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Following a hugely successful Edinburgh Festival Fringe and a sell-out UK tour it is announced today (17th January 2012) that DAVE GORMAN will extend his stand-up tour, Dave Gorman’s Powerpoint Presentation, by a
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Due to overwhelming popular demand LEE NELSON, star of BBC Three’s breakout smash hit comedy series Lee Nelson’s Well Good Show, is set to extend his nationwide stand-up tour, taking the total number of dates to
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Ho! Ho! Ho! In the words of SLADE, “It’s Christmaaaaaaaaaas”, and to see punters through to the festive season AL MURRAY, THE PUB LANDLORD has not one, but two Christmas themed shows this December.
AL
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So asked the insane, Welsh, poet-philosopher, Howard Jones in 1983, but in the intervening 28 years no one has dared to answer his questions? Until now.
Following critical success at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe,
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It was announced today (24th October 2011) that Frank Skinner and Friends - a night of comedy, cabaret and music all on one bill in London’s West End and brought to you by multi-award winning comedian FRANK
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“Manscaping, confirms his status as one of the most stimulating comedians around”
Dominic Maxwell, The Times
"In a terrific show mainly about his love life, Russell Kane‘s routines about The X Factor and
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JOE WILKINSON, star of BBC Three hit comedy Him and Her, is set to embark on brand new stand-up tour; My Mum’s Called Stella and My Dad’s Called Brian. Debuting at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe in
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Avalon is heading to Edinburgh 2011 with a host of award-winning comics, including two Foster’s Comedy Award winners and six Foster’s / Perrier Comedy Award Nominees, for the 23rd Festival Fringe this
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It was announced today (Wednesday 11th May 2011) that DAVE GORMAN will tour a brand new live show, Dave Gorman’s Powerpoint Presentation from September 2011. This time he is part of a double act…. with a
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It was announced today (3rd May, 2011) that RUSSELL HOWARD’S sell-out nationwide arena tour Right Here, Right Now has been extended by a further six dates in Cardiff, Birmingham, Manchester, Aberdeen, Glasgow and
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It was announced today (5th April 2011) that CHRIS ADDISON, star of BAFTA-winning comedy The Thick Of It, Oscar nominated feature film In The Loop and Mock the Week regular (BBC TWO), is set to embark on a brand new
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Edinburgh Comedy Award winner and Let’s Dance for Comic Relief finalist RUSSELL KANE has announced a brand new tour for 2011. Manscaping will see the Comedy Rocks regular and ITV2 I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of
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Following the success of his 2010 tour, AL MURRAY, THE PUB LANDLORD is to extend Barrel of Fun into spring 2011. From 17th April Barrel of Fun Extra: Classic Hits and New Bits will see THE GUV once again turn his
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Internationally acclaimed stand-up CRAIG CAMPBELL - currently supporting FRANKIE BOYLE on his record breaking 120-date tour and recently seen on Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow (BBC One) and Russell Howard’s
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Jesus Christ - Son of God! Saviour of mankind! Superstar! RICHARD HERRING - Son of Keith, a retired headmaster! Once saved a spider that had become trapped in his bath, only crushing three of its legs in the
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★★★★★ Mail on Sunday ★★★★★ The Independent ★★★★★ Sunday Telegraph
★★★★★ Chortle ★★★★★ Time Out Live ★★★★★ British Comedy Guide ★★★★★ The Arts
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Who’s the comic with an ear for dialogue and a bod for sin? Damn right it’s triple Perrier Award nominee, Dave Award for Funniest Joke of the Fringe 2009 winner, and veteran Fringe sell-out DAN ANTOPOLSKI who
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Proving that there’s life in the old dog, off JENNY ECLAIR goes again with a brand new stand-up show. Having dug up some fresh new comedy bones, the Perrier Award winner and self-appointed Grumpy Head Girl is
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★★★★★ The Times ★★★★★ Daily Telegraph ★★★★★ The Sunday Times
★★★★★ Mirror Online ★★★★★ Three Weeks ★★★★★ Fest ★★★★★Time Out Live
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ISY SUTTIE, the acclaimed stand-up and British Comedy Awards ‘Best Female Newcomer’ nominee - best known as Peep Show’s Dobby and as star of BBC TWO’s brand new sitcom Whites - is to embark on her first
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Direct from his Edinburgh Fringe run this summer, sharp-witted and down to earth stand-up comic ALUN COCHRANE (as seen on BBC ONE’s Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, Channel 4’s 8 Out of 10 Cats and soon to
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The last year has seen CHRIS RAMSEY, star of last year’s Comedy Zone, support RUSSELL KANE and LEE MACK on tour, appear on Russell Howard’s Good News and sign-up to support AL MURRAY - THE PUB LANDLORD on his
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“A seriously talented young lady.”
