Patrick Monahan
Patrick has had a meteoric rise up the stand up comedy ladder. He has gone from open spot to headliner in an incredibly short length of time and is now a regular MC and headline stand up performer at the top London and UK comedy clubs including the prestigious Jongleurs circuit and the Comedy Store. In addition Patrick is now hugely in demand in front of camera as well as a TV warm up comedian due to his lovability and clean funny material.
As well as a brillaint stand Patick also brings his brilliant children's show to this year's festival.
Patrick Monahan - stories and fables for kids that like to sit at tables!
Brand new stories and fables never heard before, told by a 467 year old storyteller from the Middle-East who looks and sounds a lot like stand up comedian Patrick Monahan! This show is for kids aged from 5 years to a 105 years old, why leave your nan at home when she can come to the show as well!
TopLucy Porter
'You have got to have talent and not a little cheek to carry off Mary Tyler Moore innocence while taking gags off into the wild blue yonder - and Lucy Porter has bags of both' The Guardian
"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 doe-eyed deer.' Metro
Since 2001, Lucy Porter has been a huge hit with UK comedy audiences up and down the country with her distinctive, bouncy, feel-good comedy. Lucy Porter is one of the UK most popular stand ups and is a regular on BC and Channel 4 shows such as "Mock the Week", "Never Mind the Buzzcocks" and "Eight out of Ten Cats".
Lucy has just completed her eighth sell out show Fools Gold at the Edinburgh Festival to rave reviews. Prior to this she toured her 2008 sell out Edinburgh show 'The Bare Necessities,' to venues across the UK . Her show 'Lucy Porter's Love In' also sold out a nationwide 40 date tour.
TopSimon Brodkin: Still Not Himself
Character comedy at its absolute best from the star of ITV1's Al Murray's Multiple Personality Disorder. Still Not Himself presents 4 inspired creations from one of the country's most exciting comedians.
"A prodigious talent, Simon Brodkin could well become a household name" The Times
"A veritable feast of character comedy, all packing harpoon-sharp material" The Scotsman.
"Simon Brodkin's new show is inspired" Metro.
"There have been plenty of attempts to nail the "chav" as a comedy archetype (think Matt Lucas and Catherine Tate), but no one's done it quite like Simon Brodkin. His Lee "Nelsy" Nelson character has the trainers and the bling, but he's also got a three-dimensional personality. One of a range of inspired alter egos that Brodkin uses to demonstrate his deft comic writing, watch out also for dense yet unexpectedly pretentious Premiership footballer Jason Bent" The Guardian
See a Cip of Simon Brodkin's Premiership footballer Jason Bent
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Tom Basden
Excellent musicianship and ludicrous lyricism' The Independent
"A Comedy Genius" The Guardian
Winner of a Fringe First at the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe
Winner of the if.comedy Best Newcomer Award at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe
TopJustin Moorhouse
"Easily my favourite comedian" Jimmy Carr
"Moorhouse charms the pants off the crowd" Sunday Times
"Like Peter Kay physically and vocally, and not unlike Alan Bennett linguistically…capable of ranting ecstatically with one of the most enthusiastically expressive faces in comedy…Justin Moorhouse is simultaneously down to earth and out of this world" **** List
"A natural comedian, blessed with a warm engaging personality…A gentle comedic tour de force which nearly brought a tear to a critical glass eye…a brutal humour that teeters just on the right side of bitter…excruciatingly funny" **** Herald
"Good, honest, down-to-earth, funny situational comedy…If you have had about all you can take of experimental theatre and want a guaranteed hour of laughs, go see this show." **** www.chortle.co.uk
"Moorhouse charms the pants off the crowd" Sunday Times Critical List
TopDANIEL SLOSS - Teenage Comedian
Fresh from a phenomenally successful sell-out season at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Scotland's 18-year-old comic prodigy, Daniel Sloss, has rocketed to prominence as one of the next generation of the UK's finest comedy performers.
"A HIGH-ENERGY DOSE OF COMING-OF-AGE LAUGHS." Independent on Sunday 2009.
"Astonishingly condfident" Sunday Times 2009
Remember when you were a teenager, desperately trying to avoid eye contact with your mum because last night she caught you doing the things that hormone-ridden teenagers do in the comfort of their own rooms? Daniel remembers it like it was yesterday because it WAS yesterday….
In August 2008, at just 17, Daniel became one of the youngest-ever finalists in the prestigious nation-wide So You Think You're Funny comedy competition held during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. There are very few people truly destined to be comedians - making people laugh is all Daniel has ever wanted to do since he could talk and he is undisputably one of those select few who are natural-born standups.
A comic powerhouse packed with boundless energy, he also performed a season of his own live standup comedy show during the same Fringe where he played to remarkably packed houses and attracted a lot of TV company attention.
Despite his young years, Daniel has been a regular writer for Frankie Boyle on the past two seasons of BBC's satirical news quiz "Mock the Week" and generates a prolific amount of other standup, sketches and video material. He is already developing his own sitcom project.
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