Author: Toby

Ed Aczel: The Random Flapping of a Butterfly’s Wings

Ed Aczel “Britain’s greatest living anti-comedian” comes to Leeds as he tries once again to nail down the nature of existence.

Aczel is known for not following the rules of stand-up comedy and he aims to use his show, with help of the Chaos Theory, to change the world once and for all – although it may turn out to be too complicated. He asks whether you can have your cake and eat it – i.e. seek to change human consciousness forever and keep your weekends free. Ed includes a couple of amusingly circular stories about his life, which thankfully don’t last long. Bringing Maths, History and Improv to life for beginners, he explores his own inner psyche with a section analysing his dreams – and then tries not to get too paranoid.

Praise for The Random Flapping of a Butterfly’s Wings…

‘Ed is a deadpan dynamo and very funny… if you don’t laugh you must be sad’ ★★★★ Mirror

‘It could be said that you either love him or hate him, but that’s incorrect. You love him or you’ve missed the point’ ★★★★ Edinburgh Festival Magazine

‘There is no better antidote to the slickness and polished perfection of mainstream performance’ ★★★★ Broadway Baby

‘Britain’s greatest entertainer’ ★★★★★ Time Out

‘One of the most entertaining oddities in years’ ★★★★ Metro

‘Aczel turns unprofessionalism into an art form’ ★★★★ Times

Running time: 90 mins. approx

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Justin Moorhouse: People and Feelings

As seen on ‘Live at the Apollo’, ‘Phoenix Nights’ and heard on radio’s ‘The News Quiz’ and ‘Fighting Talk’, he’s a little slimmer but still as “belly laugh funny” – Manchester Evening News, everyone’s favourite northern charmer is back and better than ever.

After touring last year’s show Destiny Calling, of which The Guardian said “the amount of first-rate comic craft that goes into his deceptively simple routines is worthy of admiration” he’s had a think about people. And feelings. About people Justin knows, their feelings and how he feels about them. And they about him.

‘He charms the pants off the crowd’ – The Sunday Times ‘Comedic tour-de-force… brought a tear to a critical glass eye” – The Herald

Running time: 60 mins. approx

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Hardeep Singh Kohli’s Mix Tape

The BBC Radio 4 star shares his personal mix tape – the joy, the pain and the bizarre middle eight – in this brand new stand-up hour.

“A master of pace, mixing stories with fantastic quick-witted patter” **** The Skinny

“Something quite special… in between the laughter are stories of genuine power” ***** Broadway Baby

Running time: 60 mins. approx

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Lloyd Langford: Preview

Lloyd brings a brand new hour of his hearty comedy mixing a delicious blend of jokes, stories, observations, ad-libs, one-liners, accents, theories, topical gags and self-deprecation.

As seen on ‘Q.I’, ‘Never Mind The Buzzcocks’ & ‘Ask Rhod Gilbert’ and as regularly heard on The Radio 4’s ‘Unbelievable Truth’

‘… an undiscovered genius’ (The Guardian).

Running time: 60 mins. approx

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Ed Gamble: Stampede (Preview)

Ed Gamble thunders into town with a wagonload of misguided opinions and wild conjecture. A brand new stand up comedy show from a big white face you may have seen on Mock the Week (BBC2), Almost Royal (E4), Drunk History (Comedy Central), Russell Howard’s Good News (BBC3), Edinburgh Comedy Fest Live (BBC3), Man Down (C4) and may have heard being an idiot with another idiot on the Peacock & Gamble Podcast.

“An ability to open his mouth and spontaneously say something hilarious” The Guardian

Running time: 60 mins. approx

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The Not So Late Show with Ross & Josh

Live comedy chat show at The HiFi, full of sketches, guests and hilarity.

The Not So Late Show was originally conceived at The Hull Comedy Festival in 2014 (where all great ideas are born) and has continued in Leeds on an almost monthly basis, It combines the feel of American style talk / chat shows like Conan O’Brien with the absurdity of Reeves and Mortimer and the genre bending mix of styles associated with a good old fashioned variety show.

Past guests have included Gein’s Family Gift Shop, Dan Nightingale, Harriet Dyer, Lee Kyle, Peter Brush and regular appearances from Larry & Paul. Not to mention illustrious celebrities such as Freddie Mercury and Daft Punk, local heroes Barry the Beekeeper, Super Mario and John Michael Jars (the West Midlands’ finest Jean Michel Jarre tribute act) and, of course, everyone’s favorite light entertainment post-foetus talk show guest, Baby John.

People who know about these things have said :

‘Better than everything on TV, excellent value and pretty much guaranteed to make you hoot with laughter’ – (Silky @ Kill For A Seat Comedy)

‘Absolutely brilliant show. An hour of scintillating comedy’ – (Martin Kelner @ BBC Radio Leeds)

Running time: 120 mins. approx

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Richard Herring: Happy Now?

