Samantha Baines
- Actor and stand-up comedian
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Brighton Fringe review: Samantha Baines
I'd really recommend seeing this if you get the chance. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Nicola Benge, Brighton and Hove News, 21st May 2018Leicester Comedy Festival review: UK Pun Championships
Eight comedians battled to be named UK Pun Champion.
Becky Jones, Leicester Mercury, 13th February 2018Review: UK Pun Championships Final
#UKPunday, founded by the Leicester Comedy Festival, has become a fixture in the social media calender. This year wordplay-based tweets notched up over 100 million impressions during the day. That's a lorra lorra lols. And sometimes during the final of the UK Pun Championships one did feel the best gags had already been hashtag cracked.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 13th February 2018The best - and the worst - from the UK Pun Championship
Welcome to the punderdome! In what's taken off as a great marketing gimmick - with #ukpunday trending across Twitter yesterday - eight pun-dits gather at the Leicester Comedy Festival for the closest that word nerds get to sports. One-on-one in a boxing ring they exchange pun-ches in a bid to take the UK Pun Championship.
Chortle, 13th February 2018Leicester Comedy Festival 2018 competition line-ups
The line-ups for the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year, The UK Pun Championships and The Silver Stand Up Competition - all due to take place as part of the Leicester Comedy Festival 2018 - have been announced.
British Comedy Guide, 21st December 2017Who is the unsung hero of the Fringe and why?
Some people are just about to get a little less unsung...
Chortle, 25th August 2017What would be your fantasy sketch quartet?
Comics pick four performers past or present to make the team.
Chortle, 24th August 2017Samantha Baines picks her perfect playlist
'Dark and filthy but she owns it'
Samantha Baines, Chortle, 21st August 2017What do you think of critics?
Now it's Edinburgh Fringe comedians turn to dole out their opinions.
Chortle, 20th August 2017Fringesider #5: the Fringe through a feminist lense
Feminist theatre recommendations, performers from The Guilty Feminist podcast and comedy showcases with more than one female.
Rowena McIntosh, The List, 18th August 2017