Backwell Playhouse Comedy Night
Backwell Playhouse Comedy Night at Backwell Playhouse Theatre, Bristol
Backwell Playhouse Comedy Night £10.00
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About the show
Join Backwell Playhouse for North Somerset’s best and longest-running Comedy Night. We start our 2026/27 season with an amazing line up of comedians, headlined by David Hoare, and supported by Mark Pencherz and Andrew Watts. Mark Pencherz is a cheeky mischief-maker bringing big laughs with sharp jokes, playful audience banter and that unmistakable ’your favourite naughty relative’ energy. Andrew Watts is a British stand-up comedian with a dry, carefully observed style and a knack for finding the comic tension in ordinary life. His material draws on relationships, work, politics and the small negotiations of modern adulthood, delivered with the calm precision of someone who has thought about the punchline before arriving at it. Watts was a finalist in So You Think You're Funny? and in the Laughing Horse New Act competition, and has taken a series of solo shows to the Edinburgh Fringe. His work has also appeared on television through Jongleurs Live! and FHM’s Stand-Up Hero. David Hoare is a one-liner-musical-comedian; mixing silly, staccato songs with idiotic mischievousness! Winner of the Audience Favourite Prize at the Musical Comedy Awards 2021. Tour support for Lauren Pattison, Alison Spittle, Mark Nelson & Dr Ed Patrick. "An annoyingly funny young man" Gary Delaney . "With some slick one-liners and aggression akin to Bo Burnham, James Acaster or Tim Vine" Deadline News. This event is not suitable for under 16’s and may contain explicit content. Performances may be recor
Featuring - David Hoare
'A Hertfordshire based musician whose comic songs will bring a smile to your face'.
'... a highly original mixture of absurd, surrealist humour... and utterly uninhibited performance!‘(Nick Stephenson, Nick and the Sun Machine).
Andrew Watts
Extremely distinctive comedy from a former London solicitor.
'Posh and witty... exquisitely funny... one of the new comics making waves' (Time Out)
'His comedy is intelligent and so up-to-date it could be read by Jon Snow' (Cream of
the Fringe)
'There's intelligent wit, honesty and more interesting and provocative thoughts in his show than many comics manage in a decade... Andrew Watts is so engaging, so entertaining and so persuasive that we are all sad when his clever, personal and very funny hour comes to an end' (The Scotsman)
'His distinctive style stands out – a winning mixture of pomposity, insecurity and emotional incompetence, while the fury-inducing importance he places on the trivial makes for a winning comic stance' (Chortle)
'Lovers of stand-up laced with a cerebral cutting-edge should, without further prevarication, flock to his show' (Three Weeks).