New Forest New Comedian of the Year - Monday 5th June

New Forest New Comedian of the Year - Heat 3  at The Attic, Southampton

The Attic welcome New Forest New Comedian Festival who are giving over 60 new comedians the chance to be given the profound title, “New Comedian of the Year.”

New Forest New Comedian of the Year, part of the New Forest comedy Festival  at The Attic in Southampton, Hampshire

Heats will be in venues all over the New Forest. The audience in each venue will get to decide who gets sent to the finals, which will be held on Saturday 17^th June at Hanger Farm.

The winner of the finals at Hanger Farm will have the rare opportunity of being a semi – finalist in the national New Comedian of the Year competition. The winner will get to compete at the Museum of Comedy in London in the Autumn of 2023. As well as Rob Beckett, Rachel Parris, Dane Baptise, Sofie Hagen, Tim Renkow, Nigel Ng (Uncle Roger), Alasdair Beckett-King and Amy Gledhill, the winner will be titled as the New Comedian of the Year!

Sunil Patel 

MC and guest act for the evening Sunil Patel 

Join us at The Attic, Hampshire to see the best up and coming comedians for - Heat 3

Keefy Jewell

Billy James

Tiz White

John Gadsden

Vinny Ting

James Riley

Lluis Foguet Gonzalez

Levy Lupu

Jon Meehan / Jonny Meese

Alicia Davison

Michael Cummings (MC Poetry)

Entry Requirements:

• The competition is free to enter and open to any non-professional act that’s been performing for 5 years or less.
• Entries from character acts, musical acts and sketch groups are welcome.
• All contestants must stick to 5 minutes of material or risk disqualification.