Leicester Comedy Festival

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The Leicester Comedy Festival is an annual comedy festival held in a number of venues across Leicester, England early in the year. The comedy festival started in 1994 with 40 events in 23 venues over 7 days throughout Leicestershire attracting 5,000 people.

Since then top stand-up comedians have attended including Jo Brand, Jack Dee, Dave Gorman, Rory Bremner, Alan Davies, Jeremy Hardy, Bill Bailey, Rhona Cameron, Johnny Vegas, Rich Hall, Jimmy Carr, Dara Ó Briain, Lee Mack, Dave Spikey, Harry Hill and Roseanne Barr. The main programme is also complemented by workshops and events to encourage the development of comedy skills.

An ever growing event the comedy festival is one of Leicester's major winter attractions. Leicester Comedy Festival 2007 is to take place from the 9-18th February.

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