Insert Laughter Here unveil their winter 2023/24 season

Improvised comedy group Insert Laughter Here have announced their upcoming productions for the winter 2023/24 season.

There will be three new performances including a Christmas Special at the Hunter Club, in Bury St Edmunds, which will also be their first ever family-friendly show.

Rapidly approaching their fifth anniversary, Insert Laughter Here are picking up pace with a show every month over the winter season, two at the town’s Abbeygate Cinema and one at the Hunter Club. The latter will be the first time they have been able to present a Christmas Special performance and they will be making it suitable for all the family.

The team will also be bringing back their new long-form game, Spin-a-Play, following the success of its full length debut in the summer and they’ll also be giving it a suitably festive twist for the December show, turning it into Spin-a-Panto…

The group specialise in what they call “colourful chaos” – using suggestions from the audience throughout the show for ingredients in their improvisation games.

In the first half, a series of short form games, some of which may be recognisable from the likes of “Whose Line is it Anyway” and “Mock The Week”, albeit with the group’s own twists; then in the second half the giant spinning wheel is unveiled and the team create a brand new theatrical “masterpiece” from scratch using more audience input and several spins of the wheel.

Insert Laughter Here was formed in Bury St Edmunds in February 2019, as an improvised comedy collective under the direction of Aaron Weight.

Their London debut performances, two nights at The Museum of Comedy as part of Camden Fringe, were a resounding success, and their most recent performance at the Abbeygate Cinema completely sold out.

With their own-created long-form game, Spin-a-Play, they have so far created six brand new comedy plays, most recently including “Scandal in a Carriage” – a period drama and “Spin City” – a film noir.

The Family Friendly Christmas Special is on Friday, December 22, at 7pm, at The Hunter Club (tickets can be booked at www.insertlaughterhere.co.uk/book-now) and the two shows at the  Abbeygate Cinema are on Friday, November 24, and Friday, January 19, both at 8pm. These shows are suitable for adults only (tickets can be booked via the cinema’s website www.abbeygatecinema.co.uk/programme/insert-laughter-here/