A N D R E W  M A X W E L L

Andrew has won and been nominated for several awards including an Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show, a Time Out Live Award in the category of Best Stand-up, a Loaded Magazine Award for best stand-up and 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. In 2011 he joined the Sky One panel show WALL OF FAME as a series regular alongside host David Walliams, fellow comic Jack Dee, Kate Garraway and Tamara Ecclestone, he recorded his first appearance on BBC One's legendary comedy show LIVE AT THE APOLLO which aired on Friday 9th December and was one of the highest rated shows of the series in which he appeared alongside host Rich Hall and fellow guest Mark Watson and has appeared on recent series of BBC’s HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU, ITV2'S CELEBRITY JUICE, the Dave Channel's ARGUMENTAL and BBC2's MOCK THE WEEK, cementing his reputation as one of the country’s most sought after comedians.

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 - "Maxwell turned it around... he made us feel part of an event" THE TIMES), 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.

“Worth seeing just to watch what stand-up can be at its best.” THE GUARDIAN

“One of the best comics around... A consummate raconteur”  TIME OUT

"One of the most significant comedians working in the country today" THE INDEPENDENT

“A brilliant show... commands the audience's attention from start to finish”  THE OBSERVER

“Fiercely funny and utterly invigorating”  THE TIMES

"Ill-advised hedonism is rarely this politically well-informed or thought-provoking" THE SCOTSMAN
 

lucy Porter

Lucy has been a huge hit with comedy audiences up and down the country with her distinctive, bouncy, feel-good comedy. She has continued to travel internationally with her stand-up - taking in the far East (including shows in Hong Kong, Bangkok, Macau and Manila), Switzerland and Paris. She was also invited to Miami to take part in NBC's Last Comic Standing and has performed in the States for NBC and HBO at their Las Vegas Comedy Festival. She's also regularly invited to festivals closer to home including Manchester, Glasgow and the prestigious Kilkenny festival, as well as other mud-soaked scrums such as Latitude.
Lucy is a regular face and voice on TV and radio panel shows. Most recently you may have seen her emerge victorious from a well-fought battle for the title of Celebrity Mastermind Champion in a special edition of the show for Children in Need. Lucy fended off stiff competition from Mark Watson and Dave Spikey and broke records by achieving the highest ever celebrity score. She has also appeared on two series of Mock the Week, two series of Argumental for the Dave Channel, Have I got News for You, Clive Anderson's Chat Room, Never Mind the Buzzcocks and What the Dickens? On Radio 4, she is team captain on the popular Act Your Age, where she gets to work alongside such showbiz luminaries as Roy Walker and Barry Cryer, she can also be heard on The Personality Test and The Unbelievable Truth.
Lucy has also turned her hand to acting, she recently played the leading role in Guy Jenkin's (Outnumbered and Drop the Dead Donkey) new sitcom pilot Fried Brain Sandwich. She also stars in three 5 minute vignettes entitled Lucy Loves You, a series of mini sitcom episodes about her bizarre home life. The show features puppets, live bands, and Lucy having intimate relations with a bear and are available to watch on YouTube. The episode called 'Sex' has had a unsurprising 117,000+ hits already. Lucy has also played Nurse Flinn, in the critically acclaimed, box-office record breaking run of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest in Edinburgh and London's West End, alongside Christian Slater. She also acted in BBC 2's Broken News and in 2011 filmed a role in the upcoming series of Outnumbered.
She remains amongst the most sought-after comedy writers in Britain and was one of the lead writers on ITV1's prime-time Sunday night satirical animation series Headcases. She's been responsible for turning Dames Helen Mirren and Judi Dench into mouthy Croydon girls, Robert Mugabe into a West Country farmer, and Angelina Jolie into an evil sweatshop gangmaster. Lucy currently has a drama about nuns in development with the BBC and is also working on a sitcom called Rings for ITV.

Lucy has also moved into the world of film and she (along with Green Wing writers Fay Rusling and Oriane Messina) has a feature script (working title Queen of Comedy) on the development slate at leading Brit film company Warp X.

Awards:

2006 Radio Forth - Best Comedian Award

2004 Fringe Report Award - Winner - Best Stand Up

2004 BAFTA Award - nominee - for writing

2004 New York Television Society Award - Winner - for

writing

Hairline Highlight Award - Winner

Chortle Breakthrough Award - nominee

Royal Television Society Award - nominee for writing

Wendy Wason

Wendy is a stand-up comic and actress. She has written and performed three one-woman shows at the Edinburgh Festival and is a regular fixture on the UK comedy circuit. She performed her last show – Flashbacks – whilst nine months pregnant. Nothing fazes Wendy.

As a stand-up she has performed everywhere from Aberdeen to LA and was flown to Miami to take part in NBC’s Last Comic Standing.

As an actress her career began with short films before moving into T.V and features appearing in shows like Coupling, Midsummer Murders and The It Crowd with film appearances in The Libertine and Outcast.
She is a mother of three and writes not only her stand-up material but also her own blog and regularly contributes to the Huffington Post.

