Friday Night Comedy

Friday Night Comedy returns to Problematic Pub Comedy Club on Friday 20 November. It's part of the club's weekly run of stand-up in Swansea, a proper room with fast-paced acts and a fresh line-up each time, drawing from rising stars and touring favourites. The night is fronted by hosts Sandro Ford and Simon Emanuel, the latter half of the Problematic Pub Podcast, whose catchphrase 'Anything else?' has made him a fixture of the local scene and whose bold, unapologetic opinions lean into the unfiltered energy the club is known for.

Rounding out the bill is Noel James, a Swansea comedian who's been treading the boards for twenty-five years. He's played and headlined most of the UK's comedy clubs, from Glee and The Stand to Up The Creek and Frog and Bucket, and has performed in Dubai, Shanghai, Berlin, Cape Town and Canada. Beyond the stage, he's worked on BBC Radio Wales and taken on acting roles in both English and Welsh. Surreal Welsh comic Noel James lives and dies by wordplay, his delivery a gabble of consciousness that skips from pun to giddy flight of fantasy with ill-coordinated abandon. Any stand-up can struggle to connect with an audience. But James betrays the soul of a poet and accomplishes it with such rare panache and commitment that it approaches art.

Between the two hosts and James, that's three names on the bill, and the weekly format means the line-up changes every time, so if you've been to a recent one, this will be a different set of acts. Tickets are £18.00 general admission plus a £0.45 ticket service fee.