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RUSSELL
BRAND (NIA
Academy) |
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| Friday
23rd January & Thursday 26th February
2009 - 7.30pm |
| Having
wowed American audiences with an acclaimed
movie debut and a host of sold-out stand-up
dates, Russell Brand is poised for a triumphant
return to his homeland in 2009. Russell will
take a deserved break from writing, acting,
TV and radio to return to his first love -
stand up comedy. Almost 18 months since the
curtain fell on his acclaimed ‘Only
Joking' tour, the award-winning comic will
play a series of fourteen must-see dates in
2009. It's been a whirlwind twelve months
for Russell. His scene-stealing performance
in Judd Apatow's 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall'
drew widespread acclaim, enhancing the reputation
he earned with Britflicks 'Penelope' and 'St.
Trinians'. Russell recently completed filming
'Bedtime Stories' with Adam Sandler, and has
been cast in Judd Apatow's next feature, filming
in early 2009. Russell's stand up show has
also been taking North America by storm. An
appearance at Montreal's world-renowned comedy
festival followed sell-out dates at New York's
Grammercy Theatre and Los Angeles' Roxy. His
autobiography ‘My Booky Wook' topped
the UK best-seller list and sold in excess
600,000 hardback copies, going on to win a
prestigious ‘Nibby' at the British Book
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DYLAN
MORAN - WHAT IT IS (Alexandra
Theatre) |
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| Saturday
14th February 2008 - 8pm |
| Dylan
Moran, star of Black Books, Shaun of the Dead
and Run Fat Boy Run, is back with a brand
new show, What It Is. Moran's legendary stand
up rants have sold out across the world cementing
this unkempt wordsmith's reputation as one
of the foremost comics of his generation.
Likened to Dave Allen and labelled ‘The
Oscar Wilde of Comedy', Dylan is unpredictable,
bizarre, elegiac, often cruel but above all
painfully funny. Moran sees through the joys
and disappointments of human existence with
the sensibility and intense perception of
a man teetering on the edge. He chews life
up and coughs it out.
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REAL
DEAL COMEDY JAM (Alexandra
Theatre) |
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| Saturday
28th February 2008 - 7.30pm |
| Since
the Real Deal Comedy Jam's official launch,
they have enjoyed success with many sell out
shows. Their formula of putting British and
American comedians on the same stage has proven
to be popular, and has established their event
as one of the number comedy shows. Tickets
on sale from Wednesday 26th November at 10am.
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JETHRO
2009 (Alexandra
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| Saturday
14th March 2009 - 7.30pm |
| Jethro
started in show business singing traditional
songs in Cornish pubs. At the age of 18, he
joined a local operatic society. But he discovered
he could get laughs, too, and so became a
comic. Although rarely seen on TV, he sells
more than 250,000 theatre seats a year and
does a roaring trade on video. His few small-screen
outings include The Des O'Connor Show, where
he appeared a record nine times, and five
appearances on Jim Davidson’s Generation
Game, twice to make a Cornish Pasty. He has
hosted two shows for West Country ITV station
HTV, The Jethro Junction, and in December
2001 appeared in the Royal Variety show in
front of the Queen. Jethro lives in Lewdown
on the Devon/Cornwall border. His passions
are his show horses, golf, and rugby, having
played prop-forward for Penzance and Newlyn
for ten years from 1967. In 1993 Jethro released
his first video A Portion of Jethro, which
sold nearly 150,000 copies, a success which
he has followed up with another nine titles.
