Sat 14th Jun 2025 at 6:15pm ends 7:15pm
The Jenny Lind Inn, High Street, Hastings, UK - Map
Hastings Comedy Festival 2025 presents:
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TweetBespectacled satirists Mike Shephard and Luke Connell return to Hastings to finally bring peace between the Saxons and Normans, with only one fully operational beard between them. Join them for an hour of silliness skewering history, politics, and the indignities of modern life. Mike has written extensively for BBC radio and TV comedy, including Have I Got News for You, The Now Show, Museum of Curiosity and The News Quiz. Luke is a North East circuit regular, and panellist on The Stand Comedy Club’s cult Nerds Just Wanna Have Fun (êêêê “a lovely stage presence...this is awesome”).
Age Restrictions:
16+
Venue opens at:
6:05pm
Venue closes at:
7:15pm
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Great show, but will make your granny blush.
Review left at 8:12am on Tue 21st Jun 2022
Review left at 12:06am on Tue 21st Jun 2022
Review left at 11:29pm on Mon 20th Jun 2022
The whole family enjoyed it, good variety lots of laughter.
Review left at 10:05pm on Mon 20th Jun 2022
I recall seeing Stephen K Amos taking on a similar character some years ago in Edinburgh to good effect and this portrayal was of equal merit. However the 'black dictator' gag wore a little thin too early and maybe the revelation that he was actually someone else should have come sooner. The gags worked well at times..the funniest being the reference to the Halifax man. There is a more interesting story in there somewhere. Overall well performed.
Review left at 9:25pm on Mon 20th Jun 2022
I found the story more informative than amusing. Having experienced the cancer business, chemo, radiotherapy with my wife and then for myself I know parts of cancer treatment be comedic and a little haphazard but Sarah's experiences came across as a little self indulgent. Some of the NHS references resonated but is it really understaffed....no it isn't. It is just inefficient and frankly poor 'value for money'. I felt sorry for Sarah who clearly is a naturally funny person but she needs to tell another story, find a different vehicle. This show goes to Edinburgh. It needs a hell of a tweak and some lessons in how to use the technology. Good luck with it. Return with something a little more subtle. By the way my wife died, not of cancer. Just remember joking about serious illnesses is tricky. I am sure you are a nice person...let that part of your personality come through.
Review left at 9:16pm on Mon 20th Jun 2022