
Beat The Frog is our legendary open mic night, taking place each Monday from November through to September.
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Beat the Frog is a great way for new acts to hone their craft by learning on stage how to keep an audience on side for 5 mins with the audience deciding who stays and who goes.
Our resident MCs introduce up to 15 acts, who will try to last 5 minutes without being carded off by 2 out of the 3 chosen card holders in the audience. If the comic lasts the full 5 minutes, then they have “BEAT THE FROG”. At the end of the show, those who are successful are then invited back to the stage for a clap off which will determine the overall winner who goes straight into the World Series.
We have a lovely clip that shows you our night runs
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Beat the Frog has been running at the Frog and Bucket since 2003. Before then we had a few other names including ‘Raw’ and ‘Best of British’. Some of the biggest names have tried their luck and never looked back such as John Bishop, Sarah Millican, Peter Kay, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Ola Labib, Eshaan Akbar, Gbemi Oladipo, Jamie Hutchinson, Adam Rowe, Dan Nightingale, Josh Jones, Bethany Black, Jack Whitehall, Sophie Willan & Johnny Vegas to name a few
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If you are an act and new to Beat The Frog then join our mailing list for gigs and when we have drop outs
our resident mc's
All our MC's have competed or won the world series of
beat the frog, they all understand what it's like to go through the process.
They are all successful comics working up and down the country, award winning edinburgh shows, tours, working on TV, writing credits, podcast and more...

hayley ellis


danny mcloughlin


brennan reece

phil ellis
rob mulholland
dean coughlin