Free Entry Shows

The Grand Regency Ballroom - The Old Bell

The Ram Comedy Festival returns! This time bigger than ever for 2026, join us for our big free opening show! Where we have comedians that are featuring throughout the festival, doing 7 minutes of comedy…

The Tudor Bar - The Old Bell

A concentrated blast of musical stand-up comedy. Song ruiner and piano masher Friz Frizzle is joined by the daft, exuberant Ashley Frieze on guitar and another guest. Joyful jokes and silly songs. “Frizzle is energetic,…

The Tudor Bar - The Old Bell

★★★★★ “Heartfelt, powerful and very very funny. This is a show you will be thinking about for years to come.” Neurodiverse Review ★★★★ “Stephanie could probably read the shipping forecast and make an amazing show,…

The Tudor Bar - The Old Bell

A funny, honest look at what happens when life changes faster than you can keep up. From technology that's confusing, to government rules that make no sense, to the creeping reality of getting older —…

Five Lamps

3 women all very different characters will bring you laughs and delight you with their style and panache. Debbie Holt. She still fucks but too old for a midlife crisis. Wendy king . Don't let…

The Belfry Bar - The Old Bell

Traumedy: A Guide To Being A Fabulous Homeless Addict is a true story about life through addiction to sobriety. From being young and dumb on the Glasgow gay scene, through homelessness on the streets of…

The Tudor Bar - The Old Bell

Festival Showcases are your chance to taste the festival before diving into the full menu. Each one squeezes four or five comedians into a lively, high‑energy hour where everyone brings the funniest, sharpest bits of…

Five Lamps

"The title should be self-explanatory", they said, blissfully unaware that telling an autistic person to come up with a length-restricted piece of text that comprehensively summarises a thing while still piquing interest is the equivalent…

The Tudor Bar - The Old Bell

'2 Dad or Not 2 Dad is a brutally funny stand-up hour about growing up without a dad… and accidentally becoming one. After his father left when he was eight, Jim Bob looks back on…

Five Lamps

Laurence Tuck is Dr Laurence Tench, respected academic and expert in murder. This show is an abridged version of Dr Tench's international lecture tour, a step by step guide in how to murder someone and…

The Belfry Bar - The Old Bell

How do you rediscover pleasure after 23 years of military service, a medical discharge, and a diagnosis of complex PTSD? Obviously… you make things worse by becoming a stand-up comedian. Jay shares how he’s turned…

The Tudor Bar - The Old Bell

Everybody else was Kung Fu Fighting while Dawn was growing up surrounded by Tea Bag Beryl & more siblings than the Waltons. Her only escape was to 'The Secret House'. Frankie said Relax but Dawn…

Dubrek Studios - Alternative Comedy

As a GP Rachel said 'Sorry to Keep You Waiting' to her patients for years! But she won't keep you waiting for laughs! Irreverent jokes will joyfully help the nerdy bits go down. Gay, a…

The Tudor Bar - The Old Bell

...Eventually by James Beckett (Beat the Frog and Mr Bens Winner) explores being an adult stutterer, being intimate to the theme tune to Ducktales and how to successfully deliver a baby in the footwell of…

Dubrek Studios - Alternative Comedy

Katie Slater and Rachel Page are trying to navigate their thirties with grace and are failing. One is married. One can't get past the first date. Both are unhinged. Katie has "the bubbliness of a…

The Tudor Bar - The Old Bell

Sarah Evans has been around the block, taken a left, taken another left and not realised she's done a loop. Sarah Evans and the Bad Life Choices is a one person punk band. On guitar…

The Belfry Bar - The Old Bell

Terry Pathic is Wakefield Metropolitan District Council's and surronding postcode area premier, razamatz mind reader. After his soul was swapped for some magic beans from the Dark Lord of light entertainment Terry is on a…

The Tudor Bar - The Old Bell

When Laughter Becomes the Ultimate Weapon! Get ready for Gags Army—a one-of-a-kind comedy experience that brings together a powerful lineup of military veterans who’ve turned their life in the armed forces into some of the…

The Tudor Bar - The Old Bell

International comedy force LongHu returns with a loud, fearless and unexpectedly wise hour of stand-up that blends theatrical chaos with hard-earned insight. AAARGH! My Husband Is a Communist! is a high-energy comedy about love, ideology,…

Five Lamps

Luke Harrower is an asexual comedian with an arsenal of silly quick fire gags. He brings an infectious energy to the stage, and is hot on the rise in the Midlands and East Anglia comedy…

The Royal Standard

This Ram Comedy festival, pop along to the Royal Standard and meet some of Derby’s talented, improv denizens performing hilarious improv, all made up on the spot from audience suggestions. Feeling brave? Put your name…

The Royal Standard

A Lamb Comedy Club special at Ram Comedy Festival brings the spirit of Derby’s most welcoming new‑material night into a packed festival room. The Royal Standard’s weekly chaos is lifted onto a bigger stage as…

The Courtyard

Join us for a free entry event as we decide the winner of this years Ram Comedy Festival New Act of the Year. 6 new comedians come together find out who is the best after…

The Belfry Bar - The Old Bell

My name is Shaun Guff and I’ve hit rock bottom so you don’t have to. My sensational, self-funded seminar promises* to give you the metaphorical hammer to start nailing your life. (*No promises.) (Not so)…

The Belfry Bar - The Old Bell

Live Improv in Derby, Bringing you Improv Teams from Derby & further afield. Thursday June 4th our guest team is Manchester’s fabulous “No Notes” -Performing too will be some fabulous local improvisers. If you haven’t…

