Edinburgh Preview Season 2019

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JACK GLEADOW 18TH JUNE 19:45 The winner of the Amused Moose National New Comic and Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year makes his Fringe debut, after performing as part of the prestigious Pleasance Comedy Reserve in 2018.

MATT PARKER 20TH JUNE 21:00 Matt Parker is no stranger to maths mistakes and so he sets out to fix them all. At last: a rigorous comedy show not afraid to show its working out. Being wrong has never felt so right.

“So genuinely excited about maths that it’s infectious” Broadway Baby

CATHERINE BOHART 18TH JUNE 21:00 After 2018’s “funny, warm... perfectly structured debut” (Times), Catherine’s back to smash stereotypes around sex, sexuality and relationships.

PETE FIRMAN 21ST JUNE & 19TH JULY 19:45

As seen and heard on BBC Two’s The Mash Report, Comedy Central’s Roast Battle, E4’s 8 Out Of 10 Cats and The Guilty Feminist Podcast.

Come and witness the first and possibly final performance of The World’s Greatest Magical Double Act! Award-winning magician/comedian Pete Firman returns to the Fringe with a magic show like you’ve never seen before.

JAYDE ADAMS

IVO GRAHAM

20TH JUNE 19:45

21ST JUNE 21:00 29TH JULY 19:45

In 2019 if you want to be a ‘successful independent woman person’ you better have something you want to say and you better be wearing a Serious Black Jumper™.

In her SBJ™ Jayde will rifle through all the noise and self-promotion and figure out what’s actually going on “She’s a star” Guardian

The time for faff is over: has Big Daddy Graham got the skillz (anecdotes/ banter/topical asides) to pay da billz (gas/water/electric)?

As spotted on Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week, Cats Does Countdown and Roast Battle.

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RHYS JAMES 23RD JUNE & 6TH JULY 18:30

NICK HELM 22ND, 29TH, 30TH JUNE & 13TH JULY 18:30 & 19:45 Holy f*ck! After six years away from Edinburgh and ahead of his national tour, Helm is back at the f*cking Fringe with a full Edinburgh run of his new show to remind the world what they’ve been missing out on.

The boy from Mock the Week, Roast Battle and Hertfordshire returns. I’m not being hyperbolic when I, the editor of this brochure, tell you he is my favourite comedian in the world.

“Sickeningly talented... never more than a few seconds away from another punchline” Time Out

Resurrected from the ashes, come and witness two-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and internationaltreasure-in-waiting shaking his ass, singing songs and righting wrongs.

HEIDI REGAN 23RD JUNE 19:45 Tired of immature “I slept with your mum” jokes? Come see more thoughtful comedy like, “Heidi, why have you put on weight?” “Whenever I travel back in time, have sex with your great grandparents and accidentally become your ancestor, they give me a cookie.”

ED NIGHT 22ND JUNE 19:45 13TH JULY 21:00 “His stand-up is some of the cleverest, funniest and most unassuming comedy I’ve encountered” A Younger Theatre “There can’t be many young comics talking about big ideas with such eloquence” Entertainment Focus “Spell-bindingly funny” Herald “Night is a prodigiously talented young comic” Chortle

SUZI RUFFELL 24TH JUNE & 15TH JULY 19:45 Suzi has made a name for herself turning tragedy and anxiety into big laughs. This year she is happy. This show answers the question: are all stand ups at their best when they are miserable? Fingers crossed no.

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ROSIE JONES 25TH JUNE 19:45 After a successful sell-out debut hour at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, Rosie ‘triple threat’ Jones returns with a brand new show, exploring what it’s like to be the world’s first, and only, disabled, gay, northern comedian with a phobia of cotton wool and a lethal amount of Creme Eggs in her wardrobe.

SARAH KEYWORTH 27TH JUNE 21:00 Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee for Best Newcomer and winner of the Herald Angel Award returns with a brand new hour of stand-up comedy.

“Powerful, poignant and achingly funny stuff” Herald “It’s refreshing to see something so generous and outward-looking” Chortle

GIANTS ARE FJORD 25TH JUNE 21:00 In 2015, Fjörd released their charttopping single, Forever Young Tonight Always. In 2016, they released their follow-up single, Always Young Forever Tonight, to chart-entering acclaim.

Now, after a three year “sabbatical”, the legendary Scandinavian pop duo are back. And to celebrate, they’re recording a new album… live.

LONDON HUGHES 28TH JUNE & 8TH JULY 19:45

JAKE LAMBERT 27TH JUNE 19:45 Following on from his sold-out “solidly entertaining debut” (Scotsman), Jake Lambert returns with a brand new show packed full of “brilliant oneliners” (Chortle).

