Yahoo News Things to do in London this weekend
If you're ploughing on with dry Jan or Veganuary, this weekend this your final test: get through it and you're just a few dreary weekdays away from a February of glorious indulgence.
Whether you're boozing or not this weekend, the Flight of the Conchords disco is sure to be fun, and Chris Rock doesn't need his audience tanked up to have them in hysterics.
Elsewhere, there's free comedy up in Islington and thought-provoking theatre at the Vaults Festival.
Still, the highlight, unquestionably, is the prospect of free pizza.
Friday January 26
It’s Australia Day, but don’t let that put you off heading to a disco inspired by New Zealand comics Flight of the Conchords. Go to the Bethnal Green’s Working Men's Club for your chance to be the most beautiful girl in the room (in the whole wide room). Oh, and if you’re a mother flippin' Rhymenocerous, have a go at the karaoke too.
Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 42-44 Pollard Row, E2 6NB, workersplaytime.net
Unbelievably, there are still tickets left to see legendary comedian Chris Rock on his Total Blackout tour. The four-time Emmy and three-time Grammy award winner, unarguably one of the greatest stand-ups of all time, is playing tonight at the Wembley Arena, then at the O2 on Saturday and Sunday. Don’t miss him.
Wembley Arena, HA9 0AA and then the O2, Buy tickets here (for Friday) and here (for the weekend).
Saturday January 27
If your Saturday needs a healthy injection of free pizza – and let’s be honest, who’s Saturday doesn’t need free pizza? – then head to the new Dalston branch of Pizza Union, where from 6pm they’re handing out free pizzas and limoncellos to the first 100 guests through the door. There’ll be a live DJ playing all night too.
Pizza Union, 14 Kingsland High St, E8 2JP, pizzaunion.com
As baffling as it may seem, bingo is somehow big again. Get in on it at the mammoth, 750-seat hall on Inverness Street in Camden, where the Social Bingo Academy are laying on a lighthearted night teaching all the basics. There are prizes and, apparently, hot dogs galore. Tickets start at a fiver.
26 - 28 Inverness Street, NW1 7HL, bingo-academy.com
Sunday January 28
Top comedy pub The Bill Murray up in Islington are waking up lazy Sundays with an afternoon of free comedy. Free comedy is great, but they’ve made all the better with free tea and homemade cake, too. Walk in to get in for nothing, or book up for a seat for £5. Oh, and you can bring you own cake too.
The Bill Murray, 39 Queen's Head St, N1 8NQ, angelcomedy.co.uk
Don’t forget the Vault Festival is well and truly underway. There’s plenty on to see but our pick of today is Monster. It’s your last chance to see this piece, which feels eerily pertinent to today, especially considering it was first performed in 2015. A combination of new work and fragments of Shakespeare, the tagline says it all: ““This is a story about a girl. And a boy. Some of it’s true. And some of it isn’t. And I’m not going to tell you which is which.”
The Vaults, Leake St, SE1 7AD, thevaults.london
