Full Swing Comedy: Father's Day Special
Sunday 19th June 2022
Doors: 6pm
Happy Hour: 6-7pm
Show starts: 7:30pm
Tickets:
Stage-side tables: £6 (+BF)
Standing tickets available on the door
Purchase from:
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/lay-down-comedy/t-vvekmgj
Your stage-side table will be allocated automatically.
OK here’s the pitch:
MATT AND PHRED’S - Legendary Manchester nightspot, the jewel of the Northern Quarter, start and end of a thousand nights out.
STAND UP COMEDY - The greatest emerging art form of the last 50 years, the new rock and roll, speaking truth to power and nonsense to the people, ringing out with the sound of laughter in unison.
Put them together, and what do you get? The UK’s best up-and-coming comedians, riffing in a jazz club. No horns, no drums, no double bass, just great jokes.
FATHER'S DAY SPECIAL - Bring your Dadness to the Madness. The best dads + offspring combo will win some AMAZING PRIZES
HEADLINER:
PHIL ELLIS - Phil Ellis is an award-winning comedian who has entertained audiences of all ages with his amalgamation of off-beat observational material and physical comedy.
Phil won the Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Award’s panel prize in 2014 with his undisputed anarchic sleeper hit of a show Funz and Gamez. After meeting incredible critical acclaim, Funz and Gamez was broadcast as part of Fresh from the Fest (BBC Radio 4), as well as part of BBC Comedy Feeds (BBC Three). The show went on to have an 18-show run at the Soho theatre as well as a further run at the Udderbelly on Southbank.
OPENER:
HANNAH PLATT - Hannah is a stand-up comedian, writer and Finalist of the BBC New Comedian of the Year Award in 2019. Merseyside-via-Manchester's finest misanthrope has already been making her mark as a comic, having been described as 'A voice of a new generation’ by The Skinny and 'a voice with something to say’ by Chortle, never shying away from sensitive topics with brutal honesty and quick wit. Recently she has been commissioned to make a Laugh Lesson for BBC3 and written on the Now Show and The News Quiz for BBC Radio 4. She prides herself on her ability to take difficult and complex topics and turn them into sharp, refreshing gags.
HOSTED BY:
KYLE LEGACY - Scouse comedian - usually resident in Sydney but back in the UK for the "sunshine" - crushing his way to the top. Member of the world famous Laugh Mob and Edinburgh Open Spot Champion
OTHER LEGENDS:
JAMES HEATH - deadpan brilliance
JUSTINA SESELSKAITE - Vibrant Lithuanian import
ASH PRESTON - Urmston's madcap prince of comedy