Thrilled to announce that the amazing Jazz Emu will headline the 2025 WeGotTickets MCA Final at the Bloomsbury Theatre on April 12th! Book tickets at www.wegottickets.com/musicalcomedyawards

Jazz Emu is an unpretentious pseudo-comedomusicologist from the UK, who writes glistening up-tempo pop for the emotionally stunted. His music has racked up millions of streams, been featured on the official Spotify ‘Fresh Finds’ playlist and played on BBCRadio 1 Breakfast with Greg James. In 2023 he won two Chortle Awards, in the social Social Media and Best Variety Act categories.

The Telegraph’s 26th Funniest Comedian of the 21st Century

“I think I may have just found my new favourite comedian” The Times *****

“Improbable, clever and very funny.” **** The Guardian

“A very funny man.” Greg James, BBC Radio 1

2018 WeGotTickets MCA Runner-Up

This year I got to meet my hero – the godfather of musical comedy and legend that is Bill Bailey! He was in Vienna on tour and took some time out to meet me before his show. This was a huge honour for me as he was one of the main sources of inspiration for me to set up an independent platform to celebrate the genre that is musical comedy back in 2008. For the last few years, Bill has been kind enough to give the final a plug on Twitter, helping us to raise the profile of our grassroots competition. Thank you Bill, you’re the best!

We are thrilled to announce that we have a date booked at the Bloomsbury Theatre for our 2025 final – the 2025 WeGotTickets Musical Comedy Awards Grand Final will be held on April 12th. Headliner is yet to be announced but the show will be hosted by our resident MCA MC, Nick Horseman. This year we have a number of options with different price categories – if you like what we do and want to help us increase our performance fees for our finalists, please consider booking one of the higher price category tickets.

Tickets are available at http://www.wegottickets.com/musicalcomedyawards.

Results are in for the 2024 WeGotTickets MCA Final! On a fantastic evening of musical comedy in a near-capacity crowd our 12 finalists, Best Newcomers The Queens of Cups and headliners Fjord delivered brilliant performances. Here are the results:

Audience Favourite – Anna Hale

3rd place – Jim Midge

2nd place – Anna Hale

1st place – Tom Towelling

Congratulations to all of our acts on a sensational evening!

For more pictures of the final courtesy of Edward Moore, click on this link.

Snap one of the very last tickets for £10! The Bloomsbury is fit to bursting but we have space for a few last friends! If you book via the Bloomsbury page, click through on the booking page and where it says Savings type in ‘Alumni’, the tickets will be reduced from £15 to £10. You don’t need to have been MCA alumni, don’t worry! But for a laugh you could invent yourself a stage name and say you were in the 1972 MCA but the act was quite niche! If you have already booked, please help us sell the last seats by mentioning on social media that you are coming tonight and invite friends to join you. Thanks for your support!

Book here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-theatre/events/2024/apr/wegottickets-musical-comedy-awards-final-2024-fjord

We are thrilled to announce our full line-up for the 2024 WeGotTickets Musical Comedy Awards Grand Final, taking place at the Bloomsbury Theatre on April 13th.

Competing for the prestigious musical comedy crown are the following acts:

Tom Towelling

Anna Hale

Emily Cairns

Jim Midge

Sang Don Park

Frank Friendzione (very good friend of The Gorgeous Diva)

Amelia Bayler

Alex Camp

Baron Fortitude

Ben Pollard

Ash Weir

Lila Robirosa

There will also be a set from our 2024 Best Newcomers, The Queens of Cups and a headline performance from Fjord aka Giants (featuring 2017 MCA winner Will Hislop and Barney Fishwick). The show will be hosted by MCA resident MC Nick Horseman.

Last tickets available from www.wegottickets.com/musicalcomedyawards and https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-theatre/events/2024/apr/wegottickets-musical-comedy-awards-final-2024-fjord. The show will be livestreamed by NextUp Comedy. Here’s a link to sign up to watch the livestream: https://nextupcomedy.com/programs/live-mca2024

After our sold-out Semi-Final One with Abandoman (2010 WeGotTickets MCA Winner) we now have our first five finalists confirmed for the Grand Final on April 13th at the Bloomsbury! Here they are:

Anna Hale

Emily Cairns

Tom Towelling

Jim Midge

Sang Don Park

Tickets are selling fast for the Final, so early booking is strongly recommended! Check out how few stalls we have as of March 18th:

Book tickets via WeGotTickets at www.wegottickets.com/musicalcomedyawards or via the Bloomsbury at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-theatre/events/2024/apr/wegottickets-musical-comedy-awards-final-2024-fjord

We are thrilled to announce our line-ups for the semi-finals of the 2024 WeGotTickets MCA! Which 12 acts will be going through to the final on April 13th at the Bloomsbury? In terms of headliners, Semi-Final 1 has Abandoman and Semi-Final 2 has Tony Law. We can’t wait! Check out the line-ups and book tickets at www.wegottickets.com/musicalcomedyawards – see you at the Phoenix!

Our dear friend Jazz Emu has had to pull out of headlining the WeGotTickets MCA Final at the Bloomsbury Theatre as his best friend is getting married. Luckily, we have got the incredible FJORD stepping in to headline our final and see out the final with a big sexy Norwegian bang!

The best-selling electronic music duo Fjord are coming back for one night at the Bloomsbury. Norwegian Rears of the Year 2020, runners up at the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest and of course the hosts of the only ever techno-house show on Radio 4: “Fjord: Breaking Britain.” They are humble and ready to play them all: the golden oldies, the silver newies and the bronze didn’t charties.

Fjord are played by Will Hislop (2017 MCA winners) and Barney Fishwick, the award-winning comedy duo.

Book tickets here: https://www.wegottickets.com/musicalcomedyawards/event/595162