WILL FRANKEN ,ANDY ZALZMAN

Event information

WILL FRANKEN ,ANDY ZALZMAN Dave Mills,Gerry Howell,Maggy Whitehouse MC Martin Besserman

at Camden`s


SIR RICHARD STEELE
FULLY AIR CONDITIONED
97 Haverstock Hill NW3 Chalk Farm /Belsize Park
with top award winning acts
(Just 5 mins walk from Chalk Farm tube)
or take 168 bus from Camden Town get off when they call Steeles Road. Bar till midnight
good food available

Monkey Business

Comedy Club

proudly presents

award winning superstar

Will Franken

Will Franken is a supremely talented character-comedy actorBy KATE COPSTICK Published on Wednesday 8 August 2012 11:51

ONE of the best things that can happen at the Fringe is seeing a show by someone you know nothing about and discovering a whole new kind of fabulous comedy.
Things We Did Before Reality
Just The Tonic at 
The Caves (venue 88)
Star rating: * * * *
I got that experience watching Will Franken.
He gallops along a comedic road less travelled and has found the sweet spot where absurdism and satire combine, both super-sweet and surgically sharp. His characters morph and meld in the comedy kaleidoscope of his hour-long show, and each of them left me wanting more.
From the opening short play, The Random Audience Member, and through Bad American Comedian Impressions, the Humility Award ceremony and a touching plea from the makers of the Homophobia Quilt, Franken’s comedy is – as his mathematically challenged sports coach might say – 
487 per cent compelling, clever and creative.
He even does impressions, and plays that much-underrated of instruments, the air violin.
Inside the beautifully wrought velvet glove of his character comedy, however, is clenched an iron fist. Religion and sex, political correctness and the vicissitudes of American society are his targets, and not a single one is missed. The short presentation by “Bill Jacobs” on the profitability of diversity, incorporating an explanation of the difference between “real” activism and “business” activism is practically perfect comedy.
The writing and the performance are equally impressive, which is the case much less often than you would think. Franken is a hugely genial performer and manages to cope with a front row which seemed to be taken up by a herd of Phil Mitchell lookalikes in the terminal stages of lager saturation.
This is a supremely talented comedy actor, and each of his characters lives and breathes, however absurdly they do it. This is the kind of show that makes a Fringe great – a huge talent in a tiny room. I cannot remember one moment of this show that wasn’t funny. I am still laughing.

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multi award winning

intelligent /interesting

Andy Zaltzman

Andy Zaltzman is a popular ,Very funny, perceptive, Interesting, & a hugely entertaining award winning ComicTime Out2006 Nominee for Outstanding achievement2001 PERRIER BEST NEWCOMER AWARD NOMINEE"Clearly a huge talent. Someone you can expectto hear a lot more of." - The Observer "This is satire at its best… His excellent material demands to be seen" - Jason Hall, Edinburgh Evening News ****"Wonderfully inventive…his deadpan delivery has an odd, idiosyncratic appeal." - Stephanie Merritt,The Observer

Zaltzman is a gifted comic… Its all clever stuff" - Dominic Maxwell, Metro"

Very funny…He moves swiftly from one theme to the next and back again ripping each one to shreds with an articulate and intelligent stream of abuse…a great comedian who has the ability to make you listen as well as laugh and who is prepared t o joke about more than the bloody weather. ****" - Three Weeks"

In an age of identikit comics, Zaltzman's sharp, wide-eyed routines shine brightly***" -Scotsman"

He reveals himself to be a comedian of great ability" - Tim Abrahams, The Herald ***

"One of this year's most impressive new shows… Zaltzman has created an hour of unashamedly cerebral material that had his audience hooting with laughter, almost without respite… Zaltzman is clearly a huge talent, both as a writer and a performer, and someone you can expect to hear a lot more of." - The Observer

"In a world where so many stand-ups recycle the same stale gags, Andy Zaltzman comes as a blessed relief… enormously funny, thoroughly rewarding ****." - Edinburgh EveningNews"Zaltzman is an incredibly smart humorous polemicist. Strong, original material ****." - The List "

The product of much comic invention… instructive and very funny." - The Herald"A hilarious, topical romp through the complex choices we face in everyday life… Zaltzman leaves no political hot potato untouched… His acute historical perspective and incisive awareness of life's absurdities makes Zaltzman's act both endearing and challenging ****." - Metro

"Eclectic, Political Edge… Bristles With Vivid Ideas." - Evening Standard"Great natural comedic ability.

