Baby, it's back! Our fantastic host Paul McCaffrey is returning with another SMASHING line-up for our Parent & Baby day-time comedy event; You’ve Got to be Kidding Me?!

Grab a coffee and a slice of cake, park up your buggies and get ready for a mid-week laugh to bring you screaming back to adult life! Drinks and cakes (and some savoury muffins for your little one) will be available to purchase from our bar; please bring any toys your child would like to play with.

Time: 11.30am (doors open @ 10.45am)
Tickets: Adult Tickets: £12 | Baby Tickets: free

When booking your tickets, please select an adult ticket and a free place for your baby - we have limited availability. Babies must be 15 months or under as content will be adult themed!

Please note, tickets are non-refundable.

ESTHER MANITO

An Arab Essex girl who will challenge every single preconception of what that means. Esther has supported Alan Davies, Shappi Khorsandi, Sindhu Vee, Jason Mansford, Jo Brand and Al Murray. As seen on ITV's Stand Up Sketch Show and heard on: BBC sounds Russel Kane’s Evil Genius, co-hosting Radio 4 Extra's Newsjack Unplugged, CBBC Bitesize Parents, Drunk Women Solving Crime, Russell Kane’s Boys Don’t Cry, BBC New Comedy Awards 2016-19 and Live at the Apollo (Dec 2021).

Winner of Best Show at Leicester Comedy Festival 2021

“At times it’s like Victoria Wood has taken the mic” - Radio Times

“Esther Manito: Lebanese British women….. incredible comedian.” - Edfest Magazine

"Manito skilfully weaves her own personal story with a wider look at gender issues in society" - ★★★★ Evening Standard

MIKE COX

Mike has been performing comedy since 2011 and quickly made his mark on the comedy scene with his sharp witted observational style which saw him crowned South Coast Comedian of the Year in 2014 as well as making the final of the prestigious Amused Moose Laugh Off in 2016.
He can be seen at comedy clubs up and down the UK.

“Like an Everyman, if that Everyman had delicious cynicism and razor sharp wit.” – Romesh Ranganathan”

"Mike has the sharpness of any highbrow comic, but with the wealth of material to appeal to the Everyman with ease. A refreshing and hilarious act to watch and work with.” – Dane Baptiste

“If Rob Beckett is the new Micky Flanagan then Cox could be the new Rob Beckett” – Bruce Dessau

PAUL MCCAFFREY

Star of Live at the Apollo (BBC2) Impractical Jokers (BBC3) Russell Howards Good News (BBC3) Stand up Central (Comedy Central) and as seen on The Dog Ate My Homework (CBBC) and Channel 4’s 5o Funniest. On the radio, Paul has recently co-hosted the Rock and Roll football on Absolute Radio and the Warm up on TalkSport as well as guesting on Rob Beckett’s show on Absolute and performing Stand up on Russell Kanes Whistlestop Tour on Radio 2. Paul is also the co-host of Radio Xs The Britpopcast, a brand new podcast all about 90s music with George Lewis.

Paul has recently appeared on major UK tours with two of Britain’s foremost stand ups, Sean Lock and Kevin Bridges – playing to more than half a million people in Arenas and theatres to great critical acclaim. He has also been the support act for Michael Mcintyre, John Bishop and Lee Mack. 2019 saw McCaffrey take to the road for his first solo headline tour ‘I thought I’d have grown out of this by now’, playing to packed houses across the UK.

N.B. Line-up subject to change & no lift access to performance space; stairs only. We will have a buggy park downstairs.