This Thursday 3rd December!

Headlining tonight is the wonderful...

Shappi Khorsandi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grRv-rz0CKA

with support from...

Josh Widdicombe
Tom Rosenthal
and sketch group Delete The Banjax

Hils Barker MC

Last gig of the year! It's going to be brill, COME!!

Hils x

This Thursday 19th November!

Tonight we have the BRILLIANT

Dan Antopolski!
Tiffany Stevenson!
Alfie Brown!
Peyvand Khorsandi!

And I am MCing...

Tickets £5, see you there x

This Thursday 5th November!

Hello!

Geeks At The Library continues every 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month....

This Thursday the ace line-up is:

Steve Weiner
Joel Dommett
James Acaster
Nick Doody - Creator of Radio 4's Bigipedia, whose stand-up is "A combination of political satire and daffy humour" The List, "Simply the best unadulterated, gimmick-free hour of pure stand-up." Chortle

and Hils Barker MC

Show starts 8.30pm, doors open 8.00pm.

See you there!

This Thursday 1st October!

WE'RE BACK!!!

But I must point out that the gig is now every OTHER Thursday, owing to me finding the commitment of running a gig "all a bit hectic".

Right. This Thursday's line-up is quite marvellous, it involving -

TIFFANY STEVENSON!
GERRY HOWELL!
CHRIS MAYO!
TONY LAW!

Last time Tony was here he wore his enormous gloves and performed one of the funniest sets I've seen. The two circumstances were unconnected. Probably.

So! Tickets are £5. Show starts 8.30, but arrive early if you want to hide at the back. Not that you'll need to hide. But if you want to.

Looking forward to seeing you!

Hils x

This Thursday 2nd July!

THURSDAY 2nd JULY 2009

This week's Edinburgh preview comes from ANDREW LAWRENCE - hooray.

Andrew's will be previewing his solo show 'Soul-Crushing Vicissitudes of Fortune!' He's very funny. Have a listen to this, it should give you the flavour -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUJxT0CukDU

Wot else?

Also the brilliant

DIANE MORGAN
HENRY PAKER
JANICE PHAYRE
ROSS LEE - with his strange TV clips

Yes! All of them! With...

mc HILS BARKER

pre-Edinburgh new stuff and fun.

Blimey.

Come if you can!

This Thursday 25th June

Brilliant, brilliant line up! We have improviser, brilliantly silly person and all round audience interactor...

TREVOR LOCK !

"Trevor Lock is superb" - The Stage
"Hilarious" - Time Out

And ALSO there will be ranter, hilariously opinioned and all round string theorist...

ROBIN INCE !

"When someone writes the history of modern comedy, they should make room for Robin Ince" - The Guardian

Now I'm not sure who that someone is, and obviously neither is The Guardian, but they have been warned.

And ALSO we have the very funny -

GARETH BERLINER !

"Gareth Berliner saved the night!" - Evening Standard

"Berliner is a natural storyteller with more soul than a hundred other comedians" - Metro Edinburgh

"He's cheaper than Prozac, and by the end of the show you feel you've made a new friend" - The Age Melbourne

Hope to see you there!

THURSDAY 18TH JUNE

THURSDAY 18TH JUNE 2009

This week we have the totally ace ROB ROUSE.

"Clearly immensely talented... demands to be seen... star of the future" THE SUNDAY TIMES

"Rob Rouse is a born clown, a latter day Stan Laurel" TIME OUT

"Rob Rouse's cartoon face and cheeky banter allow him to get away with murder" THE INDEPENDENT

"Big and Daft, ***** Comedy guaranteed to lighten even the darkest of moods... always a step ahead of you're expectations... missing this show means missing something wonderful" EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS

Also...

ROSS LEE
ALFIE BROWN
GERRY HOWELL

mc HILS BARKER

Hope to see you there!

This Thursday 11th June!

Our truly brilliant and wonderful headliner this week is...

STEPHEN K AMOS!

“After an hour of this man’s stand up, my cheeks were aching from grinning so heartily, his humour is that infectious.”
The Scotsman.