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award winning funnyman

DAVE HILLS

David Mills won the New Act of the Year 20011 (formerly Hackney Empire New Act of the Year). His signature style merges Dave Allen and Kenneth Williams. He's played all over London and the South east.


He's 'Second Banana' or sidekick on Scott Capurro's Position, the live, comedy chat show that has had multiple sell-out runs in London and a 5-star run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2011.
Mills' is also an established cabaret comic and performs with piano accompaniment. He's had several solo shows including:
The New Black, 2009 -- Leicester Square Theatre, Bistrotheque, Oval HouseHouse Party -- Camden Fringe, Royal Vauxhall TavernBrave New House Party -- Royal Vauxhall TavernSwing Out Mister! -- BistrothequeThe Bigger Picture -- Stagewerx Theatre (San Francisco) , Bistrotheque
Reviews:
'His talent for whip cracking one-liners is audaciously thrilling.' - Time Out
'A gifted, bravura performer. His ruthless, cynical bitchiness is hysterically funny.' -- SF BayGuardian.
'His succession of one-liners struck home like polished darts, and his languid, camp persona rang, like, totally true. Mills’ was a stealthily consummate performance, well deserving of victory.' -- The Stage
'His ability to mix up his comedy - from wry observation, to slam-bam punchline, to physical nuance - made this feel like the most rounded performance of the night, and the one that could most easily hold an audience for a full solo show. Mills’ stand-up is as sharp as his quiff - a tongue-lashing, gag-whacking joy to watch.' - The Stage
'A waspishly brilliant comic who, perched on a stool, looked and sounded like one of the Algonquin wits drinking cocktails in Manhattan.' -- Arthur Smith
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxMSKVmmF_0


plus highly enjoyable comic


Gerry Howell

Gerry Howell is an award winning comedian, actor and writer. In 2010 he won Best Individual Comedy Show Award at the Buxton Fringe Festival for his one man comedy drama "The Fantastic Reality of Frederick Goodge".

Gerry's performances lie somewhere between Mr Fantastic and the mysterious encyclopedia of Uqbar. His imagination casts itself far and wide as he recounts his early years growing up in a post office or his experiences playing chess with pandas. He can tell you how Shakespeare was born in an ostrich egg, or about dressing up as an anagram for an evening out.

Whilst his mind flings itself from one delicious idea to another, you may find his body cankering around the stage like a loose nugget of popping corn, or crawling up the wall like a wild spider. Tread carefully and keep your ears to the ground...

If you haven't seen Gerry before, expect the unexpected, if you have – ditto. The greatest pleasure is the pleasure of anticipation. So that's something to look forward to.

“Highly entertaining...*****” - Fringe Review, Brighton Fringe 2010

“Often likened to a young Eddie Izzard [Gerry Howell] possesses a wonderfully befuddled stream of consciousness” - The Guardian

"Gloriously inventive" Chortle

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a genuine minister in an independent church

but also deliciously hilarious

Rev Maggy Whitehouse



Does God have a sense of Humour? If not, why did he create the funny bone? The deliciously funny Maggy Whitehouse knows a lot more about God’s amusing side, and so she should—she is an ordained Minister as well as a stand-up comedian and author. Maggy offers a side splitting look at religion, other priests and what really happens in the hatches, matches and dispatches. Maggy is a former BBC journalist and an astrologer. She is wise as well as witty so grab the chance to see her stand-up as she makes you listen and laugh, AND you can tell your Mum that you saw the Vicar this week…..it is an all-round winner……Well Amen to that!

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MC Martin Besserman



Doors 7.30 pm Show 8.45 pm

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