friday 31ST of MAY
COMEDY AT THE CASTLE @ THE FESTIVAL THEATRE HEVER CASTLE
a double headliner special
WE RETURN FOR OUR 3RD YEAR TO THE FESTIVAL THEATRE AT HEVER CASTLE. BRINGING YOU AN OUTSTANDING NIGHT OF LIVE COMEDY
WE’VE BOOKED A NIGHT PACKED FULL OF SOME OF THE COUNTRIES LEADING TV & NATIONAL TOURING COMEDIANS. this is a show not to miss, WE’VE GOT 5 OUTSTANDING ACTS, AND ITS A DOUBLE HEADLINER SHOW. SOMETHING OTHERS JUST DON’T DO.
A fantastic night of comedy is in store, as we return for our 3rd year to the truly stunning Festival Theatre at Hever Castle. Set in the 125 acre gardens of the former childhood home of Anne Boleyn. This is the first of two amazing nights of live stand-up comedy this summer, on the wonderful outdoor stage.
Call your friends and family, and grab your tickets for a night of live comedy that is set to be of the charts, it’s a line-up that you won’t see anywhere else. We’ve worked hard to bring a line-up that you just would not find anywhere else at a comedy club night. 5 amazing acts take to the stage, to bring you bellies full of laughter and aching faces. Grinstock have pulled out all the punches for this show.
The setting is breath takingly beautiful. Take a British Summer night, the stunning castle gardens of the former home of Anne Boleyn, set in the heart of Kent and the garden of England, and sprinkle it with 5 UK leading comedians.
It’s exactly what everyone needs.
After our last 14 seasons of packed out shows, we’ve got years of experience in providing award-winning comedy shows. Having been nominated for Comedy Club of the South two years running, you can rest assured your in well experienced hands, when it comes to first class live comedy shows.
The South East’s, largest Independent comedy club provider for 15 years
The 5 Award-Winning Comedians
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tim fitzhigham
MC
As seen on Zapped (Dave TV)
As seen on After Life (Netflix)
As seen on Comedy Cuts (ITV1)
Pierre Award Winner
Chortle Award Nominee
"Many people have foolish adventures, few make them into such consistently hilarious shows. All in all, the perfect English eccentric." - Dara O'Briain
"A master storyteller and an hour in his company is a delight" - theatreguidelondon.co.uk
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MICKY OVERMAN
OPENER
Tour support for Jamali Maddix, Fern Brady and Sean McLoughlin.
As seen on The Stand Up Sketch Show (ITV2) & Sophie Hagen’s Sex Stories (Comedy Central)
Funny Women Award Finalist 2016
Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year Finalist 2016
★ ★ ★ ★ "Wit, precision and more than a little mischief... illuminated the experience of her millennial generation" - THE SCOTSMAN
★ ★ ★ ★ - CHORTLE
★ ★ ★ ★ - BROADWAY BABY
★ ★ ★ ★ - THE COMIC'S COMIC
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CK NATH
MIDDLE ACT
West End New OLD Act of the Year 2023 Finalist
Komedia New Comedy Award, Semi Finalist 2024
So You Think You're Funny? Semi Finalist 2022
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PAT CAHILL
HEADLINER 1
Multi-award-winning British Comedian
Tour Support for Nina Conti & Ardal Ohanlon
As seen on One Night Stand (Dave), 8 Out of 10 Cats Does countdown (C4)
Chortle Best Newcomer Winner 2012
Hackney Empire New Act Winner 2012
***** - Shortcom
**** - The Skinny
**** - Fest
“Wonderfully weird” - The Guardian
“True star quality” - Evening Standard
Nominee for Best Show, Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival 2016
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FELICITY WARD
HEADLINER 2
Multi-award-winning Australian comedian
Tour support for Katherine Ryan & Maria Bamford
As seen on Live at the Apollo (BBC), Late Night Mash (Dave), Roast Battle (Comedy Central), The Stand Up Sketch Show (ITV), Mock The Week (BBC2), Russell Howards Good News (BBC3), As Yet Untitled (Dave)
Winner of Best International Show – New Zealand Comedy Festival 2016
Winner of Best Australian Act – Perth Comedy Festival 2012
Winner of Time Out Best Local Act – Sydney Comedy Festival 2012
MC for the evening
tim fitzhigham
As seen on Zapped (Dave TV)
As seen on After Life (Netflix)
As seen on Comedy Cuts (ITV1)
Pierre Award Winner
Chortle Award Nominee
"Many people have foolish adventures, few make them into such consistently hilarious shows. All in all, the perfect English eccentric." - Dara O'Briain
"A master storyteller and an hour in his company is a delight" - theatreguidelondon.co.uk
Tim Fitzhigham is a Perrier-nominated, multi-award-winning comedian, explorer, presenter, multiple world record holder and author.
