Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups, sketch acts and cabaret stars from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and their families… but without the rude bits! Almost 20 years later, the company has expanded from one London residency to being countrywide, running shows and workshops all over the UK from Peebles to Portsmouth, even producing a book on how to write and perform stand-up, and hosting our own Radio Nonsense podcast to bring the sillies to families all over the world.
The show is family friendly, but without any patronising idiocy. In fact, it’s just like a normal comedy club, but it’s on in the day, kids are allowed in, and thus there is a higher than usual chance of the entire audience claiming to be called Bob.
Adults to sit with children in their party (and help explain anything they get stuck on).
Group bookings to contain at least one adult for every three kids.
Sun 11 May
Joe Sutherland (MC), sketch duo Shelf and Mark Watson.
Sun 29 Jun
Charlotte Cropper, Matt Green and more acts TBC.
Sun 20 Jul
Abigoliah Schamaun (MC), ventriloquist Max Fulham and more acts TBC.
Sun 24 Aug
Sketch duo Peasoup Comedy, Ben Van Der Velde and more acts TBC.
Upcoming line-up
Mark Watson
Mark Watson is one of the UK’s most successful comedians, the winner of the Panel Prize at the Edinburgh Fringe (where he has been one of the biggest-selling acts over the past twenty years), as well as Best Show at the Adelaide and Sydney Comedy Festivals.
His many TV credits include Taskmaster, Live At The Apollo, QI, Have I Got News For You, Would I Lie To You and The Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls.
Not only a stand-up, Mark has also written seven novels: Bullet Points (2004), A Light-Hearted Look At Murder (2007), Eleven (2010), The Knot (2012), Hotel Alpha (2014), The Place That Didn’t Exist (2016) and Contacts (2020).
Shelf
Shelf are South London’s finest sketch act and dog impersonators. Captivatingly silly and ever engaging, Rachel Watkeys Dowie and Ruby Clyde delight in twisty reveals and playful honesty.
Since their formation in 2015, Shelf have performed at Bestival, London Pride, and been nominated for Sketchfest’s Best New Act award. Their work has appeared on BBC3 and LADBible, and they are founding members of cult sell-out shows The LOL Word and ACMS. Since gigging for Comedy Club 4 Kids, they have put together a full hour of family-friendly comedy, and in 2023 won the award for UK’s Best Kid’s Comedy Show.
Joe Sutherland
Joe Sutherland is a comedian with a caustic, catty wit and unapologetic confidence.
Stand-up, acting, writing, influencing, there is nothing he won’t turn his hand to before getting distracted by something that looks expensive.
He performs all over the UK and internationally, sometimes on the internet and sometimes on the television (nature’s internet).
In the press
★★★★ ‘An excellent engagement with comedy for children, putting their likes, needs and interests first’
Broadway World
‘A highlight for children in recent years, giving them a taste of some of the biggest names in comedy… with the fun, rowdy feel of a real comedy club’
The Guardian
‘An essential treat.’
Fest Magazine
‘Absolutely hilarious.’
The Yorkshire Times
‘The ethos is just right’
The Daily Telegraph
Production photos by Jake Bush.
Comedy Club 4 Kids in association with Park Theatre presents