Linton Hill – Maidstone Dec 7

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/the-bull-linton/comedy-night/2023-12-07/19:00/t-xmrdzve

Bull Inn Linton Hill

Show 8pm Doors 7pm

December 7th

RICHARD MORTON

RICHARD MORTON ON JACK DEE SHOW

 

Richard Morton is a stand-up comedian, singer/songwriter, composer, TV/radio presenter, documentary maker, Time Out Comedy Award winner and founder member of the London Comedy Store’s long-running Cutting Edge show.

Richard is one half of the legendary harmony singing duo, The Panic Brothers and has also composed and recorded two albums of instrumental theme music with The Rich Morton Sound that have been critically acclaimed. 

Richard has been an established headliner on the UK comedy circuit since the early 1990s, when he was also a regular support act on extensive UK theatre tours for stars such as Jack Dee, Jo Brand, Lee Evans and Phil Jupitus.

Richard has performed his successful one-man show at prestigious music and comedy festivals all over the world, including Edinburgh, Latitude, Reading, Leeds, Kilkenny, Phoenix and Montreal’s Just For Laughs.

TV credits…In the late ‘90s, Richard was a familiar face on Channel 5. His half-hour The Comedy Store Special went out on their second night; he presented two series of the quiz show, Move On Up, and was a regular panellist on both Bring Me The Head Of Light Entertainment and Wow, Fab, Groovy. And, after many guest spots, he was also a guest host on The Jack Docherty Chat Show.Other notable TV credits include appearances on The Comedy Store (Paramount Comedy), The Jack Dee Show (ITV), Never Mind The Buzzcocks (BBC 2), The Stand Up Show (BBC 1), Gag Tag (BBC 1),The World Stands Up (Paramount), That’s Entertainment (ITV), Wogan (BBC 1), Richard & Judy (Channel 4), Nothing Like A Royal Show (ITV); plus acting roles on Jack & Jeremy’s Real Lives (Channel 4) and the BAFTA award-winning series, Our Friends In The North (BBC2). Richard also worked as a joke and songwriter on Jack Dee’sSunday Service(ITV).

Radio credits…Over recent years Richard has written and presented various documentaries about music or comedy for BBC Radio 4, including In The Lounge With Rich Morton and, in early 2015, The Lost Art Of The TV Theme?

Other Radio 4 credits include being a panel member on the series Cross Questioned, and regular guest spots on Loose Ends, 4 At The Store and the classic quiz show Just A Minute. 

For BBC Radio 2, Richard presented a series of Stand Up 2 and was a regular guest on Jammin’. For Radio 1, he was a frequent guest on Comedy Network and contributor to the topical comedy show Loose Talk.

Yes it’s true! After 25 years of semi retirement, playing nursing homes, Sol Bernstein is back where he belongs, in smokey nightclubs performing to drunks.

SPRING DAY

On BBCs Live at the Apollo

 

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/S0oC0A6Diz0

 

Melbourne International Comedy Festival-AUS Comedy Bunker-UK
London Comedy Store-UK 

Top Secret Comedy Club-UK 

Broadway Comedy Club -New York Greenwich Comedy Club-

New York The Stand Comedy Club- 

LOL Comedy Club -­‐‑New York 

The Tokyo Comedy Store -­‐‑Regular Headliner-­‐‑Japan 

Laughing Horse Edinburgh Fringe-­‐‑UK 

Funny Women Fringe Assembly-­‐‑UK 

The Tomorrow Show, Steve Allen Theater-­‐‑CA 

Flappers-­‐‑CA 

The Bankers-­‐‑Ireland 

The Comedy Shed-­‐‑Ireland STAND-­‐‑UP SHOWS 

Spring Day: Kept in Stitches Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2015
Spring Day: In The Pursuit of Happenis Heroes of the Fringe 2014
Spring Day: Learn How to Take a Punch Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2012-2013 Spring Day: Sushi Souffle Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2011
Spring Day: Help! I’ve Fallen in Love and I Can’t Get Up! Heroes of the Fringe 2016 

Spring Day: Strong Codependent Woman Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018 Theater 

The Beggar’s Opera 

Television and Film 

The Tokyo Comedy Store Documentary
Robyn Loau: Never Let You Down 

Space Shower TV -Japan Spinshell TV/ Jonathan Hagans 

Voted Brooklyn’s Best Comic 2016 & Smart Comedy Competition Winner 2016 

Featured in books The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny, Funny Face, and Sock it to Them Sister. 

 

LUBO

As heard on BBC radio 4’s “The Miseducation of Lubo”

In February 2017 he performed his first solo show at the Stratford Circus Arts Centre to a sold out crowd. His show was picked up for a foreign TV show to be broadcast in 2018. 

“Elevating the most everyday occurrence into a grand anecdote and celebrating petty triumphs as magnificent victories.” – Right Funny

“Bounding about the stage with a joyful enthusiasm he skilfully created a whole other world for us to explore…heaps of fun” – Latest 7

“A pretty damn promising comic he is too, with a terrific way with an anecdote and charm to spare” – Stand Comedy

“Inherently funny…the merest gesture can have the audience laughing out loud” – Funny, Free, Fringe

JIM GRANT  

 

Friendly, funny and engaging. For 20 years Jim has been warmly received by every type of audience. As well as headlining notable comedy clubs, Jim has played many festivals, tv shows, art centres, student unions, working mens clubs, weddings and has a regular listenership on his podcast Beyond The News. 

Jim has a great set and vast compering experience.

TV & Radio Work:

RT/ Peter Cook’s Establishment Club

Guest presenter for Sky TV

Stand Up Britain ITV,

Personality Driven AUDI CHANNEL

BBC Radio Sussex Breakfast Show

 

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