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41st BEST STAND-UP EVER
ALAN PARKER'S URBAN WARRIORS
LIVE DATES
INTERIORS
90'S COMEDIAN + RICHARD HERRING
WHAT'S ON

41ST BEST STAND-UP EVER
Channel 4 viewers will have seen how I was named 41st Best Stand-Up Ever in a Channel 4 poll in March. There is much discussion about how this poll was made – the fact that sweary comics arrived after the watershed, that clearly myself, Kitson and Sadowitz had been put in to give an illusion of 'edge', just as Manning, Davidson etc had been included to give an illusion of balance, and just how did the 150000 votes work exactly, and who were these 'experts' etc... But the result remains, and it would be churlish and unsporting for people to quibble with the fact that I am THE 41ST GREATEST STAND-UP OF ALL TIME. In the light of this I have re-named my Edinburgh show 41st Best Stand-Up Ever.

ALAN PARKER'S URBAN WARRIORS
Mid-90's prole art threat re-forms 20th May at The Big Chill House, London. More details as and when.

LIVE WORK
I will be doing ragbags of old and new shit at...

Sunday March 25th - Benefit for Burma –The Shaftesbury Theatre, 210 Shaftesbury Avenue, London WC2H 8DP, Performance starts 7pm, Doors Open 6pm, Nearest Tube: Tottenham Court Road/ Holborn, BOX OFFICE: 020 7379 5399 , Tickets: £15, £25, £30, £40, £55, VIP Tickets £100 – includes an exclusive welcome & interval reception in the vip royal circle bar, credit in the programme of the night, best seats in the house.

Wednesday March 28th – Teenage Cancer Trust benefit, Royal Albert Hall. R Brand, N Fledgling, S Lee.

Thursday March 29th – Benefit for Resonance 104.4 FM, Bloomsbury Theatre. PLEASE COME TO THIS AS I HELPED MAKE IT.

The Reso-fit
A Comedy Benefit for Resonance 104.4 FM
At the Bloomsbury Theatre
Thursday March 29th at 8pm
£15

With....

Wil Adamsdale (Jackson's Way)
Chris Addison (BBC2's The Thick Of It)
Dan Antopolski (BBC2's Hyperdrive)
King Charles II (The English Civil War)
Stewart Lee (BBC2's Time Trumpet)
Gary Le Strange (the 1980's)
Josie Long (if.comedies award winner)
Earl Stevens (Paul Putner, Little Britain)
Isy Suttie (Take A Break Tales)
Merriman Wier (Matt Holness, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace)

Theatre and box office details:
The Bloomsbury Theatre
15 Gordon Street
London, WC1H 0AH
http://www.thebloomsbury.com/event
020 7388 8822

Friday March 30th – Benefit for Battersea Arts Centre, Sausage Night, BAC

Sausage Night III: The Revenge of the Sausage
PLEASE COME TO THIS - VERY IMPORTANT

Friday 30 Mar 2007, 8pm

For one night only, London sees the return of BAC's fantastic fundraising event - Sausage Night. This year we're offering another meaty line-up of sizzling stand-up stars including Simon Amstell (anchor man of BBC 2's Never Mind the Buzzcocks), Scott Capurro (Perrier Award winner, and star of Channel 4's The Truth About Gay Animals), Stewart Lee (co-creator of Jerry Springer: The Opera), Josie Long (winner of if.comeddies' Best Newcomer award 2006) and Mark Thomas (star of Channel 4's The Mark Thomas Comedy Product). The evening will be compered by the amazing Robin Ince (Chortle Best Compere nominee 2007), and will feature a special surprise guest to tickle your tonsils on what is set to be BAC's greatest ever Sausage Night!

Come and enjoy comedy you can get your teeth into, while raising money that will help BAC to continue developing the future of theatre. Your ticket price includes entry to the event and a tasty sausage. A full bar will operate on the night.

£25
Includes entry to the event, a tasty sausage and a £12.50 donation towards BAC's fundraising efforts
Doors open 7pm
Box Office: 020 7223 2223
Minicom: 020 7223 5311
Book Online: www.bac.org.uk
BAC, Lavender Hill, Battersea, London SW11 5TN

Wednesday May 23rd – Benefit for Reprieve at Bloomsbury Theatre

Sunday June 10th Benefit for something at the Lyric @ The Lyric Hammersmith

I will be running in the new s-up show, 41st Best Stand-Up Ever, at...

April 3rd - Upstairs At The Masons, The Masons Arms, 38 Maddox Street, LONDON, W1S 1PD, Bookings: 07766 104 520, Doors: 7.30pm, Admission: £4/£3

May 13th – Drill Hall, Freeschool Lane, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 1EY, Box office: 01522 873894

May 21st – Brighton Festival

May 24th – Sabotage, GE Club, Great Eastern Hotel, Liverpool Street, London EC2M 7QN

May 29th – Electric Mouse, Carnaby Street, London. www.electricmousecomedy.com WITH BRIDGET CHRISTIE

May 31st 2007 – Offline Club, Brixton www.urban75.org/offline/, w Darren Heyman of Heffner group.

June 4th – Monday Club, London

June 7th – Drum and Monkey, Archway, London

June 11th – Electric Mouse, www.electricmousecomedy.com The New Globe, 359 Mile End Rd, E3 4QS. WITH BRIDGET CHRISTIE (King Charles II)

June 14th – Roar With Laughter, GJ's Bar, High Street, Colliers Wood, London, SW19 Box office: 0845 838 5191. WITH SIMON MUNNERY.

