We had our first planning meeting for the 2025 festival yesterday! A big thank you to The Black Horse for hosting us 🥰

Sending thoughts and love to the friends & family of Alan Seaman. Alan's huge contribution to comedy and our festival over the years has touched so many people. We miss him dearly. Thank you Alan! ❤️

A huge thank you to everyone who donated to our Bridging The Gap initiative as part of the Big Give #artsforimpact campaign!
Although our target amount wasn't reached, we're thoroughly dedicated to delivering the project & we're excited to improve our diversity & representation👏

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Time is running out to support our Big Give #artsforimpact campaign. All donations are doubled until midday!
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🚨 Last chance TODAY to support Big Difference Co with this campaign! 🚨

Thanks to everyone who shared and donated so far, we really appreciate it.

All donations are doubled, and you can gift aid them, so if you donate £10, we can get £22.50!
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We are delighted to say that we are now accepting donations for our Bridging the Gap crowdfunding campaign! Please support us to make our festival more inclusive for comedians and audiences. #ArtsForImpact

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That's a wrap! A huge congratulations to all of this year's winners and a massive thank you to everyone who made Leicester Comedy Festival 2024 happen! Roll on 2025!!

Our final award of the evening, 2024's Legend of Comedy is Jenny Eclair! 😂🥇

The Chris Maughan Award for Lifetime Contribution award goes to Rob Gee this year! 🏆

The award for Contribution to Leicester Comedy Festival 2024 goes to Ben Robinson for his creation of the Leicester Comedy Festival app! 👏

The results are in...our Best Show award goes to Joe Kent-Walters for Joe Kent Walters: An Audience with Frankie Monroe! 🏆

Congratulations are in order for Susie McCabe, the winner of our Best New Show Award this year for Susie McCabe: Work in Progress! 🥳

Leicester Comedy Festival 2024's Best Kids Show is Olaf Falafel's Stupidest Super Stupid Show (Yet)! Congratulations to Olaf Falafel🎊

The winner of our inaugural Audience Choice Award is Everyday I'm Jesterin'! Congratulations & a big thank you to everyone who voted!

Leicester Comedy Festival 2024's Best Debut Show is awarded to Jack Skipper for Jack Skipper: Work in Progress! 🤩

The winner of our Best Variety Show Award this year is...
David Eagle Flying Solo Tour on sale now for David Eagle: Flying Solo! 🍾

This year, our Best Promoter award goes to Jokes On Us 🥇 congratulations!

The Business Contribution Award for 2024 goes to The Beautiful Pubs Collective! ❤️

We're so grateful for everything all the students who get involved with the festival do, but one in particular stood out this year. Huge congratulations to our 2024 Student of the Year, Molly Wilby! ✨ 🎉

Let's hear it for the winner of the Tracey Miller Community Award - allinleicester! 🎉