May Show: Brendan Dempsey, Kevin Bridges, Mike Manera

The English Comedy Club proudly presents:

Monday, 4 May 2009 : Brian Dempsey (UK), Kevin Bridges (Scotland)
Hosted by Mike Manera (UK) 

Substanz Live Club & Bar — Ruppertstr. 28 (U3,U6 Poccistraße) — 80337 München

Door: 7:00 pm - Show:  8:00 pm - Tickets 18€

Since first taking to the stage 1991, Brendan Dempsey has performed stand-up to audiences all over Ireland and Britain, in Europe as well as Canada, the USA, Asia, Africa and across Australia. The only continents he has not played are Antarctica and South America. Cold, inhospitable - uninhabited in parts and suffering terrible economic downturns in others. Coincidence? Perhaps, but do you really want to take that  chance? The audience saw Brendan in Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York, though he’s still most widely recognised for his role as Jim Kelly - the Lottery rep in Waking Ned (Devine). For TV, he’s been in the Father Ted Christmas special, Couched, Podge & Rodge and The End for RTE. Brendan’s just finished recording and co-editing the second series of The Comedy Improv Radio Show. A member since 1994, The Comedy Improv have played to thrilled audiences at festivals in Edinburgh, Melbourne, & Adelaide. This year, they shall once again be festival favourites for their eighth successive Kilkenny Cat Laughs festival, where in the past they have performed with famous people of the telly like some of the cast from The Simpsons, Cheers, Whose Line is it Anyway? and Saturday Night Live.

“6 out of 6″ - The Evening Herald
“The improvisation is spot on, imaginative and hilarious” - The Independent
“Dempsey stamped his authority on the scene” - The Scotsman
“Never anything less than hilarious” - BBC Online

1st Act for the evening, Kevin Bridges started stand up shortly after his 17th birthday, since his first gig he has shot through the ranks of the Scottish comedy scene. He reguarly works all over Scotland, most notable at the Stand up comedy clubs in Glasgow and Edinburgh, where he is a regular headliner, support and resident compere of his own monthly show. Kevin has achived a great deal in his short career and 2005 has seen him perform over 150 gigs and begin to venture outwith Scotland, performing in London at many of the top clubs including Saturday nights at the Kings Head and the world famous Comedy Store. Kevin also had a highly successful Edinburgh festival debut where he featured in “The best of Scottish comedy” and was a finalist in Channel 5 “So you think your funny? 2005 competition.  

“The guy was brilliant, an exceptional young comedian. A superstar in the making” - One4review.com
“His confidence is astonishing. His patter is crude, natural, truthful and hilarious” - Sunday Herald
“Young comedy sensation with precoucious talent, see him before he becomes the next Billy Connolly” IC Newcastle
“Already flashes of inventive, incisive stuff - astute observations, social awarness and sharp lines” - Chortle

Mike Manera has been performing comedy in firetraps full of Guardian readers for over three years. He is the resident MC and Host at Upstairs at the Queens Head and has performed all over the country including the Edinburgh Festival, the Brighton Comedy Festival and the St. Albans “Laugh a Minute” festival. Not to mention numerous universities, corporate functions and jazz clubs. Always impeccable attired, punctual and funny he boasts a very full head of hair, his own teeth and own material.

“As funny as he is clever. And he is very clever. - The Guardian
“At over six foot five, and dresses like a renaissance gangster, you can’t really miss him” - London Metro
“A comedy force” - Time Out