Hungerford Comedy Club is our town's very own comedy venue, featuring professional acts from the Comedy Circuit in London and the South. Every two months, we host a line up of established and newer comedy talent, including acts that have graced the stage of bigger venues like the world famous Comedy Store and have TV and radio credits to their names.
Njambi McGrath is an award-winning rising comedy star with a hit BBC Radio 4 Series, Becoming Njambi & Black Black, both selected for BBC Radio 4 Comedy of the Week https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09ws280 . She’s appeared on Comedy Central, Just For Laughs and is in partnership with NextUp, Comedy Dynamics and Amazon Prime. Her comedy specials have had successful Soho theatre and Edinburgh runs. Njambi has performed all over Europe Africa and Dubai. She won the coveted Hackney empire New Act Of The Year (NATYS) Award 2019. She is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Through The Leopards Gaze and Rinsing M?kami's Soul her debut fiction 1st of a 2 book deal.
Local comedian Ben has been making great progress on the local circuit with his tales of turning 40 and being a hard working dad.
After winning the Channel 4 So you Think You're Funny Competition at the 1991 Edinburgh Festival, Alan has been a regular on the UK and International Comedy Circuit performing his stand-up act on TV a number of times. He has also appeared on telly as a comic performer. In Psychoville and Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge. He's been in Knowing Me Knowing Yule, Alistair McGowan's Big Impression, Ancona and Co, Alas Smith and Jones, The BBC Stand-Up Show, the Alan Davies Show and Alexei Sayle's Stuff. Alan has also appeared in TV drama like Between the Lines, Taggart, Murder Island and Irvine Welsh's Crime on Britbox. He has sustained a successful Theatre career; working in the West End and at The Royal Court, The National Theatre of Scotland, the RSC and a number of regional theatres. He's had his own show on Radio 4, Inside Alan Francis, which aired on Radio 4 Extra during lockdown.
"A brilliant Observational Stand-Up" **** The Scotsman