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Comedy for queers
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If you’ve ever been to an open mic night you’ll know that roughly 100% of comedians are straight white men in chinos. Why? Well drag performer Sue Gives A Fuck has dedicated her time to understanding how privilege is amassed, in the hope of getting some. So she’s got some opinions. And she’s going to make those opinions the basis of a comedy show, in the hope that this will create a strange funny valuable queer space for play. And that that will be lucrative for her. So if you’re a pansexual in mink, a POC in velvet or, yes, even a straight white man in chinos, come explore the idea of what’s funny. All are welcome.
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About your host:
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Sue Gives A fuck began drag life as a finalist on Rupaul's Drag Race UK Ambassador. It was literally her first time in drag, she was out of her depth and she didn't really enjoy it. She was, however, immortalised by Katie Price in the lines "Can I have a porn star martini? No? Ugh. Fine, my favourite's Sue". Since then she's gone on to host sell out shows including Camposphere and Play Date, won The Glory's Lipsync 1000, and has performed with Charlotte Church and to Ian McKellen. Now she's abandoned her adoring fans in cabaret and performs on the stand up circuit, because someone has to educate straight people.
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With guest performances by:
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Anna Mann
‘Funnier than almost all other shows at this year’s Fringe’ **** (The Telegraph)
‘Unique and darkly brilliant talent' **** (The Guardian)
‘Sheer comic gold’ **** (Metro)
Actress Anna Mann (Colin Hoult’s "masterclass in character comedy" - Time Out) recently defeated fascism in her one woman Soho Theatre show, and now she’s coming to Dalston to defeat homophobia. Fear not, gentle liberals, Mother Mann is here. Star of her own Sky Arts Short, Anna Mann’s Valentine. As seen in Murder in Russell Howard’s Good News, Successville, Porridge, Derek, Nurse, Life’s Too Short and Being Human. Writer’s Guild Award winner and Chortle Award nominee.
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Busty & Ginger
Busty & Ginger’s immense talent and penchant for cheap wine saw them storm to victory in this year’s Pride’s Got Talent final. They will be performing on the Trafalgar Square stage at Pride in London and are, all round, one of the most exciting cabaret acts working right now. We’re honoured to have them sampling the Glory’s pinot.
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Jilberto Soto
'He was born to be a comic' Chicago Fringe
Jilberto is a hugely talented comic from Seattle who recently graced us by moving to London. He is a corporate professional snob during the day and just a snob at night. His sexual and racial (Mexican) comedic style have often been referred to as personal yet embarrassing, by his older brother.
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Felix le Freak
Quite literally back by popular demand, Felix Le Freak is a degenerative skin condition originating in High Wycombe and specialising in the dissolution of patriarchal hegemony. When she's not fixing rips in the spacetime continuum or playing instruments with her genitals, Felix enjoys long walks on the beach and quality time at home with her elderly Cornish hostages, Errol and Babs. She’s also a finalist of Meth’s ‘Not Another Drag Competition’, a winner of Halfway II Heaven’s ‘It’s a Knockout’, and was the winner (I’m calling it) of this year’s upcoming Drag Idol.