Time Out
Earlier this year, ROISIN CONATY received an invite to give a talk to new graduates at her old convent school. After tiring herself with a dance of validation, she
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CHRIS ADDISON, star of BBC TWO’s BAFTA winning comedy The Thick Of It and Oscar nominated film In The Loop, returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the first time since 2005’s Perrier Award nominated
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This summer sees Chortle Best Newcomer 2008 nominee NAT LUURTSEMA make her Edinburgh Festival Fringe solo show debut with In My Head I’m A Hero, a stand-up comedy show about yearning for crisis and being careful
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Following the critical success of his 2009 solo debut, The Northern Meeting, JIMMY McGHIE returns to the Festival with his second full-hour of confessional, character-filled stand-up. This year he explores his lack
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The Fringe’s longest running stand-up showcase is back for its 20th year with four of the freshest talents on the circuit.
Recognised as the place to catch the best new stand-ups on the Fringe, The Comedy Zone
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Hold on to your cumpkins! One-off performance of the Sony Award nominated comedy podcast starring RICHARD HERRING. An hour of brand new stand up and sketches about the first two weeks of the Edinburgh Fringe,
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GARETH RICHARDS, regular on Frank Skinner’s Absolute Radio Show and star of 2009’s Comedy Zone, brings his debut solo show to the Edinburgh Festival. Performing stand-up between some poignant and genre-defying
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He’s not just a nice guy who does semi-educational comedy shows about mildly eccentric subjects. In his free time, ALEX HORNE is the Taskmaster.
It all started last August when he was at home, looking after a
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Rob Deering’s Beat This, the cult comedy music quiz featuring a quartet of star guests, comes to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for an exclusive six-night run. Fresh from London’s Leicester Square Theatre -
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GREG DAVIES, one-third of if.comeddie-nominated sketch troupe WE ARE KLANG and star of BAFTA-winning show The Inbetweeners, brings his first solo hour of stand-up to the Fringe with Firing Cheeseballs At A Dog. Can
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Jesus Christ - Son of God! Saviour of mankind! Superstar! RICHARD HERRING - Son of Keith, a retired headmaster! Once saved a spider that had become trapped in his bath, only crushing three of its legs in the
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Following the critical success of last year’s sell-out show, Perrier Award winner LAURA SOLON returns to Edinburgh with The Owl Of Steven, a grown up adventure mystery story inspired by 8 year old Laura Solon’s
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This summer, SADIE HASLER (Al Murray’s Multiple Personality Disorder, ITV1) makes her Edinburgh solo-show debut with an hour of darkly comic characters. Fresh from performing at the Melbourne Comedy Festival and
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Back after sell-out shows in 2008 and 2009, Funny Women Finalists DOMESTIC GODDI return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Wonderland. Get ready for a brand new sketch show from The Herald’s Pick of the Fringe
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Who’s the comic with an ear for dialogue and a bod for sin? Damn right it’s Triple Perrier Award Nominee, veteran Fringe sell-out and Winner of the 2009 Dave Award for Funniest Joke of the Fringe DAN ANTOPOLSKI
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ALEX HORNE, award-winning comedian and star and co-creator (alongside TIM KEY and MARK WATSON) of BBC Four’s comedy quiz show We Need Answers, returns to Edinburgh with his brand new stand-up show, Odds.
