2014 Edinburgh Fringe

Lucy Beaumont: We Can Twerk It Out

  • Comedy (stand-up)
  • 5:45pm (60 mins)
  • 30 & 31 Jul; 1-11 & 13-24 Aug 2014
  • Pleasance Courtyard
  • £7 - £11
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33: Pleasance Courtyard

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The winner of the BBC New Comedy Award, Chortle Best Newcomer and star of BBC 3's Live at the Electric, Lucy Beaumont presents her hugely anticipated debut show. Spend an hour in Lucy's universe on the north-east coast with her unique blend of surreal, off-beat humour and big, big belly laughs. 'A new voice in stand-up both metaphorically and literally' (Chortle.co.uk). 'She's got the timing of Les Dawson ... an absolute natural' (Johnny Vegas). 'The stage Beaumont is a riot!' (Scotsman). 'A star is born' (Steve Bennett).

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Edinburgh Comedy Award - Best Newcomer nominees

Details on the six shows in the running in the Best Newcomer category at the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2014.

British Comedy Guide, 20th August 2014

How female comics took over the Fringe

At this year's Edinburgh Fringe there are almost as many jokes about feminism as there are about cats on the internet. Which is to say, lots of them. Bridget Christie, fresh from winning the Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Award (formerly the Perrier) last year, is back with an hour that tackles female circumcision and the ridiculous sexualisation present even in yoghurt adverts. Sara Pascoe's tour of women in history includes a delightfully sharp debunking of Page 3. Luisa Omielan is packing out a ballroom each night with Am I Right Ladies?!, a raucous celebration in which she sticks her fingers up at issues such as body fascism.

Alex Hardy, The Times, 14th August 2014

Top 10 Edinburgh Fringe newcomers

Remember the names ... (or better still, go check 'em out).

London Is Funny, 4th August 2014

My Edinburgh festival nightmare

Lucy Beaumont, Susan Calman, Carl Hutchinson and others survive humiliation in a homemade sandwich board, a hex involving the number two, and being upstaged by a giant rabbit in the audience.

The Guardian, 31st July 2014

Edinburgh Fringe 2014: The comedy highlights

The most interesting game each year is predicting which lesser-known names will have that magical August that propels them into the big leagues.

Hugh Montgomery and Holly Williams, The Independent, 26th July 2014

Lucy Beaumont: northerners funnier than southerners?

The north and south breed different senses of humour. Johnny Vegas looks at faults in himself while Jimmy Carr deflects outwards. My new gag gets laughs in Hull and nowt in Windsor.

Lucy Beaumont, The Guardian, 25th June 2014

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Up and coming BBC New Comedy Award winner Lucy Beaumont invites you into her world on the North East coast at Edinburgh Festival this August with her hugely anticipated debut show We Can Twerk It Out, a biographical journey over the last three years of her gigging life. Following the Fringe Lucy will be performing at the Soho Theatre for a string of consecutive dates at the beginning of October.

Lucy's surreal and offbeat humour has seen her enjoy a fast rise to stardom. She has won multiple accolades including the BBC New Comedy Award, the Chortle Award for Best Newcomer in 2012 and she was runner up in the Gilded Balloon's nationwide stand-up competition So You Think You're Funny?

Quickly becoming an established voice on the airwaves as both an actor and writer, Lucy presented her own BBC Radio 4 special in 2013 which was hosted by Johnny Vegas. Her sitcom pilot To Hull and Back was broadcast this June on BBC Radio 2 and is currently being developed in to a full series. Further credits include; The Unbelievable Truth, Dilemma, History Retweeted and The Magical Faraway Tree directed by Johnny Vegas (all BBC Radio 4), The Land of Green Ginger and Baby bird (both Radio 3) and Crush, a 90-minute monologue for Radio 4 which received a Silver Sony Radio Award. Lucy has also performed on BBC Three's talent showcase Live at the Electric.

Lucy was mentored in 2008 by Jeremy Dyson as part of a BBC initiative to find new northern comedic voices; subsequently she went on to write Bananas are Blue, a one-woman play which was produced by Theatre by the Lake and previewed at the Manchester Theatre festival in 2010. Lucy has performed in various theatres and toured nationally and in 2013 was part of The Comedy Zone, the Fringe's longest running and most prestigious new talent showcase at Edinburgh Festival.

Performances

Date Time Venue
30th Jul 2014 17:45 Pleasance Courtyard
31st Jul 2014 17:45 Pleasance Courtyard
1st Aug 2014 17:45 Pleasance Courtyard
2nd Aug 2014 17:45 Pleasance Courtyard
3rd Aug 2014 17:45 Pleasance Courtyard
4th Aug 2014 17:45 Pleasance Courtyard
5th Aug 2014 17:45 Pleasance Courtyard
6th Aug 2014 17:45 Pleasance Courtyard
7th Aug 2014 17:45 Pleasance Courtyard
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10th Aug 2014 17:45 Pleasance Courtyard
11th Aug 2014 17:45 Pleasance Courtyard
13th Aug 2014 17:45 Pleasance Courtyard
14th Aug 2014 17:45 Pleasance Courtyard
15th Aug 2014 17:45 Pleasance Courtyard
16th Aug 2014 17:45 Pleasance Courtyard
17th Aug 2014 17:45 Pleasance Courtyard
18th Aug 2014 17:45 Pleasance Courtyard
19th Aug 2014 17:45 Pleasance Courtyard
20th Aug 2014 17:45 Pleasance Courtyard
21st Aug 2014 17:45 Pleasance Courtyard
22nd Aug 2014 17:45 Pleasance Courtyard
23rd Aug 2014 17:45 Pleasance Courtyard
24th Aug 2014 17:45 Pleasance Courtyard

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