Every Monday our editors bring you their personal highlights of the week ahead. Emma McAlpine selects her top three comedy nights.
From Wednesday 17th March
Keith Farnan @ Soho Theatre
Former solicitor-cum-Irish-comic Keith Farnan brings his critically-acclaimed 2009 show to the Soho Theatre, right in time for St Paddy's Day. Whilst working in a restaurant in the USA, Farnan finds a rather contradictory sign (pictured) in the manager’s office. Stranger still considering the employees consisted of a young African-American, a Jewish waiter and himself. Exploring racism, religion and immigration today, Farnan asks why Americans have embraced the Irish into their culture and explores how the Irish have treated their own immigrants over the years.
Thursday 18th March
Crash Test Comedy @ Pleasance Theatre
This month, there's a belter of a line-up for this new material night hosted by 2009 Edinburgh Award nominees Idiots of Ants. Joining them will be Shooting Stars' burger van man - Angelos Epithemiou, two of the best sketch acts around at the moment, Cardinal Burns and Delete the Banjax, plus William Andrews, a BAFTA winning comic, who produced a hilarious multimedia show last year.
Saturday 20th March
Gigglebeat Comedy @ Water Poet
Run by the same team behind the excellent Red Rose Comedy nights, Gigglebeast presents the best of the stand-up comedy circuit every Saturday for only a fiver. Held in Liverpool Street's Water Poet pub, tonight's line up features brilliant character comedian Pippa Evans, one of the funniest pedants around, Stephen Carlin, Hackney Empire finalist 2009 Luke Benson and surreal up-and-comer Joey Page.
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