Oxford’s biggest comedy night of the year is back, it’s the Oxfordshire Mind Comedy Gala! Join Jericho Comedy and Oxfordshire Mind as the gala goes online for 2021.The show will be streamed via Next Up comedy, the Netflix of UK comedy. Grab your tickets for April 24th for a gut wrenchingly good line-up from the comfort of your living room. All proceeds from the show go to supporting local mental health. To date Jericho Comedy have raised over £70,000 for local mental health. So grab yourselves a ticket to raise even more to support this great cause.
This year the show will be introduced by an exclusive video from comedy legend and Mind UK president Stephen Fry. Hosted by Jericho Comedy resident MC Alex Farrow this year’s line up features Rosie Jones, Helen Bauer, Huge Davies, Janine Harouni, Chelsea Birkby, Ivo Graham and Nish Kumar. This is a star studded line-up coming together to laugh the lockdown away in aid of mental health. Tickets can be purchased to stream the show via Next Up or to be in the front row of the show on Zoom (to be seen and heard by the acts in the show).
Jericho Comedy is Oxford’s independent comedy club, regularly hosting big names from TV and across the comedy circuit. Winners of the 2019 & 2020 Chortle Comedy Industry Award for being the best comedy night in the region, as recommended by the Sunday Times, as heard on BBC Radio 4. During the pandemic they’ve performed more drive in comedy shows than any other comedy club in England as well as performing on boats floating on the river Cherwell. Recommended as the iPaper’s ‘Top socially distanced nights’ out’, ★★★★ ‘Very funny’ The Telegraph 2020 ‘Top 4 most memorable shows of 2020’ Chortle. Nominated for 2021 spirit of the Leicester Comedy Festival.