Basically he’s moved in with his girlfriend and he’s trying not to mess it up.

From ITV2’s The Stand Up Sketch Show, BBC2’s Mock the Week and E4’s Celebs Go Dating, join London in her debut at the Pleasance as she explores how, as a woman, you can be incredibly awesome and successful yet incredibly single, and how f*ckin’ ridiculous it is!

Also seen on ITV1’s All Star Musicals, ITV2’s Don’t Hate The Playaz and Channel 5’s Celebrity Game Night.

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LOYISO GOLA 29TH JUNE 19:45 19TH JULY 21:00 Loyiso Gola dives into years of pop culture and the way they have shaped our lives. Loyiso is an incredibly high profile South African stand up, with 12 seasons of his two-time International Emmy nominated satirical news show Late Nite News with Loyiso Gola under his belt.

As seen on Netflix: Comedians of the World, Live at the Apollo and Mock the Week.

“An intelligent observer of the world” Chortle

TAROT 1ST JULY 19:45 The twisted minds of Gein’s Family Giftshop and sweaty bodies of Goose combine to bring you something brand new: Tarot.

In the attic of a cobbled Edinburgh courtyard, a live tarot reading is held.

Sketches spin out of the cards and, as the show nears midnight, the significance of the reading as a whole begins to come into focus. Come to have your faith restored in a dying art.

Sketch, not tarot.

GEORGE FOURACRES 30TH JUNE 18:30 13TH JULY 19:45 George Fouracres, Wolverhampton’s fancy-pantsiest son, tells stories of a Black Country childhood, sings ancient ballads, becomes occasional grotesques and splatters his odd brain matter all over the stage in his debut stand-up hour.

You may know him from Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated sketch trio Daphne, or from BBC Radio 4, BBC Three, Channel 4 and ABC. If not, come, and behold.

“George is the future of comedy. He’s a proper genius” Caitlin Moran

CAM SPENCE 1ST & 9TH JULY 21:00 Welcome to The Sunshine Clinic, recently named Recovery Magazine’s rehab clinic Closest to the M4! Founder, therapist, and self-styled comedian Janet Waitrose wants to introduce you to her stunning patients!

Cam Spence’s debut character comedy 2019 Edinburgh Fringe show.

“Supremely talented and smart” Telegraph

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CHRIS WASHINGTON 5TH JULY 21:00

NIGEL NG 2ND JULY 19:45 Nigel Ng (as seen on Comedy Central’s Standup Central and Roast Battle) brings you on a joyous romp through his life in the UK as a Malaysian immigrant. See him tackle topics close to his heart, both big and small, from How to retain one’s cultural identity when in a foreign land? to Is Wagamama’s actually Asian?

Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee Chris returns with a brand-new show. If you like your comedy hard-hitting, boundarypushing, genre-defying, jaw-dropping, eye-watering and Brexit-berating, then this is definitely not the show for you.

“A mainstream comedy star in the making” Chortle

Tipped as One to Watch in 2019 by Chortle.

JAMES MCNICHOLAS 6TH JULY 19:45 James’ grandad, Terry Downes, became world middleweight champion in 1961. By contrast, James’ school PE teacher once told him he was so unfit he’d be dead by the time he was 23.

This is a story about boxing told by someone who’s never boxed.

KELLY CONVEY 5TH JULY 19:45 Kelly Convey, Chatham-girl-donegood, brings us her debut hour which travels back in time to her errant teenage years, through her high-flying twenties as an executive, right up to the life-changing decision to become a comedian in her thirties. If you’d met 15-year-old Kelly, you would’ve sworn down on your nan’s grave that she’d never be where she is today.

Leicester Comedy Festival Mercury Comedian of the Year 2017 nominee.

ANNA & HELEN 8TH JULY 21:00 Join Anna O’Grady and Helen Cripps in their debut show. The future is exciting, and it’s still in front of you. If you’ve got the questions, they’ve got the answers*. *Depends on the questions.

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TOM HOUGHTON 9TH JULY 19:45 Tom was sent to all-boys boarding school at age six. A world where ‘day kids’ are shunned, and girls? Nonexistent. But when, in his second to last year, the school decided to go coed, everything was to change.

The total Fringe sell-out star of Comedy Central’s Roast Battle and ultra-privileged Tower of London resident, Tom Houghton lifts the controversial lid on the incubators responsible for producing many of our country’s leaders. With a little help from 00s pop sensation Busted.

MICKY OVERMAN 12TH JULY 19:45 This brand-spanking new hour by the 2018 Chortle Best Newcomer nominee finally answers the question no one is dying to have answered: where is she from?! It also covers: the value of friendship, the power of perception, the importance of agency and how to deal with terminally ill toys.

