
Thursday 13th December at 7.45pm
Hennessy & Friends’ Sketchy Nights at the Pleasance
Tickets: £6 from Pleasance box office or website: http://www.pleasance.co.uk/
Ooh! It’s a brand spanking new comedy night hosted by ‘Hennessy & Friends’! Featuring the hottest sketch and character comedy acts around.
Hennessy & Friends are back in town after their sell-out run at Edinburgh 2012 with hit show ‘A History of Violence’. As seen on E4’s ‘Phoneshop’ and BBC Three’s ‘Lee Nelson’s Well Funny People’.
Hennessy and Friends
**** CHORTLE: ‘Flawlessly funny… Fantastic original ideas.’
THE GUARDIAN: ‘More ideas per minute than most sketch groups manage in the space of an hour…a delightfully screwy affair.’
**** THE SCOTSMAN: ‘this blackly funny three way sketch romp suggests the emergence of a future star.
Max and Ivan
Epic narrative sketch comedy from multi award-winning comedy double act.
2011 Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award Panel Prize Winners
‘Undeniably superstars of tomorrow. It feels like watching early Walliams and Lucas or Enfield and Whitehouse.’
GQ Magazine
Catriona Knox
One third of ‘The Boom Jennies’ and as seen on BBC1’s ‘Not Going Out’; as heard on Radio 4’s ‘Sketchorama’ and ‘Strap In! It’s Clever Peter!’
‘Hilariously executed with commitment, verve and a cracking script – endlessly entertaining’ Chortle.
‘Knox inhabits her characters like squatters in an Islington townhouse’ FestMag
David Elms
As seen on BBC Comedy Presents. Edinburgh University Stand up of the Year and finalist in 2012’s Chortle Student Awards.
“Sharp, eccentric writing… unstoppable” – Chortle
“Fashes of real comic genius” **** Broadway Baby
“Original, Intelligent and Madcap” **** What’s On Stage
“Very, very funny… A joy to watch” **** Informed Edinburgh
Bob and Jim
2012 Musical Comedy Awards finalists
‘Expect to be swept up in the fun and nonsense and be fully entertained’ Three Weeks
‘Top Notch Buffoonery’ The List.