Laughing Horse Comedy has many years of experience in running Live Comedy Venues. Our original venue opened in 1998 (in Kingston, called "Peppermint Thursdays"), and this was followed by the first "Laughing Horse", at the "Black Horse" in Richmond. Over the years we have promoted comedy and supplied performers for over 250 venues and companies.

We are currently running many regular, friendly, Stand-up Comedy venues, at various locations around the UK, and also in the South of France and Monaco - with several new venues scheduled to open during 2008. Each week our venues offer top value comedy, and a friendly atmosphere that is enjoyed by audiences, and acts alike, and we are fast being recognised as one of the friendliest and funniest comedy clubs around. Many of the leading acts of today have performed some of their first gigs at our clubs, including the likes Daniel Kitson, Jimmy Carr and many more besides.

Our nights feature a mixture of top professional comics, and the best up and coming talent on the comedy circuit - as well as open spots and newer acts. We are the only comedy promoter to book acts of all levels, from leading comedians in sell-out shows in theatres, Art Centres, Night Clubs, right through to open mic comics doing their first gigs in small rooms above pubs. We have also hosted nights for the likes of Channel Four, The BBC, Paramount Comedy, Funny Women and provide comedians and shows for corporate entertainment.   

We promote the UK's largest search for new comedy talent each year, 'The Laughing Horse New Act of the Year', where we find new talent to bring to the clubs throughout the year, leading comics such as Rhod Gilbert, Russell Kane, all of 'We are Klang': Marek Larwood, Greg Davies & Steve Hall, Steve Williams, Matt Blaize, Nina Conti and many more.

We run "The Free Festival" - a unique and groundbreaking series of venues at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, giving performers professionally managed venues for free, along with free shows from top quality comedians, theatre shows and musicians. In 2007 we were the largest comedy promoter at the Fringe with 112 comedy shows, and at our venues had over 2,500 performances of 139 different shows.

We also run comedy courses in London and Edinburgh, helping people to take their first steps on the comedy ladder, and provide comedy resources for Universities, teaching and disability training.

Laughing Horse Comedy is run by Alex Petty and Kevin McCarron, who have been business partners in the comedy clubs since 1998, and we employ a number of show-runners and comedians on a regular basis to run our shows, events and festivals.

For more information, or to discuss any comedy related project or idea, please contact us on info@laughinghorse.co.uk

Laughing Horse Comedy Website Privacy Policy

Laughing Horse Comedy is committed to ensuring the privacy of all our users, and this privacy policy governs all pages hosted at www.laughinghorsecomedy.co.uk and www.laughinghorse.co.uk, including www.freefestival.co.uk and www.aboutcomedy.co.uk. This policy does not apply to pages hosted by other organisations whose websites we link to.

What types of information do we collect and store?

Laughing Horse Comedy do not store any personal information on visitors on it's servers.  Website traffic is monitored by www.sitemeter.com. You can access our pages without telling us who you are and without revealing any personal information. Our site is hosted on servers at www.fasthosts.co.uk. We do not collect personally identifiable information (such as your name, address, phone number or e-mail address) on our site. If you have chosen to provide us this information via the site or email, then these personal details are kept confidential and are stored securely while they are required for those purposes for which they were given. This information will not be sold nor rented nor will it be shared with third parties unless we have your permission

Payment Processing

If you purchase tickets for shows or courses online, your payment details are processed through a third-party secure payment provider, this will normally be processed by www.ticketweb.co.uk (part of Ticketmaster) or www.paypal.com. Your credit/debit card details will only be retained by the third-party and its acquiring bank. Under normal circumstances we can only see the last four digits of any credit card number for the purposes of confriming pre-paid tickets - in the case of a suspected fraudulent transaction, card details may be disclosed to us for the sole purpose of performing further checks, but we are not permitted to retain these details after the checks have been made.

Refund Policy

Once show tickets are purchased online, we cannot refund tickets, and sales are subject to the terms of sale of www.ticketweb.co.uk. For comedy courses we are able to transfer these tickets to another person, or another course date, to do this contact us on info@laughinghorse.co.uk.

Email Lists

If you express interest in our services or join any of our email lists you will from time to time automatically receive information from us such as email newsletters about those areas of interest. Please contact us on info@laughinghorse.co.uk to unsubscribe. If you have any questions relating to this policy please send them to info@laughinghorse.co.uk