Ham! is pleased to announce the line-up for May 13st.
This fantastic list of acts is set to brighten yet another bank holiday. Book now on 08442090344
The Penny Dreadfuls
Announcing their much anticipated return to their original format with brand new comedy sketches, in an exclusive set for Ham! fans. From the critically-acclaimed Aeneas Faversham Trilogy, The Never Man, Radio 4’s Guy Fawkes and The Brothers Faversham. As seen on BBC2 & BBC3.
www.pennydreadfuls.co.uk
“Brilliant silliness. A complete and utter triumph” ***** – Metro
“Pythonic, Blackaddery Excellence” ***** The List
“Simply unmissable” ***** ThreeWeeks
Tom Craine
Tom Craine is an award winning stand-up comic, MC and writer. Since winning ‘Best Comedy & Drama’ at the BBC National Student Awards 2006 (hosted by BBC Radio 1) he’s already had his own radio comedy commissioned for BBC Radio 2, penned laughs for BBC 3 and presented items for BBC Radio 1 & BBC 6 Music. However, he’s still most proud of being named Wales’ 33rd sexiest man, despite hailing from Bath.
“Tom Craine is one of the fastest rising comedians” BBC Radio 1
New Comedy – Rising Star of 2010- Spoonfed.co.uk
Robert Commiskey
Robert Commiskey, an American stand-up based in London, has been performing stand-up in London, Windsor and Canterbury since April 2009. He beat the gong in the Comedy Store’s King Gong on his first attempt in August 2009. He is currently a finalist in Laughing Horse’s New Act Competition of 2010, and a quarter-finalist in Amused Moose Laugh Off 2010. He will be taking his first show, a late night talk show, to Edinburgh in August 2010.
Matthew Highton
Matthew Highton brings us his unique brand of rockstar surrealism, fresh from previewing his Edinburgh show Incidental Combobulations. Expect things to get very strange and very funny very quickly.
matthewhighton.co.uk
“My favourite act so far this festival, it seems almost criminal that his show was free.” ThreeWeeks
Nishant Kumar
Nishant Kumar is a successful stand-up and sketch comedian. He has performed all over the country, including at last years Edinburgh Festival, where he did stand-up and performed in Mark Watsons The Hotel; taking the roll of a particularly supercilious bell-boy.
He is currently performing stand-up in the London area and preparing for his new Edinburgh sketch show The Gentleman of Leisure.
Joe Reed
Joe Reed, is one half of Ham’s founding duo. He gigs extensively around the London area. Prior to moving to London he had performed around Scotland, playing at the Stand venues in Glasgow and Edinburgh, among others. He has done two Edinburgh Festival runs with the Improverts improv comedy troupe. He is also a writer, and was shortlisted for this years Fish Publishing One Page Story Prize.
Ali Brice
We picked up Ali in a basement somewhere in Central London blathering about how he ‘couldn’t imagine a horse’. He’s traveling to the Edinburgh Festival this summer on a bill with fellow Ham! favorite Mark Stevenson.
He’s original, smart and plain hilarious.
Kwame Asante
Kwame Asante is a London based comic currently gigging to great acclaim in clubs across the capital. His material interweaves classic comic narratives, with unexpected deviations and double-backs.
He’s got a great sense of comic timing, and, like so many of our acts, is a contender for the ‘nicest man in comedy’ title.
