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A Degree Of Comedy
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3 Graduates and a Dropout
Stand up show consisting of the talents of 4 students from the University of Kent following their Masters Of Stand Up Comedy, with their first steps into the big brave world of the fringe. |
07725489154
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ADDICTS
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HIGH FIVE PRODUCTIONS
This is a dark comedy/drama that explores the world of addiction and follows the young addicts through their experiences from rage to sex to booze to weed. |
01414296393
www.youtube.com/highfiveproduction |
AN AUDIENCE WITH MR METHANE: ADVENTURES IN SHOW BUSINESS
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Mr. Methane & Martin Kelner
Secrets of sphincter control from the world's only full-time performing
flatulist. Mr Methane spills all (oops) to Guardian columnist and
doyen of radio's 'Fighting Talk', Martin Kelner. Odour-free. |
07889 546400
www.mrmethane.com |
Best of New Irish
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Kinda Funny
Showcasing the most promising up and comers from the Emerald Isle, including the most recent Bulmers Comedy Competition winner, it's two hours of underground and nerdy humour. |
kindafunny.moonfruit.com |
Bishop and Douch at Sesame Lane
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Bishop and Douch
Sketch comedy, mildly better than cancer. 'Delightfully quirksome' (Ewen
Macintosh - 'The Office'). 'I was charmed tickly pink, clever and fun!' (Kristen Schaal - 'Flight Of The Conchords'). Bishop and Douch are brought to you by the letter W. |
www.myspace.com/bishopanddouch |
Bloated and Gaunt.
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James Marsh, Dan O' Shea.
In the time honored tradition of fat guy/skinny guy double acts comes bloated and gaunt.
Think Little and large, Cannon and Ball, Farley and Spade, the chuckle brothers(if one of them was fat)
and then please forget all that as we are nothing like those people.James Marsh and Dan O' Shea
present bloated and gaunt a split bill stand up show featuring two of the most distinct new voices in
irish comedy.With material lilting violently between the intellectual and the idiotic Dan and James'
unique perspectives on life will strike a chord with anyone who is alive. |
myspace.com/danielosheacomic |
butter no parsnips
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phoenix soup
A new play by Gerry Howell. In 1973, seventeen year old Ed’s quest to unlock a family secret takes him to visit his gangly Aunt in Bath. Why did she run away? How long did it take with one leg longer than the other? What is the truth? In a couple of days Ed learns more about the harsh realities of his family's past than he can possibly deal with. Many years later, he is having dinner with his wife, Alice when someone knocks on the door. Is it his Aunt? No, it is the Avon Lady. This brave and humorous new play unravels the slender threads that hold us together in a crazy unpredictable world.
“Some forms of etiquette require that peas be only eaten with a fork and not pushed onto the fork with a knife” – Wikipedia |
07729985831
www.myspace.com/gerryhowell |
ComedyDublin
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ComedyDublin
Our show will be half improv and half stand up. Our show normally lasts 1.5 - 2 hours. We can taylor the length of the show to the time available to us. |
+353874140593
www.comedydublin.com |
Freeloader - a Free Show by James Hazelden
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James Hazelden
Every night (except Mondays) 9.15pm (50 mins)
Nicol Edwards Banqueting Hall
FREE SHOW
This controversial Australian comedian/musician presents darkly funny songs and stories from his weird, desperate, freeloading life. His pain is your funny.
“endearing and harmonious... lunatic lyrics and melodic absurdity… more talent than many chart toppers” - The Scotsman. |
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www.myspace.com/jameshazelden |
Fresh Faces At The Free Fringe
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PBH'S FREE FRINGE/DANNY WORTHINGTON
Danny Worthington (Oy! Oy! nominee 2005) with 5 or more of the newest comic acts each day. Stars of tomorrow? Some of these acts can measure their comedy career in months, some a little longer. If you like your comedy in small chunks this could be the show for you. |
www.myspace.com/dannyworthingtoncomedy |
From Yorkshire 2 New York
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DEVVO
Notorious Internet phenomenon and Hip-Hop MC Devvo stands up! 13 million Youtube views, Appearances on BBC3, Channel4, E4. Sold-out UK music tours. (+Bob Slayer +Guests) ‘In-your-face, tragic and hilarious expose of today’s generation.’ (Independent). www.devvo.tv
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www.fat-pie.com/chavs |
GCSE Revision Class
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Mims & Mabey
GCSE Revision. Guaranteed to get you no higher than a C minus in any subject. |
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Geraldine Hickey - One week in paradise
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Story Telling Industries
Geraldine Hickey recalls her week spent in an acute psychiatric unit. |
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Geraldine Hickey/ Alison Bice (Storytelling Industries)
