Bennett Arron: It wasn’t me it was Bennett Arron
Support Act - Mary Bourke
Saturday February 20 8pm £8/10otd
Several years ago, award-winning writer and stand-up comedian Bennett Arron was in serious debt. He owed thousands of pounds to mobile phone companies, catalogues and department stores. Only it wasn’t him.
Bennett was a major victim of Identity Theft, which resulted in he and his pregnant wife becoming penniless and homeless.
Years later, Bennett wrote a comedy show about his experience. The show was critically acclaimed at the Edinburgh Festival and led to Bennett presenting a documentary for Channel 4 showing how easy the crime of ID theft is to carry out by stealing the identities of the general public. Bennett then carried out an act which would have serious repercussions – he stole the identity of the then Home Secretary, Charles Clarke. The documentary, How to Steal an Identity, was Pick of The Week in The Guardian and The Telegraph and was called ‘Fascinating and Disturbing’ by the TV Times. It went on to be shortlisted for a BAFTA.
Bennett is the only Jewish/Welsh Comedian on the Comedy Circuit. His humour is a cross between the paranoid angst of Max Boyce and the colloquial valley humour of Woody Allen.
His television performing credits include; Not Tonight With John Sergeant, Glee Time, Large and most recently he was a Presenter on Big Brother's Little Brother for E4 and Channel 4
Bennett has written for many comedy programmes, including The 11 O'Clock Show, Commercial Breakdown and the BAFTA winning V Graham Norton. He has also written for several children's programmes including the BAFTA winning Slammer for the BBC and he wrote 21 episodes of Genie in The House, the highest-rated children's sitcom on Nickelodeon.
Bennett has been called… 'A Welsh Seinfeld' by The Guardian; 'Genuinely Original and Funny' by The Timesand ‘Case Number 2477419’ by The Metropolitan Police.
www.bennettarron.co.uk
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The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
Support Act - Magician Ali Cook
Saturday March 6 7.30pm £8/10otd
The stars of BBC3's Comedy Shuffle & Upstaged, MTV's Best Show Ever, and 4 whole seconds on The Culture Show bring you a brand new hour of songs, sketches, socks and violence. Following three sellout years at Edinburgh, their new show includes the entire history of cinema in every detail with nothing missed out.
Best Show Nominee - Leicester Comedy Festival 2009
Winner - Edinburgh Festival Insider Comedy Award 2009 Sellout 07, 08, 09"...you know you're onto an absolute winner" - Chortle 09
"the awkward mixture of uproarious laughter and sidelong glances ...is worth the price of admission all on its own" - Scotsman 09
"For sheer energy and laughs per hour, these comic stockings are the biz – denier miss it." - The Scotsman Aug 2008
Ali has written and starred in seven television series for ITV, Channel 4, Five and Sky One. He is best known for his comedy series: Dirty Tricks (Channel 4) and Monkey Magic (Five). Both series were nominated for The Golden Rose of Montreaux and the British Comedy Awards. He has also performed at many private parties for VIP personalities including Damian Hirst, Basement, Jaxx and JK Rowling.
His sell-out debut show in Edinburgh mixed cutting edge magic effects with stand up and received four star reviews.
www.myspace.com/ scottishfalsetto
Please see the videos below for a little taster of Magician Ali Cook
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weRdwLqTC2I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvSKdWFHXH
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Eric’s Tales of the Sea
Friday May 7 8pm £7/9otd
The sleeper hit of the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe is now touring the UK. Eric was a submariner for seventeen years – with the aid of astonishing visuals, we get an insider’s view of the mysterious world beneath the waves in a Royal Navy nuclear submarine.
A gifted raconteur, Eric has a story to tell and he tells it superbly. In fact he doesn’t just tell us, he shows us too. With the aid of some astonishing visuals we get an insider’s view of the mysterious world between the waves in a Royal Navy nuclear submarine.
Audiences will be transported to an underwater existence where edgy camaraderie, black humour, death and destruction are the closest of bedfellows.
This is a classic buddy story, and nowhere are greater affinities formed between men than in the harsh, unforgiving environment of a submarine on patrol in wartime conditions!
Unique, reveting,funny and poignant, this superb comedy is not just another stand-up show but a cross between comedy and theatre.
http://ericdotcom.co.uk
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Abracadabra - German Humour goes Global
Saturday May 15 8pm £8/10otd
ACHTUNG! Henning Wehn is the German Comedy Ambassador to the United Kingdom. This is not the easiest of jobs because Germans allegedly do not have a sense of humour. Henning does not find this funny. Neither does Otto Kuhnle, the funniest man from Düsseldorf and the Fatherland’s foremost Yodelmeister.
After two successive Fringe sell-outs it's third time lucky for the two Herren in their pursuit to put Teutonic jolliness back where it belongs - on top of the world. Adelaide and Melbourne have already capitulated. Barton is next and failure not an option.
Deutschland über alles! - WUNDERBAR!
“I laughed so much I gave myself earache” The Scotsman
“The weirdest, most unexpected hit at this year’s Festival … seriously skilled performers” The Age, Melbourne
“A unique and quite brilliant comedy experience” Fest Magazine
“A Tuetonic tingle for the most jaded of Fringe goers” The Herald
“Boisterous and utterly bizarre” Three Weeks
www.chortle.co.uk/comics/h/429/henning_wehn
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