Tim has played comedy clubs and festivals all over the world, both as an MC and in headline slots. He is one of the UK's most in-demand MCs.
Among numerous TV credits as a comedian, he has presented several documentaries for BBC 1 and Super Human Challenge for CBBC. Tim has written and performed in two series of The Gambler, for Radio 4 based on his hugely-successful 2011 Edinburgh Fringe show, whilst keeping up his many stage and film appearances.
He has also developed several award-winning solo shows, and an award-winning show featuring the work of 50's and 60's musical legends Flanders and Swann.
A member of the Infinite Number of Monkeys sketch team - nominated for the Perrier Best Newcomer Award in 1999 – Tim FitzHigham has since embarked on an increasingly eccentric series of adventures, making Edinburgh shows out of his exploits.
In 2003, he broke 383-year-old World Record by paddling an 85 per cent paper boat 160 miles down the River Thames to raise money for Comic Relief, which earned him the freedom of the City of London.
The following year he tried to cross the Channel in a bathtub - but the attempt was called off after 20 miles due to a force 6 storm. Undeterred, he tried again in 2005, successfully arriving at Tower Bridge after a 130-mile row. Thomas Crapper and Co. released a lavatory named The Honorable FitzHigham to celebrate the journey - the company's second-ever commemorative lavatory in history; the other commemorating Queen Victoria's jubilee.
In Trafalgar Square in 2006, he tried to erect the world's longest clothes line for World Environment Day, but the attempt failed. However, his attempts to emulate Cervantes's hero Don Quixote were more successful, and he was appointed Most Puissant Knight de Santa Maria in the West Indies and the 650-year-old title Pittancer of Selby Town in the West Riding, North Yorkshire.
Aways from his adventures, FitzHigham has toured extensively with the Flanders & Swann tribute show At the Drop of a Hippopotamu from 2001 to the present, and played the Dauphin in a touring production on Henry V.
OPENER
micky overman
Tour support for Jamali Maddix, Fern Brady and Sean McLoughlin.
As seen on The Stand Up Sketch Show (ITV2) & Sophie Hagen’s Sex Stories (Comedy Central)
Funny Women Award Finalist 2016
Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year Finalist 2016
Micky Overman is an award-nominated comedian whose previous Edinburgh shows received critical acclaim. She has written for and acted in sketches for ITV2, Channel 4, BBC3, Pulped and The Hook, and her social media sketches have received millions of views. She's done tour support for Jamali Maddix, Fern Brady and Sean McLoughlin.
A bedrock of surgically sharp writing combined with a cool and confident delivery make her an exceptional comedian. Her material moves quickly from devastating honesty to brutal whimsy, to on-point social observations. She already has the aura of a successful comic well beyond her years.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "A near faultless show, The Precipice is not to be missed" - FUNNY WOMEN
★ ★ ★ ★ "Wit, precision and more than a little mischief... illuminated the experience of her millennial generation" - THE SCOTSMAN
★ ★ ★ ★ - CHORTLE
★ ★ ★ ★ - BROADWAY BABY
★ ★ ★ ★ - THE COMIC'S COMIC
middle act
ck nath
Komedia New Comedy Award Semi Finalist 2024
West End New Old Act, Finalist 2023
So You Think You're Funny? Semi Finalist 2022
Our newcomer spot for the show, comes in the way of the fantastic Indian comedian, CK Nath.
CK Nath is an Indian observational stand-up comedian and voice actor. Her comedy is influenced by her experiences growing up in India and as an immigrant in the U.K.
