Reckless Comedy

After a week off we’re back with an awesome show on Monday, with the fantastic Alfie Moore who will be warming-up for his forthcoming national tour. For the first time in ages, we should be back in the basement bar too, which our long-time fans will know for being awesome…. Plus there’s a competition to win a pair tickets to The Invisible Dot tour!

MONDAY 5th MARCH
ROBBINS’ WELL, LEAMINGTON SPA
Basement bar
Doors 8.30pm, Comedy 9pm
18+
Entry just £2

ALFIE MOORE
Born and raised on a council estate in Sheffield he was an apprentice in the steelworks before joining the Police.

Alfie was inspired to take up stand-up comedy in 2007 after his first taste of live comedy at a local comedy club. He quickly became well and truly hooked and was soon performing regularly up and down the country.

He has twice written and performed his own one-man show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where they have each run for the full 22 nights. He has also supported Sarah Millican, Russell Kane and Milton Jones on their national comedy tours. In 2011 Alfie was one of the stars of ITV1′s Show Me The Funny and wrote and presented ‘Alfie Moore’s Almanac’ for BBC Radio. Most recently he has been featured in BBC3′s Bizarre Crime.

“He’s a very funny man”.
Rhod Gilbert

“Fascinating and funny”.
Steve Bennett, Chortle

Plus Gary Delaney, Rob Coleman and more!

Hey folks, there is NO RECKLESS on Monday. We’re back March 5th. If you are in desperate need of Monday-night funnies, do check out the Chortle Student Comedy Awards on Warwick campus (http://on.fb.me/zwHg5f) which are being in part run by Reckless head-lady Katherine, and features three of our favourite regulars: Chris Purcell, Darren Harriot and Michael Kehinde. All MC’d by Joe Lycett, who is no Dean Love, but is very funny and did Reckless just last year.

Coventry Heat – Chortle Student Comedy Awards 2012
7.30pm, Copper Rooms 2, University of Warwick
£5 (£3 students)
Tickets available here

Acts performing:

MC Joe Lycett
David Murphy
Thomas Goffe
Jordan Gough
Lovdev Barpaga
Matt Holmes
Chris Purcell
Alex Kealy
Opemipo Kehinde
Jack Campbell
Daniel Nicholas
Richard Gadd
Mel Lawes
Joe Meloy

For full info on the competition please see chortle.co.uk/student

MONDAY 20th FEBRUARY
ROBBINS’ WELL, LEAMINGTON SPA
“Doors” 8.30pm, Comedy 9pm
18+
Entry just £2

SARAH BENNETTO
“But the undeniable star of the show is the scintillating storyteller who is our hostess, narrator and raconteur, Sarah Bennetto. Her stories and anecdotes are particularly funny (ask her about the time her father tried to pimp her for some more land).” – Broadway Baby

“Her amusing anecdotes highlighted the importance of locking toilet doors, and why quiche and misogyny are inextricably linked.” – Three Weeks

“Feisty” -Time Out, London

Sarah Bennetto is a stand-up comic from Melbourne, Australia, now living and performing in the UK. She has performed on stage, radio and television as a stand-up comic and presenter, and is responsible for experimental comedy collective Storytellers’ Club.

JAMES W SMITH
“Some great one liners. Shows lots of promise.” Richard Herring
“Brilliantly frenzied… impressively insightful and consistently entertaining” – ThreeWeeks

WOW IMPRO
WOW Impro were formed in 2004 by Rich Coad & perform regular improvised shows & run regular improv & theatre workshops in & around the Midlands.

Performances have included appearances the Leicester Comedy Festival, Birmingham Artsfest & The Cockpit Theatre, London in the Theatre Sports Cup.

Plus support from Bruce Cochrane, Jay Handley and Jay Stewart! Hosted by Dean Love

MONDAY 13th FEBRUARY
ROBBINS’ WELL, LEAMINGTON SPA
“Doors” 8.30pm, Comedy 9pm
18+
Entry just £2

This week it’s time for another Reckless Student Showcase, featuring the best of stand-up from Warwick Comedy Society and Warwick University Students. The brilliant and entirely homegrown Biscuit and Brawn are headlining following their hit Fringe show last year!

