Tour Review / Next Level Sketch next Tuesday / IMDp / Charlie’s Comedy Cabaret
Lots to get through and we’re already at Clapham Junction, so let’s do this thing!
Lads on tour
My sketch troupe, Next Level Sketch, did their first ever non-London shows a few weeks ago. Read all about it here:
Lads on tour: Next Level Sketch perform at Up The Antic, Bristol and the Leicester Comedy Festival – jamesofwalsh
Upstairs at The Globe for the Leicester Comedy Festival. A few weeks ago, my sketch comedy collective emerged from their Omicron slumber to do their first ever non-London gigs. This was a Big Step.…
Next Level Sketch with Hel MacCormack and Shelf Comedy
Fresh from charming the provinces, our first London show of 2022 is Tuesday 22nd February. We are super happy to have Shelf back in particular - our first ever special guests! I won’t announce them with the wrong name this time!
Next Level Sketch With Shelf Comedy and Hel MacCormack Tickets, Tue 22 Feb 2022 at 20:00 | Eventbrite
Brilliant sketch comedy night with top special guests who are also sketch comedians (and also, sometimes, clowns)
Listen to me on an improv podcast!
Recorded live at The Miller in December 2021, I pretended to be someone I’m not for laughs. Here how it went down here:
IMDp: Improvised Movie Director Podcast - Ep 28: Live Episode - James Walsh/E.T. Pray, Love
This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the Miller on Wednesday 1st December 2021 with piano accompaniment from Tom Hodge Episode 28: Live Episode - James Walsh/E.T. Pray, Love. IMDp is an improvised interview podcast. Every week Martina Minnow interviews a director about their upcoming film. Also joining Martina each week are our resident improvisers who create cutaway scenes and clips from the films discussed. However… until she introduces them, only Martina knows the guests name and the name of their movie. Todays Special Guest: James Walsh (Lesley Whisper) is a comedy writer / performer, and budding improviser. He co-produces Next Level Sketch, a monthly sketch comedy podcast & live show at the Miller. He would like to visit every remaining Wimpy Bar in the country, and wants a dog. @nextlevelsketch The IMDp Team: @improvmoviepod Sabrina Luisi (Martina Minnow) is in Hoopla House team Michelle, acapella improvised musical group Acaprov, improvised musical narrative group Multiverse and long form team Buffet. Sabrina is also an actor and writer in immersive online murder mystery group, Play Dead London. She loves Eastenders, refrigerated Curly Wurlys, and has three accents she uses on rotation in improv shows. Twitter: @sabrinaluisi Instagram: @sabrina.luisi Vicky Hawley (Resident Improviser) is an improviser, comedian and storyteller who regularly performs with groups including Chortle Award winning Jericho Comedy, Edinburgh sellout Bumper Blyton, and internationally touring improv musical Multiverse. Vicky is also a professional DM, the host of D&D liveplay podcast Vicky’s World, and a regular player on Sasha Ellen’s Character Building Experience. Twitter: @vichawley Instagram: @vic.hawley Rory Vieyra (Resident Improviser) is an improviser and Actor who regularly performs with Music Box Improv, Acaprov and The Inflatables in London and abroad. He also teaches improv with Hoopla Impro and performs in immersive Murder Mystery group Play Dead London. He loves Cinnanmon Buns, Dolly Parton and Ancient Greece. He know his impressions are bad but refuses to stop. Instagram & Facebook: @roryvieyra Ryan J Murphy (Resident Improvisor) is an improviser from London who has been performing since 2012. He’s performed shortform, longform and musical improv up and down the UK, including at the last 7 Edinburgh Festival Fringes, and internationally. Ryan performs in the Enid Blyton inspired show Bumper Blyton and improvised acapella musical Acaprov. Find him eagerly shouting out answers at a quiz or whipping up a pavlova. Twitter: @RyanJMurphy Steve Tanner (Producer/Editor) is Director of 4Foot1Films. He creates and edits video content for theatre productions and regularly collaborates with Hoopla Impro to edit their sketches. He runs filmmaking workshop Make A Movie Club for kids and is also an actor and writer with immersive online murder mystery group, Play Dead London. Instagram @4foot1films Theme Music by Matt Brown & Jonny Griffiths Episode Artwork by Marty Sears
A comedy review!
I’m back to writing a review of a comedy gig that I am in no way involved with every week. Last week it was Charlie Vero-Martin’s Comedy Cabaret. So many acts!
REVIEW: Charlie’s Comedy Cabaret, Hoopla at The Miller – Welcome to The Phoenix Remix
A review of last night’s show
And that’s it for this week, particularly as this train is now pulling into London Waterloo.
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