Stuart Laws

Directing

Stuart Laws

Known for

Directing

Credits

55 titles

Known for

Patience poster
7.2

Patience Evans works in the Criminal Records Office in the city of York. She views the world in a unique way because she has a special gift – she is autistic. Patience has a special interest in solving puzzles and a secret fascination and talent for criminology—her unique perspective allows her to connect the dots through clues in a way others simply cannot. Detective Inspector Bea Metcalf recognizes her talents and takes her under her wing. Patience helps the police tackle a series of challenging cases by bringing her unique insight to crimefighting.

Patience

2025

Grave New World poster
10.0

Stuart Laws takes an in-depth look at life after a pandemic and how the familiar we knew has changed forever. This mini series gets some of the UK's best comedians to ask the questions we've been afraid to ask like "What?", "How?" and "Why?"

Grave New World

2021

James Acaster: Hecklers Welcome poster
6.3

James Acaster explores his love/hate relationship with standup by relinquishing control of his set and accepting a healthy dose of audience interference – AKA heckling. With his wiry observational eye and incomparable wit, Acaster shares hilarious on-the-fly meta-analysis of his own material, along with stories from his childhood that spurred him to pursue a career in comedy.

James Acaster: Hecklers Welcome

2024

Sweet Home Ketteringa poster
8.0

James Acaster is from Kettering, a town in the middle of England. He returns home as his stand-up career is taking off, to revisit his old haunts and to reconnect with the town he grew up in.

Sweet Home Ketteringa

2014

Rhys James: Spilt Milk poster
7.0

A recorded version of Rhys' 2023 comedy tour show called Spilt Milk.

Rhys James: Spilt Milk

2024

James Acaster: Cinemagoers Welcome poster
NR

Comedian James Acaster unleashes his infectious energy as he explores his love/hate relationship with stand-up - while welcoming a heckle or two. Filmed in Truro, Dublin, and Northampton, we see how this experiment panned out in front of three very different audiences. James Acaster is one of the UK's most exciting and original standup comedians, with sold out UK tours and specials on Netflix (Repertoire series), he has become one of the most well-known faces on the UK comedy scene. He is a best-selling author, actor (Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire), and a co-host of the hugely popular Off Menu Podcast.

James Acaster: Cinemagoers Welcome

2026

Film credits

2020s · 8 titles

James Acaster: Hecklers Welcome poster
6.3

James Acaster explores his love/hate relationship with standup by relinquishing control of his set and accepting a healthy dose of audience interference – AKA heckling. With his wiry observational eye and incomparable wit, Acaster shares hilarious on-the-fly meta-analysis of his own material, along with stories from his childhood that spurred him to pursue a career in comedy.

James Acaster: Hecklers Welcome

2024

Rob Auton: The Time Show poster
NR

The Time Show is a comedy/theatre/spoken word show that received critical acclaim at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe and went on to tour the UK to sell-out crowds. Following on from his much applauded shows about talking, hair, sleep, water, faces, the sky and the colour yellow, Rob turned his attention to time.

Rob Auton: The Time Show

2024

Stuart Laws: Three-Way poster
NR

Every comedian knows that the same joke, delivered the same way, doesn’t guarantee the same response. With his latest special Three-Way, Stuart Laws is letting the audience in on the joke(s) (...as they perform differently between rooms). The special cuts between 3 different locations: Machynlleth, Manchester and Bristol. Viewers buzz between the ‘best bits’ (and a couple of ‘worst bits’) from each show, making one, half-hour, pretty damn funny special.

Stuart Laws: Three-Way

2026

Stuart Laws Is All In poster
0.5

Stuart Laws ('You'll struggle to find a comedian with a better jokes per minute rate... like a one-man episode of Arrested Development' Fest) acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe and tour show Stuart Laws is All In. The show sees Stuart reflect on the day his life changed forever: when he risked everything in a Las Vegas poker tournament. Is he a winner or a loser? Can he burn the candle at both ends? And has he been infected by the Willennium Bug? A show about making difficult decisions, choosing different paths and gettin' jiggy wit' it from the leftfield observationalist and intricate gag-weaver. “A deliriously fun and nonsensical hour full of tiny little treats, Stuart Laws Is All In defiantly stands proud as a show not to be taken seriously in any way, shape or form.” ★★★★ The List

Stuart Laws Is All In

2023

Stuart Laws? Is That Guy Still Going? poster
2.5

The Ruislip-based stand up has resolved to tell the truth, the whole truth and almost nothing but the truth. After an argument with his therapist about being too closed off, Stuart has resolved to come clean: sperm and all.

