Quay Comedy Club

About the comedians:
Rob Deering
The UK’s foremost guitar-wielding, loop-layering stand-up comedian. Perhaps you know him from one of his myriad appearances in clubs, theatres and festivals throughout the known world, or from a TV or radio near you.

Angela Barnes (Mock the Week, Russell Howards Good News)

Here are some nice things that people have said: “brilliantly funny” Sarah Millican

“She’s just a gloriously down-to-earth, straight talking and extremely funny comic” The Guardian

“Angela Barnes is the best mainstream female comedian I’ve seen since Sarah Millican… I can’t be any clearer than that can I?” Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard critic

“a beautifully paced performance that was aided by the consistent quality of her jokes, many of which showed a great skill with self-deprecation.”Chortle

Winner BBC New Comedy Award 2011

Gareth Richards (Russell Howards Good News)

Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee 2010 Gareth Richards is probably best known for his two years of co-hosting the Sony Gold Award winning Frank Skinner’s Absolute Radio Show. In 2011 he completed a Soho Theatre run of his Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominated show, ‘Stand Up Between Song’, and appeared on Russell Howard’s Good News (BBC Three). In 2010, he was placed in the top 10 of Dave’s Funniest Joke of the Fringe. In 2008 GARETH was nominated for the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year Award, and later won a place as part of the Comedy Reserve. Previously he was a finalist in the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year 2007 competition, and a runner-up in the finals of You Must Be Joking and the Amused Moose Laugh-Off. What the press has said about Gareth Richards: “A delightful hour of comedy” The Guardian “Clever craftsman with a big future” Bruce Dessau, The Evening Standard “An effortlessly assured act… exceptionally inspired and truly memorable.” Steve Bennett, Chortle