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Storytelling Industries
2 Australian comics 2 different shows.
Geraldine Hickey - One Week in Paradise
Alison Bice - Wizard of Bice
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Ghandi was wrong
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James Agha, Toby Brown, Alex Warren, Dan Mc Brearty
4 Stand-up comics challenge you on what is right and funny. Being bald, ginger, fat, gay and foreign will not be what you laugh at. |
07976 428 736
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Happy Now
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Young Marriage Club
The Beehive
14.45
Free |
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Hoopla - Free Impro Show
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Hoopla Impro/PBH’s Free Fringe
Improvised scenes, sketches and songs based on audience suggestions. The energetic team perform a different show every evening. Hoopla are the resident impro group at The Bedford, south London's leading comedy venue. www.HooplaImpro.com.
Dates: 2nd - 23rd August 2008
Time: 17:15 - 18:15
Venue: The Standing Order,62-66 George Street
Cost: Free |
0797 697 5348
www.HooplaImpro.com |
Hoopla - Free Impro Workshop
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Hoopla Impro
Experience the thrill of improvisation for yourself at this fun and friendly workshop. You don't need any impro or acting experience whatsoever. Led
by the directors of the Hoopla show. www.HooplaImpro.com.
Dates: 2nd - 23rd August 2008
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Venue: The Phoenix,46 Broughton Street
Cost: Free |
0797 697 5348
www.hooplaimpro.com |
If You Like
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Life Of Crime
It is a sketch show witht he overriding theme that we are pitching it to the audience. This means that we will be flitting between playing ourselves and sketch characters. This means that we will be unlikely to break character mid sketch, but may be on a great deal of improv as ourselves. It is a well natured show, of occaisionally ridiculous humour, that will appeal to all ages. |
07793712156
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Jake Yapp's Bum Notes
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Jake Yapp / PBH Free Fringe
Sony Comedy Nominee and Buzzcocks writer presents comedy with original music. “Lovely stuff, beautifully delivered” (Observer) |
07971 193 621
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Kate and Lucy Stand Up Show
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Dogsbody
Stand up comedy in the vein of Monty Python and Eddie Izzard. Two English chicks who talk a load of bollox |
310 488 3672
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Krazy Horses
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Krazy Horses
TBC |
www.krazyhorses.co.uk |
Ladma vs. The World
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Ladma
Award-winning comedy trio battle their comic alter-egos, each other and The World. Think Jeremy Paxman babysitting the illegitimate child of Tommy Cooper and James Joyce.
“Great show” Hull Comedy Festival
“Bloody good show” Current TV |
07963568427
www.ladma.net |
Lemon Custard
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Dee Custance
Childish fun! join host Dee Custance in her mid twenties crisis on a sugar ruch with sweets, guest stand-up and games. |
07970508065
LemonCustardComedyClub |
Lollipopman and the War of the Rats
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Baa Code
A one-man comedy cartoon show for kids! |
07799 367 322
www.lollipopman.co.uk |
Mother's Fat Accident
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Funny Peculiar
Elise Harris and Ollie Broadway present comedy and music, whether they can play the instruments they just bought or not.
BBC Upstaged winner, 2008. Ooee.
Guest starring the legendary Vada Riah. |
07968341219
www.mothersfataccident.com |
Negative Aptitude/The Postman
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Negative Aptitude
15 minutes of Stand-up, followed by a comic play 'The Postman'. Followed by 15 minutes more standing-up. The thinking is simple, as are the performers: To watch two men fail at the simplest rudimentary tasks such as talking. Success is finite (and difficult) but failure, incompetence and negative aptitude are potentially infinite. |
07905372225
joblerichardson.blogspot.com |
Office Girls Go Crazy
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Office Girls Go Crazy
Two ridiculously incompetent secretaries who waste their time composing smutty poems about the boss and telling truly awful jokes, whilst rewarding audience participation with free chocolate. |
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Pear Shaped Afternoons
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Brian & Krysstal
PEAR SHAPED AFTERNOONS
The White Horse Bar, 268 Canongate, Edinburgh, EH8 8AA.
