Fri 17 January 2025 8:00pm

Good Ship Comedy

at The Birds, London

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Smart, sharp and brilliantly funny, Kae Kurd is recognised as one of the UK's fastest rising comedy stars, celebrated for creating and curating extensive online content across a range of platforms. His debut stand up special Kurd Your Enthusiasm received over 200K views on YouTube, whilst his follow-up 2021 Spoken Kurd Tour was another total sell out success with his major new UK Tour Kurd Immunity for 2023, culminating at the world-famous London Eventim Apollo.

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Kae Kurd

After his total sell out 2021 show The Spoken Kurd, young British-Kurdish stand up sensation Kae Kurd returns with a major new UK Tour - Kurd Immunity - for 2023. Kae is also a much-celebrated online star, praised for creating and curating extensive viral comedy content across a range of platforms. His debut stand-up special Kurd Your Enthusiasm was another huge success receiving over 100K views when released on YouTube, and he has most recently released another special: Spoken Kurd.

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Gbemi Oladipo

Gbemi Oladipo's engaging and unpredictable writing style combined with his high energy performances have seen him nominated for the BBC’s New Comedian of the Year, and win the Max Turner Prize for Comedy and The Comedy Stores King Gong. He also wrote and starred in the award-winning , F*ck My Life – Most Racist Uber Ride Ever, a story based on one of his real-life experiences. The short film produced by Pulped Productions won the prestigious Broadcast Digital Awards in 2020 for Best Short-Form Format. It was also nominated for a Webby Award for Comedy (2021) alongside videos from James Corden (winner), Trevor Noah’s the Daily Show, and The Simpsons.

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Spring Day

London-based American comedian Spring Day (her real name!) was voted Brooklyn’s Best Comedian 2016. Spring's sharp, dark and bubbly comedy style is a crowd pleaser you won’t want to miss.

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Ben Van Der Velde

Ben Van der Velde is a stand-up comedian, actor, improviser and presenter, who, over the past few years, has spread joy and nonsense to all four corners of the British Isles, as well as Greece, Switzerland, Estonia, Latvia, Finland and Norway. He is a regular host and act for respected British comedy clubs such as The Comedy Store, The Stand, Komedia, The Backyard, Covent Garden Comedy Club, Outside the Box, the Frog & Bucket, Comedy Club 4 Kids, Off the Kerb and The Comedy Café, as well as hosting stages for Bestival, Festival No.6 and Sunday Papers Live. He has also founded the Church of the Holy Kazoo with comedy legend Mark Thomas, walked the entire London Underground network to raise money for The Refugee Council and even took part in experiments at The Royal Society that revealed him to have the most infectious laugh of any human, rat or monkey. Ben is a regular performer at the Edinburgh Festival, where he has performed four critically-acclaimed shows: Chain Letter, Strudelhead, Barbarians and Sidekick. In 2016 his most recent show received 5 and 4 star reviews, whilst several of jokes made it into lists of ‘Best Joke at the Fringe’ compiled by The Scotsman, i-News and The Huffington Post. Ben has amassed a few residencies as an MC; most notably at Really Lovely Comedy and the legendary Free Beer Show, where he has featured alongside acts such as Omid Djalili, Reginald D. Hunter, Sarah Millican, Jim Jefferies and Andrew Maxwell . Ben is currently helmsman of the Chortle Award-winning Good Ship Comedy Club in Camden Town, where he can be seen spinning webs of nonsense and good humour every Monday from 8pm. (www.goodshipcomedy.com) “A sharp and crafty gagsmith, with wittily obtuse takes on…an impressively wide range of topics…bringing flair and confidence to them all.” Steve Bennett, Chortle “Highly promising…an accomplished comic.” Time Out “Wonderfully improvised riffs showcasing his impressive spontaneity and sharp tongue.” Edinburgh Festivals Magazine “The perfect comedy club host – he is a master of audience interaction. The audience weren’t just warmed up, but pretty hysterical even before the first act of the night hit the stage.” Huffington Post “On flights of fancy, he pushes ideas to extremes and displays a crackling, spontaneous energy in which we’re swept up.” Fest

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