13 Apr 2013–13 Jul 2013

Best of The Comedy Store

Catch the leading stand-ups on the UK and international circuit at this residency from The Comedy Store, hailed as 'comedy's unofficial National T ...

18 Apr 2013–21 Jun 2013

Time Out Introduces

Arena-filling stand-ups, DVD bestsellers, telly regulars - it's taken years for household-name comics to get to where they are today

19 Apr 2013–28 Jun 2013

Time Out Live’s Friday Night Freakshow

Friday Night Freakshow presents London's most shocking variety, as the nation's naughtiest comics perform alongside burlesque beauties and freakis ...

21 Apr 2013–14 Jul 2013

The Showstoppers

Improvised Musical

Witness this brilliant comedy troupe create a brand new musical comedy from scratch at each and every performance of their award-winning production.

22 Apr 2013–1 Jul 2013

Comedy in the Dark

Your favourite stand-ups, one hour no lights! After sell-out shows in the UK and Europe, Comedy in the Dark returns to the Udderbelly -- a unique ...

24 Apr 2013–10 Jul 2013

Festival of the Spoken Nerd

A comedy night for the insatiable sci-curious!

Stand-up mathematician Matt Parker, geek songstress Helen Arney and experiments guy Steve Mould host a show for the fearlessly inquisitive.

25 Apr 2013–11 Jul 2013

Andy Zaltzman: Political Animal

Political Animal, the nation's only and probably best political stand-up gig, comes to Udderbelly to harangue and cajole a very naughty planet.

27 Apr 2013–13 Jul 2013

Comedy Club 4 Kids

Otter-ly fantastic! Now in its third year at Udderbelly Festival, the Comedy Club 4 Kids is back, bigger and better than ever.

3 May 2013–5 Jul 2013

Spank!

You Love It!

Fresh from sell-out, packed-to-the-rafters shows in Edinburgh and at Latitude, Spank! returns to the Udderbelly Festival with sketch, character, m ...

7 May 2013–1 Jun 2013

Circus Maximus

Twenty great acts dazzle and delight audiences with remarkable feats of skill, physical prowess and unexpected hilarity in Circus Maximus, the UK' ...

10 May 2013–29 Sep 2013

LIMBO

A summer celebration of otherworldly proportions, welcome to the greatest party ever between heaven and hell.

11 May 2013–1 Jun 2013

Miss Behave’s Social Club and Pleasure Aid

Tired of everything meaning something? Just want to have fun? Then look no further.

17 May 2013–7 Jun 2013

Abandoman

The Life and Rhymes of Abandoman

Ireland's top comedy hip-hop improv team return to Udderbelly Festival for more mind-blowing, word-bending lyrical genius.

18 May 2013–28 Aug 2013

Silencio

Welcome to the world of Silencio.

23 May 2013–25 May 2013

Gina Yashere: Laughing To America

Gina Yashere has had a momentous year

23 May 2013–12 Sep 2013

Horne Section

Alex Horne gathers together the UK's finest musicians and throws them onstage with the world's most exciting comics to create a heady mix of spont ...

24 May 2013–28 Jun 2013

Boris and Sergey's Vaudevillian Adventure

Following their sell-out smash at the Edinburgh Fringe (garnering no fewer than seven five-star reviews), puppetry's Balkan bad boys Boris & S ...

25 May 2013

Hook, Line and Singer: A Family Sing-along with Cerys Matthews

Everyone can sing and Cerys Matthews wants to stop us feeling so shy about it.

27 May 2013–30 May 2013

Dogs Don't Do Ballet

Biff is not like ordinary dogs.

28 May 2013–30 May 2013

Airnadette

We will dub you

After over one hundred and eighty two (and a half) shows presented throughout the world, from NYC to Paris via your sister's basement, Airnadette, ...

29 May 2013–12 Jun 2013

Howard Marks

Howard Marks _ aka 'Mr Nice' _ tells stories from his extraordinary life, from working with the British Secret Service to prison to being describe ...

29 May 2013–18 Sep 2013

Tongue Fu

Spoken Word, Music, Film, Improvisation

The UK's sharpest poets, storytellers and comedians perform with jaw-dropping improvised soundtracks and films from the genre-hopping Tongue Fu Ba ...

30 May 2013–11 Sep 2013

House of Burlesque

Time Out's pick of the best musical comedians, from hilarious hip-hop artists to quick-witted guitarists, come together for a one-off mega-bash wh ...

31 May 2013

One Million Tiny Plays About London

Author Craig Taylor presents ten specially commissioned plays about life in 21st-century South London, Southbank Centre's local neighbourhood.

