Live Comedy Sketch Show vs Stand-Up Comedy

The beauty of a live comedy sketch show, as opposed to the more rife genre of stand-up, is the sheer amount of diversity that can be packed into a well-honed example of the medium.

If you spend your hard-earned tokens on going to see a stand up comedian, and they're basically a bit crap, then you're stuck with that style of crapness for the whole of their act. Wheras, if you go along to a live sketch show performance and you don't particularly like a sketch, you know there'll be another one along in a minute so it doesn't really matter!

That's why I'd say it's always better to opt for a sketch show where possible, when you're weighing up the Manchester comedy listings.

Manchester Comedy

The best live Manchester comedy show will be giving it's greatest ever comedy performance sometime over the next few months, when The Unbroadcastable Radio Show at The Comedy Store in Manchester is performed for the very last time.

That it will be their last live comedy show is a sad fact indeed, after six successful years of cheering up Manchester on those grey Sunday evenings, but the event itself should prove to be anything but.

The line up will include the usual suspects - Toby Hadoke, Helen Copley, Peter Slater and Dominic Woodward. However, there are rumours of some much-loved former members making a reappearance for this one-off special show.

As far as cheap comedy tickets go, this is about as good as it gets - it's a bumper show with three packed sections (so plenty of drinking time) and still only a fiver to see the whole performance!

If you haven't been before, it really is worth the trip - it's a far cry from the overpriced, stag-do-packed stand up comedy nights that The Comedy Store is all too well known for, and for people who actually have a brain, it's invariably funnier too!