FURTHER DATES ADDED AS FRANKIE WARD, IAIN STIRLING, JAMALI MADDIX AND JOHN ROBERTSON ANNOUNCED AS GUESTS
26th November – After four successful trial shows in 2025, The Audience Vs, the brand-new live comedy gaming show where audience members go head-to-head with celebrities, has announced a monthly residency at The Pleasance, London with new dates through 2026.
The one-of a kind tournament channelling late-night gaming nostalgia is hosted by Glenn Moore (Live At The Apollo, The Button Boys, Press X To Continue), created by The Observer’s Games Critic Simon Parkin (My Perfect Console podcast, Death by Video Game) and produced by Avalon (Taskmaster, Operation Mincemeat) with Ben Drayton as producer. Previous guests include Phil Wang, Pierre Novellie, Sarah Keyworth, Ellie Gibson, Ed Night, Sooz Kempner and Alex Kealy. The shows will take place on Friday 30th January, Thursday 26th February, Tuesday 31st March, and Tuesday 28th April, with upcoming guests including Frankie Ward, Iain Stirling, Jamali Maddix and John Robertson and further celebrities to be announced.
Can you come second in Mario Kart? Win a round of Street Fighter using only light kicks? Climb to the top of Nelson’s Column in Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate? The Audience Vs sees the audience team up against two revolving celebrities in a live video game showdown unlike any other, with chaotic rules thrown in. From Grand Theft Auto to Tekken, you and your fellow audience members will take on your favourite celebrities to see which team takes home the trophy. Celebrating well-loved classics from across gaming history – as well as indie gems you may never have heard of, no two shows are ever the same.
It’s the video games you know and love, played in ways their designers never intended.
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For more information please contact:
Perrine Davari – PDavari@avalonuk.com
Victoria Wedderburn – VWedderburn@avalonuk.com
Notes to editors
Simon Parkin
Simon Parkin is an award-winning journalist, author and video game critic for The Observer, and host of the popular My Perfect Console podcast where Simon invites well-known guests to pick the five video games they would like to immortalise on a fictional games machine. Simon is a contributing writer for the New Yorker, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, an Orwell Prize finalist, and winner of The Wingate Literary Prize. He has written about video games extensively for The Guardian, the New York Times and the New Statemen, for which he has received two awards from the Society of Professional Journalists. Simon is the author of The Island of Extraordinary Captives (winner of the Wingate Literary Prize 2023), A Game of Birds and Wolves, and Death by Video Game, and his work as been featured in The Best American Nonrequired Reading. His latest book The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad, tells the story of the botanists who protected the world’s largest seed bank during the 872-day siege of the city. It is a finalist in The Orwell Prize 2025 and The Royal Society Science Book Prize 2025, and an Economist Book of the Year.
Glenn Moore
Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Glenn Moore is a writer, broadcaster, stand-up and one of the best and most prolific joke writers in the country. In the world of gaming, Glenn is a presenter on the popular Press X To Continue (BBC/BBC Sounds), and co-hosts The Button Boys podcast with fellow comedians and avid gamers Sarah Keyworth and Pierre Novellie. Glenn is also a familiar face on TV, having appeared on the likes of Live At The Apollo (BBC), Have I Got News For You (BBC) and 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown (Channel 4). Elsewhere on television and radio, Glenn is a regular on The News Quiz (BBC Radio 4), The Great American Joke Off (CW) and The Stand Up Sketch Show (ITV), and has appeared regularly on Mock The Week (BBC). He has his own BBC Radio 4 comedy series ‘Glenn Moore’s Alamanac’ and can be heard daily as one quarter of ‘The Dave Berry Breakfast Show’ on Absolute Radio. Earlier this year Glenn took his latest and sixth hour, Please Sir, Glenn I Have Some Moore?, to the Edinburgh Fringe where it sold out with rave reviews. Glenn takes the show nationwide as part of his biggest tour to date with extra dates added due to demand.
About Avalon
Avalon is a multi-award-winning talent management, television production and live promotion group with offices in London, Los Angeles and New York. Avalon, Artists Rights Group and The Agency together represent a diverse and distinctive roster of artists including actors, comedians, writers and directors, among them Academy Award, BAFTA, Emmy, Tony and Olivier Award-winners.
Avalon is the UK’s largest independent television production company, with over 40 shows in production in the last year including: hit entertainment format Taskmaster (Channel 4 in the UK, Network 10 in Australia, TV4 in Sweden, TVNorge/Discovery+ in Norway); multi-Emmy award winning Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO); Not Going Out (BBC), the UK’s longest running sitcom on air; Tall Tales & Murder (BBC/RTE), a highly anticipated darkly comedic crime drama; upcoming live-action, sketch comedy series The Terrors Of Jordan Mendoza (Adult Swim); a brand new series of the iconic satirical puppet show Spitting Image: The Rest is Bulls*!t (YouTube) and Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly (Channel 5 in the UK, Network 10 in Australia). Avalon has produced over 4,000 episodes of programming for audiences in the UK, US and around the world, winning 39 Emmy Awards and BAFTAs from 100+ nominations.
Other landmark Avalon shows include Catastrophe (Amazon/Channel 4), Breeders (FX/Sky), Starstruck (HBO Max/BBC), Flatbush Misdemeanors (Showtime), Workaholics (Comedy Central), The Russell Howard Hour (Sky), TV Burp (ITV) and Fantasy Football League (BBC/ITV/Sky). Avalon has also produced over 60 comedy specials for various platforms including Amazon, HBO, Netflix and Sky, as well as numerous podcasts and radio shows, including over 300 episodes of the record-breaking, arena-touring podcast, Shagged. Married. Annoyed. with Chris & Rosie Ramsey. Avalon’s dedicated distribution arm licenses its catalogue of programmes and formats to over 200 territories worldwide.
Avalon also produces and promotes live comedy around the world and has promoted more winners and nominees of the prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Award than any other company. Avalon produced Newman and Baddiel: Live at Wembley, the UK’s first arena comedy show, Jerry Springer: The Opera, winner of four Olivier Awards, and is currently producing the Tony and Olivier award-winning musical, Operation Mincemeat in the West End and on Broadway.
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