After a successful debut 2023 season, Side Splitters Comedy Club is delighted to present Brussels Belly Laughs, an English-speaking stand-up comedy showcase in the heart of Ixelles.

Taking place at La Plume Persée (51 rue Sans Souci, 1050 Ixelles), we’ve concocted a line-up of the best comedy the English-speaking scene has to offer.

TICKET PRICES:

    12 euros online (including service fees)
    15 euros at the door

LINE-UP:

The first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master of the form since her number one New York Times best seller Unaccustomed Earth. Rome - metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical - is the protagonist, not the setting, of these nine stories. A family vacation in the Roman countryside told through the eyes of the immigrant caretaker's daughter, a friends' party that goes wrong, a public staircase that tells the story of the Italian capital...

Take a step through the looking-glass to a strange land, one where Piers Morgan is a voice worth listening to about race, where white people buy self-help books to help them cope with their whiteness, where Boris Johnson and Donald Trump are seen by the majority of the population as 'the right (white) man for the job'. Perhaps you know it.

It's hard to talk about racism with white people. Whether you try to bring it up at home (if you're white) or at school, many will deny that racism is still a thing or that it still has consequences today. Some white people who haven't ever had to face racism are considered an authoritative voice on the subject. Society has gone into collective amnesia about what racism is and is in denial about how it still continues today. How to deal with that if you're black or brown?