Chuckl. Littleport with Russell Kane & Special Guests

Multi-award-winning comedian, presenter, actor, author, and scriptwriter Russell Kane is a regular on Channel 4, BBC, and ITV with recent TV appearances include The Apprentice: You’re Fired, The One Show, Live at the Apollo, The Stand Up Sketch Show, Michael McIntryre’s Big Show, Antiques Road Trip, Stupid Man, Smart Phone, as well as regular appearances on Steph’s Packed Lunch. True to form, the show is defined by Kane’s hyperkinetic performance energising the room. He must do his 10,000 daily steps in an hour, purposefully striding the full width of the stage, as well as scrambling on the floor or contorting his body into dramatic poses to make a point… he certainly has a spring in his step… and it’s very infectious. Chortle His chart-smashing BBC Radio 4 / BBC Sounds podcast Evil Genius quickly became a flagship show, and was the best performing original podcast on the platform. It has been turned into a TV show by BBC Studios, and will appear on Sky TV in November 2023. Russell also recently helped present a prime-time, conversation-changing documentary about men’s bodies and sperm counts on Channel 4’s Celebrity Save Our Sperm. This year he performed headline slots at Latitude, Reading, and Leeds festivals. ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ The Times, Time Out, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph Winner of Best Show in 2010 at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, Russell went on to make history as the first comedian to win both the Edinburgh Comedy Award and Melbourne Comedy Festival’s Barry Award in one year. As ever, Russell also continues to provide his ever-popular topical online rants known as Kaneings....

After 25 years of semi-retirement, playing nursing homes, Sol Bernstein is back where he belongs, in smokey nightclubs performing to drunks! He's the man who helped the career's of Elvis Presley. Marcel Marceau (never even got a "thank you") and even the Beatles were influenced. He's worked with, and been friends with, some of the worlds GREATEST performers; Judy Garland, The Rat Pack, Lenny Bruce, Jack Benny, George Burns, Milton Berle, Doris Day, Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe and Eddie Large. He's performed all over the world at venues including The London Palladium, New York's Carnegie Hall, The Paris Olympia, Caesars Palace Las Vegas, and Scunthorpe Baths, but it's at night clubs where Sol really comes to life. His charisma, his style, his catch phrase "why don't you put on a tie" his chutzpah, put it all together and you get the magic that is Sol Bernstein....

A Scottish actress and comedian, Wendy launched her comedy career in 2004, getting to the final of Funny Women and semi-finals of So You Think You’re Funny at the Edinburgh Fringe the following year. She was already an established actress with roles in Coupling and the IT Crowd working with everyone from Chris O’Dowd and Nicholas Lyndhurst to Johnny Depp and John Malkovich. February 2014 saw Wendy nominated for best actress in Hollywood for British Hustle, the Toscars spoof. Whilst her acting career continues, her comedy career has taken off. 2008 saw Wendy in America on NBC’s Last Comic Standing and was also the year she did her first one-woman show at The Edinburgh Festival: Things I Didn’t Know. Her charisma and wit ensured packed houses. After the success of that she returned with three further solo shows culminating with this year’s knock out show, Hotel California. She has performed in all the major UK clubs such as Just the Tonic, The Glee Club, The Comedy Store, The Stand, and Laughter House in Dublin. In 2012 she was invited to the New York Comedy Festival and charmed audiences there too. She currently performs as part of The Cutting Edge at The Comedy Store in London and has written and stars in her own sitcom for BBC Scotland – Half My Age Plus Seven, due for broadcast in October 2014 and she writes for the Huffington Post. FILM OUTCAST Fantastic Films, Dir, Colm McCarthy 2010 THE LIBERTINE / Dolly Mr Mud Productions, Dir. Lawrence Dunsmore 2004 CLUB LE MONDE / Lizzie Outlaw Films, Dir. Simon Rumley 2002 THE CAMERO / Laura (lead) Dir. Jack Lothian 2002 PIPEDREAMS / Amelia (lead) Westminster Films, Dir.Nick Tanner 2001 THE TRUTH GAME / Kate Screen Prods, Dir Simon Rumley 2000 RESURRECTING BILL / Julia (lead) St Moritz Prods, Dir. Faye Jackson 1999 TELEVISION SHERLOCK Hartswood Films for BBC1 2013 AFTER YOU’VE GONE / Stella BBC 2008 DAN CLARK’S GUIDE TO WORKING Brown Eyed Boy 2007 MIDSOMER MURDERS Bentley Productions for ITV1 2006 BROKEN NEWS BBC 2005 THE IT CROWD Talkback for Channel 4 2005 TITTY BANG BANG Pett Productions for BBC3 2005 COUPLING BBC2 2002 VELVET SOUP BBC2 2002 FUN AT THE FUNERAL PARLOUR BBC3 2001...

Drawing on his experiences growing up in a tough North East town, Phil is an ex-steel worker whose humour is a unique blend of cynicism, observation and good, old fashioned jokes. His delivery is sharp and honest, covering topical issues and his tangential thought, all exposed to his tongue-in-cheek treatment. Phil performs for many comedy clubs and promoters across the UK and at the international Punchline Comedy Club. He is also the founder of Gagging for Laughs, promoting comedy events in the South East....