Permitted Fruit

06/08/2020

Co-producer Magic BanAnna was one of 20 womxn interviewed respectfully and extensively by Rachael Healy for this important Guardian article. Time for a change

For years, sexual predators have infested the live comedy scene. But female comedians are demanding action. Is this British standup’s moment?

12/05/2020

🍍 PANDEMIC FRUIT d22: Zoë Tomalin 🍍

★★★★★ “Wonderfully written, absolutely side-splitting and shot through with very dark humour” (Bunbury Magazine)

Like a Pez dispenser of masterfully nihilist observations, licked with cosmic horror, Zoë Tomalin has been firing dark liquorice satire into your radio-tellybox for years via HIGNFY, Mock The Week, The Now Show and The News Quiz.

📲 FOLLOW: Tomalin on Twitter
💻 READ: Succubus Magazine

11/05/2020

🍍 PANDEMIC FRUIT d21: Eleanor Morton 🍍

“Nuanced and exceedingly funny” (Fest)
“The Poster Girl for Awkward” (Chortle)

Our Scottish queen of the alternative scene Eleanor Morton is a nonconformist delight of inventive, intelligent, uncanny comedy. Always prepared for her postmortem photo's.

🎞 WATCH: Not 1 BUT 2 NextUp Comedy specials
🎙 LISTEN: BBC Sounds The Comedy Underground S1.ep9
💸 Keep her in Vitamin D: ko-fi.com/eleanormorton

08/05/2020

🍍 PANDEMIC FRUIT d20: Holly Burn 🍍

“Left field comedy queen” (To Do List)
“Sexy and bonkers like Twin Peaks” (Eddie Izzard)
“A proper mad comedian” (Stewart Lee)

Holly Burn unleashes a uniquely deranged, high-octane brand of surrealist hot nuts that turns stand up on its head.

🎞 WATCH: NextUp Comedy special Best of Burn
or take a sneaky peek at Harry Hill's Clubnite on the YouTube

07/05/2020

🍍 PANDEMIC FRUIT d19: Pope Lonergan 🍍

"From fearless and funny to heart-stoppingly raw" (The Evening Standard)

In the Before Times, sober stand-up & care-home worker Pope Lonergan was due to record a swish NextUp Comedy version of his eponymous club night, Pope's Addiction Clinic, where comedians confess their most problematic addiction behaviours to cathartic & grimly humorous effect. Fortunately he's pulled together a stellar line-up of comics in withdrawal from live gig work for a home-brewed version:

💻 STREAM: 9pm Fri 8th of May ~ nextupcomedy.com/now (Twitch.tv/ YouTube/ fLIVE)
🎞 WATCH: his short-film 40 Dihydrocodeine on YouTube
💸 Keep him in PPE: buymeacoffee.com/popelonergan

06/05/2020

🍍 PANDEMIC FRUIT d18: DragProv 🍍

"From Eaton Messe’s cutting jokes to Christian Adore’s excellent singing, Dragprov are bringing glamour to improvised comedy" (The Guardian).

Loveable soft-boy Christian Adore (Francesca Maria Forristal) & sassy queen Eaton Messe (Ed Scrivens) are a drag double-act "serving wit as sharp as their contour(s); jinks as high as their brows; memories that will stick with you longer than last night’s glitter." How? By improvising spoof Broadway Musicals and comedy hip hop songs to audience suggestions, a la 'Who's Line Is It Anyway?', all whilst performing in drag. We agree with The Pink Times, *there aren't enough superlatives*.

🎞 WATCH: every video on their YouTube Channel
📲SET A REMINDER: to book tickets to see them as soon as this plague is over .com
💻 FOLLOW their incredible IG (and be prepared to get 💦)
💸 Keep them in glitter: paypal.me/Dragprov

05/05/2020

🍍 PANDEMIC FRUIT d17: Sarah Keyworth 🍍

"prowling around quietly and precisely like some kind of comedy cat" (Chortle). Edinburgh Best Newcomer 2018 nominee Sarah Keyworth has a stage presence and manner of story-telling so self-effacing, warm & inclusive that the usual antagonists are manoeuvred into a place of empathy without ever realising that they have been bamboozled. It is a marvel to behold and extremely funny to boot.

🎙 BBC Sounds You'll Do (with fellow stand-up and gf Catherine Bohart)
🎞 ITV The Stand Up Sketch Show (S01E04) or her continuously funny instastories/IGTV
💸 buymeacoffee.com/sarahkeyworthcomedian

04/05/2020

🍍 PANDEMIC FRUIT d16: Heidi Regan 🍍

BBC Comedy Award Winner 2017 Heidi Regan builds comedy with the perfect precision of a Swiss watch, delivering impeccably structured, philosophical gems every time. Let her pour pure liquid comedy in your ears.

📻 PODCAST: Thin Layer of Film

26/04/2020

Downtime doesn't have to be fruitless when you can take advantage of some sweet, sweet lockdown learning: 🌟 Super-producer/writer/stand-up is offering a 2h live (non-interactive) seminar in comedy collaboration this Tuesday (28th April) for FREE!* Includes illustrious guest lecturers, like Edinburgh Best Newcomer Award nominee 🍑 Book your place with :HowToBeAnAmazingCollaborator
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/comedy-101-how-to-be-an-amazing-collaborator-tickets-1033593205
We 🍍🍍🍍🍍🍍 recommend
*donation to Nottingham YMCA encouraged for those who can afford

24/04/2020

🍍PANDEMIC FRUIT d15: Sophie Duker🍍

Our favourite triple-threat, Sophie Dukebox is a fast rising star of comedy panel-shows, podcasts (GrownUpLand with Heidi Regan) and her own Edinburgh Best New Act 2019 nominated solo show VENUS, exploring the fetishisation of black women’s bodies. Sexy, sophisticated, side-eye comedy from an E150d powerhouse you don’t want to miss.

🎙BBC Sounds: The Book of Polyamory
💻FOLLOW on Instagram
💸 Send her love: paypal.me/dukebox or DM for a £4 ‘How to take Nudes’ ezine – all proceeds to charity

23/04/2020

🍍PANDEMIC FRUIT d14: Ali Brice🍍

"A twinkle-eyed comedy natural" (ShortCom) Ali Brice's comedy melts you into a warm fever dream of absurdism, silliness and heart.

🎞 His NextUp Comedy special using code "TWICEASBRICE" for a free trial month!
IGTV: LadPad with Joz Norris: instagram.com/twicebricebrice/channel/
💸 Get him out of that bin: ko-fi.com/twicebricebrice

22/04/2020

🍍PANDEMIC FRUIT d13: Kemah Bob🍍

She’s blessed us from Texas and 🔥 the British comedy scene with sweet lashings of razor-sharp, silly wise and intersectional stand-up. Kemah Breon Bob is a comedian, actor, C-E-Hoe of FOC It Up! (Femmes of Colour Comedy Club) and sometime drag-king, Lil’ Test Ease. You're going to want to get next to all of her.

✊🏾 Follow: FOC IT UP Comedy Club
📻 LISTEN: Napoleon Moon on BBC Radio 4: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000dynd