June 17th, Just The Tonic, Cabaret, Fletchergate, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, 0115 912 9000, WITH JOSIE LONG.

June 18th, Liverpool Comedy Festival, Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, Liverpool, L1 9BG, 0151 709 4988, www.unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk

June 25th & 26th - XS Malarkey, Wilmslow Road (next to Sainsbury's), Fallowfield, Manchester, info@xsmalarkey.com, door on the night, or from Ticket Web (08700 600 100 or www.ticketweb.co.uk , type in XS Malarkey as your keyword, £2 members, £4 non members, www.xsmalarkey.com

July 14th – Lattitude Festival, The Countryside, England.

July 17th - Show + tell's wonderfully fantastic edinburgh preview club, the old coffee house, 49 beak street Soho W1F 9SF (020 7437 2197) £5. WITH BRIDGET CHRISTIE.

July 19th – Short Fuse, Camden Head, Angel, London

July 21st – Chuckle Club, LSE, London

July 23rd – Amersham Arms, New Cross, London

July 24th – Ginglik, A toilet, Shepherd's Bush, London

July 27th – Soho Review Bar

July 30th – The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, Glasgow, G3 6NG Box office: 0870 600 6055. RESCHEDULED FROM FRIDAY 9TH MARCH.

August 2nd + 1 month, March of the Mallards, Udderbelly, Edinburgh, 7pm.

Nov 12th – December 22nd – March Of The Mallards, Soho Theatre, London


Interiors
I am co-writing a site-specific theatre piece for the M'cr festival with Johnny Vegas called Interiors which will run from the start of July.
Chortle story on this - Johnny Vegas has unveiled his first theatre work – a collaboration with Stewart Lee about Britain's property obsession.
Interiors will premiere at the first-ever Manchester International Festival, a highbrow arts event which starts on June 28.
Speaking at the festival's launch, Vegas promised: 'I'm breaking free of what theatre ought to be.'
In Interiors, which he co-wrote with Lee, Vegas plays a homeowner selling his £235,000 property to pursue 'development opportunities" in Montenegro', while the audience are the prospective buyers.
'I'm forcing myself to get in touch with my metrosexual side,' he said. 'Normally, I sit in the car park when the family goes to Ikea.
'I've promised everyone I'd not say too much about it because it's so hard to talk about it without giving the game away.
'I've never written a theatre piece before, but, whatever medium you're working in, you should always write about what you know. And everyone knows about property, don't they? We're all obsessed by it.
'I hate to use the word accessible, but I'm hoping that this is a theatre piece for those who maybe haven't been to the theatre before.
'For me, it's an opportunity to work in the theatre without getting too daunted by it.'
And he said he had high hopes for the festival.
'Everyone used to think that you should head to London to make it in stand-up,' he said. 'Now it seems like the common sense thing to do is to leave London for Manchester to get ahead. I'm very proud of my roots.'
Others involved in the festival include Damon Albarn, who has provided the music for a new circus opera based on Chinese legend; Carlos Acosta, who is hailed as the world's greatest male ballet dancer; chef Heston Blumenthal who will create the food for the event; plus gigs from Kanye West, Lou Reed, PJ Harvey, The Happy Mondays and The Fall.


90's COMEDIAN ON DVD – SECOND PRESSING + RICHARD HERRING DVD
Cardiff Comedy mavericks Go Faster Stripe shot the show in February last year, and it's available on DVD for only £10. I plan to flog these at gigs in late 2007 but the initial print run of 1000 has sold out, and there is now a second run. Check their website to get them, and please don't bootleg them all over the place and sell them on e-bay. I NEED THIS. www.gofasterstripe.com

Richard Herring, who I used to work with, has exactly copied me by doing a DVD with Go Faster Stripe too, “The 12 Tasks Of Hercules Terrace”. His is not as good and so sells for only 8 pounds plus p&p. You even get a programme for the show thrown in for nothing. Go Faster did not film this show and it is not up to the high quality that you would usually expect from them, but it's still perfectly watchable and is a good record of a show that would otherwise have passed into oblivion. The slight reduction in quality is reflected in the cheaper than usual price, and also because it is not as good as my one.

Chortle Story on this - New DVDs from Simon Munnery, Richard Herring and Tony Law are in the pipeline from a company set up to market comedians not famous enough for large-scale releases.
Go Faster Stripe launched late last year with Stewart Lee's show 90s Comedian. He had a commercial release, Stand-Up Comedian, on the 2Entertain label a year previously, but sales were too low for a follow-up.
Company boss Chris Evans said: 'When I heard his first DVD sold so badly that no one wanted anything to do with a follow-up, I thought it was a great shame that a great show would disappear.
'So I gathered together a rag-tag team of friends and offered to record the new show for a possible release. It came out rather well, so we got it ready for sale at a wallet-friendly £10.'
The company has since released a bootleg-quality recording of Richard Herring's The 12 Tasks Of Hercules Terrace for £8, too. Another of his shows, Someone Likes Yoghurt, is awaiting a censor's certificate before that, too, is released.
Now they are recording Herring's 2006 Edinburgh show, Menage A Un, at Cardiff's Chapter Arts Centre on June 2.
Simon Munnery will tape his show, to be called Hello, at the same venue on May 25, while. Tony Law's recording dates are yet to be finalised.
Evans said: 'We are hoping these DVDs could be another outlet for the stand-up comedians that are fantastic, yet constantly overlooked by other media.'


WHAT'S ON?
If you live in London, as of this month I am conducting a series of weekly fictional interviews with London characters in the re-vamped London listings magazine What Is On?

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