Come watch as she takes you on a journey through the jungle of silly boys/creeps of her past, and watch her make a complete fool of herself as she celebrates her roots.

MICHAEL ODEWALE THE DEATH HILARIOUS

12TH JULY 21:00

11TH JULY 19:45

Michael Odewale is selfish. And apathetic. And so are you.

Former sketch and character wonk has quit comedy in favour of the lucrative art of spiritualism. You will gasp and dilate hard as he allows the spirits of the Philip Schofield Memorial Tower to enter his every available orifice.

Join the fast-rising star as he tries to figure out what matters, and what’s just noise, in his highly anticipated debut show.

These revenants tell an authentic working-class story of love, sexworkers, genocide, and a fox reading a bank statement. Imagine The Archers, except everybody’s on spice.

A fresh new voice known for delivering sharp, slick and beautifully executed stand-up, Odewale is set to take the comedy world by storm.

Chortle Best Newcomer nominee 2018.

“Smooth, assured, more-ish” Scotsman

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SUNIL PATEL 14TH JULY 18:30 Fire emoji. Dove emoji. Aubergine emoji. Head exploding emoji.

Money emoji. Brown fist emoji.

AARON CHEN

As seen on BBC Two’s Big Asian Stand-Up and Dave’s Beat the Internet

Best Newcomer, 2017 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

“A clearly gifted comedian” EdFestMag “Oozes funny” Broadway Baby

15TH JULY 21:00

Best Newcomer, 2017 Sydney Comedy Festival.

Directors’ Choice, 2016 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

“Chen certainly makes his mark with this unpredictable hour” Chortle

MR. THING 16TH & 17TH JULY 19:30

STIFF AND KITSCH 14TH JULY 19:45 21ST JULY 18:30 Musical Comedy Award winners 2018 sing about everything keeping them awake at night: tax, wooden cutlery and the consequences of last night’s eight double G&Ts. Each.

From the creators of the hit show, Adele Is Younger Than Us, this is a story of life’s favourite fears, told through one big night out and one miserable morning after.

Everyone’s scared of something, but there’s safety in numbers: maybe we’ll be braver together.

The comedy chat show Thing returns with its brand new Thing for 2019.

Join Tom and Owen, puppet Steve, the live house band and special guests as they test drive this year’s Edinburgh offering over two nights of chaotic multimedia mayhem.

“This anarchic, late-night, multimedia chat show has cult in its genes” Chortle

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BEN POPE 18TH JULY 21:00 Ben Pope is a “classy, stylish and accomplished” (Chortle) stand-up comedian. But he’s also been a ghosttour guide, teacher and actor. He’s worked in museums, cathedrals, toyshops and bakeries. But how come he’s worked a million different jobs when his dad has only worked one?

FLO AND JOAN & KAI SAMRA 20TH JULY 19:45 Following a sell-out run in 2018, Flo and Joan have a new hour of their dark and waggish songs to parade about the place.

“Musical comedy hasn’t been in such safe hands for years” List Join Kai Samra as he hilariously dissects life as a young, working class, British Asian in the 21st Century – from police stop-and-searches to a complete lack of options at fancy dress parties.

“Slick and confident” Chortle

TOM BRACE 20TH JULY 14:00 Following a sold-out run at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Tom Brace returns with a brand new magic show for the whole family! Featuring Tom’s unique blend of comedy and magic, the show promises to have a little something for everybody. Ages: 8+ “Classic magic tricks with youthful charm” Edinburgh Guide

JONNY & THE BAPTISTS & MATT FORDE 21ST JULY 19:45 Multi-award nominated musicalactivist-comedians Jonny & The Baptists are sick of being political and divisive. This show is about how everything is definitely fine.

“Wickedly funny” Times

TOM TAYLOR 20TH JULY 18:30

Join Britain’s leading political comedian, Matt Forde, as he once again promises his last show as an EU citizen (maybe).

As seen on Have I Got News For You and The Royal Variety.

From the maker of sell-out Fringe hit The Charlie Montague Mysteries; tour support for Ed Sheeran’s tour support, Tom Taylor stars in his debut stand-up show packed full of jokes, songs and silliness.

As heard on BBC Radio 4, Musical Comedy Awards Audience Favourite winner, English Comedian of the Year and So You Think You’re Funny? finalist.

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PHIL WANG & LUCY BEAUMONT 22ND JULY 19:45 Phil Wang has made a name for himself (that name being Phil Wang) exploring sex, romance, politics and his mixed British-Malaysian heritage.

As seen on Have I Got News for You, Live at the Apollo and Taskmaster.

Lucy Beaumont feels she’s finally turned into a real woman and she’s ready to shout about it. Join her for an hour of proper belly laughs, unique offbeat humour and surreal anecdotes.

