Mark Thomas:

•  Mark has been performing comedy for 35 years

• He has written 5 books and 4 playscripts

• Curated and authored 2 art exhibitions with artist Tracey Moberly

• Won 8 awards for performing, 3 for human rights work and 1 he invented for himself

• He has taken the police to court 3 times and has won twice. The third is on going and a fourth is in the pipeline

• He made 6 series of the Mark Thomas Comedy Product for Channel 4

• He made 3 Dispatches for Channel 4

• He was commissioned to write 1 new show for the Royal Opera House

• He has made 5 series of the Manifesto for Radio 4

• He was a Guinness World Record holder for holding 20 protests in 24 hours

• He has given evidence to Parliamentary select committees on 2 occasions

• He has walked 724km around the length of the Israel Wall in the West Bank

• He has been credited with changing the law on tax avoidance bringing in £1,000,000s for HMRC

• He has performed in 4 continents and in 10 countries, 1 liberal synagogue, a squatted MP’s second home, on the roof of a multi-storey car park and outside a US military base.

• He has performed 4 shows at the National Theatre

• He has cost 1 councillor and one government minister their job

• He has tried to get the government in court over the Iraq war once

• He cost BNF over £1m in clean up operations after exposing irradiated pigeon shit

• He was a columnist for the New Statesman magazine for 4 years though it might be 5.

• The 100 Acts of Minor Dissent campaigned successfully for trade union recognition for cinema workers, got a multinational to change their practices, brought 4 court cases and annoyed lots of people.

• He started a comedy club in Palestine with Dr Sam Beale.

• How to describe his work? A mix of standup, theatre, journalism and the odd bout of performance art. He is 57 years old and doesn’t care if it sounds pretentious.

• He has an honorary doctorate from Bradford University and is an online pastor legally able to perform weddings and funerals in America.

• He writes for The London Economic currently.

• He was born in South London in 1963.

 

 

The UK comedian Martin Davis has performed in Singapore, Dubai, Holland, Belgium, Jakarta and South Africa.

 

His South African gigs of his one man show in Grahamstown and Ratanga Junction were quickly sold out. In Durban and in Cape Town he had comedy appearances at The Cape Town Festival, The Smirnoff Mule Comedy Festival and the South Africa Comedy Festival.

 

However Martin's talents don’t stop on stage. With several years of acting experience behind him, he has appeared in BBC television productions and a variety of foreign adverts and has numerous private and corporate clients throughout the world.

 

 

“Maureen has everything in her arsenal that a great comedian needs. People are not only going to love her. They’ll want to see her. They are going to imitate her.” – Howie Mandel

 

“Maureen is to comedy what James Brown is to soul.” ~ Jerry Stiller

 

MAUREEN LANGAN is an internationally acclaimed standup comedian, broadcaster, Tedx Talk speaker and corporate event host who was a semifinalist on Season 18 of America’s Got Talent. The audience and judges loved her, giving her a standing ovation and four “yeses!”

 

Maureen’s intelligent and hysterical rants on life’s absurdities make her a hit at clubs, theaters and festivals across the U.S., Canada, U.K, Europe, the Balkans and South Africa.

 

She has performed with entertainment, literary and cultural icons that include Robin Williams, Jay Leno, Rosie O’Donnell, Jack Canfield, Joy Behar, Gloria Steinem, Danny Glover and Gladys Knight ¬– and she roasted comedy royalty Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. In addition to America’s Got Talent, her on-screen appearances include, Dry Bar Comedy, Gotham Live, HBO, Red Eye, Comics Unleashed, the Paramount Pictures film Marci X, and many national commercials.

 

As a broadcaster, Maureen created and hosted Bloomberg Television and Radio’s award-winning entertainment programming, where her most memorable moments were interviewing Joan Rivers and George Carlin. Her astute observations and interviewing style earned her the title of “Best Female Commentator” by the Newswomen’s Club of New York.

 

Her TEDx Talk, “The Business of Fun,” is inspired by her time performing in South Africa at the first ever Johannesburg International Comedy Festival. Maureen’s message of inclusion had 600 people on their feet when first presented at Monmouth University.

 

Daughter of a Garbageman is Maureen’s solo show about growing up in New Jersey with five siblings, a strict Irish mother, and a Bronx-born, sanitation worker father. The show had an extended run in Edinburgh, Scotland before making its U.S. debut in San Francisco, where it was hailed as a “one woman tour-de-force.”

 

Maureen can be heard on Tuesdays at 11am ET hosting BadAss Women, a radio talk show on WBAI 99.5 FM in New York City.

 

Her comedy special, Don’t Make Me Hate You, is available at Dry Bar Comedy.

 

Whether on stage, television or radio, Maureen Langan delivers. Give her a mic and see for yourself.

JOHN MANN (Your very own MC)

Sharp observation and wry wit mingled effortlessly with a gentle and confident rapport ensure this comic is unfailingly funny. Whether he is discussing the senile antics of senior citizens or giving handy hints to aid successful shoplifting, John's gentle and honest delivery makes him one of the most enjoyable comedians on the circuit today. John is as at home with an audience of students as he is with a corporate dinner and frequently appears in most of the UK's leading comedy clubs.

 

http://www.johnmann.co.uk