KIDS’ SHOW: MARK WATSON TRIES TO IMPRESS KIDS, FOR SOME REASON
Well-known comedian Mark Watson, from Taskmaster, has never attempted a kids’ show before. Somehow he’s taken it into his head to try and do it in Exeter. This could be the only time it happens in his career.
Date: Saturday 7th June
Ticket Prices: £9
Doors: 10.30am
Event starts: 11am
Duration: 60 mins
Where: Alibi, EX4 1EJ (Main Hall)
Comedy Club 4 Kids
Line-up includes: Bec Hill, Esyllt Sears, Shelf, Darryl Carrington
Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups, sketch acts and cabaret stars from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and their families… but without the rude bits! Twenty years later, the company has expanded from one London residency to being countrywide, running shows and workshops all over the UK from Peebles to Portsmouth, even producing a book on how to write and perform stand-up, and hosting our own Radio Nonsense podcast to bring the siillies to families all over the world. The show is family friendly, but without any patronising idiocy. In fact, it’s just like a normal comedy club, but it’s on in the day, kids are allowed in, and thus there is a higher than usual chance of the entire audience claiming to be called Bob.
Adults to sit with children in their party (and help explain anything they get stuck on).
Group bookings to contain at least one adult for every three children.
“A highlight for children in recent years, giving them a taste of some of the biggest names in comedy… with the fun, rowdy feel of a real comedy club” – The Guardian
“An essential treat.” – Fest Magazine
“Absolutely hilarious.” – The Yorkshire Times
“The ethos is just right” – The Daily Telegraph
“The perfect way to entertain the whole family.” – Three Weeks
“All in all this show was great.” – The Scotsman
“Comedy Club 4 Kids has stand-up sets from grown-up, high-quality acts who perform their usual sets, just without the swearing or rude bits.” – The Independent
“…plenty of full on laughs and tears of enjoyment from parents” – Families Edinburgh
Date: Saturday 7th June
Ticket Prices: £11
Suitable for: 6+
Doors: 1.30pm
Event starts: 2pm
Duration: 60 mins
Where: Alibi, EX4 1EJ (Main Hall)
Shelf: The Kids Show
Join best friends Rachel and Ruby for a kids’ comedy show that’s fun for all the family!
Full of sketches, songs, pranks and silliness, Rachel and Ruby use physical comedy and silly characters to bring sketch comedy to children of all ages – a fun way to explore emotions, friendship and shyness.
Winner: Best Kid’s Show at 2023 Leicester Comedy Festival. Over one million views on BBC Three.
“Sketch comedy for kids … Shelf pull it off with brio.”
**** The Guardian
“This pair are instantly likeable; their confident and hilarious routines are brilliantly delivered and super entertaining for adults as well as kids.”
**** The List
Date: Saturday 7th June
Ticket Prices: £11
Suitable for: 5-10 years
Doors: 3.30pm
Event starts: 4pm
Duration: 60 mins
Where: Alibi, EX4 1EJ (Main Hall)
OLAF FALAFEL’S STUPIDEST SUPER STUPID SHOW SO FAR
Winner of the Best Kids’ Show at the 2024 Leicester Comedy Festival
After a sell out run at last year’s Fringe, comedian and children’s author Olaf Falafel is dishing up another frying pan full of family-friendly comedy.
The comedy show comedians take their kids to is back and even funnier! Join Olaf Falafel (if that is his real name) for an hour of kid’s comedy which will be the stupidest he has ever let trickle from his brain. Expect sausage birds, radioactive bogies and truth-telling cheese. There will definitely be a time-travelling portal to the future, some farts and a live drawalong.
Be there or be a dodecahedron!
Time Out Top 10 Kids’ Shows 2024
The Times Edinburgh Festival Family Highlights 2024
“Olaf is a very funny plonker and I fully recommend taking your family to see this plonker so they can learn that being a plonker is one of the most fun things in the world”
Alex Horne
“Olaf Falafel is a perfectly ridiculous festival must see”
Shaparak Khorsandi
“Olaf strikes that brilliant comic balance of producing a show that can be enjoyed throughout by kids and grown ups. Me and me son loved it!”
