Interview with Josh Widdicombe
Posted: February 22, 2012 Filed under: Audio, Comedy, Josh Widdicombe, Stand-up | Tags: 8 Out of 10 Cats, Audio, Comeyd, If This Show Saves One Life, Josh Widdicombe, Live At The Apollo, Sara Shulman, Stand-up, Stand-up for the Week, The Soho Theatre Leave a comment »
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Best Newcomer Nominee – Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2011
FHM Stand Up Hero 2010 (ITV4)
Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2010
Chortle Best Breakthrough Act Nominee 2011
‘So You Think You’re Funny’ finalist 2008
As well as star of Live At The Apollo, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Stand-up for the Week & more!
Check out Josh’s debut stand-up show ‘If This Show Saves One Life’ at The Soho Theatre and on tour!
www.joshwiddicombe.co.uk
@Joshwiddicombe
Do you want to work at the Edinburgh Festival 2012?
Posted: February 20, 2012 Filed under: Comedy, Edinburgh Fringe Festival | Tags: Comedy, Edinburgh Festival 2012, Flyerer, Technician Leave a comment »Do you want to work at the Edinburgh Festival 2012?
Flyerer
- Accommodation & expenses provided
- You’ll be needed for about 6 hours a day e.g. flyering, sourcing reviews etc.
-You need to be enthusiastic and willing to talk to people! (But you’ll be flyering for some of the best acts in comedy so you’ll want to tell people how great their shows are anyway!)
Technician
- Accommodation & expenses provided
- You need experience for this role e.g. basic sound a lights from a sound desk and confident use of a mac.
- You’ll be needed for about 3 – 4 hours a day, plus tech rehearsals on the first day and any extra shows if they get added.
If you’re interested, e-mail sara@humourme.co.uk or Tweet @comedyblog
Audio: Humour Me with Tom Rosenthal
Posted: February 18, 2012 Filed under: Comedy, Humour Me | Tags: Comedy, Friday Night Dinner, Humour Me, Humour Me: Live!, Logan Murray, Pappy's, Rare FM, Sara Shulman, Stand-Up and Deliver Comedy Course, Tom Rosenthal Leave a comment »
Tom Rosenthal, British Comedy Award nominee and star of Channel 4′s Friday Night Dinner, co-presents Humour Me with Sara Shulman. The show features an interview with Logan Murray, comedian, author and leader of the best comedy course in Europe, as well as an interview with the award-winning and critically acclaimed sketch-group Pappy’s!
There’s also more information about the upcoming Humour Me: Live! gig as well as an exciting opportunity to work at the Edinburgh Festival 2012!
Humour Me features original theme music written and performed by The Noise Next Door!
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News: Comedy Blogedy & Bright Club Present: Humour Me: Live!
Posted: February 13, 2012 Filed under: Comedy, Humour Me, News, Students | Tags: Bright Club, Comedy, Comedy Blogedy, David Morgan, Humour Me, Humour Me: Live!, Mama Biashara, Naz Osmanoglu, News, Sara Shulman, Stand-up, Steve Cross, The Wilmington Arms, UCL 1 Comment »Are you going to Humour Me?
A comedy show piloting student stand-up at UCL (University College London) will take place at The Wilmington Arms on 15th March 2012.
Following the success of UCL’s regular Bright Club, where university staff share a stage with professional comedians and entertainers to dig out the funny side of their work, it’s now time for UCL students to tread the boards.
Humour Me: Live! will feature a line-up of UCL undergraduates and postgraduate students. The majority are comedy virgins and will be performing their very first five minutes of stand-up – a momentous occasion!
The “extremely funny” David Morgan will compere the evening and award-winning Naz Osmanoglu (one third of the sketch group Wit Tank) will headline.
News: Record Breaking ‘Amused Moose Laugh Off’ Hunt for 2012′s Most Amoosing New Comic
Posted: February 9, 2012 Filed under: Amused Moose, Comedy, News | Tags: 2entertain, Amused Moose Laugh Off, Comedy, Comedy Competition, Hils Jago, Jack Whitehall, Jimmy Carr, Sarah Milican Leave a comment »
A record-breaking 700 entries have so far been made for the prestigious, nationwide Amused Moose Laugh Off contest, which searches out and discovers the next big comedy stars.
Entries opened on 1st January, but due to 50% more interest than expected extra qualifying rounds have been added including one this coming Sunday in Camden, to accommodate the waiting list that formed for the qualifying rounds in London as well as the North of England and Scotland. There are now just a handful of spaces available in London this Sunday, and in the Ireland rounds in April.
