The Anglia Comedy Allstars
The Anglia Comedy Allstars at Epic Studios, Norwich
About the show
Russell Kane leads an all star line up of live comedy talent! Three more top acts to be announced!
Featuring - Russell Kane
Multi-award winning comedian, presenter, actor, author and scriptwriter Russell Kane is best known as the host of three series of BBC3's Live At The Electric, regular appearances on BBC1's Live At Apollo, BBC3's Unzipped, ITV2's Celebrity Juice and I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! Now!
Russell was nominated four times for prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Awards before winning Best Show in 2010. He then went onto make history as the first comedian to win both the Edinburgh Award and Melbourne Comedy Festival's Barry Award in one year.
'An exceptional comedian, his pace is relentless and his material beautifully observed and exquisitely crafted... inspiring and brilliant' (Chortle).
'A seriously good comedian' (The Times)
'Russell Kane delivers magic in spades' (The Scotsman)
'A smart, probing brain lurks below the vertiginous quiff' (The Evening Standard).
Russell Kane was named in Ents24's top 5 hardest-working comedians of 2016.
Angela Barnes
Before becoming a comedian, Angela worked in health and social care. In 2011, she won the BBC New Comedy Award and became a finalist at the 2011 Latitude Festival New Act of the Year competition. Since then Angela has become a regular on BBC’s The News Quiz, Newsjack and Mock The Week.
She has also appeared on BBC Three’s Russell Howard’s Good News, Russell Kane’s Whistle Stop Tour (BBC Radio 2), and BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show.
“Feels like a sure-fire bet the instant she utters her opening lines.” (The Scotsman).
“The pace is fast, the material strong and the delivery perfect” (Chortle).
“She’s just a gloriously down-to-earth, straight-talking and extremely funny comic” (The Guardian).
Angela Barnes was #8 in Ents24's Hardest Working Comedians of 2018 list.
Andrew Mensah
Jack Barry
Stand-up and sketch comedian and resident compere at Mild Friends Comedy Club, in Oxford, of which he is a co-founder.
'Jack Barry stood out as a performer with a degree of charisma that might offer him hope of a future in comedy' (Chortle)
'... his spontaneous conversational delivery makes his flow seamless and measured... I predict that Barry will be one to look out for in the future…' (Broadway Baby)
'The instantly likeable Jack Barry delivered a strong set of general musings, one-liners and witty anecdotes' (Three Weeks).