Sun January 28, 2018
Best of Edinburgh International Showcase with Aisling Bea, Phoebe Walsh, Seann Walsh, and more, hosted by Maeve Higgins @ Swedi
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SHOW STARTS AT 7:30PMSF Sketchfest presents some of the best International standup comedians for one night only. Catch these stars of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival while you can.Aisling Bea is an award winning Irish stand-up, actress and writer and is one of the biggest female TV comedians in the UK. She is the co-host on long running hit British panel show, 8 Out of 10 Cats with Jimmy Carr and regularly appears on most comedy TV shows in the UK like Qi (BBC1/Netflix) with Stephen Fry, A League Of Their Own (Sky 1) with James Corden and The Jonathan Ross Show. She had a leading role in the newest series of BBC/ Netflix crime thriller The Fall starring Jamie Dornan and is a lead in upcoming BBC1/ Hulu drama Hard Sun, by Luther writer Neil Cross. She has her own TV show commissioned for Channel 4 in the UK with Emmy nominated Catastrophe's Sharon Horgan. She regularly appeared on Comedy Central show @Midnight and was selected for Montreal Just For Laughs in 2012 and again this past summer in 2017. She regularly performs on the Los Angeles scene at The Largo, NerdMelt, UCB, The Improv and The Virgil and appears on cult podcasts like How Did This Get Made with Paul Scheer, Jason Mantzoukas and June Diane and CrabFeast with Jay Larson and Ryan Sickler. Her TV stand up credits include Live At The Apollo (BBC1), Russell Howard's Good News (BBC3), Montreal and The Channel4 Comedy Gala at the O2 (Channel4).Phoebe Walsh debuted her first stand up show 'I'll Have What She's Having' at this years Edinburgh Fringe. She's written for various TV shows including C4's 'The Anna and Katy Show', E4's 'The Midnight Beast' and 'Popsludge.' and also writes for Vice, ELLE, ASOS and Time Out. She's acted and improvised in various TV shows including Daniel Simonsen's C4 Blaps, been a regular in BBC2's 'The Javone Prince Show' and most recently she stars in All4's Webscam.Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and self-dubbed “The Lie-In King” Seann Walsh is “unquestionably the best observational comic of his generation (The Guardian). This dishevelled, fiery, animated, fiercely idol, millennial man child is one of best live comedians to have come out of the UK. Seann made his acting debut starring in Comedy Central’s sitcom Big Bad World, this was quickly followed up by the lead role in Monks (BBC One), he utilised his physical comedic abilities in Sky’s silent comedy, Three Kinds of Stupid, which led to him producing, writing and starring in his own silent comedy web-series The Drunk. He also wrote and starred in his own Sky short for Sky Arts and is now co-starring in Jack Dee’s brand-new sitcom Bad Move (ITV one). He recently made his feature film debut as the children’s nemesis in family film, 2:hrs. Seann is quickly on his way to becoming one of the UK’s best comedy character actors. Team captain on Virtually Famous (Channel 4) and a regular on Play To The Whistle (ITV), other TV appearances include: One For The Road (BBC 3), Live At The Apollo (BBC 2), The Jonathan Ross Show (ITV), Tonight at The London Palladium (ITV), Celebrity Juice (ITV2), 8 Out Of 10 Cats (Channel 4), 8 Out Of 10 Cats does Countdown (Channel 4), Alan Carr’s Chatty Man (Channel 4) and Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central (Comedy Central) Seann can currently be heard hosting his weekly radio show News-Ish on Fubar Radio. His debut DVD, Seann to be Wild, was recorded at Hammersmith Apollo to critical acclaim when it was released in 2013 by Universal Pictures. ‘A cracking good show’ (The Telegraph) ‘One of comedy’s hottest properties...very talented, very funny’ (London Evening Standard) 'He remains one of the most entertaining observational comics on the block' (The Independent)In 2014 Maeve Higgins moved to New York and performs stand up regularly at UCB and Union Hall. She collaborates with Jon Ronson (The Men Who Stare At Ghosts, Frank) in a monthly show called ‘I’m New Here’ in Brooklyn. She writes features for The Irish Times and is working on her second book of essays, due to be published by Hachette in the fall of 2015. Maeve has just recorded a radio pilot for BBC Radio 4 and written a TV pilot for BBC 1, produced by Chris O’Dowd. This