Stuart Laws (Directing)

Stuart Laws Has to Be Joking?

Last year Stuart started telling the truth on stage and was diagnosed autistic: he got the best reviews he’s ever got and his show was a must-see. He's back baby! And has to lean into it further. It’s funny, it’s real, it’s immaculately structured and it’s a chance to see a comedian at the top of his game.

Release Date:2025-02-17

Character:Self

Stuart Laws? Is That Guy Still Going?

The Ruislip-based stand up has resolved to tell the truth, the whole truth and almost nothing but the truth. After an argument with his therapist about being too closed off, Stuart has resolved to come clean: sperm and all.

Release Date:2025-02-17

Rob Auton: The Time Show

The Time Show is a comedy/theatre/spoken word show that received critical acclaim at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe and went on to tour the UK to sell-out crowds. Following on from his much applauded shows about talking, hair, sleep, water, faces, the sky and the colour yellow, Rob turned his attention to time.

Release Date:2024-12-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:

James Acaster: Hecklers Welcome

James Acaster explores his love/hate relationship with standup by relinquishing control of his set and accepting a healthy dose of audience interference – AKA heckling. With his wiry observational eye and incomparable wit, Acaster shares hilarious on-the-fly meta-analysis of his own material, along with stories from his childhood that spurred him to pursue a career in comedy.

Release Date:2024-11-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Party Gator

Vote Count:13

Suzi Ruffell: Snappy

Suzi Ruffell likes things snappy: her stand up, her decisions and her suits. ‘Recorded at London’s Bloomsbury Theatre to a sold-out audience, Suzi’s brand new show Snappy is all about settling down (but not settling), becoming a mother (without becoming mumsy) and still worrying about everything – of course she is – have you seen the news? Expect high-energy laughs as she shares stories about her air-fryer-obsessed toddler, crime capers with her dad, and an unexpected encounter with the pop icon who sparked her gay awakening – Mel C.

Release Date:2024-11-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Pierre Novellie: Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things

Award-winning comedian Pierre Novellie’s latest stand-up special explores why he finds most things a 6/10 - and why he doesn’t see eye-to-eye with anyone else on what makes a 0/10 or a 10/10

Release Date:2024-08-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

The Debuts

A documentary following five comedians: Amy Gledhill, Sikisa, Josh Jones, Lily Phillips and Anthony DeVito at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2022. A funny, intimate showcase of what it's like for comedians to bring their debut show to the festival.

Release Date:2024-07-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Self

Milo Edwards: Voicemail

Milo Edwards hasn’t received a voicemail in some time. He’d like to talk about that, and quite a lot else. Nominated for Best Show at the Leicester Comedy Festival 2023, as well as having critically-acclaimed runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Voicemail is a stand-up show which examines life, death, politics and the answering machine.

Release Date:2024-07-10

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Ivo Graham: Live From The Bloomsbury Theatre

Lockdown is over, the boy is back in town: after two years of global/domestic chaos, Ivo blasts through his most urgent concerns of the early 2020s, plus a few from the late 1990s, in a critically acclaimed show ("mastering his craft with motormouthed finesse...if self-deprecation were a sport, Graham would have a gold medal round his neck": The Times), beautifully filmed in London at the end of his "My Future, My Clutter" UK tour, with a freshly ironed shirt, a handful of schoolboy stories and a really quite outlandish amount of lamps on the stage.

Release Date:2024-04-03

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Christopher Macarthur-Boyd: Oh No

Filmed live at Monkey Barrel Comedy in Edinburgh, “Oh No” is the debut comedy special by Scottish stand-up Christopher Macarthur-Boyd, featuring breezy laid-back jokes and stories about depression, tattoos, butter, and the meaning of life. What else can you say when the world ends, you lose your job, and you pee yourself, other than just, “oh no”?

Release Date:2024-02-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Jessica Fostekew: Wench

Wench is a show about Jess' mid-life metamorphosis, featuring hilarious stories of her adventures in promiscuity, privilege, and pubes. She’s finding her feet as a queer mom, and suffice to say, it hasn’t been clear sailing!

Release Date:2024-01-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Jen Brister: The Optimist

If middle age has taught Jen Brister anything, it’s that optimism does not come naturally to her. In fact it’s fair to say that her cup is very much half empty and she’s making no attempt to fill it. Can Jen work against her natural instincts and finally see the light? Or will she stay the same old pessimistic naysayer she’s always been. I mean, I think we know the answer to that, but let’s try and be optimistic.

Release Date:2023-11-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Harriet Kemsley: Woman Child

In her debut stand-up special, Harriet takes bad aim at being married (for now), motherhood and the beauty industry.

