BALHAM COMEDY FESTIVAL - JOHN HEGLEY and MARK THOMAS COMBO - 15/07/24

PICTURED: John Hegley PHOTO: Jackie Di Stefano

Performance poet extraordinaire John Hegley is one of the few poets in the UK likely to be recognised in the street and his poetry is just as distinctive.

A poet, editor, comedian, musician, songwriter, glasses-wearer and much more, he finds poetry in the everyday and wants to put it back there. In a career spanning four decades John has captivated and devastated audience all over the country, in theatres and festivals, at gigs at the Edinburgh Festival, and with countless appearances on radio and television. He has written a number of collections of poetry, ranging from the surreal through the humorous to the personal and emotional. Recurring themes in his poems include, notably, glasses, dogs, romans and reminiscences of his childhood in Luton.

This new compilation shows the breadth of his appeal, with seriously funny, cleverly comic poems on everything from love, family, France, art and the sea, to dogs, dads, gods, taxidermy, carrots, spectacles and - of course - potatoes.

”Family life would be a lot easier if you could just open the cupboard and pull out your Hegley every time things got fractious, heated or miserable.” - THE LIST

Mark Thomas is 61 and has been doing stand up and theatre for 39 years and this show is back to stand up.

Jokes, rants, politics, play and the occasional sing song. If you don’t know what he does ask your parents. In his time he has won awards (current total is now officially ‘fuckloads’), forced a politician to resign, changed the laws on tax and protest, become the Guinness Book of Records world record holder for number of protests in 24 hours, taken the police to court 3 times and won, walked the length of the Israeli Wall in the West Bank and generally mucked about trying to have fun and fuck the right people off.

This show is more of the above.

“One of the few stand-ups still to carry the political standard of alternative comedy.” - CHORTLE

PICTURED: Mark Thomas

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- this event is 65% seated / 35% standing (seating first come first served)

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