For a generation raised on
Live At The Apollo and The Michael McIntyre Roadshow, the LATE ‘N’ LIVE GUIDE
TO COMEDY will be a revelation.
Edinburgh Fringe audiences have, for over the past 25 years, gathered
like Romans to the Coliseum to watch comedians fight against hecklers at the
leading Gilded Balloon venue. These
people are renowned as the comedy world’s most unpredictable audience; never
sedated by a famous name - they expect laughs or they give better than they get.
To many it’s known as the
comedians’ graveyard, with some performances there becoming the cautionary
tales of comedy folklore, but that hasn’t deterred some of the best known names
in comedy wanting to take on the LATE ‘N’ LIVE crowd – a group of people who know
that they are in control.
Now for the first time,
narrated by LATE’N’LIVE veteran performer Lynn Ferguson, together with face to
face interviews with the comedians who also performed there - exclusive archive footage of LATE ‘N’ LIVE
can be revealed to those who never made it to the post-midnight show. Or indeed weren’t sober enough to remember
it.
Amongst those taking part
in the programme are Bill Bailey,
Russell Brand, Johnny Vegas, Jason Byrne, Zoe Lyons, Shappi Khorsandi, Fed
MacAulay, Caroline Rhea, Ross Noble and
Rich Hall.
The raw comedy where
anything can happen epitomises LATE ‘N’ LIVE.
These BBC programmes look at four specific angles of comedy. The first deals with Hecklers; the second Comedy
Virgins, the third Antics and the final looks at Scottish-ness (see notes at
end).
The woman behind both LATE
‘N’ LIVE and indeed the Gilded Balloon venue is the First Lady of Comedy, Karen
Koren who says; “When we started LATE ‘N’ LIVE it was the first late night
compilation show at the Edinburgh Fringe.
It couldn’t have happened anywhere else and was part of what makes this
festival brilliant. I’d literally collar
comedians during the afternoon or after their gigs and tell them that they were
booked. We never knew what the audiences
would be like, and in some ways the wilder they were meant that the challenge
was greater. There was and is nothing
bland about LATE ‘N’ LIVE; I’ve seen some of the best known names in comedy die
on their backsides and others pack a punch that I didn’t know they have. I’m more than pleased that we can show people
what real comedy is like”.
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