CORN EXCHANGE, NEWBURY Funders: PRESENTS SEVENTH NEWBURY COMEDY FESTIVAL 2010
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HOW TO BOOK Thu 8 – Thu 29 July 2010 Box office – 01635 522733 | www.cornexchangenew.com Acts include:
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Venue key: CE Corn Exchange NGA New Greenham Arts DIARY OF EVENTS Bar 1861 Bar 1861 at Corn Exchange Date Time Show Venue Thu 8 7.45pm ROB ROUSE CE
8pm DOUBLE BILL: ALI COOK & SCOTTISH FALSETTO SOCK PUPPET THEATRE NGA
Tue 13 8.15pm YOU MUST BE JOKING FINAL Bar 1861
Fri 16 7.45pm PLESTED & BROWN CE
Sat 17 7.45pm DOUBLE BILL: MARK WATSON & DANNY BHOY CE
8pm JO CAULFIELD NGA
Wed 21 8pm DOUBLE BILL: RICHARD HERRING & TOM WRIGGLESWORTH NGA
Thu 22 8pm DOUBLE BILL: ROB DEERING & KENT VALENTINE NGA
Fri 23 7.45pm JONGLEURS CE
8pm DAVID BENSON NGA
Sat 24 11am ANDY & MIKE’S... BIG BOX OF BANANAS CE
7.45pm PAUL ZERDIN & SUPPORT CE
Wed 28 7.45pm JIM JEFFERIES & SUPPORT CE
Thu 29 7.45pm PHIL HAMMOND CE
8pm DOUBLE BILL: ELIS JAMES & IDIOTS OF ANTS NGA
Disclaimer - Some of the acts listed in this brochure may contain swearing or adult content. We have specifi ed recommended age guides where we can, but if you are unsure about suitability please contact our box offi ce. Box Offi ce is open Monday – Saturday 10am – 6pm; Sundays one hour before a show starts. Tickets are non-refundable except in the case of a cancelled event; in the case of a sold-out show £1 per ticket will be payable on tickets returned for re-sale. There is a £1 charge for postage if required. Groups of ten or more can get 10% discount off performances. Those eligible for discounts include (with proof) anyone aged under 19, senior citizens, full-time students, benefi t and family credit claimants, key workers, Equity cardholders and registered disabled. Registered disabled can get a free ticket for their companion. Please note that only one discount per ticket may apply. Discount tickets purchased online or over the phone need to be collected from the box offi ce in order to show proof of eligibility. Registered charity No. 1080567 NEWBURY COMEDY FESTIVAL’10 www.cornexchangenew.com 8-29 JULY 01635 522733
DOUBLE BILL: Thursday 8 July | New Greenham Arts 8pm (ends 10.20pm) | £10 (concs £8) | 12+ Ali Cook’s irreverent persona and respected sleight of hand have made him MY FAMILY one of the pioneers of the alternative magic scene. He has already written THE PERFECT WIFE AND THE DOG and performed seven British television series! ROADSHOW THAT SCARED JESUS A pleasing mix of cheesy yet sinister ★★★★ Brian Donaldson, The List Friday 16 July Thursday 8 July Corn Exchange The Socks are the comedy double act that Corn Exchange 7.45pm (ends 9.05pm, no interval) has to be seen to be believed. The stars 7.45pm (ends 9.15pm, no interval) £12 (concs £10) | 12+ of BBC 3’s Comedy Shuffle, three-time £12 (concs £10) | 15+ Discover how to be happy with an Edinburgh Festival Fringe sellouts and DOUBLE BILL: One of comedy’s most lively, the darlings of YouTube bring you a imperfect man. Learn to be patient Saturday 17 July | Corn Exchange loveable and dynamic performers, preview of their 4th show, full of new and respectful. Stop finding your 7.45pm (ends 10.20pm) | £12 (concs £10) | 16+ Rob Rouse takes his trademark songs, sketches, socks and violence. husband so irritating. Ultimately, storytelling to a career high as Best Show Nominee - Leicester give up the notion of the perfect Multi-award winning stand-up and star of BBC’s We Need he leads us on an irresistibly Comedy Awards 2009 man and become the perfect wife. Answers, Mock The Week, Nevermind The Buzzcocks and This sharp, satirical take on modern Radio 4 returns to Newbury with his brand new show, hilarious journey, not just through For sheer energy and laughs per hour, Do I Know You, giving us a preview