It’s Reading Festival time so priority is what’s on at the Comedy tent

For me the annual festival is a chance to watch a bunch of comedians during the day followed by a couple of major bands in the evening. As it’s £90 for a day ticket, which bands are on is a deal breaker. This year I picked Friday for Green Day, supported by System of a Down, in preference to Eminem (Saturday) and Biffy Clyro (Sunday).

But who’s on at the Alternative Stage? Annoyingly, the Reading Festival website just lumps all the acts together and you need to click on each person’s name to see the date on their biography page. Here’s what I managed to find:

Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Rob Delaney	Russell Kane	Judah Friedlander World Champion
Shappi Khorsandi	Josh Widdicombe	Lee Nelson
Jamie Kilstein	Carl Donnelly’s national Novelty Dance Finals	Paul Chowdhry
Nathan Caton	Andrew O’Neill	Joel Dommett
Idiots Of Ants	Tiffany Stevenson	Katherine Ryan
Tom Deacon	Mark Simmons	Holly Walsh
Elis James	Daniel Townes	Luisa Omielan
Rob Beckett	Andrew Ryan
	The Hardy Bucks

Unknown date: Trevor Noah, Suzi Ruffell ((Tweeted them to find out when they’re on stage))

I’m pleased that Shappi is on Friday but was really hoping I’d be able to see Paul Chowdhry and Josh Widdicombe (assuming he’d be more cheerful than at Applecart). Just realised that I’ve tickets to see Rob Beckett during the Reading Comedy Festival so I expect the jokes will be the same in October. That’s how the dice roll. Mine must be haunted.

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