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Welford Cricket Club – Comedy Night : 9th Dec


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The return of comedy to Welford Memorial Hall with professional comedians Harvey Hawkins, Rob Coleman and Steve Day providing pre-Christmas cheer. Returning as compere will be Pete Teckman who took the mic for last year’s gigs. Recently awarded Leicester Comedy Festival Silver Stand-up winner 2017, Pete performs all around the country and has carefully sourced all the acts for this event –
  • Harvey Hawkins, contender for the 2016 BBC New Comedy Award, hails from Stratford-upon-Avon so will be on home ground
  • Rob Coleman describes himself as a ‘sharp gag based act’ but also does a nice line in observational comedy. His good sense of humour will almost certainly be needed when he departs on a mission to row across the Atlantic in December of this year!
  • Headlining will be Steve Day.

Steve describes himself as Britains only deaf comedian, if there are any others he hasn’t heard. Actually there are a couple of others who have started since he wrote that joke, but it’s only a joke after all.

For the past eleven years Steve has been performing to huge laughter around the country and abroad, well they tell him the laughter was huge to humour him, he doesn’t know either way.

Married with five children, a fact nothing to do with not being able to hear the word ‘No’, Steve has been described as ‘warm and witty’ by the Scotsman and has received many other rave reviews whilst performing shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Chortle.co.uk gave him five stars in 2007 for Deafy’s Island Discs, a show The Sunday Times called ‘Funny and Moving’. This show toured the UK in 2008, Steve’s third national tour of the uk, and has been performed in several countries in Europe and translated into Italian. No-one knows why.

A familiar voice on Radio 4, Steve has appeared many times on You and Yours, was a token man on Woman’s Hour, has appeared in two radio dramas, All Fingers and Thumbs with Bill Nighy, whom he punched dramatically, and Sound Barriers with Patricia Routledge and Caroline Quentin, both of whom he was prevented from punching.

A disabled performer, Steve is more concerned with success in the mainstream comedy circuit, but is happy to ‘deaf it up’ as necessary if the money is ok and there are sandwiches.

All profits from the evening will go to the Welford Cricket Club. Bar will be run by Wyn Owen and wine will be chosen by someone other than Wyn!

Tickets are available from https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/welfordsportsclub or from Maypole Butchers or the Bell Public House
For information on the evening contact Chris Dobson at dobspoon@gmail.com

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