Comedy Club May 2025

The Cresset Comedy Club hosts the very best in live stand up each month.

Our Line-up for May:

Jacob Hawley

Jacob Hawley is a multi-award winning stand-up, writer and performer.

He has performed stand-up on Sky Max’s The Russell Howard Hour and ITV X’s Secrets of The Irish Comedy Circuit, as well as appearing on The Stand Up Sketch Show, BBC 3’s hit sitcom Ladhood and multiple BBC Comedy shorts.

He has performed 3 critically acclaimed shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, his first two shows Howl and Faliraki were both translated into BBC Radio 4 Stand Up Specials, with his second special Class Act being named The Guardian’s Pick Of The Week. His third show, Bump, was described by the British Comedy Guide as ‘An impeccable hour of man-and-mic stand up’, awarded 4 star reviews and then toured across the UK to multiple sell out rooms.

He was awarded a Radio Academy award which he accepted at London’s Palladium for Best New Voice for his hit BBC Sounds podcast Jacob Hawley: On Drugs, one of the BBC’s first original podcasts, a show which regularly featured in the iTunes top 12 podcasts and amassed over half a million downloads. The series was followed by two more commissions, Jacob Hawley’s Job Centre and Jacob Hawley: On Love, which both received critical acclaim and hundreds of thousands of downloads.

Away from his podcasts Jacob’s journalism continues in his writing - he writes a monthly column for The Metro and has been published by The Sunday Times amongst other publications. His comedy writing credits include Mock The Week and multiple scripted comedies.

Jacob embarked on his first international tour in 2024, as well as working on multiple TV projects and regularly headlining some of the UK’s biggest comedy clubs.

Adam Flood

Award winning comedian Adam Flood is a stand-up, writer, actor and (failed) musician. He is a high-energy, observational comedian with a twist of the surreal using enthusiastic act outs, vocal effects, samples, short songs and crowd work to keep the audience on their toes. 

Originally from Stoke-on-trent, Adam started stand-up in 2018 and in one year was nominated for the BBC New Comedy Award in 2019, performing live on BBC Radio 4. Throughout the 2020 lockdowns he made online sketches across the handle @floodhaha racking hundreds of thousands of views. Navigating the government rules around performing live, he hosted live comedy shows from a barber shop window into the street attracting crowds of hundreds each show featuring comics such as Josie Long, Eshaan Akbar and Sam Campbell.

Adam’s first 45-minute work in progress during Edinburgh 2022 was a breakout success. Selling over 1,000 tickets, the show Adam Flood: Clayhead was nominated for Most Outstanding Show in the Amused Moose Comedy Awards and was nominated for best poster in the Comedy Poster Awards, all setting him up for an exciting debut hour in 2023.

★★★★ “unexpected darts of deft hilarity” - Lancashire Post

Rory O’Hanlon

A regular face on Irish TV, featured on RTE’s New Comedy Awards, Republic of Telly alongside Des Bishop in Under the Influence. A veteran of stage at Edinburgh Fringe, including performances in The Stand’s ‘Best of Irish’ show, while also appearing at both Glasgow and Cardiff Comedy Festivals.

Rory recently starred in the short film Spring Clean, which reached the final of the 2013 Virgin Short Film Awards

Performing both nationally and internationally in Moscow,Berlin, Monte Carlo, Brussels, and many more locations.  2016 will see Rory head off to Australia, to perform at the prestigious Perth Comedy Festival.

In addition to performing live stand-up, Rory is also a prolific writer, making regular contributions to the Irish Post, Chortle and Hot Press magazine.

Deage Paxton

His acerbic wit, use of non sequitur jokes and unusual performance style have established him on the circuit as a unique performer. Dark, different, surreal and silly.

‘Dark, twisty, and hilarious' (Felt Nowt Comedy Club) 

'Unmissable' (Big Belly Bar and Comedy Club)

'Engaging presence... comic energy that never flags' (Scotsman)