Inaugural Wrexham Comedy Festival taking place this weekend!

Upcoming and well-known names on the comedy circuit will take to the stage this weekend for Wrexham’s inaugural comedy festival.

Taking place at the William Aston Hall between the 3 – 5 November, the Wrexham Comedy Festival has been delivered in partnership between Theatr Clwyd, Wrexham AFC and The Maesgwyn.

It will kick off with the Best of Wales Comedy Gala (3 Nov), which will bring together some of Wales’ finest comics at William Aston Hall, including Tudur Owen, Anna Thomas, Leroy Brito, Mel Owen, Esyllt Sears, and host Ignacio Lopez.

Acts at the festival include Daman Bamrah with his show Salmon Camera (3 Nov). Daman Bamrah has spent a great deal of his life confused.

His formative years were spent travelling between his Church of England high school and his Sikh Temple, but what did he really learn and where did he fit in.

Join him as he attempts to identify himself in an increasingly absurd world. This show will take place at Wrexham University TV Studio.

On November 4 Mark Watson will bring his show Search to the William Aston Hall.

Both a dad and a kid himself, around the midpoint of his life, the Taskmaster star and multiple award-winner – now also famous as one-third of YouTube cult sensation No More Jockeys – returns. He’ll consider the search for meaning that we’re all on, with or without Google.

Celya AB is new to the Comedy Festival lineup, bringing her show Second Rodeo (4 Nov) to Wrexham University TV Studio.

As a child, all she wanted was to be an adult. Now she’s at the table, she wants out.

Following her acclaimed, sell-out debut hour, Celya returns expect tales of romance, a hologram, and a near-death experience in Thorpe Park.

Legendary Canadian superstar Tom Stade comes to Maesgwyn Hall with a killer new hour, Natural Born Killer (4 Nov).

Join Tom as he toys with the complexities of our ever-changing world; muses on societal conundrums and navigates his way around progressiveness and pronouns – not to mention 27 years of marriage and adult kids who refuse to respect him (and like to remind him just how dumb they think he is).

This is a show for iGens, Millennials, Gen X’s, Baby Boomers, and beyond.

Britain’s favourite French comedian presents not one but two shows during the festival at Wrexham University TV Studio. Marcel Lucont: Les Enfants Terribles – A Gameshow For Awful Children (5 Nov) is an anarchic family gameshow, pitting children against adults and each other to try and find the most awful child.

He also brings his show Marcel Lucont: Le Best Of (5 Nov) expect deadpan wit, supreme sex poetry, soaring miserablist chansons and Gallic superiority.

Comedy Translates (5 Nov) is a bi-lingual comedy show like no other that comes to the Centenary Lounge – Wrexham AFC.

While comedians perform in Welsh, the audience will hear an English translation. Live!

Only a couple of minor technical hitches, and due to being blacklisted by every translator in the land, the translations will instead be provided by the comedians themselves. It stars translator-turned-comedian Steffan Alun and a line-up of the Welsh language scene’s best acts.

And finally wrapping up the festival at William Aston Hall is the Socially Distant Sports Bar (5 Nov). Join Elis James, Mike Bubbins and Steff Garrero as they take you inside the world of sport and way beyond.

It’s a Comedy Podcast about Sports, but you don’t have to like Sports to love it. This event will feature Wrexham AFC Executive Director, Humphrey Ker.

Other comedians coming to William Aston Hall in November include Gary Delaney: Gary in Punderland (14 Nov). Get ready to dive into a rabbit hole of the best jokes in the world!

Ed Byrne brings his show Tragedy Plus Time (17 Nov) as he tests this formula by mining the most tragic events in his life for laughs.

Theatr Clwyd’s comedy club comes to William Aston Hall on 26 November. William Aston Comedy Club sees Nick Helm, Amy Gledhill, Josh Pugh, Brennan Reece and Seeta Wrightson for a hilarious night of comedy with tickets from just £10.

For more information or to book any of the shows at William Aston Hall, Wrexham please visit www.williamastonwrexham.com or by calling the Theatr Clwyd box office on 01352 344101.