{"title": "Ten Years of Monkey Tennis (with Peter Serafinowicz)", "start": "2026-11-19T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "comedy", "tags": ["comedy/tv-show"], "description": "Ten Years of Monkey Tennis (with Peter Serafinowicz) is a live podcast event celebrating ten years of Monkey Tennis, an award-winning, chart-topping Alan Partridge fan podcast. The hosts pit elements of the Alan Partridge Universe against each other with four microphones and a live audience to answer the question \"What's the Best Thing?\", pitting items such as 'Alpha Papa', Sidekick Simon and a can of Sprünt against one another. Afterwards they speak with actor Peter Serafinowicz about his career and his role as Tex, Alan's antagonist and lover of American things. The podcast has released over 150 episodes covering almost everything Alan Partridge has ever done.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ten-years-of-monkey-tennis-with-peter-serafinowicz-64095/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/155673dbfdc45a5ffaa5e307bb16e82c3e07215b92f5a98aaaa0ff24a727a94a-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-19T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Anyone For Tennis?", "start": "2026-11-13T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Queen's Theatre", "address": "RM11 1QT Hornchurch", "price": "£17.70", "price_from": "17.70", "price_to": "17.70", "category": "comedy", "tags": ["comedy/stand-up", "sport/tennis"], "description": "\"Anyone For Tennis?\" is a comedy show at the Queen's Theatre in Hornchurch. 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Comedian Richard Herring interviews top comedians in front of a live audience for his podcast, including chat too controversial for broadcast, with past guests such as Stephen Fry, Michael Palin and Katherine Ryan. The show reaches up to 200,000 listeners per episode and has won three Chortle Internet Comedy Awards as well as a Sony Best Comedy Award.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/richard-herrings-leicester-square-theatre-podcast-36969/", "official_url": "https://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com/show/richard-herrings-leicester-square-theatre-podcast/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ec05c6224e014fa69b71bf063b3d0c6e2d95ae7fc1d04c41bafde17be3070d1a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Harry Enfield and No Chums", "start": "2026-11-10T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "London Palladium", "address": "Argyll Street 7-8, W1F 7TF London", "price": "", "price_from": "64.99", "price_to": "75.99", "category": "comedy", "tags": ["comedy/stand-up"], "description": "An evening of stand-up comedy titled \"Harry Enfield and No Chums\", held at a London theatre. It stars Harry Enfield, a satirical comedian, who looks back on forty years in comedy and brings characters such as Loadsamoney and Kevin the Teenager back to life on stage. The evening ends with a question-and-answer session with the audience, where he discusses how his comedy works and what he is most proud of.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/harry-enfield-and-no-chums-63348/", "official_url": "https://lwtheatres.co.uk/whats-on/harry-enfield-and-no-chums-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a954778033a0fd8fe9e3d47c30691574093d63253eca8d8066408bd1f1302f79-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Absolute Radio Live", "start": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "London Palladium", "address": "Argyll Street 7-8, W1F 7TF London", "price": "", "price_from": "35.00", "price_to": "95.00", "category": "comedy", "tags": ["comedy/stand-up", "occasion/charity"], "description": "Absolute Radio Live is a comedy night at The London Palladium raising money for Prostate Cancer UK. 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The show revisits iconic characters from Mr Bean to Blackadder, performs his famous TV sketches such as those from Not the Nine O'Clock News, and includes brand new material created with long-time collaborators Richard Curtis, Ben Elton and Howard Goodall. 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Critics have praised it as gravity-defying, hugely funny and one of the most unique stand-up shows you will ever see.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/paddy-young-will-sir-be-laughing-alone-65171/", "official_url": "https://sohotheatre.com/events/paddy-young-will-sir-be-laughing-alone/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a4d31fecada9c17fdca0be79b6e2755386901d45c4619450eefbadc6164b7440-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Trevor Wallace - The Alpha Beta Male", "start": "2026-11-13T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "O2 Forum Kentish Town", "address": "Highgate Road 9-17, NW5 1JY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "comedy", "tags": ["comedy/stand-up"], "description": "A stand-up comedy show at the O2 Forum Kentish Town in London. American stand-up comedian, writer and actor Trevor Wallace brings his show 'The Alpha Beta Male' to the UK. The evening runs from doors at 19:00 with a curfew at 23:00.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/trevor-wallace-the-alpha-beta-male-61773/", "official_url": "https://www.academymusicgroup.com/o2forumkentishown/events/trevor-wallace-tickets-ae1688174", "image": "https://noky.io/images/501ac0e44af0753587ef9ee2eb98d07c3405920d82de77bbf69766acdd23c8f2-600.webp"}, {"title": "Karate Man – A Live-Action Video Game", "start": "2026-11-16T19:40:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pleasance", "address": "Carpenters Mews, N7 9EF London", "price": "From £15.00", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": null, "category": "comedy", "tags": ["comedy/improv", "games/video-games"], "description": "Karate Man – A Live-Action Video Game is a nostalgic choose-your-own-adventure comedy where the audience plays the show like an actual video game. It is made by Beak Comedy and stars co-directors Bruno Dubosarsky as Karate Man and Jacob Henegan as Ross Roundkick, with Maddie Houlbrook-Walk, Alexander Richmond and Alexandra Smith. Every button press on a real video game controller makes Karate Man obey exactly that command, and the hero who once saved Karatetown must now face his greatest foe: domestic life. The show won Best Interactive at Adelaide Fringe 2025 and runs about 60 minutes, recommended for ages 15+.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/karate-man-a-live-action-video-game-63929/", "official_url": "https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/karate-man-live-action-video-game", "image": "https://noky.io/images/34f2d22f8ce22383be11e97aa94624ab1b292daaf33003ae9d81184e62346192-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Best in Stand Up", "start": "2026-11-07T21:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Comedy Store", "address": "Oxendon Street 7, SW1Y 4EE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "comedy", "tags": ["comedy/stand-up"], "description": "The Best in Stand Up is a stand-up comedy show described as the one that made The Comedy Store famous. MC Paul Thorne hosts Peter Brush, The Noise Next Door, Aurie Styla and Ninia Benjamin. It brings together five comedians for a two-hour show of world-class stand-up with an interval. The show is strictly for ages 18 and over, and tickets on the door are limited and likely to sell out.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-best-in-stand-up-60328/", "official_url": "https://london.thecomedystore.co.uk/event/the-best-in-stand-up/2026-10-29_19-30", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dfca5116c2b466288e9a0a2691b18d9f7cf6bc0b3c25e6b604ed7274e42282a2-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Garry Starr: Classic Penguins", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-03T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Other Palace", "address": "Palace Street 12, SW1E 5JA London", "price": "£20 – £45", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "45.00", "category": "comedy", "tags": ["comedy", "literature"], "description": "Garry Starr: Classic Penguins is an award-winning comedy show at The Other Palace. It was created by and stars Damien Warren-Smith as Garry Starr, directed by Cal McCrystal and designed by takis. In it, Garry Starr tries to save books from extinction by performing every Penguin Classic ever written, mostly naked but with flippers. The show lampoons iconic works of fiction from The Little Prince to Moby Dick in a breakneck literary adventure.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/garry-starr-classic-penguins-39522/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c622c8cdb4477c25998873cee7cad0e7a13fb6d6fa46dd315ea3ccc2bde23aac-600.webp"}]}