Brought to you by (Perrin & Saunders) part of the team behind Olivier Award-winning cabaret sensation La Clique, The Crack is an explosive combination of stand-up, variety and sidesplitting comic performance. The big bash will be the closing night party for the Bulmers International Comedy Festival this year blowing the audience away witha lucky dip of brilliant acts, ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous, where the audience always comes out the winner.

Presiding over Front of House is crowd dominatrix and the ‘world’s last surviving female sword swallower’ Miss Behave(La Clique) reining in the chaos onstage and off with trademark sass and sparkle featuring Phil Kay, Earl Okin, Nina Conti and the Monk, Jon Hicks, Kalki Hula Girl, Woody bop Muddy and his Record Graveyard and Dr Stewart and more

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Prepare to be amazed, entertained with an absolutely stellar cast of comic geniuses and variety virtuosos.

The line-up so far includes a diverse bunch of superb talent from some highly unusual suspects, including;

Multi-award winning, legendary Scotsman, Phil Kay, the original comic brave-heart, will also be onboard. This effervescent comedy troubadour darts around the room powered by far-out philosophic ramblings, delivered as fun-sized brain filth. As Time Out says, “Kay truly is a mesmerising headf**k genius”

Variety circuit veteran, Earl Okin brings a “timeless musical genius and sex symbol act” (chortle) into the mix. An unlikely and off-beat heart throb, and a master of comic timing, with staggering musical credentials, Earl has performed alongside jazz legends such as Adelaide Hall, Cleo Laine and Stephane Grappelli, and supported rock and roll royalty, from Van Morrison to Paul McCartney.

Miss Behave has taken that old ‘variety is the spice of life’ adage truly to heart and will deliver a superb selection of speciality acts…

BBC New Comedy Award winner Nina Conti and Monk, are the double act of the moment. More than ventriloquism, Nina and her delightfully depressed monkey sidekick take deconstruction and comedy to a whole new level. Funny, touching and just a little bit

rude, you’ll wonder just who’s zooming who in this brilliant new take on a time-honoured comic tradition.

 “Superb, Conti is utterly endearing and the gags come thick and fast”  Metro

Variety’s answer to Picasso, Jon Hicks will enthrall with a high-skill repertoire of artistic oddities, including his legendary rapid fire, outsized paintings. Delivered with incredible dexterity, bad-boy attitude and immaculate timing to a killer soundtrack. Seeing is believing in this unique “Painting Beyond Numbers” act performed with stylish aplomb by a variety master.

And the night gets even hotter when Miss Behave throws variety-to-die-for into the mix…

Naughty, nice and very highly skilled, hula-hooping sensation Kalki Hula Girl also joins the bill. A whirling dervish of physical dexterity, Kalki is at turns both comic and absurdly sexy with her hilarious take on rock star attitude. A lesson in entertainment multi-tasking, you will be simultaneously amused and amazed.

“Exquisitely talented Hula-Hooper...seemingly defying the laws of nature”    Time Out

And just when you thought it couldn’t possibly get any better, Miss Behave plays her trump card in the form of the classic, cultish joker-in-the-pack, Woody Bop Muddy and his Record Graveyard. Taking to the stage with the fury of the Siege of Leningrad but armed with nothing more than a selection of LPs, CDs, and his trusted ‘Golden Hammer’, Woody invites the public to exercise their democratic right to twist, shout and perhaps even revolt, over modern music. In a fury of ritualistic rice throwing, Woody plays some of your best-loved and most-hated tunes and then puts each record’s fate to an audience vote, with the less popular pop music being smashed into oblivion.  Bring your own rice!

“A breath of fresh lunacy” The Guardian

Bucking the traditional variety format of “MC-act-MC”, the night will instead be seamlessly strung together by the effortless charm, grace and charisma of the divine Dr Stewart. With a diverse biography, Dr Stewart is a 6ft 5in classically trained ballet dancer who has performed on the Sony award-winning ‘Bespoken Word’ Radio 4 show and appeared in the Sci-Fi smash hit The Fifth Element. Verbally versatile, thoroughly engaging and endearingly bizarre, Dr.Stewart delivers dangerously contagious, spontaneous humour. Perfect timing, visually exciting and an unbridled talent for crowd pleasing. Utterly unique.

Don’t miss the The Crack, a chaotic, fun-filled, electrically eclectic mix, celebrating all that is funny, diverse and truly original in live comic entertainment.

Suitable for Over 16's.