Come on down to 21Soho every month to meet our Queerly Beloved <3 A new regular night celebrating queer comedy in the heart of Soho.
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MORGAN REES!
This softly spoken Welsh comedian boasts a densely packed arsenal of impressive one-liners and hilarious short stories. Morgan has appeared on BBC Radio 4 in the prestigious finals of the BBC New Comedy Award. He was also a runner-up in So You Think You’re Funny 2017, and a finalist in Chortle Student Comedy Award. Tour Support for Fern Brady, Rhys James, Jayde Adams, Nigel Ng and Paul Chowdhry.
ERIKA EHLER!
Erika’s razor-sharp, dark and visceral writing paired with precise delivery makes her one of the most exciting young comedians on the circuit. She has quickly become a much in demand writer and comedian working on numerous high profile shows. In 2019, she was crowned winner of the Chortle Student Comedy Award, was the recipient of the Mike Craig Comedy Award, and the Hot Water Roast Battle Champion. She has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, Latitude Festival, and the Toronto Sketch Festival. Erika has recently written for the upcoming fourth series of Comedy Central’s Roast Battle.
CHARLIE GEORGE!
Hilarious and no messin’.BBC Asian Network Comedy
Charlie George is an award-winning stand-up comedian and writer. A talented and accomplished writer, Charlie was chosen to join Charlie Brooker’s writers’ room for Cunk & Other Humans on 2019 and AntiViral Wipe (both for BBC Two), plus Death to 2020for Netflix. She has written for Channel 4’s Alternative Election Night, Have I Got News For You, Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back, E4’s 8 Out of 10 Cats, BBC1’s Blankety Blank, BBC Two’s Frankie Boyle’s New World Order and BBC Radio 4’s Newsjack and The Now Show. Charlie was recently selected out of 3,700 writers for the Penguin Write Now editorial programme to write her first autofiction book Door to Door.
AMY MASON!
Tonight we discovered a genius called Amy Mason….Find her. Watch her’ Dawn O’Porter
‘As raw as it gets as well as charmingly poignant and funny’. The Herald
‘Raw and powerful with a rich seam of black humour’ The Sunday Mirror
JEN IVES!
Jen has recently written for BBC Radio 4 Extra, Dave, Pulped, as well as writing & performing in the multi-award nominated SeanceCast for HatTrick Productions. She has also written and starred in a sketch for Channel 4. She has reached the finals in the Funny Women Awards 2019, been nominated for the Leicester Mercury Awards 2019, placed second in the Laughing Horse New Comedian Awards 2018 & placed in the finals for the 2NorthDown New Comedian Competition 2019.
Jen was also recently featured in an article for The New York Times - about trans comedians in Britain.Jen is known for her often sideways look at what it means to be a trans woman today, as well as other dumb things. Jen is currently performing work in progress run-throughs of her hour "PEAK TRANS" which focuses on the growing "gender critical" movement in the UK.