Hog Wild Comedy Club
Showcasing the best emerging comedy talent – including Edinburgh Festival previews – the Hog Wild Comedy Club flaunts humour like a feather-bower, tickling the audience under the chin and inviting everyone in with their no-holds-barred humour. Bringing a little piece of the London comedy circuit to Cornwall, Hog Wild are sure to win over the crowds with their eclectic members and mouth-watering mirth.
Main headliner Trevor Lock has supported comedy giants Stewart Lee and Russell Brand – becoming a regular on Brand’s BBC Radio 2 programme. His live comedy show Trevor Lock’s Philosophy Society at the Ku Bar on Leicester Square, London, sold out every night. He has also appeared on TV, most notably in BAFTA nominated show Star Stories.
Hog Wild’s co-headliner Brian Gittins is the comic-in-residence at the Knock2Bag comedy club in Shepherd’s Bush, London. One of the most original comics on the circuit, he bears a remarkable resemblance to the actor David Earl who appeared in Extras and has supported Ricky Gervais’s stand-up shows.
Blasting a geyser-ful of glamour over the proceedings, Georgea Blakey is a chameleon-esque chanteuse whose satirical character-based cabaret act has been winning standing ovations on London’s comedy circuit. Her ‘Kate Middleton/James Bond/ Lionel Bart medley’ provides an uproarious take on the dilemmas facing a princess-in-waiting who must tiptoe through the minefield of British snobbery.
From a little village just outside Kettering, James Acaster is a young stand-up comedian who travels the country harvesting stories about his own imperfections and the various misfortunes that befall him. He’s enthusiastic and engaging and forever searching for the world’s little joys.
Picking up prizes like pennies on the street, Joanne Lao already has four to her name including Laughing Horse big Big BIG New Act Competition 2007 and Up the Arts Dead Elvis New Talent Award 2007. At the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, she was the 2nd runner-up in the highly prestigious So You Think You’re Funny Fringe competition.
“Strong, quick-fire” (Time Out) Paul Ricketts’ black, suburban humour on everyday, topical and satirical subjects has left a mark wherever he has performed, from the dizzy heights of the London Comedy Store to Nottingham’s Just The Tonic, the Banana Cabaret and beyond.
Adam Preston has performed at The Comedy Cafe, The Bedford in Balham and Electric Mouse Big Ben in Westminster, where his observations on the deterioration in the manners of urban squirrels has gone down surprisingly well. He will be the show’s Master of Ceremonies.
“Brian Gittins is a true original, and breathtakingly funny with it.”
The Guardian
“With James (Acaster) anything can happen.”
Music for Squares
“Excellent musical comedy – I even remembered the words!”
Andrew Neil, The Daily Politics Show
“(Paul Rickets is) a really funny comic”
Ed Byrne
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Video:
Trevor Lock musing on Baby Jesus and Father Christmas.
Brian Gittins on his rise and rise to comedy stardom.
