Cackling Bat Comedy Night - Josh Pugh

Josh Pugh, star of Live At The Apollo, Big Fat Quiz of Everything, Would I Lie to You and QI!  Josh’s many awards include British Comedian of the Year. Sam See and Lenny Sherman, two further big names will be in support

Doors open at 7pm.  Seats can only be reserved on arrival using tried and tested methods such as leaving your coat on the chair or writing your own name on a piece of paper (so you’ll need a pen).

Acts start at 8pm.

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Headliner – Josh Pugh

Josh Pugh launched his stand-up career in May 2014, quickly achieving early success by winning new act awards at both the Birmingham and Nottingham Comedy Festivals in 2015. His breakthrough came through viral TikTok sketches during lockdown which amassed millions of views and established his reputation as a social media-savvy comic. In 2022, he received a nomination for the Dave’s Edinburgh Comedy Award for his Fringe show and in the same year he also won British Comedian of the Year.

He’s also very accustomed to the telly! Both writing and appearing in the Channel 4 comedy ‘Stepping Up’ which is due to be released later this year. Other TV appearances include Live At The Apollo, Big Fat Quiz of Everything, Would I Lie to You, QI, Hypothetical, Question Team, Unforgivable, Live at the Moth Club and Rosie Jones’s Disability Comedy Extravaganza.

To top it all, Josh played for England’s Partially Sighted football team for 10 years (2012-2022) competing in 3 World Championships. He has 50 caps for England. He was a TV host at the Paralympic Games in Paris.

“A MUST-SEE STAND UP” – ROLLING STONE

“A gentle surrealness and a big dollop of hilarity” – SUNDAY POST

Sam See

Sam started performing stand-up comedy in Singapore in 2012 at an open mic called Talking Cock. In 2019, See brought his stand-up comedy show Coming Out Loud to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and in 2022, returned with a second show Government Approved Sex, featuring in Fest Mag’s list of The Best of the Edinburgh Festivals. He has been UK Tour Support for Ed Byrne. He has headlined in over 25 different countries, garnered over millions of views online, and has crowd-surfed three times.

Beyond stand-up, Sam is part of the improv troupe The Latecomers.

“Fantastic and Brilliant!” – The Edge

“Quick-witted, charismatic, everyone is having the time of their lives!” – EdFringe Review

Lenny Sherman

Lenny Sherman is a comedian, actor and lovable Cockney geezer

A stand-up since September 2010, Lenny was named runner-up in the national Comic Idol competition, run by Jongleurs and The Sun, in 2012. He made his Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2018 with Make The World a Better Place at Just The Tonic and returned in 2019 with his follow up show Have Fun.

Lenny most recently appeared in The Stand Up Sketch Show for ITVX and appeared alongside Ant and Dec in several series of Saturday Night Takeaway for ITV, and in Late Night Mash for Dave.

Lenny has also had his writing published in the popular comic Viz.

“Power-packed performance jammed full of gags – a real blast.” – Steve Bennett, Chortle

“Laughed my t*ts off!” – Irvine Welsh

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