Up The Arts Comedy Edinburgh Previews 2008

UP THE ARTS COMEDY celebrates its move to The Queen Boadicea 292-294 St John Street, Clerkenwell EC1V 4PA with the launch of its summer season of Edinburgh Previews. On Thursdays, throughout May/June/July we’re presenting 14 shows over 7 nights from some of the best award-winning comedians in the UK.

LUCY PORTER
The diminutive minx from Croydon has performed her winning mixture of topical and observational stand-up comedy at venues all over the country. In 1997 she was a finalist in Channel 4's "So You Think You're Funny?” Since then she's written for top comics, starred in TV shows including BBC1's The Stand Up Show and C5's Comedy Store. She acted with Christian Slater in the West End and on BBC2's Broken News. She can be heard regularly on the hit Radio 2 show 'Parsons and Naylor's Pull-out Sections',
“Charmingly twisted, articulate and witty” SUNDAY TIMES

PAUL KERENSA: iPAUL: THE GREAT PLAYLIST CHALLENGE
12 months. 12 genres. 1 hard year. For the last year, Paul has been listening to a different genre of music each month. Does rock make you angrier? Do musicals make you gay? Does rap make you want to carry a gun? Do power ballads lift you up where we belong? The writer of BBC1's Not Going Out (British Comedy Award nominee) presents a tale of love, karaoke and guilty pleasures.
"Ingenious" EVENING STANDARD **** CHORTLE **** METRO

Plus PAUL RICKETTS(MC). Also Punch line Competition - win a bottle of wine.