Always Be Comedy: Jen Brister & Jessica Fostekew & Gbemi Oladipo - at The Bedford in Balham!
Always Be Comedy: Jen Brister & Jessica Fostekew & Gbemi Oladipo - at The Bedford in Balham! at The Bedford, London
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About the show
Jen Brister!
Jessica Fostekew!
Gbemi Oladipo!
MC is James Gill!
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Featuring - Jen Brister
Jen Brister is a stand up comic, writer and comedy actor.
'Brister ticks all the boxes – she's confident, energetic and knows how to deliver a line for maximum laughs' (The Scotsman)
'Outrageously funny' (Metro)
'Gorgeously talented' (Tim Arthur, Time Out)
'This is as near perfect stand up as I have seen' (Scotsgay).
Jessica Fostekew
Jessica has been performing improvised comedy and working as a comedy actress since 2005. In January 2008 she hit the UK stand up circuit like a thunderbolt of joy and was a finalist in the Funny Women's Awards 2010.
Jessica co-hosts the mighty Guilty Feminist podcast which has reached well over 10 million listeners and is regularly in the Top 10 on the iTunes chart. She starred in this year’s hugely acclaimed new BBC2 sitcom from Sharon Horgan and Graham Linehan Motherland as well as the award winning BBC1 drama Three Girls.
“Intensely funny” Time Out
'Fostekew is a hugely engaging presence and there's something reassuringly honest about her... Consistently hilarious' (Fest)
'Great fun' (Guardian).
Gbemi Oladipo
Gbemi Oladipo's engaging and unpredictable writing style combined with his high energy performances have seen him nominated for the BBC’s New Comedian of the Year, and win the Max Turner Prize for Comedy and The Comedy Stores King Gong.
He also wrote and starred in the award-winning , F*ck My Life – Most Racist Uber Ride Ever, a story based on one of his real-life experiences. The short film produced by Pulped Productions won the prestigious Broadcast Digital Awards in 2020 for Best Short-Form Format. It was also nominated for a Webby Award for Comedy (2021) alongside videos from James Corden (winner), Trevor Noah’s the Daily Show, and The Simpsons.
James Gill
MC at the likes of Always Be Comedy, The 99 Club, Scoundrels, Ginglik and many more.
“I would go to the ends of the earth to share a stage with James Gill. He’s a sharp & energetic hero of club comedy and a face we’ll undoubtedly be seeing all over TV very soon” - Katherine Ryan
"One of the most imaginative MCs on the circuit. The crowd love him” - Rob Beckett
“The most impressive live presenter I have ever seen" - Romesh Ranganathan
“One of the country’s best hosts. There is no one like him” - Seann Walsh