Woofers comedy club

Woofers Comedy Club (June 2025)
SHOWING ON THU 5 JUN 2025

Woofers comedy club is back! Featuring some of the best comedic talents in live comedy right on your doorstep here on the Fylde Coast. Hosted by our very own regular MC Phil Walker, you are pretty much guaranteed a great night of side-splitting fun!

This month's fabulous show features:

Headliner the outstanding Paul Tonkinson!
A sensational live performer, Yorkshire man, marathon runner and former (double award-winning) Time Out Comedian of the Year, Paul Tonkinson has long upheld his esteemed reputation as one of the finest stand-ups the UK has to offer. With a unique and distinctive style, Tonkinson is noted for his effervescent physicality and skillful impressions, which bring alive exuberant, tender comic reflections on love, family and the day-to-day idiosyncrasies of 21st century living. A plethora of first class material, combined with tremendous charm and irrepressible, infectious energy make for quite a formidable talent. Following his own 50 date solo tour, he was given the opportunity to play to a wider audience, joining the mighty Michael McIntyre as a special guest on live shows around the UK. In 2013 he had the honour of joining Michael as a special guest on his global arena tour; playing to millions across the globe, as far and wide as Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Dubai, Singapore and Hong Kong. Paul joined Michael again in 2015 as special guest on the Happy & Glorious Tour; playing to sold-out crowds in arenas across the UK.

On TV, he's most recently performed on BBC One's Michael Mcintyre's Comedy Roadshow and Comedy Central's The Comedy Store and The World Stands-up. He was recently a contestant on Ch. 4`s hit show Celebrity Come Dine With Me, proving he's not just a dazzling stand-up talent, but a whizz in the kitchen, scooping first place to win the cash prize for charity. Back in the day, when he was a mere whippersnapper he had a stint presenting Ch. 4's The Big Breakfast and he has also presented radio shows on XFM in London and Manchester. He has just completed a stint as a Programme Associate on BBC One's Michael Mcintyre Chat Show.

"Excellent... extremely talented... brilliant" - Time Out.

Ricky Balshaw
A quick-witted, slow walking, fast rising star, Ricky Balshaw is without question, the funniest Paralympic Dressage medallist in the UK, perhaps the world. Stepping over his cerebral palsy like it's the mildest of inconveniences, Ricky pulls his audience into a joyfully dark world of self-depreciating hilarity. No sympathy vote is needed (or accepted) as Ricky dominates comedy stages up and down the UK. A brilliant joke-smith and storyteller, this young man has comedy greatness in his bones.

BBC New Comedian of the Year Semi Finalist 2021 & Midlands Comedy Award Winner for Best New Act, Ricky Balshaw is a Paralympic, World Championship and European Championship dressage medallist with a penchant for dark humour.

"One of the most exciting up and coming comedians of the moment" – Just the Tonic

Elaine Robertson
Elaine Robertson is famous. Elaine is the worst person in the world. Elaine saw Ian Beale on a child's bike outside a Dominos in Newcastle*

*None of these things are true. Elaine Robertson is Delulu.
As seen on BBC3 (BBC New Comedian of the Year Regional Finalist). County Durham born Elaine Robertson has been described as 'Laugh out loud' (The Cherwell).
A great new talent!

*Please note line ups are occasionally subject to change.