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Johnny Cochrane and Inel Tomlinson are the stars of the RTS award-nominated children’s comedy show ‘The Johnny and Inel Show’ on CBBC. Johnny and Inel are both stand-up comedians who gig and MC all over the U.K.
The Johnny & Inel Show combines an interactive studio sitcom with punchy sketches to create a packed half hour of cool characters, music, catchphrases and comedy. The show was nominated for two RTS awards in 2013 for Best Comedy Show and Best Performance in a Comedy.
Celebrity guests in the second series include Conor Maynard, The Vamps, Doc Brown and The Saturdays.
Inel is also the founder of Kinetic Comedy, one of the best comedy clubs in London.
You can watch the show weekdays at 9.40am on CBBc and CBBCHD or on BBC iPlayer.
www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/shows/the-johnny-and-inel-show
@JohnnyICochrane
@Inel
@JohnnyandInel
@KienticComedy
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Sara Shulman is the Founder and Editor of Comedy Blogedy, TEDxUCL Speaker on ‘The Power of Funny’, former Head of Comedy at UCLU Rare FM and produces the Comedy Blogedy podcast ‘Humour Me’. Sara is currently a student at the National Film & Television School and has written, produced and directed online sketches. Sara occasionally gigs on the comedy circuit.
www.comedyblogedy.com
www.twitter.com/comedyblog
TEDx talk on ‘The Power of Funny’
Caroline Quentin is an award-winning actress, who has performed in some of the most successful British comedies in recent years. These have included Men Behaving Badly, where Quentin played the part of Dorothy and in Jonathan Creek as the part of Maddie Magellan, starring alongside Alan Davies for three years.
Quentin has also appeared in various television and radio comedy shows, such as Have I Got News For You, Dead Boss, Room 101, Mr. Bean, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, BBC Radio 4′s improvisational comedy series ‘The Masterson Inheritance’ and many more.
In 2004, Quentin won the British Comedy Award for ‘Best Comedy Actress’ for her performance in ‘Von Trapped’.
Quentin has recently starred in the Comedy Central series Big Bad World, where she played the part of Jan, mother of the main character Ben (Blake Harrison).
www.twitter.com/quentyquestions
Image credit: Sheila Burnett
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Sara Shulman is the Founder and Editor of Comedy Blogedy, TEDxUCL Speaker on ‘The Power of Funny’, former Head of Comedy at UCLU Rare FM and produces the Comedy Blogedy podcast ‘Humour Me’. Sara is currently a student at the National Film & Television School and has written, produced and directed online sketches. Sara occasionally gigs on the comedy circuit.
www.comedyblogedy.com
www.twitter.com/comedyblog
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A jam-packed night of all star comedy featuring award-winning comedians and sketch acts along with the brightest up and coming comedians on the circuit and headlined by the star of BBC3′s Uncle Nick Helm!
The gig is a fundraiser for an upcoming comedy short film ‘New Hat’ written by and starring David Elms, who will MC the evening, directed by Matt Holt and produced by Sara Shulman.
So come down, laugh yourself silly and help us pay for the sandwiches and stuff…
Tickets £8 in advance / £10 on the door http://
Line-up:
NICK HELM
Star of BBC3′s UNCLE
Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee 2011 & 2013
Best Breakthrough Act – Southbank Sky Arts Awards 2014
www.nickhelm.co.uk / @thenickhelm
MAX AND IVAN
Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award nominees 2013 & panel prize winners 2011
Barry Award Nominees 2013 – Melbourne International Comedy Festival
www.maxandivan.com / @maxandivan
TOM ROSENTHAL
Star of ITV’s Plebs & Channel 4′s Friday Night Dinner
British Comedy Awards Best Breakthrough Act Nominee 2011
Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2011
www.tomrosenthal.net / @rosentweets
DAN SCHREIBER
Co-creator and co-producer of BBC Radio 4′s ‘Museum of Curiosity’ and QI Elf
@schreiberland
DAMIEN SLASH
Over 500,000 views on Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/
www.youtube.com/user/
PATRICK TURPIN
“Slick, brilliantly acted, and original” – CHORTLE
“Accomplished stuff… one to watch” – SCOTSMAN
“Patrick Turpin only needs to stand on stage to provoke giggles from the audience” **** – BROADWAY BABY
@exporepatrick
ELLIE WHITE
BBC Radio 4′s Fresh From The Fringe
Live At The Electric
As featured in Channel 4 Comedy Blaps and BBC Feed MY Funny
@elliewhite5
ORRY GIBBENS
Part of the Youtube sensation ‘Don’t Drop The Egg’
http://www.youtube.com/
@orry_gibbens23
DAVID ELMS (MC)
BBC Three Presents
BBC 3 Edinburgh ‘Marathon Show’
Chortle Student Comedy Awards Finalist
Edinburgh University of the Year Winner
Doors 7:30pm / Start 8pm
Sara Shulman interviews John Kearns about winning the Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award ‘Best Newcomer’ award 2013, writing material, gigging all around the UK and lots more!
