Always Be Comedy presents a New Material Fun Shack featuring top-tier stand-up from Laura Smyth and Maisie Adam, plus a very special mystery guest, at The Tommyfield. Expect a night of brand new material from some of the UK’s most exciting comedy talent as they test out fresh jokes in a relaxed, intimate setting. These shows are loose, lively and brilliantly unpredictable; a chance to see big names working up their next big routines before anyone else.
Please note that the artists appearing may be subject to change
Featuring
Laura Smyth
Laura Smyth is an english comedian and writer as seen on ITV's Jonathan Ross' Comedy Club & Funny Women Award Winner 2019.
Maisie Adam first tried stand-up comedy in October 2016, in her native North Yorkshire (and unlike most newbie stand-ups, she did a full hour for her first ever gig). A couple of months later, she applied for the UK's largest stand-up competition: So You Think You're Funny. She headed up to Edinburgh for the semi-final, which she won, and the final was held at the end of the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe. Maisie won this too, becoming only the fourth woman to have done so in 30 years.
Maisie returned to the Edinburgh Fringe the following year with her debut show Vague, which sold out the Gilded Balloon every day, received rave reviews and earned her a nomination for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards. She also won the Amused Moose National New Comic whilst up at the Fringe, and Vague was picked up by the Soho Theatre for an extended post-Edinburgh run in January 2019.
You may have also seen Maisie Adam on BBC's Mock the Week, Channel 4’s 8 Out of 10 Cats and ITV’s The Stand Up Sketch Show, and she has appeared on The Stephen K Amos Talk Show (Audible) and Urban Myths (Sky Arts). Other credits include BBC Three’s Period Dramas, and as show support for fellow stand-up Kiri Pritchard-McLean
MC at the likes of Always Be Comedy, The 99 Club, Scoundrels, Ginglik and many more.
“I would go to the ends of the earth to share a stage with James Gill. He’s a sharp & energetic hero of club comedy and a face we’ll undoubtedly be seeing all over TV very soon” - Katherine Ryan
"One of the most imaginative MCs on the circuit. The crowd love him” - Rob Beckett
“The most impressive live presenter I have ever seen" - Romesh Ranganathan
“One of the country’s best hosts. There is no one like him” - Seann Walsh