She’s making great waves on the UK comedy scene, we love her and am sure your going to love her also.
HEADLINER 1
PAT cahill
Multi-award-winning British Comedian
Tour Support for Nina Conti & Ardal Ohanlon
As seen on One Night Stand (Dave), 8 Out of 10 Cats Does countdown (C4)
Chortle Best Newcomer Winner 2012
Hackney Empire New Act Winner 2012
Nominee Best Show, Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival 2016
From winning Chortle Best Newcomer and Hackney Empire New Act Awards in 2012, Pat has gone on to become a perenially daft presence on the alternative comedy scene in the UK and internationally.
His own style of “controlled silliness” (Fest mag) has led him to appearances on Dave's One Night Stand, Sky Arts, BBC3, BBC Radio 1, 4 (The Now Show) and 4 Extra.
As well as two national tour support slots for Ardal Ohanlon and Nina Conti.
Pat has written and performed 4 critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe Festival solo shows, and appeared internationally in Belgium, Switzerland, France, Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands, and Peterborough.
“Cahill strikes an unlikely balance between stretched absurdity and sophisticated introspection... This is one of the strangest and most satisfying hours of the Festival.” -★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - Edfestmag
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - Shortcom
★ ★ ★ ★ - The Skinny
★ ★ ★ ★ - Fest
“Wonderfully weird” - The Guardian
“True star quality” - Evening Standard
Felicity Ward is a multi-award-winning comedian, actor and writer who has toured her award-winning, sell-out shows across the world, winning the hearts of audiences and critics everywhere she goes.
Felicity has appeared on Spicks and Specks, The Ronnie Johns Half Hour, Good News Week, Talking About Your Generation, Thank God You're Here, The Librarians, The Project and Ronny Chieng: International Student along with multiple appearances on The MICF Oxfam Gala and MICF Comedy All-Stars. Felicity has also appeared in two feature films: Any Questions For Ben? (AUS) and The Inbetweeners Movie 2 (UK).
Following the success of her 2014 ABC documentary, Felicity's Mental Mission, Felicity was handpicked by the BBC in 2015 as one of the new faces of UK comedy starring in her own Live From The BBC special - the only Australian selected to be part of this new comedy series. She is a regular face on many other international TV shows including Russell Howard's Good News (UK), Alan Davies' As Yet Untitled (UK), The John Bishop Show (UK), Mock the Week (UK), Gotham Comedy (US), Make You Laugh Out Loud (UK), Sam Delaney's News Thing (UK) and Access All Areas (CAN).
Felicity is a Chortle UK Club Comic of the Year nominee and has been nominated in Australia for Best Comedy at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and Adelaide Fringe Festival, and won Best Australian Act at the Perth Comedy Festival, and Sydney Comedy Festival, twice.
In 2018, Felicity recorded her first BBC Radio 4 series, Appisodes and was a regular co-host of The Guilty Feminist Podcast. Felicity supported Maria Bamford on her UK tour and opened for Amy Schumer at Soho Theatre in London. Felicity taped her first Live At The Apollo Special and smashed through a sold-out Edinburgh Fringe Festival season in her brand new show 'Felicity Ward: Busting a Nut'. The show was nominated for the most prestigious comedy award there is: Best Comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
‘A gloriously entertaining stand-up at the top of their game.’ - ★★★★ Evening Standard
'Joyfully Funny' - Edinburgh Evening News
HEADLINER 2
Multi-award-winning Australian comedian
Tour support for Katherine Ryan & Maria Bamford
As seen on Live at the Apollo (BBC), Late Night Mash (Dave), Roast Battle (Comedy Central), The Stand Up Sketch Show (ITV), Mock The Week (BBC2), Russell Howards Good News (BBC3), As Yet Untitled (Dave)
Winner of Best International Show – New Zealand Comedy Festival 2016
Winner of Best Australian Act – Perth Comedy Festival 2012
Winner of Time Out Best Local Act – Sydney Comedy Festival 2012
‘Best Comedy’ Nominee – Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018
Nominee for Chortle Club Comic of the Year 2016 & 2014
Nominee for Best Show – Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2012
Nominee for Best Comedy – Adelaide Fringe Festival 2012
FELICITY WARD
