RICHARD HERRING Edinburgh preview LUCY PORTER Edinburgh preview

Event information

at Camden`s

SIR RICHARD STEELE
97 Haverstock Hill NW3 Chalk Farm /Belsize Park
FULLY AIR CONDITIONED
(Just 5 mins walk from Chalk Farm tube)
or take 168 bus from Camden Town get off when they call Steeles Road.
Bar till midnight
fresh food available to order up to 8pm
with top award winning acts

Monkey Business
Proudly presents
multi award winning
RICHARD HERRING
doing his Edinburgh preview

RICHARD HERRING is one of the UK's most prolific comedians and an innovator in the world of podcasts. He is currently working on a revival of his show Talking Cock which will be touring the UK from October 2012 - June 2013. He took the Edinburgh Festival 2011 by storm with What Is Love, Anyway? which he followed with a national tour of the critically acclaimed show. Richard's audio podcast and sketch show As It Occurs To Me won a Chortle Award and was Sony-nominated. His latest project Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast in which he interviews top comedians is returning for a second series in October 2012. Previous guests include Stewart Lee, Tim Minchin and Armando Iannucci.. He writes a weekly column for the Metro Newspaper and is developing a sitcom, Ra-Ra Rasputin for BBC2.

Richard's recent TV appearances include Argumental (Dave), Set List (Sky Atlantic), Have I Got News For You (BBC One) and Never Mind the Buzzcocks(BBC2). He also wrote and performed two series of Richard Herring’s Objective for BBC Radio 4.

Richard has written and appeared in a number of critically acclaimed plays that have been performed at the Edinburgh Festival, including Punk's Not Dead,Excavating Rita and It's Not the End of the World. His one-man Edinburgh shows include Christ on a Bike, Hitler Moustache and The Headmaster's Son. Richard's blog Warming Up has gained a cult following since he started it in November 2002 and he has written an entry for every single day for almost ten years, making it what is believed to be the second longest consecutive daily blog in the world.

As one half of the comedy duo Lee & Herring, Richard Herring enjoyed phenomenal cult success as a writer and performer with shows such asLionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World (BBC Radio 4), Fist of Fun (BBC Radio 1/BBC Two) and This Morning with Richard Not Judy (BBC Two). Stewart Lee and he have recently bought the rights to bring out both series of Fist of Fun on DVD via independent Welsh company www.gofasterstripe.com.

With Al Murray, Richard devised and wrote 37 episodes of the sitcom Time Gentlemen Please (Sky One/Paramount) for Al's alter ego The Pub Landlord. Richard also wrote and starred in the comedy drama You Can Choose Your Friends (ITV1).

"Herring is a superior comedian ... hilarious."
The Guardian

"Stimulating and Exhilarating... Utterly Hilarious"
Chortle * * * * *

"The best comedian of his generation."
GQ

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Very charming

excellent award winning

LUCY PORTER

doing her Edinburgh preveiw

Lucy has been a huge hit with comedy audiences up and down the country with her distinctive, bouncy, feel-good coith life’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
‘….She is like your witty friend who’s always brilliant company down the pub. Many stand-ups would give their non-drinking arms to be able to transfer that kind of sparkling barroom bonhomie to the stage and Porter does it effortlessly’ THE SCOTSMAN “…refreshingly breezy…someone who finds sweetness even in a man that stole her credit card. Porter is a kitten with enduring appeal.” METRO ****
“….hilarious Porter definitely in credit after the crunch…” EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS *****
“…Porter is one of the most talented comics on the circuit…brilliantly crafted jokes. This is get happy comedy at its very best” TIME OUT ***** “…utterly charming Porter is a frightening gifted comic who sees jokes in the most unusual places…” SUNDAY TIMES SCOTLAND A bit about Lucy Porter.Lucy acted along side Christian Slater in the huge West End play One flew over the Cuckoo`s nest .She's written for Johnny Vaughan, Adam and Joe and Griff Rhys Jones.She's starred in TV shows including BBC1's The Stand Up Show and C5's Comedy Store.She's even written for Jimmy Tarbuck, interviewed porn legend Ben Dover, and flexed her TV pop quiz muscles with Noddy Holder.A respected, in-demand scriptwriting talent and columnist off-screen, skilful and hilarious on-screen she can be heard regularly on the hit Radio 2 show 'Parsons and Naylor's Pull-out Sections', where she delivers a winning mixture of topical and observational stand-up.Press'From the moment she bursts on, with her infectious smile and ridiculously cheery outlook, she has the audience eating out of her hand, feeling as if they've just been hit with the innocence of a doey-eyed deer.'Metro 'Lucy Porter combines a themed set about lying (especially about sexual matters) with a bouncy-girly appeal that it is rather like watching a Blue Peter presenter in a porn marathon.' Financial Times“…Porter is charming company, with a likeable line in audience flattery and impish self-deprecation”THE GUARDIAN “…She entirely disproves the theory that aggression is the root of all stand-up and shows that women can be funny without resorting to blokey hectoring … she’s so lively and smiley that her responses to the audience seem entirely unforced and spontaneous.” THE OBSERVER"

Porter is one of the best nights out at the fringe…a magnetic character…” METRO

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Irish funnyman

TREVOR BROWNE





Trevor is RTE Comedy Awards Finalist, Comedy Ireland Finalist and was selected as a Magners Comedy Festival Best Act Finalist.
His style varies from surreal one-liners to character - musical comedy and he has played at every major musical and comedy festival in Ireland with 2012 highlights including the Electric Picnic, The Forbidden Fruit and the Galway Comedy Festival.
In 2013 Trevor will be taking part in the upcoming RTE Show “The RTE Comedy Awards”, and releasing his first comedy album on iTunes. He is also recording a soon for TV Tour of Ireland Series.
Trevor has performed 3 Edinburgh solo shows and has received reviews like:
Three Weeeks: "Brilliantly funny, perfect." -★★★★★
Culture: "Surreal hilarity" -★★★★★
Fringe Guru: "A one-liner-loaded stand-up show which delivered often hysteric laughs" -★★★★
The Skinny: "Actual tears there were, actual tears running down this critic's actual face; this show is terrific." -★★★★
Fringe Report: “Cracking fun. Genuinely funny”
Chortle: "Genuinely Hilarious"
Hotpress: "Hilariously Aloof"

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Doors 7.30 pm Show 8.45 pm

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