21st July 2010

21st July 2010

Seann Walsh

EDINBURGH PREVIEW: Seann Walsh, star of BBC2's Mock The Week, is one of the most exciting new acts on the circuit. Seann has impressed critics, promoters, judges and audiences around the country with his assured delivery and self-depreciating silliness.
Seann has a genuine buzz about him on the circuit, he has that spark, that exciting unquantifiable quality that makes audiences and critics sit up and take notice and has had him heralded as one of the most exciting new talents of the last 10 years.

LIVE WORK
Despite being a relative newcomer Seann has hit the ground running becoming the resident compere at Komedia’s Comic Boom!
Seann regularly performs opening 20’s for Off The Kerb and Komedia and is fast becoming a circuit favourite playing at clubs all over the country, including The Comedy Store.

Seann has supported Stephen K Amos on two of his nationwide tours- Find The Funny 2009 and tour The Feelgood Factor 2009/10. He will also be appearing on Stephen K Amos' upcoming Live DVD of The Feelgood Factor, recorded Live at the Hammersmith Apollo.

Hal Cruttenden

EDINBURGH PREVIEW: Hal Cruttenden has been to The Stoke's comedy club before, and stormed it as one of the best headliners we've had. He's appeared on 'Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive' for BBC3 and has written and performed in 'The Omid Djalili Show' on BBC1.

His other television credits include, 'The 11 O'Clock Show', (Channel 4), 'Brain Candy' (BBC3), 'Live at Jongleurs' (UK Gold/Paramount), 'The Comedy Store' (Paramount) 'The World Stands Up' (Paramount Comedy Channel UK, The Comedy Channel Australia, and Comedy Central and BBC America in the U.S), 'The Warehouse' (Carlton TV), 'Carlton Comedy Warehouse' (Carlton/STV), 'The Deputy Prime Minister' (BBC2), 'Hoot' (Bravo), 'Net.Comedy' (Action Time), 'Daily Telegraph Open Mic Awards' (Channel 5) and 'House of Fun' (Meridien). He has also warmed up at the BBC for 'The Jonathan Ross Show' and the 'Keith Barrett Show' in addition to hosting the recordings for 'The World Stands Up' at The Clapham Grand.

Radio
His radio appearances include Radio 4's 'Four at the Store' and Radio Ulster's' The Blame Game'.

TV and Film Acting
Having originally trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama, Hal's acting career includes roles on TV and film in 'Shackleton', 'Eastenders', 'Kavanagh QC', 'Out of the Blue', 'Touching Evil' and 'Bramwell'. On film he has been in 'Mrs Dalloway' and 'The Madness of King George'.

Live stand up
Hal's big breakthrough in stand up came with his nomination for the Perrier Newcomer Award at the 2002 Edinburgh Festival for his solo show 'Hal', followed by a highly successful run the following year of his second show, 'To Hal and Back', which was also performed at the Soho Theatre in London at the end of 2003. At the 2005 Edinburgh Festival, he performed sketches with 'The Monkey Butlers' to sell out crowds at the Underbelly Venue. He is a regular performer at all the top UK clubs, including the Comedy Store and Jongleurs, and supported Ardal O'Hanlon and Omid Djalili on their recent nationwide tours.

International stand up
Internationally, Hal received rave reviews at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal in 2004 and at the Kilkenny Cat Laughs Comedy Festival in 2005. He has done shows throughout the Netherlands, Belgium, and Ireland, and even further afield in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jakarta, Canada, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore, where he appeared at the Jubilee Hall in the world famous Raffles Hotel. He performed at the opening of the first comedy venue in Bali and, earlier this year, did a week of shows to the Armed Forces in the Falkland Islands!