Boothby’s 2007 show at The Cellars was one of our all-time highlights. A comedy genius not to be missed!!
Boothby and Nick have another jolly trip up and down the country, this time to perform an evening of comedy and music that includes songs from their new studio album Is This Your Vehicle Sir?
Boothby Graffoe has had five series on BBC Radio 4: Two of The Big Booth featuring amongst others Steve Frost, Richard Thompson, Ned Sherrin, Glen Tilbrook and Kevin Eldon and thee of No Particular Order featuring amongst others Art Malik, Steve Frost and Paul Zerdin.
Boothby has written 3 plays for the stage: The Condition Of The Virgin, God and Adam and Hitler Sells Tickets. All three were subsequently adapted by the author for broadcast on BBC Radio 4. One of them in little 10 minute bits, but it still counts.
The Condition of the Virgin starred Tony Rhor, Jason Issacs and Paulin McLynn, with music from Robyn Hitchcock. God and Adam starred Art Malik as God, and Boothby himself as Adam. Hitler Sells Tickets was renamed Being Mussolini and starred Omid Djalil.
Boothby has written extensively for Omid Djalili, contributing to his live stand up and also providing stand up and sketches for 2 series of the highly successful Omid Djalili Show on BBC1, which has become one of the most exported TV shows around the world. Boothby was the writer of the revered Speed-relationship sketch amongst others. Boothby has also supported Omid Djalili in 30 odd dates around the British Isles and Ireland.
Although having taken a 3 year holiday from stand-up comedy Boothby still took time in to support Canadian super-group Barenaked Ladies on 2 UK tours and 2 cruises, to the Caribbean and the Mexican gulf. Boothby has been asked to join the Ladies again in 2012 on a 3rd cruise out of Miami in early Feb.
Boothby has performed in England Ireland Scotland and Wales, china, Hong Kong, America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, being the first comedian ever to play the Wellington Arts Festival, ending up with three members of the NZ philharmonic orchestra as his backing band. He has also performed in Belize, Germany, Holland, France, Spain, The Balearics, The Falkland Isles, Bermuda, The Bahamas, St Lucia, Jamaica, St Kitts, Barbados, Ascension Isles, and The Isle of Dogs, and Zimbabwe and Belgium.
Boothby was once a regular at the Glastonbury Festival until the major clearing banks moved in and he moved out (because he owes them all money)
Boothby has made 2 albums: Wot Italian? and Boothby Graffoe and The Following People
Boothby has appeared in both The Bill, and Casualty. And late night with Conan O Brian.
And supported Dean Friedman (no, really.)
And has performed improv on many separate occasions, with Paul Merton, Eddie Izzard, and Mike McShane and many others…
Hal Cruttenden is one of the top comedians working in the UK today, as well as being a highly accomplished writer and actor. Recent television appearances include ‘Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow’ (BBC1), ‘The Royal Variety Performance 2009 (ITV),‘Comedy Rocks’ (ITV) and ‘The Rob Brydon Show’ (BBC2) for which he also worked as a writer. He has also just completed his first national solo tour 'Hal Cruttenden Lively’. In the last year he has travelled to Bermuda for Just For Laughs Comedy, performed to British troops in Cyprus and travelled to India with The Comedy Store.
TV Writing and Performing
Other television appearances as a comic include ‘The Omid Djalili Show’ (BBC1), for which he wrote numerous sketches; ‘The 11 O’Clock Show’ (Channel 4); ‘Tonight’ (ITV); ‘BBC Breakfast’ (BBC1); ‘Just For Laughs Gala’ (CBC Canada); ‘Brain Candy’ (BBC3); ‘Live at Jongleurs’ (UK Gold/Paramount); ‘The Comedy Store’ (Paramount); ‘The World Stands Up’ (Paramount Comedy Channel UK, The Comedy Channel Australia, and Comedy Central and BBC America in the U.S); ‘The Warehouse’ (Carlton TV); ‘Carlton Comedy Warehouse’ (Carlton/STV); 'Most Annoying Couples' (BBC); ‘The Deputy Prime Minister’ (BBC2); ‘Hoot’ (Bravo); ‘Net.Comedy’ (Action Time); ‘Daily Telegraph Open Mic Awards’ (Channel 5) and ‘House of Fun’ (Meridien).
As a television warm up, he has worked for ‘The Jonathan Ross Show’, ‘Alan Carr’s Chattyman’ and ‘The Rob Brydon Show’ in addition to hosting recordings of ‘The World Stands Up’ at The Clapham Grand.'
Radio
Radio work includes Radio 5 Live with Richard Bacon, Nicky Campbell, Victoria Derbyshire and Stephen Nolan; Radio 4’s ‘Act Your Age’, ‘Four at the Store’ and ‘Loose Ends’; BBC London with Nick Hancock; Talksport Radio and Radio Ulster’s’ The Blame Game’.
TV and Film Acting
Having originally trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, Hal’s acting career includes roles on TV and film in ‘Shackleton’; ‘Eastenders’; ‘Kavanagh QC’; ‘Out of the Blue’; ‘Touching Evil’ and ‘Bramwell’. On film he has been in ‘Mrs Dalloway‘ and ‘The Madness of King George’. Recent theatre work includes ‘Orwell a Celebration’ at Trafalgar Studios London and the Edinburgh Festival. In this play he was described by the Daily Mirror as ‘a performer at the very peak of his powers.’ The Guardian said 'Cruttenden doesn't so much play glumly respectable middle-aged, middle-income insurance salesman George Bowling as inhabit him.'