Audio: Humour Me with Naz Osmanoglu & Kieran Boyd
Posted: February 4, 2012 Filed under: Audio, Comedy, Humour Me | Tags: Audio, Bright Club, Comedy, Daniel Simonsen, Humour Me, Humour Me: Live!, Kieran Boyd, Knock2Bag, Lynne Parker, Max & Ivan's Roffle Club, Naz Osmanoglu, Rare FM, Sara Shulman, Wit Tank Leave a comment »
Naz Osmanoglu and Kieran Boyd, stand-ups and members of the sketch group Wit Tank, co-present Humour Me with Sara Shulman and the show also features an interview with Norwegian comedian Daniel Simonsen as well as the founder and Executive Producer of Funny Women, Lynne Parker. You can also find out details of some upcoming comedy shows around London, including Max & Ivan’s Roffle Club on 5th February at The Leicester Square Theatre and Knock2Bag where students can get in for £4, just show your NUS/Student Card.
Naz Osmanoglu is headlining ‘Comedy Blogedy & Bright Club present: Humour Me: Live!’ on 15th March at The Wilmington Arms. Tickets are £5 and all profits will go to Mama Biashara. You can buy tickets on We Got Tickets. Check out the Humour Me: Live! Facebook event page for more details.
Humour Me features original theme music written & performed by The Noise Next Door.
COMPETITION: Tweet (@comedyblog), E-mail: sara[@]humourme.co.uk or Facebook a caricature of yourself drawn on a napkin. The winning entry will go on Comedy Blogedy! Listen to Naz & Kieran’s interview for more details!
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Interview with Phil Boothman
Posted: January 27, 2012 Filed under: Comedy, Reviews | Tags: Comedy, Interviews, New Acts, Phil Boothman, Squarise Leave a comment »
Comedy Blogedy: How long have you been gigging in stand-up?
Phil Boothman: Just over three years, I started back in August 2008 at a variety night at The Oakford Social Club in Reading, where I used to live. Because there weren’t too many places to gig around Reading I was the only comedian on the bill, so the audience didn’t really know what to make of me. I got nervous, hit myself in the face with the mic as I got it out of the stand and stumbled drunkenly through a 10-minute set, but it never put me off!
Review: Chris Ramsey, ‘Offermation’, The Soho Theatre, London
Posted: January 26, 2012 Filed under: Chris Ramsey, Comedy, Reviews | Tags: Chris Ramsey, Comedy, Offermation, Reviews, The Soho Theatre Leave a comment »
As soon as Chris Ramsey came on stage, his ease and eagerness to interact with the audience was apparent and, if there wasn’t a time limit, the interactivity could have gone on indefinitely but, believe me, nobody would even think to look at their watches!
Ramsey’s likeability, charisma and “sandancing” charm created a relaxed feel to the whole show with seamless transitions from one brilliantly told story to the next and some really fantastic attention to detail! The fast-paced and highly energetic articulation of each joke both linguistically and physically and the relatability of each anecdote was so well-delivered that the odd heckle was not in fact a heckle but was the perfect example of audience members just “joining in” because they were completely captivated by each story.
Audio: Humour Me with Bec Hill
Posted: January 21, 2012 Filed under: Comedy, Humour Me | Tags: Bec Hill, Chris Ramsey 'Offermation', Dominic Holland, Hils Jago, Humour Me, Pun Run, Rare FM, Sara Shulman, The Noise Next Door, Weirdos Leave a comment »
Bec Hill co-presents this week’s show with Sara Shulman discussing Pun Run, the Australian comedy scene and Bec’s experiences of being a comic. The show also features an interview with Dominic Holland about ’Eclipsed’ and the corporate side of comedy gigging and the grande dame of the comedy world Hils Jago provides a fascinating insight into Amused Moose, how to get “discovered” in Edinburgh how to “make it” in the comedy industry and more!
There’s also information about some upcoming shows including Chris Ramsey’s Offermation Spring Tour, starting at the Soho Theatre on 25th January and Weirdos comedy night for alternative comedy in King’s Cross.
The show has original theme music written & performed by The Noise Next Door!
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For more Humour Me shows, visit comedyblogedy.com/audio
Review: Festival of the Spoken Nerd, The Bloomsbury Theatre, London
Posted: January 19, 2012 Filed under: Comedy, Reviews | Tags: Andrea Seller, Blue Peter, Comedy, Festival of the Spoken Nerd, Helen Arney, Kent Valentine, Matt Parker, Reviews, Steve Mould, the Bloomsbury Theatre Leave a comment »
On the day of the Wikipedia Blackout what better show to watch than Festival of the Spoken Nerd! Helen Arney, Steve Mould and Matt Parker delighted the audience with science, story-telling, songs and experiments. Missing fundamentals to astronomy to flame tubes were all delivered with a comic angle and a nerdy twist.
