HAHA AT THE HOCKEY CLUB
Saturday 12th November
Berkhamsted Hockey Club, Cow Roast (Between Tring and Northchurch)
Tickets £15
Our annual comedy fundraiser for Berkhamsted Hockey Club has provided some stunning evenings over the last few years. This year's line is going to do the same. An outstanding line up of some of the best club comics around.
ANDREW BIRD
Relaxed and improvisatory, Andrew Bird is one of those rare comedians who makes friends with his audiences in an instant with his engaging mix of childhood stories and more recent anecdotes.
'Superb... the exciting rising star' (Time Out)
'A natural comedian' (The Stage)
'Beautifully observed and insightful... not only an entertaining story but a very funny hour of fine stand-up' (Chortle)
'Effortlessly engaging and funny as hell' (Rhod Gilbert).
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DAMIAN CLARK
Damian Clark is one of the best comics to emerge from Australia in recent years. His enthusiastic and consistently energetic storytelling continues to captivate people everywhere. Damian has performed all across Australia and is now based in Dublin and is a regular on the UK and European circuit.
Immediately likeable, Damian was voted ‘The Number 1 event to see’ & ‘cream of the crop’ (InDublin Magazine) within only months of moving to Ireland. Notably his ability to target everyday observations culturally as a source of humour immediately builds a great rapor with every audience.
This explains his abundance of sell-out shows in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Kilkenny Cat Laughs and the Edinburgh Fringe.
Ultimately ‘there is barely a bad word to say about Clark: distinctive and possessing a comic talent beyond his years, both biological and mental’ – chortle.co.uk
“Outstanding” – chortle.co.uk
“The future of Australian comedy”. – The Comedy Channel
“An example of the best that comedy can be” – The Age, Melbourne
TONY COWARDS
Our MC for the night!
"The best joke writer around" - James Mullinger, Comedy Editor, GQ Magazine
Tony is a rapidfire gag merchant with an arsenal full of one-liners, for laughs-per-minute he's a tough act to beat!
His quick wit has made him a sought after act and compere by comedy clubs and promoters across the UK and even for gigs worldwide. Something of a Twitter sensation, Tony's jokes turn up in all sorts of places, from greetings cards to The Times newspaper, even if you've never heard of him there's a good chance that you'll have laughed at one of his gags.
As well as performing, Tony is also a prolific writer; his radio credits include “Watson’s Wind Up” for BBC Radio Scotland, “Newsjack” for BBC7 and he is also the chief comedy writer for Bristol based Jack FM.
In 2008 he co-scripted a series of popular Christmas podcasts featuring Tony Blackburn, Christopher Biggins and Lesley Joseph and he regularly contributes to satirical news website “The Daily Mash” and TV comedian, Mark Watson’s football site, “Back of the Net”.
TAMAR BROADBENT
Tamar Broadbent is a comedian and award-winning songwriter. Her song 'Patrick' was recently featured on BBC Radio 4's 'Fresh From the Fringe', a showcase of new and exciting comedy acts from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
A classical and jazz pianist with DipABRSM, Tamar began her career in composing at the age of 12, and her first song ‘Lucy’ received an honorary mention in the UK Songwriting Contest (2004). In 2006 she recorded an album with Rococo Music Ltd, and gigged regularly around Surrey and South London in her teenage years.
Television credits include Zoe in Lee Nelson’s Well Funny People (BBC 2013), Bill and Doctors. Recent gigs include the Comedy Cafe, Komedia Brighton, London Zoo Lates, Finger in the Pie Cabaret (Madame Jojos) and the London Cabaret Awards.
Tamar gigs regularly as a musical comedian, and is often seen transporting a keyboard across London that is twice the size of her own body.