The LGBTQ+ New Comedian of the Year Competition is back for 2026 featuring some of the most exciting emerging talent on the LGBTQ+ comedy scene! Join us to watch & vote for your favourites and help us find who will be the new LGBTQ+ New Comedian of the Year!
Guided by our lovely MC Sam See, and with your headliner Kate Sharp (LGBTQ New Comedian Finalist 2024), this will be a perfect night of queer comedy!
Now entering its fifth year, the competition has become one of the UK's leading platforms for emerging LGBTQ+ stand-up comedians. Previous finalists and winners have gone on to secure comedy agents, perform at major comedy clubs and festivals, appear on television and radio, and build their significant online audiences. This year's competition will once again bring together some of the most exciting new voices in LGBTQ+ comedy from across the UK, with performers competing through heats and semi-finals for a place in the Grand Final at the legendary Comedy Store in London. Who will walk away with £1,000 cash prize and the title? Join us and find out for yourselves!
HEADLINER - Kate Sharp - A finalist in LGBTQ+ New Comedian of the Year, one half of the Gay Advisory Board podcast, and winner of the Circuit Breakers 2025 Main Award.
MC - Sam See - One of the top Southeast Asian comedians of stage and screen, originally starting in Singapore and currently based in London
Aarian Mehrabani - I'm a Triple Threat: Brown,Blind and Bi
Adam Fenton - Tourettic queer comedy in a gangly northern package
David Hunter - Queer, Norn Irish Nonsense
John James Davies - Stunning chaos!
Marco Devalier - High-energy, raunchy standup - impeccably dressed, unspeakably gay and incredibly Asian
Michael Wilkmann - Finding the funny in life's beautiful disasters
Monica Chatterjee - 4’11”, stubborn, Indian bi, somehow louder than every man in every room.
Ro Dodgson - Gender nuisance comedian. Cracking the circuit and bothering the NHS
Salma Habib Lyons - Queen persona reels audiences in then blindsides with killer punchlines
Sandra Spitz - the world's messiest drag queen!
Stevie Yardie - Surreal, warm, storyteller, try to keep up!
Please note doors open at 6.30pm
Showtime start is 7.30pm