The award-winning Frog & Bucket Comedy Club Manchester is back!
Get ready to laugh your socks off at the EngineRooms on 28th February 2025, where hilarious comedians will have you in stitches.
The best value comedy night in the country. 4 comedians from the national and international comedy circuit. Whether you’re a couple or a group, Friday Night Comedy is a great way to start the weekend.
Our doors will open at 7pm, giving you plenty of time to have a drink or some artisan street food in our Lounge Bar.
Show starts at around 8pm finishing at approximately 10.30pm.
Please be aware we only accept card payments at the venue.
Parking is free, please use our lake side entrance.
Line Up
Dave Williams
Has been a full-time comedian since 1998, and while he hasn’t become famous, nor has he starved to death, so he must be OK at this. He is booked for both compering and sets by a wide range of bookers and venues including the Comedy Store, Frog and Bucket, Manford’s Comedy Clubs, Laughterhouse. Fans of comedy history will also recall the name of Jongleurs, for whom Dave regularly worked in the good old days. He has performed overseas in Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha and Australia, including a week headlining the Sydney Comedy Store. He has also performed in Cyprus for soldiers returning from Afghanistan. Corporate clients have included BP, HSBC, First Group, Sainsbury’s and a range of sports clubs (awards nights, dinners etc). In 2014 and 2020 Dave supported Tom Stade on tour, including the Leicester Square Theatre shows that were recorded for Tom’s live DVD. Dave has been a contributor to Radio 4 Extra’s topical comedy show Newsjack.
Allyson June Smith
After her initial forays into stand-up garnered her some success, Allyson hit the comedy club circuit, which in turn propelled her to headlining gigs at festivals. She shone in multiple high-profile slots at the Winnipeg, Halifax and Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival. And that was just the start. In the years that followed she received multiple nominations for Best Female Stand-up at the Canadian Comedy Awards, taped her own Comedy Now special and did stints on MuchMusic’s Video on Trial and CBC’s The Debaters. ? Now settled in the city of Manchester, UK, it’s time for Europe to reap the rewards of Allyson June Smith’s ever-inventive comedic ascent. ? A self-confessed “over-sharer”, any Allyson June Smith show inevitably serves up a potent observational cocktail of wit, bite and shame. Which means you’ll typically find her after the show, with a line of eager fans queued up to talk with her, to confess to her or to share some comically grisly detail from their own lives. Courageously self-deprecating, Allyson’s comedic gift is making every room, whatever the size, feel like an intimate group therapy session. That intimacy, that uncommon bond between audience and performer is at the heart of Allyson’s magic as a comedian. Like the most relatable actresses working today or your very best friend, she finds a way to connect with everyone in a room, be they from southeast Asia, the U.K. or North America.
Michael Shafar
Originally from Melbourne, Michael is now based in London where he has quickly become one of the most exciting new acts on the UK comedy circuit. He regularly performs at the country’s biggest clubs where he gets to mock British people for their awful history and terrible food to their faces. ?? You might already know Michael him from his appearances on Network 10’s The Project and Studio 10, ABC’s Comedy Bites and triple j’s Good Az Friday. Of course, traditional media is dead, so it’s more likely that you’re one of his 100,000+ followers on social media or the 100+ million people who have seen his videos online. You may have also watched his debut special A(LIVE) on Amazon Prime or his most recent special Alright, Next Joke on YouTube. ? In 2025 he’ll be touring around Australia?, the UK and mainland Europe. If you subscribe to his mailing list, he may even put on a show in your city.? ? Of course, everything you’ve read above was written by Michael himself, so it is very biased. Therefore, please refer to the below quotes from publications that can assess Michael’s comedy with more objectivity
Dean Coughlin
Since starting comedy in 2017, Liverpool comedian Dean has performed all over the UK including Edinburgh, and overseas in Australia and New Zealand. He regularly performs in the UK’s most renowned clubs and has opened for Adam Rowe on his tour in 2020 and will also be supporting Danny McLoughlin on tour in 2022. Keep an eye out for this hilarious up and coming comedian…he was born with funny bones!