Reckless Comedy

MONDAY MAY 14TH

Doors 8pm, Show 8:30pm

Entry £3, Season Ticket £10

Robbins’ Well, Leamington Spa

LLOYD LANGFORD: One Day In The Life of Lloyd Owen Langford

A sort of picaresque shaggy dog story. Will contain jokes about bread and circumcision. Expect a potent brew of gags, stories, riffs and accents. Only joking, he just does the one accent.

You may have seen Lloyd on Ask Rhod Gilbert (BBC1) or heard him on Wordaholics (BBC Radio 4).

Praise for his 2011 show: ‘A smart and properly funny observational comic’ (Guardian) ‘An experience that seems likely to prove one of my highlights of the Fringe’ (Chortle)

ANDREW BIRD

The fantastic Andrew Bird brings his third solo show to Leamington.

“Effortlessly engaging and funny as hell” Rhod Gilbert

“Beautifully observed and insightful…not only an entertaining story but a very funny hour of fine stand-up.” Chortle

NEW START TIME

Our shows this season will feature two hour-long previews each night, with an interval. As such, we’ll be starting at 8.30pm, with doors at 8pm. This way we’ll still be done by 11pm so you can get home at a sensible time.

NEW PRICE

We have some really fantastic line-ups and slightly longer shows, as such we’ve put the door price up slightly to £3. This is our first price rise in four years, and is still around the price of a pint, so we hope you don’t mind too much! As a thank you to our loyal regulars, the price of a season ticket (a pass to all nine shows from April-June) will remain the same at just £10.

MONDAY MAY 7th
Doors 8pm, Show 8:30pm
Entry £3, Season Ticket £10
Robbins’ Well, Leamington Spa

SALLY-ANNE HAYWARD: The Inbetweeny Lady
When can I eat sweets forever? Why ruin a cake by cooking it? Why pick the holiday over the car as a prize on a game show? Why not choose the car, sell it and buy sweets?

Just some of the questions award-winning comedian Sally-Anne Hayward was plagued with as a child. Other subjects she is knowledgeable about are lucky dips, blood tests and people who use Twitter to arrange social gatherings … loudly.

**** (Skinny)
**** (ThreeWeeks)
‘Exceptionally funny’ (Independent)
‘Warm and very funny’ (Sarah Millican)
www.sallyannehayward.co.uk.

JULIET MEYERS: Raised By Fridge Magnets
Like her favourite flour, Juliet is self-raised, but has she equipped herself for life’s dramas? In this show about received wisdom, Juliet takes us on a journey of optimism, pessimism, repressed anger and occasional joy as she discusses dysfunctional parents, being an outsider, redundancy, faux spirituality, winking at dogs and loathing fridge magnets.

Juliet has written for The Sarah Millican Television Programme, 8/10 Cats and Radio 4’s News Quiz.

‘Devilish … jokes out of nowhere’ (Scotsman ).
‘A laugh-out-loud funny show that resonates’ **** (Chortle.co.uk).
‘Smart and very funny’ (Sarah Millican).
Twitter: @julietmeyers.

NEW START TIME
Our shows this season will feature two hour-long previews each night, with an interval. As such, we’ll be starting at 8.30pm, with doors at 8pm. This way we’ll still be done by 11pm so you can get home at a sensible time.

NEW PRICE
We have some really fantastic line-ups and slightly longer shows, as such we’ve put the door price up slightly to £3. This is our first price rise in four years, and is still around the price of a pint, so we hope you don’t mind too much! As a thank you to our loyal regulars, the price of a season ticket (a pass to all nine shows from April-June) will remain the same at just £10.

We’re back with our first show of the season, and our first Edinburgh preview.

Before we start, please note two important things:

NEW START TIME
Our shows this season will feature two hour-long previews each night, with an interval. As such, we’ll be starting at 8.30pm, with doors at 8pm. This way we’ll still be done by 11pm so you can get home at a sensible time.

NEW PRICE
We have some really fantastic line-ups and slightly longer shows, as such we’ve put the door price up slightly to £3. This is our first price rise in four years, and is still around the price of a pint, so we hope you don’t mind too much! As a thank you to our loyal regulars, the price of a season ticket (a pass to all nine shows from April-June) will remain the same at just £10.

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

CAIMH McDONNELL: THE ART OF CONVERSATION
Join Irish comedian Caimh (Bafta nominee and writer on Sarah Millican Television Programme) on a whistle-stop tour of his own social ineptitudes. If small talk is your kryptonite, then this is the show for you! An hour of stand-up comedy about people and how they’re really not worth the effort. Caimh was never a big fan of humanity and that was before they started throwing up on his doorstep.

‘Outstanding’ (Telegraph), ‘McDonnell’s warm, inclusive delivery naturally charms the audience’ (Chortle), ‘Superb’ (Manchester Evening News)

DANNY McLOUGHLIN
After supporting the likes of Micky Flanagan, Sean Lock & Justin Moorhouse on tour in the last year Danny’s stock is rising. Join one of the best of the new crop of acts breaking through for a debut hour of stand up and see why he’s widely tipped as a name to look out for.

“McLoughlin’s main weapon is his audacity: he’s so bold he can recite an advertising jingle and still get plenty of laughs”- Chortle

We’re very excited to announce our line-up for the new season, starting April 30th. We’ll be running a slightly different format: each of our nights will feature previews of two full shows that our acts will be taking to the Edinburgh Fringe later this year.

As each preview will be around an hour (with an interval in between them) we’ll be starting at 8.30pm, half an hour early than normal, to fit everything in and still be done by 11pm. Each night will be a bargainous £3 on the door, but season tickets for all eight regular shows remain at £10. That’s sixteen full comedy shows for less than the price of seeing just one at the Edinburgh Fringe. And wait until you see the acts we have lined-up:

April 30th
Caimh McDonnell
And more…

May 7th
Sally-Anne Hayward
And more…

May 14th
Lloyd Langford
Andrew Bird

May 21st
Simon Munnery
Matt Richardson

May 28th
Joe Lycett
Ashley Frieze

June 3rd and June 4th
Reckless Comedy Festival – two full days of shows! Details to be announced soon.

June 11th
Danielle Ward
Gary Colman

June 18th
Matthew Crosby
And more…

June 25th
Pappy’s
And more…

This will be our last show until our return on April 30th, and we have a great line-up:

MONDAY 12th MARCH
ROBBINS’ WELL, LEAMINGTON SPA
Doors 8.30pm, Comedy 9pm
… 18+
Entry just £2

JONATHAN ELSTON
“The carbon footprint that Jonathan has created since his career began is big enough to have destroyed a football pitch sized hole in the Brazilian rainforest. Despite the havoc he is wreaking on the rainforests Jonathan is steadfast in his focus and continues to be one of the most sought after young acts working the circuit.”
“Reminiscent of a young, cheaper Ricky Gervais” – Paul Kerensa

Lou Chawner
“Fantastic performance……holds the audience enraptured” – Edinburgh Evening News

Plus: Will Morris, Ben Briggs and Wow Impro.

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