2025 WeGotTickets MCA Heat 1 with Bennet Kavanagh

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***Bill Bailey is the Official Patron of the WeGotTickets Musical Comedy Awards***

Now in its 17th year, the WeGotTickets Musical Comedy Awards is an annual competition to support, promote, expose and celebrate the best emerging musical comedians in the UK. If you are a fan of musical comedy acts such as Tim Minchin, Flight of the Conchords and Bill Bailey, you'll love this show!

Over the years, the MCAs have provided a launch pad to now established and emerging stars of the genre such as Abandoman (2010 winners), Rachel Parris (Runner Up 2012 and star of the Mash Report), Mae Martin, Jazz Emu and many more. The MCA has created a thriving independent platform to celebrate the artform that is musical comedy. Other acts that have featured as headliners in our shows include DAVID O' DOHERTY, BO BURNHAM, JAYDE ADAMS, RUBBERBANDITS, MITCH BENN, JAY FOREMAN, PIPPA EVANS, TOM BASDEN, ISY SUTTIE, GINGER & BLACK, EARL OKIN, WILSON DIXON, JO NEARY, MR B THE GENTLEMAN RHYMER, SARAH-LOUISE YOUNG, ADAMS & REA and many more.

So the seventeenth MCA begins! The top 40 musical comedy acts will be selected from online entries and will then battle it out in the heats at the Phoenix through to the Final at the Bloomsbury on April 12th. Come along for amazing Saturday afternoons of musical comedy entertainment and vote for your favourite acts to progress through to the next round!

Featuring a headline performance from previous MCA finalist, Bennet Kavanagh!

Winner: Bath Comedy Festival New Act of the Year 2021

Winner: Amused Moose National New Comic Award People’s Champion 2020

Winner: BCG Pro Starter Performance Award 2020

3rd: Musical Comedy Awards 2020

Finalist: The Stand-up Club’s Get Up Stand Up NATY 2019

Runner-up: Phoenix Artists Club Cabaret Awards 2018

Finalist: Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year 2017

Shortlisted for the BAFTA Rocliffe TV Comedy Writing Initiative 2019

Shortlisted for the BroadwayWorld.comBest Comedy Show at the Edinburgh Fringe 2019

As seen on Britain's Got Talent

"Actually...that was funny" - Simon Cowell

“Unique and charmingly chaotic" - TheReviewsHub

“Silly, smart… Bill Bailey would have given Kavanagh his vote.” -Bruce Dessau

Bennet is a London based musical comedian, who has been a finalist in numerous national stand-up competitions and has performed regularly at some of the biggest comedy clubs in the UK including the London Comedy Store, the Frog and Bucket, the Stand, Backyard Comedy Club and Up the Creek. He has taken several shows up to the Edinburgh Fringe – including a comedy musical co-written with Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominee Huge Davies – and in 2019 a comedy panel show he was a regular panelist on called Character Building Experience was shortlisted for the BroadwayWorld.com Best Comedy Show. In the same year he was shortlisted for the BAFTA Rocliffe TV Comedy Writing Initiative for a sitcom he co-wrote.