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GLENN WOOL, PREET SINGH & MC GABBY KILLICK
Presented by: Kettering Arts Centre0 | KETTERING: Arts Centre, St Andrew's Church |
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P | Saturday 23rd April, 2022 |
N | 7:30pm |
ROLLING IN THE AISLES COMEDY CLUB – Headliner RICHARD MORTON with comedians GLENN WOOL, PREET SINGH, and MC GABBY KILLICK
Three TOP comedians and an MC perform cutting edge stand up at Kettering Arts Centre's monthly ROLLING IN THE AISLES!
Stand up comedian, singer, songwriter and winner of the Time Out Comedy Award, RICHARD MORTON is now a regular on Channel 5. You can see him on The Comedy Store Show and on the retro quiz show Wowfabgroovy. He’s also had his own half hour special Richard Morton Live At The Comedy Store. Guest appearances on other Channel 5 shows include The Jack Docherty Chat Show, Tibs & Fibs, Night Fever and Live & Dangerous.
ITV appearances include Jack Dee’s Saturday Night, Funny Business (both Granada), Good Stuff (Carlton) and The Richard Morton Christmas Special (Tyne Tees Yorkshire).
BBC TV appearances include Gag Tag, The Stand Up Show as well as an acting role in the BAFTA nominated Our Friends In The North. Richard also had several acting roles in Channel 4’s Jack and Jeremy’s Real Lives series.
A regular on BBC radio, he’ll be featured on the new series of Stand Up 2 and Four At The Store. He’s a frequent contributor to Loose Ends and The Locker Room and played alongside Caroline Quentin in Cross Questioned. He has also appeared on Radio 1’s Comedy Network, Loose Talk and Radio 4’s classic Just A Minute.
Richard has built up a formidable reputation as a live stand up, having completed several UK tours with Jack Dee, Lee Evans, Jo Brand, Lily Savage and Phill Jupitus.
A big favourite at the Edinburgh Festival, Richard has completed several sell-out runs at the Assembly Rooms. Other festivals have included the Montreal Comedy Festival, Kilkenny, and The Reading and Leeds Music Festivals.
“Comic genius”- The Daily Express
“A great stand up. Audiences laughed longer and louder at Morton than any other act on the Fringe.” – Sunday Times
GLENN WOOL began his comedy career in his hometown of Vancouver in 1995. He moved to London in 1998 and quickly became one of the rising stars of the London and international comedy circuit having performed in Australia, New Zealand, The USA, South Africa, Switzerland, France, Croatia and Arabia. Glenn was nominated for Best International Stand Up at The New Zealand Comedy Awards and twice Best Headliner at the Chortle Awards
"A masterpiece of comedy which has the audience helpless with laughter. I genuinely think this is one of the best hours of comedy I have ever seen” ★★★★★ The Scotsman
2017 and 2018 has seen Glenn touring with Reginald D Hunter for his Some People v. Reginald D. Hunter tour. You also might have heard him on Freestyle with Frankie Boyle, or seen him on Doug Stanhope’s The Comedians' Comedian's Comedians (SeeSo), which was recorded at SXSW..
His TV credits include John Oliver’s 'New York Stand-Up Show' as well as appearances on The Green Room with Paul Provenza, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Russell Howard’s Good News and numerous other UK stand-up shows. In 2016 Glenn was featured on The John Bishop Show on BBC1 and hosted a new NBC series Before the Morning After. He also lent his voice (along with Katherine Ryan) to the BAFTA award-winning Lottie Bearshout: Good as Goaled for Disney XD.
In recent years Glenn has dominated the international comedy circuit, performing to huge crowds in Holland, Singapore, Dubai, Cape Town, Melbourne, Montreal, LA, New York, Auckland and Sydney. He is a hugely popular addition to many of the great summer music festivals in the UK, including Reading & Leeds, Bestival, Download, Sonisphere and Glastonbury.
“Effortlessly funny with an affability that other comics can only dream of – You have to go and see Glenn Wool. ” The Guardian
"Edgy, imaginative, funny and original, Canadian born Wool sets the standards at the fringe” Daily Telegraph
“Why aren't you in a queue somewhere buying a ticket?" The Scotsman
“Seeing Glenn Wool perform should be made compulsory for the melancholy. There’s no way you won’t feel a bit better about the world afterwards. Lethally funny” ****Metro
“Absolutely hilarious” Independent
British Comedian of the Year, Semi-Finalist
PREET SINGH is a stand up comedian, writer, podcaster and radio host. First hitting the London circuit in March 2018 he has quickly established himself as a reputable new act. Early achievements include beating multiple, ruthless Gong shows e.g. The Blackout (UptheCreek) and The Honk Show (Moth Club).
From there he has gone on to feature at well established clubs and nights around the UK including multiple spots at Backyard Comedy Club, as well as a run of spots in New York and Berlin. In 2020, during a global pandemic, he founded Laugh-a-Lot Comedy Club.
In addition to stand up, Preet is the host and creator of Samosa Chats, a podcast dedicated to conversations with prominent brown people either tackling serious issues or leading unconventional lives. Following on from the success of Samosa Chats, in 2021 Preet signed with Dash Radio platform, Rukus Avenue Radio.
Based in LA, Rukus is regarded as the number one South Asian station in the world with up to 30 million unique listeners a day.
Preet has also been a guest on multiple media outlets speaking on a variety of issues including BBC Radio Berkshire, BBC Radio London and BBC News.
He has recorded two pilot episodes for Comedy Unleashed.
“Bringing a natural stage presence and wit”. – Secret London
GABBY KILLICK is a talented comedian, singer, rapper and actress based in London.
Gabby’s hit comedy show ‘Girlfriend From Hell’ was listed by the Funny Women organisation as one of their top three shows and was rated a top ten show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The show has played to venues across the UK, Europe and the USA to wide acclaim.
As well us being an acclaimed stand-up, Gabby is a versatile actress taking on a number of leads in independent films and plays, most recently the British Indie film, ‘No Fruit At The Bottom’.
During lockdown she made a series of videos, the most notable being her hit rap song, ‘Masturbation in Isolation’ which went viral.
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