Category: CQAF Comedy

Bite Me was postponed in our Out to Lunch Festival when Joanne made her way to the Black Box – in Galway.

With Sat Nav co-ordinates duly reset, finally, we bring you – BITE ME.

This is the story of Joanne’s amaaaaaaazing diet. She didn’t just lose weight though; she lost jobs, friends and fellas, but she didn’t care because she could wear bangles as belts and that’s all that mattered.

Then one day, over her morning carrot, Joanne realized she’d lost her mind. Turns out it was pinned to a lost property board up in space, enjoying the view and its new found freedom.

Trying to entice it back became the hardest, funniest, greatest and weirdest time of her life.

A major hit at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe festival, we are delighted to host this Belfast premier.

‘Brazen, bold and beautiful, the sky’s the limit for Joanne McNally’ – IRISH MIRROR

*Tickets available on the Door*

Camp and outrageous, provocative and controversial, catty and hysterical, Scott Capurro is a breath of fresh air in the increasingly samey and stale world of stand-up.

Constantly operating on the boundaries of good taste and often straying some way over the line Scott is a challenging comedian in the best sense of the word.

This San Franciscan comedian has become a favourite on the UK circuit in the last few years, a regular at the Edinburgh Fringe and has appeared in several films such as Mrs Doubtfire.

He delivers brutally honest, funny descriptions of life as a gay man in an all American family. Not for the delicate!

‘… enthralling… electric… deliciously catty’ – THE SCOTSMAN

‘Comic equation: Larry Grayson x (Lenny Bruce + Chris Rock) = Scott Capurro’ – THE GUARDIAN

Doors 7:45pm | Unreserved Seating

Following her critically acclaimed, sell-out international tour with The Kardashians Made Me Do It, Shazia Mirza brings her brand new stand-up show to The Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival.

‘A show about lies and truth – or is that the same thing? Nudity and The Periodic Table, these things hold the key to the future. How much do you wear? What do you look like, and will they let you in? Oh, and don’t you dare wear more than dental floss on a French beach’.

Recent TV appearances include The Jonathan Ross Show (ITV), Graham Norton (BBC) and Loose Women (ITV). Shazia appeared on Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls in 2017 on Channel 4.

**** ‘Mirza has stepped up a gear… the bravest thing you’ll see on a comedy stage this year… a remarkable finale’ – SUNDAY TIMES

Doors 7:45pm | Unreserved Seating

*Tickets also available via telephone on 02890 235053*

Ayesha Hazarika, MBE, started her career as a stand-up comedian playing clubs across the country. She then took what she thought was a natural diversion into the Labour Party as a Special Adviser working for Gordon Brown, Harriet Harman and Ed Miliband.

Since leaving front line politics she’s become a much sought-after commentator writing for the FT, Guardian, Evening Standard, New Statesman and Grazia. Ayesha has also returned to her stand-up roots.

Her one-woman show Tales from the Pink Bus was a sell-out hit at the Edinburgh festival and she’s been in huge demand on TV and radio including regular appearances on Good Morning Britain (ITV), Sky Papers (Sky News), The Andrew Marr Show (BBC1), and Newsnight (BBC2).

Ayesha lifts the lid on what life’s really like behind the scenes at Westminster with brutal honesty and humour and asks what’s next for British politics.

‘Hazarika is terrific company – relaxed, mischievous and with a mind like a steel trap…go and see what she has to say.’ **** – THE SCOTSMAN

‘Patently super smart and extremely eloquent, she offers an intriguing insight’ – THE HERALD

Doors 7:45pm | Unreserved Seating

*Tickets also available by Telephone on 02890235053*

*Tickets available on the Door*

A show for anyone who has, or has had, hair and hairs.

Award winning stand-up comedian and poet Rob Auton (Dave’s Funniest Joke Of The Fringe award winner, Glastonbury’s ‘Poet In Residence’) returns with another heart-felt and offbeat comedy/theatre/spoken word show that explores hair and hairs.

Rob casts an introspective eye over the world of hair, underpinned by leaving his head hair and beard to their own devices until he has performed The Hair Show for the final time.

Join Rob as he explores the importance of appearance and how people react to someone who looks like he has checked out.

For the past five years Rob has used his command of words and distinctive unconventional humour to explore seemingly mundane subjects: sleep, water, faces, the sky and the colour yellow. These shows have given rise to a cult status at the Fringe.

‘A genuine original.’ – THE GUARDIAN

‘One of my absolute favourites.’ – DANIEL KITSON

‘Charming, eccentric and uplifting, Auton is a talent to watch.’ – INDEPENDENT

Doors 5:45pm | Unreserved Seating