Saturday night at QED 2025 – with Ian Smith, Rosie Holt, Alex Kealy, Eli Bosnick and the Ockhams

Saturday nights at QED are always special, and this year we are delighted to bring you an exciting evening up of comedy and magic, plus the official announcement of this year’s Ockham Awards!

Saturday night will be MC’d by comedian and magician Eli Bosnick, co-host of the hugely popular podcasts God Awful Movies and the Scathing Atheist. Eli will preside over a bill that includes:

The Ockham Awards - The Skeptic magazine’s ever-popular annual awards, celebrating the very best in skepticism, and shining a light on the worst pseudoscience promoters of the past year.

Ian Smith - an Edinburgh Comedy Award nominated comedian and co-host of the Northern News podcast. As seen on Live at the Apollo, Have I Got News For You and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown - and heard on The News Quiz, Unbelievable Truth, Just A Minute and his own Radio 4 series, Ian Smith is Stressed. ‘An effortlessly brilliant stand-up’ - Scotsman. ‘There are few fringe shows as purely funny as this’ - The Guardian.

Rosie Holt - a comedian and satirist best known for her alter-ego MP whose popular videos on social media have achieved more than seven million views. She is the winner of the Chortle Social Media Award and a nominee for the BPG Emerging Creators Award. For her last stage show, That’s Politainment! The Evening Standard gave four stars calling it a ‘tightly crafted and brutal political satire with Orwellian flourishes’. Her first book, Why We Were Right; A catalogue of Conservative Successes written as her MP alter-ego is available to buy in shops now, which The New World called, ‘Hilarious and alarmingly close to the bone’.

Alex Kealy - a stand-up comedian who reached the final of the prestigious So You Think You're Funny competition in his first year of performing and is now a ‘rising star of the British stand-up scene’ (The List). He has taken five hours of stand-up to the Edinburgh Fringe to critical acclaim, with The Daily Telegraph calling him ‘sharply witty, almost sexily cerebral’. His writing work includes BBC Two's Mock The Week, and Radio 4's The News Quiz and The Now Show.

Our Saturday night entertainment is free to all QED ticketholders, and will take place immediately after our Gala Dinner. We look forward to seeing you all there!