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About the show
Host DAVID EPHGRAVE rounds off 2026’s Hitchin Mostly Comedy Festival with another comic mixed bill at HITCHIN TOWN HALL.
Thursday 23rd July’s lineup includes:
An Edinburgh preview from MARK THOMAS
(Time Out Comedy Award-winner & Perrier nominee)
★★★★★ (Guardian)
‘The strong ratio of hard-hitting matter to gag-rich mirth is a feat that makes other stand-up look idling and irrelevant’ ★★★★ (Telegraph)
‘Involving, inspiring, furious and funny’ ★★★★ (Times)
Stand-up from JENNY COLLIER
(Writer for BBC Radio 4’s ‘The News Quiz’ & ‘The Now Show’)
‘Excellent ★★★★★ (EdFestMag)
‘Refreshingly original.’ ★★★★ (Broadway Baby)
‘Surprising edge’
★★★★ (Shortcom.co.uk)
‘Clearly a rising star’ (Bruce Dessau)
Stand-up from STACEY EDWARDS
(Get Up Stand Up New Act Semi-finalist)
(West End New Act Finalist 2024)
‘Believe me, you are funny’ (Dec Munro)
Hosted by DAVID EPHGRAVE
(Featured in The Times, Daily Telegraph, Comedy Central, i Newspaper, Scotsman and Edinburgh Evening News best Fringe jokes lists.)
‘As smooth as they come’ (BBC)
‘Devastatingly witty’ (EdFest Magazine)
‘A natural entertainer’ (View From the Gods)
‘Fringe veteran’ (ThreeWeeks)
Bar & doors 7:15pm. Starts at 8.00pm. Tickets £20 (plus booking fee).
Line-up may be subject to last-minute alteration. No refunds if line-up changes.
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PLEASE NOTE: This event is at HITCHIN TOWN HALL. This is a Hitchin Mostly Comedy Festival event.
Please note that the artists appearing may be subject to change
Featuring
Mark Thomas
TV's comedy guerilla with his own shrewd take on governmental and corporate exploitation. Mark Thomas is well versed in the art of creative mayhem and over the years his troublemaking has changed laws, cost companies millions and annoyed those who most deserved to be.
“One of Britain's greatest storytellers…beautifully-paced and structured…a passionate humanity that surpasses most other work at the Fringe" (The Scotsman).
'A brand of comedy that carries a far weightier purpose than to simply generate laughs.. Cuckooed leaves a lasting impression' (Sunday Herald)
'A clever, funny and angry show... an excoriating, heartfelt monologue...Thomas the polemicist deploys the comedian's eye for a situation's dark absurdities' (The Guardian)
'Thomas's show ruefully tots up the cost of personal betrayal' (Sunday Times)
'Bracing, brilliant and necessary... Mark Thomas is the most intelligent of the modern leftist stand-ups... an unmissable hour' (Theatre Cat).
Mark Thomas was named in Ents24's top 20 hardest-working comedians 2017 and 2016.
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Jenny Collier
Jenny Collier moved from the Welsh mountains to London in 2010 to embark upon a career in stand up comedy, making the final of So You Think You're Funny in August 2013.
'Fast-paced wit... Quick and clever' (http://www.theupcoming.co.uk)
'Refreshingly original... Excellent' (Broadway Baby)
'Makes vitriol adorable, delivers funny dark material as though butter wouldn't melt'
(Wildcard Comedy)
'Ace... Strong set... Strong persona' (London is Funny)
'... the refreshingly innovative and quick-witted Jenny Collier' (Funhouse Comedy).
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David Ephgrave
Comedian, actor, musician and podcaster - and back end of the duo Doggett & Ephgrave.
Featured among The Times’ Best Jokes of 2022 Edinburgh Fringe, the Daily Telegraphs 20 Funniest One-liners of the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe and Comedy Central's 35 Funniest Jokes of the Year (2017) plus i Newspapers 50 Best Jokes, The Scotsmans 40 Best Jokes and Edinburgh Evening News 40 Funniest One-Liners of 2018 Edinburgh Fringe lists.
Theatre credits include John Lennon & Paul McCartney in 'The Roy Orbison Story', Buddy Holly in 'Buddy Holly and the Cricketers' and Richard in the West End production of 'Dreamboats and Petticoats'.
"As smooth as they come" (BBC)
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