summer, her radio documentary Valentine’s Bones won a bronze medal at The New York Radio Festival. A stand up comedian and writer from Ireland, Maeve studied photography in college. Then one magical March morning in 2004, she discovered her dream life as a stand-up comedian! Her favourite parts are 1. eating in garages late at night and 2. telling strangers personal things. Since then, she has written and performed various shows for festivals including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Melbourne International Festival, the Adelaide Fringe Festival, the Kilkenny Comedy Festival, the Eugene Mirman Festival in New York and the New Zealand International Festival. Maeve starred in Irish broadcaster, RTE’s wildly popular hidden camera show Naked Camera for three series. She feels conflicted about it because although it was very funny, it also involved a lot of strangers’ days being ruined. In 2009/2010 Maeve made her own comedy series for RTE with her sister Lilly called Fancy Vittles’– a comedy cookery show featuring Maeve’s real family and friends. It was a cult hit and the critics loved it. There was just one series because Lilly went off the idea of being on TV. Maeve also featured in BBC Radio’s All of the Planet’s Wonders written by comedian Josie Long. In 2010/2011 Maeve continued to tour her stand up shows and also made a radio documentary series called Amusing Notes about the relationship between comedy and music for Irish broadcaster Today FM. She appeared in two episodes of Chris Addison’s (The Thick of it) Show and Tell on the U.K. television station E4. In 2011 she began to write pieces for The Irish Times and The Irish Independent. In December 2012 she was given a column in the weekend Irish Times, where she describes her dream versions of various things. Most of 2012 was taken up with writing, then promoting her first book, a collection of essays entitled We Have a Good Time…Don’t We? (Hachette Ireland, October 2012). The book was published in mass market paperback in Ireland and the UK in summer 2013. Maeve also appeared in Chris O’Dowd’s (Bridesmaids) comedy series Moone Boy on Sky One and was a guest speaker at TEDx Dublin. In 2013 Maeve lived in London and wrote for The Irish Times and The Irish Post. She also appeared in Stewart Lee’s Alternative Comedy Experience on Comedy Central. Press quotes (stand-up, book and TV work) “Maeve Higgins is rarer than a blessing of unicorns … she is original and relatively calm, her observations are pithy, her wit delicate, her persona oddly alluring and deftly honest” -The Irish Times, 2010 “Throughout the whole hour, the room is filled with laughter at Maeve’s risqué and highly intelligent act” -The Irish Independent “An antidote to the ‘lazy shock stuff’ of comedy” -The List (Scotland) “A charming and iconoclastic Irish stand-up” -The Age (Australia) “Deadpan, low-energy, but quietly wonderful” -chortle.co.uk Reaction to ‘We have a good time…don’t we?’ Maeve was nominated for ‘Best Newcomer’ at the Irish Book Awards, 2012 “This is a really funny, really natural, really gifted writer – a terrific debut” -Kevin Barry, author of City of Bohane “I love Maeve Higgins’ writing. The surreal world she describes with such wit and wisom is strangely recognisable” -Joseph O’Connor, author of the bestselling novel, The Star of the Sea “Whatever Higgins writes about, from family and flat-sharing, to hen nights and Michael Fassbender, she celebrates the absurdity of life. Higgins has stamped her own style onto this genre. These personal essays are both sharp and funny.” -The Irish Examiner “Maeve Higgins’ star has steadily risen over the past decade – a fan of surrealist, absurdist humour, shot through with sturdy Cork pragmatism, Higgins uses her first book to chat away at the reader about everything and anything that takes her fancy. Although much of it is laugh-out-loud funny (I felt particularly sorry for the poor friend who invited her on a hen night), there are moments of surprising pathos too – Higgins knows what it’s like to fail at the biscuits tin and look longingly at the guy who never sees her. Buy it and feel better about life.” -The Sunday Business Post “Like a Shakespearian court Jester, her daftness masks perceptive truth-telling” -Sunday Times review of We Have a Good Time, Don’t We Visit Maeve’s website at https://www.maevehiggins.com Follow Maeve on Twitter: @maevehiggins Like Maeve’s Facebook page: facebook.com/MaeveHiggins
