Friday 27 March
Steve Hall, Kieran Boyd, Jack Barry and Sunil Patel
Doors 7.15pm start 8.15pm
£10 + bf/£12 on door
Tickets through Bridport TIC: 01308 424901 or online:
https://www.seetickets.com/event/comedy-network-march-/the-electric-palace/847289
The Electric Palace comedy nights are proving a big hit – see three up-and-coming stand-up comedians, specially selected by Avalon UK and fresh from Edinburgh 2014, for just a tenner.
This month, on Friday 27 March, live on stage are Steve Hall, Kieran Boyd, Jack Barry and Sunil Patel.
Steve Hall
As a solo live performer Steve Hall has provided the support for Russell Howard on his sell-out national tours Adventures, Dingledodies and Wonderbox in 2014.
Steve’s recent work has included writing on Russell Howard’s Good News series 6 to 9 as well as a second series of writing for BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show and taking his solo show Steve Hall’s Very Still Life to the 2011 Edinburgh Festival.
A finalist in the BBC New Comedy Award and Daily Telegraph Open Mic Award, Steve Hall made his Fringe debut in 2003 in the sell-out Edinburgh show, Three Men And A Giant. Steve returned to Edinburgh in 2008 with his first solo stand up show solo show Vice Captain Loser.
Steve Hall also makes up one third of if.comedy Award nominated sketch show We Are Klang. In 2007 Steve performed as part of We Are Klang at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, where they were nominated for a Barry Award, before returning to Edinburgh for a four night sell out run. The group has appeared on the Paramount Comedy Channel’s Edinburgh & Beyond two years running and was nominated in 2006 for the Chortle Best Sketch Show, which they then won in 2007.
‘This is stand-up as it should be: snappy and smart, occasionally nasty, and always funny.’ The List
Kieran Boyd
Semi-finalist in So You Think You’re Funny? (2009), Amused Moose Laugh-Off (2010), and part of Fringe favourites WitTank, Kieran has been performing his inventive, high-energy stand up across the country for five years. He gigs for Avalon, CKP, The Stand, Komedia, and Highlight amongst others as well as numerous shows at the Edinburgh Festival.
In 2009 and 2010 he compered the stand-up showcase, Comedy Baby, and in 2011 performed in a split show Don’t Mess. In the same year he also directed a sketch show from The Leeds Tealights.
In 2012, Kieran performed at the Edinburgh Festival as part of The Comedy Zone, the Fringe’s longest running and most prestigious stand-up showcase.
With acclaimed sketch trio WitTank, Kieran has enjoyed six years of sold-out audiences at the Edinburgh Fringe as well as numerous gigs and comedy festivals in the UK and Ireland.
In 2011 they received a Best Show Nomination at the Leicester Comedy Festival, and appeared on Three at the Fringe(BBC3) and BBC Radio Scotland.
WitTank can be seen as stars of 3 series of the acclaimed BBC3’s comedy show, Live At the Electric
‘Like a young Simon Amstell…Impressively funny…Terrific material.’ Kate Copstick, The Scotsman
‘Genuinely funny…very talented comedian’.’* * * * Threeweeks
Jack Barry
Jack is probably the only stand up on the circuit with a degree in Chinese. What a waste. After excitedly stumbling his way around the stand up and sketch circuits, performing at nights for CKP, Knock 2 Bag, the Invisible Dot and the BBC Comedy Tent in Edinburgh, Jack then went on to support James Acaster on the UK tours of Edinburgh Award-nominated shows Prompt and Lawnmower.
Jack has been a regular at the Edinburgh Festival since first appearing with critically acclaimed student sketch group the Leeds Tealights who were named Best Student Sketch Group 2010. In 2012 Jack made his stand-up debut at the festival in double-header Your New Mild Friends, and as part of short lived and stupidly named sketch group HMS Ship. He returned in 2013 as part of the prestigious Pleasance Comedy Reserve, as well as performing on the Free Fringe as one half of sketch duo Twins.
‘An inventive flourish behind his likeable banter… a distinctive wit that should make him one to watch”.’ Steve Bennett, Chortle
‘I predict that Barry will be one to look out for in the future.’ Broadway Baby
‘Instantly likeable.’ Three Weeks
Sunil Patel
Downbeat comic who ‘can find laughs in the bleakest of topics’ (Time Out). Nominated for Chortle Best Newcomer 2013, finalist in the 2012 BBC Radio 2 New Comedy Award and the 2013 Laughing Horse New Act Of The Year competition.
