There are very few artists acclaimed by two completely different genres as one of their best. But for Richard Digance, his touring life balances both his skill as a folk musician with his wit as a comedian. To put this in perspective, he is close friends and rated as a great acoustic guitarist by Ralph McTell, while top comic Ross Noble describes Digance as a major influence. And when it comes to pedigree, few can match his CV. Digance has enjoyed his own ITV Saturday-night show, and a series of Saturday night specials where he has played with Queen’s Brian . . .
As you’ll know, we schedule our Comedy Hall events at two venues – Tiverton Community Arts Theatre and The Venue. The Venue is a purpose-built theatre attached to Uffculme School. It has mostly raked seating with some floor seating, and we normally run shows of 340 or 400 seats. There is a bar that takes credit and debit cards, and often there will be food available to pro-order or order before the show.
One of the nation’s greatest comedy actors will bring his best-known character to life on stage in Uffculme. John Challis, forever known as Boycie from BBC1’s Only Fools and Horses, will bering comedy, stories and anecdotes from his career to life in this one-off show. The national treasure will reveal secrets from the set, having worked with some of the biggest names in show business. He’ll be spilling the beans about Only Fools and Horses co-stars like Sir David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst and friends and fellow performers like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Oliver Reed and George Best. He’ll also recall . . .
Being the UK’s leading Trump impersonator is one thing. Switching persona to Del Trotter, Nigel Farage, Chris Tarrant Michael McIntyre, José Mourinho and a host of other famous characters at a relentless pace is quite another. For much-loved comedian Mike Osman the last thirty years have been 50% Mike and 50% a world of famous names as he has brought his world of comedy to TV, radio and packed theatres across the country. Osman is a rare commodity – a comedian, an impersonator, a radio DJ and, now, Trump. He is bringing his popular new show to Tiverton, which is . . .
Satirical comedian and TV presenter Matt Forde has announced he will play Tiverton’s Comedy Hall this May. Forde is one of the country’s most in-demand satirists, and host of Dave’s ultra-topical political comedy show Unspun with Matt Forde which is now in its fourth series. Having turned employment as a staffer at 10 Downing Street into a comedy career, he exudes political knowledge but has an innate ability to make people laugh. Unspun was nominated for Best Entertainment Programme at the 2017 Broadcast Digital Awards. This week his blog was shortlisted for a comedy award in the British Podcast Awards for his podcast The . . .
Comedy takes many forms. Some comedians throw slick, short puns at you by the dozen. Some weave tales of derring do and experience, embellished and fantastic. And others observe us, and remind us of how frail, desperate or silly we all are. Tom Binns, on the other hand, has become famous for simply being someone else. The actor, broadcaster and stand-up comedian became best known in the early naughties as the hapless radio DJ Ivan Brackenbury. In 2010 he made the comedy headlines for the right reasons as a new character, Ian D’Montfort, the spirit medium, and his show ‘Touching . . .
Winter may be coming but Nathan Caton, star of BBC Radio 4’s “Can’t Tell Nathan Caton Nothing…”, is guaranteed to raise the heat in his ‘feel-good’ performance in Tiverton’s Comedy Hall on Sunday 11 October at Tiverton Community Arts Theatre. Nathan regularly appears on Live At The Apollo, Mock The Week, and Russell Howard’s Good News. His ability to combine personal, confessional material with up-to-date social and political anecdotes has won him numerous credits and plaudits over the years and has made him one of the hottest rising young stars on the circuit. Opening support act is one-liner merchant Tony . . .
Sitcom buffoon Count Arthur Strong hits Tiverton on 27 February on a new UK tour for 2015. The ‘Somebody Up There Licks Me!’ tour started at the Norwich Playhouse on February 5 and finishes with two nights at the Bloomsbury Theatre on May 1 & 2. Trilby hat-wearing mangler of words and variety entertainer, the Count (the character creation of Steve Delaney) hits the road on his first live tour since his hugely successful BBC Two series. In fact his tour follows close on the heals of the transmission of his second series of Count Arthur Strong which moved to . . .
One of the leading lights in female stand-up is taking her comedy tour to Tiverton on Friday 13 February. Shappi Khorsandi has carved a niche place for herself on the UK comedy scene, not for her femininity or race, but through sharp wit and effortless story-telling that gives the very best in British comedy talent a run for its money. Her tour “Because I’m Shappi” sold out both at the Edinburgh Fringe last year and on her Autumn tour of the UK. So she’s squeezing a new UK tour of the show into her hectic schedule that has seen her . . .
Comedy Hall is promising a proper party atmosphere next Saturday when The Noise Next Door come to town. It’s the last Saturday before Christmas, so get your bunting out and join us. The ‘Noise’ are the UK’s leading improv group and bring their UK tour to Tiverton on December 20th. And here’s what you can expect: Food!- from 6.30pm Yes, the pop-up restaurant from Go Local will be on-hand from 6.30pm, with a wide variety of hot food options – including the obligatory turkey, but perhaps not as you know it! From wraps and curries to burgers and hot . . .
Stephen K Amos doesn’t strike you as one of life’s awkward customers. But that’s exactly what he is aiming to be in his new touring show, Welcome To My World. Having had enough of being asked the same questions time and time again (such as ‘what does the K stand for?’), Amos is looking to get some new, big questions on the table. “Even in this day and age, we still don’t like to talk about things like race and sexuality or how much money you earn, all those awkward dinner party conversation fillers. There’s a certain weirdness that can . . .
Tiverton’s Comedy Hall is set to get Christmas started party style with its last show of the year. Top comedy On Saturday December 20, the comedic improvisation group The Noise Next Door will headline the Comedy Hall stage at Tiverton Community Arts Theatre (TCAT). They will be bringing their unique take on laughter to Tiverton and tickets are already selling well. The Noise consists of five stand-ups who combine quick wit with incredible improvisation skills to turn everyday suggestions and banter from the audience into jokes, sketches and songs. ‘Hilarious… A superior kind of chaos’ (Daily Telegraph). ‘Comedy gold… Staggeringly . . .
Any comedian that has performed in front of royalty at the Royal Variety performance should be in your bucket list of comics to see before you die. Stephen K Amos is no exception. As well as performing in front of the Queen and Prince Philip in 2007 – alongside names like Jon Bon Jovi, Russell Brand, James Blunt and the late, great Mel Smith – he has charmed and entertained audiences all over the world with his natural, assured delivery and his honest, original material. In “Welcome to my world” which is now touring the country, the maestro of feel-good . . .
UK based Canadian Tom Stade ponders life’s timeless questions in his hilarious new show ‘Decisions Decisions…’, part of his UK tour stopping off at Comedy Hall on 26th September 2014. It’s anything but a gentle head-scratching… Stade’s dark and edgy material, generally delivered with a faux-innocent ‘What did I say?’ air, typically ranges from the filthy to the trivial − with subjects such as anal sex and his crippling addiction to Groupon. If you’ve only seen a TV friendly version of him on ‘Live At The Apollo’ or ‘Michael McIntyre’s Roadshow’ (BBC One) be prepared. Staid this isn’t – but . . .
Comedy Hall is offering an incredible double header from Lee Kern and Trevor Lock − who will do an hour long set each on 29th August. Save £5 per ticket – read on! Kern is famous for his side-splitting pranks on Celebrity Bedlam (Channel 4), which Viz described as “quite possibly the funniest thing that’s ever been on the telly”. (See a sample here as Brian Belo and David van Day from Dollar get pranked – http://youtu.be/YLXoPhxH_d4). These included making David Van Day believe he’d been cloned and Katie from X-Factor believe that she was modelling a coat made of . . .
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