The Belfry Bar - The Old Bell

East Midlands meets West Midlands as Nottingham-based Ravi Saini & Birmingham-based John Hassan bring you their first split bill show. Expect these two rising stars of the comedy circuit to deliver well crafted jokes and…

The Tudor Bar - The Old Bell

Festival Showcases are your chance to taste the festival before diving into the full menu. Each one squeezes four or five comedians into a lively, high‑energy hour where everyone brings the funniest, sharpest bits of…

Five Lamps

The show is loosely a retelling of the year I spent studying abroad in Spain and Brazil, with anecdotes, observations and tangents about what I saw and did but also where I came from, how…

Dubrek Studios - Alternative Comedy

Ava da Costa Maia, Swansea girl with exotic roots who regales audiences with her irreverent take on being a working mum, a single mum, an exhausted mum and the hunt for Mr Right. "A splendid…

Dubrek Studios - Alternative Comedy

Jonny Brook. He's miserable, disabled & award winningly hilarious about it!! Tales shall be told of what it's like to be born as a normal human, and become more and more disabled, to the point…

Five Lamps

Ryan Kenny brings a bold alternative comedy show to Derby that refuses to sit quietly in any one genre. Blending poetry, props and absurdity, Ryan delivers an act that’s inventive, unpredictable and genuinely unlike anything…

Dubrek Studios - Alternative Comedy

Abi Trans-plains her way through her journey from being an uncomfortable 48 year old man to a teenage woman coming to terms with all the changes that brings with it. Abi blends storytelling with a…

Five Lamps

From working in a theme park to living in Blackpool, dating in the 90s, and very nearly being assassinated by the Bulgarian mafia, Pathological Penny Pincher is a fast, funny stand-up show about the extreme…

The Royal Standard

The hit online show The UK Pun Off is coming to Derby! Four top comics will have three jokes on five different topics and it is up to the audience to decide the winner of…

Dubrek Studios - Alternative Comedy

Join Craig Shaw for a "pointless" journey through love, loss, all with the help of  the dog food fork. Packed with 90s nostalgia and consensual crowd interaction, this show revisits Craig’s biggest mistakes and he…

Dubrek Studios - Alternative Comedy

Stuart Thomas returns with Bad Fatty, a bold, fast-paced stand-up show from a slightly chaotic Welsh man who’s done being polite about how the world sees fat people. Stuart tears into the clichés and lazy…

The Belfry Bar - The Old Bell

The sharp-toothed Cobra Quiz returns to Derby! Hosted by comedy ankle-biter Stuart Dunlop and a staple of the Sheffield comedy circuit since 2024, The Alternative Cobra Meeting is a blend of classic panel show, pub…

The Tudor Bar - The Old Bell

As Derby marks 50 years of twinning with Osnabrück, German comedian Jürgen Strack brings a fitting cultural exchange to the stage. In ACHTUNG! The Germans Are Coming! he turns his sharply observant eye on British…

Dubrek Studios - Alternative Comedy

After 2 and a half years performing on the UK comedy circuit, Samuel-Gene's debut solo show is sure to have you falling out of your seats laughing - lets just hope he doesnt fall out…

The Tudor Bar - The Old Bell

Jules O’Brian is in her 50s now, and the “helpful” advice about everything she should and shouldn’t be doing just keeps on coming. Whether it’s being advised what not to wear; being advised that you’re…

Dubrek Studios - Alternative Comedy

A double bill of puppet madness. First we have Slightly Psychic Cynthia, my late grandmother who reads palms, minds and anything else she can get her hands on. Cynthia will amaze you with how wrong…

The Belfry Bar - The Old Bell

Friz Frizzle hosts the comedy panel show where audience members put their personal items in a box and games are invented on the spot! Expect a panel of comedians and celebrities as they attempt to…

The Belfry Bar - The Old Bell

Award-winning 16 year old comedian Tom Williams comperes OK Zoomer. A showcase of the next generation of comedy, with a hand-picked line-up of the sharpest 16–25 year-olds taking the stage. From TikTok obsessions to cost-of-living…

The Royal Standard

A live edition of 2.5 People brings the full chaotic energy of Alex Leam, James Beckett and George Coppen to the Ram Comedy Festival stage. The trio lean into the same freewheeling spirit that defines…

The Royal Standard

The Glitter Sisters are here! We're bold,witty and captivating honest with outrageous takes on life's ups and downs.We light up any stage with hilarious anecdotes,sharp storytelling,jokes japes and quips.We are the " riot women" of…

Five Lamps

The first solo show from Manchester comic James Crook He's tired, he's confused & he's 30 something. He's got Catholic guilt, a cynical outlook on life and a few bones to pick! Now all he…

The Royal Standard

Originally from rural Lancashire Kerry ran away from the cows and fields to the city.She is now a proud resident of Stirchley Birmingham.Now declared trendy by The Sunday Times and Conde Nast she wants you…

The Royal Standard

Andy Gilbert 'The UK's #1 Poetry Teacher' performs his hilarious award winning show on the importance of historical poetry. Inspired by genuine headlines from the Daily Mail, the performance contains strong language and contextual vulgarity.…

Five Lamps

A split hour of new jokes from two lovely blokes. The last show they did together was reviewed as ‘perfect comedy gold’, so this one is bound to be alright as well. Described as ‘a…

The Tudor Bar - The Old Bell

The class of 25 is a compilation show bringing you 3 new comedians all just starting there journey. Debbie Holt - attempted comedy as a bucket list experience and is fast becoming a must see…