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Alison Thea-Skot

Alison Thea-Skot

  • Actor and stand-up comedian

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Eggbox screening night returns in October

Eggbox, the live comedy show format combining short film screenings and live script readings, is returning on 1st October, with a show at London's Pleasance theatre.

British Comedy Guide, 6th September 2024

Channel 4 launches sketch series with a host of comedians

Nick Helm, Jen Brister, Hal Cruttenden, Felicity Ward and children's television presenter Dave Benson Phillips are among the wealth of comic talent to feature in a new Channel 4 sketch series.

British Comedy Guide, 26th May 2021

British Comedy Guide launches Laughter Lounge online comedy festival

British Comedy Guide is launching Laughter Lounge, a virtual comedy festival due to run Monday 28th September until Sunday 4th October. Acts include Tom Allen, David O'Doherty and Luisa Omielan.

British Comedy Guide, 7th September 2020

Review: SORRY

Their format works extremely well - 15 minutes chat with their guest at the top of the show and then the rest of the time spent riffing on the subjects raised.

There Ought To Be Clowns, 7th March 2020

Review: Sorry at Vault Festival

Experienced improvisers may have caught a few slips in commitment, listening and the ability to be changeable, while thinking ahead and looking forward in the scene, instead of taking in the moment and reacting to it... but those are not likely to be things audiences will be looking out for.

Mariana Feijó, Funny Women, 12th February 2020

Review - The Badge: An Improvised Cop Show

If you are looking for an hour of unadulterated fun and you are fine with slightly surreal plotlines, I strongly suggest you book yourself an improv show.

Fabio Ghiotto, London Theatre 1, 9th February 2020

One and Done: Ed & Joz's Heist Movie

I really hope this recently made pilot isn't a case of One and Done, it'd be a real crime if these glorious idiots weren't given their own series, and one which should be punished by a very long prison sentence indeed.

Alex Finch, Comedy To Watch, 12th December 2019

Review: Sorry, VAULT Festival

The joy in improv is being right there in the room and with the comedians of Sorry, there's such joy.

There Ought To Be Clowns, 26th January 2019

Video-on-demand company NextUp films Fringe show

Acts that are being recorded this week include Roisin and Chiara, Laura Lexx, Alison Thea-Scott and Norris & Parker.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 16th August 2018

The Greatest 50 Films In 50 Sketches - gig review

Forget the Oscars, THE biggest cinema-based event last night was surely The Greatest 50 Films In 50 Sketches, an assembly of acts penning bespoke five-minute routines based on a crowdsource list of the best movies of all time.

Steve Bennett, Chortle, 5th March 2018

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