Check out this interview with John recorded in July 2013 before he performed his award-winning show at the Edinburgh Festival!
About The Show
“‘Sight Gags for Perverts’, is how one critic described Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove upon its release. Stan cherished this, writing it down on a list headed ‘Titles in Search of a Script’. It was never made, this won’t be either.
I wear a little wig and some false teeth. It’s a disguise you see. I talk about holidaying on your own, the state of comedy as we know it and how we all just want to bloody feel something for gods sake. There is a sing-a-long at the beginning and support is provided by Yogi Baby. You’ll know when the show has ended, as I’ll be in a dress, sporting heels and singing ‘Wrecking Ball’ by Bruce Springsteen. People have told me to take the wig off, some say I don’t need the teeth, others wonder what the voice is, what they’re laughing at, what’s true and what’s made up. There’s one bit that can go either way depending on the audience. Not me.”
‘Now THIS is how you do absurd comedy… a bold, hilarious debut… he has forged comedy gold.’ ★★★★★ Chortle
‘A true comedy original.’ ★★★★ Time Out
‘Extremely funny.’ ★★★★ Scotsman
‘Spike Milligan, Vic & Bob, John Kearns. Say hello to comedy’s latest lunatic.’ ★★★★ Beyond the Joke
‘Perhaps his finest achievement is that in the course of the whole show, there’s nothing you can actually identify as a joke.’ Guardian
‘One of the most bizarre and brilliant hours of comedy I’ve ever witnessed…there is so much going on in his performance at any one moment, that I’m really finding it quite difficult to sum it up in easily digestible English sentences.” - Leicestercomedyscene.co.uk
“Tremendous originality… a jumpy and unpredictable raconteur… a shot of nervous energy, an elastic band about to snap… I can’t see him waiting in reserve for long.” - Broadway Baby
‘Original, dark, bold… won’t be for everyone’- London Is Funny
‘Spectacular Style… keeps the audience riveted and delivers the laughs.’ -British Comedy Guide
‘Highly imaginative… excellent, surrealist ranter.’ – Spoonfed
Image credit Darren Russell (SoundCloud)
www.thatjohnkearns.co.uk
www.twitter.com/johnsfurcoat
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Sara Shulman is the Founder and Editor of Comedy Blogedy, TEDxUCL Speaker on ‘The Power of Funny’, former Head of Comedy at UCLU Rare FM and produces the Comedy Blogedy podcast ‘Humour Me’. Sara has been a scout for the Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards and has written, produced and directed online sketches. Sara occasionally gigs on the comedy circuit.
www.comedyblogedy.com
www.twitter.com/comedyblog
http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxUCL-SARA-SHULMAN-The-power;search%3Asara%20shulman
Adam Larter is a comedian, writer and founder of Weirdos Comedy Club. Adam started performing comedy whilst a student of Creative Writing at Kingston University and has since performed four shows at the Edinburgh Festival whilst also growing a critically acclaimed and award nominated Comedy Club that showcases some of the best acts in the alternative comedy scene.
