Leicester Comedy Festival 2020

After 19 days, 135,000 audience members and 53,400 minutes of comedy, Leicester Comedy Festival 2020 has finished! The festival took place between the 5th – 23rd of February and we had the pleasure (for the 5th year in a row), to be filming all of the festival’s video content and photographing key events.

This year’s festival was it’s biggest yet, allowing us to work with such comedians as; Johnny Vegas, Jo Brand, Eshaan Akbar, Phil Nichol, Arthur Smith and Milton Jones. We also filmed some of the festival’s unique shows, such as the UK Pun Championships, Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year, Silver Stand Up Challenge and Jo Brand & Special Guests.

After all of the big events we send highlights packages, featuring videos and photographs to the UK press. This year our work has been featured on the Leicester Mercury, Chortle and the British Comedy Guide.

As always with the festival, alongside capturing comedians on stage we make a silly video for the festival. This year we created a video in the style of Jackanory, featuring comedians writing a story about Leicester Comedy Festival 2020, narrated by Jo Brand. It was really fun to work with the comedians and to see what they come out with. You can watch the video below.

After all of the big events we send highlights packages, featuring videos and photographs to the UK press. This year our work has been featured on the Leicester Mercury, Chortle and the British Comedy Guide.

As always with the festival, alongside capturing comedians on stage we make a silly video for the festival. This year we created a video in the style of Jackanory, featuring comedians writing a story about Leicester Comedy Festival 2020, narrated by Jo Brand. It was really fun to work with the comedians and to see what they come out with. You can watch the video below.

For the second year running we have enlisted the support of De Montfort University, with us taking on 3rd years from the Photo and Video course. We managed the team of 11 students, organising them to attend shows throughout Leicester to photograph and film comedians on stage. This has helped them gain professional practice, and helped us cover more of Leicester Comedy Festival than ever before. We were impressed by their professionalism and quality of work, so a massive thank you to; Tamara Ferdousi, Yvonne Zachirou, Phoebe Carnall-Ruppel, Nathan Gunn, Hannah Marlow, Bea Busico, Patrick Dent, Briony Canning, Roisin Forde, Daniel Reader and Natalie Craggs.

We’d like to thank all of the team at Big Difference Company who have supported us continually throughout this festival; Natasha James for capturing amazing photographs at the UK Pun Championships and The Preview Show; and Sally Hossack the leader of the Photo and Video course at De Montfort University.

Leicester Comedy Festival is Europes oldest running comedy festival, and here at Crosscut Media we’re massively proud to be a part of it.

We can’t wait until the February 2021!