Reading Comedy Festival is back - bigger and better than ever before!

With spring around the corner and the town ready to embrace all manner of 2012 celebrations over the summer, we at Comedy Festival HQ have decided to give you something to look forward to for later in the year.  Comedy fans will be delighted to know that we are growing the Comedy Festival for 2012 to a whole month, with the most events we have ever held across Reading!  We couldn’t contain the amount of shows into our usual two weeks – so the laughter now lasts all the way until November, meaning you get even more opportunity to experience the best in comedy right on your doorstep.
Taking place from Wednesday 3 October to Sunday 4 November, Reading Comedy Festival has attracted some of the biggest names from the comedy world to Berkshire. Now in its eighth great year, the festival continues to get bigger and bigger, and that shows little sign of stopping with this year’s event, which will be coming to The Hexagon, South Street Arts Centre, The Concert Hall and many other venues across Reading throughout autumn.
This year the line up we think is really something – with some real giants of the comedy world already selling fast including … Joan Rivers, Alan Davies and Kevin Bridges.
This week we can exclusively announce that Al Murray will be bringing his brand new show to The Hexagon, Francesca Martinez will be at South Street, Greg Davies will be at The Hexagon and due to phenomenal demand we have added an extra date for Alan Davies!