Full line up announced for Brighton Dome Comedy Festival, in partnership with Komedia this October

Brighton Dome Comedy Festival returns from 16–25 October and this year has partnered with Komedia, bringing a packed 10-day programme to two of the city’s best loved events venues. 

All My Friends indie disco makes a long-awaited Brighton debut on the first Saturday of the Festival. Hosted by legendary comic podcasters Elis James, John Robins and Dave Masterman, whoare DJ’ing together for the first time in over two years, the day rave brings indie and pop tunes from the 80s to the present day to Brighton Dome Concert Hall, with the odd special guest too. 

Also new to the line up at Brighton Dome are internationally acclaimed comedian and filmmaker Simon Amstell, who performs I Love It Here in the Concert Hall as part of a strictly limited tour, and Northern Irish-Australian stand up Jimeoin (Live at the Apollo), whose new show Ballyhoo comesto the Corn Exchange. In the Studio Theatre, Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award-nominated star of Channel 4’s Mitchell & Webb Are Not Helping, Lara Ricote, explores millennial angst and self-discovery in Inkling and BBC New Comedy Award winner Dan Tiernan is armed with jokes, punchlines and rocks in Quartz and All. Cult cartoonists Modern Toss are back, with an exhibition in Brighton Dome Founders Room throughout the Festival.

For younger comedy fans, comic duo and Brighton Dome favourites Shelf return to the Studio Theatre with child-friendly music and sketches in The Kids Show 2. And swear-free standup showcase Live at Brighton Dome BLEEPED is back in the Corn Exchange, for ages 11 and up.

Over at Komedia, Guardian political sketch writer John Crace asks What The Hell Just Happened? in the Basement. After selling out in Edinburgh last year, Kim Blythe presents her brand-new show Puzzle and Rich Wilson performs an evening of observational hilarity in To The Cradle, From The Rave (Komedia Studio). Raising the Roof brings together Joe Wilkinson, Angela Barnes, Dinesh Nathan, James Ellis and Rich Wilson as MC in a comedy fundraiser for YMCA Brighton in the Basement, and award-winning character comedians Maddy and Marina Bye as Siblings perform surreal sketch show Dreamweavers (Komedia Studio).