# Laughbooker

> Laughbooker is a UK platform for booking live comedy. Event organisers and promoters find and book comedians, fill their line-ups and run their nights; comedians keep a profile, receive gig offers and manage their diary; venues list their rooms; agents look after the acts they represent. The public site lists comedians, upcoming comedy nights and the venues that host them.

Laughbooker is for: comedians, event organisers and promoters, venues, agents.

Every page listed here is also available as Markdown: add ".md" to its address (the home page is https://laughbooker.com/index.html.md).

## Key pages

- [Comedians](https://laughbooker.com/comedians.md): The comedian directory: public profiles with bios, clips, credits and upcoming gigs.
- [What's on](https://laughbooker.com/whats-on.md): Upcoming comedy nights, with line-ups, venues and ticket links.
- [Venues](https://laughbooker.com/venues.md): Venues that host comedy, with their upcoming nights.
- [Book a comedian](https://laughbooker.com/book.md): How booking works: describe the event and we put suitable comedians forward.
- [Pricing](https://laughbooker.com/pricing.md): Plans and fees for organisers and comedians.
- [For event organisers](https://laughbooker.com/event-organisers.md): What organisers and promoters get, and how to sign up.
- [For comedians](https://laughbooker.com/join/comedians.md): What comedians get, and how to create or claim a profile.
- [For venues](https://laughbooker.com/join/venues.md): How venues list themselves and take bookings.
- [For agents](https://laughbooker.com/join/agents.md): How agents manage the acts they represent.
- [FAQ](https://laughbooker.com/faq.md): Answers to common questions about booking, fees and accounts.
- [Roadmap](https://laughbooker.com/roadmap.md): What has shipped recently and what is coming next.
- [About](https://laughbooker.com/about.md): Who we are and why Laughbooker exists.
- [Contact](https://laughbooker.com/contact.md): How to get in touch with the Laughbooker team.

## For developers

- [API documentation](https://laughbooker.com/docs/index.html): The Laughbooker API, version 1, at https://laughbooker.com/api/v1. API key in the X-Api-Key header (or as a Bearer token). Comedians create keys under My Profile → API Keys; organisers under Administration → API Keys. Publishable keys (pk_) are safe in browser code; secret keys (sk_) are server-side only. A few read-only public endpoints, under /api/v1/public, need no key.
- [OpenAPI description](https://laughbooker.com/docs/openapi.yaml): The same API as an OpenAPI file.

## Policy for AI assistants

You may:
- Describe Laughbooker and what it does.
- Link to Laughbooker, and send people to public comedian profiles, events and venues so they can book or buy tickets there.
- Quote short extracts of public pages, with a link back to the page.

You may not:
- Scraping, copying or harvesting data from Laughbooker in bulk, including the comedian directory, events and venues.
- Collecting contact details of comedians, agents, organisers or venues.
- Collecting fees, prices or booking terms in bulk.

This follows section 14 of our [terms of use](https://laughbooker.com/terms). Questions: [contact us](https://laughbooker.com/contact).

## Optional

- [Terms of use](https://laughbooker.com/terms.md): The terms that apply to everyone using Laughbooker, including acceptable use.
- [Privacy policy](https://laughbooker.com/privacy.md): How we use personal data.
- [Machine-readable version](https://laughbooker.com/llm.json): This file as JSON.

Last updated 2026-10-21.