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SHOW STARTS AT 7:30PMSF Sketchfest presents some of the best International standup comedians for one night only. Catch these stars of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival while you can.Aisling Bea is an award winning Irish stand-up, actress and writer and is one of the biggest female TV comedians in the UK. She is the co-host on long running hit British panel show, 8 Out of 10 Cats with Jimmy Carr and regularly appears on most comedy TV shows in the UK like Qi (BBC1/Netflix) with Stephen Fry, A League Of Their Own (Sky 1) with James Corden and The Jonathan Ross Show. She had a leading role in the newest series of BBC/ Netflix crime thriller The Fall starring Jamie Dornan and is a lead in upcoming BBC1/ Hulu drama Hard Sun, by Luther writer Neil Cross. She has her own TV show commissioned for Channel 4 in the UK with Emmy nominated Catastrophe's Sharon Horgan. She regularly appeared on Comedy Central show @Midnight and was selected for Montreal Just For Laughs in 2012 and again this past summer in 2017. She regularly performs on the Los Angeles scene at The Largo, NerdMelt, UCB, The Improv and The Virgil and appears on cult podcasts like How Did This Get Made with Paul Scheer, Jason Mantzoukas and June Diane and CrabFeast with Jay Larson and Ryan Sickler. Her TV stand up credits include Live At The Apollo (BBC1), Russell Howard's Good News (BBC3), Montreal and The Channel4 Comedy Gala at the O2 (Channel4).Phoebe Walsh debuted her first stand up show 'I'll Have What She's Having' at this years Edinburgh Fringe. She's written for various TV shows including C4's 'The Anna and Katy Show', E4's 'The Midnight Beast' and 'Popsludge.' and also writes for Vice, ELLE, ASOS and Time Out. She's acted and improvised in various TV shows including Daniel Simonsen's C4 Blaps, been a regular in BBC2's 'The Javone Prince Show' and most recently she stars in All4's Webscam.Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and self-dubbed “The Lie-In King” Seann Walsh is “unquestionably the best observational comic of his generation (The Guardian). This dishevelled, fiery, animated, fiercely idol, millennial man child is one of best live comedians to have come out of the UK. Seann made his acting debut starring in Comedy Central’s sitcom Big Bad World, this was quickly followed up by the lead role in Monks (BBC One), he utilised his physical comedic abilities in Sky’s silent comedy, Three Kinds of Stupid, which led to him producing, writing and starring in his own silent comedy web-series The Drunk. He also wrote and starred in his own Sky short for Sky Arts and is now co-starring in Jack Dee’s brand-new sitcom Bad Move (ITV one). He recently made his feature film debut as the children’s nemesis in family film, 2:hrs. Seann is quickly on his way to becoming one of the UK’s best comedy character actors. Team captain on Virtually Famous (Channel 4) and a regular on Play To The Whistle (ITV), other TV appearances include: One For The Road (BBC 3), Live At The Apollo (BBC 2), The Jonathan Ross Show (ITV), Tonight at The London Palladium (ITV), Celebrity Juice (ITV2), 8 Out Of 10 Cats (Channel 4), 8 Out Of 10 Cats does Countdown (Channel 4), Alan Carr’s Chatty Man (Channel 4) and Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central (Comedy Central) Seann can currently be heard hosting his weekly radio show News-Ish on Fubar Radio. His debut DVD, Seann to be Wild, was recorded at Hammersmith Apollo to critical acclaim when it was released in 2013 by Universal Pictures. ‘A cracking good show’ (The Telegraph) ‘One of comedy’s hottest properties...very talented, very funny’ (London Evening Standard) 'He remains one of the most entertaining observational comics on the block' (The Independent)In 2014 Maeve Higgins moved to New York and performs stand up regularly at UCB and Union Hall. She collaborates with Jon Ronson (The Men Who Stare At Ghosts, Frank) in a monthly show called ‘I’m New Here’ in Brooklyn. She writes features for The Irish Times and is working on her second book of essays, due to be published by Hachette in the fall of 2015. Maeve has just recorded a radio pilot for BBC Radio 4 and written a TV pilot for BBC 1, produced by Chris O’Dowd. This summer, her radio documentary Valentine’s Bones won a bronze medal at The New York Radio Festival. A