Best of the Chortle Awards
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Wednesday, 14 September
The Chortle Awards are among the most prestigious on the comedy circuit and will be showcasing some of the brightest talent on the comedy circuit today. The Best of the Chortle Awards will be compered by Susan Calman and will feature previous winners and nominees including The Boy With Tape on His Face (Winner 2011 Breakthrough Act), Joe Lycett (Winner 2010 Best Newcomer), Andrew Lawrence (Nominee 2011 Best Headliner) and Kevin Eldon (Winner 2011 Best Show).
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Los Quatros C**ts
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Wednesday, 14 September
Dan Mersh, Jeremy Limb and Paul Litchfield force comedic magic down the throat of a paying audience in this lovely show. Prepare to be forcibly charmed and violently tickled with sketches and laughs aplenty. These blood-thirsty scamps will certainly have you rolling for mercy in the aisles.
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Hal Cruttenden
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Wednesday, 14 September
Hal Cruttenden brings his incredible show to Shoreditch "done with high camp and nattily constructed punchlines, it definitely holds charm."(The Guardian)
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Magic & Mischief with Paul Daniels, John Archer and Magical Guests
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Friday, 16 September
TV Star and comedy magician Paul Daniels headlines a huge line up of magic, mystery, mirth and mischief. Daniels is one of the biggest names in the magic world and one of the most entertaining stage magicians in the UK today. Magic & Mischief is also starring John Archer, winner of the 'Magic Circle Stage Magician of the Year' and one of the funniest and most talented magicians in the UK (and the go-to guy for Derren Browns parties). You'll also see Xavier Mortimer, famous in Paris for his awe inspiring illusions, witty and playful characters and theatrical musical pieces filled with flawless magic, mime and juggling. Also performing is Javier Jarquin 'The Card Ninja', who's skills with cards is inspiring, the stunts he can perform with a regular deck of cards will surprise you as he compares one of the finest magic shows London has seen this year.
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Tom Allen’s Evening Soirée
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Thursday 8 September
Fresh from appearing at the Edinburgh Festival, multi award winning comic Tom Allen brings his hit Fringe teatime chat show to the twilight hour with his Evening Soirée at the ScipMylo Festival. Join Tom for an exciting hour of sparkling conversation with top festival performers and comedians mixed with a whirlwind of intelligent satire, anarchic parlour games and his own inimitable brand of sublime comedy.
Tom has performed at festivals around the world, is the star of BBC’s Sony Award winning Bleak Expectations and has been seen in such shows as the Stephen K Amos Show and Big Brother’s Big Mouth. Winner of So You Think You’re Funny and BBC New Comedy Awards.
'Rocked by the rhythm of a saint. Catch him now, and you'll be able to tell people how you saw him before he was famous.' Daily Telegraph
'Gives the tradition of camp comedy a firmly 21st century twist' The Guardian
'One of the funniest acts on the circuit' GQ Magazine
'Lively, charismatic...the cream of the crop' Time Out
'Otherworldly' The Scotsman
Tom Allen’s Evening Soirée
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Friday 9 September
Fresh from appearing at the Edinburgh Festival, multi award winning comic Tom Allen brings his hit Fringe teatime chat show to the twilight hour with his Evening Soirée at the ScipMylo Festival. Join Tom for an exciting hour of sparkling conversation with top festival performers and comedians mixed with a whirlwind of intelligent satire, anarchic parlour games and his own inimitable brand of sublime comedy.
Tom has performed at festivals around the world, is the star of BBC’s Sony Award winning Bleak Expectations and has been seen in such shows as the Stephen K Amos Show and Big Brother’s Big Mouth. Winner of So You Think You’re Funny and BBC New Comedy Awards.
'Rocked by the rhythm of a saint. Catch him now, and you'll be able to tell people how you saw him before he was famous.' Daily Telegraph
'Gives the tradition of camp comedy a firmly 21st century twist' The Guardian
'One of the funniest acts on the circuit' GQ Magazine
'Lively, charismatic...the cream of the crop' Time Out
'Otherworldly' The Scotsman
Some Songs Fast Some Slow : Josie Lawrence Show And Steve Edis Band
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Thursday, September 15
Some songs are newly written and others are cover versions with a twist.Some will make you smile and some will make you shed a tear. In between they'll be a little chat from Josie and who knows just what she's gonna say? So there you have it - 14 songs in a fast paced and varied show plus a little help from a young chap called George. Josie and Steve would love you to be there - it's one Thursday evening you will never forget
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John Moloney
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Saturday, September 17
King of the one-liners John Moloney has been a comedian for twenty years, and has appeared at every major International Comedy Festival, brilliantly showcasing his crafted and intelligent material. He is a quite unique exponent of stand-up comedy (so says, Scotsman). So we invite you to spend an hour in the company of one of the UK's best-looking, most experienced and cherished stand-ups. This is John's first Edinburgh Festival show in 10 years - we are delighted to have him back.