Stuart Laws? Is That Guy Still Going?

2025

The Debuts poster
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A documentary following five comedians: Amy Gledhill, Sikisa, Josh Jones, Lily Phillips and Anthony DeVito at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2022. A funny, intimate showcase of what it's like for comedians to bring their debut show to the festival.

The Debuts

2024

Stuart Laws Has to Be Joking? poster
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Last year Stuart started telling the truth on stage and was diagnosed autistic: he got the best reviews he’s ever got and his show was a must-see. He's back baby! And has to lean into it further. It’s funny, it’s real, it’s immaculately structured and it’s a chance to see a comedian at the top of his game.

Stuart Laws Has to Be Joking?

2025

Stuart Laws: Single Father of None poster
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The show is a unique and innovative full embracing of virtual comedy as Stuart explores his life after a vasectomy, catching spiders, what live comedy is, the government gilet contract and living with his twin brother.

Stuart Laws: Single Father of None

2023

Series credits

Behind the camera

James Acaster: Hecklers Welcome poster
6.3

James Acaster explores his love/hate relationship with standup by relinquishing control of his set and accepting a healthy dose of audience interference – AKA heckling. With his wiry observational eye and incomparable wit, Acaster shares hilarious on-the-fly meta-analysis of his own material, along with stories from his childhood that spurred him to pursue a career in comedy.

James Acaster: Hecklers Welcome

2024

James Acaster: Hecklers Welcome poster
6.3

James Acaster explores his love/hate relationship with standup by relinquishing control of his set and accepting a healthy dose of audience interference – AKA heckling. With his wiry observational eye and incomparable wit, Acaster shares hilarious on-the-fly meta-analysis of his own material, along with stories from his childhood that spurred him to pursue a career in comedy.

James Acaster: Hecklers Welcome

2024

Rhys James: Spilt Milk poster
7.0

A recorded version of Rhys' 2023 comedy tour show called Spilt Milk.

Rhys James: Spilt Milk

2024

Rhys James: Spilt Milk poster
7.0

A recorded version of Rhys' 2023 comedy tour show called Spilt Milk.

Rhys James: Spilt Milk

2024

James Acaster: Cinemagoers Welcome poster
NR

Comedian James Acaster unleashes his infectious energy as he explores his love/hate relationship with stand-up - while welcoming a heckle or two. Filmed in Truro, Dublin, and Northampton, we see how this experiment panned out in front of three very different audiences. James Acaster is one of the UK's most exciting and original standup comedians, with sold out UK tours and specials on Netflix (Repertoire series), he has become one of the most well-known faces on the UK comedy scene. He is a best-selling author, actor (Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire), and a co-host of the hugely popular Off Menu Podcast.

James Acaster: Cinemagoers Welcome

2026

Huge Davies - The Carpark poster
4.3

Huge Davies presents his first comedy special "The Carpark". Combining his confident on stage presence, dark humour, surreal material and his one-of-a-kind customised keyboard, Huge has quickly risen to become one of the the most unique and hilarious acts in comedy. Join him as he prepares to present his musical about a carpark; well, if he ever gets round to it. With musings on Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes, Daft Punk & Gregorian chanting, be prepared for a musical adventure that teeters on the edge of the void. "The Carpark" was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards and the No.1 comedy show in Timeout. Following a sold out run at the Edinburgh Fringe, it was given three extended runs at the Soho Theatre due to excessive demand.

Huge Davies - The Carpark

2023

Milo Edwards: Sentimental poster
NR

In 2022 a reviewer said that Milo Edwards was 'unsentimental' and sent him on a mission to discover what sentimentality is. What resulted was a show about life, death, loss, and Kwik Fit Tyre & Exhaust Centres. Sentimental has had a long journey, from a sell-out 5 star run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2023, racking up the NextUp nomination for ‘Best Show’ and receiving a nomination for ‘Best Show’ at Leicester Comedy Festival in 2024, the show went on to tour the UK, Ireland, Europe and Australia, before being taped at Underbelly Boulevard in London's Soho in September 2025.