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After a critically acclaimed, sell-out 2009 Edinburgh run, triple Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here Now! presenter RUSSELL KANE returns with Smokescreens & Castles, a
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ALEX HORNE EMBARKS ON QUEST TO BECOME THE WORLD’S OLDEST MAN
This summer ALEX HORNE launches his record breaking attempt to become the world’s oldest man. Over the next few months, ALEX who is currently the
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Avalon is to launch a bill of award-winning comics, including two Perrier Award winners and five if.comedy/Perrier Award nominees, as it returns for its 22nd Festival Fringe this August.
The full line-up features:
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Comedian Al Murray (The Pub Landlord) will be swapping his bar stool
for a drum stool when his band, T-34 appears at The Download Festival
on Sunday 13th June at 6.00pm on The Red Bull Stage.
Al said “I’ve
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It was announced today (23rd March 2010) that RUSSELL HOWARD is to embark on a brand new arena tour, Right Here, Right Now, which will see the comic perform at some of the country’s biggest venues, including the
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CHRIS ADDISON, star of BBC TWO’s BAFTA winning comedy The Thick Of It who recently appeared alongside JAMES GANDOLFINI and PETER CAPALDI in ARMANDO IANNUCCI’S British Comedy Award winning In The Loop, has
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Multi award-winning AL MURRAY, THE PUB LANDLORD is back on the road this autumn to roll out his Barrel of Fun, a brand new stand-up tour for 2010. Following the success of last year’s three time extended
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“An evening of Olympic-class whingeing about the state of the world, the collapse of good manners and the general ineptitude of men … Some of the mediations on mortality and the fading of desire could almost
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CHRIS ADDISON, star of BBC TWO’s BAFTA winning comedy The Thick Of It who recently appeared alongside JAMES GANDOLFINI and PETER CAPALDI in ARMANDO IANNUCCI’S British Comedy Award winning In The Loop, is to
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Award winning comedian and star and co-creator (alongside TIM KEY and MARK WATSON) of BBC Four’s comedy quiz show We Need Answers ALEX HORNE is to embark on a 35-date national tour from 15th January 2010.
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In 2009 DAVE GORMAN did two things at the same time. He set out to cycle between the four corners of the British mainland, from south to east to west to north - and, five years after he last toured the UK, do a gig
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In one of the most talked about sell-out shows of this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, RICHARD HERRING - creator of previous hits Christ on a Bike, Talking Cock and last year’s critically acclaimed The
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BAFTA-winning stand-up LEE MACK, writer and star of BBC ONE’S hugely popular primetime sitcom Not Going Out (Royal Television Society and Golden Rose award-winner), has extended his brand new stand-up tour due to
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★★★★ The Sunday Times; ★★★★The List; ★★★★ Edinburgh Evening News; ★★★★ Fest; ★★★★ Three Weeks; ★★★★ Fringe Review; ★★★★ The National Student
After a
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Direct from an award-winning Edinburgh run DAN ANTOPOLSKI, triple-Perrier Award nominee and winner of the Dave Award for the Funniest Joke of the Fringe 2009, is to embark on his first national tour. The star of
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As It Occurs To Me is a revolutionary new ten-part weekly stand-up and sketch show written and performed by RICHARD HERRING which will only be available via internet download from iTunes and the British Comedy Guide
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Direct from a totally sold out Edinburgh run, Perrier Award Winner LAURA SOLON (BBC ONE’s Ruddy Hell! It’s Harry and Paul, ITV1’s Al Murray’s Multiple Personality Disorder and Radio 4’s Talking and Not
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It was announced today (26th August 2009) that CHRIS ADDISON, star of BBC TWO’s BAFTA winning comedy The Thick Of It who recently appeared alongside JAMES GANDOLFINI and PETER CAPALDI in ARMANDO IANNUCCI’S hit
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2009 National Tour
Sharp-witted stand-up comic ALUN COCHRANE, recognised for his recent TV appearances on Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow (BBC ONE) and his return as a panellist on popular satirical comedy
