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Si Hawkins
Si Hawkins

Si Hawkins

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Si Hawkins features - page 40

Phil Hammond Live

First Gig, Worst Gig: Dr Phil Hammond

Thursday 1st June 2017

Dr Phil's new show gives the NHS a powerful jab. But how has he survived as a doctor and comic for so long?

Tom Stade Live

First Gig, Worst Gig: Tom Stade

Thursday 25th May 2017

The charismatic Canadian has been compared to Keith Richards, feels a kinship with Beyonce, and once did a corporate on an alien space cruiser.

Image shows from L to R: Hannah Croft, Fiona Pearce Live

First Gig, Worst Gig: Croft & Pearce

Thursday 18th May 2017

Two women. Two buns-in-the-oven. One show: Croft & Pearce are becoming a quasi-quartet at the Museum Of Comedy this week. We look back at their work as a duo.

Si Hawkins Live

Ring Of Fire 2: Stand and Deliver

Monday 15th May 2017

Our writer, failed stand-up Si Hawkins, was feeling the pre-wedding pressure about his speech. Did some expert advice from three comedy gurus pay off?

Daphna Baram Live

First Gig, Worst Gig: Daphna Baram

Thursday 11th May 2017

Israel born and now East London-based, Daphna Baram has come a long, long way from her seriously painful first gig.

Carl Hutchinson Live

First Gig, Worst Gig: Carl Hutchinson

Thursday 4th May 2017

Fresh from Chris Ramsey's tour, Carl Hutchinson recalls meandering babies, miserable cricketers and a weirdly changeable reviewer.

Spencer Jones Live

Spencer Jones interview

Friday 28th April 2017

Russ Abbot, Derek & Clive and a rare Vic & Bob pilot all inspired Spencer Jones' remarkable creation, The Herbert. With a Soho Theatre run and BBC pilot coming up, we talk Des Lynam routines, embracing mistakes, and Upstart Crow gossip.

Matthew Highton Live

First Gig, Worst Gig: Matthew Highton

Thursday 27th April 2017

Professional Weirdo and LOCO film reconstructor Matthew Highton talks trouser shouting, ice cream rebuttals and Ed Sheeran close encounters.

Master Of Ceremonies. Copyright: Whyframeshot Live

Ring of Fire: Do weddings and stand-ups mix?

Monday 24th April 2017

With his own nuptials on the horizon, Si Hawkins looks at the often painful clashes between weddings, stags, hens, and stand-up comedians.

Pierre Novellie Live

First Gig, Worst Gig: Pierre Novellie

Tuesday 18th April 2017

The Isle of Man-raised South African recalls white wine fortitude, the Large Hadron Collider and an abusive Brexiteer.

Mark Olver Live

First Gig, Worst Gig: Mark Olver

Thursday 13th April 2017

TV's Mr Warm-Up has a novel new night in Cardiff, although possibly not as novel as the night he gigged in a car.

Tom Allen. Copyright: Andy Hollingworth Live

First Gig, Worst Gig: Tom Allen

Thursday 6th April 2017

The currently on-tour Tom Allen tells all about in-car gigs, being outshone by soup, and a genuinely useful dressing room tip.

Adam Kay. Copyright: Idil Sukan Live

First Gig, Worst Gig: Adam Kay

Thursday 30th March 2017

Adam Kay has gone back to the NHS. Not to work, as he gave up doctoring over a decade ago, but for inspiration.

Toby Whithouse Live

First Gig, Worst Gig: Toby Whithouse

Tuesday 28th March 2017

Doctor Who writer and Being Human creator Toby Whithouse recalls his sometimes scary-as-the-Cybermen days on the stand-up circuit.

Robert Florence. Copyright: BBC Live

First Gig, Worst Gig: Robert Florence

Thursday 23rd March 2017

Burnistoun's Robert Florence - back with new live project Uncles - recalls varied pint-glass action, sexual nausea, and one famously disagreeable Scottish magician.

Desiree Burch Live

Desiree Burch interview

Sunday 19th March 2017

LA, New York, London, leafy Hertfordshire: Desiree Burch's career history features some mighty/slightly random locations, experimental theatre, sex-pumped stand-up, and lots of penises.

Dave Spikey Live

First Gig, Worst Gig: Dave Spikey

Thursday 9th March 2017

It's 30 years since Dave 'Jerry St Clair' Spikey started stand-up, so in a special extended First Gig, Worst Gig he takes us right back to the NHS days.

Beasts. Image shows from L to R: James McNicholas, Owen Roberts, Ciarán Dowd Live

BEASTS interview

Tuesday 7th March 2017

Who's the most fantastic BEAST? The sketch trio's new show will answer one of comedy's great questions.

Sarah Kendall: Australian Trilogy. Sarah Kendall. Copyright: BBC Live

First Gig, Worst Gig: Sarah Kendall

Thursday 2nd March 2017

The master storyteller Sarah Kendall on cokey agents, pizza-like pillows and a bizarrely unimpressed pensioner.

Tiffany Stevenson. Copyright: Steve Ullathorne Live

First Gig, Worst Gig: Tiff Stevenson

Thursday 23rd February 2017

The increasingly busy comic recalls helicopter heckles, drag buddies and a Bush dance.

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