Milo Edwards: Sentimental

2026

Milo Edwards: Sentimental poster
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In 2022 a reviewer said that Milo Edwards was 'unsentimental' and sent him on a mission to discover what sentimentality is. What resulted was a show about life, death, loss, and Kwik Fit Tyre & Exhaust Centres. Sentimental has had a long journey, from a sell-out 5 star run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2023, racking up the NextUp nomination for ‘Best Show’ and receiving a nomination for ‘Best Show’ at Leicester Comedy Festival in 2024, the show went on to tour the UK, Ireland, Europe and Australia, before being taped at Underbelly Boulevard in London's Soho in September 2025.

Milo Edwards: Sentimental

2026

Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Hysterical Woman poster
NR

Tackling genetics, gender and being a comedian who happens to be a woman, Kiri handles a host of thorny issues with a down to earth sense of her own ridiculousness. Settle down for an hour of whip smart stand-up with an angle on anthropology that's as funny as it is clever.

Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Hysterical Woman

2017

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NR

Li Jin Hao's 2024 comedy show which walks you through the seascape of his mind, filled with nightmares of being a spider, dreams of joining the yakuza and breezy memories of serving in the military with the boys.

Swimming in a Submarine

2026

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Li Jin Hao's 2024 comedy show which walks you through the seascape of his mind, filled with nightmares of being a spider, dreams of joining the yakuza and breezy memories of serving in the military with the boys.

Swimming in a Submarine

2026

The Dates poster
1.0

An examination of the similarities and differences between dating a man and a woman, from the perspective of a bisexual singleton.

The Dates

2017

Fern Brady: Power & Chaos poster
7.1

Stand-up comedian Fern Brady brings her unique take on contemporary culture and the state of the UK to a packed crowd in Glasgow.

Fern Brady: Power & Chaos

2021

Paddy Young: Hungry. Horny. Scared. poster
NR

He's hungry. He's horny. He's scared. He's in the gutter but he's looking down on all of you. Join Northern powerhouse Paddy Young, one of comedy's fastest rising stars, for his unmissable debut stand-up hour. 'One of the most exciting new comics I've seen for a long time' (Joe Lycett). 'Spontaneously witty with a distinctive line in absurdity' (Chortle.co.uk). 'Hilarious. One of the funniest men online' (Seann Walsh). As seen on Channel 4, ITV2, Sky and Stewart Lee's recommendation list. Over 10 million views online.

Paddy Young: Hungry. Horny. Scared.

2025

Stuart Goldsmith: Like I Mean It poster
9.0

Comedian’s Comedian Podcast host and ‘expert stand-up’ (Times) Goldsmith now commits to the bit. This year: second international tour, seven million downloads, critically-acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe run, and look, honestly? My best ever show. I’m so goddamn proud of this, it’s stupider and less clever-clogs and just the funniest stuff I’ve ever created. OK? Back to the PR… Come see how ‘a master of the form’ (Independent) ‘makes it look easy’ (Chortle). Via As Yet Untitled and Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central. Winner: Leicester Comedy Festival Best New Show 2017 British Comedy Guide Top 20 Best Reviewed Edinburgh Fringe Shows 2017

Stuart Goldsmith: Like I Mean It

2019

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Unemployed, directionless and facing spiralling debt - Craig shares a flat with his fiancée, Rachel. She has a new job and a promising future but Craig's daily life has become a hopeless cycle of interviews, sleep and unwise loans that leave him feeling terrified that he might never make anything of himself. After a chance meeting, Craig befriends Tom, whose relaxed attitude to life seems to offer a solution to his predicament.

Tomorrow

2005

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Unemployed, directionless and facing spiralling debt - Craig shares a flat with his fiancée, Rachel. She has a new job and a promising future but Craig's daily life has become a hopeless cycle of interviews, sleep and unwise loans that leave him feeling terrified that he might never make anything of himself. After a chance meeting, Craig befriends Tom, whose relaxed attitude to life seems to offer a solution to his predicament.

Tomorrow

2005

Rob Auton: The Time Show poster
NR

The Time Show is a comedy/theatre/spoken word show that received critical acclaim at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe and went on to tour the UK to sell-out crowds. Following on from his much applauded shows about talking, hair, sleep, water, faces, the sky and the colour yellow, Rob turned his attention to time.

Rob Auton: The Time Show

2024

Harriet Kemsley: Woman Child poster
7.0

In her debut stand-up special, Harriet takes bad aim at being married (for now), motherhood and the beauty industry.

