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 with his seventh solo stand-up show. What can we expect from this tireless fringe innovator, elegant paragraph-crafter and award-winning one-liner merchant? Why not expect the unexpected and neglect to prepare for the expected which will then surprise you from behind, unless you have read this - or like DAN ANTOPOLSKI, have mastered time travel!!!
Turn of the Century will definitely contain many high-quality stealable one-liners, sage remarks about life and bad-parenthood, a rap about the benefits of laser ownership - and new for 2010, the pitiless subordination of a professional manservant. Also as promised, actual time travel (forwards@1sec/sec)!
DAN ANTOPOLSKI won the BBC New Comedy Award in 1998, was nominated for the Perrier Best Newcomer Award in 2000 and for the Perrier Award in 2001. He also shared a Perrier Award nomination with LEE MACK and CATHERINE TATE for sketch show Lee Mack’s New Bits. He formed The Dinks with CRAIG CAMPBELL and TONY LAW, played Jeffers in two series of BBC TWO’s Hyperdrive and Jesus in Hollywood blockbuster The Da Vinci Code. His many radio and TV credits also include six series of BBC Radio 2’s Out To Lunch and three series of ITV2’s Comedy Cuts and he co-starred with KARL THEOBALD in sitcom Exterminating Angels on BBC Radio 4 and in Moonmonkeys on BBC THREE.
In 2004 DAN took up making minature versions of himself. He has made two so far which are perfect replicas including their lack of willies. By 2008 he judged that they could fend for themselves, so he returned to Edinburgh with the acclaimed Dan Antopolski’s Penetrating Gaze, containing the Sandwich Rap that became a Youtube hit video. Dan’s 2009 show Silent but Deadly received numerous rave reviews and won Funniest Joke of the Fringe with his joke ‘Hedgehogs. Why can’t they just share the hedge?’ In the spring of 2010 DAN embarked on his first national tour with Silent But Deadly and he will be doing a new 40-date tour this autumn with Turn Of The Century.
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“Spectacular displays of verbal pyrotechnics… confident, splendidly silly and sometimes dazzling.”
Stephanie Merritt, The Observer
“A battery of fine gags honed to shiny perfection.”
Brian Donaldson, The List
LISTINGS INFORMATION
Venue: Pleasance Ace Dome
Date: 4th - 30th August
Time: 20:00
Box Office: 0131 556 6550
For more information and press tickets, please contact: Ben Nolan, Fran Cherry, Bea Gwynn, Jo Cross or Dan Lloyd. Tel: 08700 70 50 50 [Edinburgh office] or 020 7598 7222 [London office]. Email: benn@avalonuk.com, franc@avalonuk.com, joc@avalonuk.com, beag@avalonuk.com or danl@avalonuk.com
WHAT THE PRESS HAS SAID ABOUT…
…SILENT BUT DEADLY
“His writing is as inventive as ever…Antopolski is not merely deadpan, but almost otherworldly on stage. It's the perfect platform for his sometimes surreal, often deliberately literal approach to life.”
James Kettle, The Guardian
“Spectacular displays of verbal pyrotechnics…A confident, splendidly silly and sometimes dazzling show.”
Stephanie Merritt, The Observer
“Expect to laugh out loud at this deservedly well-decorated comedian. He is slick and charming, and his themed raps are not to be missed.”
Amiel Clarke, Edinburgh Festivals Magazine
“A battery of fine gags honed to shiny perfection.”
Brian Donaldson, The List
“Superb entertainment... This indisputably gifted comic is ideal viewing for anybody with a sense of humour who can laugh until it hurts.”
Miles Morgan, Three Weeks
“A rock-solid hour with punchlines galore.”
Paul Fleckney, London is Funny
“Stunningly funny.”
Jay Richardson, Chortle
“He is one of the funniest and hardest-working comedians out there. His material is edgy without going too far, his routines are complex and assured, he’s likeable … and has some of the best gags I’ve heard.”
Matt Brereton, The Scotsman
…DAN ANTOPOLSKI’S PENETRATING GAZE
“Dan Antopolski returns with more of his brainy brilliance…Satisfyingly unorthodox, intelligent and ridiculously playful. Thank heaven - with special thanks also to hell - for Dan Antopolski.”
Claire Sawers, The List
“His sandwich rap and another intentionally racist one, brilliantly qualified to the point of acceptability, are solid gold, while his closing rhymes, explicitly dissing his babies, are destined to become one of this Festival's unequivocal highlights.”
Jay Richardson, The Scotsman
“Antopolski has funny bones. One of his pauses contains more loaded humour than most carefully written routines. His tales and raps are twisted and clever.”
