an evening with andy hamilton
spring tour 2019
Following popular demand, award-winning comedian, comedy writer and director Andy Hamilton returns to the road this spring with his first ever up close and personal show, An Evening With Andy Hamilton.
Audiences will have the opportunity to ask Andy questions on any topic as he takes a look back at his very extensive professional career in comedy. Beginning in 1976 as a contributor to Radio 4’s Weekending, Andy went on to pick up a raft of awards for co-writing and co-directing such household TV classics as Drop The Dead Donkey and Outnumbered. Most recently, his TV satires turned up the heat on Westminster with Ballot Monkeys and Power Monkeys, and he and his co-writer Guy Jenkin also penned and directed the hit British comedy feature film What We Did On Our Holiday.
Andy’s numerous TV and radio credits include Have I Got News For You, Q.I., Andy Hamilton Sort of Remembers, The News Quiz, I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue and Old Harry’s Game.
Expect a funny and revealing night out with a master of comedy!
Andy’s debut novel, The Star Witness, was recently released via Outbound.
https://unbound.com/books/star-witness / TWITTER: @andyhamiltonontour
Following popular demand, award-winning comedian, comedy writer and director Andy Hamilton returns to the road this spring with his first ever up close and personal show, An Evening With Andy Hamilton.
Audiences will have the opportunity to ask Andy questions on any topic as he takes a look back at his very extensive professional career in comedy. Beginning in 1976 as a contributor to Radio 4’s Weekending, Andy went on to pick up a raft of awards for co-writing and co-directing such household TV classics as Drop The Dead Donkey and Outnumbered. Most recently, his TV satires turned up the heat on Westminster with Ballot Monkeys and Power Monkeys, and he and his co-writer Guy Jenkin also penned and directed the hit British comedy feature film What We Did On Our Holiday.
Andy’s numerous TV and radio credits include Have I Got News For You, Q.I., Andy Hamilton Sort of Remembers, The News Quiz, I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue and Old Harry’s Game.
Expect a funny and revealing night out with a master of comedy!
Andy’s debut novel, The Star Witness, was recently released via Outbound.
https://unbound.com/books/star-witness / TWITTER: @andyhamiltonontour
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felicity ward: busting a nut
autumn tour 2018
One of the Fringe’s favourite comedians, Felicity Ward, is hyped up, jumped up and ready to Bust a Nut on her second ever nationwide tour this autumn following amazing reviews and an Edinburgh Comedy Award nomination at this year’s festival!
In fact, she’s been busting a nut since her last tour. She got married, starred in her own Netflix special as part of the series Live From The BBC, lived with her in-laws, explored whether technology can save her from herself in her own Radio 4 series Appisodes, taken up yoga, and she regularly co-hosts the popular The Guilty Feminist Podcast.
Not only has she been raking in the critical acclaim from her various Fringe shows of late, but she recently set out to break down the stigmas around mental health and IBS in her show What If There Is No Toilet?, which she then turned into a highly successful Australian documentary Felicity’s Mental Mission (ABC1/ABC2) in 2016. She has headlined Live from the BBC on BBC2 and BBC3, starred in Josh (BBC3), appeared on Mock the Week (BBC 2), Make You Laugh Out Loud (Channel 5), Sam Delaney’s News Thing (RTUK), featured on Museum of Curiosity and David Baddiels’ Don’t Make Me Laugh (Radio 4), Ronny Chieng’s sitcom Ronny Chieng: International Student (ABC) and in Sydney's Just For Laughs Gala (The Comedy Channel, Australia). She’s opened for Katherine Ryan, Maria Bamford and Amy Schumer, all within this year, made Blaps for Channel 4, made Blaps for Channel 4, co-hosts her own podcast The Unbelievable Ashes Podcast with Andy Zaltzman, toured nationwide, was invited to the curated Sydney Festival 2017 and is soon set to appear on the upcoming series Live from the Comedy Store (Comedy Central) . And, if that’s not enough, she has been commissioned to pen her own sitcom pilot in Australia.
www.felicityward.com / Twitter: @felicityward / Instagram: @felicityward
One of the Fringe’s favourite comedians, Felicity Ward, is hyped up, jumped up and ready to Bust a Nut on her second ever nationwide tour this autumn following amazing reviews and an Edinburgh Comedy Award nomination at this year’s festival!
In fact, she’s been busting a nut since her last tour. She got married, starred in her own Netflix special as part of the series Live From The BBC, lived with her in-laws, explored whether technology can save her from herself in her own Radio 4 series Appisodes, taken up yoga, and she regularly co-hosts the popular The Guilty Feminist Podcast.
