Every Monday our editors bring you their personal highlights of the week ahead. Emma McAlpine selects her top three comedy nights.
Tuesday 2nd Nov-Saturday 4th December
Bill Bailey: Dandelion Mind @ Wyndhams Theatre
We caught part of this as a work in progress a few months ago and it was thigh-slappingly funny then, so the polished West End production should be pretty special. Bailey's trademark musical meanderings are in good supply here (his re-work of Gary Numan's Cars played on bicycle horns is a must-see), plus some casual but observations and stories from the road. Excellent stuff.
Thursday 4th November
Malcolm Hardee Awards Show @ Dingwalls
If the thought of watching Michael McIntyre makes you want to punch yourself in the temple, this might well be the gig for you. Dingwalls are showcasing the winner and nominees of this year's Malcolm Hardee Award, given to the most exciting, original comic performers in the UK. Arthur Smith – Hardee's long-time friend and fellow Edinburgh Fringe legend will host the show, which features surreal Dadaist absurdist act Dr Brown (yes he is as weird as that sounds), unpredicatable American Lewis Schaffer, unemployed alcoholic turned B-movie film star, the anarchic Bob Slayer and Robert White, the only gay, Aspergers Syndrome, quarter Welsh, webbed-toed, dyslexic pianist comedian on the British comedy circuit. If you haven't experienced delightfully bonkers and innovative Fringe comedy yet, this is a good place to start.
Saturday 6th- Saturday 13th November
Totally Tom @ Hen and Chickens Theatre
Following the success of their You Tube series 'High Renaissance Man' (one of the funniest spoofs doing the YouTube rounds at the moment) the two Toms (Stourton and Palmer) are bringing their sketch show to the live arena, with several November gigs at the Hen and Chickens.
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