before taking it to his life as a brand new father these comic stockings are the biz marriage promises to expose the but more importantly as the – denier miss it ★★★★ The Scotsmann flaws in our relationships. It is time the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. beleaguered owner of the most to save your marriage and discover One of the most perceptive and well travelled comedians, spectacularly randy dog you’re YOU MUST BE JOKING FINAL who is wearing the trousers, or more Danny Bhoy continues to delight audiences around the ever likely to hear about. to the point, who is ironing them. Tuesday 13 July | Bar 1861 at Corn Exchange world. His unique brand of story-telling and razor sharp wit has been described as “effortlessly funny” Rouse’s description of the birth 8.15pm (ends 10.30pm) | FREE | 18+ The Perfect Wife Roadshow of his son is touching, funny, vile by one critic, and “the stand up equivalent of Join us for the final in our seventh new act competition. combines Plested and Brown’s and so apparently unbelievable Bill Bryson” by another. An informal atmosphere and a mixed bag of styles make sharp and witty text, great clown I am inclined to believe that it is and physical comedy… completely true. for a fun and inexpensive night out. You saw them here with…wait for it… Corry Shaw, Chortle first!May contain swearing and content that some people may find offensive. musical theatre! NEWBURY COMEDY FESTIVAL’10 www.cornexchangenew.com 8-29 JULY 01635 522733 JONGLEURS Friday 23 July | Corn Exchange | 7.45pm (ends 10pm) | £14 (concs £12) | 18+ WWOWON’TT SHUSHUTTUP UP!P! Newbury’s favourite monthly comedy club; come and experience a mixture of comedians in one night. Check the website for details as acts are announced. Saturday 17 July | New Greenham Arts 8pm (ends 9.30pm, no interval) | £10 (concs £8) | 16+ The minute Jo Caulfield hits the stage you know you’re in for a good time. She is one of the most successful and instantly recognisable female comedians in the country. Star of Radio 4’s critically acclaimed It’s That Jo Caulfield Again she is regularly seen on Mock The Week, Have I Got News For You and Never Mind The Buzzcocks. Sharp-witted, urban comedy that goes down a treat. Like a sociology textbook, but with jokes The Times.
THINK NO EVIL OF US Friday 23 July New Greenham Arts DOUBLE BILL: 8pm (ends 10pm) £10 (concs £8) | 14+ Wednesday 21 July | New Greenham Arts 8pm (ends 10.20pm) | £10 (concs £8) | 16+ Think No Evil of Us - My Life Richard Herring, Hitler Moustache star and avowed atheist with Kenneth Williams, written resurrects and revamps his first and favourite solo show, and performed by David Benson. exploring his strange obsession and affinity with the Messiah. David Benson’s uncanny “I’m not saying I am Jesus…. that is for other people to say.” impersonation of Kenneth Williams Asking all the great theological questions like “Why did Jesus unlocks the complex character always call Simon “Peter”? Is it like the way Trigger always of one of Britain’s best loved calling Rodney “Dave”?” entertainers in this exhilarating The best comic of his generation GQ semi-autobiographical, award- For Tom Wrigglesworth, getting to the church on time winning show. Having taken the show from the Edinburgh should be straightforward. Unless you’re embroiled in DOUBLE BILL: an ordeal you knew nothing about until you awoke. Festival Fringe to London’s Thursday 22 July | New Greenham Arts Tom Wrigglesworth comes to Newbury with a pre- West End, David now takes 8pm (ends 10.20pm) | £10 (concs £8) | 16+ Edinburgh preview of his brand new show, his critically acclaimed Tom Wrigglesworth’s Nightmare Rob Deering and his guitar - the finest double act working in Britain today - one man show Dream Wedding. combining razor-sharp stand-up with incredible flights of