Not only has she been raking in the critical acclaim from her various Fringe shows of late, but she recently set out to break down the stigmas around mental health and IBS in her show What If There Is No Toilet?, which she then turned into a highly successful Australian documentary Felicity’s Mental Mission (ABC1/ABC2) in 2016. She has headlined Live from the BBC on BBC2 and BBC3, starred in Josh (BBC3), appeared on Mock the Week (BBC 2), Make You Laugh Out Loud (Channel 5), Sam Delaney’s News Thing (RTUK), featured on Museum of Curiosity and David Baddiels’ Don’t Make Me Laugh (Radio 4), Ronny Chieng’s sitcom Ronny Chieng: International Student (ABC) and in Sydney's Just For Laughs Gala (The Comedy Channel, Australia). She’s opened for Katherine Ryan, Maria Bamford and Amy Schumer, all within this year, made Blaps for Channel 4, made Blaps for Channel 4, co-hosts her own podcast The Unbelievable Ashes Podcast with Andy Zaltzman, toured nationwide, was invited to the curated Sydney Festival 2017 and is soon set to appear on the upcoming series Live from the Comedy Store (Comedy Central) . And, if that’s not enough, she has been commissioned to pen her own sitcom pilot in Australia.
www.felicityward.com / Twitter: @felicityward / Instagram: @felicityward
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mark thomas: check up. our nhs @ 70
spring tour 2019
Since last August, Mark toured his 2017 sell-out Fringe show A Show That Gambles on the Future before devising and touring a whole other brand new show, Showtime From the Frontline, in which he, alongside two Palestinian comics, re-enacted their time setting up a comedy club in Jenin. The show opened to rave reviews and sell-out audiences and gave Mark just enough time to turn his attention back to the UK and to his next project, our very own National Health Service. Mark has just finished yet another fantastic Fringe where Check Up received a whole new batch of excellent reviews and another Scotsman Fringe First award to add to his collection.
Mark is 54, the NHS is 70, and the UK national average life expectancy is 84. If Mark makes it to 84, the NHS will be 100. What will they both look like?
Based on a series of interviews with leading experts in and on the NHS, residencies in hospitals and surgeries, and with theatre director Nicolas Kent, Mark uses his own demise to explore the state we’re in; what's going wrong in our NHS, how it can go right, and what the future might hold for us all.
www.markthomasinfo.com / TWITTER: @markthomasinfo
Since last August, Mark toured his 2017 sell-out Fringe show A Show That Gambles on the Future before devising and touring a whole other brand new show, Showtime From the Frontline, in which he, alongside two Palestinian comics, re-enacted their time setting up a comedy club in Jenin. The show opened to rave reviews and sell-out audiences and gave Mark just enough time to turn his attention back to the UK and to his next project, our very own National Health Service. Mark has just finished yet another fantastic Fringe where Check Up received a whole new batch of excellent reviews and another Scotsman Fringe First award to add to his collection.
Mark is 54, the NHS is 70, and the UK national average life expectancy is 84. If Mark makes it to 84, the NHS will be 100. What will they both look like?
Based on a series of interviews with leading experts in and on the NHS, residencies in hospitals and surgeries, and with theatre director Nicolas Kent, Mark uses his own demise to explore the state we’re in; what's going wrong in our NHS, how it can go right, and what the future might hold for us all.
www.markthomasinfo.com / TWITTER: @markthomasinfo
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nick revell: brokendreamcatcher
spring tour 2019
A stalwart comedian and an almost legend of the circuit, Nick Revell has been on the comedy scene for almost forty years, but this has not blunted his edge or his energy.
Now a Radio 4 series, BrokenDreamCatcher is a collection of surreal and satirical stories compiled from his last three years of critically acclaimed Edinburgh hours, featuring tales such as Clash of the Hipster Shamans, Treasure of the Illuminati Leprechauns and Vladimir Putin’s Bottom is Missing, which he takes on the road spring 2019.
Starting out as a writer for topical shows like Weekending and The News Huddlines (BBC Radio) and Not the Nine O’Clock News (BBC TV), Nick has gone on to be heard on numerous BBC Radio programmes including the award-winning Million Pound Radio Show (Radio 4), his own Radio 4 sit-com The Nick Revell Show and his own BBC1 TV series Nick Revell. He’s appeared on panel shows such as Just A Minute, The News Quiz and Quote Unquote and has written for various TV and radio sitcoms (Drop the Dead Donkey, Dressing for Breakfast, After You’d Gone, The Million Pound Radio Show, Miles Jupp’s In and Out of the Kitchen), sketch shows (Alas Smith and Jones, Three of a Kind) and material for other comedians (Dave Allen, Rory Bremner, Jasper Carrot), to name but a few.
He’s written two novels (House of the Spirit Levels and The Night of the Toxic Ostrich), a stage play (Love and Other Fairy Tales), and he’s been nominated for or won awards from the prestigious Perrier Award to the BAFTAS, Emmys and the Writers’ Guild Awards. He also teaches occasionally at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
http://www.nickrevell.com/
A stalwart comedian and an almost legend of the circuit, Nick Revell has been on the comedy scene for almost forty years, but this has not blunted his edge or his energy.
