"Just because comedy is light-hearted that doesn’t mean it can’t successfully address complex and uncomfortable issues"

"A very successful night"

OXFORD OPENING NIGHT

"Just because comedy is light-hearted that doesn’t mean it can’t successfully address complex and uncomfortable issues"

"A very successful night"

OXFORD OPENING NIGHT

WHAT'S ON & PAST EVENTS

WHAT'S ON & PAST EVENTS

Sold Out
Comedy vs Climate Change: Down 2 Frack?

20th February 2020 // Common Ground Workspace, Oxford

It was another total sellout – and our plant sale, raffle, and stellar line up raised £451 for ClientEarth!
Sold Out
Comedy vs Climate Change: Debut

12th November 2019 // The Wheatsheaf Pub, Oxford

For our debut fundraiser we sold out the venue and raised £436.22 for ClientEarth!
Sold Out
Comedy vs Climate Change: Down 2 Frack?

20th February 2020 // Common Ground Workspace, Oxford

It was another total sellout – and our plant sale, raffle, and stellar line up raised £451 for ClientEarth!
Sold Out
Comedy vs Climate Change: Debut

12th November 2019 // The Wheatsheaf Pub, Oxford

For our debut fundraiser we sold out the venue and raised £436.22 for ClientEarth!

PAST PERFORMERS

PAST PERFORMERS

Alison Middleton

Alison’s been a stand-up for a few years, but has been complaining for much longer. In one review, she was flatteringly compared to Kylie Jenner. She has since been sent a cease and desist. 

‘A masterclass in confidence and delivery’, Cherwell.

‘We cannot offer you sponsorship at this time’, Frijj

Chelsea Birkby

Chelsea is a hot commodity on the UK stand-up scene. She’s made the finals at So You Think You’re Funny and semis at Leicester Square New Comedian and Komedia New Act 2019. 

‘One to watch’, Funny Women.

‘Good gags’, Chortle. ‘A hilarious set’, Oxford Mail

Olley Matthews

Olley has been in the environment for as long as he can remember and is a massive fan of its early work, not enjoying its post 2010 releases as much. He always takes Uber Pools, even when he could have walked, to defend the environment till his final step.

Fran Best

Fran is a twenty-something who’s done stand-up, sketch and sitcom writing. Fran thinks laughing in the face of despair (e.g. impending climate doom) is a good idea, though it doesn’t always go down well at funerals. Fran’s hoping stand-up will still have a role in whatever form the apocalypse takes.

Simona Della Valle

Simona is a PhD student who loosely works on environmental sustainability. She regularly cracks jokes about science because she knows her research is so hopeless that she would rather laugh than cry. Expect peer-reviewed despair with statistically significant chuckles.

Eddie Maza

Eddie, long time listener first time caller, is changing the comic climate here in Oxford. He’s as easy on the environment as he is generally.

Dominic McGovern

Dom is an erstwhile comedian and writer from West London. He spends a lot of time in Australia, but hopes to offset his carbon footprint by only using ethically sourced lube. He’s a National Finalist of the 2020 Melbourne International Comedy Festival RAW Comedy competition, previous finalists include Demi Lardner, Ronny Chieng, and Hannah Gadsby.

Verity Babbs

Verity is a stand-up, sketch, and improvised comedian formerly with the Oxford Revue and the Oxford Imps.

‘Mention must go to Verity Babbs… a few of the best gags of the day’, Broadway Baby

‘Wild and hilarious’, Oxford Daily Info

 ‘Dizzyingly Entertaining’, Cherwell

Anna Dominey

Anna is a co-producer at QED Comedy Lab, Oxford’s experimental comedy company. She has said funny things everywhere from BBC Radio Oxford to Truck Festival to the Isle of Wight, and is currently working on her first solo show.

Rosie Minnitt

Rosalie is a writer and performer based, somewhat unexpectedly, in Wiltshire. She has brought original work to the National Student Drama Festival and performed comedy across the UK as a member of the Durham Revue. She made her stand up debut at Comedy vs Climate Change’s first-ever gig (cute).

Sully Rahim

Sully is a newcomer to both stand-up and caring about the environment. He started doing comedy mainly because it’s cheaper than therapy and almost as effective. He also really enjoys kinder buenos which makes being a vegan hard (spoiler alert: he just eats them and feels guilty while doing it).

Chloe Jacobs

Chloe is a stand-up, sketch and improv comedian who has performed with the Oxford Imps and Revue as well as on the stand-up circuit. 

“Savage, but incredibly witty” – Oxford Opening Night 

“Charmingly self-deprecating and wonderfully self-assured” – Cherwell

Ararat Ameen

This is Ararat, expunging her nose of a 4 hour accumulation of snot in the damp basement of a bookshop. Her life is comprised of an elaborate sequence of errors, such as putting herself forward for gigs. She would be most grateful if you could laugh where appropriate. With her not at her.

Leo Reich

Leo is a standup comedian, writer, and recent winner of the 2Northdown New Act of the Year competition. He used to perform his dumb brand of flamboyant, self-involved standup across the country, but since that became illegal he mainly makes silly videos for people like Comedy Central and E4.

Josh Christopher

Outrageously funny, humble and beautiful, Josh is a comedian from East London who writes his own bios. He likes comedy, the climate, and long walks in the environment.

Adam Husain

Adam is a sometime stand-up comic, known for his near-dependency on the jokes of Stewart Lee and Johnny White Really-Really. Although he’s now as rusty as hell, he’s looking forward to performing at Comedy vs Climate Change again soon, and to “standing up” in and amongst the so-called “new normal”.

