1 GUINEA STREET SHOWS:
Katie Norris: Go West, Old Maid WIP
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Cursed with the voice, face and arse of an angel, critically-acclaimed comedian Katie Norris embarks on a personal odyssey into the untamed realms of her imagination.
Tour support for Tatty Mcleod, Ania Magliano, Abi Clarke & Ed Night
“Tremendous…Wonderfully batty and apologetic” **** Guardian
“Norris cannot put a foot wrong.” **** The List
**** Chortle **** Scotsman
Next Big Thing Nominee 2025
Winner of Leicester Comedy Festival Best Show 2025
Winner of the Musical Comedy Awards 2023
Next Up Biggest Award in Comedy Nominee 2024
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WORST POET WINS
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Join us for another night of brilliant comedy & truly terrible poetry.
Spork! Poetry & Edward Tripp are teaming up to present another Worst Poet Wins; a poetry slam competition where only the very worst will win.
Prepare to be amused, revolted and bored, as eight comedians and poets perform their most stupid, cringe-worthy & pretentious poems, in a bid to find the crappest poet of all time. Featuring some special guests (TBA!) and a headline set from surreal stand-up poet and judge, Edward Tripp. Hosted as ever by the pathologically perplexed Chris White
Edward Tripp is an award-winning stand-up poet, with a penchant for all things dark and surreal. A frequent performer on comedy and poetry stages alike, he’s taken his work around the UK from The Edinburgh Fringe to the Museum of Comedy. Whether screaming about spatulas or soliloquising about Uncle Connor “who isn’t in the IRA,” Ed’s an always hilarious, prop-heavy and provocative performer.
"I’m not sure John Hegley cracked a smile" - the PRSD on last year's WPW.
Tickets: £8.00
This show will last for 2 hours including a break, and take place at No.1 Guinea Street (the snooker place in town near Namaste, EX1 1BS)
This is an adult orientated show containing stunts, c*nts and poetry, so 18+
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Spencer Jones: Work In Progress
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Hello, this will be a mishmash of ideas, bits and pieces, characters, music, and anything else I can get my hands on to experiment with in front of the brilliant city of Exeter crowd.
I’ll be reading bits out of the book probably, making notes as I go. Some of this will be seen for the first and last time some of it will go on and live in a full show.
Come watch me work stuff out. It won’t be Rubbish, but I will certainly let you see my cracks.
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Phil Nichol: Trying His Best (WIP)
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Phil has been getting better at comedy since March 1987. One of these days he may get it right. Until then Phil just keeps trying. If at first you don’t succeed, try and try your best.
This is a tour warm-up to figure out Phil’s best bits. Help Phil get better!
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Phil is doing 2 shows:
Time: 05/06/25 @20:45-21:45- Venue: 1 Guinea Street
Time: 06/06/25 @19:20-20:20- The Fat Pig
Chloe Petts: Work In Progress
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Following three sell-out shows, catch Petts (Live at the Apollo, HIGNFY) previewing her new show.
She's delving where she's never delved before: this is a show about sex. The problem is that she blushes every time she says that word. From Page 3, to the time she was cast as a sex offender, to the not-niche-at-all phenomena of vagina dentata, join 'one of the most accomplished stand-ups working in the UK today' (Scotsman) for her most titillating hour yet.
'When it comes to comedy, Petts is very much Premier League' (Evening Standard).
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Jordan Brookes: Unobservable Space
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The Elvis of comedy is back, with something not finished. I’m trying stuff out for a potential new show. I don’t know what it is yet. It might never be finished. I’ll do what I want quite honestly and it’s on you if the wheels come off. And they will come off. I intend to make them come off. You just watch those wheels come off.
‘profound and disgusting’ ★★★★The Skinny
‘majestic and challenging.’ ★★★★★ List
‘demolishes the conventions of comedy’ ★★★★ The Guardian -
Ed Tripp: Truth Pimp
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“Ed Tripp: Truth Pimp” is a surreal, genre-bending, standup poetry show, performed by award-winning Northern Irish comedian, multiple poetry-slam winner and former Bard of Exeter, Ed Tripp.
In 2022, Ed won the South West anti-slam - a special competition to find the worst performance poet in the UK. Not only did Ed win that competition, but he is the only City Bard to simultaneously hold the title of ‘best and worst’ poet at the same time.
Featuring model villages, Pandas, time travel and one unforgettable tribute to Nicole Kidman, “Ed Tripp: Truth Pimp” promises to plumb the depths of performance poetry, comedy and moral decency.
