🤣 Live Laugh Leeds – Comedy in July 2024

A warm welcome to the Kirkstall Abbey Comedy Festival, which arrives on the 28th of July. It’s the first large-scale, open-air comedy festival to happen in Leeds – with a ridiculously good lineup, including Katherine Ryan, surrealist stand-up legend Ross Noble, Yorkshire comic Maisie Adam, Reginald D. Hunter, Clinton Baptiste, Mike Wozniak, Ivo Graham, and the cult-stand up hero turned viral-sensation Jeff Innocent.

KACF is brought to you in part by the people behind the Leeds Comedy Festival, which dominates comedy proceedings at The Wardrobe at the start of this month. Alun Cochrane, Justin Moorhouse, Sara Pascoe, Olga Koch, and Larry Dean all appear—tickets are on the website.

At the Heritage Theatres this month, the adopted national treasure Ruby Wax brings her show “I’m Not As Well As I Thought I Was” to the City Varieties on the 1st of July. It’s a second visit to Leeds in recent times for Ruby, after her unforgettable talk at the Leeds International Festival of Ideas 2023.

Also recommended at the City Varieties in July are Ed Byrne (5th), Luke Kidgell (6th), Mark Watson (7th), and Netflix star Randy Feltface brings his acclaimed show “First Banana” on the 9th.

A strong suggestion from me this month is the brilliant Will Sebag-Montefiore, alongside Georgie Jones, at the Hi-Fi Club on the 12th of July. Will is a brilliant satirist and worked with Georgie in the award-winning sketch act Just These Please, who’ve had more than 65 million views online.

The Brudenell has one of the greatest comic minds of a generation this month, as Dylan Moran plays TWO shows on the 13th of July. He’ll be supported by local funny songsmith and BGT star Micky P. Kerr.

The Hyde Park Book Club continues its run of Work in Progress shows, with some established and up-and-coming stand-ups throughout the month.

As ever, look out for regular comedy nights at Headrow House, The Original Oak, The Hi-Fi Club, The Old Woollen, and the Parkside Tavern.