The Comedy Network: Summer 2025

The Comedy Network returns for a club night showcasing the best fresh talent!

Avalon’s The Comedy Network exists to bring a roadshow of comedic brilliance to your doorstep. The Comedy Network has been a proving ground for the biggest names in British comedy, with the likes of Lee Mack, Russell Howard, Jenny Eclair, Ed Gamble and Lou Sanders all having cut their teeth on the Network circuit. Previous line-ups have included Simon Brodkin, Steve Bugeja, Sophie Duker and Flo & Joan. Whether you are looking for a great night out with friends or a fun way to celebrate a special occasion, start your weekend in style at The Comedy Network.

May's line-up includes: 

Glenn Moore

Join Glenn Moore as he works up an hour of meticulously crafted comedy. Glenn is one of the best and most prolific joke writers in the country, with his 2022 Fringe show receiving rave five star reviews from The Mail on Sunday, Chortle, and The Courier, amongst a number of others! Glenn is a regular face on TV, having appeared on Mock The Week (BBC), The Russell Howard Hour (Sky), Guessable (Comedy Central), Rob Delaney’s Stand Up Central (Comedy Central) and The Stand Up Sketch Show (ITV2). He can be heard daily as one quarter of The Dave Berry Breakfast Show on Absolute Radio, the UK’s biggest commercial radio breakfast show. He also appears regularly on The News Quiz (Radio 4). His critically-acclaimed stand-up show Glenn, Glenn, Glenn, How Do You Like It, How Do You Like It was nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award. He also toured the UK with his follow-up hit Edinburgh show Love Don’t Live Here Glenny More.

Katie Norris

Katie Norris is a comedian, actress and singer, best known for her work as one-half of the critically-acclaimed double act Norris & Parker. Their show See You at the Gallows was one of the best reviewed shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2016 and was featured in The Guardian’s top 10 best comedy shows of the year and their 2018 show Burn the Witch sold out in Edinburgh and London and was a top pick in The Guardian, The Evening Standard and The Independent. The pair made their long awaited return to the Fringe in 2022 with their show Sirens, which transferred to the Soho Theatre in January 2023.

Bilal Zafar 

Bilal Zafar was nominated for the lastminute.com Best Newcomer Award for his debut show, CAKES, at the Edinburgh Fringe. Bilal also won the New Act of the Year award, joining the company of previous winners such as Stewart Lee, Ardal O’Hanlon, Joe Wilkinson and Linda Smith. He was the runner-up at the Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian of the Year competition and he has appeared on BBC3, BBC iPlayer, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Asian Network, and has written for The Independent. He also runs a successful Twitch page, which has racked up over 12.3K followers. He streams an interactive, improvised comedy show three times a week where he plays a football manager embroiled in scandal, featuring various special guests - the show is growing every day and has been picked up by multiple radio shows and newspapers.

Rich Wilson (compere)

BBC, Sky and Channel 4 writer – Rich Wilson’s 'Tour de Force' (Leicester Mercury) performances have earned him a win for Best International Guest at the New Zealand Comedy Awards, followed by a sell out run at the New Zealand Comedy Festival which saw him nominated for the same award again. He’s performed at sell out shows at the Edinburgh Fringe, Melbourne Comedy Festival and the New Zealand Comedy Festival. Rich was nominated for Best MC at the 2023 Chortle Awards. Rich is also the host of the wildly popular Insane In The...  podcast series; currently featuring Men Brain, Fem Brain and soon for your aural pleasure, Them Brain! Rich talks to funny and interesting people about their experiences with mental health. In the last year the podcast has been nominated for an award with Podbible and in 2019 won an award with JOE for best podcast with the likes of; Guilty Feminist, Off Menu and Films To Be Buried With.

July's line-up includes: Chloe Petts, Josh Weller, Alex Mason and compered by Steve Hall.