Saw this mentioned in the Sheffield Telegraph today, the first one should be 1-16 October NEXT year, with many venues large and small taking part. Toby Foster was bigging it up, and suggested he hoped that in time it would rival the Edinburgh fringe.

Sounds good to me!

I have booked for Jeremy Hardy on Tuesday and Alan Carr the following Wednesday - I am really looking forward to it!!

I went to some shows at the Leicester Comedy Festival a few years ago and it was brilliant!

:thumbsup:

Im booked in for Alan Carr and can not wait.

I went to the first night at the Lescar last night, and it was great. Two young comedians, Dan Atkinson and Tom Wrigglesworth (a Sheffield lad), who may not be household names but had a superb reception from the audience.

It's The Book Club tonight at the Lescar, with Robin Ince (mate of Ricky Gervais, was in The Office I think) which promises to be excellent as well.

Can't believe what those cheeky blighters at Grin Up North have done now!!! Check out the leedscomedyfestival website to see what I mean. :hihi:

Bet the good folks in Leeds don't see the funny side!!! Nice one.

Have you got a link Cat? Google's not bringing up an official site for Leeds Comedy Festival, weirdly.

yeah, it's www leedscomedfestival .com

It's going great so far. Jeremy Hardy tonight at The Memorial Hall.

And yes, some councillor in Leeds appears to be a bit upset about the leedscomedyfesival.com site.

That's genius with the leedscomedyfestival.com site :D

After missing everything last year I remembered to get tickets for Ross Noble and Jeff Green this time - yay.

I'm going to see Ross Nobel and Jeff Green too!

I've also got tickets to see Mitchell and Webb (but I don't think they're officially part of the festival) and Mark Thomas and Ed Byrne but those two are in Doncaster as thats where I live and the tickets were cheaper!

Just a word of warning about the book club, I saw it at edinburgh and it was pants! Not at all what I expected it to be, the best way to describe it is like a very bad family talent show!

Im booked in for Alan Carr and can not wait.

Not only is he very funny, he can also stop you smoking......;)

That's genius with the leedscomedyfestival.com site :D

After missing everything last year I remembered to get tickets for Ross Noble and Jeff Green this time - yay.

I'm going to see Ross Noble again too - cannot wait!

Saw Ross Noble a year or two ago in Nottingham - was supposed to be Jeff Green and he cancelled - Ross agreed to fill in as compere and ended up doing about 3 hours over the night. I spent most of it doubled up in hysterics :D

There's something funny about leedscomedyfestival.com (http://leedscomedyfestival.com/) ;)

Saw Ross Noble a year or two ago in Nottingham - was supposed to be Jeff Green and he cancelled - Ross agreed to fill in as compere and ended up doing about 3 hours over the night. I spent most of it doubled up in hysterics :D

He is superb - did some nice stuff about Richard Madeley when I last saw him.

My sides were aching after I went to see comedian Alan Carr recently. Whilst walking out of the theatre half way through the show, I fell down the stairs and cracked two ribs.