And today’s ThisWeek-tipped, LDN-based events are…

COMEDY: Richard Herring – Lord Of The Dance Settee | Leicester Square Theatre | 1-6 Dec
Noted observational comedian and pedant Richard Herring‘s apparently themeless latest comic enterprise features material on misheard lyrics, Mexican headgear, and “a man possible named ‘Dave Manager'”. Details and tickets here.

THEATRE: Hopelessly Devoted | Roundhouse | 1-6 Dec (pictured)
First seen at the Tricycle Theatre earlier this year, spoken word/hip hop artist and playwright Kate Tempest’s “devastatingly beautiful” prison-based drama follows life behind bars for one woman, Chess, who copes with isolation and missing loved ones by taking up a music course, and ‘the mic’. Details and tickets here.

THEATRE/COMEDY: Mark Thomas – Cuckooed | Tricycle Theatre | 1-13 Dec
Politically-galvanised journalist, activist and stand-up Mark Thomas shifts to the Tricycle his widely praised theatre piece ‘Cuckooed’ – a sort of autobiographical ‘live documentary’ about how, at one point, it came to light that a close friend of his was spying on him for Britain’s biggest arms dealer (yeah, really); having recently picked it over on the ThisWeek Podcast. Details and tickets here.