Alastair Clayton

Kate, Melissa and Jo are actors, passionate, driven and utterly utterly bored.

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.

Everywhere he looks, Martin sees beauty, the beauty of an elderly couple in love, of a new life, of the woman across the cafe... Martin sees beauty everywhere, except in the mirror. Consumed by self-pity, he decides to take drastic measures to be part of the world from which he feels so excluded.

Kate, Melissa and Jo are actors, passionate, driven and utterly utterly bored.

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.

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.

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

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.

Everywhere he looks, Martin sees beauty, the beauty of an elderly couple in love, of a new life, of the woman across the cafe... Martin sees beauty everywhere, except in the mirror. Consumed by self-pity, he decides to take drastic measures to be part of the world from which he feels so excluded.