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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Amelia Hill

Chaos, crying and poo explosions: baby-friendly comedy clubs take off in Britain

Women holding babies watching a performance - some of them are laughing and some are tending to their children.
‘New mothers can be harder to gauge than your usual audience because they’re bringing complex baggage with them,’ says comedy club founder Frankie B. Photograph: Tanya Hazel

When Nick Page saw the exhaustion of the new mothers arriving at his comedy gig, he suggested turning the hour-long set into a sleepover. He had been joking – but the women enthusiastically agreed.

In any other room, a comedian asking the audience to fall asleep would have been career ruining. In the world of baby-friendly comedy clubs, however, it was a masterstroke.

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