Watford Comedy Night
Watford Comedy Night at Pump House Theatre & Arts Centre, Watford
About the show
Join us for another fantastic Watford Comedy Night at the Pump House.
We’ve teamed up with Comedy Hotspot to bring you entertainment brimming with comedic excellence and featuring some of the best stand-up acts currently doing the national comedy circuit.
Topping the bill is the mighty, award-winning ROB ROUSE. Since winning Channel 4’s prestigious ‘So You Think You’re Funny?’ competition at the Edinburgh Festival in 1998 (previously won by Peter Kay, Dylan Moran and Lee Mack) Rob has gone on to be one of most sought after comedians in the country. With a plethora of TV credits including Channel 4’s 8 Out Of 10 Cats, The Friday Night Project ITV’s Celebrity Juice (with Keith Lemon), BBC3’s Comedy Shuffle with Rob Rouse and most recently seen on Dave’s One Night Stand.
JAMES COOK: A professional comedian based in Birmingham, UK, with well over 1,000 gigs worth of experience as an act and compere. You can often find him performing at clubs such as The Glee and he’s a regular at the Edinburgh Fringe.
BOBBY MAIR: A Canadian stand-up comedian based in London. He starred in his own sitcom with his wife on Vice and Comedy Central called Bobby and Harriet: Get Married, and he has appeared multiple times on Comedy Central’s Roast Battle.
ANT DEWSON: A comedian, mediocre piano player and singer of silly songs. Many of which are rude. He’s a regular performer at the UK’s best comedy clubs including Up The Creek, The Stand, Funhouse Comedy, Top Secret, Angel Comedy, Out of Bounds.
Featuring - Rob Rouse
An English comedian known for his hyperactive brand of humour. Since winning Channel Four's prestigious 'So You Think You're Funny' Competition at the Edinburgh Festival in 1998, an award previously won by Phil Kay, Dylan Moran, Lee Mack, Tommy Tiernan and Peter Kay, he has been a regular performer at major venues on both the London and National circuit.
With more energy than a hyperactive six-year-old sucking on a lollipop while bouncing on a space-hopper, he is a veteran of several critically acclaimed Edinburgh Festival shows, three sold out national theatre tours and a New Zealand tour, firmly establishing him as one of comedy's most lively, amenable and dynamic performers.
'He is a great storyteller... prepared to go to the bleakest and most uncomfortable places... The tears of laughter came in floods’ (The Scotsman).
'Frankly brilliant' (http://www.SuchSmallPortions.com)
'Brilliant' (Chortle)
'A carefully weighted hour of comedic storytelling' (Fest)
'Missing This show means missing something wonderful' (Edinburgh Evening News).
Ant Dewson
'Ant Dewson passed his Grade 6 piano exam when he was 14 – and he really hasn’t got much better since then! Classical music's loss was comedys gain however, and Ant now puts his (limited) skills to good use performing silly songs at comedy clubs up and down the country...'
Bobby Mair
A comedian from Toronto who was voted 'Best Newcomer' at the Canadian Comedy Awards and has appeared in the UK on Russell Howard's Good News, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, 8 Out of 10 Cats, The Hour, Sweat the Small Stuff and Virtually Famous.
He is also a 3rd cousin of Canadian pop-star Justin Bieber - although he claims that they have never met.
'Mair exudes a kind of effortless, awkwardness and brings to it something fresh and downright disturbing. A bright, dark future surely awaits' (The Stage)
'He's either going to be a huge international comedy star or the funniest homeless man ever' (Jimmy Carr).