Oxford Comedy Festival 2025

About Oxford Comedy Festival 2025

The Oxford Festival Fringe Preview Comedy Festival (Oxford Comedy Festival) is a month-long comedy festival that takes place in Oxford throughout July and curated by QED Comedy Lab.

The festival brings the best comedians headed to Edinburgh and other large festivals to the Oxford community.

The festival has a particular interest in amplifying traditionally underrepresented voices, such as women, the global majority, and LGBTQ+ comedians, as well as giving a stage to more experimental shows.

The ultimate goal is to bring the talent that people love to Oxford to share with as many people as possible – and there were over 50 amazing shows planned at different venues around town, including:

• Tap Social Movement
• The Old Fire Station
• Trinity College Beer Cellar

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Festival line-up

The Old Fire Station

• Friday 18 July at 7.00pm – We Hate Movies: Animation Damnation – “Elementary My Dear Turtles”
• Friday 18 July at 9.00pm – We Hate Movies: Quantum of Solace
• Saturday 19 July at 7.00pm – We Hate Movies: The Gleep Glossary – Darth Vader
• Saturday 19 July at 9.00pm – We Hate Movies: W❤️M – Hellraiser
• Sunday 20 July at 6.00pm – We Hate Movies: The Nexus – Star Trek: TNG “Sub Rosa”
• Sunday 20 July at 8.00pm – We Hate Movies: King Ralph

Tap Social Movement

• Tuesday 01 July at 7.30pm – Amy Annette: Busy Body
• Tuesday 01 July at 9.00pm – Matt Richardson: Brash
• Wednesday 02 July at 7.30pm – Lily Phillips: Crying
• Wednesday 02 July at 9.00pm – Jamie Mykaela & Friends Variety Hour
• Monday 07 July at 7.30pm – Lorna Rose Treen: 24 Hour Diner People
• Monday 07 July at 9.00pm – Jordan Brookes: Unobservable Space
• Tuesday 08 July at 7.30pm – Pierre Novellie: You Sit There, I’ll Stand Here
• Tuesday 08 July at 9.00pm – Esther Manito: Slagbomb
• Sunday 13 July at 7.30pm – Kate Pinchuck: Don’t Panic
• Sunday 13 July at 9.00pm – Marise Gaughan
• Monday 14 July at 7.30pm – Jamie D’Souza: Brownie
• Monday 14 July at 9.00pm – Chloe Petts: Big Naturals
• Tuesday 15 July at 7.30pm – Ian Smith: Foot Spa Half Empty
• Tuesday 15 July at 9.00pm – Stuart Goldsmith
• Wednesday 16 July at 7.30pm – Sharon Wanjohi: In the House
• Wednesday 16 July at 9.00pm – Andrew O’Neill’s History Of Punk
• Monday 21 July at 7.30pm – Adele Cliff: Adele, Adele, Adele… Cliff It Isn’t The Consequences Of My Own Actions
• Monday 21 July at 9.00pm – Rob Auton: CAN (an hour long story)
• Tuesday 22 July at 7.30pm – Kathy Maniura: The Cycling Man
• Tuesday 22 July at 9.00pm – John Kearns
• Wednesday 23 July at 7.30pm – Laura Ramirez: Sunshine to Rain
• Wednesday 23 July at 9.00pm – Sikisa: Lady Justice
• Sunday 27 July at 7.30pm – Hasan Al-Habib: Death to the West (Midlands)
• Sunday 27 July at 9.00pm – Celya AB
• Monday 28 July at 7.30pm – William Stone: In-Jokes with Strangers
• Monday 28 July at 9.00pm – Jen Ives: The World Is Confusing And I Don’t Understand It Anymore Help
• Tuesday 29 July at 7.30pm – Caitriona Dowden: Dance like Everyone’s Dancing
• Tuesday 29 July at 9.00pm – Jessica Fostekew: Iconic Breath

Trinity College Beer Cellar

• Thursday 03 July at 7.30pm – Heidi Regan: Jekyll and Heidi
• Thursday 03 July at 9.00pm – Matt Hobs: 100% Badgers
• Friday 04 July at 7.30pm – Shalaka Kurup: Get A Grip
• Friday 04 July at 9.00pm – Ahir Shah
• Saturday 05 July at 7.30pm – Bilal Zafar
• Saturday 05 July at 9.00pm – Katie Norris: Go West, Old Maid
• Thursday 10 July at 7.30pm – Annie McGrath
• Thursday 10 July at 9.00pm – Loremen LIVE!
• Friday 11 July at 7.30pm – Who the Honk Do You Thonk You Are?
• Sunday 13 July at 9.00pm – Marise Gaughan
• Thursday 17 July at 7.30pm – Rachel Fairburn
• Thursday 17 July at 9.00pm – Susie McCabe
• Thursday 24 July at 7.30pm – Dee Allum
• Thursday 24 July at 9.00pm – Marjolein Robertson: Lein
• Friday 25 July at 7.30pm – Lulu Popplewell: Love Love
• Friday 25 July at 9.00pm – Lucy Pearman: Lunartic
• Thursday 31 July at 7.30pm – Jane Gregory and Steve Hall: If You Loved Me, You’d Breathe Quietly
• Thursday 31 July at 9.00pm – Sara Barron

Visit the festival website for a tickets and further details.