for you, but if lizard races and indoor Swingball sound like your cup of tea (and indeed whose cup of tea aren't they?!), you're going to love it. 


Wednesday 14th February
My Funny Valentine @ Theatre Royal Haymarket
Theatre Royal Haymarket are hosting a Valentines comedy special this Wednesday with a strong bill including top Nigerian stand-up Stephen K Amos, Chortle Student of the Year winner Joe Lycett, rising star Chris Martin and Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year finalist Suzi Ruffell.


Wednesday 15th-Saturday25th February
N2O Comedy Festival @ Battersea Arts Centre
The BAC's annual comedy festival kicks off this week, with over a week of ace comedy shows including some of the highlights from the 2011 Edinburgh Festival, as well as previews for this year's, wiith all new, never-seen-before material, Acts include top sketch troupe Pappy's, hilarious Kettering chap James Acaster, New Zealand's funniest export Jarred Christmas and the brilliant gagsmith Milton Jones.

See more top comedy picks for February

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