Headline: Andy Zaltzman
Support: Ahir Shah
MC: Ed Gamble
Andy Zaltzman has firmly established himself in the vanguard of British stand-up with his unique brand of political comedy. In 2007 Andy performed an award-winning Melbourne Festival debut, winning the Piece of Wood Award as the comedian's comedian. Alongside John Oliver, Andy has co-written and hosted the BBC Radio 4 show Political Animal, based on their satirical live stand-up show and has co-written and starred in three series of BBC Radio 4's satirical show, The Department. Most recently for radio Andy has written and hosted Yes! It's The Ashes for BBC Radio5Live and is currently working on his own brand new Radio 4 series, Andy Zaltzman's History of the Third Millennium, Series 1 of 100. Andy has written for several series of Bremner, Bird & Fortune (Channel 4) and, since 2006, has been regularly working with Rory Bremner on a number of his television and radio projects; recently writing and performing together on Transatlantic, their US election special for BBC Radio 4. With John Oliver, Andy co writes and hosts The Bugle; an ongoing series of satirical news podcasts, in association with The Times and has recently written for and performed on John Oliver's one hour Comedy Central stand up special Terrifying Times, later released on DVD. Andy's first book, a satirical take on the ‘credit crunch' entitled Does Anything Eat Bankers?, was published in November 2008 by Old Street Publishing. Since being nominated for the Perrier Best Newcomer Award in 2001, Andy has gone on to take six acclaimed solo shows and to the Edinburgh Festival. Andy has made a number of guest panelist appearances on TV and radio including 8 Out of 10 Cats (Channel 4).
"The best political comedian in the business, Zaltzman lets loose a veritable torrent of jokes, facts, observations, very short stories, silly remarks and inspired asides... Zaltzman is breathtakingly good." Time Out
Ahir Shah is a person. He enjoys standing in front of rooms full of strangers and telling jokes about politics and other things that he likes. Most of the time people laugh, which is nice. Sometimes they don't, which is alright because if everyone agreed with everyone all the time we would have no need for politicians, and therefore a significant portion of Ahir's humour would be rendered obsolete. What he's trying to say is, you should book him to stand in front of a room full of strangers and tell jokes about politics and other things that he likes. After all, most of the time, people laugh.
"Destined to be one of the brightest stars in the British Comedy firmament...a frighteningly intelligent gagsmith." The Scotsman
"Fizzing with intelligence and energy." Chortle
Ed Gamble, Revels Student Comedy Awards and The Laughing Horse Big, Big, Big New Act Competition finalist is a rising star on the stand-up circuit. He regularly writes and performs alongside Ray Peacock and Raji James on the Chortle sponsored Peacock and Gamble Podcast, available on iTunes. He has also written, performed and directed with the Durham Revue since 2004 and in 2008 co-wrote and directed Devils, Cambridge Footlights Edinburgh Festival show.
Choose your seat on arrival.
Date: Thursday 17 December
Time: 20:00
Venue: Hall Two
Please note that online booking closes 90 minutes prior to the start of the performance.
