Kate Smurthwaite is a stand-up comedian and political activist who performs across the UK and around the world at major clubs including The Comedy Store, Comedy Cafe, The Stand, Covent Garden Comedy Club, Soho Comedy Club and Crack Comedy Club. Kate is often a guest on news and debate shows and is well known for her forthright opinions and campaigning work. Appearances include BBC 1’s The Big Questions, BBC Breakfast, BBC News 24, Channel 4 News, Channel 5 News, ITV News, ITV This Morning, Sky News, BBC Radio 2 Jeremy Vine Show, BBC 5live, BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour. In 2012 Radio 4’s Four Thought series included a 15-minute program written and performed entirely by Kate about sexist humour and sexism in comedy.
“A powerhouse of observational wit” – The Spectator
PETER BRUSH
A highly distinctive performer and deft writer of finely crafted jokes, Peter Brush unassumingly takes the stage with his slight bespectacled frame and scruffy hair, before consummately conquering it with an arsenal of razor sharp quirky one-liners and peerlessly original routines, all delivered in an amusingly awkward fashion.
A former BBC New Comedy Award finalist, Peter performs at clubs all over the UK and abroad. Peter has also been Tour Support for Jonathan Pie, Jason Manford, Fern Brady, Arthur Smith and Paul Sinha.
“I love Peter Brush…what a comic!” – Jason Manford
“Compellingly hilarious…first-class gag writing…an original and achingly funny voice” – Chortle
“A great comic” – BBC Radio 4
HATTY PRESTON
Hatty Preston is a comic from London who is now fairly confusingly (to both her and her family) based in Chicago. She has performed at London comedy venues such as The ComedyTavern and The Poodle Club, and was the 2018 winner of Court Jester Comedy’s ‘Breakin’ Thru’ Stand-Up competition in London. She is a regular on shows across Chicago – Comedy Bar, Second City, Laugh Factory and Zanies. This year she has opened for Jourdain Fisher at The Oak City Comedy Festival (Raleigh, North Carolina), been a feature act at The Comedy Bar, Nashville (Tennessee) and performed at The Virgil in Los Angeles. Over the last 12 months she has been featured at comedy festivals in: Cleveland, OH; Iowa City, IA; Milwaukee, WI; Raleigh, NC.
As an actress, Hatty is best known for playing Princess Maribel in The Royals and has also guest-starred in BBC’s Cuckoo and Jack Whitehall Live.
TERRY ALDERTON
Arguably one of the most intriguingly twisted comedians of our generation, Terry Alderton is a performer of uninhibited extremes and sheer unconventionality, be prepared for a spellbinding amalgamation of noises, voices, incredible physicality and a mind-blowing insight into the inner workings of a fantastic comedy mind as you’ve never seen it before.
★★★★★ “The funniest most thought provoking, dazzling brilliant comedy you’ll see all year” NEWS OF THE WORLD
★★★★★ “He is an absolute pleasure to watch, even more so to listen to. He is unmissable” THREE WEEKS
★★★★★ “Technically brilliant and screamingly funny” PUBLIC REVIEWS
★★★★ “Seat-of-its-pants stand-up that takes risks, hurtling off in unexpected directions while decorum struggles to keep up… Alderton at his best is unstable and deliciously unexpected”
★★★★ “Terry Alderton is on astonishing form. Masterful” SUNDAY TIMES
★★★★ “A mainstream act that dares to be different…effortlessly enjoyable yet excitingly different” THE TIMES
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