Aug 2-9, 11-22, (1hr 30 mins) 4pm to 5 30pm, Adm FREE
Brian and Krysstal return to Edinburgh for their eighth consecutive year with Pear Shaped. One and a half hours of madcap humour in the haunted back room of the White Horse in Canongate. Brian and Krysstal showcase their summer collection of Fringe favourites. Drop-ins, drop-outs, weird and wonderful comedy acts plucked from the streets of Edinburgh.
Pear Shaped ran at midnight in Edinburgh for six years at the Holyrood Tavern. Last year, the duo decided to get up earlier and showcase their comedic peers in the afternoon as part of PBH’s Free Fringe. It was surprisingly nice. Brian & Krysstal were sober, the acts were sober, and the audience were sober. It was so nice they've decided to do the same again in 2008.
All acts do 5 minutes Between the acts Brian and Krysstal perform their special brand of humour and silly songs to create a wonderfully anarchic but comfortable atmosphere where anything goes. LOADS of comics LOADS of laughs.
"...a line-up of acts ranging from the highly professional to the unashamedly amateurish. It is wild. Madly wonderful." The Stage
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07831 497091
www.pearshapedcomedy.com |
Playing With Your Deck: How to be mediocre and happy
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Brett Fork Beard
One mans metoric rise to medocrity. Ask Me How! |
www.myspace.com/brett_matthews1 |
Richard Sandling & Stuart Goldsmith In Kiosk Of Champions - FREE
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Richard Sandling & Stuart Goldsmith
A lumbering oaf and a credulous show-pony fall in and out of love, through the medium of a high-speed, off-beat sketch show.
Genies, choirboys and a samurai are thrown into the mix by two rum coves grabbing for a piece of the fame game pie.
Jink by increasingly high jink, Sandling & Goldsmith pitch each other head first through the fourth wall in the pursuit of the ultimate shenanigan. And a girlfriend.
This show contains sarcasm and accents but no hats.
Richard Sandling is “joyful, funny, clever” (Scotsman) and the winner of So You Think You’re Funny 2007. Richard wrote and performed the sell-out Edinburgh show VHS: Death to DVD in 2006 garnering **** from Kate Copstick. “Brilliantly geeky” (Time Out), “funny and entertaining” (The List), “darts’ loss is comedy’s gain” (Phill Jupitus)
Stuart Goldsmith is “intriguing and invigorating” (Scotsman). A street-performer (Scottish Busking Champion 2001) and actor turned stand-up comic, his writing credits include Radio 2’s Out To Lunch and BBC7’s Play & Record and Witty & Twisted (G-Force). “Charming” (The List), “Ace” (BBC)
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07747777025
www.myspace.com/kioskofchampions |
ROB HEENEY - NO PRESSURE
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www.robheeney.com
Following his sell-out debut show "I'm Better Than My Dad", the Isle Of Man's favourite/only comedian returns with laid back stand-up, stories and occasional complaining.
