Londoners Magazine

Laughter In Odd Places, the rogue putters on of stand-up comedy in unexpected places, have announced a free show at the British Museum on 3 July.

The event will be more like a festival than a gig, with acts spread across four stages between 7-9pm. Funnies playing include circuit heavyweights Stewart Lee, Luke Wright and Rich Herring as well as a host of no less enjoyable joke tellers. Click here to see the whole list.

The event will cost you nothing, but to bagsy, shoutgun and get first dibs on some tickets you have to become an LIOP member (free, by clicking here), then email liopping@gmail.com and tell them how many people you want to take.

LIOP has been going since October 2006 and is run by comedian Terry Saunders and promoter Tom Searle who met at the Edinburgh Fringe and decided they were both “a little sick of shitty comedy gigs in shitty rooms above shitty pubs with shitty drunks being shitty”.

A similar event last year (click) attracted 400 people, but due to LIOP’s rise in profile since then, they want, and can reasonably expect, more. And that includes you, fans of excellent free stuff in London put on by people who want you all to have a good time and don’t have one big beady eye on making loads and loads of money for themselves. Unlike these people.