Our regular comedy club returns with a selection of comedians from the national circuit and our Barnstormer’s compere.
Tonight’s comedians are: Fran Garrity – ‘one of the North East’s finest comedic exports of recent years…’; Stephanie Laing – ‘a mix of silliness, filth and unusual observations’ and Dave Williams – “Charming storyteller with a delightful grasp of silliness.”
Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre present
Post Office Scandal The Musical
Their 13th brand new comedy show, all done in the best possible taste. Honest! An hour of songs, sketches, socks and violence, telling the true story of the Post Office Scandal, and much much more.
★★★★ “A distracting tonic for the times” – The Scotsman
★★★★★ “Had every single audience member… laughing until they cried” – Edinburgh Evening News
★★★★ “The finest, funniest fringe comedy you will see in Edinburgh” – Everything Theatre
Post Office Scandal is the Socks’ 13th new hour long comedy show, following such Edinburgh Fringe hits as Socks Do Shakespeare, Socks Do Superheroes, Eurovision Sock Contest, Boo Lingerie The Socky Horror Show, and Minging Detectives.
Completing the Trilogy begun with Genius 2.0 and The Work of the Devil, Have We Met? finds Simon standing, like Ulysses in Tennyson’s famous verse, gazing out over the moaning deep and the twinkling rocks and wondering whether to seek a newer world? To smite the sounding furrows? To strive, to seek, and to find? Or whether in fact, to put the kettle on, crack open the Hobnobs and simply yield?
Drawing on Joyce, Proust and the career of Philip Schofield to make sense of his own tangled past and possible future, Evans skilfully weaves comedy, pathos and narrowly averted cancellation into an unforgettable two hours of unique entertainment.
“A typically amazing show… Masterful really. There’s no one quite like him.” Dan Jackson, @Northumbriana.
“An incredibly heartfelt and, of course, bloody funny evening.” Duncan Wainscott, @folkyvale.
“Still ruminating on an incredible night of storytelling/ comedy with Simon Evans last night – real genius in the elegiac tales woven perfectly through the sharp humour.” Mike Rea, @IdeaPharma
“We saw you last night at Tiverton. A 100-mile round trip and worth every foot of it. What an amazing show. Humour and pathos. A rare and beautiful thing. We absolutely loved it…” Chas Newport, @chas_newport
‘ A Masterclass’ ★★★★★ THE SCOTSMAN
‘ Jaw-dropping’ CHORTLE
Cop-turned-comedian Alfie returns with a brand-new show ahead of recording his BBC Radio 4 comedy It’s a Fair Cop. The audience are sworn in as cops before Alfie shares a real-life scenario from his own casebook. He playfully challenges them to say what they would’ve done – with often unexpected and entertaining results. Policing decisions are easy in hindsight, aren’t they? Now you can experience the thrills, spills and laughter of making high-risk calls in the moment. Fair Cop: Live! is challenging, thought-provoking and fun. It’d be a crime to miss!
“…offbeat, revealing and very funny” ***** – You Magazine
“Brilliantly funny, genuinely hilarious” – David Mitchell
“His charisma shines through as bright and colourful as a twirling blue light” – Times
Cop-turned-comedian Alfie returns with a brand-new show ahead of recording his BBC Radio 4 comedy It’s a Fair Cop. The audience are sworn in as cops before Alfie shares a real-life scenario from his own casebook. He playfully challenges them to say what they would’ve done – with often unexpected and entertaining results. Policing decisions are easy in hindsight, aren’t they? Now you can experience the thrills, spills and laughter of making high-risk calls in the moment. Fair Cop: Live! is challenging, thought-provoking and fun. It’d be a crime to miss!
“…offbeat, revealing and very funny” ***** – You Magazine
“Brilliantly funny, genuinely hilarious” – David Mitchell
“His charisma shines through as bright and colourful as a twirling blue light” – Times
Join Mark as he warms up ahead of his brand-new UK tour!
Sony and Writers’ Guild Award-winning writer and comedian Mark Steel is best known for his critically acclaimed BBC Radio 4 show Mark Steel’s In Town.
Mark has presented the BAFTA-nominated Mark Steel Lectures for BBC Two, and is a regular on BBC One’s Have I Got News for You and BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz. He has written several acclaimed books, including Reasons To Be Cheerful and What’s Going On? He has also written an adaptation of his critically acclaimed stand-up show Who Do I Think I Am? for Audible.
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