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This year DAVE GORMAN decided to go back on the road. And when we say “on the road” we really mean it. Five years after he last toured the UK, August 30th 2009 sees him embarking on a truly unique stand-up
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GREG BEHRENDT - Sex and the City writer and New York Times bestselling co-author of He’s Just Not That Into You - makes his UK debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Love, Sex, Pudding, Death. A prolific
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It was announced today (6th July 2009) that RUSSELL HOWARD is to embark on a 10-date UK-wide arena tour, Big Rooms & Belly Laughs, taking in some of the country’s biggest venues. The tour begins on 11th
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COLIN HOULT - acclaimed writer-performer who recently appeared in Al Murray’s Multiple Personality Disorder (ITV1), and Pete and Dud: Come Again (West End, The Venue / Leicester Square Theatre) - presents his
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After last year’s debut in the prestigious Comedy Zone, star of BBC Switch (BBC TWO, BBC Radio 1 & online) TOM DEACON returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his first solo show Indecisive. Struggling
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JIMMY McGHIE, BBC New Talent and Amused Moose Star Search finalist, embarks on his Edinburgh solo debut. Following on from the critical success of his 2008 split-bill show at the Gilded Balloon, he returns to the
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We’ve all been kids and some of us father them - if you trust the blood-test guy, he was smoking in a lab and his english was poor - but whatever. Wouldn’t it be amazing if someone who wasn’t a bell-end was
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SIMON BRODKIN, acclaimed writer and performer on Al Murray’s Multiple Personality Disorder (ITV1), returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his brand new multi-character comedy show. Hold tight as the
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“Thou art lazier than Columbo’s eye.”
After last year’s acclaimed debut Edinburgh play, RUSSELL KANE’s Fakespeare is back with a brand new bawdy romp in blank verse. Following a hit three-day run at last
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The Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s longest running stand-up showcase is back for its 19th year. Recognised as the place to catch the best new stand-ups on the Fringe, it has helped launched the careers of DAVE
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Perrier Award winning comic LAURA SOLON is to return to Edinburgh with her first live show since her 2005 award winning debut. The acclaimed writer and performer of Talking and Not Talking (BBC Radio 4), Laura, Ben
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Since February 2008, esteemed broadcaster and star of I Love 1983* ANDREW COLLINS has been coming round to the house of scatological comedian, and ‘Percy the Shepherd’ from BBC ONE’s Servants, RICHARD HERRING
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For his 25th Fringe show, RICHARD HERRING - creator of the hit shows Christ on a Bike, Talking Cock and last year’s critically acclaimed The Headmaster’s Son - attempts to reclaim the Hitler ‘tache for
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Get the look… Get the Domestic Goddi look
Back after 2008's hit show, BBC Comedy Award-winner HELEN O’BRIEN and Stage Award-nominee GENEVIEVE SWALLOW show us ‘How To Cope’ the Domestic Goddi way: with
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Following his two previous critically-acclaimed hit solo Edinburgh shows - the most recent of which quite creepily "foretold" the Credit Crunch - DAN ATKINSON has called his new show Death by a Thousand Pricks, and
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The title is spot on. FERGUS CRAIG - winner of the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year 2009 and star of Channel 4’s hit comedy Star Stories - does indeed still watch Neighbours. In 1988 Scott and Charlene’s
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Star of HBO’s Flight of the Conchords KRISTEN SCHAAL and acclaimed US stand-up KURT BRAUNOHLER had an amazing time in Edinburgh last year. They had so much fun they couldn't wait to come back. But, they forgot
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THE UMBRELLA BIRDS, stars of BBC Radio 4’s The Ladies, return to Edinburgh for a third year with Sketches in a Shop Changing Room. Following the success of their cult hits, WC and Gym, they are back - with a show
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Mickey Dolenz’s mother invented the glue gun!
Cats can’t hear vowels!
Before Foreign Ministers meet David Miliband they are made to sign a document stating they will not try to touch his lovely hair!