Harriet Kemsley: Woman Child

2023

Nish Kumar: Nish, Don't Kill My Vibe poster
6.7

In Nish, Don’t Kill My Vibe, Nish Kumar brings his trademark blend of righteous fury and self-deprecating chaos to a world that feels like it’s permanently on fire.

Nish Kumar: Nish, Don't Kill My Vibe

2026

Josh Pugh: Live From Birmingham Town Hall poster
5.8

Josh Pugh made quite an impression at last year's Edinburgh Fringe, where he was deservedly nominated for best show in the Edinburgh Comedy Awards with Sausage, Egg, Josh Pugh, Chips and Beans. Josh performs his award nominated stand up show in front of a sold out Birmingham Town Hall on the final night of his first nationwide tour. A show about the last two years of his life, trying for a baby and losing Captain Tom's Birthday Cards

Josh Pugh: Live From Birmingham Town Hall

2023

Stuart Laws: Three-Way poster
NR

Every comedian knows that the same joke, delivered the same way, doesn’t guarantee the same response. With his latest special Three-Way, Stuart Laws is letting the audience in on the joke(s) (...as they perform differently between rooms). The special cuts between 3 different locations: Machynlleth, Manchester and Bristol. Viewers buzz between the ‘best bits’ (and a couple of ‘worst bits’) from each show, making one, half-hour, pretty damn funny special.

Stuart Laws: Three-Way

2026

Stuart Laws: Three-Way poster
NR

Every comedian knows that the same joke, delivered the same way, doesn’t guarantee the same response. With his latest special Three-Way, Stuart Laws is letting the audience in on the joke(s) (...as they perform differently between rooms). The special cuts between 3 different locations: Machynlleth, Manchester and Bristol. Viewers buzz between the ‘best bits’ (and a couple of ‘worst bits’) from each show, making one, half-hour, pretty damn funny special.

Stuart Laws: Three-Way

2026

Jen Brister: The Optimist poster
2.5

If middle age has taught Jen Brister anything, it’s that optimism does not come naturally to her. In fact it’s fair to say that her cup is very much half empty and she’s making no attempt to fill it. Can Jen work against her natural instincts and finally see the light? Or will she stay the same old pessimistic naysayer she’s always been. I mean, I think we know the answer to that, but let’s try and be optimistic.

Jen Brister: The Optimist

2023

Joel Dommett: Finding Emo poster
NR

Joel Dommett's hilarious stand-up comedy special about teenage bands, friendships and relationships. Filmed during his sold out national tour.

Joel Dommett: Finding Emo

2020

Max & Ivan: The Reunion poster
NR

The Reunion is a narrative sketch comedy tale of love, loss and shatterproof rulers. A very British ‘high school’ reunion story, complete with flashbacks and expertly woven callbacks, The Reunion sends up those all too familiar American high-school clichés with a feelgood ‘80s-teen-movie narrative exquisitly delivered by this duo at the top of their game.

Max & Ivan: The Reunion

2018

Pierre Novellie: Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things poster
3.5

Award-winning comedian Pierre Novellie’s latest stand-up special explores why he finds most things a 6/10 - and why he doesn’t see eye-to-eye with anyone else on what makes a 0/10 or a 10/10

Pierre Novellie: Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things

2024

James Acaster: Make a New Tomorrow poster
7.4

A forty minute stand-up special consisting of material that was cut from James Acaster's 2019 show Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999.

James Acaster: Make a New Tomorrow

2021

Mark Watson: The Infinite Show poster
NR

Inspired by the mostly alarming state of the world his children are growing up in, and a genuine, urgent desire to do something about it, this show is about empathy. 99 percent of the world's population is made up of other people: why can't we understand them? As scrawny and impassioned as ever, one of the UK's most beloved and thinnest acts offers some suggestions, with his usual notoriously high joke- and-rant-per-minute rate.

Mark Watson: The Infinite Show

2022

Mark Watson: The Infinite Show poster
NR

Inspired by the mostly alarming state of the world his children are growing up in, and a genuine, urgent desire to do something about it, this show is about empathy. 99 percent of the world's population is made up of other people: why can't we understand them? As scrawny and impassioned as ever, one of the UK's most beloved and thinnest acts offers some suggestions, with his usual notoriously high joke- and-rant-per-minute rate.