Adam directed the Weirdos production of ‘Hook’ in 2012 at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club which raised over £4000 for Great Ormond Street Hospital. The production also received a nomination in 2013 for the Chortle Award for Innovation.
Adam has co-written and co-directed another anarchic comedy pantomime with Matthew Highton called ‘The Colonel’. The story explores how a poor boy from Kentucky becomes a face seen on every high street. Featuring some of the best alternative and award-winning comedians including John Kearns, Ben Target, Pat Cahill, Beth Vyse, Joz Norris, Marny Godden, Karl Schultz and Ali Brice.
The show runs for 4 days in December at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club:
Monday 16th December
Tuesday 17th December
Wednesday 18th December
Friday 20th December
All money raised goes to Great Ormond Street Hospital.
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Sara Shulman is the Founder and Editor of Comedy Blogedy, TEDxUCL speaker on ‘The Power of Funny’, former Head of Comedy at UCLU Rare FM and produces the Humour Me Comedy Podcast. Sara is also a recent graduate of Classics at UCL and occasionally gigs on the comedy circuit.
www.comedyblogedy.com
www.twitter.com/comedyblog
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Sara Shulman interviews Johnny Vegas, Steve Coogan, Jack Whitehall, Vicki Pepperdine, Joanna Scanlan, Tom Rosenthal and Ryan Sampson at The British Comedy Awards.
A ribald, rowdy exposé of what goes on behind the closed doors of the ladies’ toilets, Powder Room is outrageously funny. Pulling back the curtain on a world that remains a mystery to men and is delightfully familiar to women, it has broad appeal and is surprisingly full of heart. Featuring a wide array of weird and wonderful characters, from novice teenaged party girls, to seasoned ravers this is a no-holds-barred look at women’s friendships, rivalries and romances in all their infinite variety.
Dan Schreiber is a comedian, writer, producer and presenter. Dan was brought up in Hong Kong and Australia before moving to England, where at just 19 he became a question writer for the BBC TV series QI.
Dan is the co-creator and producer of BBC Radio 4’s highly successful ‘The Museum of Curiosity’, which started in 2008 and is now in its 6th series. Hosted by Blackadder producer John Lloyd, the show has also seen Bill Bailey, Sean Lock and Jon Richardson as guest hosts. The Radio Times review stated that: “It will make you laugh as much as it will make you think. Pornography for the brain!” Dan was a regular panellist on the satirical E4 show, Dirty Digest and is a regular host reporting science funnies for online TV shorts Global Squeeze.
Over the past year, Dan also gigs on the stand-up circuit and has performed at comedy clubs such as Glee, Outside The Box and Crack Comedy and has even supported ‘FolkFace’ on their UK tour, the comedy folk band formed by Dave and Dom from Chris Moyle’s Radio1 breakfast show.
Dan’s extensive repertoire of behind the scenes credits, include heading up Warner Music Entertainment’s comedy arm, executive producing a short Christmas movie entitled ‘A Kitten for Hitler’ with cult director Ken Russell, being a joke collector for Jimmy Carr’s book ‘The Naked Jape’, producing a comedy animation project with Paul McCartney, creating an RDF/Channel Dave pilot starring astronaut Buzz Aldrin, executive producing on ‘Imagine That!’, the internationally bestselling stand-up DVD starring Rhys Darby in which Dan also produced the extras and had a cameo in the show; Sharon Horgan reviewed one of Rhys’ and Dan’s collaborations as “the funniest thing I’ve ever seen”.
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Sara Shulman is the Founder and Editor of Comedy Blogedy, TEDxUCL speaker on ‘The Power of Funny’, former Head of Comedy at UCLU Rare FM and produces the Humour Me Comedy Podcast. Sara is also a recent graduate of Classics at UCL and occasionally gigs on the comedy circuit.
www.comedyblogedy.com
www.twitter.com/comedyblog
tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxUCL-SA…HULMAN-The-power
Joe Tucker and Lloyd Woolf (who was on Skype) are the co-writers and co-creators of Big Bad World on Comedy Central.
