British Comedy Guide

2011 Edinburgh Fringe

Lewis Schaffer is Free Until Famous in a Smaller Room at an Earlier Time

Lewis Schaffer is Free Until Famous in a Smaller Room at an Earlier Time. Lewis Schaffer
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31 1 2

Venue

170: The Counting House

Show in Google Maps

Free Festival

Admin

'The superstar of free comics' (Scotsman). New for 2011. The furious, fearless, funny New Yorker. 'Best of the Fest 2010. I can't believe I'm laughing but I am. The comedy world needs Lewis Schaffer. It just doesn't know it yet' *** *(Scotsman). 'One of the five best free comedy shows 2010. Should be a little bit more famous' (List). Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality, Nominee 2010. 'Warning: Unpredictable. Recommended.' (Time Out)

More details

Share this show

Featuring

Reviews

More details

The fast, furious, fearless, and often frantic UK-based New York comic Lewis Schaffer looks forward after 18 years in stand-up and asks himself: Why isn't he famous?

Kate Copstick of The Scotsman called Lewis Schaffer 'the superstar of free comics. I can't believe I'm laughing but I am. An hour whirling in the comedy vortex created by Schaffer's myriad neuroses is always worth the ticket price and here the show is free.' (20 Comedians to Catch at the Edinburgh Festival 2011). The List said Lewis Schaffer had 'one of the best free comedy shows 2010 and should be more famous.' The Evening Standard wrote that he 'definitely has funny bones' which is what British people like (Americans prefer jokes, which he has, too).

Lewis Schaffer is a Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality nominee and won the Malcolm Hardee Cunning Stunt Award in 2009. He hosts the weekly radio program Voice of Americans with Lewis Schaffer of Nunhead on Resonance FM - London.

Performances

Date Time Venue
4th Aug 2011 16:45 The Counting House
5th Aug 2011 16:45 The Counting House
6th Aug 2011 16:45 The Counting House
7th Aug 2011 16:45 The Counting House
8th Aug 2011 16:45 The Counting House
9th Aug 2011 16:45 The Counting House
10th Aug 2011 16:45 The Counting House
11th Aug 2011 16:45 The Counting House
12th Aug 2011 16:45 The Counting House
13th Aug 2011 16:45 The Counting House
14th Aug 2011 16:45 The Counting House
15th Aug 2011 16:45 The Counting House
16th Aug 2011 16:45 The Counting House
17th Aug 2011 16:45 The Counting House
18th Aug 2011 16:45 The Counting House
19th Aug 2011 16:45 The Counting House
20th Aug 2011 16:45 The Counting House
21st Aug 2011 16:45 The Counting House
22nd Aug 2011 16:45 The Counting House
23rd Aug 2011 16:45 The Counting House
24th Aug 2011 16:45 The Counting House
25th Aug 2011 16:45 The Counting House
26th Aug 2011 16:45 The Counting House
27th Aug 2011 16:45 The Counting House
28th Aug 2011 16:45 The Counting House

Share this page