CRYSTAL PALACE COMEDY - Edinburgh Preview Showcase

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Superb Comedy Showcase with award winning acts

ANDREW WATTS – How To Build A Chap
Andrew Watts wants his son to be everything that he’s not.
But how do you ensure that your child doesn’t want to grow up to be a comedian?
Join him in the follow-up to the five-star Feminism for Chaps
(“An absolutely superb, hilarious show” – Chortle; “Clever, personal and very funny” –
The Scotsman). As seen on ITV’s Stand-Up Hero and Comedy Central’s The World Stands Up.
www.andrewwattscomedy.co.uk
“Absolutely superb, hilarious” ***** Chortle
“Clever, personal and very funny”**** Scotsman
“Exquisitely funny” Time Out
“Gender politics just got fun” Broadway Baby

Andrew's 2015 show debuted at Brighton Fringe in May and follows on from the success of last year's Edinburgh, which got a 5 star Chortle show. The show has since played across the UK and earned him invitations to the New Zealand Comedy Festival and led to appearances on national TV.

ELLIOT STEEL (Crystal Palace local - son of Mark Steel)
Following impressive performances and wowing audiences at The Latitude, V and Reading festivals in 2013, Elliot Steel is the new must-see comic name to watch out for in 2014.
At just eighteen years old Elliot regales confidence and a stage presence way beyond his years.
Elliot’s hilarious and honest routines are gritty real-life tales of growing up on a South London council estate – all delivered in his refreshingly individual style.
Catch him now before the stadium tour.

SEAN PATRICK was a public sector accountant until show business put wings on his heels and a smile on his face and transformed him into a high-octane cabaret entertainer. So what if his wife has left him? So what if he doesn’t know any jokes? So what if Simon Cowell thinks he is wholly lacking in talent? Tonight he will convince you that Cowell was wrong – or die trying. A character act guaranteed to make everyone in your audience feel better about themselves.

Sean came onto the comedy circuit in 2012 and regularly performs spots for such clubs as Bromley Comedy Club, Out Of Bounds, The Back Yard Club, Downstairs at the King’s Head (weekend spots), Joke Klub, Gags On The Green, Comedy Knights and Mirth Control. He also won King Gong at the Comedy Store and the Comedy Café New Acts Night in March 2014 and is now becoming a regular on the circuit...

"He looks like a cockney Frank Skinner with sideburns and darker hair.
Definitely act of the night.” West Midlands Comedy Forum, review, October 2013

MICHAEL LEGGE is a famous grouch, snapping away at all the pricks in the world, and the politeness in society that tolerates them. The only thing worse than the rude and uncouth are those who are in carefree denial of all the misery around us – such as the ‘plague of joy’ that is the Edinburgh Fringe – or those who tell him he must be more cheerful.

The language is perfectly judged, with some beautifully splenetic turns of phrase. And the effect of all this impassioned negativity is, ironically, quite joyous, as there a precious catharsis in seeing all the idiots called to account. After all, who among us cannot raise a cheer of support when he rails against the tiresome parodies of the Keep Calm & Carry On posters? He hates so many things, that if he were to go on Room 101, they’d need extra storage space, but he despises nothing so much as Mrs Brown’s Boys, and in a moment of abject self-hatred agreed to go along to a live show, only to have his every prejudice confirmed.