The Comedy Forum Starring Dara Ó Briain, MC Nina Gilligan, Peter Brush & Jarred Christmas
The Comedy Forum Starring Dara Ó Briain, MC Nina Gilligan, Peter Brush & Jarred Christmas at Forum Theatre, Billingham
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The Comedy Forum Starring Dara Ó Briain, MC Nina Gilligan, Peter Brush & Jarred Christmas £37.00
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About the show
Get ready for a genuinely unmissable night of stand-up as one of the most recognisable faces on British and Irish television, Dara Ó Briain comes to Billingham. He’s best known for hosting Mock the Week, Robot Wars, Have I Got News For You and his latest tour So… Where Were We? won Best Tour at the 2023 Chortle Awards. On stage, he is an absolute force of nature, a masterclass in intelligent, high-energy stand-up that has sold out theatres across the globe!
Steering the evening with warmth and razor-sharp instincts will be MC Nina Gilligan, one of the most exciting hosts on the circuit. Peter Brush is a highly distinctive performer and deft writer of finely crafted jokes, delivering an arsenal of quirky one-liners and peerlessly original routines in an amusingly awkward fashion. Completing the lineup is New Zealand sensation Jarred Christmas, a sought-after headliner famed for his quick-witted spontaneity and energetic storytelling, with TV appearances including Mock the Week, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, and 8 Out of 10 Cats.
Featuring - Dara Ó Briain
One of Ireland's funniest comedians, who produces laughs like a magician produces rabbits from a hat.
With a reputation as a stand-up around the world, including an appearance at the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal, he originally made a name for himself in Ireland on the satirical panel show Don't Feed the Gondolas and then stepped into the mainstream limelight with the hit show It's A Family Affair.
Currently to be seen presenting the BBC's topical panel show Mock The Week.
'One of the most dependably entertaining stand-up comics in the land' (The Times)
'Worked the stalls like a puppet master' (Evening Standard)
'O Briain has a laser eye for the absurd and the spurious' (The Guardian).
Nina Gilligan
WINNER COMIC'S COMIC 2025
BBC AUDIO AWARDS WINNER 2024 (Best Sit Com or Comedy Drama)
CHORTLE AWARD BEST ACT WINNER 2023
NW COMEDY AWARDS BEST ACT WINNER 2023
YORKSHIRE COMEDY AWARDS BEST ACT 2023
LEICESTER MERCURY COMEDY AWARD WINNER 2021
YORKSHIRE COMEDY AWARDS BEST ACT 2022
WINNER – Liverpool Hot Water Comedian of the Year
NOMINATED – Greater Manchester Fringe Best Comedy Play
FINALIST – English Comedian of the Year 2016
Peter Brush
Peter Brush is a highly distinctive performer and deft writer of finely crafted jokes. He unassumingly takes the stage with his slight bespectacled frame and scruffy hair, before consummately conquering it with an arsenal of razor sharp quirky one-liners and peerlessly original routines, all delivered in an amusingly awkward fashion. A BBC New Comedy Award Finalist 2013 & Harrogate Comedian of the Year 2012, he has also written for BBC Radio 4's 'The News Quiz'.
'An imaginative use of language and obtuse angles of thought that produce distinctive and eclectic gags... his best lines are inspired' (Chortle).
“Unique observations and connections that stand-ups crave” (The Guardian).
Jarred Christmas
Kiwi comedian with a good reputation in the comedy world. He has a unique style that deftly mixes gags with storytelling, and a dynamic onstage persona and the ability to improvise and roll with anything that's thrown his way. This makes his comedy sizzle with originality.
Star of 'Mock The Week' 'Flight Of The Conchords', '8 Out Of 10 Cats' and the Pot Noodle adverts.
'One of the funniest men to pick up a microphone' (Time Out)
'Likeable, intelligent and full of unpredictable energy' (The Scotsman)
'Christmas is robustly funny, his delivery confident and his show not to be missed' (The List, Edinburgh).
Jarred Christmas was named in Ents24's top 20 hardest-working comedians 2017.