It’s nearly time for the ComedySportz Halloween Spooktacular at Waterside Arts! Players will be adding a little pumpkin spice to our usual family friendly show as teams get you screaming with laughter with spooky sketches and songs inspired by your suggestions.
Once again, the Dead Team take on the Boo Team with ghoulish games and frightfully fun gags. Don't worry there's still a referee on hand to ensure a good clean match and make sure the teams are raising laughter from the audience instead of raising the dead. Speaking of the audience, any loyal fans in fancy dress will get a treat… or will it be a trick? Find out on Saturday 28th October - book tickets here!
Be sure to catch the match if you're looking for some family friendly fun this Halloween Half-Term. Find out more about all of our upcoming shows, including our Totally Improvised Pantomimes in December, by visiting our shows page. You can also follow us on social media or sign up to our mailing list for regular updates on all of our upcoming shows, workshops and events.
Is there such a thing as TWO much improv? Find out as we showcase some of the best two-person improv teams around! Pairs of improvisers will create unique comedy sets from their suggestions. This is the second of what we hope to make a semi-regular night featuring talented teams from the North West and beyond.
Join us at Fierce Bar, Manchester on Wednesday 24th May for a night of fun and laughter featuring:
Barnish & Carmichael: Two men. One word. No ideas.
Kate and A Mate: Silly fun with Kate McCabe and Friend!
Marriage: The Stage Play: Relationships... What can go wrong?
This is an 18+ event. Advance tickets are just £5 or pay £6 on the door. Advance tickets can be purchased here.
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Liverpool Improvisation Festival!
ComedySportz will be performing at the inaugural Liverpool Improvisation Festival in April. Over two days, The Unity Theatre will be home to twelve different shows plus workshops from improv groups across the North West of England. ComedySportz will be performing at 7.30pm on Friday 21st April.
The organisers have put together a fantastic line-up of shows and workshops with a real variety of styles. We hope you'll join us in supporting this brand new festival! Tickets can be booked per show or you can book festival passes that cover all events that day. Tickets are available now and you can find out more about the Liverpool Improvisation Festival here.
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The Totally Improvised Pantomime Returns!
"Oh yes it does!" Every show is different as our panto players craft a loving pastiche of pantomime tropes and characters using your suggestions. There are even more opportunities to watch this year, with our all ages pantos and, by popular demand, even more adults only shows. Bored of the same old panto stories every year, don't miss this alternative Christmas-time comedy show!
We're back at Waterside Arts for a weekend of family friendly festive fun! Our pantomime players have no idea who they're going to play or what the adventure will. Everything is improvised from your suggestions and a sprinkling of fairy dust!
There are four chances to catch the show over the weekend, including a specially adapted version for ages 6 and under.
9th-10th December - Waterside Arts, Sale TICKETS (5pm and 7pm show on the 10th)
10th December - Wateride Arts, Sale TICKETS (3pm Show for Ages 6 Under)
This year we have just as many adults only pantomimes as family friendly shows... Why should kids have all the fun? It's the same format show but a little bit bawdier and with more innuendo than you can stuff into a panto dame's bra!
6th December - The Peer, Hat Manchester SOLD OUT!
14th December - Fierce Bar, Manchester TICKETS
16th-17th December - Waterside Arts, Sale TICKETS
These will be our last shows of 2022 so don't miss out! We'll be back in January with ComedySportz, ComedySportz 4 Tots, The Totally Improvised Musical and the return of the New Adelphi Comedy Night! Sign up to our mailing list for regular announcements on upcoming shows and workshops.
...Speaking of workshops, there is still time to book a space on our January intake. You can book a space for yourself or give the gift of laughter this Christmas and book for a friend!
21st Birthday Match @ Chorley Theatre!
Is it nearly the end of the year already? That means it's nearly time for us to celebrate 21 years of fun and games at the place where it all began, Chorley Theatre. Join us on Saturday 3rd December for a special Chorley vs. Manchester match, it's the funniest fixture of the weekend!
‘We started in 2001 with just two teams, one ref, no script and lots of jokes. Not much has changed, except our kits!” says Brainne Edge, who started ComedySportz in the UK. "It was a one-off show for charity at Chorley Theatre, and we had no idea what we were doing. Audiences loved it anyway and here we are today... Still not sure we know what we're doing though!"
Since 2001 we have enjoyed residencies at renowned comedy clubs The Frog and Bucket and The Comedy Store and our monthly shows at Waterside Arts. We have played to sold out crowds at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and we won Best Alternative Comedy Act in the 2022 North West Comedy Awards. We have performed shows for everyone from soap stars to royalty and teach regular workshops in improv and stand-up comedy. You can read more about the history of our shows here.
Returning to Chorley Little Theatre is always a highlight of our year and we promise there will be plenty of audience favourite games including object tag in which the audience donate everyday items that players have to turn into props for jokes. Brainne says, “People seem to save up their items and always surprise us! We’ve had everything from a spare tyre to a microwave. Once, someone even took the wing mirror off their car… at least we hope it was theirs!”
Doors open at 7pm and the fun kicks off at 7.30pm. You can book tickets online or direct from the venue box office. This is our last ComedySportz match of the year before our Totally Improvised Pantomimes!
