Exeter Comedy Festival

About

Following a hugely successful year in 2025, Exeter Comedy Festival is back, from 4th to 7th June 2026, with many shows and an even more exciting line-up. With fantastic feedback from audiences and performers alike, the festival continues to grow, offering locals the chance to see top-tier stand-up right here in Exeter.

One of the things that makes Exeter Comedy Festival special is its unique venues. Most of the action is centred around Fore Street, with this year's programme also extending down to the Quay, just a short walk away. The festival transforms independent businesses into performance spaces, turning pubs, shops, and even hair salons into intimate comedy venues. This not only creates an unforgettable atmosphere but also brings a welcome boost to Exeter's thriving independent scene.

The festival prides itself on offering something for everyone. Alongside the opportunity to see big-name comedians testing out new material in small rooms, there's a huge variety of comedy on offer—from stand-up and storytelling to musical and character comedy. The programme also includes a podcast, workshop and family-friendly shows to introduce younger audiences to the world of live comedy.

With over 100 shows across a variety of venues, Exeter Comedy Festival is a testament to the city's growing reputation as a place for high-quality live entertainment. In an industry often focused on London and Edinburgh, the festival aims to prove that the Southwest is a place to be taken seriously in the not-so-serious world of comedy.

View the full line-up for the 2026 festival velow, and click on the links for more information and to book.

Thursday 4th June

Exeter Corn Exchange

6pm - Get Changed Theatre Compresents 00Devon

 

Exeter Phoenix Cinema

7:45pm - Exeter Comedy Festival screening and Q&A - Alice Lowe's Prevenge

 

The Hall

6pm - Mike Wozniak: The Bench

7:45pm - Lou Hall: Where are all the tall Grandma's?

9:15pm - Sam Nicoresti: Baby Doomers

 

1 Guinea Street

6pm - Tony Law: A work of sorts a type of progress

7:30pm - Toussaint Douglass: Let's Cook

9pm - Paul Foot: The Future

 

The Bootlegger

6pm - Stevie Martin and Adam Riches do 30 minutes of new material each

7:30pm - Ed Tripp: All the rage

9pm - Paul Hilleard: Acatnamedpeaches

10:30pm - Daniel Kitson: Work in progress

 

The Fat Pig

6pm - Amy Mason: A new show

7:20pm - McClaine Beirne - What a year!

8:40pm - Sharifa Butterfly: Banter with a butterfly

10pm - Mel Owen: Melodrama

 

The City Gate

5pm - Maggie Irving: Stand up workshop

7:30pm - All women stand up comedy special

 

Friday 5th June

Coffee Cellar

6pm - Huge Davies

7:30pm - Katie Norrie

9pm - Evaldas Karosas

 

The Fat Pig

6pm - Jojo Maberly: Spend a day with Hattie the vicar

7:30pm - Johnny White

9pm - Kev Mud: Book

 

The Hall

7:15pm - Ahir Shah

9pm - Sophie Duker: The Sophie Duker Show

 

Music Depot

6:45pm - Marjolein Roberts: Clouds

8:05pm - Dead Material

 

The Bootlegger

6pm - Hasan Al-Habib: Stuck in the Middle East with you

7:30pm - Ted Hill: PowerpointExeter

9pm - Daniel Kitson

 

The Barnfield Theatre

6pm - Josh Widdicombe and friends

7:30pm - Ed Gaughan is... The Emperor!!

8:45pm - An evening of Comedy with Paul Foot

9pm - 2 Muslim 2 Furious 3: Sharia? I hardly knew her!

Joanna Neary: Two string and paint tins

 

Topsham Brewery

7:15pm - Spencer Jones: Dogs

9pm - Nish Kumar

 

The Hall

5:45pm - Stuart Goldsmith: Canary

 

Custom House

6pm - Will Adamsdale: AI, AI, OH

6:30pm - Amy Annette: Say what you like about me

7:30pm - Dan Tiernan: Quartz and all

8pm - Walter Jack: Remembering shoe-based comedy

 

Roots Foundation

6pm - Kate Cheka: The last funny woman

7:30pm - Cristina Varga and Hayley Ashton

 

1 Guinea Street

6pm - Gigglefest Comedy Club

8pm - Adam Riches as Sean Bean in... 'The Twelve Beans of Christmas'

9:30pm - Nuggit: Alternative cabaret

 

Sacred Grounds

6:30pm - ‘Sod it, let’s make it!’ – a panel about creativity in a big bad world with Alice Lowe, Joel Morris and Izzy Mant

8pm - Josie Long's Long Shorts

 

Exeter Phoenix (Studio 1)

7pm - Dyke Systems

 

Saturday 6th June

Exeter Phoenix

11:30am - Marcel Lucont: Les enfants terribles deux

1:30pm - Flo & Joan

2pm - Muttonbird and Pigeon - Interview with a shark

3:30pm - Robin Ince: Let the quiet ones rise

5pm - Clementine 2

5pm - Olaf Falafel presents: I used to work in a helium balloon factory until they let me go

6:30pm - David Hoare: How to live to 100

8pm - Bec Hill

 

Custom House

4pm - Josie Long

6pm - Rob Auton

6:30pm - Ollie Young and Alfred Taylor: Square peg, round hole

7:30pm - Darryl Carrington: Tennish

8pm - Charlie Bowers: Smooth mobile network operator

 

The Fat Pig

1:30pm - Ben Treloar: Really gives it a go this time

3pm - Phil Nichol: Aren't we lucky

4:30pm - John-Luke Roberts: What I talk about when I run about, talking

6pm - Marty Gleeson: Dog Ear

7:30pm - James Trickey

9pm - Sally-Anne Hayward: Uninvited

 

1 Guinea Street

6pm - Erika Ehler

7:30pm - Simon Munnery

9pm - John-Luke Roberts: Terrible Wonderful Adaptations

 

The Hall

11am - The Comedy Toolkit

2pm - John Hegley: Biscuit of destiny

3:30pm and 6:30pm - Mark Watson

8pm - Marcel Lucont: Liberte

 

The Bootlegger

4:30pm - Louise Leigh: Octopus

6pm - Joz Norris is Hugh Jackman is the Phantom of the Opera

7:30pm - Daniel Kitson

9:30pm - Squawkers

 

Coffee Cellar

6pm - Alex Kitson: New look here

7:30pm - Amy Matthews: Definitions of toast

9pm - Adam Frost: Just let me have this

 

Pixy's Bar

1pm - Charlotte Evans: Sometimes it's more difficult to play against 10 men

2:30pm - The Joke Clinic

4pm - Joe Capper: "Normal"

5:30pm - Jess Lo: A good girl's guide to rebellion

 

The Mermaid

3pm - Dane Buckley

6pm - Hedluv and Passman: You may well laugh

 

Exeter City Library

8pm - The best of books, the blurst of books!

 

Bookbag

6pm - Charles Quarterman

 

Bunyip Craft

10am - Wooly Monsters: A childish making workshop for grown ups with Joanna Neary

 

Alibi

11am - Shelf presents The Kids Show 2: The power of two

1pm - Olaf Falafel's stupidest super stupid show: This time it's stupider

3pm - Darryl Carrington: Out of the box

 

Sunday 7th June

The Hall

11am - Rosalie Minnitt and Joanna Neary: Playtime

1pm - Silent workshop with Lucy Hopkins

4pm - David O'Doherty

 

Alibi

11am - Comedy Club 4 Kids

1pm - Mark Watson tries to impress kids again, for some reason