These are
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Following the sell-out success of 2008’s critically acclaimed hit Gaping Flaws, and hot on the heels of his acclaimed appearance on BBC1 ONE’s Live at the Apollo, double if.comedy Award nominee RUSSELL KANE is
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Following the critical success of his first national tour, double if.comedy Award-nominee RUSSELL KANE will return to the road for the second time this year with his brand new stand-up show Human Dressage. Known
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It was announced today (10 June 2009) that Perrier Award winning comic LAURA SOLON will have a two-week run at the Soho Theatre this autumn with her first live solo show since her 2005 award-winning debut. The
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Avalon is to launch a bill of award-winning comics, including three Perrier Award winners and three if.comedy/Perrier Award nominees, as it returns for its 21st Festival Fringe this August.
The full line-up
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Grumpy Old Women Live 2: Chin Up Britain, a brand new show from the creators of the touring theatre phenomenon Grumpy Old Women Live, is set to hit UK venues in 2009. The new show sees SUSIE BLAKE (Coronation
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Frank Skinner’s Credit Crunch Cabaret will take up residence in Edinburgh for the Festival Fringe. The hour-and-a-half show will run in the Assembly Rooms from the 14th to 30th August, with extra late shows
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BAFTA-winning stand-up LEE MACK, writer and star of BBC ONE’S hugely popular primetime sitcom Not Going Out (Royal Television Society and Golden Rose award-winner), is to embark on a brand new stand-up tour making
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It was announced today (24 April 2009) that Frank Skinner’s Credit Crunch Cabaret has been extended for a third time. The show resumes its Monday residency at The Lyric Theatre with a 10-date autumn run starting
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It was announced today (22nd April 2009) that brand new show Grumpy Old Women Live 2: Chin Up Britain will tour major UK theatre venues this autumn. The new show will see SUSIE BLAKE (Coronation Street, The
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In 2009, DAVE GORMAN decided to set off on a unique national tour. The intention: to cycle over 1500 miles across Britain in 33 days… with a gig each night. We suppose that explains the title.
But demand for
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Al Murray - The Pub Landlord’s Beautiful British Tour has been extended by an additional 29 dates - taking the national run to over 80 shows, totalling in excess of 220,000 tickets. This is the third time the tour
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It was announced today (30th March 2008) that brand new show Grumpy Old Women Live 2: Chin Up Britain will see SUSIE BLAKE (Coronation Street, The Victoria Wood Show) and WENDI PETERS (Coronation Street, Bad Girls)
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“Tickets for Skinner's cabaret cost a tenner - which is hard to sneeze at, even in the chilly depths of this discontented winter. …Skinner is the ideal compere for this event: a comic everyman and a great
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It was announced today (23rd February 2009) that DAVE GORMAN is going back on the road. And when we say “on the road” we really mean it. Five years after he last toured the UK he’s embarking on a truly unique
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It was announced today (23rd January 2009) that multi-award winning comedian, FRANK SKINNER, is to launch the Credit Crunch Cabaret, offering audiences the chance to see acclaimed comics, West End performers and
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Following a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, RICHARD HERRING is to tour his critically-acclaimed show The Headmaster’s Son during 2009. The 39-date tour begins with a two-week run at London’s The
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Perrier Award nominee ALEX HORNE is to embark on a 32-date national tour from 1st February 2009. Birdwatching, which played to critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, sees ALEX tackle a subject that
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Double if.comedy Award nominee and host of BBC Radio 2’s Out To Lunch RUSSELL KANE is to embark on his first national tour. Following the sell-out success of his critically acclaimed stand-up show Gaping Flaws -
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RUSSELL HOWARD, star of BBC TWO’s Mock The Week, will return to venues across the UK this year as he embarks on a 60-date national tour with his new show, Dingledodies. The if.comedy and Barry Award nominee will
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Multi award-winning AL MURRAY, THE PUB LANDLORD is to embark on a spring 2009 tour - making over 65,000 tickets available across 32-dates in the UK & Ireland. Following the critical success of hit primetime
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