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Matthew Osborn
with Luke Benson and Carly Smallman MC
Saturday 5th May
2012
Doors open 8.00pm -
9.00pm Start. Ticket Price £12.00
Matthew is a hugely talented
stand-up who started on the circuit in 2002 and
went on to win
SO YOU THINK YOU’RE FUNNY the same
year. In 2003 was named
CHORTLE BEST
NEWCOMER. Since then he has performed
on the UK circuit and abroad in France, Belgium
and Monaco. As well as supporting
HARRY HILL
and AL MURRAY
and appearing as part of
THE COMEDY ZONE
at the 2003 Edinburgh festival.
Other work includes appearing in
SPANKING NEW ON
7 (BBC Radio 7), a programme featuring the most
promising new stand up talent and as part of
JONGLEURS LIVE,
a collections of CD’s showcasing the 'Freshest
and Funniest' acts on the circuit.
In 2005 Matthew took a break from
Stand-up to concentrate on his writing, in which
time he developed a number of plays, sitcoms and
sketch ideas as well as writing his first book
LEISURE.
Since returning to the comedy
circuit in 2007 Matthew has picked up where he
left off appearing at some of the UK’s leading
clubs, including
Jongleurs,
Banana Cabaret,
Headliners,
The Comedy Café,
The Frog And
Bucket,
Up The Creek
and Downstairs
At The Kings Head and was named the
2009 ENGLISH
COMEDIAN OF THE YEAR.
In 2011, his most recent
project, CUL-DE-SAC, a play
written by Matthew, has just finished its run at
the Edinburgh Fringe and received a terrific
critcal reaction.
"The writing is sharp, the
observations are acute. The dialogue sparkles,
and an experienced and professional cast make it
work beautifully."
****
Fringe Review
"Osborn's Script is as crisp and
polished as you might expect if you know his
stand-up, and delivered accordingly, with
clarity, precision and a fine sense of how each
line should be timed."
****
Chortle
"If George Orwell had been around
to write an episode of Terry and June, he might
well have turned in something like this
three-hander by Matthew Osborn.
Or what starts out as a front-lawn comedy of
manners - very bourgeois, very buttoned-up, very
English - becomes a kind of Nineteen Eighty-Four
with laughs.
****
Scotsman
Geordie giant, Luke Benson is an incredibly
talented stand-up making waves on the circuit as
a superb act and MC. Luke’s been performing
stand up since 2007 and has been a finalist in
the Hackney Empire, Amused Moose, Leicester
Square Theatre and Mirth Control competitions.
He was also nominated for this year’s Leicester
Mercury New Comedian of the Year Award. To top
this all off, londonisfunny.com named
him as one of the
Top 10 Comics
to Look Out For in 2011.
Luke enjoyed a fantastic Edinburgh 2010,
appearing in Just the Tonic’s
Big Value
Comedy Show and the ‘Monumental
Joke Disco’ which was named in the
Top 5 Things to
See at the Free Fringe (The List).
Luke has an incredibly likeable stage presence
and his set is a mix of hilarious stories,
original one liners and inventive word-play.
He’s performed at
The Comedy
Store,
Banana Cabaret,
Just the Tonic,
Frog & Bucket,
Amused Moose,
CKP,
Highlight,
Komedia,
The Stand,
XS Malarkey,
Mirth Control,
Up the Creek,
Downstairs at
the King’s Head,
Spank!
and many more. He has a regular show on
Shoreditch Radio called the
Benson &
Proudfoot Show and has appeared on
Channel 4, Capital Radio, Phoenix Radio and has
performed and written for Virgin.
He has recently returned from Edinburgh Festival
where he did
The Comedy Reserve at the Pleasance
Dome.
"Confident and assured and had some great
punchlines."
Fringe Guru
He is also about to film
Greatest Body
Shockers to be shown on E4.
Benson runs his own
popular comedy night-
the Leicester
Sq Working Mens’ Club (at the Leicester
Sq Theatre). You can book tickets for it here.
“A quirky observational set that earns him lots
of applause…He looks the part, he’s got the
talent, and it’s easy to imagine him on the
telly”
Sunday
Times
“One of the most instantly likeable
personalities on the line-up. His punch-lines
hit the targets... even more impressive was how
he found a clear voice whatever style or subject
of comedy he tackled.”
The Stage
“A finely accomplished set…packed full of
word-play. Effortless delivery that we’re sure
to see more of in the future.”
Chortle.
“Hugely likeable, experienced & really funny”
Time out
Carly Smallman sings funny songs. Her unique
blend of outrageous impropriety and adorable
sincerity has established her as a firm
favourite in London clubs and beyond. She plays
many fabulous venues, including Banana Cabaret,
The Stand, Komedia, Spank!, Comedy Café and many
more. Earlier this year she even went on tour
around Eastern Europe- playing to crowds in
Slovenia, Croatia and Hungary. She was also
lucky enough to perform at Latitude, Reading,
Leeds and V Festivals this summer.
Carly recently
reached the final of the Musical Comedy Awards;
in 2010 she was first runner up in the Bedford
New Comedian of the Year competition and a
Laughing Horse semi-finalist and has previously
been named an Amused Moose Hot Starlet
Last
year, Carly appeared on The Rob Brydon Show
(BBC2), and was seen criticising people who are
more famous than herself on The Top 50
Greatest Plastic Surgery Shockers (E4).
Radio appearances include What’s So Funny?
with Rufus Hound (BBCR4 Extra). Carly will
soon be seen on 5’s Interview of a Lifetime.
She’s also proved a huge hit online with her
debut music video making the ‘Featured Video’
list on BBC Comedy Online for several weeks and
further sketches with BBC Comedy due for release
soon. Carly is also one half
of double act You’re Not the One, with
Luisa Omielan. Their 2010 Edinburgh show, A
Guide to Love and Dating was a complete sell
out…if you can call a free show a sell-out.
Basically, no more people could fit into the
venue.
Carly has
enjoyed tremendous success as an improviser, and
was one of the original cast members of fringe
smash Scenes From A Communal Living:
****
(British Theatre Guide). ‘Very
funny, fresh and endlessly creative.’
(Time Out). ‘London’s hottest
young comedy improvisers’ (Fringe Review).
She has trained with Keith Johnstone and Alan
Marriott, and she sometimes likes to create off
the cuff ditties as a surprise part of her
comedy set. She was also one half of hit
hip-hop comedy act Abandoman
with fellow
comedian/improviser Rob Broderick to create
improvised folk-hop anthems.
“A
bundle of energy” - The Sun
“Delightfully ebullient...very funny, fresh and
endlessly creative” - Time Out
“Genius breath-of-fresh-air humour” - QX
magazine
“Her
bubbly delivery made every line fun” -
Fringe Guru
“Top
songs that will make her quickly become a rising
star” - Bournemouth Echo
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