Swap the Christmas queues for comedy and cheer!
This December, Barnstormers Comedy Club is serving up a festive feast of laughs at The Arc Winchester. Our Christmas Comedy Special promises an evening packed with sharp wit, hilarious stories, and big festive energy from a fantastic lineup of comedians, to be announced later in the year.
Leave the wrapping, lists, and holiday stress at the door and join us for a feel-good night guaranteed to have you laughing louder than Santa himself!
Sally Anne Hayward
Sally-Anne is an award-winning comedian (Best UK Compere 2019 and Holsten Pils ‘Fans of Comedy’ award) and a sought-after corporate performer (with clients including Virgin Media and Alcatel). She is also a regular compere at Glastonbury Festival. She has proven her writing talents with numerous Edinburgh Fringe shows and can display a depth of material that marks out the best comic talent. She has performed all over the world and has provided tour support for Sarah Millican, Russell Howard, Russell Kane, Hal Cruttenden and Suzi Ruffell. Sally-Anne was co-host on BBC Radio Ulster’s ‘Tell Teresa’ which was nominated for an ARIA in The Comedy Award category. She also appeared in Mark Steel’s BBC Radio 4 show ‘Unite’: LISTEN HERE. An accomplished breakfast radio presenter (Star 107.2) with TV credits (‘The Blame Game’ BBC) and radio panel show credits (‘Elephant in The Room’ BBC Radio 4), as well as TV warm-up (‘Deal or No Deal’ Channel 4). She co-hosts a podcast called Spit or Swallow, along with Lou Conran. Together they incorporate their love of wine, celebrity guests and drunk stories. A journalist also, Sally-Anne has written for Standard Issue Magazine on a variety of subjects.
Steve Gribbin
Steve Gribbin is a diminutive guitar-wielding satirist from Liverpool whose scabrous comedy songs and off the wall observations have made him one of the firm favourites of the comedy circuit. Steve's original comedy songs combine razor sharp lyrics with tunes that put their foot in the door of your mind and refuse to leave. Firmly based in rock 'n' roll and refusing to pull no punches, these are not the 'oh so witty' ditties of penguin-suited plink plonk piano playing posh gobs. They are that rarity - comedy songs which are actually funny. For nine years Steve was the smaller one in the dynamic comedy duo Skint Video, stalwart's of the Edinburgh Festival, appearing on countless television programmes such as Saturday Live, radio such as The Mary Whitehouse Experience, and their own show in 1992/3 Songlines (BBC Radio 1). Skint Video went their different ways in 1993, since when Steve has been storming across the UK and Ireland as a solo artiste. TV Sunday Best (GMTV) The Warehouse (YTV) Saturday Night (Meridian) Comedy Roots (SKY) WowFab Groovy (Channel 5) The Comedy Store series 2 (Channel 5) RADIO Comedy Network (Radio 1) Loose Talk (Radio 1) The Treatment (Radio 5 Live) Loose Ends (Radio 4) Weekending (Radio 4) Regular contributor
Paul Tonkinson
Tonkinson has been a regular on the UK comedy circuit for over twenty years, playing both public gigs and corporate events, and regularly taking shows to the Edinburgh Festival. In 2003 he performed at Balham's Banana Cabaret, alongside Michael McIntyre and Geoff Norcott.[3]
Tonkinson is also regularly booked by the UK Armed Forces, and was the first comic to perform in Iraq after the war officially ended.[4] He has won two Time Out Comedy Awards.
Tonkinson went on tour with McIntyre in 2015, for his Happy & Glorious show, as well as his Jet-Lagged and Jolly tour in 2023.
Your Host - Kevin Precious
Kevin Precious has been a full time stand-up comedian since the mid-noughties. He has performed variously at most of the top clubs in the country including full weekends for The Glee, The Stand, The Frog and Bucket Manchester, The Last Laugh Sheffield and The Comedy Lounge Hull; as well as appearing at renowned London gigs such as The Banana Cabaret, The Covent Garden Comedy Club and Downstairs at The Kings Head. More recently, he has gigged for The Comedy Store on the Road.
His comedy travels have also taken him to further flung destinations including Amsterdam, Maastricht, Budapest, Bucharest, Dublin and Ibiza.
Kevin’s stage charisma and poise set him head and shoulders above the previous acts
The Times
Kevin Precious hosted the proceedings, working the audience with skill, and peppering his patter with local references
The Argus- Brighton & Hove Albion
Instantly recognisable stage presence and boundless wit
Leicester Mercury Comedy Festival
Event: Friday 18 December, 8pm
Bar: 7pm
Tickets: £12.50 Advance, £15 On The Door
