Elderly child MARK SMITH (Russell Howard’s Good News BBC Three, Nick Helm’s Heavy Entertainment BBC Three and RUSSELL KANE tour support) presents his hotly anticipated debut stand up hour at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Expect laughs/fun/the death of an audience member (delete as applicable) as he tackles such thorny issues as elevators, earworms and the crushing realisation that all your ambitions are going unfulfilled, right guys! There’s also a joke about wanking.

One half of hotly-tipped double act DREGS alongside MAX DICKINS and one quarter of The Comedy Zone 2012, come and see all of MARK this time round (MARK will be performing for between 52 and 56 minutes depending on how the show is going.) Out of the vast number of stand-up shows at this year’s fringe, this is the ONLY one to be at this particular venue at this exact time.

MARK was a finalist in 2009’s So You Think You’re Funny competition, has appeared on Russell Howard’s Good News (BBC Three), presented on MTV2 and has written for 8 Out of 10 Cats (Channel 4). MARK also performs warm-up for Have I Got News For You (BBC One) and Room 101 (BBC One).
MARK can currently be seen gigging up and down the country at some of the best comedy clubs in the UK or in his room contemplating his future and looking on Twitter.
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What the press has said about Mark Smith:

‘A keen eye for untapped sources of funny’ Chortle

‘One to watch’ The Independent

‘Sharp, quick, well delivered…something rather special’ Three Weeks

LISTINGS INFORMATION
Mark Smith: The Most Astonishing Name in Comedy
Venue: Pleasance Courtyard – Bunker
Date: 3rd Aug – 25th Aug
Time: 9.35pm
Box Office: 0131 226 0000

For more information and press tickets, please contact: [email protected] or phone: Charlotte Davidson, Lottie Doran, Charlotte Lander or Dan Lloyd on:
Edinburgh: 0131 527 1588 / 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.