Headliner: Tom Baden
Support: Jen Brister
MC: Ray Peacock
Tom Basden - If.comedy winner. Bafta nominee. ¼ of BBC4 and Radio 4's Cowards. Music on Mark Watson's Radio 4 show. Songs, ideas, pictures, jokes, sweating, a play. Some cheeky and or strange moments. Most of it hopefully quite charming. Ambitious nonsense. Dynamic dithering. A scintillating shambles. All the good things about being alive now without the status anxiety, advertising or global problems.
"A comedy genius." Guardian
"Genre-saving stuff." Sunday Times
"One of the most original and imaginative comedy shows I've seen this year." The Observer
Jen Brister - Having reached the semi-finals of both the BBC New Comedy Awards and the Wilkinson Sword Comedy Competition Jen Brister is a well-known face on London's sketch circuit and a founding member of the Loose Connection group. Jen took her debut one woman show Me, My Mum & I on national tour culminating in a successful run at 2006's Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which she performed at the same time as participating in a series of live improvisations at the Underbelly. Last year Jen starred in and co-wrote the critically acclaimed Reception, alongside Clare Warde. A regular performer at some of the country's top comedy venues, Jen recently presented the Weekend Overnight and Weekend Breakfast shows on BBC 6 Music and starred in Russell Brand's Cloud Cuckoo Land (BBC Radio 2).
Ray Peacock is one of the most popular comperes, headline performers and TV warm up acts on the circuit. In 2007 Ray began presenting his Chortle hosted Ray Peacock Podcast alongside Ed Gamble and Raji James. Available on iTunes, the last two series of the podcast culminated with special, series finale live audience recordings. As an actor Ray's TV credits include, No Heroics (ITV2), Doctor Who (BBC One), Skins (E4) Doctors (BBC One), Harry Hill's TV Burp (ITV1), The 11 O'clock Show (Channel 4), Skin Deep (Channel 4) and Les Dawson's Finest Hour (Channel 4). It was as part of the highly successful Big and Daft comedy trio that Ray first came to prominence. The trio enjoyed their own BBC London radio series, three consecutive years of sell-out Edinburgh Festival shows and their own series for the BBC's PlayUK, Terrorville. After performing in the Comedy Zone at the 2002 Edinburgh Festival Ray went on to take two solo shows to Edinburgh.
"Hecklers be warned - take Peacock on and you might just spark off the second War of the Roses." Metro
Choose your seat on arrival.
Date: Thursday 11 February
Time: 20:00
Venue: Hall Two
Please note that online booking closes 90 minutes prior to the start of the performance.
