Late Night Comedy

We’re delighted to say that our late night comedy is planned to return for Wickham Festival this summer from Thursday through to Saturday. The comedy will start after music on the main stages finishes at 23.00. There’s also late-night storytelling and other entertainment until the arena closes at 01.00.

TOM DEACON (MC) will be hosting all nights (Thursday, Friday, & Saturday)

Since winning the Chortle Student Comedy Award in 2007, Deacon has hosted his own BBC Radio 1 show, done some telly (The Rob Brydon Show, Fake Reaction, Dave’s One Night Stand), and followed The Champions League around the world as The Eurofan – notching up over one million views on YouTube. A slick, upbeat, confident and loveable performer.

Thursday:

CHARMIAN HUGHES
Charmian is a proven festival charmer with unexpectedly sharp claws. Making people laugh in UK, Budapest, Barcelona, Dublin, Belfast, New Zealand, Adelaide and Melbourne. She has received 3 Comedy Award nominations.

‘Joyfully silly, solidly fantastic stand-up’
BingeFringe

‘Lights up show’
The Scotsman

‘Charming ribaldry’
The Guardian

British Comedian of The Year’ Grand Finalist, and stars in ‘Micky Flanagan Peeping Behind The Curtain’ (Sky).

JIMMY MCGHIE
Jimmy was an Assistant Producer for the BBC’s Science and History Dept, having spent seven years working in factual television before he ran off to join the stand up comedy circus professionally in 2009. Since then he has performed stand up all over the world and appeared on numerous television and radio programmes including the BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5, Comedy Central, ABC Australia, THREE New Zealand, Absolute Radio and many more.

He is “a brilliant talent” (The Scotsman) and with “an easy charm and appealing relaxed manner” (Chortle), he has performed 10 solo shows at festivals around the world including the Edinburgh Fringe, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Adelaide Fringe, Sydney Comedy Festival, Perth Comedy Festival and New Zealand International Comedy festival.

Friday:

MARKUS BIRDMAN
An experienced and versatile comedian, Markus is one of stand-up’s most well travelled comedians, much in demand in the UK and all over the world.

After attending several Art Schools, and even managing to graduate from one, Markus became a Graffiti Artist, Muralist, Performance Poet and Glastonbury Festival Poetry Slam Champion. He can’t remember which year, he was fairly out of it. This path would eventually lead him to becoming an award winning Stand-Up Comedian, and one of the very first British Comics to have his own Netflix Special- Live in Amsterdam.

ALISTAIR BARRIE
Alistair Barrie is one of the most sought after headliners on the international comedy circuit. His biting topical comedy has seen him perform all over the world including acclaimed performances at the Cape Town, Melbourne, New Zealand and Edinburgh Festivals, where he has twice been nominated for best show. He is a regular at Glastonbury, on the BBC, Times Radio and a wide range of podcasts.

Alistair is the only comedian to have played both the Labour and Conservative Party conferences. He has also written for household names such as Frankie Boyle, Jason Manford and Jack Whitehall.
‘A no frills master of his craft’
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Scotsman

Saturday:

ANDREW PIPE
Andrew Pipe became a professional stand up comedian when he arrived at the Edinburgh Festival in 1995. He has been a resident compere at the Screaming Blue Murder comedy clubs, a regular contributor to the Comedy Store’s Cutting Edge and veteran of multiple nationwide tours. He is currently performing his new show ‘Real Sociopath’ to audiences around the world.

PAUL MCCAFFREY
Local lad Paul McCaffrey has recently been seen on Live At The Apollo and embarked on a nationwide tour of his brilliant show, What A Time To Be Alive. Paul is an award-winning comedian (Latitude New Act of the Year, London Paper New Act of the Year) and headlines at the biggest comedy clubs in the country. He has performed four critically acclaimed Edinburgh shows as well as major music festivals: Reading, Leeds, V Festival, Bestival and Latitude.