Fri 1st Mar 2024 at 7:30pm ends 10:30pm
Due to filming commitments with the BBC that have overran, Janice Connolly can not make this event so rather than try to replace her, we are taking the difficult decision to cancel the event and get Barbara Nice back at a later date.
We will now treat our April event as the launch night featuring headliner, Jarred Christmas
As ticket holders, please notify Drew via Clwbcomedy@gmail.com if you would like a refund or be simply transferred over to the April event.
Thank you for understanding and apologies for any inconvenience caused.
Drew
Merthyr Labour Club, Merthyr Tydfil, UK - Map
Stand-Up Comedy
Drew Taylor presents:
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TweetOut of the ashes of Merthyr Comedy Festival comes The Comedy Club of Love!
Join regular host Drew Taylor at Merthyr Labour Club for The Comedy Club of Love where he will be introducing some of the cream of the U.K. Comedy circuit.
For our very first show, will be...
BARBARA NICE
Who better than to kick things off with than Merthyr Comedy Festival favourite Mrs Barbara Nice?
“Brilliant Life affirming Comedy“ The List
***** The Independant
****** Edinburgh Eve News
Mrs Barbara Nice is the comedy creation of Janice Connolly BEM. She is a star of Phoenix Nights and radio 2 Sitcom “Barbara Nice” and is also the Artistic Director of triple award winning Women and theatre. Based In Birmingham the company create new work alongside communities about stuff that matters .
Janice is a freelance actress, writer and director and this Autumn can be seen on CBBC in “So Awkward “ playing Mazel. Janice is a very experienced facilitator of groups and is a gifted and inspirational teacher of comedy and performance .
Barbara also made it to the Semi Finals of BGT and was very unlucky to not make it all the way to the final.
Check out one of her BGT performances here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szet8j3quJQ&t=2s
joining Barbara on the line up will also be;
ANDREW O'NEIL
Andrew O'Neill is an award-winning comedian, musician and best-selling writer. A psychedelic non-binary whirlwind, they combine surrealism, polemic and good old-fashioned stagecraft to produce uniquely counter-cultural stand-up.
Andrew has performed in over a dozen different countries, at over a hundred different festivals and is equally at home in rowdy comedy clubs as performing to their own cult following.
They co-wrote and starred in Radio 4’s occult sitcom Damned Andrew.
TV credits include Good Omens 2 (Summer 2023), Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Saxondale, 50 Years Of Rock Excess, The Blame Game, Spicks and Specks and Good News Week. Their own Radio 4 stand-up show Pharmacist Baffler won an award. A natural fit at music festivals, they have performed stand-up at Glastonbury, Download, Leeds and Reading, Bloodstock, Latitude, V-Fest and supported Amanda Palmer, Les Claypool and once even the Kaiser Chiefs at the London Palladium.
They are a founder member of the Victorian-obsessed punk band The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing, whose distinctive anachro-punk gained a cult following and besmirched the stages of music festivals worldwide.
O'Neill has written and toured a shit-tonne of critically-acclaimed solo comedy shows, including Occult Comedian, Winston Churchill Was Jack The Ripper, MINDSPIDERS, Alternative, Andrew O'Neill is Easily Distracted and the current Andrew O'Neill's Black Magick Fun Hour.
Support on the night will come from up and coming talent CHRIS YATES
Hosted by Drew Taylor
Tickets are £10 online, £15 on the door.
Age Restrictions:
18+
Wheelchair accessible