After years of drifting aimlessly and alone, Richard Herring is now settled down with a wife and a tiny baby. Is he finally happy now? Or does responsibility for the lives of others come with its own terrors?  In his twelfth solo stand up show, Richard examines whether we can ever hope to be, or are meant to be, truly content. If we were never unhappy would happiness have any meaning? Why do our brains force us to envision the worst possible outcomes even on a day when everything seems fine. How likely is it that Richard’s baby will be skewered by a stalactite of frozen urine falling from a plane and is it really worth him wasting his time thinking about it? Does being happy mean a comedian loses his edge and true belly laughs only come from depression? How much pressure was there on Happy the dwarf to live up to his name? Is there any system that will guarantee us eternal bliss or should we just embrace the fact that life is a vale of tears and our only option is to laugh in its face?

Running time: 90 mins. approx

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Carl Donnelly: Bad Man Tings (Preview)

Join twice Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated Carl Donnelly for an all new hour of funnies as he takes us through his thoughts on reaching the ripe old age of 34, the age that is statistically the happiest of your life. Following the mess that was his late twenties and early thirties (involving divorce, depression, hallucinogens and worse) Carl has now seemingly found peace in being a vegetable planting, self-hating liberal with a wide array of useless kitchen utensils and is trying to work out which life he prefers.

“Observational genius” (Guardian

Carl has appeared on various TV shows including Mock The Week, Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central, Dave’s One Night Stand, Stand Up for the Week, Russell Howard’s Good News, Follow The Football and Comedy Store. He is also a regular on radio appearing as a guest on such shows as BBC 5live’s The Back End of Next Week, Radio 4’s Loose Ends and Act Your Age as well as being a regular guest on talkSPORT. He has also co-hosted a radio show for the Fubar Radio app after his acclaimed podcast which he recorded with Chris Martin. He has also performed at the biggest comedy festivals in the world (Montreal Just for Laughs, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Sydney Comedy Festival, Kilkenny Cat Laughs etc).

“Excellent, fast-rising comic with pacy anecdotal routines” – Sunday Times

“Donnelly has developed a style that is the antithesis of the loud, sweaty, manic comic so prevalent on the telly and live tours at the moment. This is stand up with valium: near horizontal levels of louche that take the mundane stories of everyday life and turns them into stretches of self deprecating silliness” – The Guardian

Running time: 60 mins. approx

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Andy Zaltzman: Satirist for Hire

Andy Zaltzman brings his acclaimed show Satirist for Hire to Leeds Comedy Festival. Andy will address your queries, complaints, demands and general gripes to order in his uniquely interactive satirical stand-up show.

Are you exasperated by economics, piqued by politics, or wound up about the world? Then this is your chance to have the issues you care about satirised to order by one of Britain’s leading political comedians, who will deliver freshly-hewn, individually-tailored comedic responses to your big issues.

You are invited to email your satirico-query to satirisethis@satiristforhire.com, including the date of the show you’ll be attending, plus details of the issue/person/concept/thing you would like addressed. All issues considered (within reason), whether political, social or miscellaneous, and whether global, national, local or intensely personal.

Previous issues requested range from British democracy, via Syria, the lyrics of Carly Rae Jepsen, mental health provision in the age of austerity, the concept of hope, and Kevin Pietersen, all the way to criminal justice and Pokemon.

Zaltzman is half of the global smash hit topical podcast The Bugle, alongside John Oliver, and star of 5 Live’s 7 Day Sunday/Saturday, sundry stuff on Radio 4, and bafflingly/rightly infrequent TV appearances (delete according to taste), and has performed stand-up in all four of the world’s leading hemispheres.

This show will be performed in 3D.

Running time: 90 mins. approx

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Carl Hutchinson: The Fixer (Preview)

See one of the UK’s most in-demand comedians as he does what he does best: hilariously squaring off against life’s petty annoyances. From people who obnoxiously post motivational quotes on social media to those who urge you to put your phone in rice when you get it wet, Carl Hutchinson tackles a bunch of little, everyday issues in his latest show ‘The Fixer’.

Fresh from supporting Chris Ramsey on tour, join Carl as he attempts to put the world to rights in his brand new hour of stand-up

“An absolute must… the next big thing” – The Skinny

“Effortlessly hilarious. He captivates the audience with his perfectly timed suspenseful silences and plain-talking sense-making” – ★★★★ – Three Weeks

“Hutchinson’s trump card is the way he interacts with the audience, rolling with every ‘ooh’ and ‘aah’ his material generated, giving a dynamism and spontaneity to his performance” – Chortle

Running time: 60 mins. approx

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