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PAUL
MERTON'S SILENT CLOWNS (Alexandra
Theatre) |
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| Friday
11th April 2009 - 7pm |
| Join
Paul Merton as he screens extracts from the
very best silent comedians in some of their
funniest films. Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton,
Laurel & Hardy and many others are highlighted
by Paul, whose infectious enthusiasm and knowledge
of these films means a splendid time is guaranteed
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| AL MURRAY -THE PUB LANDLORD'S BEAUTIFUL BRITISH TOUR (LG Arena) | | | Tuesday 14th April 2009 - 8pm | | Once a humble Publican, the multi-award winning Al Murray – The Pub Landlord has risen to the honourable position of British comedy royalty, following the continuing success of his hit prime time ITV1 show Happy Hour and a second Audience with Al Murray The Pub Landlord (ITV1). The Guv’nor will be travelling to the four corners of our green and pleasant land to raise a glass with you, the beautiful British public, on his Beautiful British Tour. The Landlord will be merrily musing over a heady brew of topics, as he attempts to put the Great back into Great Britain. The shaming finger of shame will be pointed at you, if you miss what promises to be the must see stand-up comedy event of 2009. (back to list) | | | to book by phone, call | | nec arena | | we also recommend... | 0844 847 2277 | | | |
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DAVE
SPIKEY (Alexandra
Theatre) |
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| Thursday
16th April 2009 - 7.30pm |
| Former
NHS haematologist Dave Spikey’s stand-up
career started in 1992 after many years writing
routines and sketches for other comedians,
TV and radio. He performed with Rick Sykes
as the double act Spikey and Sykey, appearing
on ITV's New Faces show. They split up soon
afterwards. In 1991 he won the City Life North
West Comedian of the year title. He went on
to host gameshow Chain Letters in 1997, following
on from Jeremy Beadle, among others. His next
big break came with his writing collaboration
with Peter Kay, first on That Peter Kay Thing
and then on Phoenix Nights, in which he also
starred as club compere Jerry St Clair. It
won the Best Newcomer award at the British
Comedy Awards in 2002. He has performed two
tours, Overnight Success (which sold 75,000
copies on DVD) and Living The Dream. In 2005,
he wrote and starred in the ITV comedy-drama,
Dead Man Weds, which he also co-starred in,
and in 2006 he presented the revival of darts
gameshow Bullseye on Challenge And since 2005
Spikey has been one of the regular team captains
on the Channel 4 panel game, 8 Out of 10 Cats.
Tickets on sale from Friday 24th October
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BOEING-BOEING
(in
the Main House) |
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| Monday
20th to Saturday 25th April 2009 - 7pm |
| When
Boeing-Boeing took off to a roar of laughter
in London’s West End in 2007, the Daily
Telegraph called it ‘the funniest show
in London’. Directed by Olivier Award-winner
Matthew Warchus, this hysterical production
has since taken Broadway by storm. Audiences
and critics have been unbuckling their seatbelts
and rolling in the aisles for this first-class
Tony Award-winning comedy (Best Revival 2008).
Bernard, a successful architect living in
Paris, thinks he can easily cope with his
three air-hostess fiancées. It’s
all a question of timetables and a reliable,
long-suffering housekeeper who reluctantly
plays the role of romantic air-traffic controller.
But when his long lost cousin Robert arrives,
things start to get turbulent! Schedules change,
flights are delayed and a new turbo-charged
Boeing aircraft is introduced: chaos ensures
in this whirl of mayhem and matchmaking. Starring
Martin Marquez (Hotel Babylon, Dirty Tricks,
EastEnders), Susie Blake (Coronation Street,
The Victoria Wood Show), John Marquez (Hotel
Babylon, EastEnders, Doc Martin), Sarah Jayne
Dunn (Hollyoaks, Drop Dead Gorgeous), Thaila
Zucchi (Skins, Love Soup) and Josephine Butler
(No Heroics, Sorted). Tuesday's & Friday's
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ANDY
PARSONS (Wulfrun
Hall) |
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| Sunday
3rd May 2008 - 7.45pm |
An
experienced comedian who has been travelling
the world reducing audiences to helpless
tears of laughter. One half of Radio 2's
'Parsons & Naylor' show and a lynchpin
of BBC2's 'Mock The Week'. (back
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ROSS
NOBLE - THINGS
(Wulfrun
Hall) |
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| Sunday
24th May 2009 - 7.30pm |
In
09 Noble returns. Ross Noble was voted one
of the top ten greatest stand ups of all
time by Channel 4 viewers. Here's your chance
to see why. In his new show Ross will be
covering the topic of things - big things
and small things. Things that have happened
to him, things that have happened to you.
