English Stand Up Comedy - Alex Kumin & Hatty Preston

Blast Off Comedy is making the city of love the city of laughs! All of our comedy shows are 100% in English and every show features a different line-up so each show is unique!!

Who is ?

Alex Kumin's bold and whip smart standup delights crowds across the city of Chicago and around the US. She is an alumni of the nation's longest running independent standup comedy showcase, The Lincoln Lodge, through which she also teaches Chicago's favorite all-female standup class, Feminine Comique. Her monthly showcase, Diamond Comedy Hour, takes place at the Chicago Laugh Factory on the first Friday of the month, featuring the premiere female comedians in the city and beyond. She has had the pleasure of working with Patton Oswalt, Maria Bamford, Tom Green, Rory Scovel, The Lucas Brothers, Aparna Nancherla, Greg Fitzsimmons, Jen Kirkman, and Todd Barry, among others and was selected as one of eight comedians at Gilda's Laughfest - Best of the Midwest Competition 2017. She made her television debut on WCIU's "Chicago's One Night Standup" and has appeared in NBC Universal's Breakout Festival ('16, '17, ‘18), Limestone Comedy Festival, Orlando Indie Comedy Fest and The Chicago Comedy Exposition. In 2016 she was named a comic to watch by Timeout Chicago and was one of Chicago Reader's standout comedians of the year. She has been featured in Chicago Magazine as a comedian with "unapologetic honesty", as she tackles heavy hitting social issues like gender inequality and thigh chaffing.

Who Is ?

Hatty is a London-born, Chicago-built, Liverpool-living comedian.

She has opened for major US and UK comics including Theo Von, Chris DiStefano, Jessica Kirson and Jack Whitehall.

In Chicago she performs at top comedy clubs across the city including Laugh Factory (her home club), Zanies, Lincoln Lodge and Comedy Bar. Across the US she has worked at major venues including: The New York Comedy Club and The Stand (NYC); The Creek and The Cave and East Austin Comedy Club (Austin, Texas); Zanies Nashville and Madison's Comedy on State.

In London she is a regular at Top Secret, Angel Comedy, Boat Show and Big Belly. She is also a producer and host on the London chapter of Don't Tell Comedy as well as running the very popular 'The Big Fizz' in London's Notting Hill.

As an actress, Hatty has had roles on Call The Midwife and Cuckoo but is best known for playing Princess Maribel in Lionsgate's 'The Royals' and for originating the role of Minty in Jennifer Saunders's 'Viva Forever!' in London's West End.

Why does the ticket cost 1,27€?

This small fee reserves your spot at the show and helps us manage the capacity at the venue as seating is limited. And in fact, we don't keep any of this money and it all goes to Eventbrite.

The business model of our show is that it is crowd funded 🙂 That means you can enter the show with a very small reservation fee + the purchase of a drink (for the bar) and that you pay what you can after the show to support the artists. This allows people who can't afford to come to a normal ticketed show to experience live comedy at a reasonable price! For those who can afford it, we like to suggest 12€ per person. Thank you for supporting live comedy!

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