Declan Amphlett

Declan is from Worcestershire (ha ha yeah like the sauce! good one mate x). He first heard about climate change in 2006, when Al Gore came to him in a dream. It was scary. He also regularly writes for Buzzfeed and you won’t believe what happened next!

Joseph Capel

Disturbingly stressed for a man with such little responsibility. Stand up and sketch comedian. Performed with the Oxford revue and produced comedy for the ADC theatre in Cambridge. Miserable, dead-pan style and nasal voice, useful if you have too many cheery comedians on a bill.

Alison Middleton

Alison’s been a stand-up for a few years, but has been complaining for much longer. In one review, she was flatteringly compared to Kylie Jenner. She has since been sent a cease and desist. 

‘A masterclass in confidence and delivery’, Cherwell.

‘We cannot offer you sponsorship at this time’, Frijj

Chelsea Birkby

Chelsea is a hot commodity on the UK stand-up scene. She’s made the finals at So You Think You’re Funny and semis at Leicester Square New Comedian and Komedia New Act 2019. 

‘One to watch’, Funny Women.

‘Good gags’, Chortle. ‘A hilarious set’, Oxford Mail

Olley Matthews

Olley has been in the environment for as long as he can remember and is a massive fan of its early work, not enjoying its post 2010 releases as much. He always takes Uber Pools, even when he could have walked, to defend the environment till his final step.

Fran Best

Fran is a twenty-something who’s done stand-up, sketch and sitcom writing. Fran thinks laughing in the face of despair (e.g. impending climate doom) is a good idea, though it doesn’t always go down well at funerals. Fran’s hoping stand-up will still have a role in whatever form the apocalypse takes.

Simona Della Valle

Simona is a PhD student who loosely works on environmental sustainability. She regularly cracks jokes about science because she knows her research is so hopeless that she would rather laugh than cry. Expect peer-reviewed despair with statistically significant chuckles.

Eddie Maza

Eddie, long time listener first time caller, is changing the comic climate here in Oxford. He’s as easy on the environment as he is generally.

Dominic McGovern

Dom is an erstwhile comedian and writer from West London. He spends a lot of time in Australia, but hopes to offset his carbon footprint by only using ethically sourced lube. He’s a National Finalist of the 2020 Melbourne International Comedy Festival RAW Comedy competition, previous finalists include Demi Lardner, Ronny Chieng, and Hannah Gadsby.

Verity Babbs

Verity is a stand-up, sketch, and improvised comedian formerly with the Oxford Revue and the Oxford Imps.

‘Mention must go to Verity Babbs… a few of the best gags of the day’, Broadway Baby

‘Wild and hilarious’, Oxford Daily Info

 ‘Dizzyingly Entertaining’, Cherwell

Anna Dominey

Anna is a co-producer at QED Comedy Lab, Oxford’s experimental comedy company. She has said funny things everywhere from BBC Radio Oxford to Truck Festival to the Isle of Wight, and is currently working on her first solo show.

Rosie Minnitt

Rosalie is a writer and performer based, somewhat unexpectedly, in Wiltshire. She has brought original work to the National Student Drama Festival and performed comedy across the UK as a member of the Durham Revue. She made her stand up debut at Comedy vs Climate Change’s first-ever gig (cute).

Sully Rahim

Sully is a newcomer to both stand-up and caring about the environment. He started doing comedy mainly because it’s cheaper than therapy and almost as effective. He also really enjoys kinder buenos which makes being a vegan hard (spoiler alert: he just eats them and feels guilty while doing it).

Chloe Jacobs

Chloe is a stand-up, sketch and improv comedian who has performed with the Oxford Imps and Revue as well as on the stand-up circuit. 

“Savage, but incredibly witty” – Oxford Opening Night 

“Charmingly self-deprecating and wonderfully self-assured” – Cherwell

Ararat Ameen

This is Ararat, expunging her nose of a 4 hour accumulation of snot in the damp basement of a bookshop. Her life is comprised of an elaborate sequence of errors, such as putting herself forward for gigs. She would be most grateful if you could laugh where appropriate. With her not at her.

Leo Reich

Leo is a standup comedian, writer, and recent winner of the 2Northdown New Act of the Year competition. He used to perform his dumb brand of flamboyant, self-involved standup across the country, but since that became illegal he mainly makes silly videos for people like Comedy Central and E4.

Josh Christopher

Outrageously funny, humble and beautiful, Josh is a comedian from East London who writes his own bios. He likes comedy, the climate, and long walks in the environment.

Adam Husain

Adam is a sometime stand-up comic, known for his near-dependency on the jokes of Stewart Lee and Johnny White Really-Really. Although he’s now as rusty as hell, he’s looking forward to performing at Comedy vs Climate Change again soon, and to “standing up” in and amongst the so-called “new normal”.

Declan Amphlett

Declan is from Worcestershire (ha ha yeah like the sauce! good one mate x). He first heard about climate change in 2006, when Al Gore came to him in a dream. It was scary. He also regularly writes for Buzzfeed and you won’t believe what happened next!

Joseph Capel

Disturbingly stressed for a man with such little responsibility. Stand up and sketch comedian. Performed with the Oxford revue and produced comedy for the ADC theatre in Cambridge. Miserable, dead-pan style and nasal voice, useful if you have too many cheery comedians on a bill.