The Waiting Room Comedy Night - Eaglescliffe - Yarm - Stockton On Tees

Join us at The Waiting Room, Eaglescliffe for a superb night of stand up comedy !!

You can book a table for pre show food in the restaurant between 5:00pm and 7pm by calling 01642 780465

Opening the night with two sections of improvised sketch comedy is ....

100% raw improvised sketch from Chris Lumb, Eddie French, and Phil Smith.

If you've never seen improvised comedy before, you are in for a right treat. All the games, scenarios, and situations are formed and created from your suggestions ... that's right YOU the audience.

It's very much in the style of 'Whose Line is it Anyway' but with a modern twist .... and normally a little risker and ruder too.

Winner of 'Best Show' Morecambe Fringe 2020

Nominated for 'Best Kids Show' Leicester Comedy Festival 2022

"The comedy is creative and crude, quick and quirky, the performers commit completely to the games and create funny & fantastic characters at a moment's notice" - ★★★★★ - Remotegoat

"There's a wonderful slapstick nature to it all but they are all impressively literate in film culture and genres too, creating brilliant, quick draw pastiches of popular cinema that will have you in stitches"- ★★★★ Manchester's Finest

"Total fun and instantly engaging" - ★★★★★ - WHODARESGRINS

Opening the show is the critically acclaimed stand up comedian

Aidan Goatley is a comedian and author with success across the UK, and abroad. He has gigged in venues from small pubs to cruise ships to the Hammersmith Apollo but his biggest successes have been for his solo shows which have received commercial and critical acclaim. His 2011 show ’10 Films with my Dad’ was the sleeper hit of the Edinburgh fringe and returned for 5 further years, selling out on each return. He followed this with the shows ‘The Joys of Retail,’ ‘Mr Blue Sky’ and ‘The Vicar’s Husband’ which also featured on BBC1.

Aidan has authored 2 books - ’10 Films with my Dad’ and ‘Never eat the buffet at a sex club’ with his third, ‘Subcutaneous’ being published in late 2022.

"It’s heart-warming positive comedy, like no-one else is doing, and the world really needs it right now" - Romesh Ranganathan.

“Goatley is fabulous, funny warm and tingly" - Mark Thomas

‘Proper comic gold’ - Chortle

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"A riotously funny blend of Jerry Seinfeld and Hugh Grant"- Broadway Baby

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"Charmingly funny" - The Scotsman

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"A Brilliant raconteur" - Fringe Guru

★★★★★ Fringe Guru | ★★★★★ Broadway Baby | ★★★★★ Yorkshire Post

★★★★★ Black Diamond FM | ★★★★★ Dubai Laughing

Our MC for the night is the naturally funny and entertaining

As seen on 'Russell Howard's Good News' & 'Britain's Got Talent' Chris is a popular MC on the comedy circuit with his warm and welcoming crowd work, sharp impressions, and quick fire wit.

The Waiting Room is a multi award winning vegetarian restaurant in Eaglescliffe near Yarm.

They’ve attracted regular awards and commendations over the years, being included in The Observer Food Magazine’s Best UK Restaurant category in at least five of the past ten years, and winning the Best Restaurant in the UK award from the Vegetarian Society.They have also been included in “Top 10” lists for The Telegraph, The Times, MSN and BBC Good Food. and been awarded certificates of excellence by the Slow Food Movement, Stockton Fair Trade, and visitor review sites such as Trip Advisor (and they don’t pay these sites like some restaurants do). The Waiting Room hosts regular gigs and arts events on a Sunday night, and – over the past ten years they have welcomed some incredible artists, most notably comedians Stewart Lee, Josie Long, John Bishop, Simon Donald, Simon Munnery, Boothby Graffoe, Alex Horne, Simon Donald, and Pete Firman.

Comedy doors open 7:00pm

Show starts at 7:30pm

Finishes at approximately 9:30pm

There will be 2 drink intervals between acts

Why not pop down early and take full advantage of the fantastic bar offerings or book a table for food between 5:00pm & 7pm by calling 01642 780465.

NB: Line up subject to change at short notice.

Event can be postponed or the capacity reduced at short notice if instructed to by localised restrictions.

Please follow all government guidelines and also respect the house rules when attending the show.

The show may contain occasional strong language and topics of an adult nature.

If easily offended it may not be for you.

Over 16's Only.

Host or Publisher Shoe Cake Comedy