Chris Ramsey
“My son’s favourite comedian at the fringe, which is upsetting given my profession.”
Geoff Norcott
“Very very very silly”
Josie Long
“Superbly idiotic, and idiotically superb”
Stuart Goldsmith
“Finely-crafted idiocy”
Mark Watson
“A sprawling bungalow of blissful belly laughs.”
★★★★★
Get Your Coats On
“Go see this show. Especially if you are with children!”
★★★★★
Phoenix Remix
“This show is disruptive, daft and downright brilliant. Take your kids. Twice.”
★★★★
Everything Theatre
“Utterly delighting the children with perfectly pitched humour.”
★★★★
Theatre Weekly
“An absolute treat, as enjoyable for the adults as it is for the children.”
★★★★
Broadway World
“All kinds of weird and wonderful and we are 100% here for it!”
★★★★
Edinburgh Festival For Kids
“The king of puns, worldplay and pranks is on scintillatingly silly form”
★★★★
Date: Sunday 8th June
Ticket Prices: £11
Suitable for: 6+
Doors: 1.30pm
Event starts: 2pm
Duration: 60 mins
Where: Alibi, EX4 1EJ (Main Hall)
Marcel Lucont: Les Enfants Terribles – A Gameshow For Awful Children
– Winner: Best Kids Show 2022 – UK Kids Comedy Festival / Leicester Comedy Festival
– Top 10 Kids Shows – Edinburgh Fringe – Time Out / The Scotsman / Broadway World
Acclaimed French comedian Marcel Lucont presents a wild family gameshow, in which kids get to be pests, politicians and pétomanes to be crowned the most awful child.
See what happens when international insouciance meets infantile exuberance.
A big hit at Edinburgh Fringe and many other festivals, the multi-award-winning comic channels his acerbic humour and quickfire wit into a series of tasks for the younger generation, which is every bit as entertaining for adults as it is for children.
“An absolute gem… If you don’t have kids, borrow someone else’s… a treat from beginning to end”
★★★★★
Edinburgh Festivals magazine
‘Pitched perfectly… incredibly witty and dry, ensuring adults are kept completely entertained… hilarious”
★★★★★
Edinburgh Festivals For Kids
“Absolutely everyone is having fun… this is unquestionably an exceptional children’s show which can hardly fail to appeal”
★★★★.5
One4Review
“An hour with something for everyone… the kids aren’t the only ones having a ball…. I can’t recommend this show more to kids and parents… insanely funny”
★★★★
The Scotsman
“An unforgettable experience… interactive and uproarious… appeals to both young and old… A must-see”
Edinburgh With Kids
“A real highlight of Edinburgh Fringe for the entire Horne family. Très funny”
Alex Horne, Taskmaster
Date: Sunday 8th June
Ticket Prices: £11
Suitable for: 6+
Doors: 1.30pm
Event starts: 2pm
Duration: 60 mins
Where: Alibi, EX4 1EJ (Main Hall)
The Spencer Jones Experimental Kids Show
Spencer Jones usually does comedy for adults, but for the Exeter Comedy festival he will try and entertain kids for the very first time. Bring your guinea pigs, sorry I mean guinea kids and let’s see what they make of it. Some of it will be music, some of it will be weird, some of it will be visual and some of it will be unplanned. He made the BAFTA nominated show BBC show Big Babies and is currently the voice of a wisecracking Mushroom called Trevor in the TV show Super Happy Magic Forest. He should be fine shouldn’t he?
Date: Sunday 8th June
Ticket Prices: £9
Doors: 3.30pm
Event starts: 4pm
Duration: 60 mins
Where: Alibi, EX4 1EJ (Main Hall)
We’ll also have a café serving hot drinks and delicious snacks – we take our coffee seriously— expect nothing less than excellent brews at Alibi.
Please note, there is no parking at Alibi. If you are driving, please use the public car park on Okehampton Street. If you have access requirements, please contact access@theatrealibi.co.uk and we will be able to reserve a spot for you on site.