31 May 2013

Andrew Maxwell:That's the Spirt

Catch Andrew Maxwell, renowned for his cutting-edge comedy and intrepid social commentary, live onstage as part of Udderbelly Festival.

31 May 2013

Bourgeois and Maurice

Cabaret's strangest, spangliest brother/sister duo return to the London Wonderground with their rock'n'roll band for one night only.

31 May 2013–28 Sep 2013

Cirque du Cabaret

The late-night cabaret show returns to London.

1 Jun 2013

Superhero Run with Charlie Dark

Join Charlie Dark and the Run Dem Crew as they take you on a mission-impossible superhero run around Southbank Centre

1 Jun 2013–2 Jun 2013

Tom Chivers

The Neckinger Pilgrimage

Part walking tour, part site-specific performance, this urban pilgrimage combines poetry, soundscapes and storytelling to scrape away at the surfa ...

1 Jun 2013

Pete Firman

The UK's top comedic conjuror returns to Southbank Centre with his latest box of tricks.

2 Jun 2013–22 Jun 2013

Flown

With a stunning clique of masterful acrobats, aerialists, dancers, musicians and daredevil stuntmen, the cutting-edge Pirates of the Carabina invi ...

3 Jun 2013–23 Jun 2013

Beyond

Circa are quite simply one of the world's great contemporary circus companies.

4 Jun 2013

Brendon Burns Hasn’t Heard of you Either

Edinburgh comedy award-winner Brendon Burns, who has partial hearing, addresses disability and exactly why he has managed to remain a painfully an ...

4 Jun 2013

Marcel Lucont: Gallic Symbol

Witty, acerbic, magniloquent Frenchman seeks willing, intelligent audience for one hour only for fun, adventure, maybe something more.

5 Jun 2013–6 Jun 2013

Lucy Guerin's UNTRAINED

<i>Untrained</i> is a quirky and irreverent theatrical exploration that takes both performers and audience into a whole new undefined ...

5 Jun 2013

Note-able Comedy

Time Out's pick of the best musical comedians, from hilarious hip-hop artists to quick-witted guitarists, in a one-off mega-bash where the jokes a ...

6 Jun 2013

Untrained: Workshop

Lucy Guerin Inc offers a two-hour workshop in conjunction with Untrained.

6 Jun 2013

Hal Cruttenden: Tough Luvvie

Strongly tipped as the next big thing, Hal has created a unique style of comedy that is simultaneously warm and catty, straight and camp.

7 Jun 2013–9 Jun 2013

The Tiger Lillies

Live in Concert

The Grammy nominated, Olivier Award-winning godfathers of alternative cabaret return to the Wonderground for their only London concert dates this ...

8 Jun 2013–29 Jun 2013

Eyes Down! Bingo with Ida Barr

Ex-music hall star Ida Barr sings her own brand of artificial hip-hop R'n'B these days.

8 Jun 2013

Simon Munnery: Fylm-Makker

Simon Munnery presents a beautiful mix of visual sketches, handcrafted animation, music and stand-up, all created and performed live on screen.

9 Jun 2013

Karim Said, piano

Composers Imagine the Future

Karim Said plays Webern and Schoenberg, plus short works by five composers who each took Schoenberg's radical influence on board in a different way.

9 Jun 2013

Spira mirabilis

Strauss Laments a Culture Destroyed

Hear Strauss' <i>Metamorphosen</i> explored by Spira mirabilis, the revolutionary and fiercely non-hierarchical orchestra made up of E ...

14 Jun 2013

Tim FitzHigham: Stop the Pigeon

Award-winning comedian Tim FitzHigham is back with a new show and his greatest gamble yet.

15 Jun 2013–16 Jun 2013

The Adventurers Club

A brand new adventure

Globally renowned adventurers Tim (CBBC's 'Superhumans') and Tiernan (CBBC's 'The Slammer') are back with another fast paced, slapstick comedy esc ...

15 Jun 2013

Gyles Brandreth: Looking for Happiness

A unique one-man show that should make you laugh _ and could change your life.

19 Jun 2013

Vikki Stone

Award-winning comedian Vikki Stone debuts at the Udderbelly with her hilarious stand-up and songs.

20 Jun 2013

Phil Kay

Wild, inventive, euphoric, Phil Kay tells a great story _ and these are his best ones.

21 Jun 2013

Stephen K Amos

Is The Spokesman

Stephen K Amos is back in the UK following a sell-out tour of Australia and New Zealand, with his first solo London date for two years.

22 Jun 2013

Tiernan Douieb Explains Absolutely Everything

An hour of comedy for kids, adults, robots and things that go 'yargle', all inside an upside down giant purple cow.