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Comedy Club 4 Kids
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Saturday, September 17
Cracking entertainment for anyone over the age of six years old and under 400 years old (no vampires), we have the best comedians from the UK and world circuit doing what they do best...but without the rude bits! "All in all this show was great. It is laugh your socks off comedy fit for the whole family, including parents and grandparents.
Nobody will feel left out." The Scotsman
Dana Alexander – New Arrival
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Friday 16 September
One of Canada’s most outspoken and hilarious women is packing her bags for the UK and arriving on Edinburgh’s doorstep for a debut run at the festival this year. The only black female comedian currently on the circuit in Canada, Dana's comedic style is both refreshing and irreverent, drawing her material from her diverse lifestyle, her gay friends and her crazy Jamaican family. We are lucky enough to catch her festival debut direct from Edinburgh Fringe in London at ScipMylo.
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Andrew Maxwell
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Saturday 17 September
Andrew continues to dominate the live and festival circuits. Notable appearances have included several sell-out shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, The Amnesty / Channel Four Secret Policeman's Ball (alongside Eddie Izzard, Chevy Chase and Dylan Moran, The HBO US Comedy & Arts Festival in Las Vegas (alongside Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock), several sell-out runs in the main house of London's Soho Theatre, Kilkenny Cat Laughs Festival, Glastonbury and the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival.
"FIERCELY FUNNY AND UTTERLY INVIGORATING" Times
Andrew has won and been nominated for several major awards including The Edinburgh Comedy Award, The Time Out Live Award for Best Stand-up, The Loaded Magazine Award for Best Stand-up and The Chortle Award for Best Contribution To The Live Comedy Circuit. He was also recently voted Best Irish Comedian by the public at the Entertainment.ie Awards.
"ANDREW MAXWELL IS A HYPERACTIVE, CRAZY COMIC WITH A LUST FOR LIFE THAT MAKES IGGY POP LOOK LIKE A PUSSY"
Time Out
Tobias and Fredrik's Getting Away With Murdoch
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Friday, 16 September
In the beginning there was nothing, until we learned how to paint pictures in caves. We then discovered that everyone was entitled to know what was going on and 'News' was born. From this comedy was created as some journalists suddenly became comedians. Their news reports became entertaining and they suddenly found that printing the truth was now as exciting as spinning and rearranging the truth for entertainment value. Others, who didn't want to write jokes for purposes of selling newspapers opted for a route in Stand up comedy, take Fredrik Andersson and Tobias Persson for example who have now taken their unique style of comedy to the UK. Both of these pioneers of comedy butcher through the slanted news and phone hacking scandals we've been fed and provide you with new, fresh and innovative comedy food, not the custard pie kind, far away from the unfunny tabloid press.
Fredrik Andersson is better known on the Swedish Comedy club circuit and writing & performing comedy for TV such as the Swedish version of Balls of Steel. Since last October Fredrik has been living amongst us in London and plans to be as successful on the British comedy scene as he is in Sweden. Since arriving he has debuted at all the major London clubs, featured in the Edinburgh Fringe show 'The Stockholm Syndrome' and recently performed at the Leicester Comedy Festival show 'Is This England?.
Tobias Persson only three years ago won Sweden's best Comedian, has already played all the major UK clubs including The Comedy Store, The Glee club, Jongleurs and Comedy cafe, as well as performing on "Political Animal" and his first Edinburgh show in 2010 called "Call me old fascist". And returning this year with his 2011 show, Sitting on a Cornflake. Tobias has been writing and performing since his early years- with no other ambition than just wanting to make people laugh.
Carl Donnelly 3 : Carl Donnelier
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Friday 16 September
Truly one of the UK's most up and coming comedians, Carl Donnelly comes to Shoreditch with another year's worth of tales of idiocy that critics and audiences have been flocking to see all over the UK. Two years ago, Carl was nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer, and this third solo show proves he is already one of the UK's finest.
