ACE FRINGE FRIDAY with NNCAFE
NN Café and us Maule Brewing CO. present our pick of this year’s Edinburgh preview shows!
Shows are 1 hour long followed by DJs and live music until 11pm.
Doors open at 7.30pm and comedy is from 8pm.
You can get tickets from NN Cafe or www.wegottickets.co.uk
ACE FRINGE FRIDAY #1 – MATTHEW CROSBY ‘SMALLER THAN LIFE’
Friday, June 19th at 8:00pm
Matthew Crosby (one of Pappy’s, co-star/co-writer of BBC3’s Badults) returns with another lovely little show. Come along, have a chuckle or two, leave, never really think about it again.
Matthew has appeared on 8 out of 10 Cats; Never Mind the Buzzcocks; Celebrity 15-1; and 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. And let’s not forget that he appeared as a news-reading dog on BBC 1’s Animal Antics.
“Fabulously funny… a close to perfect show” – Chortle
ACE FRINGE FRIDAY #2 – ‘TOP OF THE FLOPS’
Friday, June 26th at 7:30pm
Two idiots take you on a fast track look back at
Britain’s favourite music show Top of The Pops.
What could possibly go wrong?!
ACE FRINGE FRIDAY #3 – JOHN-LUKE ROBERTS ‘STAND-UP’
Friday, July 3rd at 7:30pm
An idiotic comedy show about having and then not having a father, and how stupid you need to make yourself look to get away with speaking ill of the dead. A brand new, incredibly silly show from the Alternative Comedy Memorial Society co-host and Radio 4 News Quiz writer, who’s currently training with Philippe Gaulier.
‘Intelligent, precise and deadly funny’
Chortle.co.uk
‘A comic who’s prepared to push both himself and his audience in the pursuit of new laughs, of unorthodox, never-been-tried-before routes to the funny.’
Guardian
ACE FRINGE FRIDAY #4 – EDWARD ACZEL ‘THE RANDOM FLAPPING OF A BUTTERFLY’S WINGS’
Friday, July 10th at 7:30pm
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From his very random perch on the sidelines of show business Aczel grasps the slim opportunity to change the world. Whilst he accepts it’s like buying a lottery ticket – frankly a single, 47 year old, middle manager doesn’t have too many other options?
Ed uses the gig to search for an all encompassing idea which will mind bendingly improve human existence. He is well aware of his own limitations so expects someone from the audience to do the actual rocket science. Or to put it simply he is facilitating the garden by which the flower will grow.
Ed plans to expose the audience to a series of ill thought through approaches to comedy in the hope something will just come off the wall…
He asks what is an Artist (and whether you should include Elvis or Simon Cowell in the list), and then desperately tries to bring Maths, History and Philosophy to life for beginners.
He even explores his own innner pysche with a section analysing his dreams and talks candidly about how hard it is to come up with an adequate show title (and this years’ is definitely a cracker)
It’ll probably be fine though…. So don’t worry about it
“One of the strangest, and finest, hours of live comedy I’d ever seen” – Zadie Smith, The New Yorker
“Perhaps Britain’s greatest living anti-comedian” – The Guardian
ACE FRINGE FRIDAY #5 – MO SHAPIRO ‘VICTORIA WOOD + ME’
Friday, July 17th at 7:30pm
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Wood’s hilarious songs and sketches, performed with her permission, tell the story of Gladys Winter.
Gladys is Victoria’s number one fan and their lives have a spooky synchronicity. “We were born on the same day, the same year, the same hospital – so, we could almost be twins!”
Wood’s genius for finding the comic in everyday life cheers Gladys’ otherwise ordinary life. Gladys has developed the uncanny knack of morphing into one of Wood’s crazy characters at the slightest sign of trouble. Fun and laughter guaranteed.
Mo is taking this show to The Gilded Balloon this year.
ACE FRINGE FRIDAY #6 – CAROLINE MABEY ‘CHAOS IS A FRIEND OF MINE’
Friday, July 24th at 7:30pm
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Fringe favourite and ‘oddball genius’ (Chortle.co.uk) Caroline Mabey has been off having a baby. She only did it to get out of doing Edinburgh. Grappling, bleary-eyed, with motherhood and solipsism.
‘Kooky, quirky and delicious’ (Time Out).
‘The slightly deranged offspring of a menage à trois between Vic Reeves, Harry Hill and Floella Benjamin’ (Evening Standard).
‘Absolute delight to watch. Fantastically ditzy and spectacularly absurd … Leaves you feeling a little bit dizzy and a big bit happy’ (The Skinny).
