Welcome once again to the intimate surroundings of the Apehangers Comedy Club! Brought to you in partnership with our friends at the Leamington Comedy Festival.

Bringing you the funnies are Howard Read, Eshan Akbar & Sally Anne-Hayward.You lucky, lucky people. Howard Read is an award-winning stand-up and writer who's performed in front of the queen, allaround the world and headlines and MC's clubs throughout the UK.

In recent years hes been distracted by a hugely successful career in children's Television; He wrote, animated and starred in three series of his own (with Little Howard), and now writes for DangerMouse, Horrible Histories, Furchester Hotel among very many others. Breaking boundaries in stand-up comedy'

Independent Genius'

Radio Times Saly-Anne Hayward Sally-Anne is charming and popular, with a winning brand of auto biographical humour. She'll take you on a journey through her slightly eccentric world, including insights into the female psyche and her compulsion to send off spoof job applications. ' Small-time country posh life versus young lady breaking into the stand-up circuit. Fabulous!'

BBC

'It's easy to imagine Hayward at the 02 or guesting on QI.She is a crowd-pleaser and a straightforward observational comic, but so are most of Britain's favourite comedians today. Hayward is easily the equal of any of them'The Skinny' Innate effusive likeability with straightforward but effective writing... a primetime act'Chortle.co.uk' 

Exceptionally funny'The Independent

Eshaan Akbar A winner of the Piccadilly Comedy Club New Comedian of the Year 2016, Eshaan has been in the finals of other prestigious competitions, including So You Think You're Funny 2014 and Laughing Horse 2014. He has performed across the UK and in Germany and Bangladesh. In 2016, he supported Dane Baptiste on his UK tour. His professional career has taken him from private banking through to corporate communications via a career in local government public policy. He has previously written for The Guardian, The Timesonline, The Observer New Review and The Huffington Post UK. He is a member of the UK Speechwriters Guild and Fellow of the RSA. So slick, I could have been watching a Live at the Apollo set Evening Standard A story thats likely to go far Chortle