Not content with providing the biggest and best names in music for festival goers at Reading & Leeds Festival – The Alternative Stage also hosts some of the finest names in comedy and performance.   

Mark Watson, Rubberbandits and Andrew O'Neill are just some of the famous names who join the weekend and will endeavour to keep you laughing till you cry till the wee hours.  Then the dancing begins!

We've also got Popcorn Comedy, Saul Williams, Late Night Gimp Fight, Seann Walsh, Al Pitcher, Josh Widdicombe, Craig Campbell, Tom Deacon, Marlon Davis, The Petebox, Brigitte Aphrodite, Transgressive Records, Goldierocks and Dave Twentyman (MC).

These join the previously announced Mark Thomas, Russell Kane, Tim Minchin, Henry Rollins and Lee Nelson to this ever popular stage.