THE COMEDY MARATHON

SUNDAY 12th JULY AT THE COURT THEATRE, TRING

We trialed this event last year and its huge sucess means we have to do it again.

The all day Comedy Marathon! Nine top comedians, previewing their new shows, all for the amazing one-off price of £20!

Get your tickets, then you have the option - come down for the whole day or dip in and out to the acts you particularly want to see. Is it a test of endurance or just the best bargain you've had all year!

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Our catering partner, Isalie, will be onsite all day to ensure there is plenty of opportunity to get food - from bacon butties in the morning to a slap up meal in the evening.

The timings are guidelines and may alter - please keep an eye on this page for the latest information.

TICKETS

Either buy the single event ticket or treat yourself to the 2015 Tringe Festival Passport...

11.00am - JESS ROBINSON RISE OF MIGHTY VOICE

Following last year's sold-out 5-star hit, Jess (star of Dead Ringers, Newzoids & Little Voice) is back with an all-new show! - amazing mimicry, stunning singing and cheeky wit, thanks to the legendary Wheels Of Sixty-Four Tunes. Hilarious showstopping musical mash-ups, incredible vocal gymnastics & irreverent celebrity impressions make for the perfect feel-good show. Featuring the fabulous Kirsty Newton.

"Stunning... incredibly talented" ***** Edinburgh Evening News
"Remarkable...pitch-perfect" **** Telegraph
"Hugely entertaining...magnificent" Chortle
"A star is born...breathtaking" **** Metro
"A stand out act" **** Edinburgh Reviews

 

 

12.15pm - Olaf Falafel and Michael Stranney

Picture a time in your life when you've laughed a lot – now double it. You've just imagined 'Expect the unexporcupine', award winning nonsense from Michael Stranney and Olaf Falafel, two of the funniest new acts around.

 

 

 

 

 

1.30pm - Angela Barnes

After a career in health and social care, Angela Barnes decided to realise a long held ambition and give comedy a go. Within a couple of years she had won the 2011 BBC New Comedy Award and became a finalist at the 2011 Latitude Festival New Act of the Year competition. Since 2011, Angela and her witty world view have been catapulted onto numerous radio and television shows including appearances on BBC Three’s Russell Howard’s Good News, Russell Kane’s Whistle Stop Tour (BBC Radio 2), and BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show.

‘Like all the best comics, she manages to articulate a singular perspective while making it seem like a universal truth. And then she put jokes in it. Harder than it looks’ – The Guardian
‘Brilliantly funny’ – Sarah Millican
‘A beautifully paced performance that was aided by the consistent quality of her jokes, many of which showed a great skill with self-deprecation’ – Chortle
‘Barnes mixes warm autobiographical material with plenty of strong jokes’ – The Guardian
‘This is a lady who is confident in the way she attacks her one liners and punch lines, her easy going manner really drew the audience in’ – Fringe Review

2.45pm - MATT FORDE

Following the success of sell-out, critically-acclaimed runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and London’s Soho Theatre, and The Political Party, Matt’s monthly residency at the St James Theatre in London, don’t miss your chance to see this “first class comic” (The Guardian).  As seen on Rory Bremner’s Coalition Report (BBC2), Jon Richardson Grows Up (C4), Have I Got News For You (BBC1) and Question Time (BBC2), this is an opportunity to see Matt try out new material before anyone else.

“Thank goodness for Matt Forde…Combining spot-on impressions with up-to-the-minute observations.” Mail on Sunday

“A gift for impressions and an innate ability to ad lib laughs out of thin air” Chortle

 

 

 

4.00pm - Max and Ivan: The End

Welcome to Sudley-on-Sea. Take a look around. You don’t have long. Seriously.

Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award and Melbourne Barry Award-nominees Max and Ivan (BBC1’s ‘W1A’, Radio 4’s ‘Casebook of Max and Ivan’) return to the Edinburgh Fringe to tell an epic tale of a small town, on the day of its destruction. As the end approaches, there are choices to be made…

Directed by Tom Parry (Pappy’s).
‘Max and Ivan are the real deal’ **** (Guardian)
**** (Times) **** (The Independent)
**** (Time Out) **** (Chortle.co.uk)
‘Undoubtedly superstars of tomorrow’ (GQ)

5.15pm - Dominic Holland

With countless television and radio appearances and after-dinner speaking across the world including Dubai, Miami, Budapest, Tokyo, Prague, Zurich, Monte Carlo, Lisbon, Madrid, Paris and all over the UK, it speaks volumns that he would accept Ben's invitation to a Sunday afternoon slot in Tring. Joking aside, Dominic loves the Tring crowd, having recorded his DVD here some years ago, he is chuffed to be returning.
Dominic will be trying some new material, and if it doesn't work, he'll do some old material as well.

 

 

6.30pm - In Cahoots

Join In Cahoots as they warm up for their hour of sharp, silly sketches where they take on life’s greatest mysteries and mundanities.

A thrillingly fast-paced, uniquely British sketch comedy show from a hotly tipped duo, and there’s only one white guy – thank God.

As seen on the BBC.
‘Simply hilarious’ ***** (ThreeWeeks).
‘Raucously funny and massively varied sketches’ ***** (Broadway Baby).
‘Ingenious’ ***** (EdinburghReporter.co.uk).
‘Endlessly entertaining’ ***** (Black Diamond FM).

7.45pm - Mitch Benn: That was the Future

The future happened, and we missed it. Mitch considers where we're going, where we thought we were going, and what happens when we get there.

A regular member of The Now Show for more than a decade, Mitch has also recently presented Mitch Benn is the 37th Beatle, Spank the Plank and Did Douglas Get it Right? for BBC Radio 4, and co-presented Anatomy of a Guitar with Harry Shearer for BBC Radio 2.

'The country's leading musical satirist' (Times). 'Funny and clever' (Sunday Herald).
'Truly superb' ***** (Young Perspective).

9.00pm - Patrick Monahan – The Disco Years

The Festival's family favourite funny man and occasional disco dancer returns with a brand new stand-up show!

‘A definite must-see!’ **** (Edinburgh Festivals Magazine).

‘Monahan possesses the rare ability to be hilarious without being outrageous’ ***** (ThreeWeeks).

‘There isn't a comic quite like him and his hugs alone are worth the price of admission’ ***** (TheNewCurrent.co.uk).

‘I had sore cheeks from laughing by the time l left. The hour was sadly over far too quickly’ ***** (BroadwayBaby.com).

‘The same mix of control and on stage charisma as a young Alan Davies’ **** (Herald).