“From Stephen’s first words were laughing. And it didn’t stop. His entire audience laughed and laughed and laughed. I quite literally wept with laughter. My sides hurt with laughter. I was still laughing on the bus hoe. That night I woke myself up laughing out loud.”
***** ScotsGay

“Stephen K Amos has so much ebullient, effervescent good cheer… there is no such thing as a bad hour in Amos’s company.
**** Chortle

Watch him in action here.

So that'll be ace then. And we also have...


WENDY WASON - "Charming, clever and funny" The Times

TOM GOODLIFFE - "Plenty of laughs... especially successful with his sharp observational humour", Three Weeks

CHRIS MAYO - "Fantastic stand up. Very funny", Monkey Business

and mc HILS BARKER

I like to give myself the "and" credit. I feel like Giles in Buffy.

This Thursday 4th June!

Hello...

Well, after you've voted in the European elections, why not pop down to The Library for some multi-cultural comedy....

Headlining we have the spectacular -

HENNING WEHN!

Truly one of the funniest people around, and the German Comedy Ambassador - you will giggle yourself silly.

"Gloriously unreconstructed comedy. Who said Germans have no sense of humour?" The Guardian
"Glory lies ahead." Time Out

Also...

HILS BARKER!
JO ROMERO!
MIKE O DONOVAN!
GARETH MORINAN!

Hils MCs. I have another new song, this time about racism. Oh yes.

This Thursday 21st May!

Headlining this week is the very funny CHRIS NEILL! - off of the BBC's Just A Minute...

"AN EXPERT STORYTELLER WITH SPLIT-SECOND COMIC TIMING" Independent on Sunday

"NEILL IS THE EPITOME OF INTELLIGENT MIDDLE-CLASS CAMP. CLOSE YOUR EYES AND YOU GET JULIAN CLARYCROSSED WITH KENNETH WILLIAMS. OPEN THEM AND YOU HAVE SERGEANT BILKO." The Scotsman

So there! Can't wait for that...

Also we have:

DANIELLE WARD!
TONY DUNN!
FRAN HEALEY!
CHRIS MAYO!
MARK RESTUCCIA!

and a return to home gig by HILS BARKER!, as, y'know, host.

You'll have heard Danielle on The News Quiz (BBC) recently too. V. funny. But really, everyone is... very funny.

See you there!

This Thursday 14th May!

A splendid headliner at The Library, in the form of ROB DEERING!

"Truly wonderful stand-up." Sunday Times
"One of the leading stand-ups of his generation." Time Out

Star of 99 Things To Do Before You Die (Channel Five), brilliant guitar player, and all round hilarious man. Likes crosswords and quizzes too.

Also!

CAROLINE MABEY!

We're very excited to have Caroline down, as she'll be doing some very funny stuff: stand-up and characters...
"A demented hybrid of Alan Partridge and Fawlty Towers" Evening Standard.
A true one-off... you will love her.

ALEX MAPLE!

"Raw talent... punchy gags" - The List
"A good laugh... you can't fail to giggle." Fest Magazine.

JOEL DOMMETT!
King Gong of the Comedy Store....
"Confident, excitable delivery and quirky geek-chic" - Chortle.

and MC CHRIS MAYO!

This Thursday 7th May

We have....

DAN ANTOPOLSKI!

"A dazzling stage presence and a great store of one-liners" - The Times

"Undeniably the most imaginative comedian on display" - Time Out

WILL ANDREWS!

Part of award-winning sketch duo Will and Greg.
"I saw him the other night and thought his sketches were some of the funniest I've ever seen!"
Bafta-winning comedian for his Channel 4 Comedy Lab BLOWOUT!

CARDINAL BURNS!

Two out of the three people who make up Fat Tongue, hilarious sketch outfit. Nominated for Best Newcomer at Edinburgh Festival 2007.

CHRIS MAYO!

