British Comedy Guide

Martin Soan

  • English
  • Comedian, actor and writer

Press clippings

Tim Harding's comedy diary

Is this the birth of a new artform?

Tim Harding, Chortle, 5th April 2024

Martin Soan sells bits of comedy history

Martin Soan's comedy club Pull The Other One has been running for eleven years in South East London but is closing in June this year.

John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 10th April 2018

Why Londoners would rather pay than see free comedy

Martin and Vivienne Soan have been running Pull the Other One comedy nights in Nunhead, South London, for over ten years. The shows are monthly. You pay to enter; and, in my opinion, they are always value for money whoever is on the bill.

John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 24th April 2017

After weird comedy, what is next?

"The first time you performed at the Edinburgh Fringe was in the 1970s?" I asked Martin Soan when he came round to help me with something in my home.

John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 5th May 2015

Teaching the Germans British humour?

Last night, before this month's ever-original Pull The Other One comedy show in South London, I talked to Martin Soan who organises both it and the Pull The Other One shows in Germany. He and his wife Vivienne have so far staged three in Leipzig this year.

John Fleming, John Fleming's Blog, 1st November 2014

Interview with comedy club owner Vivienne Soan

Vivienne Soan and her husband Martin Soan run the bizarre and always entertaining monthly comedy club Pull The Other One in South East London and in Leipzig.

John Fleming, 3rd April 2014

The end of the UK's Greatest Show On Legs?

Last night I went to see Martin Soan perform as part of The Greatest Show On Legs, the comedy troupe he created years ago.

John Fleming, 19th May 2013

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