LYNN RUTH MILLER, SPRING DAY, ARCHIE HENDERSON, with MC KEVIN O'CONNELL.
3 Headline Acts, a special guest MC, and 12 up and coming open mic acts, all for FREE. :)
Doors: 7pm Show starts 8pm.
Fourth night shenanigans
Come watch three established acts headlining the night doing 10 minutes, alongside up to 12 open mic, footlining, acts, with a special guest MC.
For our fourth night, Healing Comedy Club proudly present the laughtastic Lynn Ruth Miller, the sparkling Spring Day-Comedian, the awesome Archie Henderson, with the kick-ass Kevin O Connell MCing the night, alongside an array of fab Footliners, from newbies to not so newbie.
To add a little tszuj to the evening, the best 5 minute act, as voted by the audience, will be invited back for a 10 minute set.
A little bit about our headliners and MC for the night:
Lynn Ruth Miller – Currently the oldest performing stand up female comedian on both sides of the Atlantic.
Dubbed the new Joan Rivers of Fringe Comedy at The Edinburgh International Fringe.
She is a regular at the San Francisco Punchline, The Stand in Scotland and The International in Dublin and is now chomping at the bit ready now to do her storytelling, cabaret and standup comedy throughout the world to prove that her aging has been amazing.
At 84, Lynn Ruth Miller is still going strong. She started her comedy career at 71. She made it to Las Vegas in America’s Got Talent, 2008, won People’s Choice in 2009 Branson Comedy Festival, the finals in Bill Word’s Funniest Female Contest 2009 and semi-finals in the SF International Comedy Competition, the top 100 in Britain’s Got Talent and won both nights of the Texas Burlesque Festival without taking off anything that matters.
She was the 2013 TO&ST winner for GRANNY’S GONE WILD: best cabaret Edinburgh Fringe. That show was performed at the Soho Theatre in London in March 2014
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Spring Day is a New York stand-up comedian, writer and actor previously based in Tokyo, Japan and is currently working in the U.K.
Spring Day was voted Brooklyn’s Best Comedian 2016 in May. Spring has also been working as a comedy consultant on a pilot for the BBC set to be broadcast in 2018. Her uniquely sharp, dark, bubbly and often brutal style of comedy is always a crowd pleaser you don't want to miss.
A fluent Japanese speaker and a mild cerebral palsy haver, Spring has been headlining at the Tokyo Comedy Store since 2002. She has also been performing all over the world since opening for Japanese comedian Zenjiro at the Melbourne Comedy Festival in 2004.
She has written, produced, directed and performed five solo shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival since 2010. Spring has also performed at various clubs in London, Manchester, Dublin, Los Angeles, New York and Paris. She was featured in the 2008 documentary The Tokyo Comedy Store, the upcoming Joker Face book, and in the 2014 best selling book The Humor Code (She’s listed in that book’s index next to "dead-baby joke cycle" and couldn’t be happier about it.)
"Spring's gimlet-eyed perspective on life belies her Summer of Love name, but Tokyo's most prolific comic can't hide her underlying joy of life, even while recounting darker tales of love and loss in Tokyo." -Chris Wells, Owner, Tokyo Comedy Store
"A Definite Must See! ✭✭✭✭" - ThreeWeeks
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Archie Henderson writes musical comedy that is twice as clever as he knows it is and half as humble as he thinks it is. He is a member of multi-award-winning sketch group Two Plus Ones, his videos have amassed 200,000 views online.
On 12 November 2013, Archie accidentally reached number 98 in the UK Singles Chart. This time, he’s heading straight for number one with his one man show, “Now that's who I call Archie Henderson”.
His routines are accompanied by an original soundtrack, - a heroic story of symphonic redemption - a last-gasp attempt to figure out what the hell makes a smash-hit single. Expect a comprehensive (read: obsessive), historical analysis of everything that has ever made pop music popular. From Bond themes to the Arctic Monkeys via some serious powerhouse opera vibrato.
***** (Ed Fringe Review)
"Radiated a delightfully daft energy." (Chortle)
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Kevin O Connell is making a name for himself as one of the most distinctive and original voices on the circuit with his surreal stories and cheeky, confident crowd work.
In his first year performing, he was the Peoples Choice Winner at the Chortle Student Awards and a finalist in the Show Me the Funny Competition. After stopping comedy to focus on his studies, in late 2014 he began to gig regularly in Ireland.
Now based in London, Kevin has been making waves after being a finalist in the Bath Comedy Festival New Act of the Year 2017 and the prestigious NATYs (New Act of the Year) 2018.
Kevin is part of the Soho Youth Company and regularly gigs with Angel Comedy, Mirth Control and The Poodle Club.
- Finalist NATYs (New Act of the Year) 2018
- Finalist in Bath Comedy Festival New Act of the Year 2017
- Finalist in Show Me The Funny 2014 (Ireland)
- Finalist in the Forbidden Fruit Comedy Talent Search 2014 (Ireland)
- Peoples Choice Winner at the Chortle student awards
“a talented comedian with tremendous audience rapport” -Suffolk Punch Comedy Club
“the lines are rather good...comedy’s next pin-up” -Chortle.com
“happily took things down a surreal rabbit hole” -Hot Press
“alot of promise...an Irish Russell Brand” -Bruce Dessau (BeyondTheJoke.co.uk)
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Come watch these four amazing acts, alongside these open mic acts emerging on the circuit:
Our fantastic Footliners are:
Louise LeVell
Kathryn Taylor
Kazeem Jamal
Sam Dutton
Steve N Wade
Kayla MacQuarrie
Stylophobia with Dan Rubinstein
Cansu Karabiyik
Aidan McCaffery
Ruth Boon
Mike Topolski
Sital K Gami
The 5 minute act voted the best act of the night will return for a 10 minute spot. Host Rudy Ilyas will provide scoresheets and pens ;)
Free Entry (PWYW bucket split with MC/Headliners/Club)