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Fri 26th Mar 19:00 THE COMEDY CABIN
Matthew Osborn
Winner of So You Think You're Funny in 2002, and English Comedian Of The Year in 2009. The physical presence of any comedian is naturally important. Matthew Osborne utilises not only his superb stage presence but also his calm confident manner to great effect. His primary strength is in the clearly defined persona: a smug, jumped-up, privileged twerp who wouldn’t look out of place in a Young Conservatives conference. It gives him an arrogant sense of entitlement that runs through his material like lettering through rock, lending plausibility to his often-harsh material.
Within that context, Osborn has found room for a heady mix of gloriously politically incorrect comments, casually unknowing self-deprecation and genuinely funny surrealism, as well as the gloriously patronising snobbishness The gags themselves are expertly crafted, perfectly timed and outrageously funny.
Roland Gent
After completing a Foundation Course in Performing Arts at Chesterfield College Roland Gent started a career in radio, as a broadcast assistant on BBC GMR Talk and then Radio One. He even presented a breakfast show on Asian Sound Radio under the name Rakish. He started performing stand-up in 1997, making his Edinburgh Festival debut at The Great Big Comedy Picnic composite stand-up show in 2003. The following year, he was a finalist in both the City Life North West Comedian of the Year and the Holsten Pils/FHM Comedian of the Year and now boasts of performing hundreds of gigs a year, mainly in the North-West. His amiable style insists that the audience soon warm to him and his excellent material and delivery ensures that the warmth soon turns into hardcore belly laughs.
Gareth Berliner – Compere
Comedian, actor and writer Gareth Berliner has firmly established himself as an accomplished comic performer. He has been performing stand-up in the UK and internationally for over 5 years since blagging his first 5 minutes at Up The Creek in Greenwich. Irresistibly amiable Gareth's act touches on his odd life and perspective. Berliner almost died long before ever becoming a stand-up and this affords him the ability to tell some intricately woven anecdotes and sharply crafted gags with an edge.
In 2005 he used this edge when he performed his first Solo show GUTLESS, covering every subject from Superheroes to Suicide, at The Melbourne Comedy Festival before taking it to the Edinburgh festival and receiving 4 stars from The Metro. He then went on to perform the show at The Adelaide Comedy Festival. His warm cheeky personality and high energy mark him out as an ideal Compere, Stand-up or Presenter for a comedy club, radio, TV or corporate event.
"Berliner is a natural storyteller with more soul than 100 other comedians." Metro Edinburgh
"Gutless, takes its audience from sympathy to tears and then on to loud laughter...harrowing, yet hilarious, show." The Telegraph
Jack Heal
The bookish-looking Jack Heal has a rather old-fashioned style, as he dry narrates a monologue about romance. But with almost every line he reveals a sly joke, either an unexpected switch or just some silly play on words. Winner of Chortle's student comedy award in 2008, this maths graduate's gags were constructed as intricately and rigorously as any complex equation, but a hell of a lot funnier. Every one is a winner, drawing huge, well-deserved laughs.
Price: £5.00
Age Limit: 18+
Location: The Boundary, Lea Vale, Broudmeadows, South Normanton, Derbyshire, DE55 3NA
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