Also featuring:

Tom Reddington
Dan Parkes
Chris Purcell
Michael Kehinde

MONDAY 6th FEBRUARY
ROBBINS’ WELL, LEAMINGTON SPA
“Doors” 8.30pm, Comedy 9pm
18+
Entry just £2

JAMES DOWDSWELL

“A quirky impressionist with very funny material.” – The Times

“James Dowdeswell is a real master of the comedian’s craft.” – Chortle.co.uk

James is an imaginative storytelling comedian who delivers gags from a slightly absurd observational standpoint. He is a headline act at most top UK comedy clubs. His comedy has travelled as far as Shanghai, Dubai, Doha, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Phuket, Australia and Singapore.

Dowdeswell has appeared in Ricky Gervais’ Extras, The World Stands Up, Edinburgh And Beyond on the Paramount Comedy Channel. This year he has starred in Chaos – a TV sketch show pilot, Rekindle – a short film, and is currently filming his own comedy show about wine called “James Dowdeswell – Black Belt In Wine.”

JACK HEAL

Winner of Chortle’s student comedy award, 2008
“This maths graduate’s gags were constructed as intricately and rigorously as any complex equation, but a hell of a lot funnier.” – Chortle

ROGER SWIFT

The true master of prop comedy, shameless & relentless. He forces his audiences into submission with a complete onslaught of visual jokes.

Plus support from Ric Shaw, Ben Doyle, Patrick Draper and more! Hosted by Dean Love

MONDAY 30th JANUARY
ROBBINS’ WELL, LEAMINGTON SPA
“Doors” 8.30pm, Comedy 9pm
18+
Entry just £2

ISZI LAWRENCE

“Iszi Lawrence finds herself in bracket alongside Josie Long and Sarah Millican” – Oxford Times 2010

Iszi cuts a lean figure onstage that is counterbalance her intelligent, silly jokes and stories. Resident compere of the Lil Fat Comedy Club, Witney and Resist the Glamour, Cheltenham. BBC Comedy Semifinalist. Headliner in UK, Norway and Belgium. Camden, Brighton and Edinburgh Fringe ‘sell out’ shows.

Radio credits include appearances on BBC Radio 1’s The Milkrun, BBC radio Oxford’s Breakfast show and BBC 7 as a BBC New Comedy Award semi-finalist. She has also written and performed for Resonance FM’s The Ten Minute Sketch Show.

“Dead good” Greg Davis 2009
Threeweeks**** – August 2009

JONATHAN ELSTON
“A young comic with incredible talent and natural warmth” – The Guardian

MATT RICHARDSON
“Full of verve and energy …quirky asides brought sparkle to his act…undeniably well-told.” – Chortle

TOM ROCHE
“Cracking material and enough energy to light a kettle in a powercut.” – Spotlight Comedy

With support from Shaun May and more. Hosted by Dean Love.

MONDAY 23rd JANUARY
ROBBINS’ WELL, LEAMINGTON SPA
“Doors” 8.30pm, Comedy 9pm
18+
Entry just £2

WILL MARSH

We’re joined next week by the wonderful Will Marsh, who will be treating us to the first every performance of his new solo show, Ruination:

“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. You may even think about life a little differently once he has finished. One thing is guaranteed, once the laughing stops you will wonder just how messed up this world really is.”

“… Will Marsh took the room to a new level with lines that defy you not to laugh … Impeccable delivery and the highlight of the night” – BBC

With support from: Gary Delaney, Darren Harriott and Ryan Jones.
Hosted by Dean Love.

We’re back!

Our first show of the year has a bloody brilliant line-up so really, really, don’t miss it. Still just £2, new VIP season tickets will be available for just £10 for entry to all eight shows this season along with other bonus goodies!

MONDAY 16TH JANUARY
ROBBINS’ WELL, LEAMINGTON SPA
“Doors” 8.30pm, Comedy 9pm
18+
Entry just £2

SALLY-ANNE HAYWARD
“Hayward is a bubbly stream of comedy anecdotes…a delightfully chatty act…an immensely likeable stage manner.” – Chortle

“Small time country posh life versus young lady breaking into the stand-up circuit. Fabulous.” – BBC London Live

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

MATT RICHARDSON
“Frantic delivery… Gave a confident and well structured set” – The Stage

“Full of verve and energy …quirky asides brought sparkle to his act…undeniably well-told.” – Chortle

LOU CHAWNER
“Fantastic performance……holds the audience enraptured” – Edinburgh Evening News

STEPH LANE
“Super-sharp one liners; very dark, very laidback.” Funny’s Funny Competition 2011

with support from Matt Dibbens, Ben Briggs and hosted by Dean Love.