Date: Wednesday 01 February
Doors: 8.30PM
Adm: £5.00
Venue: The Green Room, Black Box

A monthly showcase featuring the best emerging comedy talent from across Ireland.

February:
MORGAN HEARST: FAILED HUMAN

Morgan Hearst is one of the boldest stand-up comics to come out of Northern Ireland in years. Intelligent, witty, but brutally self-deprecating, his one man show Failed Human debuted at the 2011 Belfast Fringe Festival to a packed audience. Fearless, honest, inventive, and hilarious, Hearst has been described as “The go-to guy for confessional rants” by Alternative Ulster magazine.

Plus support from Christian Talbot, Aaron Marshall and Alan Irwin. Adam Laughlin hosts.

Book now from the Black Box wesbite here.

Based in the Boutique Bar of the Ormeau Road’s Pavilion Bar, Big Laughs at the Big House has been the home of new comedy in Northern Ireland since 2008. Featuring first time comics taking to the stage for the first time at our fortnightly open mic night, and established acts trying out new material and honing their sets almost every week, it’s the comedy workshop of the burgeoning Northern Irish comedy circuit.

Monday 6th February: Big Laughs’ Comedy Open Mic Night

Northern Ireland’s only regular new act comedy night, topped off with a quality headliner. Comedian and magician George Quinn hosts.
Doors: 8.30pm / Adm: £4

Monday 13th February: Big Laughs’ Comedy Open Mic Night

Northern Ireland’s only regular new act comedy night, topped off with a quality headliner. Alan Irwin guest hosts.
Doors: 8.30pm / Adm: £4

Monday 20th February: Big Laughs’ Comedy Open Mic Night

Northern Ireland’s only regular new act comedy night, topped off with a quality headliner. Comedian and magician George Quinn hosts.
Doors: 8.30pm / Adm: £4

Monday 27th February: Manic Monday Comedy Night

Morgan Hearst presents the best up and coming comedians on the Irish circuit, plus improv from ‘Yes, And’.
Doors: 8.30pm / Adm: £4

Date: Friday 17 February
Doors 7.30PM
Adm £10.00 / £8.00 concessions
Venue: Black Box

Big Laughs and the Black Box present a new Friday night comedy club in the heart of Cathedral Quarter, featuring the very best headlining comedians in the country.

This month, we present Eleanor Tiernan – cousin of Tommy, and a fine stand-up comic in her own right.

One of the most original, honest and funny comedians working in Ireland today, she has performed at the Kilkenny Cat Laughs Comedy Festival, the Galway Comedy Festival, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and was a semi-finalist in Paramount Comedy’s So You Think You’re Funny? competition. Within just a year of starting stand-up Eleanor was asked to perform in Dublin’s Vicar St for the RTE production The Liffey Laughs, and the BBC’s One Night Stand.

Support comes from George Quinn and Lauren Kerr. Ruaidhrí Ward hosts.

Tickets available now from the Black Box website here.

Show + Tell present, in association with Big Laughs and the Black Box:

SIMON MUNNERY: HATS OFF TO THE 101ers (AND OTHER MATERIAL)

Multi award-winning comic legend Simon Munnery presents a brand new show – an ambitious yet foolhardy one-man musical about the great R101 airship disasters of the 1930s. Peppered amongst this are poems, jokes, aphorisms, anecdotes and monologues. Performed with a plum. Or some other fruit.

Star of BBC2′s Attention Scum, BBC2′s London Shouting, Radio 4′s Where Did It All Go Wrong?, Radio 1′s Alan Parker’s 59 Minutes Of Truth and Radio 1′s The League Against Tedium. As seen on BBC2′s Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle. British Comedy Award Nominee, Sony Radio Award Winner, Perrier Award Nominee, Barry Award Winner.
TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW FROM THE BLACK BOX WEBSITE HERE.

“There are more brilliant ideas in one of Simon Munnery’s shows than most comics will manage in a lifetime” – The Times, 2011

“Simon Munnery is nothing less than a genius” - The Guardian, 2011

“He remains a weird and wonderful maverick. Probably one of the funniest things you’ll see this year” – The Metro, 2011

Big Laughs, in association with the Black Box, presents:

BRIDGET CHRISTIE: HOUSEWIFE SURREALIST

“Chest-achingly funny” *****Chortle

The award-winning Bridget Christie brings her acclaimed Edinburgh 2011 show HOUSEWIFE SURREALIST to the Black Box.

As well as having written and performed six critically acclaimed Edinburgh shows, Bridget Christie won the inaugural Funny Women Best Show Fringe Award in 2007, and is a regular panellist on Radio 4’s News Quiz and Broadcasting House. She has starred in a number of TV and Radio 4 comedies, including Sarah Millican’s Support Group, and Harry Hill’s Little Internet Show.

Join Bridget Christie as she hands out communion wafers, eats a banana, explains religion, suggests how Ken Clarke should eat a toad in the hole, and re-enacts The Ascension of Christ using a fishing rod. Housewife Surrealist has been comedy pick of the week in The Sunday Times and the Guardian.

“Insightful, intelligent and absurd in equal measure.” *****Chortle

“This is an astonishing show” ***** The Skinny

“Wonderful stuff” ***** British Comedy Guide

“Avant garde comedy… a writer and performer of prodigious talent” Guardian

“Fascinating” Times

“True, beautiful insanity” Sunday Times

http://www.bridgetchristie.co.uk/
TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM THE BLACK BOX WEBSITE HERE.