EDINBURGH 2013: CARL DONNELLY – NOW THAT’S WHAT I CARL DONNELLY! VOLUME V

Join Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominee CARL DONNELLY for a brand new collection of wry observations on current affairs and how we should all be dealing with them. In case the last twelve months have passed you by entirely, CARL’s new show promises a whistle-stop tour through issues such as Operation Yewtree and equal marriage alongside other slightly less pressing affairs like his newfound foray into life as a moustachioed vegan. (It was a dare.)

An Edinburgh Fringe favourite, CARL’s conversational sense of humour has seen him win awards for Chortle Best Newcomer and Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year. In 2009, he was also nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer. Since then, CARL has returned to Edinburgh with three solo shows as well as performing at some of the biggest comedy festivals in the world including; Montreal Just for Laughs, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Sydney Comedy Festival and Kilkenny Cat Laughs.

This year CARL and fellow-comic CHRIS MARTIN relaunched the Carl Donnelly and Chris Martin Comedy Podcast on Soundcloud and have gained over 40,000 subscribers to date. The boys will be podcasting throughout the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August and will be joined by a host of comic guests.

Well known by television viewers, CARL has made appearances on: Mock The Week (BBC Two), Russell Howard’s Good News (BBC Three), Stand Up For The Week (Channel 4) and Dave’s One Night Stand). His radio credits include: BBC 5Live’s The Back End of Next Week, Loose Ends (BBC Radio 4) and Act Your Age (BBC Radio 4), CARL is also a regular guest on TalkSPORT.

What the press has said about Carl Donnelly:

“Gripping, unmissable stand-up” The Guardian

“Excellent, fast-rising comic with pacy anecdotal routines”
Sunday Times

“Impossibly effortless” Fest

“This degree of innate comic talent is a rare and beautiful thing. Not to be missed” Broadway Baby

LISTINGS INFORMATION
Now That’s What I Carl Donnelly! Volume V
Venue: Upstairs, Pleasance
Date: 3rd Aug – 25th Aug (not 14th Aug)
Time: 8.30pm
Box Office: 0131 226 0000

For more information and press tickets, please contact: [email protected] or phone: Charlotte Lander, Lottie Doran, Charlotte Davidson, or Dan Lloyd on: Edinburgh: 0131 527 1643 / London: 020 7598 7222

AVALON PROMOTIONS

Avalon is one of the leading promoters of live comedy in the UK. Recent highlights include: RUSSELL HOWARD performing to over 240,000 fans with sell-out tour Right Here, Right Now; AL MURRAY’s twice extended show Al Murray The Pub Landlord The Only Way Is Epic, including two dates at the Queen’s Theatre, London; Edinburgh Comedy Award and the Barry Award winning RUSSELL KANE’s new tour Posturing Delivery; RICHARD HERRING returning to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for his 25th year; DAVE GORMAN’s Barry Award nominated sell-out tour Powerpoint Presentation; GREG DAVIES’s Edinburgh Comedy Award nominated, triple-extended, 109 date sell-out show Firing Cheeseballs at a Dog and new tour The Back of My Mum’s Head, including two dates at the Hammersmith Apollo; LEE NELSON’s sell-out date at the IndigO2 with Lee Nelson Live; ROB DELANEY selling out his UK debut London run at Soho Theatre in one hour from a single tweet; U.S.’s number one podcasting comedian PAUL F. TOMPKINS playing the UK for the first time at London’s Soho Theatre.