"Fantastic stand-up; very funny." Monkey Business
"A great comic" Scott Capurro

Cancelled This Week

We're very sorry, but due to unforeseen ongoing-ness of the renovations to the room, we've had to pull the gig this week. We just can't get the builders out. I guess, you know, they're perfectionists.

But it's going to be AWESOME when it's done.... Soundproofed room, stage spotlights, white backdrop for projections an' shit. Yeah...

Da actz Thursday 23rd April

LUCY PORTER headlines! Hurrah!

Recently seen on Have I Got News For you, Lucy is also....

“Possibly the most natural and most charming performer on the fringe, she has audiences in the palm of her hand … seriously funny … the most heart-warming, loveable show around”
Fest Magazine

“The smile of a pixie but the mouth of a docker. She also makes some unexpected, gob-smackingly libellous gags which reveal the dark intelligence beneath the bubbly surface, and her audience banter confirms just how quick on her feet she is”
The Independent on Sunday

“Lucy Porter has long had a reputation for offering a real ‘night out’ and not just a comedy show and her Happiness provides just that … the slickest hour on the fringe”
Sunday Telegraph

“Porter is probably one of the best ‘night out’ comedians working on the fringe … she’s an unavoidably magnetic character … a sharp yet warm natural wit”
Metro

So that'll be ace. We also have...

JULIET MEYERS!
ALFIE BROWN!
PAUL MCAFFREY!
DARREN RUDDELL!
....and HILS BARKER MCing!

Oh fuckin yeah.

Hope to see you there!

This Thursday 16th April

PAUL TONKINSON headlines tomorrow night! Two-time Time Out comedy award winner! YOU may have seen him on Comic Relief does Fame Academy, or even the Big Breakfast. I haven't; I am never up at this time, but I can tell you he is very funny and you should get on down to the gig....

Also...

ALI COOK
JOSH WIDDICOMBE
CHRIS MAYO
JOEL DOMMETT
and me, as MC / HOST / 'STAGE' LIGHT FIXER

See you there!
Hils

Geeks At The Library
EVERY THURSDAY

235 Upper Street, Islington (opposite the Union Chapel)
Doors from 8.00pm. Show starts 8.30pm
Tickets: £5
To reserve tickets please call The Library on 020 7704 6977
Or simply turn up!

This Thursday 9th April!

We have a brilliant line-up for you...

Headlining this week is the splendid ANDREW O'NEILL -

“an increasingly distinctive, imaginative act … brilliant, genuinely unexpected lines are added to the mix. At this rate, it won’t be long until he’s huge” Chortle

“clever comedy for those who like their laughs
original, off-kilter and cliché-free” **** Three Weeks

along with...

HILS BARKER -

"Hils Barker is one of the best young comics around.... go and see her." - Peter Richardson, The Comic Strip

"Infectious charm and a razor wit... it's deeply refreshing to see a comedian who's actually got something to say. ****" Fest

JANICE PHAYRE - "like a comedy hit and run, leaves you stunned by an onslaught of gags" The List
"Impossible to resist" The Herald

and...
CHRIS MAYO
TONY DUNN
MIKE O' DONOVAN

Hooray! Hope to see you there!

Line-up Thursday 2nd April

My God, what a bill of comedy...

TREVOR LOCK - Brill headliner
TOM CRAINE
JEN BRISTER
BRETT GOLDSTEIN
PIPPA EVANS - Nominated for If.Comedy Award 2008
MARK SIMMONS

AND MC DANIELLE WARD! YEAH..... You will have heard her on Radio 4's The News Quiz recently, and all sorts.

AND IT'S ONLY A FIVER!

It's going to be great! Next week I will be back. Liam has just over a week to go of being confined to the house with a broken leg and I shall be supporting Mark Thomas in Oxford this Thurs... but next week... oh yeah, next week, I return! With probably a lot to say about Jacqui Smith's Wankergate.


235 Upper Street, Islington (opposite the Union Chapel)
Doors from 8.00pm. Show starts 8.30pm
Tickets: £5
To reserve tickets please call The Library on 020 7704 6977
or www.wegottickets.com