Octagon Comedy Club
Octagon Comedy Club
About Octagon Comedy Club
The Octagon Comedy Club is back! This time bigger and better than before in the main house theatre...
Join us for a night of laughs with some of the top names in stand up.
This months comedy club line up includes:
Phil Ellis
Phil Ellis is an award-winning comedian who has entertained audiences of all ages with his amalgamation of off-beat observational material and physical comedy. Most recently, he was nominated for the prestigious Sky Best Comedy Show at the 2023 Edinburgh Comedy Awards and won The Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality for Phil Ellis’s Excellent Comedy Show. The show was ranked in the top 20 best-reviewed shows of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2023.
5 Stars‘Ellis’s performance is touched by comic genius. Every moment he is on stage something funny, and then funnier, is happening.’
- Scotsman
Hannah Platt
Named ‘Voice of a generation’ (The Skinny) with ‘humour sharp enough to draw blood’ (The Guardian), Hannah Platt is ‘an undeniable rising star’ (Fest Mag) of the UK comedy scene. Her sell-out debut show ‘Defence Mechanism’ saw her nominated for Edinburgh Comedy Awards ISH Best Newcomer, Next Up’s Biggest Award in Comedy and earned her multiple 5 and 4 star reviews from The Scotsman, Chortle and DIVA Magazine to name just a few. She has recently filmed for Comedy Central live, has written and starred in her own short for BBC Three, written for numerous BBC Radio 4 shows and supported the likes of Fern Brady, Lou Sanders and Kiri Pritchard-McClean on their UK tours.
4 StarsA supremely accomplished example of how to reconstitute deep, personal trauma into punchy, effective stand up
- The Scotsman
Andrew Maxwell
Renowned for his cutting edge comedy and intrepid social commentary, Andrew has appeared on I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, he is also the recognisable voice of MTV’s hit show Ex On The Beach. As well as being a regular on Radio 4 as the host of Welcome to Wherever You Are, he’s frequently on The News Quiz and Breaking The News.
5 Stars… at the top of his game. Throughly entertainment and full of intelligence and passion
- EDINBURGH FESTIVAL MAGAZINE