If you enjoy spoken-word poetry, this is the show for you. If you dislike spoken-word poetry, this is probably the show for you too. Expect the unexpected...and hold on tight.
‘Seek Edward out like buried treasure’ - Spencer Jones, Comedian and Actor
‘Utterly unexpectable and very moreish’ - Kate Copstick, The Scotsman
‘Absurd and Hysterical, he had the audience in stitches’ - Razz Magazine
‘A roaring fire of absurd wit’ - Corr Blimey
‘Speaking as a zookeeper - that was the most accurate impression of a turtle eating lettuce I have ever seen’ - Jenna Crawford, audience member (and Zookeeper).
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Time: 06/06/25 @19:00-20:00
Venue: 1 Guinea Street
Corpsing
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The hit murder mystery comedy night returns to Exeter! One comedian dies and the rest are suspects! Can the audience find the clues and catch the killer?
“This is such a great concept for a comedy night and you should totally go” - Glenn Moore
“Corpsing might be the best idea for a comedy night ever. It's unlike anything else on the comedy scene.” - Luke Rollason
“A wonderfully stupid idea for a comedy night” - John Luke Roberts -
Time: 06/06/25 @20:30-22:30
Venue: 1 Guinea St
Tony Law: Work In Progress
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Tony Law is in the middle of his 20 year never ending tour. It’s always a work in progress. Currently has a lot about cats and Marie Antoinette (too soon?). Also Jupiter the Planet. And Much Else. Now look below at some things someone somewhere wrote too.
Multi award-winning super loon Tony Law returns to with a new show of nonsense and absurdity. Some weird history and ghosts, and cats and dogs and wars and ducks and Britophilia. The older man with a childish mind and a naughty streak is always entertaining and original and naturally funny but not afraid to do simple shouty silly voices. A whirlwind of surreal farm boy hardcore whimsy.
**** (Telegraph)
**** (OnTheMic.co.uk)
**** (One4Review.co.uk)
"Takes post-modern stand-up to a dangerously funny new level&" (Guardian).
"The King of post-modern nonsense" (Telegraph).
As seen/heard on… Have I Got News For You (BBC One), The Alternative ComedyExperience (Comedy Central), 8 Out Of 10 Cats (Channel 4), Celebrity Mastermind (BBC One), Celebrity Squares (ITV) Never Mind The Buzzcocks (BBC Two), Heading Out (BBC Two), The Culture Show (BBC Two), Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe (BBC Two), Edinburgh Nights (BBC Two), Tony Law’s Surreal Guide To Surreal Comedy(Radio 4 Extra), Loose Ends and Infinite Monkey Cage(Radio 4) -
Simon Munnery: On Tour
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Simon Munnery – ‘one of the all-time great British stand-ups’ (Stewart Lee) – is back on tour in 2025.
Expect all your classic Munnery one-liners, sketches and anecdotes from the British Comedy Award nominee, serial innovator and ‘Perennial fringe maverick’ (Guardian).
Simon Munnery isn’t short on accolades: he’s an Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and Chortle Award winner, was the star of Comedy Central’s Alternative Comedy Experience and has been seen on BBC2’s Culture Show and heard on Radio 4’s News Quiz, amongst others.
When every room you're in
faintly reeks of urine
it is time
to wash your trousers.
'There’s something utterly refreshing about Munnery’s shows. You come out feeling like you’ve had a bath, an afternoon nap or a walk in the woods' ★★★★★ The Scotsman
‘One of the finest gag-writers in the business’ ★★★★★ The List
‘A genuine innovator in the land of the samey, and an annual must-see for any comedy connoisseur’ The Guardian -
Anna Keirle and Suzy Bennett: the Westcountry Pincer Movement
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Bringing their hit sell out new show to Exeter for the first time - Anna Keirle and Suzy Bennett are:
‘The Westcountry Pincer Movement!’
The Comedy Queen of Cornwall and the 'Janner Diana' put the jam/cream debate aside for a night of jokes, jingles and jiggly bits in their hilarious debut double-act show.
Expect silliness, songs, stories, stand-up and showing off as these Award Winning comedians share their life experiences and comical takes on the culture of living in the counties straddling the Tamar.
Anna will be paying £2.60* bridge toll to get over to Devon so let's give her a warm welcome.
*price correct at time of writing this
Anna Keirle - Star and writer of 'Wasson Cornwall' BBC Radio 4
'Daffy Cornish Bumpkin Anna has funny in her veins' - Chortle
Suzy Bennett - Winner of the Funny Women Award
'The physical presence and panache of a young Dawn French' - Chortle -