Sir Tim Fitzhigham gets all Powerpoint on Tiverton

Who is Sir Tim Fitzhigham?

Switzerland, Tiverton, Melbourne…?

In 1998 Tim first started to make people laugh, having made his way up a goats track at the top of a hill to West Indian rum shack. The following year he was nominated Best Newcomer at the Perrier Awards in Edinburgh, winning the Spirit of the Fringe Awards in 2000 (alongside other notables including Ross Noble and Mackenzie Crook).

So, where did this take him? As well as touring his own comedy, he set up the Infinite Number of Monkeys production company, wrote on a couple of BBC radio series, rowed the English Channel in a bath…

He had a lavatory named after his by the Thomas Crapper company. Became a freeman of London. Raised awareness of environmental issues by hanging the world’s largest washing line with Alistair McGowan and inflating the world’s largest balloon.

He had annual sell-out shows at Edinburgh, including ‘Paper Boat’, ‘Don Quixote’, ‘The Bard’s Fool’ and ‘Kama Sutra’… the latter earning him a second Spirit of the Fringe Award.

He’s been in some films, including Wolfman with Sir Anthony Hopkins, and was filmed reading his own book in Clint Eastwood’s The Hereafter.

Most recently he’s had success with his show The Gambler at Edinburgh, which involves video footage taken with Richard Hammond. And that’s where Tiverton comes in (in Devon, not Somerset, Sir Tim – change your website).

Sir Tim will perform at Comedy Hall on March 5th. This will be his only performance between the International Comedy Club in Switzerland and the Melbourne Comedy Festival. And that’s got to be worth £10.

The fact that Comedy Hall has two Canadians, Craig Campbell and Dan Quinn on the same bill make this show unmissable.

www.comedyhall.lan

5 stars from Chortle: “You can’t help but be swept up in the delights of his adventure”
5 stars from The British Comedy Guide: “Gambler is a rip-roaring show and FitzHigham is a gripping entertainer”
4 stars from Broadway Baby: “Charming, inspirational and mad as a bag of weasels”
4 stars from Fest: “You won’t stake a safer £12 at the Fringe”
4 stars from one4review: “One of the most animated and eccentric comedians in the Fringe”

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