{"id":70357,"date":"2026-08-04T13:30:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T09:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=70357"},"modified":"2026-08-04T13:37:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T09:37:02","slug":"the-laughter-factory-premium-comedy-club-113","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/the-laughter-factory-premium-comedy-club-113\/","title":{"rendered":"The Laughter Factory Premium Comedy Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another good-looking bill for this month&#8217;s Laughter Factory tour, with three ace local comics joining the international imports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Ricky Balshaw<\/strong> \u2013 British stand-up with an extraordinary backstory: he&#8217;s a Paralympic medallist (Dressage) whose set is based on his experiences of living with cerebral palsy. Expect a well-crafted set with warmth, honesty and devastating punchlines<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Tevin Everett<\/strong> \u2013 award-winning American standup who&#8217;s become a big hit on the UK circuit his razor-sharp observation and a load of charisma<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Miqdaad Dohadwala<\/strong> \u2013 one of the UAE&#8217;s best-loved and hardest-working comedians. Really good at crowd work<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Abz Ali<\/strong> \u2013 another of the country&#8217;s best stand-ups, good on life as an Emirati and with a sizeable Instagram following for his Arab Misconceptions videos<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Andrea Brooks <\/strong>\u2013 another Dubai favourite, with laugh-worthy tales of expat life and relationships<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the schedule:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">8 August <strong>Studio One Hotel <\/strong><em>8.30pm<\/em><br \/>\n9 August <strong>The Club, Abu Dhabi <\/strong><em>7pm<\/em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>13 August <strong>Bla-Bla by McGettigans <\/strong><em>8pm<\/em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>14 August <strong>Radisson DAMAC Hills <\/strong><em>8.30pm<br \/>\n<\/em>15 August <strong>Dukes The Palm <\/strong><em>8.30pm<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Another good-looking bill for this month&#8217;s Laughter Factory tour, with three ace local comics joining the international imports: Ricky Balshaw \u2013 British stand-up with an extraordinary backstory: he&#8217;s a Paralympic medallist (Dressage) whose set is based on his experiences of <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/the-laughter-factory-premium-comedy-club-113\/\" title=\"The Laughter Factory Premium Comedy Club\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[53],"class_list":["post-70357","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","tribe_events_cat-comedy","cat_comedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/70357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/70357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70357"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=70357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}