Paul Foot and Hal Cruttenden
Tuesday July 22nd - 8.00pm Town Hall - £10.00
Sponsored by Neil Barrett Photography
Paul Foot's tv appearances are too numerous to list but, as a small sample, he's a regular reporter on the Out to Lunch Series 3 (BBC Radio 2), and has guested on The Fallout, Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive, The World Stands Up, Edinburgh and Beyond, Big Brother’s Big Mouth, Brain Candy and Comedy nation.
In 1997 he was winner of the BBC New Comedy Award, the Daily Telegraph Open Mic Award and runner-up for the Channel 4 So You Think You’re Funny Award.
With his tales of failed boxing matches, fictional girlfriends and troublesome youths, Paul Foot's "very effective and entertaining" (Time Out) act is a triumph for the lily livered and the weak bladdered over the aggressive and the oafish. His diffident delivery complements an original and enjoyable performance.
"There is no logical reason why Paul Foot’s comedy should work, but work it does – to hilarious effect. Never has so much been laughed at so little." - Metro
"He can find laughs in pretty much anything. He has a Midas touch with the mundane. In his own bizarre mix of the effortless and the manic, he is unique and delightful." - The Stage
"Choice silliness which no other comic could deliver anywhere near as effectively." - Time Out Magazine
"He has an amazing ability to mine the least likely of subjects for laughs. An absolute comic genius. He’s going to be a superstar." - Attitude Magazine
"Rarely, if ever, has this reviewer seen an audience laugh as hysterically hard or long." - The Scotsman
"Paul is one of those stand-ups who can take a half-spoken sentence from an audience member and turn it into ten minutes of improvised comedy. This ensures that his show isn’t just really funny – it’s marvellously unpredictable." - Scotsgay
"Foot is Kenneth Williams on acid, a hilarious camp combination of pedantry, bluff and surreal non sequiturs." - The Scotsman
More at www.paulfoot.tv
Hal Cruttenden is one of the top comedians working in the UK today, as well as being an accomplished writer and actor. This year he has already hosted a new series of 'The World Stands Up' for Paramount following appearances late last year on ‘Rob Brydon’s Annually Retentive’ for BBC3 and ‘The Omid Djalili Show’ on BBC1, for which he also wrote many sketches. His other television credits include, ‘The 11 O’Clock Show’, ‘Brain Candy’, ‘Live at Jongleurs’, ‘The Comedy Store’ and ‘The World Stands Up’.
Hal’s big breakthrough in stand up came with his nomination for the Perrier Newcomer Award at the 2002 Edinburgh Festival for his solo show ‘Hal’, followed by a highly successful run the following year of his second show, ‘To Hal and Back’, which was also performed at the Soho Theatre in London at the end of 2003. At the 2005 Edinburgh Festival, he performed sketches with ‘The Monkey Butlers’ to sell out crowds at the Underbelly Venue. He is a regular performer at all the top UK clubs, including the Comedy Store and Jongleurs, and supported Ardal O’Hanlon and Omid Djalili on their recent nationwide tours.
Emphasising the Fringe's "world" outlook, internationally Hal has received rave reviews at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal in 2004 and at the Kilkenny Cat Laughs Comedy Festival in 2005. He has done shows throughout the Netherlands, Belgium, and Ireland, and even further afield in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jakarta, Canada, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore, where he appeared at the Jubilee Hall in the world famous Raffles Hotel. He performed at the opening of the first comedy venue in Bali and, this year, he did shows for the Armed Forces in the Falkland Islands and Cyprus!
More at www.halcruttenden.com
