Hackney Comedy Experience with John Kearns
Hackney Comedy Experience with John Kearns at EartH (Hackney Arts Centre), London
About the show
East London’s all-star stand-up show – the HACKNEY COMEDY EXPERIENCE – features the alternative comedy circuit’s biggest and best acts – live at EartH.
Double Edinburgh Comedy Award winner and Taskmaster star JOHN KEARNS headlines in December.
Plus Edinburgh Comedy Award winner and Alan Partridge star TIM KEY, Live at the Apollo star and Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee JESSICA FOSTEKEW, BBC New Comedy Award finalist and QI star BLANK PENG and Edinburgh Comedy Award best newcomer nominee MOLLY MCGUINNESS.
Strictly 18+
Line-up is subject to availability. Plosive reserves the right to add, withdraw or substitute acts at any time and if there is a change of act (headline act or supporting act) no refunds are due.
Featuring - John Kearns
The most original, odd, off-beat and hilarious alternative comic to arise this decade, John Kearns is an act who has forged his own raggedy path all the way to success.
London-based comedian and Winner of the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award, Best Newcomer 2013.
'Tremendous originality... a jumpy and unpredictable raconteur... a shot of nervous energy, an elastic band about to snap... I can't see him waiting in reserve for long' (Broadyway Baby)
'... brilliantly bonkers' (Time Out)
'Now THIS is how you do absurd comedy' (http://www.Chortle.co.uk).
Tim Key
A former member of the Cambridge Footlights, he first came to the Fringe with the 2001 Edinburgh show Far Too Happy, which also starred Mark Watson and was nominated for the Perrier award for best newcomer.
He also featured in Alex Horne's best-newcomer nominated Making Fish Laugh in 2003, and is part of the four-man sketch troupe Cowards. His solo Edinburgh debut came in 2004, with the tragic one-man comedy play Luke & Stella, which was made into a Radio 4 series called All Bar Luke.
'This is one art house form-buster who can really give you a good time' (Times)
'In any other sphere apart from comedy, we'd probably class this way of looking at the world as certifiable. Here it feels like genius' (The Daily Telegraph)
'As daring and innovative as it is ridiculously funny... He's a genius, plain and simple' (Time Out).
Jessica Fostekew
Jessica has been performing improvised comedy and working as a comedy actress since 2005. In January 2008 she hit the UK stand up circuit like a thunderbolt of joy and was a finalist in the Funny Women's Awards 2010.
Jessica co-hosts the mighty Guilty Feminist podcast which has reached well over 10 million listeners and is regularly in the Top 10 on the iTunes chart. She starred in this year’s hugely acclaimed new BBC2 sitcom from Sharon Horgan and Graham Linehan Motherland as well as the award winning BBC1 drama Three Girls.
“Intensely funny” Time Out
'Fostekew is a hugely engaging presence and there's something reassuringly honest about her... Consistently hilarious' (Fest)
'Great fun' (Guardian).
Blank Peng
Blank Peng is an incognito bilingual stand-up comic. She started performing stand-up in Mandarin and began performing in English after coming to the UK.