Ropery Hall News

Cop-turned-comedian Alfie returns with a brand-new show ahead of recording his award-winning BBC Radio 4 comedy It’s a Fair Cop. The audience are ‘sworn in’ as police officers before Alfie shares a brand-new real-life scenario from his own casebook.

As the story unfolds, he playfully challenges them with the real moral dilemmas that police officers on the street face every day and invites them to share what real-time decisions they would make. Often with unexpected and entertaining results!

Policing decisions are easy in hindsight, aren’t they? But officers often have to make snap decisions – based only on the information that they have in front of them. Experience the thrills, spills and laughter of making high-risk calls in the moment and find out what sort of cop you’d make.

Thought-provoking and fun with every show unique to the audience in the room. It’d be a crime to miss it!

“Brilliantly funny… genuinely hilarious” – David Mitchell

“…offbeat, revealing and very funny” – Mail

“…thoroughly engaging, endlessly funny. His charisma shines through as bright and colourful as a twirling blue light” – Times

Cop-turned-comedian Alfie returns with a brand-new show ahead of recording his award-winning BBC Radio 4 comedy It’s a Fair Cop. The audience are ‘sworn in’ as police officers before Alfie shares a brand-new real-life scenario from his own casebook.

As the story unfolds, he playfully challenges them with the real moral dilemmas that police officers on the street face every day and invites them to share what real-time decisions they would make. Often with unexpected and entertaining results!

Policing decisions are easy in hindsight, aren’t they? But officers often have to make snap decisions – based only on the information that they have in front of them. Experience the thrills, spills and laughter of making high-risk calls in the moment and find out what sort of cop you’d make.

Thought-provoking and fun with every show unique to the audience in the room. It’d be a crime to miss it!

“Brilliantly funny… genuinely hilarious” – David Mitchell

“…offbeat, revealing and very funny” – Mail

“…thoroughly engaging, endlessly funny. His charisma shines through as bright and colourful as a twirling blue light” – Times

New material from the ‘Mock The Week’ star

Mock The Week star and Dave’s Joke of The Fringe Winner is back on the road testing out new material. Settle in for a fully loaded night of comedy, supported by three amazing comedians, all handpicked by Mark.

Expect an evening of freshly cooked one-liners, some that may never see the light of day again, from the ‘master of one-liners’.

• As Seen on Mock The Week
• Heard on BBC Radio4Extra Stands Up
• Host of Jokes With Mark Simmons Podcast
• WINNER DAVE’s Joke of the Fringe 2024
• UK Comics’ Comic 2022 – Best Act

Presented by RBM

Join Mark as he tries out some brand-new material!

Sony and Writers’ Guild Award-winning writer and comedian, Mark Steel is best known for his critically acclaimed BBC Radio 4 show Mark Steel’s in Town.

Mark has presented the BAFTA-nominated Mark Steel Lectures for BBC Two and is a regular on BBC One’s Have I Got News for You and BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz. He has also written several acclaimed books including Reasons To Be Cheerful and What’s Going On. He has also written an adaptation of his critically acclaimed stand-up show Who Do I Think I Am for Audible which was released in 2021.

Mark has recently recovered from throat cancer and has just released his book The Leopard in My House about his experiences over this rather tough time.

“He’s a man with a passionate desire to communicate his ideas, who is also very funny”  The Guardian

“Steel’s rapier wit cuts to the chase” The Observer

“Excellent standup” The Times

Patrick Monahan – I’m not a terrorist, I’m Freddie Mercury
Since coming to England from Iran in 1980, if I had a £1 for every time someone called me a terrorist, I’d have enough money to run my own terrorist organisation.

I’ve more in common with Freddie Mercury than Hezbollah.
I’ve had visas turned down, extra checks & restricted access.
I’ve 60mins to prove I’m not a terrorist.

“His kind of funny is an irresistible force” 4* Scotsman (Kate Copstick)
“has his audiences in stitches from the off.” 4.5* One4Review
“Patrick Monahan is clever, very funny and hugely likeable” 5* Scottish Field

Simon Evans is Back! Waaaay back…

With growing evidence that we are living in a Computer Simulation – and a pretty glitchy, off-brand simulation at that – and the approaching watershed of the AI Singularity looming like a weirdly pixelated cumulonimbus on the horizon, BBC Radio 4 stalwart and veteran of a quarter century of highly acclaimed stand-up comedy Simon Evans is squinting at an uncertain future, and revisiting the blue remembered hills of his youth.

The analogue world of hitch-hiking, pub bets and hedge porn. Of being able to get properly lost. And also pondering the great thinkers and mystics of the past who had, it seems, the same doubts and misgivings about “reality”, back when an adjustable sandal passed for cutting-edge tech.

NB Any similarity of Doll in package to Patrick Stewart is coincidental. No refunds.

”A masterclass” ***** (The Scotsman).
“Outstanding” –  ****½ (Chortle.co.uk).
“Dynamite” – **** (The Times).