With bags of charisma she’s also doing great things on the comedy circuit – she reached the grand final of the Babycham Funny Women competition at The Comedy Store and has recently appeared as a panelist on a couple of projects for BBC Scotland.
As an actress, her quirky and very funny naturalistic comedic delivery has ensured her roles in several new comedy shows. She was a regular in Broken News (BBC2), Tittybangbang (BBC3/BBC2), was in Open Wide (ITV) and The IT Crowd (Channel 4). Quirky, original and hugely watchable, Wendy has also been a contributor on several of the more discerning comedy clips shows. You may even recognise her on a rice crispie advert!

She currently has several TV projects in development, including a character-based comedy with BBC Scotland.

2010 to 2011, Wendy has been busy! Performing at The Edinburgh Fringe with her show “Other People`s Secrets”, at The Gilded Balloon. Wendy will be hosting the stage at this years festival.

ERIC LAMPAERT

My name is Eric Lampaert (Lamb Pear) I studied at École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in PARIS & Middlesex University in LONDON
T4 RISING STAR OF 2012

RAINDANCE SHORT FILM NOMINEE 2011

WINNER OF LATITUDE COMEDY COMPETITION 2010

WINNER OF LAUGHING HORSE BIG COMEDY COMPETITION 2008
I’ve also done stuff on BBC2, BBC3, CH4, CH5, E4, ITV2, HBO and appeared on LIFE’S TOO SHORT, CARDINAL BURNS, THE MIDNIGHT BEAST, HOW TO SURVIVE A DISASTER MOVIE and much (little) more.
(Statistically this shows something good every two years… So don’t bother coming to see me during 2013, I’ll clearly be rubbish. But strap in for 2014! Woo. The chapter in my future autobiography I will possibly call “The year that changed everything, for everyone in the World”) All of this made sense except for the 2011 bit….
“QUIRKY WITH AN EYE FOR THE ABSURD AND A COUPLE OF NEAR-IZZARDIAN FLOURISHES… ENERGY IS SUCH THAT IT’S ALMOST OSMOTIC” – THE STAGE
I really like that quote for two reasons;

Firstly, it mentions one of my heroes, Eddie Izzard, as an adjective. (I hope to achieve that status one day, possibly as a verb “Shall we go Lampaert?” the future people will say. “I Lampaerted yesterday” – Not sure on the definition of the verb yet)
Secondly, it suggests that if you come and watch me, a chemical and biological process will “almost” happen, by which, my concentrated energetic molecules will pass through a semi permeable membrane (Possibly the actor’s “fourth wall”) into a languorous audience, thus equalizing the concentrations on each side of the membrane. I think that’s what it suggests…
“LIKEABLE AND ENJOYING, SWEEPING UP THE AUDIENCE IN THE SHEER ENERGY OF HIS PERFORMANCE. THE STRENGTH OF HIS SCATTY CHARACTER RIPS THROUGH THE ROOM LIKE A MINI-HURRICANE” – CHORTLE
Again, a lovely quote, but this time, my energy is not metaphorically represented as a chemical process but as one of Mummy Nature’s fiercest outbursts. You may not know this, but all comics love to be compared to a meteorological event.

Comic 1: How was your gig last night?

Comic 2: I rained such funny jokes that I literally flooded the audience. Killed two people.

Comic 1: How very cumulonimbus of you!

Comic 2: Thanks man. Coincidentally, a water pipe did burst at the time I was on stage but it was definitely my jokes that submerge the crowd with laughter.
“AN ABSOLUTE PRICK! NOT FUNNY AT ALL” – RANDOM ANGRY AUDIENCE MEMBER
Can’t please everyone…
“CHARMING AND INTELLIGENT, ENGAGING PERFORMER WHO IMBUES HIS STORIES WITH AN ENJOYABLE DEGREE OF SILLY AND SURREAL HUMOUR… CLEVER COMIC IMAGINATION WHO USES THESE TALES TO RIFF ON AND COME UP WITH SOME DECENT IMPROVISATIONS” – SPOONFED
No metaphors here. This description is essentially spoon-fed to you…
“DELIGHTFULLY WEIRD ★★★★ ” – TIME OUT

JOEL DOMMETT

The words of Joel Dommett...

I grew up in the comfortable paradise of Rockhampton near Bristol, but moved to big bad London when I was 19 to find fame and fortune. Only to find out they were both too expensive so soon after I began stand up comedy!
My first Gig was in Los Angeles while I was there visiting a friend. My theory was that shame can’t swim so it wouldn’t follow me home. And I was correct! It didn’t. Although an addiction to standing up on a lonely plinth nightly making people chuckle did. I carried on when I returned and haven’t stopped since.
Since then I have got into the English Comedian of the Year finals, Won Stand up and Coming New act of the year 2008, won the Comedy Cafe New Competition 5 times and Gigged as far away as Holland and Reykjavik.
I the last few years I have had comedy roles on E4s Skins, BBC2′s Popatron, did stand up on Russell Howards Good News (see the video bit) and more recently can be seen presenting the news everyday on MTV.
I tend to gig a lot, usually around 9 a week to keep me from feeling lazy and lonely. I surprisingly still enjoy it, i’m waiting for the bitterness and anger to set in but so far nothing. If you want to come see me have a look at my list of gigs and come alone-um I mean along. sorry.
 

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