Mark Watson: The Infinite Show

2022

Milo Edwards: Voicemail poster
NR

Milo Edwards hasn’t received a voicemail in some time. He’d like to talk about that, and quite a lot else. Nominated for Best Show at the Leicester Comedy Festival 2023, as well as having critically-acclaimed runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Voicemail is a stand-up show which examines life, death, politics and the answering machine.

Milo Edwards: Voicemail

2024

Milo Edwards: Voicemail poster
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Milo Edwards hasn’t received a voicemail in some time. He’d like to talk about that, and quite a lot else. Nominated for Best Show at the Leicester Comedy Festival 2023, as well as having critically-acclaimed runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Voicemail is a stand-up show which examines life, death, politics and the answering machine.

Milo Edwards: Voicemail

2024

Stuart Laws Is All In poster
0.5

Stuart Laws ('You'll struggle to find a comedian with a better jokes per minute rate... like a one-man episode of Arrested Development' Fest) acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe and tour show Stuart Laws is All In. The show sees Stuart reflect on the day his life changed forever: when he risked everything in a Las Vegas poker tournament. Is he a winner or a loser? Can he burn the candle at both ends? And has he been infected by the Willennium Bug? A show about making difficult decisions, choosing different paths and gettin' jiggy wit' it from the leftfield observationalist and intricate gag-weaver. “A deliriously fun and nonsensical hour full of tiny little treats, Stuart Laws Is All In defiantly stands proud as a show not to be taken seriously in any way, shape or form.” ★★★★ The List

Stuart Laws Is All In

2023

Jonny Pelham: An Hour poster
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Enjoy an entrancing tour rich with anecdotal awkwardness from Jonny Pelham as he guides you from his uneasy adolescence (as the only white guy in a Bangladeshi gang) to his misguided adulthood (too many to reference).

Jonny Pelham: An Hour

2017

Rosie Jones: Triple Threat poster
NR

Triple Threat is the first ever stand-up special from the people's princess Rosie Jones. Filmed at Brighton Theatre Royal, this hilarious show sees Rosie pondering whether she is a national treasure, a little prick, or somewhere in between! Full of nonsensical fun and her trademark unapologetic cheekiness, Rosie tackles everything from relationships and parental dynamics to the tribulations of adulting, in an hour of unadulterated joy from the triple threat herself.

Rosie Jones: Triple Threat

2025

The Delightful Sausage - Cold Hard Cache poster
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Watch your soon to be new favourite double act The Delightful Sausage aka Chris Cantrill and Amy Gledhill in ‘Cold Hard Cache’, as they set about to guide those in the community who need a helping hand with modern technology. Take a tour through the darkest corners of the Internet with this unique and inventive show, packed with energetic sketches, unsettling illustrations and silly adventures.

The Delightful Sausage - Cold Hard Cache

2018

Ian Smith: Crushing poster
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Multi award-winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz and co-host of the Northern News podcast) presents a new show about stress, love and driving a tank with your hairdresser. Amused Moose Comedy Award and ThreeWeeks Editors' Award Winner 2017. British Comedy Guide Recommended 2018 and 2019.

Ian Smith: Crushing

2025

James Acaster: Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 poster
8.1

On December 17th 2019, I, James Acaster, filmed my 2019 tour show Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 at EartH in Hackney. It was a show about the best year of my life (1999) and the worst year of my life (2017), I wore a very nifty jacket for it and I looked extremely cool.

James Acaster: Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999

2020

Christopher Macarthur-Boyd: Oh No poster
2.5

Filmed live at Monkey Barrel Comedy in Edinburgh, “Oh No” is the debut comedy special by Scottish stand-up Christopher Macarthur-Boyd, featuring breezy laid-back jokes and stories about depression, tattoos, butter, and the meaning of life. What else can you say when the world ends, you lose your job, and you pee yourself, other than just, “oh no”?

Christopher Macarthur-Boyd: Oh No

2024

Abhishek Upmanyu: Jealous of Sabziwala poster
8.8

Another masterpiece from the renowned Comedian Abhishek Upmanyu where he shares his recent experience about the health issues he started experiencing in his early 30s with a comedic spin. The pace is smooth with innumerable moments to tickle your funny bone as well as appreciate this man's humor and wits.

Abhishek Upmanyu: Jealous of Sabziwala

2023