Live Stand Up
Hal’s big breakthrough in stand up came with his nomination for the Perrier Newcomer Award at the 2002 Edinburgh Festival for his solo show ‘Hal’, followed by a highly successful run the following year of his second show, ‘To Hal and Back’, which was also performed at the Soho Theatre in London. At the 2008 festival his show, ‘Climb Every Molehill’, was critically acclaimed with The Scotsman's review saying, 'He has the actor's ability to let a story build and, when he peaks, his animation is a joy.' He is a regular at all the top UK comedy clubs and has supported Rob Brydon, Sean Lock, Ardal O’Hanlon and Omid Djalili on their nationwide tours, before embarking on his own tour in the Autumn of 2010
The disenfranchised masses of the world have risen against oppression, teamed up with technology, and fought for freedom. In a joke-packed show encompassing revolutions, economic idiocy, political and social upheaval at home and around the globe, a well-crafted Edith Piaf gag and some puns about dogs, Zaltzman taps his British coffee table in approval, and wonders if he’d have the cast-iron cojones to do likewise.
Co-star alongside John Oliver of the worldwide smash hit podcast The Bugle, regular on BBC 5Live’s 7 Day Sunday, sporadic appearer on Radio 4, and Cricinfo.com’s leading cricket satirist, Zaltzman returns following a storming Edinburgh Fringe run and a totally sold-out one-night tour of Bangladesh’s only comedy club.
"The best political comedian in the business, Zaltzman lets loose a veritable torrent of jokes, facts, observations, very short stories, silly remarks and inspired asides... Zaltzman is breathtakingly good."- Time Out
Probably one of the finest satirical comedians this country’s ever produced." - Tim Arthur
Recently writing and performing for Tonight With Rory Bremnar, and writing and performing on the second series of BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show; Andy has firmly established himself in the vanguard of British comedy with his unique brand of political comedy.
In 2007, Andy performed an award-winning Melbourne Festival debut, winning the Piece Of Wood Award as the comedian’s comedian. Alongside John Oliver, Andy has co-written and hosted the BBC Radio 4 show Political Animal, based on their satirical live stand-up show, and has co-written and starred in three series of BBC Radio 4’s satirical show, The Department.
Additionally for radio, Andy has recently written and hosted two new series, Andy Zaltzman's History Of The Third Millennium, Series 1 Of 100 for Radio 4 , Yes! It’s The Ashes for BBC Radio 5Live, and was a regular panellist on Radio 5Live’s 7 Day Sunday with Chris Addison and Sarah Millican.
In 2011, Andy was a regular writer for BBC Two’s Mock The Week and previously made a number of guest panellist appearances on TV and radio including 8 Out Of 10 Cats (Channel 4) and has written for several series of Bremner, Bird & Fortune (Channel 4).
Since 2006, he has been regularly working with Rory Bremner on a number of his television and radio projects including writing and performing together on Transatlantic, their US election special for BBC Radio 4.
Andy is a regular at the Edinburgh Festival and last year took his show Armchair Revolutionary alongside live shows of Political Animal with John Oliver and guests.
Alongside John Oliver, Andy has co written and hosted well over 100 episodes of The Bugle; an ongoing series of satirical news podcasts, produced in association with The Times and has written for, and performed on, John Oliver’s one hour Comedy Central stand up special Terrifying Times, later released on DVD.
Andy’s first book, a satirical take on the ‘credit crunch’ entitled Does Anything Eat Bankers?, was published in November 2008 by Old Street Publishing.
Since being nominated for the Perrier Best Newcomer Award in 2001, Andy has gone on to take seven acclaimed solo shows to the Edinburgh Festival.
Following a national tour this Winter / Spring, we’re delighted to welcome Patrick for The Cellars for an Edinburgh 2012 warm-up show!
‘the funniest show in Edinburgh’ - The Guardian
‘Perfect game show host. Tiggerish energy that could power the National Grid’ - London Evening Standard
Funny and adorable Irish/Iranian/Teessider comedian Patrick Monahan knows how to work a room and engage an audience with a strongly skilled blend of ad lib banter and stand up.
‘He has the dark looks and stubble of the Middle East, married to the charm of the Irish and the sense of fun of the Teessider. Omid Djalili meets Dave Allen you might say.’ - Daily Mail
Patrick has worked his way up the comedy circuit ladder and is now a regular MC and headlining act at the top London and UK comedy clubs. He has performed at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival for a
number of years at the Gilded Balloon. Patrick has spent the last 2 years developing his theatre touring shows and in the past year he has toured the UK as well as performed a run at the Adelaide Comedy Festival (2011) with his family show and also an evening stand up show.
Patrick’s TV appearances over the years have included The Comedy Store (Paramount Comedy Channel), That’s So Last Week (Zig/Zag/Five), Mervyn Bragg’s Travels In Written Britain (ITV), Comedy Decades, (BBC), Comedy map Of Britain (BBC), Playing Away (Tyne Tees/ITV Presenter of Travel Series), Most Annoying...(various), (BBC), Sorcerer’s Apprentice (CBBC), Mega Melai (BBC2).
Patrick has a wealth of TV studio warm up experience which covers both live and pre-recorded productions. As resident studio warm up Artiste for a number of seasons on ‘The Paul O’Grady Show’ (C4)
Patrick also appeared on numerous occasions in front of the camera hosting mock quizes, modelling false bums and finally as a guest on the sofa!
Patrick appears at last year’s Edinburgh Comedy festival, Gilded Balloon in his Hug Me I Feel Good stand up show for the whole of the Festival.
‘He is simply the nicest person ever born’ - Time Out London |
