Friday Comedy ft. Earl Okin, Tom Webb and Steve Best

Friday Comedy Club with Earl Okin, Tom Webb and Steve Best
Friday, 12th Dec 2014

Top live comedy from Musical Genius and Sex Symbol Earl Okin, Tom Webb and Steve Best

 

EARL OKIN

Earl Okin’s first TV appearance was a child on the show All Your Own in 1959, but he began his career proper as a musician, recording his first single in the Sixties at Abbey Road. During the Seventies, he opened for such acts as Fairport Convention, Van Morrison and Wings. Also in the Seventies, he moved trough the folk circuit, where he encountered the likes of Billy Connolly and Jasper Carrott, who started to introduced comedy to their acts. When this circuit crumbled, Okin moved to the new alternative comedy circuit, and was invited to perform at the now legendary Comic Strip. He has been on the circuit ever since. Okin has also been an Edinburgh Fringe veteran, claiming to have performed more shows there than anyone else (502 over 18 years), and has performed his variety act around the world.

He has also had his own Radio 4 series, Earl Okin & Friends, and recorded several albums of music and comedy.

"Age does not matter for he appeals to all from 17 to senility... master of the art of cabaret." Russell Hunter - The Scotsman

"Multi-talented musical supremo." Time Out

Steve Best

Comedy legend STEVE BEST is back with us by popular demand. Coming across like a children's party entertainer from hell, he seems to be on a mission to squeeze every last laugh out of the crowd with his non-stop gaggery, magic tricks, sound effects, guitar playing, and wonderfully random zaniness.

“Comparisons with Tommy Cooper are a no-brainer, but Best captures the fervent energy and the utter bonkers hilarity of the late fez-wearing funnyman with aplomb, reinventing the bumbling magician act for the twenty first century with the aid of a blow-up sex doll and an Elvis mask" - Graham Hughes, BBC

Tom Webb (MC)

 

‘Ingenious and fresh' (Time Out)

‘Tom Webb is a cheeky, inventive, damn funny fellow' (London Is Funny)

‘Hilarious... A comedy treat' (Edinburgh Evening News)

Tom Webb is a hilarious, award-winning comedian, performing all over the country in venues including The Soho Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre, The Komedia, Frog & Bucket and The Gilded Balloon. You can also see him on Dave TV, as David Baddiel’s assistant, Aaron, in ‘FC Dave’. Or hear him on BBC Radio (Bristol), JNET Radio and Fuse FM.

He is the host for Popbitch, They Quiz and Match Bars, is resident MC at PARTY PIECE and Comedy Loft and compères the triumphant 'London Is Funny Presents...' a mixed bill show with acts like Rufus Hound, Josie Long and Simon Brodkin at the Edinburgh Fringe. And 2012 sees him in the Pleasance Courtyard as the closer for AAA Late.

If not performing live, Tom writes and performs for the screen and radio. He was commissioned by Myspace Comedy to write and perform in a 6 part sitcom, 'Tom Webbisodes' with Jemima Rooper and also sold a full-length, feature film, 'Friendless Wonder', to Anyway Films. He directed the award winning, sell-out show, The Fudge Shop and also wrote, directed and performed in sell-out plays for the Lyric: Hammersmith, Riverside Studios and Canal Cafe Theatre. And he's directed the World’s longest running comedy show, NewsRevue, as well as creating its two Christmas Specials.

‘Super duper MC... Top 20 Free Fringe Show' (London Is Funny)

‘The masterful Tom Webb... It's stuff like this that makes the Fringe great' (Three Weeks)

‘Wonderfully inventive stand-up Tom Webb' (Spoonfed)

‘The extraordinarily funny Tom Webb' (Hackney Gazette)