About this Event
@CroppaChoppa's Slumber Party
The noughties called...and it said you're invited to the most iconic comedy night around, hosted by "viscerally relatable" and chronically online comedian, Charlotte Cropper! 🎤🧸💅🍿😈
🎃 IT'S THE HALLOWEEN SPECIAL, BABY!!! 🎃
Grab your costumes and get ready to stay up past witching hour because we've got:
- The hottest alternative comedy acts on the circuit (yes, so hot you will be doodling their names in your diary until our next show)
- A deep-dive into all the classic sleepover films that have definitely aged well...
- Slumber party games for our comics and you, the audience, to play...spooky themed!
Oh…teehee. Silly us, we totally forgot to mention – there’s also Bertie the “King of Banter” Bear, Midnight Confessions, and free sweets – cute!
Please note: the venue is up a flight of stairs and is not wheelchair accessible.
Let's become BFFs! Follow us on Instagram @slumber.party.comedy so you don't miss any details about the night.
Halloween/Spooky Outfits HIGHLY encouraged, best dressed will win a prize!! 😈👻🧟
Who's staying over this month?
We are so excited to have Su headline our October Slumber Party!! Su Mi is a British Queer Malaysian Alternative Stand up Comedienne / Musician based in East London.
“Su Mi is one to watch" - Josie Long
"A hugely entertaining force" - Chortle
"A star comedic quality, difficult to craft" - Funny Women
Expect high energy , wild storytelling and whimsical uplifting nonsense left right and centre. SOLD out run at the Camden Fringe and SOLD OUT shows for her one woman show ‘Banana Beard’ at the VAULT Festival 2023.
Winner of the Keep it Fringe fund by Phoebe Waller Bridges. Winner of Luke Rollason Memorial Bursary 2023, BBC New Comedy Awards TV Regional finalist, Winner of QUEEROVISION 2022 and Winner of BEAT THE FROG 2022 in Manchester’s renowned Frog and Bucket Comedy club. Finalist of the prestigious Musical Comedy Awards 2023, Funny Women Finalist 2023, West End New Act Finalist 2023, Rising Star Finalist 2022, Hastings Newcomer award Finalist 2022, Semi-finalist for the Comedy Max Turner prize 2021, Get Up Stand Up 2022, Leicester New Comedian of the Year and 2NorthDown.
Phil Ellis is an award-winning comedian who has entertained audiences of all ages with his amalgamation of off-beat observational material and physical comedy. Most recently, he was nominated for the prestigious Sky Best Comedy Show at the 2023 Edinburgh Comedy Awards and won The Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality for Phil Ellis’s Excellent Comedy Show. The show was ranked in the top 20 best-reviewed shows of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2023.
"It’s a surreal and unforgettable hour which firmly cements Phil Ellis as one of the funniest and finest comedians in the UK today." ★★★★★ Broadway Baby
"The density of gags is impressive… There’s not many better exponents of this message-free, ego-free, knockabout comedy than Ellis in his prime. And this is that show." ★★★★1/2 Chortle
He starred and co-wrote three series of his own BBC Radio 4 sitcom Phil Ellis is Trying, co-starring Johnny Vegas, Lolly Adefope, Amy Gledhill, Alexei Sayle, Sindhu Vee, Jack Dee, Lee Mack, Mark Lamarr and Sean Lock. The series was nominated for a BBC Audio Award in 2019.
In 2014, Phil won the Edinburgh Comedy Award’s panel prize with his anarchic, sleeper hit show Funz and Gamez. After meeting incredible critical acclaim, Funz and Gamez was broadcast as part of BBC Radio 4’s Fresh from the Fest and BBC Comedy Feeds (BBC Three). The show went on to have an 18-show run at the Soho Theatre and all major UK comedy festivals. Phil’s recent Edinburgh shows, Au Revoir (2019) played at the Soho Theatre and Hedgehog (2023) led Phil to embark on a successful first ever UK tour.
A rising star of the northern comedy circuit, Maxine mixes her trademark tongue-in-cheek blue humour with cutting political satire about her time frontline nursing in the NHS.
She is the Yorkshire Comedy Awards Best Breakthrough Act for 2023 and a BBC New Comedy Award 2023 Semi-Finalist.
Beth Moore with DVD Menu SCREAM!
Beth Moore is a feminist comic and academic based in Manchester. With all the ferocity of a punk front woman, she commands the stage, playfully dissecting film, media and culture to thrill and challenge her audience.
October's Special Feature: TO BE ANNOUNCED!
More about your Sleepoverlord, Charlotte Cropper:
“rising star” - A Lovely Time
“a bouncy and friendly stage presence that makes you feel like her bestie” - Blizzard Comedy
“thoroughly engaging” - Chortle
Charlotte Cropper's playful and anecdotal style, filled with "infectious enthusiasm" (Manchester Wire), makes her an exciting new voice on the UK comedy scene. She is the creator and host of the cult comedy show CroppaChoppa’s Slumber Party, a Supported Artist at the New Adelphi Theatre, a 2021 Chortle Student Comedy Award Finalist, and an alumnus of the University of Salford's Edinburgh Stand-Up Showcase SalFUNNI.
Recipient of The Dean’s Award at the Create Awards 2021 for her comedy work, during her time at university she collaborated with the New Adelphi Theatre to create Curio Comedy, which was longlisted in the Funny Women Awards 2021 and featured in Heat Magazine as one of the Funny Women Content Creator Award’s Top Picks. Her work has been streamed by Funny Women and broadcast by BBC Upload on BBC Manchester.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Vault @ Fierce Bar, Thomas Street, Manchester, UK, United Kingdom
GBP 11.55
