Rachel Parris

Mae Martin

Adam Kay

Jazz Emu

This year’s finalists!

We’ve had the huge honour of hosting some incredible acts through organising the Musical Comedy Awards. Acts such as Mae Martin who has gone on to create such amazing television, such as Feel Good. Or the wonderful Rachel Parris who alongside starring in the Mash Report and hosting Late Night Mash also wrote the critically acclaimed ‘Introducing Mrs. Collins’. Or the sensational writer and comedian Adam Kay who alongside his hilariously dark and incredibly dry comedy songs also had a spectacular breakthrough, selling millions of copies of his novels such as ‘This is Going to Hurt’.

When the unbelievable, unstoppable Abandoman lets rip, it’s exhilarating! And he won our MCA back in 2010. Stepdads with their hilarious, show-stopping energy and reminder why Dads don’t want to go to prison. Huge Davies with his giant frontal keyboard and insanely dark and hilarious stories! What a legend! The amazing Annabel Marlow who captivated both the Phoenix crowd and the entire Bloomsbury theatre and is now with Saturday Night Live UK. The inimitable and shockingly funny Katie Norris who brings pride and joy to all of Somerset with her unique talent and original wit! The absolutely boss level Dr. Robotnik genius of the untouchable Jazz Emu whose mind is operating on a beautifully accessible but unbelievably inventive level of mad wonder. Wonderful acts like Fjord who lifted our spirits during Covid with their lockdown tune ‘We Will Party Again’ and also had to deal with a group of real Norwegians when headlining at the Underbelly by South Bank….

Not to mention the honour of having stars such as Isy Suttie (saw her performing ‘Love Lost in the British Retail Industry in 2007 when I was flyering for Bound & Gagged Comedy and met Tamara Cowan who runs the MCA with me) or the exquisitely talented and hilarious Flo and Joan who we managed to book for our 10 Years MCA show back in 2018. Or the brilliant Mawaan Rizwan who headlined our MCA final back in 2021 and Brett Domino Trio who we had the honour of having as headliners back in 2013 and 2019.

Come see the amazing 2026 finalists on 10.4! Tickets at https://www.bloomsburytheatre.com/event/2026/04/wegottickets-musical-comedy-awards-2026

We are thrilled to announce our line-ups for the 2026 WeGotTickets MCA heats! All line-ups and tickets available at www.wegottickets.com/musicalcomedyawards

Dear friends,

We are thrilled to announce the acts that will be taking part in the 2026 WeGotTickets MCA, our 18th MCA! We had some tough decisions to make and if you entered but are not through, we are sorry that you didn’t make it this time and would like to offer you two complimentary tickets to one of our first round heats at the Phoenix on either Jan 10th, 24th or Feb 14th or 28th. Info on all of the MCA shows can be found at www.wegottickets.com/musicalcomedyawards and you can send Ed an email at ed@musicalcomedy.co.uk regarding the heat you’d like to attend. We have occasionally opted to go for acts that have never taken part in the MCA over acts that have been with us a few times before. Again, if you’re not in the MCA this time round, please don’t be too disheartened and we would welcome another entry from you in the future. Thank you all so much for entering! We have selected 44 acts and here they are:

Tasmin Sarkany

Danny Garg

Roops

Amaya Holman

Callum & Toby

Aadar Malik

Bonya Kleyman

Chris Timoney

Aalex Mandel-Dallal

Louis Turner

Sophie Duncan

Will Skillington

Kevin Davidson

Abi Sharp

Irritable Babe Syndrome

Sophie Banister

Alex Duffy

Francesca Lewis

Becky Goodman

Alexis Sakellaris

Emma Price

Rich McCulloch

Will & Noah

Edi Johnston

Chris Iskander

Katie Hand

Steven Grainger

Harry Creffield

Tom Veck

Kirk Fontaine

Jonny Bennett

Jonny Brace

Ben Coleman

Joe Da Costa

Jonathan Rippon

Christian Loveless

Keith Redfern

3 Wise Men

Sam Hickman

Eoghan Collins

Anky Damz

Bad Cowboys

Dru Cripps

Merry Martyn

We will be in contact with acts soon via email regarding availability. Thanks all and we can’t wait for the coming MCA! Tickets are already selling fast for the final at the Bloomsbury on April 10th with our 2022 Best Newcomers, The Sugarcoated Sisters! Book via the link at the top of the article!

Dear friends,

The 2026 MCA is around the corner and from October 1st entries will be open! If you combine music and comedy then we would love to hear from you! All the info on how to enter the competition can be found here:

https://musicalcomedyawards.com/2026-awards/

We can’t wait to see the entries for what will be our 18th MCA!

Ed xxx

Our MCA tech guru Dave Nattriss has uploaded a selection of Ed Moore’s great photos to http://www.facebook.com/musicalcomedyawards. Check them out!

We’ve also received a couple of great reviews! Here they are for you to read. Firstly a fab review from Bruce Dessau writing for The Standard. Secondly a lovely review from Tasha Snaith of Funny Women. Thanks so much for these brilliant reviews!

The results are out for the 2025 WeGotTickets Musical Comedy Awards!

In joint third place were Sarah Gaul and Paras Patel. In second place was Jack McMinn and the winners and audience favourites were Shots At The Dragon. As soon as we have more photos and reviews we will share them with you all!

Photos courtesy of Edward Moore.

Due to a recent injury and ongoing recovery, Vinny Shiu has stepped back from the 2025 final and will instead take part in the 2026 final. He is replaced by Al Nash, one of our semi-finalists with the next most audience and judge votes. Al has developed a huge following with his viral videos, amassing close to 100 million views with his videos. Book tickets to see Al and our other 11 finalists, Best Newcomer Roops and headliner, double Chortle award-winning star and MCA alumnus, Jazz Emu.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-theatre/events/2025/apr/2025-wegottickets-musical-comedy-awards-final-jazz-emu

We are thrilled to announce the running order for the 2025 WeGotTickets Musical Comedy Awards Final on April 12th at the Bloomsbury!

In the first half after the show has been opened by our MCA resident MC, Nick Horseman, we will have a performance from our Best Newcomer, Roops! Then we will have performances from Al Nash, Zara Gladman, Paras Patel, Abi Sharp, Eoghan Collins and Jack McMinn.

In the second half we will have performances from Shots at the Dragon, Holly Spillar, Jonathan Oldfield, Sarah Gaul, Joe da Costa and Alex Prescot. St the end we will have a headline performance from multi-award winning MCA alumnus, Jazz Emu.

Book the last remaining tickets from the theatre here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-theatre/events/2025/apr/2025-wegottickets-musical-comedy-awards-final-jazz-emu

The 17th WeGotTickets MCA Final is fast approaching and we are running out of tickets. Snap up the last few via Bloomsbury theatre at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-theatre/events/2025/apr/2025-wegottickets-musical-comedy-awards-final-jazz-emu or one of the last cheaper tickets via WeGotTickets at www.wegottickets.com/musicalcomedyawards.

Who will win the 17th MCA? Come along and find out on April 12th! The show can also be livestreamed via NextUp at https://nextupcomedy.com/programs/mca-2025-final.