Now a Radio 4 series, BrokenDreamCatcher is a collection of surreal and satirical stories compiled from his last three years of critically acclaimed Edinburgh hours, featuring tales such as Clash of the Hipster Shamans, Treasure of the Illuminati Leprechauns and Vladimir Putin’s Bottom is Missing, which he takes on the road spring 2019.
Starting out as a writer for topical shows like Weekending and The News Huddlines (BBC Radio) and Not the Nine O’Clock News (BBC TV), Nick has gone on to be heard on numerous BBC Radio programmes including the award-winning Million Pound Radio Show (Radio 4), his own Radio 4 sit-com The Nick Revell Show and his own BBC1 TV series Nick Revell. He’s appeared on panel shows such as Just A Minute, The News Quiz and Quote Unquote and has written for various TV and radio sitcoms (Drop the Dead Donkey, Dressing for Breakfast, After You’d Gone, The Million Pound Radio Show, Miles Jupp’s In and Out of the Kitchen), sketch shows (Alas Smith and Jones, Three of a Kind) and material for other comedians (Dave Allen, Rory Bremner, Jasper Carrot), to name but a few.
He’s written two novels (House of the Spirit Levels and The Night of the Toxic Ostrich), a stage play (Love and Other Fairy Tales), and he’s been nominated for or won awards from the prestigious Perrier Award to the BAFTAS, Emmys and the Writers’ Guild Awards. He also teaches occasionally at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
http://www.nickrevell.com/
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gina yashere: still funkin funny
underbelly at southbank 21st-23rd june
Taking a break from travelling the globe and making a splash in the USA, international stand-up sensation Gina Yashere returns to her hometown for three nights only with some hysterical tales from the past year.
Gina has just secured a book deal with Harper Collins for her autobiography and has co-written, co-produced and acted in TV pilot Bob Abishola with ‘King of Sitcom’ Chuck Lorre (Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory), due to air on CBS later this year.
In addition to her ongoing TV appearance as British correspondent in the US for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and regular appearances on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, The Jay Leno Show, The Wine Show, Mock the Week and Celebrity Chase, Gina’s last two one-off specials were snapped up by Netflix, where you can also see her as part of the new series of The Standups. In December 2018 she hosted BBC’s Live at The Apollo for a second time, and she can be heard in the latest Aardman movie, Early Man, alongside Eddie Redmayne, Maisie Williams and Tom Hiddleston.
All of her London performances, from the Underbelly to the Brixton Academy, are sell-out shows – so book early!
www.ginayashere.com / INSTAGRAM @ginayashere / TWITTER @ginayashere
Taking a break from travelling the globe and making a splash in the USA, international stand-up sensation Gina Yashere returns to her hometown for three nights only with some hysterical tales from the past year.
Gina has just secured a book deal with Harper Collins for her autobiography and has co-written, co-produced and acted in TV pilot Bob Abishola with ‘King of Sitcom’ Chuck Lorre (Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory), due to air on CBS later this year.
In addition to her ongoing TV appearance as British correspondent in the US for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and regular appearances on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, The Jay Leno Show, The Wine Show, Mock the Week and Celebrity Chase, Gina’s last two one-off specials were snapped up by Netflix, where you can also see her as part of the new series of The Standups. In December 2018 she hosted BBC’s Live at The Apollo for a second time, and she can be heard in the latest Aardman movie, Early Man, alongside Eddie Redmayne, Maisie Williams and Tom Hiddleston.
All of her London performances, from the Underbelly to the Brixton Academy, are sell-out shows – so book early!
www.ginayashere.com / INSTAGRAM @ginayashere / TWITTER @ginayashere
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ed byrne: if i'm honest
summer tour 2019
Following his biggest ever tour last year in which Ed sold out his entire Edinburgh Fringe run and many of his nationwide dates, culminating in extra dates added along the way, one of the finest observational comics in the industry announces his brand-new tour for 2019. Join him as he takes a long hard look at himself and tries to decide if he has ANY traits that are worth passing on to his children.
A TV household name, Ed has been seen on pretty much every TV programme in the UK including Mock The Week, QI, The Pilgrimage, Top Gear, Have I Got News For You, The Graham Norton Show, Live At The Apollo (Host), The One Show, The World’s Most Dangerous Roads, Dara & Ed’s Big Adventure and most recently Dara and Ed’s Road to Mandalay.
www.edbyrne.com / TWITTER @MrEdByrne
Following his biggest ever tour last year in which Ed sold out his entire Edinburgh Fringe run and many of his nationwide dates, culminating in extra dates added along the way, one of the finest observational comics in the industry announces his brand-new tour for 2019. Join him as he takes a long hard look at himself and tries to decide if he has ANY traits that are worth passing on to his children.
A TV household name, Ed has been seen on pretty much every TV programme in the UK including Mock The Week, QI, The Pilgrimage, Top Gear, Have I Got News For You, The Graham Norton Show, Live At The Apollo (Host), The One Show, The World’s Most Dangerous Roads, Dara & Ed’s Big Adventure and most recently Dara and Ed’s Road to Mandalay.
www.edbyrne.com / TWITTER @MrEdByrne
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