The Cheap Alternative

Some of the finest and most interesting acts in London, for a fiver, on a Sunday when there’s nothing else to do.

SPENCER JONES

“A joyous hour of props based lunacy… Utterly delightful” **** TIME OUT

“A joyous extravaganza of prop-led bonkersness” **** THE LIST

NOMINEE: Chortle Award 2016 – Breakthrough Act

MAT EWINS

**** BROADWAY BABY

**** “Unbridled belly laughs, the kind that infect an audience and hum permanently in the air” THE SKINNY

TOM WARD

“Fine writing, evoking silly images and ideas, combines with a distinctive look to make him memorable” CHORTLE

BBC NEW COMEDY AWARDS 2014 Finalist

MATTHEW HIGHTON

**** CHORTLE

“Wonderful surrealism” THE GUARDIAN

**** BROADWAY BABY

ELF LYONS

“Her strangeness, her vulnerabilities and her sass make a pretty engaging package. Lyons’s debut certainly achieves her main aim of showing sexy, nerdy and funny aren’t mutually incompatible” CHORTLE

***** BROADWAY BABY

THE ESTABLISHMENT

(Dan Lees and Neil Frost)

“Lees plays with the normal, gives it a spiritual-origami fold, a twist and a turn and suddenly a move or a mundane sentence is an act of comedy genius.. Lees is a master of simplicity” FRINGE REVIEW

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ALEXANDER BENNETT

“Witty, weird and dark, the one to watch out for: at the spearhead of a wave of great new comics. All hail Alexander Bennett!” HARRY HILL

“Warm, insane and very funny” Steven Appleby, THE GUARDIAN

@Alexybennett