Big Bad World is about what happens when you wait for life to begin. Ben (Blake Harrison) has just graduated and the world should be his oyster, but he quickly finds himself back in his hometown and nursing his as-yet unformulated dreams.
He’s also back to hanging out with the same old gang; too-smart-for-her-own-good charity mugger Beth, guitar-obsessive bedsit-philosopher Eggman and University-refuser and unashamed year-round-wearer-of-shorts-and-flip-flops Oakley. If it wasn’t for the frequent overdraft charges, and the renewed proximity of parents Jan and Neil, Ben might almost believe the last three years of his life never happened.
The stellar cast of British comedy heroes also includes CAROLINE QUENTIN (Jonathan Creek, Men Behaving Badly) and JAMES FLEET (Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Vicar of Dibley), along with the fastest-rising talent in comedy, including SEANN WALSH (Argumental, Stand Up for the Week), REBECCA HUMPHRIES (Come Fly With Me), DAVID FYNN (Game of Thrones, Pete Versus Life) and SCARLETT ALICE JOHNSON (Pramface).
Big Bad World is on Wednesdays at 9pm, Comedy Central.
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Sara Shulman is the Founder and Editor of Comedy Blogedy, TEDxUCL speaker on ‘The Power of Funny’, former Head of Comedy at UCLU Rare FM and produces the Humour Me Comedy Podcast. Sara is also a recent graduate of Classics at UCL and occasionally gigs on the comedy circuit.
www.comedyblogedy.com
www.twitter.com/comedyblog
tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxUCL-SA…HULMAN-The-power
Barry Ferns is a stand up comedian, writer, director and actor. Barry also runs and regularly hosts the extremely successful, Time Out recommended and free comedy night Angel Comedy in Islington. As a stand up comedian he has won the Comedy Store New Act competition, and been a finalist in five national stand-up competitions. His writing work has been featured on E4′s School of Comedy and for shows on BBC Radio 1 and 4.
Barry continues to innovate with his shows at the Edinburgh Festival, creating the first shows on top of Arthur’s Seat, the first Audio Tour of the Fringe, dial-a-skethc, and ‘This Show Belongs To Lionel Richie’, all of which each year have received glowing reviews. In 2013, Barry won the Malcolm Hardee Cunning Stunt Award for the best Edinburgh Fringe publicity stunt. Barry is also developing his comedy shorts series ‘Why Are You Doing This To Me?’ – films which have been shown at a number of international festivals including the LA Comedy Film Festival and New York’s Southside Film Festival.
Angel Comedy is launching every night of the week with an extravaganza week of comedy from Monday 30th September – Sunday 6th October.
Monday 30th September
A special screening of Tommy Wiseau’s infamous “The Room”
Tuesday 1st October
Shappi Khorsandi (Live At The Apollo) doing her show, plus a very special guest
Wednesday 2nd october
Jarred Christmas (Live At The Apollo)
Simon Munnery (Attention Scum, C4)
Thursday 3rd October
Sara Pascoe (The Thick Of It / Live At The Apollo)
Daniel Simonsen (Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer 2012)
Friday 4th October
Carey Marx (ITV’s Comedy Cuts / Mock The Week)
Aisling Bea (Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer Nominee 2013)
Saturday 5th October
Luke Toulson (Russell Howard’s Good News, Perrier Award winner 2007)
Arthur Smith (Radio 4, QI, Grumpy Old Men)
Sunday 6th October
Luisa Omielan Performs Her Smash Hit Show “What Would Beyonce Do?!”
www.barryferns.com
www.twitter.com/barryferns
www.angelcomedy.co.uk
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Sara Shulman is the Founder and Editor of Comedy Blogedy, TEDxUCL speaker on ‘The Power of Funny’, former Head of Comedy at UCLU Rare FM and produces the Humour Me Comedy Podcast. Sara is also a recent graduate of Classics at UCL and occasionally gigs on the comedy circuit.
www.comedyblogedy.com
www.twitter.com/comedyblog
tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxUCL-SA…HULMAN-The-power
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