Release Date:2023-10-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Nish Kumar: Your Power, Your Control

"It has been a period of upheaval and uncertainty with COVID and the political situation. You will be amazed by my capacity to somehow take all these things personally." Your Power, Your Control is a new show from the former host of Late Night Mash and one of The Guardian's Top Top Fifty Comedians of the 21st Century.

Release Date:2023-08-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Josh Pugh: Live From Birmingham Town Hall

Josh Pugh made quite an impression at last year's Edinburgh Fringe, where he was deservedly nominated for best show in the Edinburgh Comedy Awards with Sausage, Egg, Josh Pugh, Chips and Beans. Josh performs his award nominated stand up show in front of a sold out Birmingham Town Hall on the final night of his first nationwide tour. A show about the last two years of his life, trying for a baby and losing Captain Tom's Birthday Cards

Release Date:2023-07-23

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Stuart Laws Is All In

Stuart Laws ('You'll struggle to find a comedian with a better jokes per minute rate... like a one-man episode of Arrested Development' Fest) acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe and tour show Stuart Laws is All In. The show sees Stuart reflect on the day his life changed forever: when he risked everything in a Las Vegas poker tournament. Is he a winner or a loser? Can he burn the candle at both ends? And has he been infected by the Willennium Bug? A show about making difficult decisions, choosing different paths and gettin' jiggy wit' it from the leftfield observationalist and intricate gag-weaver. “A deliriously fun and nonsensical hour full of tiny little treats, Stuart Laws Is All In defiantly stands proud as a show not to be taken seriously in any way, shape or form.” ★★★★ The List

Release Date:2023-04-21

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Stuart Laws

Abhishek Upmanyu: Jealous of Sabziwala

From his anxiety regarding his health when he sought a neurologist after knowing that he was waking up wrong for 30 years to his speech issue, Abhishek Upmanyu in his first stand-up special is personal and hilarious at the same time.

Release Date:2023-02-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Stuart Laws: Single Father of None

The show is a unique and innovative full embracing of virtual comedy as Stuart explores his life after a vasectomy, catching spiders, what live comedy is, the government gilet contract and living with his twin brother.

Release Date:2023-01-10

Mark Watson: The Infinite Show

Inspired by the mostly alarming state of the world his children are growing up in, and a genuine, urgent desire to do something about it, this show is about empathy. 99 percent of the world's population is made up of other people: why can't we understand them? As scrawny and impassioned as ever, one of the UK's most beloved and thinnest acts offers some suggestions, with his usual notoriously high joke- and-rant-per-minute rate.

Release Date:2022-02-04

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Grave New World

Stuart Laws takes an in-depth look at life after a pandemic and how the familiar we knew has changed forever. This mini series gets some of the UK's best comedians to ask the questions we've been afraid to ask like "What?", "How?" and "Why?"

Release Date:2021-03-31

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Character:Himself

Episode Count:[ 4 ]

Vote Count:1

Fern Brady: Power & Chaos

Stand-up comedian Fern Brady brings her unique take on contemporary culture and the state of the UK to a packed crowd in Glasgow.

Release Date:2021-03-09

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:7

James Acaster: Make a New Tomorrow

A forty minute stand-up special consisting of material that was cut from James Acaster's 2019 show Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999.

Release Date:2021-03-05

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:2

James Acaster: Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999

On December 17th 2019, I, James Acaster, filmed my 2019 tour show Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 at EartH in Hackney. It was a show about the best year of my life (1999) and the worst year of my life (2017), I wore a very nifty jacket for it and I looked extremely cool.

Release Date:2020-12-17

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:22

Hal Cruttenden: Chubster

His daughters chose the title of his new stand-up show but don’t let it fool you - Hal’s no softie as he tackles subjects like suicide, obesity, and celebrity deaths. With top notch observational humour, cheeky gags and some of the most phenomenal dad dancing you’ll ever see, this set will satisfy your comedic hunger, and then some.

Release Date:2020-12-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Shared Document

A brother and sister try to remotely complete a eulogy for their Dad's funeral unaware that an anonymous user is about to crash the document.

Release Date:2020-10-07

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Joel Dommett: Finding Emo

Joel Dommett's hilarious stand-up comedy special about teenage bands, friendships and relationships. Filmed during his sold out national tour.

