Laughing Horse New Act of the Year - Stand-up competition

  

 

 
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2010 Heats
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LONDON
Soho
12 Jan, 19 Jan, 26 Jan, 2 Feb, 9 Feb,
Camden Crown & Goose
20 Jan, 3 Feb
Earls Court
Jan 11, Jan 14, Jan 16, Jan 18, Jan 21, Jan 23, Jan 25, Jan 28, Jan 30, Feb 1, Feb 4, Feb 6, Feb 8, Feb 11, Feb 13, Mar 4, Mar 8
Kingston
Jan 30
Piccadilly
Jan 7, Jan 21, Feb 4, Feb 11
Richmond
Jan 19, Jan 16, Jan 17, Jan 23, Jan 24, Jan 31, Feb 7, Feb 21, Feb 28
Green Park
Jan 8, Jan 15, Jan 22, Jan 29, Feb 5, Feb 12, 16 Feb
AROUND THE UK
Leicester
Feb 10
Bury
Jan 20
Halifax
Jan 21
Brighton
Jan 9, Jan 16
Edinburgh- Meadow Bar
Feb 6, Feb 7
Edinburgh - Beehive
Feb 5
Newcastle
Feb 12
Bristol
Feb 11
Cambridge
Jan 29
Quarter Finals
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Earls Court
Mar 11, Mar 13, Mar 15, Mar 18, Mar 20, Mar 22, Mar 25, Mar 27, Mar 29, Apr 1, Apr 8, Apr 10
Piccadilly
Mar 11
Richmond
Mar 14, Mar 21, Mar 28
Green Park
Mar 12, mar 19, Mar 26, Apr 2, Mar 9, Mar 16, Mar 23, Mar 30,Apr6
Edinburgh - Meadow Bar
Apr 3, Apr 4
Semi Finals
at Laughing Horse Earls Court
Thursday April 15th
Doors open 7.30pm, show 8.30pm - 11pm, bar until midnight.
Entry £7.50 (or £13.50 with a meal)  
 
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Friday April 16th
Doors open 7.30pm, show 8.30pm - 11pm, bar until midnight.
Entry £7.50 (or £13.50 with a meal)  
 
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Saturday April 17th
Doors open 7.30pm, show 8.30pm - 11pm, bar until midnight.
Entry £7.50 (or £13.50 with a meal)  
 
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Thursday April 22nd
Doors open 7.30pm, show 8.30pm - 11pm, bar until midnight.
Entry £7.50 (or £13.50 with a meal)  
 
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Friday April 23rd
Doors open 7.30pm, show 8.30pm - 11pm, bar until midnight.
Entry £7.50 (or £13.50 with a meal)  
 
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Saturday April 24th
Doors open 7.30pm, show 8.30pm - 11pm, bar until midnight.
Entry £7.50 (or £13.50 with a meal)  
 
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The Final
The Dogstar, Brixton
Sun May 30th
at the Dogstar, Coldharbour Lane, Brixton
Doors Open 7.30pm
Show 8.30pm - 11.30pm
After Show Party& DJ's until 4am
Entry £14 (Reserved Seating) or £12 (General Admission)
 
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2010 Competition
AND THE WINNER IS...

2010 Winners

Congratulations to the 2010 Winners

Winner - Julian Deane
2nd - Andrea Hubert
3rd - Daniel Smith
Special Mention - Richard Rycroft
     

Click Here for a review of the performers from Chortle

   

Click here for New Act Final Photos in Facebook - from the heats and including more from the Final

       
The full line-up at the 2010 Final was...

 

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Daniel Smith
Dan Wright
David Gibson
Mark Cornell
Inel Tomlinson
Mark Restuccia
Alan Sharp
Julian Deane
Anna Freyberg
Robert Comminskey
Richard Rycroft
Andrea Hubert
Pete Beckley

2010 SEMI FINALISTS
Congratulations to all of our finalists below, and also the Semi Final runners up that narrowly missed out on this years Final: Liam Williams, Adam Staunton, Chris McGlade, Rory O'Hanlon, David Hannah and Kevin B

13th April - The 2010 New Act of the year Semi Finalists are...

Thur 15th - Danny ward, Ian Smith, Adam Staunton, Rob Carter, Abigail Watts,Daniel Smith, Liam Williams, Suzi Ruffell, Joe Davies, Richard Gadd, Simon Douglass, Hatty Ashdown, Paul Langton, Stuart Mitchell  and  Paul Sweeney.