Agree with him if you like. Laugh if you want. No pressure. "A definite must see" - chortle |
07867740931
www.robheeney.com |
Sad Frankie
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Dan McKee & Pab Roberts
Frankie's Great Aunt, Lavinia, has passed away. His cousins, Dan & Pab, reunited after many years in the bushes, must battle Frankie's depression thinking they might inherit too. Taking in club comedians and children's poetry parties the game's afoot before they lose it all. |
07930 852 436
www.myspace.com/sadfrankie |
Sheality
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Scarlet Lights
‘Sheality’ – a woman’s ‘reality’. Fresh from the River Humber, 5 sexually frustrated fishwives have come to slap you in the face with a dose of ‘Sheality’. A comedic insight into the female psyche and the weird and wonderful world of the ‘woman’. To be enjoyed by both female and male audiences alike as it exposes modern day truths. A unique and thought-provoking sketch show. |
07786 954970
www.myspace.com/scarletlights |
Sowerby and Luff - Sex Tips for Pandas
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Comedy 365
Cocktails and comedy. Join Georgina and Brian for Happy Hour. Sketches, pub games, and surprise guests. Podcast recorded daily for iTunes. Sponsored by Kalashnikov Vodka. ‘Very funny’ Time Out, ‘Fluent twaddle’ Radio Times. |
020 8340 9419
www.sowerbyandluff.com |
Stand Up Experience
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Chris Parker-Welch
A stand up show, encorperating, verbal, physical and visual humor. |
07925138710
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Tales of Agony and Ecstasy
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The Crimson Poets
Delicious and Disturbing. Enjoy a surreal selection of vignettes from The Crimson Poets. They combine macabre storytelling with tantalising images for a sensual experience of dark humour. Inspired by the tragic with a twist, this atmospheric event will take you on an adventure of surprise. |
07833594563
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TBC
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Stuart Goldsmith plus one
20 min opening set from comic TBC,
40 min closing set from Stuart Goldsmith |
07747777025
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That Needs Cleaning
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Comedy and That
The Edinburgh University Revue returns after 2007's sell-out run with a new show of wild, weird and wonderful sketches and stand-up. "Raw, unadulterated talent... I was in shock and awe" * * * * (Three Weeks). "A cross between the Footlights and the League of Gentlemen" * * * * (FreshAir). |
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The 30 Year Itch - A flakey stand up show about living with eczema
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PBH's Free Fringe / Gag Reflex
A standup show about growing up, moving on, flaring up, flaking out, the joy of geekdom and getting by with a skin condition.
"Has the audience smiling immediatley"-chortle.
7.15pm, The Canon's Gait, Canongate. 2nd - 25th Aug. |
07963828846
www.johncooper.org.uk |
The Bad Film Club Bargain Bin Challenge
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The Bad Film Club
The Bad Film Club is back bringing improvised commentaries, special guests and bad movie fun to Edinburgh.
Armed with only their wit and their laser pointers they’ll guide you through a minefield of rubber sharks, unconvincing zombies and terrible acting.
“Just about the best way I can imagine ending a day at the Fringe” - The Scotsman |
07834 168245
www.badfilmclub.com |
THE BISHOP FOGEY SHOW
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ONE WOMAN CHARACTER AS BISHOP TAKEN TO SHOW BIZ WITH ELECTRIC ORGAN AS CHAT SHOW
30 MINS |
07846245318
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The Clowns Dreams
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WonderFool Theatre Group/NYC
The clown returns home after his late show. He goes to bed and tries to fall asleep....
director:Felix Ivanov, Designer: Iv'olga. |
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The Duchess
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The Duchess
“Are you the performer I ordered? If not I’m quite glad because I’m not sure if a performer would really suit me. O, ha, no, of course, you’re from the catalogue. Sorry, how terrible. Well, if you can walk then go over there and I’ll ignore you while the thought of you claws inside my mind, if that’s ok?
Thanks.”
'The Duchess' is a unique, devised performance that explores the themes of first love, advertising, and torture.
Sit down. Stand Up. Buy a pint. Keep moving. There’s a map, and a key to all of these L.I.E.S. but how do you know what is best to know? You don’t. Why wait for all the buses to come at once when you could eat pills and run loving? Sit down. Stand up. Buy a pint. Keep moving.
Six performers, one space, you and me in this together.
The work that we created as company uses performance as a mode of critical and artistic inquiry into the relationship between advertising, first love and torture.
I Serve the Duchess.
Advertising First Love.
You Serve the Duchess.
Selling Torture.
We All Serve the Duchess.
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07810374337
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the house of bernarda alba/the stand up virgins
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crashNburn theatre
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The Improlympians are Keyser Soze
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Improlympians
If comedy was a crime, the Improlympians would be on Death Row. Improvising.
One hour of improvised comedy. You don't need to know who Keyser Soze is to enjoy the show. Super Happy Fun! |
07896319541
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Your Money or Your Life
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Delete The Banjax
Delete The Banjax and some fake celebrity friends attempt the frankly ridiculous task of trying to cure the world’s diseases. Come and enjoy this unique and free sketch comedy telethon-style show.
'Your Money or Your Life' -
2nd-23rd Aug at White Horse, 13:45-14:40 (not 14th)
and...
'Deleted scenes' -
11th Aug at Beehive, 20:00-21:00
12th Aug at Canon's Gate, 19:15-20:10
13th Aug at Nicol Edward's Banqueting Hall, 20:00-21:00 |
+44 (0) 787 649 2303
www.myspace.com/deletethebanjax |
