- Start time: 7:00 pm
- Running time: 3hrs 30mins
- Recommended age: 16+
The search is over! After 4 weeks of hilarious and nail-biting knockout rounds, the Halifax Comedy Festival has found its funniest comedians, and now they're ready to battle for the top spot.
Help us round off the Halifax Comedy Festival in style as the best new talent in the UK gives it their all to be crowned Halifax Comedy Festival’s Comedian of the Year 2025.
Also enjoy sets from last year’s winner Mike Carter and comedy powerhouse Rob Rouse who won Channel Four's prestigious 'So You Think You're Funny?' Competition at the Edinburgh Festival in 1998 and has a long and impressive list of TV credits. “He’s a man with genuinely funny bones” The Sunday Times. Sitting on the judging panel will be workshop leaders Dave Williams and Tony Vino, who will also be your MC for this final unforgettable festival closing celebration.
This event is in The Victoria Theatre Green Room Bar
ROB ROUSE
As seen on Ben Elton’s hit BBC2 Shakespeare sitcom ‘Upstart Crow’
Since winning Channel Four's prestigious 'So You Think You're Funny?' Competition at the Edinburgh Festival in 1998, an award previously won by Phil Kay, Dylan Moran, Lee Mack, Tommy Tiernan and Peter Kay, Rob has been a regular performer at major venues on both the London and National circuit.
Rob has returned to Edinburgh three times; in 1999 compering The Comedy Zone at the Pleasance and co-wrote and performed The Big and Daft Comedy Show, winning critical acclaim and returning in 2000 with Big and Daft in Space, and 2001 with The Big and Daft Christmas show, massive hits with punters and critics alike.
Rob is headlining the Comedy Network for a third season this year, performing at Universities Throughout the British Isles.
Rob has toured with Phil Kay, taking him to both Hungary and Poland and has recently returned from a tour of Amsterdam.
His TV credits include presenting the first series of The Friday Night Project on Channel 4, the C4 sketch show Spoons, and playing Mike in the first series of he BBC3 sitcom Grown Ups.
“He’s a man with genuinely funny bones” THE SUNDAY TIMES
“Rob Rouse is a born clown, a latter-day Stan Laurel” TIME OUT
MIKE CARTER
“His whole performance was excellent. This was a smashing set by Carter.”
Notts Comedy Review
“See him now before you have to pay big money.”
Smacked arse comedy
“One of my favourite people in comedy”
Ryan Gleeson, Blackpool Comedy Station
Mike Carter is an up-and-coming comedian on the UK comedy scene and is fast becoming a fixture on the Northwest circuit and beyond.
Combining classic Scouse wit with contemporary observations of post University life and pop culture, Mike has won audiences over with a warm-hearted delivery of some wry jabs.
He is fast becoming in demand at all the major clubs.
Mike has been a two-time King Gong winner, a finalist in the Liverpool Echo & XS Radio Manchester New Comedian Competitions.
A semi-finalist in So You Think You’re Funny 2015 and Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian 2016 and finished in third place in Nandos New Comedian of the Year 2016 and also competed in the Beat the Frog World Series 2015 & 20.
Mike was the overall winner of the Halifax Comedy Festival 2024, beating 35 other comedians in the competition and now he’s back on the festival stage to present his new material for 2025.
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