Reckless Comedy

MONDAY JANUARY 14th
Doors 8pm, Show 8:30pm
Entry £3, Season passes (9 shows) £12

TONY COWARDS
“Tony Cowards as the MC skilfully whipped the full house into a state of rapture” – Three Weeks
“sets the audience up perfectly, with a nice self deprecating manner” – Jo Caulfield

Gary Delaney
‘a hugely impressive collection of exquisitely crafted gags by one of Britain’s grandmasters of the one-liner’ -Chortle
‘Quickfire material of the very highest quality is pretty much guaranteed from the fast-thinking Delaney, a master of the deadpan one-liner’ –The Guardian

Will Mars
Will Mars is from the midlands. He isn’t proud of it. His comedy is far from the middle and he sure is proud of that. He is likely to give you black comedy and mix it with observations you probably never had.

Plus Jonathan Elston, Robert Kemp, and Liam Dillonc!

MONDAY NOVEMBER 26TH
Doors 8pm, Show 8:30pm
Entry £3

MATT GREEN
“A stand up audience’s dream” ***** Three Weeks
“Not only charming and affable but also disarmingly intelligent” **** The List

Gary Delaney
‘a hugely impressive collection of exquisitely crafted gags by one of Britain’s grandmasters of the one-liner’ -Chortle
‘Quickfire material of the very highest quality is pretty much guaranteed from the fast-thinking Delaney, a master of the deadpan one-liner’ –The Guardian

Will Marsh
Will Marsh is from the midlands. He isn’t proud of it. His comedy is far from the middle and he sure is proud of that. He is likely to give you black comedy and mix it with observations you probably never had.

Andy Robinson
‘Andy Robinson is the comedy equivalent of gold dust, pure talent just waiting to be discovered’ – The Guardian

Plus Jason Manly and David Hannant

MONDAY NOVEMBER 19TH
Doors 8pm, Show 8:30pm
Entry £3

This week’s line-up is ridiculously good.

OWEN NIBLOCK
“ground-breaking” – The Scotsman
“A very funny man” – Russell Howard
“inspired and offbeat” – Chortle

Gary Delaney
‘a hugely impressive collection of exquisitely crafted gags by one of Britain’s grandmasters of the one-liner’ -Chortle
‘Quickfire material of the very highest quality is pretty much guaranteed from the fast-thinking Delaney, a master of the deadpan one-liner’ –The Guardian

Edward Aczel
‘perhaps Britain’s greatest living anti-comedian’ -Guardian
‘Edward Aczel makes unprofessionalism into an artform’ – **** Times

Andy Robinson
‘Andy Robinson is the comedy equivalent of gold dust, pure talent just waiting to be discovered’ – The Guardian

Plus The Man In The Bowler Hat and Chris Purcell

MONDAY 12TH NOVEMBER
Doors 8pm, Show 8:30pm
Entry £3

JAMES W SMITH
“Brilliantly frenzied… impressively insightful and consistently entertaining” – ThreeWeeks
“Very good material” – Edinburgh Evening News
“Funny, genial… better than he thinks he is” – Londonist
“Stewart Lee’s dryness, but with Dave Gorman’s delivery” – On The Fringe

Plus: Norman Cho, Masud Milas, William Lee, Lisa Deville, Daniel Nicholas and Sam Felix

STEVE DAY
Steve Day describes himself as Britain’s only deaf comedian, if there are any others he hasn’t heard. Actually there are a couple of others who have started since he wrote that joke, but it’s only a joke after all.

A familiar voice on Radio 4, Steve has appeared many times on You and Yours, was a token man on Woman’s Hour, has appeared in two radio dramas, All Fingers and Thumbs with Bill Nighy, whom he punched dramatically, and Sound Barriers with Patricia Routledge and Caroline Quentin, both of whom he was prevented from punching.

“Revelatory and very funny” – The Guardian
“Wonderful” – Bath Chronicle

Gary Delaney
‘a hugely impressive collection of exquisitely crafted gags by one of Britain’s grandmasters of the one-liner’ -Chortle
‘Quickfire material of the very highest quality is pretty much guaranteed from the fast-thinking Delaney, a master of the deadpan one-liner’ –The Guardian

Paul Savage
“Paul Savage was fantastic” Portsmouth News
“Fine lines, Decent Ideas” Steve Bennett, Chortle

Plus David Tandy, Liam Dillon-Cambridge and more TBA!

Line-up announcing soon!

MONDAY JUNE 25th
Doors 8pm, Show 8:30pm
Entry £3, Season Ticket £10
Robbins’ Well, Leamington Spa

PAPPY’S: LAST SHOW EVER!
Pappy’s bring us a preview of their brand new show full of sketches, songs and silliness! But is this really the end for ‘the funniest sketch troupe on the fringe’? (Scotsman). After appearances on Channel 4, Radio 4 and BBC3, five hit Edinburgh shows, three national tours and two award-winning podcasts, are they finally throwing in the towel? Edinburgh Award nominees, Chortle Award winners, Loaded LAFTA winners. **** (Independent on Sunday). **** (Mirror). **** (Chortle.co.uk). ‘Masterful comic invention’ (Guardian). ‘A jaw-dropping, laugh-a-second spectacular from three young men who are supremely talented writers and performers’ (Chortle.co.uk).

MITCH BENN: REDUCED CIRCUMSTANCES
The adventures of a contracting man in a contracting world… The world is shrinking, the economy’s shrinking and comic songwriter Mitch Benn, ‘The country’s leading musical satirist’ (Times), is shrinking. In January 2011 he weighed 25 stone (that’s 350lb if you’re American and 160kg if you’re properly foreign). By last year’s Edinburgh Fringe he had lost 10 stone. How did he do it? Where’s it gone? How the hell did he reach 25 stone in the first place? And the real question: what will he (and we) do now? Music. Mirth. Morbid obesity. An early look at Mitch’s latest solo show