“Devastating comic-timing” Stage

SIMON BRODKIN & MATT FORDE 24TH JULY 19:45 Simon Brodkin, the award-winning, critically-acclaimed comedian behind Lee Nelson and world-famous stunts on Theresa May, Sepp Blatter, Donald Trump and Kanye West, unveils his funniest character yet... himself!

“Is there a better political comic than Matt Forde currently working in the UK? I can’t think of another to touch him” Chortle “Possibly the best political comedy show on the Fringe” Telegraph “A stand-up of rare skill” Sunday Times

HARRY AND CHRIS & LUCY BEAUMONT 23RD JULY 19:45 Harry and Chris (Guardian Pick of the Fringe 2018) are at the top of their field, having invented the field of comedyrap-jazz.

“Thoroughly feel-good” Chortle

JONNY & THE BAPTISTS & MATT WINNING 25TH JULY 19:45

Join Lucy Beaumont for an hour of proper belly laughs, unique off-beat humour and surreal anecdotes about bubble-wrap, boxing and tits.

We live in a divided world and Jonny & The Baptists want to cross that divide. But how can we be popular now “populist” means “I’m a shit”? Answer: we love everyone. Oh, except bastards.

Everyone hates bastards, right?

“Beaumont is a riot” Scotsman

“Disgraceful” Telegraph (Bastards)

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A storytelling lecture about how we cope with climate change from the “attractively impish” (Guardian) Dr .

“Winning’s sharp wit and intelligence allows him to educate as he entertains” Sunday Post

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CIARAN DOWD & RAY BADRAN 26TH JULY 19:45 Ciarán Dowd is back as world-famous lothario, swordsman and butthead, Rodolfo! Following an unspeakable tragedy he turns his back on his lifestyle – rejects the sword, takes a vow of chastity and joins the priesthood.

“Comedy of the most ridiculous variety” Guardian Australian comedian Ray Badran recently moved to the UK and is performing his debut Fringe show about the big issues plaguing us all, such as pockets, Subway sandwiches and fridges. Come and see why everybody loves Ray, man.

JACK BARRY & SUSAN RIDDELL 27TH JULY 19:45 It’s called comedy, ever heard of it?

Then come and have a big plate of it served into your face, courtesy of new best friend Jack Barry.

“Effortlessly endearing” EdFestMag After winning a place in BBC Writer’s Room Fast and Funny, Susan Riddell went on to write, create and star in several online comedy sketches for BBC Short Stuff which have garnered nearly 3 million views and counting.

Susan recently performed standup at the Edinburgh Fringe in both CKP’s Lunchtime Special and the BBC Presents Comedy Tent.

TITANIA MCGRATH 27TH & 28TH JULY 18:30 Titania McGrath is a radical intersectionalist poet committed to feminism, social justice and armed peaceful protest.

As a millennial icon on the forefront of online activism, Titania is uniquely placed to explain to you why you are wrong about everything, and how to become truly “woke”.

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ALICE SNEDDEN & TANIA EDWARDS 28TH JULY 19:45 Who are we? What are we doing here?

Do you like me? And what are you saying behind my back?

After a sell-out “barnstorming debut” (Fest) in 2018, New Zealand’s Alice Snedden returns to Edinburgh.

Award-winning stand-up comedian Tania Edwards explores these emotionally incontinent times and explains why it’s imperative to repress our emotions.

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“Cuts daggers with sharp one-liners” Glamour

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UNDERGROUND Caledonian Road - Piccadilly line (5 minutes walk) Holloway Road - Piccadilly line (15 minutes walk)

Monday - Sunday 10am - 6pm On performance days the Box Office will remain open until 15 minutes after the start of the final performance.

TICKETS Most of our performances have an e-ticket option. Check your confirmation email to see if this applies.

A paper copy of your tickets can be collected anytime during Box Office opening hours or posted to you for an additional £1.

OVERGROUND Caledonian Road and Barnsbury (15 minutes walk) BUS Bus 393 stops right directly outside the theatre with buses 17, 91, 259 and N91 all stopping at Caledonian Road Underground Station, 5 minutes walk.

PARKING Metered on-street parking is available outside the theatre Mon to Fri 10am 4:30pm with free parking evenings and weekends.

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Pleasance Theatre strives to provide access for all. Our Main House is fully accessible via a lift from street level. Our Downstairs space is also fully accessible. Sadly at present our StageSpace does not have step-free access. We have infra-red hearing systems, accessible toilets and guide dogs are welcome. Our aim is to make your visit as enjoyable as possible. For further information or to discuss any access requirements contact the Box Office, or email access@pleasance.co.uk

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