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Shoe Cake Comedy Club
Comedy
Shoe Cake Comedy Club

Shoe Cake Comedy Club

Price
£12 ADV

Headline Act
PHIL ELLIS

★★★★★ - One4Review | ★★★★1/2 - Comic’s Comic | ★★★★ - Entertainment Now | ★★★★ - Beyond the Joke | ★★★★ - The List

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. Most recently, he was nominated for the prestigious Sky Best Comedy Show at the 2023 Edinburgh Comedy Awards and won The Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality for Phil Ellis’s Excellent Comedy Show. The show was ranked in the top 20 best-reviewed shows of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2023.

He starred and co-wrote three series of his own BBC Radio 4 sitcom Phil Ellis is Trying, co-starring Johnny Vegas, Lolly Adefope, Amy Gledhill, Alexei Sayle, Sindhu Vee, Jack Dee, Lee Mack, Mark Lamarr and Sean Lock. The series was nominated for a BBC Audio Award in 2019.

In 2014, Phil won the Edinburgh Comedy Award’s panel prize with his anarchic, sleeper hit show Funz and Gamez. After meeting incredible critical acclaim, Funz and Gamez was broadcast as part of BBC Radio 4’s Fresh from the Fest and BBC Comedy Feeds (BBC Three). The show went on to have an 18-show run at the Soho Theatre and all major UK comedy festivals. Phil’s recent Edinburgh shows, Au Revoir (2019) played at the Soho Theatre and Hedgehog (2023) led Phil to embark on a successful first ever UK tour.
 

‘The density of gags is impressive… There’s not many better exponents of this message-free, ego-free, knockabout comedy than Ellis in his prime. And this is that show.’ ★★★★1/2 Chortle
 

‘Ellis’s performance is touched by comic genius. Every moment he is on stage something funny, and then funnier, is happening.’ ★★★★★ Scotsman
 

‘It’s a surreal and unforgettable hour which firmly cements Phil Ellis as one of the funniest and finest comedians in the UK today.’ ★★★★★ Broadway Baby
 

 

Opening Act

JENNY HART

Lively musical comedy that just comes out joyously wrong and infinitely dirty, lusciously dark and often quite flirty

Finalist in the 2023 British Comedian of the Year

Winner Best Alternative Act - NW Comedy Awards 2023

Shortlisted Best Breakthrough Act - NW Comedy Awards 2022

Beat the Frog World Series Runner Up 2021

King Gong London 2019 - Winner

 

"She’s a bold, brash, shameless presence full of gloriously inappropriate jokes and twisted, dark songs gleefully mocking some awful things. It’s a ribald, vulgar set, full of crude knockabout humour delivered with blunt vitality. And an absolute crowd-pleaser. She came second, and I suspect it was a close poll, for she’s a powerhouse surely poised to storm the circuit." CHORTLE

 

"Jenny absolutely raised the roof last night at AComedy Club with a superbly raucous set, leaving some audience members in tears of laughter. A brilliant act!" - ACOMEDY CLUB

 

Middle Act

SALLYANN FELLOWES

Sallyann is an exceptionally funny award winning Neurodiverse and LGBTQ+ comedian. 
Expect real-life experiences that aren’t even remotely like real life and weirdness that will have you on the edge of your seats – in short, expect tales of the unexpected. 

Winner of the Leicester Square Theatre New Act of The Year 2023

New Forest Comedian of the Year 2023

Museum of Comedy Not So New Comedian of the Year Runner-Up 

G&B Comedy All Stars Winner 2023

 

Hosted by

CHRIS LUMB

As seen on 'Russell Howard's Good News' & 'Britain's Got Talent' Chris is a popular MC on the northern comedy circuit with his warm and welcoming crowd work, sharp impressions, and quick fire wit.

 

Line Up:
Phil Ellis
JENNY HART
SALLYANN FELLOWES
CHRIS LUMB (MC)

Age Restrictions:
Over 16s

Venue opens at:
7:00pm

Venue closes at:
11:00pm

Travel & Parking:
Free parking after 6pm nearby at Bishop Street car park TS18 1SY

Other Information:

 

Bar opens 7pm 
Theatre Doors open 7:30pm 
Show starts at 8:00pm 
Finishes at approximately 10:00pm 

Why not pop down early and take full advantage of the fantastic bar offerings.

Unallocated seating upon arrival.

NB: Line ups can be subject to change at little or no notice. 
No refunds - tickets may be transferred to another date at the discretion of the promoter.

** DISCLAIMER: THE SHOW CAN OCCASIONALLY CONTAIN BAD LANGUAGE AND TOPICS OF AN ADULT NATURE. NOT FOR THE EASILY OFFENDED**

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