Stephen Armstrong, The Sunday Times
“He certainly hits his quota of inventively silly lines in this hour, especially the first half of it, with a generous handful of lines you’ll be itching to try out on your friends. And the rap about sandwiches is inspired, if bizarre. It’s infantile, but it’s funny. Welcome back, Dan.”
Steve Bennett, Chortle
“He can still completely disarm with seemingly bizarre observations, and when the set pieces hit, they really do pack a punch.”
Nadine McBay, Metro
“From the moment Dan Antopolski charges on stage wearing a cape, don't expect to be allowed to pause for thought at any point over the course of the next hour. The show comprises not only jokes, but bizarre one-man dialogues and three raps, the one about sandwiches being the perfect candidate for bringing rhyming comedy back into fashion. Even if you're not a great fan of Dan's surreal brand of humour, his mastery of the English language is worth a Fringe show in itself.”
James Murray, Three Weeks
“Dan’s back and in cracking form. His material is fresh, funny and delivered at a hectic pace. Unpredictability and the trademark gaze keep the audience engrossed. He flits from topic to topic without wasting time on contrived links… With his return he will give pleasure to those who enjoyed his shows in previous years, and also attract a new generation to his brand of comedy.”
one4review
…FURTHER PRAISE FOR DAN ANTOPOLSKI
“Some of the best material at the festival, a winning mixture of groanworthy music-hall puns with intellectual subjects, with the odd sick joke for garnish. His forte is the delayed drop punchline, the sort of gag that takes you a beat or two to get, but feel happy that you were bright enough to figure it out.”
Steve Bennett, Chortle
“The audience hangs off his every nuance - verbal and physical - while, like an intellectual Harry Hill, he piles up the asides and non sequiturs fast and furious in between. A magnificently febrile mind.”
Nick Awde, The Stage
“Risky, surreal genius one expects from Antopolski at his best… a wildly original talent worth checking out.”
Struan MacKenzie, Edinburgh Evening News
“An intriguing hour of intellect-tickling comedy… Switching between disarmingly improvisational riffing on the personal details of audience members (his mental sharpness camouflaged by a blurting, swaying stage presence) and unashamedly educated tramline set pieces, Antopolski occasionally invites comparisons with the equally highbrow but slightly more pessimistic David Baddiel.”
Graeme Virtue, Sunday Herald
“You're unlikely to see a slicker, more self-assured performer at Edinburgh this year than Dan Antopolski… For sheer fertility of imagination, there are still few who can match him.”
Daily Telegraph
“A confident, engaging delivery and good old-fashioned ability to think on his feet …trades in anecdotes that develop into wonderfully convoluted and surreal flights of fancy with echoes of Paul Merton's early television series, building up to sentences that you are guaranteed never to hear again for the rest of your life: 'If Ann Widdecombe and I are still talking current affairs it's a bit early in the evening for my erection to be appropriate - thanks, Orinoco.'“
Stephanie Merritt, The Observer
“Literary and infantile gags abound…his avant garde approach to stand-up is one you won’t easily forget.”
Camilla Pia, The Scotsman
AVALON PROMOTIONS
Avalon Promotions Limited is one of the leading promoters of live comedy in the UK. Productions include: NEWMAN & BADDIEL in the first comedy show ever to be staged at Wembley Arena; FRANK SKINNER’s record-breaking performance to an audience of 6,000 at the Battersea Power Station; Jerry Springer - The Opera at the National Theatre, at the Cambridge Theatre in London’s West End, on national tour and at New York’s Carnegie Hall; HARRY HILL at the Palace and Dominion Theatres in London; and Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack Adventure at the Sydney Opera House, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, on national tour and at the Village Theatre, New York (nominated for Drama Desk Award 2004).
The last 12 months has seen Avalon Promotions: present multi-award winning comics JENNY ECLAIR, RICHARD HERRING, RUSSELL HOWARD and FRANK SKINNER on sell-out runs; produce AL MURRAY, THE PUB LANDLORD live at the O2 and RUSSELL HOWARD at Wembley Stadium; introduce some of the fastest-rising stars in comedy such as KRISTEN SCHAAL & KURT BRAUNOHLER and ISY SUTTIE; produce stage shows, such as Frank Skinner’s Credit Crunch Cabaret and Grumpy Old Women Live, which has toured the UK three times and performed a highly successful runs in Australia and London’s West End; and present 20 acts at the Edinburgh Festival, where it has promoted a total of five Perrier Award winners and 18 Perrier Award/Edinburgh Comedy Award nominees in just 21 years.
