Live Comedy
MC Hammersmith: Straight Outta Brompton
MC Hammersmith (Will Naameh) was born to an English mother and a Syrian father. He attended an all-male, middle class private school in Hammersmith. After escaping this, he took up improv classes and started performing freestyle rap comedy. Although technically mixed race, his middle-class English accent and pale skin tone means he has always passed for white. This, combined with his awkward personality, made for the perfect framing device to draw comedy from his hip hop performances.
He has a Master's degree in Linguistics, specialising in phonology, from the University of Edinburgh. He was studying at the same time he started rapping. His linguistics expertise helped him become a full-time freestyle rapper, as he combined his love of hip hop with his academic studies into the mechanics of rhyming.
Since then, he has performed at Fringe and comedy festivals all around the world, headlined at major comedy clubs across the UK, and has won multiple comedy awards for his freestyle rap performances. Being a freestyle rapper meaning he raps spontaneously, unscripted, with absolutely no preparation and at lightning speed. The lyrics and rhymes of his raps are 100% improvised.
He also has OCD - in particular to do with obsessive thoughts. He has since discovered one of the benefits of OCD was developing an obsession with rhyming: if he had a thought of a rhyme, he wrote it down. He now has his own personal rhyming dictionary (and memorised it), and at last count it was 15,000 words long!
He also writes and performs scripted hip-hop comedy. His video Posh British Boy Raps in Car was a viral hit gaining over 10 million views on social media. Since then, he has released several more scripted hip hop comedy videos, that also went viral. He is also a writer for acclaimed YouTube web series Epic Rap Battles of History.
2024 dates
March
Tues 19th: EDINBURGH - Stand Comedy Club
Thurs 21st: GLASGOW - Stand Comedy Club
Sat 23rd: STOCKTON - Arc
Sun 24th: HULL - Comedy Lounge
Wed 27th: NEWCASTLE - Stand Comedy Club
Thurs 28th: BLACKPOOL - Comedy Station
Fri 29th: LIVERPOOL - Philharmonic
Sat 30th: SALFORD - The Lowry
Sun 31st: SHEFFIELD - Leadmill
April
Thurs 18th: LEEDS - Wardrobe
Fri 19th: BRISTOL - Hen & Chickens
Sat 20th: LEICESTER - Y Theatre
Sun 21st: BIRMINGHAM - Glee Club
Thurs 25th: OXFORD - Glee Club
Fri 26th: CAMBRIDGE - Junction
Sat 27th: LONDON - Leicester Square Theatre
Sun 28th: BRIGHTON - The Old Market