Release Date:2020-04-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Ali Brice - Bin Wondering

A master of the surrealist arts, Ali Brice takes the audience on a journey through his mind at a time when he spent several hours in a wheelie bin. It's Ali at his absurd, heartfelt, personal and silly best; and - as if that's not enough - he boasts an exceptional crocodile costume which shouldn't be missed. Ali would like to thank the following people: Jonny Freeman for directing the live performance, additional material, helping to devise the show and just being an excellent person. Alwin Solanky for the turtle, technical wizardry and (almost) never missing a cue. Bethan Story for making the best Jimmy Nail shoes known to man. Adam Larter and all the Weirdos for the being the best bunch of people. Everyone that saw the show in Edinburgh. Thank you. Recording directed by Stuart Laws.

Release Date:2020-02-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Polly

Polly seems like an ordinary girl living off her parents’ money in West London, but unlike her friends, Polly doesn’t just think she’s special - she actually is special.

Release Date:2020-01-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Ed Gamble: Blood Sugar

Stand-up comedian Ed Gamble's first special, Blood Sugar.

Release Date:2019-08-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:4

Stuart Goldsmith: Like I Mean It

Comedian’s Comedian Podcast host and ‘expert stand-up’ (Times) Goldsmith now commits to the bit. This year: second international tour, seven million downloads, critically-acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe run, and look, honestly? My best ever show. I’m so goddamn proud of this, it’s stupider and less clever-clogs and just the funniest stuff I’ve ever created. OK? Back to the PR… Come see how ‘a master of the form’ (Independent) ‘makes it look easy’ (Chortle). Via As Yet Untitled and Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central. Winner: Leicester Comedy Festival Best New Show 2017 British Comedy Guide Top 20 Best Reviewed Edinburgh Fringe Shows 2017

Release Date:2019-02-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Lauren Pattison: Lady Muck

Introducing Lauren Pattison’s fresh and feisty “Best Newcomer” nominated debut hour. All about embracing your flaws, this is an inspirational coming-of-age tale delivered with Newcastle native Lauren’s uplifting wit and raw charisma.

Release Date:2018-11-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Max & Ivan: The Reunion

The Reunion is a narrative sketch comedy tale of love, loss and shatterproof rulers. A very British ‘high school’ reunion story, complete with flashbacks and expertly woven callbacks, The Reunion sends up those all too familiar American high-school clichés with a feelgood ‘80s-teen-movie narrative exquisitly delivered by this duo at the top of their game.

Release Date:2018-11-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Kathryn Bond: Loo Roll

Debut show from the Malawian-born Britain's Got Talent breakthrough act, Dalisio delivers his cheekily charming take on recent news, old news, fake news, and stories that were never quite but ALMOST news. Having lived in countries where it is forbidden to criticise the the status quo, Daliso is the disarming comic making the most of his freedom to be very, very funny.

Release Date:2018-10-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Jessica Fostekew: The Silence Of The Nans

(Read in film-trailer voice): “Last summer Jessica did two reasonably significant things. One, a story of pure joy. The other, a tale of entrapment, torment and gelato. This show tells the latter - "the horrid one”. Co-host of hit podcast The Guilty Feminist, Jessica Fostekew’s epic comedy-horror-story is the perfect antidote to finding yourself all at sea. Or up s**t creek without a paddle.

Release Date:2018-08-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Laura Lexx: Tyrannosaurus Lexx

Evolution is tricky - just ask the dinosaurs. A few years ago, Laura (Chortle Awards nominee) evolved into a full-time wife and comedian. It didn't quite go as planned. Following her smash debut ‘Lovely', Laura aims her trademark comedy kaleidoscope at marriage, feminism, identity and the grinning idiots that built Stonehenge. Indulge in a whirlwind celebration of everything that's right about slowly turning into your mother and everything that's wrong with town criers. 30-something Laura's take on life is infectiously optimistic. Her clever tales of David Attenborough obsessions and dealing with a Daily Mail reading parent ooze with charisma and vibrant charm. Expect quick quips, seamless banter and up-beat anecdotes from a show certain to leave you grinning from ear to ear.

Release Date:2018-08-05

Department:Directing

Job:Director

James Acaster: Repertoire

Offbeat comic James Acaster covers the strange, the mundane and everything in between in this collection of four wide-ranging stand-up specials.

Release Date:2018-03-27

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:40

Lloyd Langford: Rascal

A glimpse into the private musings of a man who takes pleasure everywhere he can find it - from the weather and terrorism, to what to do if you find a box of sex toys in your hotel room.

Release Date:2018-03-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

The Alasdair Beckett-King Mysteries

The award-winning comedian Alasdair Beckett-King is legendary, in that there is little historical evidence he exists. But he does exist. His debut solo show opens a cabinet of curiosities, tackling the conundrums of impending extinction, archaic axioms, emotional repression and vegan flimflam. Come and see it, please. Winner Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2017.

