Comedy at The Hippodrome
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Comedy at The Hippodrome takes a variety twist as we open up a selection box of alternative comedy and cabaret.
Join the extraordinary, avant-garde machine-gun comedy magician and vaudeville impresario Christian Lee as he invites the best cabaret stars and the comedy elite from the four corners of the world. Recent Semi finalist of Britain’s Got Talent, Christian took the panel by storm with his signature balloon trick – check him out with glamorous assistant amanda Holden here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2EyAF75gxg
“Mighty magical talents” – Evening Standard
“I think you’re funny.” – Simon Cowell
“Christian is one of the few magicians who genuinely crosses the divide between comedy and magic. He possesses the comic genius of Tommy Cooper along with world class skills as a prestidigitator” – TNT Magazine
With:
Asher Treleaven
Diplomas at NICA and is a qualified idiot and carnie. After he graduation he moonlighted with the world renowned La Clique, (now Le Soiree) in Melbourne and the UK.
In 2006 Asher moved to London, there he met comedian Robin Ince and was inducted into the infamous Book Club. There he found himself working alongside comedians like Josie Long, Stewart Lee and Stephen Merchant and in this environment of incomprehensible art wank, he flourished. In 2009 with the assistance of a Moosehead Grant he earned his first critical success with a nomination for the 2009 Barry Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Then in 2010, his third show ‘Secret Door’ went gangbusters and won him the Age Newspapers Critics Choice Award and garnered Asher a Best Newcomer Nomination at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2010. Since that time Asher has written 6 solo comedy shows, which he has toured nationally and internationally.
Josh Howie
Josh is the son of legendary PR guru Lynne Franks, the woman who inspired Jennifer Saunders’ character Edina in Absolutely Fabulous. Raised as a Buddhist this ex-public schoolboy then trained as a Rabbi before being kicked off the programme for being caught with a naked (non-Jewish) girl. He started his own PR firm when he was just 16, received critical acclaim for writing and directing a short film for Channel 4, and has had a number of senior roles in music video production companies. And now he’s decided to settle down and get a proper job – as a stand-up comedian, which started in earnest with his first trip to the Edinburgh Fringe in 2003.
Fresh from writing and starring in his sitcom for BBC Radio 4, Josh is about to embark on a UK tour, Josh Howie’s Messed Up. Already a much in-demand standup comic, performing regularly at all the major comedy clubs around the UK, over the previous few years Josh has also taken his distinctive brand of humor to India, Ireland, UAE, France, China, Thailand, Switzerland, Finland, Estonia and America. In 2012, he was invited to perform at the prestigious Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal, where he filmed for the internationally distributed Just For Laugh’s All Access TV show.
Kev Orkian
Kev is without question one the UK’s finest entertainers and an internationally acclaimed award winning comedy pianist.
A highly skilled Pianist, singer & actor, Kev has honed his art to perfection over many years from his days as a classical concert pianist to performing Stand-up comedy and supporting some of the biggest names in British comedy. Blending his off beat humour with sensational performances on the piano he has been dubbed one of the world’s finest comedy pianists.