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Intelligent Finance Comedies
Garrick Theatre, London
Sun, 14th October 2007 - Sun, 21st October 2007
From £10.00*

It’s been a wet old summer, but the if.comedy awards panel has brought in a superb harvest of nominees from the Edinburgh Festival, and so we present the organic, fresh, environmentally-friendly cream of the crop for the Intelligent Finance Comedy Awards Season 2007. Our noble winner of the if.comedy Award 2007 is the hilarious goat-kissing Brendon Burns, who headlines a superb line-up of funny people winging their way to the Garrick Theatre to show the capital what they’re worth. He’ll be joined by fellow nominees Andrew Lawrence, Andrew Maxwell, Ivan Brackenbury’s Hospital Radio Roadshow and Pappy’s Fun Club as well as the budding Best Newcomer Award winner, Tom Basden. Sunday 7th October Brendon Burns – So I suppose this is offensive now! If.comedy Award Winner He got banned from the BBC for snogging a goat, handed out enough mushrooms at the Glastonbury Festival to get a thousand people high, and walked off the set of “I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here NOW” live on air. Somewhat inevitably, perhaps, Brendon Burns has now won the country’s top comedy award after years of rave reviews. This is an hour from the most refreshingly honest comedian of his generation, at the very top of his game, and not to be missed. “The must-see show of the Edinburgh Fringe” The Times “Something akin to a psycho-comedic orgasm” The Scotsman Andrew Lawrence – Social Leprosy for Beginners and Improvers If.comedy Award Nominee Andrew has now built up an impressive 100uccess rate with if.comedy nominations having been shortlisted last year for the Best Newcomer award. He’s now a regular favourite on the comedy circuit, having built a base of discerning fans addicted to the bleakly dark comic world he creates. With his flawless timing and delivery, he can induce tears of laughter from audience members almost against their will. “A bountiful ball of hatred” The Times “Lawrence is dazzling” Independent on Sunday Sunday 14th October Andrew Maxwell – Waxin’ If.comedy Award Nominee Selling-out your show is one thing, but Andrew Maxwell actually has ticket touts operating outside his these days. It all comes from winning C4’s King of Comedy show in 2004, being named the ‘Comic’s Comic’ at the Chortle Awards in 2005, and receiving reviews like ‘Maxwell turned it around, the first act to actually remember this is a live show’ from The Times for his performance at the renowned Secret Policeman’s Ball. Get tickets from the box office while you can. “Andrew Maxwell is the coolest best mate you never had… pure magic” Metro “It’s this compelling comic’s most successful show yet” The Times Pappy’s Fun Club If.comedy Award Nominee Pappy’s Fun Club emerged from the murky waters of last year’s Free Fringe as a beacon of hilarity, charming audiences with a joyful hour of superb, uplifting revelry. Their unique brand of ‘post-sketch’ comedy, featuring anyone from Abraham Lincoln to the directions Up, Down, Left and Right, has now featured on BBC Radio 2 and 4, earned them a Chortle Award nomination and now an if.comedy nomination. And all of this thanks to a mysterious hospitalised benefactor called Pappy… “Pappy’s Fun Club does exactly what it says on the tin. And it’s glorious stuff” The Times “A triumph of personality over format” The Independent Sunday 21st October Tom Basden - Won’t Say Anything Winner - If.comedy Best Newcomer Award One quarter of acclaimed sketch show Cowards (Radio 4, BBC 3), Tom’s wonderfully eclectic show is an hour of deadpan musical whimsy, interspersed with words, pictures and even some tiny films. His songs cover such wildly varying subjects as ghosts, Chris Tarrant, glass eyes, suicide, ventriloquism, hypochondria, Iraq and love. He also offers 60 second documentaries about swimming the channel and ducks, an art exhibition, and coffee and tea making facilities. “Reminiscent of Gary Larson’s The Far Side” The Independent “Exquisitely crafted comedy” Chortle Ivan Brackenbury’s Hospital Radio RoadShow If.comedy Award Nominee Hospital Radio’s flagship presenter’s ‘Disease-Hour’ captures the fun and excitement you’d expect from being ill in hospital with Games, Giveaways, Patient’s requests and Ivan’s special blend of music and chat. Previously heard on Radio 1 in Stewart Lee and Richard Herring’s show Fist of Fun, this was Ivan’s (aka Tom Binns) first full length show and a master class in insensitivity. “The most deliciously enjoyable I’ve spent on the Fringe” The Guardian “As far as laughs per minute, you can do no better than Tom Binns” The Independent AGE LIMIT Over 16s only.