DANIEL SIMONSEN, ADAM HESS AND ANGELA BARNES

Berkomedy Festival
The Greene Room above the Kings Arms, Berkhamsted.
Monday 16th March
Tickets £10 (or FREE if you are a member)
Start 7.30pm (Doors 7.00pm)

DANIEL SIMONSEN

Since winning So You Think You’re Funny, Daniel Simonsen has perfected his dark, brooding Norwegian persona which has packed out his Edinburgh venues. His debut solo show won him the Foster’s Edinburgh Newcomer Award in a year that also saw him support Simon Amstell on his national tour and rack up millions of YouTube hits for his appearance on Russell Howard’s Good News.

He stars alongside Reeves and Mortimer in their new BBC series House of Fools and his Channel 4 Comedy Blaps (made with Andrew Gaynord) have received enormous critical acclaim.

“Compelling.” **** Fest
“It shouldn’t work, but it does.” London is Funny
"Brilliantly offbeat Norwegian stand-up"  The Guardian

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.

Press
‘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

ADAM HESS

Starting his stand-up career in 2011, Adam showed himself to be one of the most exciting new acts in the country, winning the Chortle Student Comedy Award and taking a runner-up place in Leicester Square Theatre New Act of the Year award that same year.
He originally became known for his surreal one-liners however later went on to prove himself as an accomplished story-teller and sketch-writer. He was later nominated for Chortle Best Newcomer and Leicester Mercury New Act Of The Year. He recently supported David Baddiel on his Fame Not The Musical Tour.
A prolific writer; Adam has also become widely known for his unique brand of comedy on Twitter and in the last two years has accrued tens of thousands of followers from the jokes he posts there alone. The BBC even filmed a selection of his tweets as sketches starring him as one of their 'Feed My Funny' videos. He was a staff writer on the latest series of Russell Howard’s Good News for BBC 2 and has also written for tv regulars such as Chris Ramsey and Seann Walsh.
In 2013 a tweet by Adam was voted funniest of the year by The Telegraph.

"The UK’s Rob Delaney" Graham Linehan
"Not so much raises the roof but catapults it" Spoonfed
"Batters the audience into laughter" Chortle
"Bangs out lines quicker than Scarface" Evening Standard
"Flashes of Genius" Broadway Baby