Fri 16th - David Gibson, Paul Laight, Paul McGarrity, Kevin Shevlin, Carys Willims, Andrea Hubert, Alan Sharp, Demitri & Demitri, Nabil Abdulrashid, Claire Parker, Renata Muss, Tony Jameson, Will Howells, Carly Smallman, Smayles & Payne and  Laurence Tuck

Sat 17th - Damian Kingsley, Inel Tomlinson, Christopher Scoular, Baker, Murray Cummings, Thomas Walker, Nico Yearwood, Andrew Doyle, Christopher McGlade,, Russell Powell, David Keeling, Richard Fox, Robert Beckett, Kevin B, and  Nathanial Metclafe

Thur 22nd - Rory O'Hanlon, Richard Rycroft, Enda Muldoon, Elena Procopiu, Max Dowler, Julian Deane, Ryan Cull, Duncan Hart, Dan Wright, Chris Pacey, Anthea Neagle, Dougie Hastings, Linus Lee Bowman, Phil Boothman, John Kearns, and  Romesh Ranganathan

Fri 23rd - Lloyd Griffith, David Hannah, Mark Cornell, Matt Richardson, Adam Belbin, The History Girls, Surb Sandhu, Mark Jearey, Leo Kearse, Ben Van Der Velde, Spencer Owen, Luke Thompson, Robert Comminsky, Helen Arney, Karel Hutter, and  Mark Simmons

Sat 24th -Nick Brown, Masud Milas, Mark Davidson, Peter Beckley, Paul Moynihan, Mark Restuccia, Lewis Charlesworth, Sarah Hendricx, Hannah Warman, Finlay Taylor, Mike Wood, Adnan Ahmed, Jonathan roberts, Ana Freyburg, Tim Shoshodia, and  Tom Tolson

Sorry for the lack of updates - for the Quarters - we'll be back with news of the first finalists once the semi's start!

9 Feb: Due to health and saftey issues at the LH Soho venue we have decided to cancel all shows at this venue as we cannot guarentee the safety of performers or audience members. Please note that all heats and quarter finals due to be held there have now been moved to our Green park, Goat Tavern venue
25 Jan: Due to such high demand for places in the competition we have added another additionl heat on March 4th at Laughing Horse Earls Court.
    
Qualifiers through: Earls Court Jan 30th: Dan Smith, Tom Stranden, Juliette Stern
Qualifiers through: Kingston @ The Goat Jan 30th: Peter Beckley, Fraser, Samer Selby, James Revell
Qualifiers through: Cambridge Jan 29th: Liam Williams, Justin Pranks, William Morris, Richard Todd, Daniel Spinks
Qualifiers through: Goat Tavern Jan 29th: Richard Rycroft, Kieran Boyde, Hannah ISherwood, Julia Clark, Toby Pierra, Paul Fung
Qualifiers through: Earls Court Jan 28th: Mark Cornell, Chrristopher McGlade, Taylor Glen, Marie Connelley, Jo Fibee
Qualifiers through: Soho Jan 26th: Tom McDonnell, Carly Smallman, Joe Daniels, Mickel Kossew, Phil Byrne (The second)
Qualifiers through: Earls Court Jan 25th: Danny Ward, Smales & Payne, Mark Davison, Sammantha, Mark Sale, Paul mcGarity
Qualifiers through: Richmond Jan 24th: Sasha Distilled, Steve Gray, Tim Rivettm David Hannah, Laura Carr, Julian Deane
Qualifiers through: Richmond Jan 23rd: Romesh Ranganathan, Russell Powell, Abi Bruce, Michael mooney, Dave Woods, Gary Turk
Qualifiers through: Earls Court Jan 23rd:: Mark Stephenson, Dougie Hastings, Sarah Pearce, Ola Da Vinchy, Jackson Voohar
Qualifiers through: Goat Taven Jan 22nd: Baker, Stacey Adams, Stu Richards, Tom Neenan, James Abbott, Suzi Ruffell, Luke Thompson
Qualifiers through: Halifax Jan 21st: Andy Staunton, Andy Woolton, Karl White, Eddie french, Will Duggan, Joe Bronehead
Qualifiers through: Piccadilly  Jan 21st: Mark Restuccia, Sarah Iles, Ian Rigby, Adam Larter, Dan McKee, Paul Moynihan 
Qualifiers through: Earls Court Jan 21st: Nick Brown, Kirst Mac, Inel Tomlinson, John Chambers, Hatty Ashdown
Qualifiers through: Bury Jan 20th: Hayley Ellis, Mr Kenyon, Phillip cooper, Curtis Threadgold, Ben Lawes
Qualifiers through: Camden Jan 20th: Sam Quinn, Alex Clissod-Jones, Sally Tatum, Linus Lee Bowman, India McLeod, Luisa Omelian
Qualifiers through: Soho Jan 19th: Mike Sheer, Will Howells, Norman cho, Barnaby Slater, Angelo Makri, Nick Rado, Geoff Brown

22 Jan: Due to such high demand for places in the competition we have added an additionl heat on March 8th at Laughing Horse Earls Court.

