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"He’s the most exciting comedian in the country, bar none." Times ****1)
BRIDGET CHRISTIE |
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| 1) BRIDGET CHRISTIE – MY DAILY MAIL HELL My wife B Christie is on tour, and her earnings go into our joint account for food for our joint child, so please go. In
2003 Bridget began doing open spots on the comedy circuit and working
on the Diary column of the Daily Mail. Whilst there, Bridget was strangled
by Gene Wilder, fed a fish by Peter Stringfellow and ignored by David
Dimbleby. . See how Alan Yentob fell off a chair. Hear what Liam Gallagher
said at the premiere of Shrek 2. Touch a real cup once held by Jack
Vettriano. Find out why Anthony Andrews diluted all the salt in his
body and nearly died. But above all, share in the baffling experience
of a provincial Gloucester girl, with no real qualifications, adrift
in the sophisticated world of wealth and fame. MY DAILY MAIL HELL
premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2009 and was described
by The Times as "Utterly entertaining" and by The Sunday
Express as "an endearing mix of simmering cynicism and wide-eyed
innocence" . Bridget was a finalist in the Funny Women Final
2004, nominated for the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2005,
and won the inaugural Funny Women Best Show Fringe Award 2007. She
was nominated for the Chortle Best Breakthrough Act 2009. March April |
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2)
MORE DATES FOR ‘IF YOU PREFER A MILDER COMEDIAN’ and NATIONAL
THEATRE
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CAMBRIDGE, The Junction 01223 511511 www.junction.co.uk
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LONDON - National Theatre, www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/stewartlee
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3) LONDON CIRCUIT GIGS – NEW MATERIAL – 2010 – me on bills w other folks
4th,
War on Want Comedy Shepherd's Bush Empire 29th
Something organized by Robin Ince at The Bloomsbury, London, w comics’
Alan Moore, creator of Astro-dick, Kevin Eldon, Bridget Christie,
Jim Bob from CARTER USM, Darren Hayman, Steve Pretty's band Origin
of pieces, Jo Neary and Robbing Mince - Click
here for booking 12th
Some benefit TCF at The Comedy Store, London
6th
Benefit for International something at Bloomsbury, London
8th
Knock 2 Bag, Notting Hill, London
7th
Pear Shaped In Fitzrovia, London |
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| 4)
WHAT WOULD JUDAS DO?
There is a new production of my devised piece What Would Judas Do?, staring a real actor, from 22nd April – 1st of May at BATH THEATRE ROYAL, USTINOV STUDIO. It is a double bill with My Arm by the acclaimed Tim Crouch and it costs £12.50/£8.50 on 01225 448 844 or www.theatreroyal.org.uk/ustinov. |
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| 5)
CHELTENHAM JAZZ FESTIVAL Staying the West I am curating two nights of Stewart Lee’s Freehouse for the Cheltenham Jazz Festival Having
seen me enjoying various improvised music gigs over the years, Tony
Dudley-Evans of the Cheltenham Jazz Festival thought he could exploit
my tenuous f-list celebrity comedian status to promote an improvised
music strand this year, as if I were some kind of fat Jamie Cullum
from an alternate dimension. Stewart Lee presents the second of three nights featuring some of the finest improvised music. Tonight legendary saxophonist Evan Parker leads some of the world’s finest performers, appearing in a variety of combinations. Appearing tonight are drummer Mark Sanders, bassists John Edwards and Percy Pursglove, drummer Andrew Bain alongside Korean born cellist Okkyung Lee and trumpeter Peter Evans both leading performers from New York. For the final night of his special free-jazz series Stewart Lee introduces a night led by top British drummer Mark Sanders. Tonight trombonist Gail Brand, bassist John Edwards, pianist Pat Thomas and Empirical saxophonist Nathaniel Facey perform experimental improvisations in a range of on stage line ups. BOOKING DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED |
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| 6)
A SECOND SERIES OF STEWART LEE’S COMEDY VEHICLE
HAS been commissioned by BBC2 and will be broadcast in March at 11.15
on a weekday. Thanks if you signed that petition.
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AS A RESULT OF THE ABOVE MY EDINBURGH SHOW this year
will be a new material rag bag try out for TV affair called VEGETABLE
STEW at 5.20 at The Stand.
8) THE IF YOU PREFER A MILDER COMEDIAN PLEASE ASK FOR ONE show will be recorded by Real Talent in Glasgow on March 15th and will be commercially available later in the year on DVD. 9) HOW I ESCAPED MY CERTAIN FATE is the title of a book I am writing about my three stand-up shows 2004-2008. It comes out in august through faber n faber and there will be a launch gig during thee fringee. |















