Perrier award winner is a first for comedy club
CONTROVERSIAL, confrontational and brilliantly funny.
That's 2007 Perrier award winner Brendon Burns, the Australian star turn performing for the Other Side Comedy Club at the Blue Lounge next Monday.
“We’ve never had a Perrier award winner at the club before, so it’s really exciting,” says compere Jon Reed. “It remains the most coveted award in British comedy. For a live comedian there is no higher accolade – it says you have arrived.
“As a career milestone you sit at the high table of British comedy when you look at the names of former winners, including Frank Skinner, Lee Evans, Daniel Kitson, League of Gentlemen, Al Murray, Dylan Moran, Rich Hall and Steve Coogan”.
Burns once got banned from BBC TV for snogging a goat live on air. He handed out enough mushrooms at Glastonbury festival to get a thousand people high because Bill Hicks and John Lennon talked about doing this but didn’t. He wrote a trilogy that sent him clinically mad and was committed to a mental institution. And he walked off the set of Help I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here Now live on air, after just three days of hosting the show alongside Kelly Osbourne when booked for 40 days.
For well over a decade, Burns has stormed audiences the world over, using his confrontational and upfront style of comedy to capture his audience with a proverbial slap in the face, says Jon. “It may initially appear that Brendon is a purveyor of hilarious shock, but his approach means he is continually throwing up questions – both of himself and of the audience, on subjects most comedians would shy away from”.
A pioneer of his art form, he penned the critically acclaimed Burnsy Versus Brendon stand-up trilogy (2006) and was the subject of a documentary by Aristocrats director Paul Provenza.
He completed his first European tour to packed houses and is now working on a pilot for the BBC with Jon Plowman, producer of The Office, Absolutely Fabulous and Little Britain. He has released two DVDs, I Suppose This is Offensive Now and Sober Not Clean.
The Guardian called Burns “a legend in the making… sparkling stuff”, while the New York Times hailed the stand-up as “a comedy god”.
Jon says: “It’s no surprise that Burns has been compared to such legends as Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Sam Kinison and Bill Hicks. Those who enjoy this brand of hard-hitting comedy will be glad to know there is a developing young voice out there.”
Tickets cost 10 (students 8) and can be booked by ringing 08458 381558, online at www. yorkshirecoastcomedy.co.uk and on the door.
Monday’s show is due to begin at 8.15pm.
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