Qualifiers through: Earls Court Jan 18th: Laurence Tuck, Lloyd Griffiths, The Beta Pales picnic, Joe Wells, Ben Morgan, Will Marsh
Qualifiers through: Richmond Jan 17th: Christ Turner, Paul Laight, Ben Van Der Velde, Gemma Goggin, Kevin Malsen, Vinny McHale, Mike Lee
Qualifiers through: Earls Court Jan 16th: Rob Carter, Lindsay Sharman, Jay Hampson, Simon Douglass, Carys Williams, Rachel Stubbings
Qualifiers through: Richmond Jan 16th: John Kearns, Luke Graves, Mark Simmons, Charlie Duncan, Joe Davies
Qualifiers through: Brighton Jan 16th: Kevin Shevlin, Carl maxim, Sam Savage, Rob Dumbrell, Kerry Herbert
Qualifiers through: Goat Tavern Jan 15th: Stephanie Lang, Duncan hart, Matt Whiteley, Christian Ancliff, Blossom, McNeil and Pamphilion
Qualifiers through: Earls Court Jan 14th: Ian Smith, Robin Buckland, Thomas Walker, Lauwrie Turner, Elena procopiu

Qualifiers through: Soho Jan 12th: Tim Shishodia, Andrew Doyle, Rob Beckett, Masud, Fraser Millward

Qualifiers through: Earls Court Jan 11th: Ed Bainbridge, Ed O'Meara, Rory O'Hanlon, Billy Hill, Timothy Lock, Damian Kingsley

Qualifiers through: Richmond Jan 10th: Rich Heap, Ric Nicholls, Abigail watts, David Keeling, Bobby Carroll

Jan 10th : First Pictures from the competition added to our facebook group (will be regular updates to the photos on Facebook this year!) :  http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=8780140498&view=all

Qualifiers through: Brighton Jan 9th: Jac Bayles, Karl Davidson, Ged Butcher, Alex Petrovic, Stephen Nelson

Qualifiers through: Goat Tav Jan 8th: Richard Fox, Dave Smith, Max Dowler, Matthew Highton, Mark Burrows, TOBY

First qualifiers through: Piccadilly Jan 7th: Jonathan Grant, Sam Furniss, Mark Jearey, David Kelly, Michelle Strutt & Murray Cummings

17th Dec 2009: Tickets are now on sale on-line for all heats in London, all quarter finals, the semi-finals and Final

27th Oct 2009: The 2010 is open for entrues from today, take a look around these web pages for details of how to enter the 2010 competition

Format of the Competition

  

1. Overall Information:

In all rounds the winners and runners-up will be announced on the night - if an act cannot stay until the end of the evening they should ensure that the laughing Horse Promoters have their contact details to inform them of progression to the next round. If an act is uncontactable then we reserve the right to replace that act with another act.

2: Heats

(a) The Winner and four runner-up acts at each heat will qualify for the quarter-finals by audience voting. All competitiors will progress to the London Quarter Finals except from the Edinburgh, Newcastle, Bolton and Halifax heats. Competitors in Edinburgh will progress to the Quarter Finals in Edinburgh and qualifiers from Newcastle, Bolton and Halifax can choose between a London or Edinburgh Quarter Final. 

(b) Additional qualifiers from heats may be decided by The Laughing Horse Promoters during the course of the first round, if further acts warrant being put through to the quarter finals stage

(c) Acts will perform sets of up to 5 minutes in the heats

3: Quarter Finals

(a) The Winner and one runner-up act at each quarter final will qualify for the semi-finals by audience voting.

(b) Additional qualifiers, and best runner's-up  from the quarter finals will be decided by The Laughing Horse Promoters during the course of the quarter finals.

(c) Acts will perform sets of up to 5 minutes in the quarter Finals

4. The Semi Finals

(a) The Winner of each of the six semi-finals will qualify for the final by a mixture of audience voting and voting from Laughing Horse Promoters and comedy industry professionals.

(b) The remaining six Final places will be decided by laughing Horse Promoters and comedy Industry judges from the best runners-up from each of the semi-finals – using average scores across all semi-finals - depending on the strength of individual semi-finals and semi-finalists this may mean more going through from one semi-final and less from others.

(c) An additional Final place will go to the winner of the Laughing Horse's Brighton Fringe New comedy competition to be held during May 2010 at the Brighton Fringe, making a 13th finalist.

(d) Acts will perform sets of up to 6 minutes in the semi-finals

5. The Final

(a) The Winner, runner-up and third place acts will be announced on the night, along with any acts the judges decide to give an honourable mention.

(b) The Winner, runner-up and third place acts will be decided by a panel of Judges that will inclide a selection of Comedy Industry professionals, promoters and acts - These judges will be announced before the final.

(c) Acts will perform sets of up to 7 minutes in the Final

At all stages of this competition the Laughing Horse Promoters decisions are final. Laughing Horse Comedy reserve the right to make any decisions or changes that we see fit regarding this competition, at any time.

If you have any questions, please contact us on  info@laughinghorse.co.uk

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2009 Winner SAM GORE

2009 Sam Gore

2008 Winner Darren Ruddell

2008 Winner Darren Ruddell

2007 Winner Daniel Rigby

2007 Winner Daniel Rigby

2006 Winner Carl Donnelly

2006 Winner Carl Donnelly

2005 Winner James Branch

2005 Winner James Branch

2004 Winner Russell Kane

2004 Winner Russell Kane

2003 Winner Marek Larwood

2002 Winner Greg Davies

2002 Winner Greg Davies

2001 Winner Matt Blaize

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