Clwb Comedy @ The Old Library Porth - September

We are back from our summer break with another amazing double headliner show for you, featuring two of the very best comedians from the UK comey circuit. Joining us this month are: 

MATT STELLINGWERF

Matt Stellingwerf is a fast rising star on the international comedy scene, and highly regarded by his peers. Matt has won four NZ Comedy Guild Awards, been nominated for several others, and was nominated as Best Newcomer at the 2014 NZ International Comedy Festival.

Matt was a 2015 & 2016 nominee for the prestigious Billy T Award. A renowned MC and compere, Matt is a 3-time nominee for Best MC in New Zealand.

Hamilton-born and Wanganui-raised farmer's son and trained criminologist, an award-winning bar fly...and genuinely lovely guy, Matt Stellingwerf is a man of contradictions.

He expertly brings these contradictions to the stage with his typical low-key style and confidence, finding the humour in topics as diverse as love, mental illness, sex, drugs, and this crazy interview he once conducted with a serial killer on Death Row!

Matt now brings a worldview inspired by alcoholic shearing gangs, bizarre Dutch relatives, and criminological theory to the stage and attempts to answer some of life's enduring mysteries. So come along, grab a brew and have a laugh!

He has toured extensively, performing throughout NZ, Australia, the USA & the United Kingdom.

On television you may have seen him on Maori TV's Crack Up, Rhys Darby's Short Poppies, TV3's AotearoHA: Rising Stars and getting shot with a crossbow in a strip club on TV ONE’s Coverband.

Raises the comedy bar...and erudite satire superstar" - Theatreview

"Matt Stellingwerf’s show Bachelor of Arts left me feeling vindicated as an educated liberal; empowered as a woman; confused over my personal level of racism; and disappointed with the lack of lateral thinking I approached my tertiary studies with.  Stellingwerf’s comedy is intelligent, clever and thoroughly researched...all the while being really likeable" - Libel

"...an intellectual ‘Fonze’...extremely laid back and relaxed with the audience, seamlessly having banter and keeping his cool" Keeping Up With NZ

"Thor & Wendy had a baby...and it was raised by Stephen Fry & George Carlin!" - Random (but totally awesome and correct) Twitter User

ROGER MONKHOUSE

He is a gifted natural, with the years of experience to know how to handle a crowd, which goes to make him one of the consummate professionals of the stand-up circuit.

CHORTLE

Highly regarded by his peers on the circuit - he's shaven-headed, topical, good, and nothing to do with Bob! 

EVENING STANDARD

His laconic delivery shields an engaging persona and an enquiring mind.

THE GUARDIAN

Roger Monkhouse is one of the most original and distinctive acts on the comedy scene. A consummate stand-up who employs a deadly combination of charm and menace to exert a masterful control over any audience.

A highly original and quirky performer, Roger’s trademark stage-prowling style and curious, inimitable manner have established him as one of the hottest names on the comedy circuit.

As a seasoned corporate host he improvises freely with the crowd but is nonetheless distinguished as a comic by the intelligence of his material and his keen eye for a fine phrase, his easy observational style spiked by the signal flares of an accomplished gag writer.

Since his debut in 1990 Roger Monkhouse has been a regular performer at The Comedy Store, The Glee Clubs and all major comedy clubs around the UK and internationally.

In 2016 he was voted Best Compere by fellow comics, he is a regular guest on GB News’ Headliners, and was recently featured on Unsafe Spaces (Radio 4).

Roger is widely regarded as a master of observational comedy with routines that are unfailingly hysterical and his forte is delivering intelligent, thought-provoking material that pulls no punches and is always relevant and up-to-date.

Articulate, quick-witted and spontaneous, if something is in the news, Roger has a routine about it.

Plus support on the night

Hosted by Philip Cooper