***** "Donnelly is a class act... he can squeeze a great deal of laughter out of the most mundane realities of every day existence" EDINBURGH FESTIVAL MAGAZINE
Phil Nichol : The Simple Hour
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Wednesday, 14 September
Phil Nichol is a truly unique performer. An acclaimed actor, multi award winning comedian, producer, presenter, writer and musician there is no end to his talent. "seismically powerful award-winning comic force" (The Scotsman)
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Katherine Ryan : Little Miss Conception
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Thursday, 15 September
Can we ever truly escape our childhood indoctrinations? A dazzling show with twisted observations, invigorating pop music parodies, and more from this hilarious award-winning stand up. 'Warped wit...striking presence...killer lines...calm confidence' (Scotsman) As seen on C4's CAMPUS, Big Brother's Big Mouth, BAFTA-nominated Routes.
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Urban Comedy Trip with Rudi Lickwood presenting Eddie Kadi, Kojo, Slim, Prince Abdi, Imran Yusuf and Paul Chowdhry
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Thursday, 15 September
Proudly presenting London's best line up of Urban Comedy this year featuring Eddie Kadi who is literally cleaning up on the comedy circuit. Alongside Kadi, there is also Kojo The Fresh Prince of Hackney bringing his rocking set home, Prince Abdi the award winning Anglo-Somali stand and the brilliantly self assured Paul Chowdhry - "Destined for greatness" - BBC Radio London
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Phil Nichol : The Simple Hour
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Wednesday, 15 September
Phil Nichol is a truly unique performer. An acclaimed actor, multi award winning comedian, producer, presenter, writer and musician there is no end to his talent. "seismically powerful award-winning comic force" (The Scotsman)
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Sean Hughes
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Friday, 16 September
Sean Hughes is best-known to TV audiences for his long-running stint as team captain on ‘Never Mind The Buzzcocks’. After an extended hiatus, Perrier award winner Hughes returns with his hugely impressive and intelligent stand up show, noted in equal measure for it's hilarity and raucous dark undercurrents. 'One of the best stand-ups of his generation' (Daily Telegraph)
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Tiernan Douieb : Tiernan Douieb Vs The World
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Friday, 16 September
Tiernan Douieb : Tiernan Douieb Vs The World Diminutive stand-up Tiernan Douieb takes his comedy in a brave new direction. For 30 years, Tiernan has blissfully ignored politics. Incredulous at the state of the world around him, he now finds himself on a steep political learning curve as he tackles everything from the coalition and the cuts to the burka and the Middle East. But plagued by the arguments and injustices he encounters, he wonders if ignorance might be bliss after all.
He has supported Jim Jefferies, Russell Howard and worked as warm up for Mark Watson’s We Needs Answers and Dick and Dom’s Funny Business and, in 2009, invented and ran the world’s first ever Twitter Comedy Club with an estimated 14,000 viewers.
Rom Com Con
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Friday, 16 September
featuring Lizzy Mace and Juliette Burton Friday
Have you ever watched a romantic comedy and wondered "could that actually happen in real live?" Lizzy Mace and Juliette Burton have. And what’s more, they've decided to find out!
Do the rom coms hold the key to finding true love? Or are they all just one big con? Fresh from their hit run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2011, Mace and Burton are appearing at Scipmylo for one night only!
"Both funny and heartfelt...as full of hope and heart as any Hollywood click."
Jenifer Shelton, Cambridge Evening News
"Full of laughs and with the odd tear-jerking moment thrown in for good measure...perfect for anyone who's ever despaired of finding love."
Three Weeks
"Sweet and funny...the feel-good hit of the summer, guaranteed to make you smile" The Skinny
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Ed Byrne Supported byKate Luca
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Saturday, 17 September
Star of Mock the Week and veteran stand-up, Irish comic superstar Ed Byrne descends upon Shoreditch with his razor sharp witticism and intelligent observations. "Byrne is at the top of his game” (The Sunday Telegraph) “Ed Byrne is a class apart" (London Evening Standard). Exploding onto the comedy scene Kate Lucas delivers a unique blend of sweet, self-deprecating humour with a dark, dry wit that resonates through her songs and playfully bitter musings on life.
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Best of the Fest
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Various dates
As curators of the Scipmylo Comedy Festival, the team at the Comedy Cafe are bringing you some of the brightest stars in stand up, cabaret and magic this September and to celebrate we're holding 'Best of the Fest' shows right here at the Club.
Catch the stars up close and personal, see top comedians every night and surprise appearances all throughout the Scipmylo Festival.
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