Release Date:2018-02-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Michael Legge: Jerk

When Legge’s dog and David Bowie died in the same year, it was enough to make this 48 year old alcoholic vegan rage. Whimsical and furious in equal measure, Legge’s impassioned show administers a delightful dose of vitriol.

Release Date:2018-02-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

The Delightful Sausage - Cold Hard Cache

Watch your soon to be new favourite double act The Delightful Sausage aka Chris Cantrill and Amy Gledhill in ‘Cold Hard Cache’, as they set about to guide those in the community who need a helping hand with modern technology. Take a tour through the darkest corners of the Internet with this unique and inventive show, packed with energetic sketches, unsettling illustrations and silly adventures.

Release Date:2018-02-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

The Dates

An examination of the similarities and differences between dating a man and a woman, from the perspective of a bisexual singleton.

Release Date:2017-12-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Andy Field: The Andy Field Experience

Surreal storytelling, oddball wordplay and perfect puns delivered with laid back charm, Andy Field’s concepts are as hilarious as they are strangely fathomable. One of life's natural born comedians, Andy’s set is fresh, fun and consistently surprising.

Release Date:2017-11-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Hysterical Woman

Tackling genetics, gender and being a comedian who happens to be a woman, Kiri handles a host of thorny issues with a down to earth sense of her own ridiculousness. Settle down for an hour of whip smart stand-up with an angle on anthropology that's as funny as it is clever.

Release Date:2017-10-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Fern Brady: Male Comedienne

A sharp look at gender, class and Catholicism from this dark humoured ex-stripper. Male Comedienne addresses Brady's self-image, being mistaken for a man, and her complicated relationship with womankind.

Release Date:2017-08-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Jonny Pelham: An Hour

Enjoy an entrancing tour rich with anecdotal awkwardness from Jonny Pelham as he guides you from his uneasy adolescence (as the only white guy in a Bangladeshi gang) to his misguided adulthood (too many to reference).

Release Date:2017-08-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Peter Brush: Dreams with Advert Breaks

A highly distinctive performer and deft writer of finely crafted jokes, Peter Brush unassumingly takes the stage with his slight bespectacled frame and scruffy hair, before consummately conquering it with an arsenal of razor sharp quirky one-liners and peerlessly original routines, all delivered in an amusingly awkward fashion. If he weren’t a stand-up comedian Brush says he has an ‘overly romanticised idea of being a folk musician’.

Release Date:2017-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Lou Sanders: What's That Lady Doing?

A charmingly haphazard show full of mischievous monologues, offbeat observations and self-aware asides, from a comedian who manages to balance relatable charm with heightened surrealism.

Release Date:2016-11-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Grainne Maguire: Great People Making Great Choices

This London-based Irish comic made global headlines with a tweet comparing her menstrual cycle to the Irish Taoiseach - and people say female comedians shouldn't tell period jokes? Brilliantly fusing the personal and political, Gráinne knows exactly how to tell a story.

Release Date:2016-11-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

John Hastings: Integrity

John's visa is expiring, his friends are fighting and there's been a murder (yes, an actual murder). This deft show about one disastrous day is a compelling, intense and brilliantly written piece of comedy storytelling.

Release Date:2016-11-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Rachel Parris: Best Laid Plans

A ward-winning musical comedian and improviser Rachel Parris gives us her fresh, life- affirming collection of songs, stories and stand-up here in the live recording of her hit solo show Best Laid Plans. Reflecting on childhood hopes for the adults we thought we’d become, and sticking a joyful middle finger up at depression in the process, Rachel’s deft moves between jazz riffs, musical theatre, and the perfect response to that Flight of the Concords song, will have you tapping your feet as you laugh through the tears. Named The Independent’s ‘One to Watch’, Chortle award nominee Rachel’s songs are regularly played on BBC Radio 4 and BBC 6 Music. All together now: “No house, no husband, no child, no wage? No problem!”

Release Date:2016-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

The Bird

A young man spends his days desperate to garner the attention of his emotionally absent mother who is only interested in caring for a visiting starling.

Release Date:2014-04-13

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:1

Tomorrow

Unemployed, directionless and facing spiralling debt - Craig shares a flat with his fiancée, Rachel. She has a new job and a promising future but Craig's daily life has become a hopeless cycle of interviews, sleep and unwise loans that leave him feeling terrified that he might never make anything of himself. After a chance meeting, Craig befriends Tom, whose relaxed attitude to life seems to offer a solution to his predicament.

Release Date:2005-01-05

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Character:Jimmy

Stuart Laws: So Preoccupied...

If you wear a gilet (or even if you don't), you'll enjoy this surreal and clever performance about Stuart's Summer of 2001 - featuring breweries, paper rounds and psychopaths. Oh, and of course - puffins.