Surfing the wave of the here and now, join
‘the most brilliant stand-up of his
generation’ (Sunday Telegraph) in
a free form, free wheeling ride into the
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RUSSELL
HOWARD (Symphony
Hall) |
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| Wednesday
17th June 2008 - 8pm |
| Bristol-born
Russell Howard started comedy as a teenager,
making the finals of Channel 4's So You Think
Your Funny? competition in 1999 in only his
fifth ever gig. Two year later, he was also
a finalist in the BBC New Comedy Awards. He
made his Edinburgh debut in 2002, sharing
an hour-long show with fellow stand-up Matt
Blaize, and returned the following year as
part of the long-running Comedy Zone showcase
line-up. His first solo show was in 2004,
and he has returned to the Fringe every year
since. In 2006, his show Wandering was nominated
for the if.comedy award – and he won
the Chortle award for best compere. In 2006,
he joined BBC Two's topical panel game Mock
the Week as a regilar panelist. He has also
made appearances on Would I Lie To You?, Live
At The Apollo, Law of the Playground and Never
Mind the Buzzcocks. On radio, Howard has co-hosted
Radio 2's comedy show Out to Lunch with Rob
Deering and appeared on the Banter and Political
Animal for Radio 4. From November 2006 to
July 2008, heco-hosted a Sunday morning on
BBC 6 Music with Jon Richardson as his sidekick.
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ROY
CHUBBY BROWN
(Alexandra
Theatre) |
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| Wednesday
24th & Thursday 25th June 2009 - 7.30pm |
| The
man with the helmet still shocking audiences
in those few venues that will have him back!
Coarse and blue humour - strictly adults only.
Tickets on sale from Wednesday 9th July.
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ROB
BRYDON (Symphony
Hall) |
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| Wednesday
29th April 2009 - 7.30pm |
Rob
Brydon's credits read like a compendium
of modern British comedy. Marion & Geoff,
Human Remains, I'm Alan Partridge, Black
Books, The Keith Barret Show, A Cock and
Bull Story, Little Britain, Director's Commentary,
Have I Got News For You, I'm Sorry I Haven't
a Clue, Q.I. and most recently his highly
acclaimed performance as Uncle Bryn in Gavin
and Stacey. Now this multi award winning
writer / performer comes to Manchester Palace
Theatre with an evening of brand new stand
up comedy. (back
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CHRIS
ADDISON (Wulfrun
Hall) |
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| Saturday
16th May 2008 - 7.45pm |
Star
of Bafta-winning comedy The Thick of It
and his own BBC2 sitcom Lab Rats, Mr la-di-da
smartypants Addison is regarded as one of
the most versatile comics in the country.
With his pacy, energetic routines and faultless
delivery, he has charmed audiences and critics
alike as a top-class purveyor of smartarse
daftness, whimsy, perspiration, lies and
jokes, and earned two Perrier nominations
for his trouble. Chris Addison will be appearing
on Jonathan Ross on the Friday 4th July
and Lab Rats (his brand new sit com) will
be airing from 10th July on BBC2. Tickets
on sale from Thursday 20th November at 9am.
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JIMMY
CARR - JOKE TECHNICIAN (Civic
Hall) |
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| Saturday
6th June 2008 - 7.45pm |
Jimmy
Carr is not just a TV star. He’s won
awards, released chart-topping DVDs (there’s
a new one out this November), written a best-selling
book and broken box office records by performing
to over 500,000 people in the last three years.
He may be the hardest working man in comedy.
But perhaps he wouldn’t have to be if
he had a little bit more talent. This show
is exactly the same as last year’s except
every single word. It’s rude, crude
and offensive but those aren’t the only
reasons you’ll enjoy it. Not to be missed,
unless it’s not your kind of thing.
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