GRINSTOCK COMEDY CLUB - June 1st 2017

Only two nights left of our award winning comedy season, this season as always we have been packed out and sold out every month, so with that in mind we HIGHLY RECOMMEND that you buy tickets in advance, as on the door we have only had standing tickets only.

As always are lineups are legendary and it's this with the consistency that we offer, is what has got us nominated two years in a row for Comedy Club of the South b y DAVE TV & Absolute Radio. 

Here is June 1st outstanding lineup of comedians:

Grinstock Comedy Club Line up June 1st 2016

MC Chris Betts

"Properly hilarious"- What's On London

Chris Betts began his comedy career in Montreal, Canada and has since performed all across Europe and North America at clubs and festivals such as SXSW (USA), Comedy Box International Comedy Festival (Norway), Dark Comedy Festival (Canada) Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival (UK) and the Zulu Comedy Festival (Denmark). Chris was chosen as part of the prestigious Pleasance Comedy Reserve at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and he returned to Edinburgh to perform his successful first solo show, Social Animal, in 2015.

He has been published in the Huffington Post and the Alarmist and voices a number of characters in the cult hit animated comedy Sam Sweetmilk. Chris Betts’ mind is a curious place, where the philosophical meets the ridiculous. His shows are a perfect balance of incisive social satire and complete silliness. 2015 NATYS New Act of the Year (Finalist) and 2014 Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian of the Year (Finalist)

What the press have to say:

Top 20 jokes of the Fringe (2015) - Daily Telegraph

Top 25 Jokes of the Fringe (2015) - Mirror 

"...an enticing prospect, a Canadian who deals in off-kilter thoughts sharpened by the occasional prod at taboo topics." - The Independent

"Canadian Chris Betts has a confident style and a solid set... a glint of steelier edge."-Steve Bennett, Chortle 

"Chris Betts is tremendous"- Such Small Portions

"Properly hilarious"- What's On London

Top 10 Montreal Comedians - The Mirror

Jonny Pelham

“The Laughs are explosive” – Chortle, Steve Bennet

Jonny Pelham began comedy at University and while he was there he achieved runner-up in both the coveted So You Think You’re Funny competition and The Chortle Student Comedy Awards. Since graduating university Jonny has continued to impress and was a finalist and judges choice in the BBC Radio New Comedy Awards, as well as being nominated for Chortle Best Newcomer in 2014.

2016 saw Jonny make the exciting step over to the small screen on Russell Howards Stand Up Central for Comedy Central followed by a support slot on Live At The BBC this year.

With two critically acclaimed solo shows under his belt, Before and After (2015) and Fool’s Paradise (2016) Jonny has a number of up-coming television projects in the pipe-line, including a presenting debut and bookings to write across a number of television projects.

This August Jonny will take his hotly anticipated 3rd solo show, Just Shout Louder to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, tickets on sale soon.

PRESS:

“Reassuring Presence and way with a story – there are echoes of Daniel Kitson in his writing” – The Guardian

“Engagingly wry temperament and clear anecdotal gifts” – The Scotsman ★★★★

“His presence and storytelling have them all entranced for an hour” – The Skinny ★★★★

“Echoes of Daniel Kitson” – The Sunday Times ★★★★

 “Jonny Pelham has a big future … a really striking set” – Bruce Dessau

Kieran Boyd

“Constantly amusing” Chortle

Semi-finalist in So You Think You’re Funny? (2009), Amused Moose Laugh-Off (2010), and part of Fringe favourites WitTank, Kieran has been performing his inventive, high-energy stand up across the country for five years. He gigs for Avalon, CKP, The Stand, Komedia, and Highlight amongst others as well as numerous shows at the Edinburgh Festival.

In 2012, Kieran performed at the Edinburgh Festival as part of The Comedy Zone, the Fringe’s longest running and most prestigious stand-up showcase. In 2016 Kieran took his debut solo show Egg up to the fringe to great acclaim.

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In 2009 and 2010 he compered the stand-up showcase, Comedy Baby, and in 2011 performed in a split show Don’t Mess. In the same year he also directed a sketch show from The Leeds Tealights.

With acclaimed sketch trio WitTank, Kieran has enjoyed nine years of sold-out audiences at the Edinburgh Fringe as well as numerous gigs and comedy festivals in the UK and Ireland. In 2011 they received a Best Show Nomination at the Leicester Comedy Festival, and appeared on Three at the Fringe (BBC3) and BBC Radio Scotland.

WitTank can be seen as stars of 3 series of the acclaimed BBC3’s comedy show, Live At the Electric and have filmed their own sitcom pilot for E4.

Praise for Kieran:

“Like a young Simon Amstell…Impressively funny…Terrific material”

Kate Copstick, The Scotsman

“Genuinely funny…very talented comedian”* * * * Threeweeks

“Constantly amusing” Chortle

“Kieran Boyd, one third of sketch comedy group, WitTank, is always a joy to watch…whether alone or with his group, he’s one of the shining lights of the scene” viewsfromthegods.co.uk

“Like a friend telling you a particularly funny story… Marvellous’”

Cambridge Tab

“A definite must-see” * * * * British Comedy Guide

HEADLINER Olaf Falafel

"Gloriously daft" - FringeGuru

A surrealist comedian and illustrator whose debut stand up show ‘Olaf Falafel and The Cheese Of Truth’ won critical acclaim and award nominations. As well as finding comedic success onstage, Falafel has also enjoyed online fame with his short viral videos. These absurdist movies include a croissant-coiffured talking Donald Trump puppet, slices of truth telling cheese being thrown onto newspapers and the Bee Gees hiding in his beard.

The comedy website Chortle affectionately described Falafel as ‘an idiot’ and when he doesn’t have a microphone in his hand you’ll probably find him with a pencil and pad trying to draw something equally idiotic. A unique mixture of one-liners and surreal stupidity has earned Olaf the purely fictitious title of 'Sweden's eighth funniest comedian'.

What the press have to say:

"Olaf Falafel is an idiot, and wouldn’t have it any other way" - Steve Bennett, Chortle.co.uk

"Skilfully delivered absurdist musings" - ThreeWeeks

"Olaf Falafel is like a chocolate digestive – very moreish" - Bruce Dessau, BeyondTheJoke.co.uk

 “A wonderful hour of professional silliness” - The List

 “Clever and bizarre” - The Skinny

"Lovely, accessible and constantly creative” - Edinburgh Festival Magazine

“Quirkily eccentric… combining modern technology with old-fashioned idiocy” - The Scotsman

“A barrage of absurdist humour and sharp one-liners” - Ed Fringe Review

"Refreshingly odd" - iNews

"Silly enough to make you feel like an eight-year-old child all over again" - Broadway Baby