stand up comedian and writer from Ireland, Maeve studied photography in college. Then one magical March morning in 2004, she discovered her dream life as a stand-up comedian! Her favourite parts are 1. eating in garages late at night and 2. telling strangers personal things. Since then, she has written and performed various shows for festivals including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Melbourne International Festival, the Adelaide Fringe Festival, the Kilkenny Comedy Festival, the Eugene Mirman Festival in New York and the New Zealand International Festival. Maeve starred in Irish broadcaster, RTE’s wildly popular hidden camera show Naked Camera for three series. She feels conflicted about it because although it was very funny, it also involved a lot of strangers’ days being ruined. In 2009/2010 Maeve made her own comedy series for RTE with her sister Lilly called Fancy Vittles’– a comedy cookery show featuring Maeve’s real family and friends. It was a cult hit and the critics loved it. There was just one series because Lilly went off the idea of being on TV. Maeve also featured in BBC Radio’s All of the Planet’s Wonders written by comedian Josie Long. In 2010/2011 Maeve continued to tour her stand up shows and also made a radio documentary series called Amusing Notes about the relationship between comedy and music for Irish broadcaster Today FM. She appeared in two episodes of Chris Addison’s (The Thick of it) Show and Tell on the U.K. television station E4. In 2011 she began to write pieces for The Irish Times and The Irish Independent. In December 2012 she was given a column in the weekend Irish Times, where she describes her dream versions of various things. Most of 2012 was taken up with writing, then promoting her first book, a collection of essays entitled We Have a Good Time…Don’t We? (Hachette Ireland, October 2012). The book was published in mass market paperback in Ireland and the UK in summer 2013. Maeve also appeared in Chris O’Dowd’s (Bridesmaids) comedy series Moone Boy on Sky One and was a guest speaker at TEDx Dublin. In 2013 Maeve lived in London and wrote for The Irish Times and The Irish Post. She also appeared in Stewart Lee’s Alternative Comedy Experience on Comedy Central. Press quotes (stand-up, book and TV work) “Maeve Higgins is rarer than a blessing of unicorns … she is original and relatively calm, her observations are pithy, her wit delicate, her persona oddly alluring and deftly honest” -The Irish Times, 2010 “Throughout the whole hour, the room is filled with laughter at Maeve’s risqué and highly intelligent act” -The Irish Independent “An antidote to the ‘lazy shock stuff’ of comedy” -The List (Scotland) “A charming and iconoclastic Irish stand-up” -The Age (Australia) “Deadpan, low-energy, but quietly wonderful” -chortle.co.uk Reaction to ‘We have a good time…don’t we?’ Maeve was nominated for ‘Best Newcomer’ at the Irish Book Awards, 2012 “This is a really funny, really natural, really gifted writer – a terrific debut” -Kevin Barry, author of City of Bohane “I love Maeve Higgins’ writing. The surreal world she describes with such wit and wisom is strangely recognisable” -Joseph O’Connor, author of the bestselling novel, The Star of the Sea “Whatever Higgins writes about, from family and flat-sharing, to hen nights and Michael Fassbender, she celebrates the absurdity of life. Higgins has stamped her own style onto this genre. These personal essays are both sharp and funny.” -The Irish Examiner “Maeve Higgins’ star has steadily risen over the past decade – a fan of surrealist, absurdist humour, shot through with sturdy Cork pragmatism, Higgins uses her first book to chat away at the reader about everything and anything that takes her fancy. Although much of it is laugh-out-loud funny (I felt particularly sorry for the poor friend who invited her on a hen night), there are moments of surprising pathos too – Higgins knows what it’s like to fail at the biscuits tin and look longingly at the guy who never sees her. Buy it and feel better about life.” -The Sunday Business Post “Like a Shakespearian court Jester, her daftness masks perceptive truth-telling” -Sunday Times review of We Have a Good Time, Don’t We Visit Maeve’s website at https://www.maevehiggins.com Follow Maeve on Twitter: @maevehiggins Like Maeve’s Facebook page: facebook.com/MaeveHiggins
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