Comedy Club @ Edge Arts Centre

Eric Rushton is a Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year winner and in 2023 won the Channel 4 Sean Lock Award.

Comedian, compere and playwright. This grumpy old man per excellence presents the BBC Radio 4 show 'Excess Baggage' and has written four plays including 'An Evening With Gary Lineker' and 'Live Bed Show'.

His stand-up topics range from vigorous yodelling to mediaeval literature via death by drink. His delivery is relaxed and sardonic, but his shows are a surprising, dark and witty treat.

He's also one of the many 'Grumpy Old Men' that appear on BBC 2's hit show.

'The funniest and most honest comic of his generation' (The List).

Extremely distinctive comedy from a former London solicitor.

'Posh and witty... exquisitely funny... one of the new comics making waves' (Time Out)

'His comedy is intelligent and so up-to-date it could be read by Jon Snow' (Cream of

the Fringe)

'There's intelligent wit, honesty and more interesting and provocative thoughts in his show than many comics manage in a decade... Andrew Watts is so engaging, so entertaining and so persuasive that we are all sad when his clever, personal and very funny hour comes to an end' (The Scotsman)

'His distinctive style stands out – a winning mixture of pomposity, insecurity and emotional incompetence, while the fury-inducing importance he places on the trivial makes for a winning comic stance' (Chortle)

'Lovers of stand-up laced with a cerebral cutting-edge should, without further prevarication, flock to his show' (Three Weeks).

BBC New Comedian of the Year Semi Finalist 2021 & Midlands Comedy Award Winner for Best New Act, Ricky is a Paralympic, World Championship and European Championship dressage medallist with a penchant for dark humour.