Funquay Town - Comedy Night W/Andrew Maxwell +

ANDREW MAXWELL
DOUBLE EDINBURGH COMEDY AWARD NOMINEE
Renowned for his cutting edge comedy and intrepid social commentary, Andrew has appeared on I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, he is also the recognisable voice of MTV’s hit show Ex On The Beach. As well as being a regular on Radio 4 as the host of Welcome to Wherever You Are, he’s frequently on The News Quiz and Breaking The News.

As seen on Qi (BBC Two), Live At The Apollo (BBC One), Have I Got News For You (BBC One), Celebrity Juice (ITV2) Mock The Week (BBC Two) Conspiracy Road Trip (BBC3) and High Road Low Road (rté).

Throughout his career, Andrew has had many sell-out shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and has also performed at The Amnesty / Channel Four’s Secret Policeman’s Ball (alongside Eddie Izzard, Chevy Chase and Dylan Moran), Glastonbury, Kilkenny’s Cat Laughs, The HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Las Vegas (alongside Jerry Seinfeld and Chris Rock), and several appearances at the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival – and its inaugural 2024 London Just For Laughs. He was also special guest of friend Jim Jefferies for his Hammersmith Apollo dates in London.

Andrew regularly performs at corporate and private events, and is available for after dinner sets and as a host. Companies that he has worked for include BSKYB, Tourism Ireland and Publicis. He has also done branded TV and radio campaigns for 888Sport, Paddy Power, Aer Lingus and Guinness. He is also a founder member of ALTITUDE, a comedy festival staged in the Alps.

 

FELICITY WARD
Known for her iconic screen roles, TV appearances and her international, multi-award winning live stand-up comedy tours, Felicity’s no-filter, authentic and hilarious attitude to life has made her a darling of critics and fans alike.

Forging a career in both Australia and the UK, Felicity can be seen across the world, this October, when she stars in the lead role of Hannah Howard, in the Australian premiere of The Office on Amazon Prime.

You can currently see her in Taika Waititi’s TV adaptation of Time Bandits for Apple TV, following on from her breakout performance in 2021’s ABC TV’s drama, Wakefield.

In the UK, she has been on Live at the Apollo and is a regular face on shows such as Roast Battle, The Stand-Up Sketch Show, The Mash Report, Russell Howard’s Good News, Alan Davis; As Yet Untitled, The John Bishop Show, and Mock the Week.

In 2015, Felicity was handpicked by the BBC for her own Live From The BBC special - the only Australian selected. In feature film, she appeared in the comedies, Any Questions For Ben? and The Inbetweeners 2. She fronted her own ABC TV documentary, Felicity's Mental Mission, and is a mental health advocate. Felicity can be heard in her own BBC Radio 4 series, Appisodes and is a regular co-host of The Guilty Feminist podcast.

On the live circuit, Felicity is a Chortle UK Club Comic of the Year nominee and has been nominated for the biggest awards in live comedy: ‘Best Comedy’ at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Adelaide Fringe; and has won ‘Best Australian Act’ at the Perth Comedy Festival and ‘Best Local Act’ at the Sydney Comedy Festival, twice.

And Felicity has performed live stand up on the biggest stages and for the biggest TV galas, from Live at the Apollo, to Just For Laughs Montreal: Access All Areas and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival TV Gala. In October this year, she will embark on her largest UK tour to date, with ‘I’m Exhausting!’

In short: she goes alright.

"A garishly colourful tapestry of pin-sharp comic observations, thoughtful discussion around mental health and euphoric squawking... that's so beautifully woven together that, if you could find space between great big snorting exhortations of comic laughter, you would surely gasp. FIVE STARS" - The List

"Joyfully funny... her originality and sheer inventiveness stay with you long after. FIVE STARS" - Edinburgh Evening News 

"Relentless... easily her best Fringe show to date. FIVE STARS" - The Mirror

 

WILL ROBBINS 
Will Robbins is a stand up, actor, writer and producer. He is also one half of Tik Tok sensation The Lovely Boys, who have amassed thousands of followers as well as performing sell out live shows.
Will's television credits include, Transaction with Jordan Gray (Comedy Central), Late Night Mash (Dave/UKTV) and Rosie Jones' Disability Extravaganza (Dave/UKTV). He has also written on and worked across shows such as Would I Lie to You (Zeppotron), The Last Leg (Open Mike Productions), Russell Howard's Good News (Sky) and Strictly Come Dancing (BBC Studios).

As a live stand up, he gigs across the UK. He placed third in the Komedia New Comedy Awards and won both the Honk Show and Beat The Frog in 2020.

“slick delivery and old-school jauntiness, with masterful timing” – Steve Bennett, Chortle

 

OLIVIA LEE
Olivia Lee is a multi award winning writer, stand up comedian and actress, with a long track record of creating, writing and starring in her own TV shows. She has many scripted projects in development with UK & US production companies and broadcasters.
A well known face of TV comedy, Olivia started her career on Channel 4’s hit comedy show ‘Balls of Steel’ with her own slot called ‘Prank TV with Miss Lee’. She created her own vehicle for Channel 4, ‘Olivia Lee’s Naughty Bits’. This led to her own series on Comedy Central; ‘Olivia Lee: Dirty, Sexy, Funny’. The USA came calling and Olivia was invited to regularly appear on NBC’s ‘The Tonight Show With Jay Leno’ where she wrote and starred in her own regular comedy slot. That led to truTV giving Olivia her own comedy pilot ‘The Olivia Lee Show’ – which Ben Stiller produced with his company Red Hour. As an actress she has starred in many BAFTA nominated shows.