musicianship on its second creating the ultimate Rob Deering experience. He’s not so much a one man With such an impressive national tour. stage presence, and band as a one man comedy Woodstock. equally impressive Kent Valentine tells stories that are full of jokes and his infectious mix of writing, Wrigglesworth irreverence and enthusiastic optimism makes him one of the most dynamic is a name to keep an comedians on the comedy landscape. eye on Chortle Kent Valentine is a comedy locomotive with a captivating storytelling style mixed with brutally hilarious honesty Triple M NEWBURY COMEDY FESTIVAL’10 www.cornexchangenew.com 8-29 JULY 01635 522733
Sat 24 July | Corn Exchange | £8.50 (concs £7.50) DR PHIL’S RUDE HEALTH SHOW 11am (ends 12.35pm, no interval) | 4 - 11 years Thursday 29 July | Corn Exchange CBeebies presenter Andy Day, along with Mike James, create 7.45pm (ends 10pm) | £12 (concs £10) | 16+ the hilarious, slap-stick and chaotic ‘Andy & Mike’s’ Big Box of If you only see one doctor this year, make it Dr Phil... Phil Hammond is a Bananas! In this duo’s ‘fun pad’ appears a magical and mysterious GP, writer, broadcaster and possibly the only comedian to have appeared box. Unable to open the box, the boys make it their mission to at a public inquiry. He is Private Eye’s medical correspondent and has find out what’s inside, and go on the adventure of their life, taking appeared on Have I Got News for You, The News Quiz, The Now Show, worldly guidance from the suave, sophisticated and altogether Countdown and The One Show. He is rude about everything (politicians, modest narrator. Suitable for children aged 4 – 11 years and doctors, death, drugs and sex). Contains adult content. their family and friends. Funny and provocative… a morbid wit with a schoolboy grin Evening Standard
Saturday 24 July | Corn Exchange 7.45pm (ends 10pm) | £14 (concs £12) | 14+ Reviving the unfashionable art of ventriloquism Paul Zerdin is now one of the country’s best ventriloquists. You may have seen him on last year’s Royal Variety DOUBLE BILL: Performance with ‘Sam’, one of several characters in Zerdin’s bag. An incredible Thursday 29 July | New Greenham Arts | 8pm (ends 10.20pm) performer who has as much fun on stage as the audience do watching him. £10 (concs £8) | 16+ Following last year’s acclaimed debut show at the Edinburgh Festival and fresh from the Melbourne Comedy Festival, Daytripper combines Elis James’ love of history and pop music with his obsessive personality to take you on a journey of self-discovery. Wandering alone through Britain’s market towns gives Elis James an intimate relationship with boredom. Elis, however, is a man who loves a daytrip, and has money to spend on souvenirs. The anecdotes and observations flow freely, with an endearing wit and fine sense of timing ALCOHOLOCAUST and pace Chortle Wednesday 28 July | Corn Exchange | 7.45pm (ends 10pm) Following their hit show at last year’s Newbury £12 (concs £10) | 18+ Comedy Festival, Idiots of Ants are back with a load Shocking, charming and offensive in equal measure. Never afraid to court controversy, of new sketches to tickle your funny bones. The Jefferies’ forthright and opinionated shows have sometimes divided audiences. But no one foursome have attracted large followings, live and ever said being a comedian was easy, even if Jefferies makes it look that way. With five online, most recently with their sketch ‘Facebloke Edinburgh Festival Fringe sell-out shows, numerous TV appearances and phenomenal in real life’ getting over 3 million views and critical acclaim, Jefferies is now one of the biggest names in comedy around still counting! the globe. Explicit content, not for the easily offended. Sketch comedy is officially back One of the most gratifyingly riotous comedians working today ★★★★★ The List The London Paper