This site brings brings together the corporate entertainment wing of award-winning
comedy promoters The Funny Side and the corporate training division of Sprout Ideas,
to create a one-stop-shop for all your corporate comedy needs.

 

About The Funny Side

The Funny Side is one of the UK’s leading comedy promoters and provides a range of
live comedy services to corporate clients.

Whether you'd like to:

• Hire a comedian for your corporate event
  
• Book an after-dinner speaker for your company awards ceremony
  
• Arrange a private comedy show
  
• Make a corporate booking for one of our comedy events
  
• Add comedy to your Christmas Party

The Funny Side can help.

The Funny Side launched it's first comedy club, ‘The Funny Side...of Covent Garden’,
in April 2006, in the heart of Covent Garden’s Theatreland.

Initially running just once a week, within the space of a year it had won a Best Comedy
Venue Award and, due to its rapidly increasing popularity, had expanded to operate on Wednesdays and Fridays in addition to Sundays.

Today it is one of the only clubs in the country to offer top quality stand-up comedy five
nights a week (Wednesday to Sunday) and is recommended in International publications
such as the Time Out London Guide and the Little Black Book of London.

The club received extensive press coverage owing to the fact that 2008 also saw the banking industry hit by the effects of the global economic downturn.

Bucking the trend; three years on, it still runs every Thursday evening and has become a thriving hub for City workers seeking an antidote to the area's trademark financial doom and gloom.

The Funny Side of...Clapham Common launched in November 2009 and initially running on the last Thursday of every month, has now increased the frequency of it's shows to fortnightly.

Summer 2009 saw the company’s first foray into al-fresco comedy when it promoted two
nights of comedy as part of a London arts festival.

The Funny Side of Earlsfield launched in 2010 and runs fortnightly on Fridays at local Arts Centre TARA Studio. New clubs for 2011 include The Funny Side All New in Leicester Square - a new, variety-focused comedy night, every Wednesday.

In addition to clubs, The Funny Side operates in a range of other areas within the comedy
industry including writing and directing, production, promotion, graphic and web design
and artist management.

 

About Sprout Ideas

Creativity is within everyone...it's true!

Many people believe that they are not 'the creative type' but everyone can be.
Improvisation involves creating something out of nothing and Sprout Ideas Corporate
Training revolves around Improvisation skills.

SPROUT IDEAS was founded in 1998 by Dave Bourn.

His experience in the impro field stretches back to the early 1990's when he started
improvising as a cure for anxiety. He performed with London TheatreSports and Scared
Scriptless before becoming a 'Sprout'. Since then he has also directed many sell-out
Edinburgh shows, for acts including: Felix Dexter, Carey Marx, Stephen K Amos and
Phil Nichol (which won Nichol a Perrier nomination in 2002). He is also a writer and
co-manages The Funny Side.

Looking for our comedy shows or training events for the public?
Click here for shows | Click here for Courses in Improvisation