Reckless Comedy

A very exciting show coming up, with two Edinburgh previews in one night from two brilliant comics. Steve Day and Matthew Crosby will be both be performing early versions of their new Edinburgh Fringe shows – together they’d probably cost you £20 to see in Edinburgh, at Reckless Comedy it’s just £2 and you can see them before everyone else!

MONDAY 6TH JUNE
ROBBINS WELL, LEAMINGTON SPA
“Doors” 8.30pm, Comedy 9pm
Entry just £2

MATTHEW CROSBY: AdventureParty

Matthew Crosby, the short one with the glasses from sketch favourites, PAPPY’S (if.comedy award nominees, Chortle award winners), presents his debut solo show: AdventureParty. Is it an adventure? Is it a party? Is it neither? Come find out. Matthew has written for and performed in a number of TV and radio shows including The Now Show (R4), The Kevin Bishop Show, Robert’s Web (Ch4), Ask Rhod Gilbert (BBC1) and The King Is Dead (BBC3).

“A rising star” BBC Culture Show
“Intriguingly Matthew Crosby from Bromley is also a comedian.” What’s On In Kent magazine

STEVE DAY: Run, Deaf Boy, Run!’

At the age of 47 severely/profoundly deaf comedian Steve Day, of Radio 4, decided to run The London Marathon. In this funny and heart-warming show Steve tells of his struggle to complete the course, and his battles against obstacles far greater than the distance to be run. The more he is absorbed into completing the race the more it becomes a metaphor for his struggles in life, all the trials, triumphs and failures, and the loneliness of the long-distance deaf comedian. Run for a ticket.

*****Chortle.co.uk
****Scotsman
****Three Weeks

Hi folks, we have a very special show coming up on Monday so make sure you come along!

WARWICK COMEDY SOCIETY SHOWCASE

MONDAY 30TH MAY
ROBBINS WELL, LEAMINGTON SPA
“Doors” 8.30pm, Comedy 9pm
Entry just £2

This week’s show features the best student comedy from Warwick university, including headline act and Chortle Student Comic of the Year 2008 Jack Heal:

“almost every line he reveals a sly joke, either an unexpected switch or just some silly play on words.” – Chortle

“romance, wordplay, and a raging desire to kill his girlfriend with a watering can” – Coventry Telegraph

Read More http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/2008/08/27/jack-heal-wins-funny-man-prize-at-edinburgh-festival-92746-21615375/#ixzz1NGmHWWcN

Also featuring:
Chris Purcell
Michael Kehinde
Katherine Howells
Alex Cobb
Alex Gonzalez-Ormerod and Nathan Boardman
Adele and Kate

Very excited for our next Edinburgh preview, it’s going to be absolutely awesome – you really do not want to miss this one.

MONDAY 23RD MAY
ROBBINS WELL, LEAMINGTON SPA
“Doors” 8.30pm, Comedy 9pm
Entry just £2

Following a successful six month residency at Dudley Labour club*, The Bob Blackman Appreciation Society, (Johnny Sorrow and Sir Richard Swan) bring their very own bizarre brand of stand-up, sketch and downright weirdness to Leamington Spa in their new show “Nothing”.

Not to be missed.

“The bloke set the place alight” – Dudley Fire Service

“Definitely a name to look out for.” – BBC Lancashire

“Dulcet tones and odd recurring noises” – bbc.co.uk

“Comedy Legend…. a control of comedy silence that is second to none” – Comedy Crash Pad Beverley website

With support from:
Snez
80s Luke
Holly Grainger
and guest MC Harriet Dyer

Our next Edinburgh preview show is on 9th May and we have the excellently reviewed Tom Binns, creator of Ivan Brackenbury, with his brand new character: Ian D Montfort, The Sunderland Psychic who can channel dead famous people. Come to Robbins’ Well next Monday for this must-see Edinburgh preview, and some great support acts!

Support from:
Paul Savage
“A wonderful way with words.” – BBC
Tom Roche
Adele Cliff

Monday 9th May
Robbins’ Well, Leamington Spa
“Doors” 8.30pm, Comedy 9pm
Entry just £2

Tom Binns is Ian D. Montfort: Spirit Medium

“Ian D Montford, a gloriously deadpan pseudo-psychic. His show – Touching the Dead begins with laughable attempts to work the audience and and then Binns starts unleashing faintly inexplicable clairvoyant revelations, leaving most of the room gasping with incredulity. So he can spoof it, and really ‘do it’”.
TELEGRAPH ★★★★★

“Ian D Montfort, is a spookily skilful, wonderfully observed and hysterically funny character who contacts dead celebrities with incredible results. A monster hit at the Edinburgh Fringe”
TIME OUT LONDON ★★★★★

“Binns makes a triumphant return as the Sunderland psychic Ian D Montfort, mixing eerily good cold-reading skills with a joyful debunking of the genre”
INDEPENDENT ★★★★

“e style of the act is genius –if it works, it’s impressive, if it doesn’t work, well it’s all part of the joke”
CHORTLE ★★★★

Here’s Tom as Ivan Brackenbury:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36a-jueRUBg

Hurrah! Reckless Comedy is back on Monday 2nd May 2011 at Robbins’ Well in Leamington Spa. For this run of shows, we have a whole series of Edinburgh previews lined up. What this means is, as well two or three of your regular acts doing ten-minute bits and trying stuff out, the second half of the show will be handed over to one of the many brilliant acts we have booked, who will treat you to an early version of the whole show they intend to take up to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.

You’ll literally be one of the first people to see the shows that all the critics will be talking about in August. Acts previewing with us in the coming weeks included Tom Binns (creator of Ivan Brackenbury, the hospital radio DJ), Matthew Crosby (from Pappy’s) and Nathan Caton (has his own BBC Radio 4 series starting in December).

But for our first show we have the brilliant Liam Mullone. A nine-year veteran of the comedy circuit, Liam has appeared on the BBC New Comedy Awards as a finalist, ITV’s Take The Mic, and also on BBC Radio 4’s 28 Acts in 28 Minutes. He writes for ITV1, Radio 1 and Radio 4 including for The Now Show and The Smith Lectures.

Monday 2nd May
Robbins’ Well, Leamington Spa
“Doors” 8.30pm, Comedy 9pm
Entry just £2

Liam Mullone: Down to the Bone

Islam. Gaza. Racism. The NHS. The Suzuki Alto GLS. Against the advice of his friends, Leicester’s own Liam Mullone attempts to discuss ALL the subjects best avoided at a middle-class dinner party – or a comedy festival.

• Nominated for best new show, LCF 2010
• “Rarely does someone who seems so confused prove so incisive.” – chortle.co.uk
• “Astonishing. A cult in the making.” – Time Out
• As seen/heard on ITV4 and BBC7
• Writer for BBC R4’s The Now Show and The Smith Lectures

With support from:

• Steven O’Neill
• Ciara Parsons
• Tom Howell
• and MC Dean Love