PRESS RELEASE for immediate release May 2025
There are 60 shows making up the Buxton Fringe’s biggest ever comedy section and for many comedians, reflecting on their own lives provides much inspiration.
The crumbliest comedian in town is Alasdair Beckett-King: King of Crumbs, a charismatic, multi-award-winning star whose TV appearances include Mock The Week - albeit just before it was cancelled. He is “either a genius or a very silly man”, according to Rolling Stone magazine. Alex Kealy is a former writer on MTW and has supported Jack Dee. Buxton Fringe-goers will see his latest show, The Fear, interrogating his own anxieties. Alex Leam: Tony Slattery and Me is the story of how an unknown comedian became friends with a comedy legend. It could happen to anyone. Previously heard on Radio 4 is Joz Norris bringing a new show about closure, entitled You Wait. Time Passes. Let’s hope he doesn’t crash the pips.
Fringe newcomer Graham Winter’s 500 Body Bags provides insights into the world of buying and selling, Jacob Nussey spills Amazon Warehouse’s darkest secrets in Primed. Abigail Rolling looks back on 30 years in criminal defence in Sh*t Lawyer and Scottish GP Jeannie Jones discusses future-proofing your sex life in Aphrodisiac.
Life can be tough too. Dom Hutchins: Politics takes us through the comedy highs and lows of living with cerebral palsy, George Coppen is not short on stories in Under The Boarddwarf and Stutter Island from award-winning comic James Beckett explores what it is like to navigate life with a stutter. Moving on… Really Really Slowly is Malcolm Hardee award nominee Stephen Catling’s comic musings on being autistic whilst recovering from a breakup.
Best-selling Edinburgh Fringe performer Phil Green attempts to save (nearly) all men with his Broken Man’s Guide To Fixing Others, Welshman Stuart Thomas grabs diet culture by the scruff of the neck in Bad Fatty, Toussaint Douglass (as seen on Richard Osman’s House of Games on BBC Two) is charmingly awkward about pigeons in his show Diver Gent and there is a dark and funny personal queer journey from Tristan Wolfe, Break:Out.
Henry Churney shows how stand-up comedy improves mental wellbeing with a double-bill of Behind The Laughter featuring students of his comedy course, and his own show, Life Lessons As A Grandfather. Behind the Laughter is on route to the Edinburgh Fringe having been chosen as a recipient of Edinburgh Fringe’s Keep it Fringe funding.
Not yet a grandmother but nevertheless embarking on navigating middle age rather painfully Is Hayley Ellis in Silly Mare. A multi award-winning comedian and MC, Ellis has supported Sarah Millican, John Bishop and Jason Manford. Zoe Bury is meanwhile exploring our obsession with perfection but with a few intriguing tangents - it turns out her rabbit is immortal.
Matt Drapper satirises his religious upbringing using biblical quotes in Sunday Service. Dreamshed Theatre explores the up and downs of showbiz via actor Bobby Roberts in We’ll Let You Know, Nik Coppin’s Comedy World is a cornucopia of anecdotes from his travels around the planet and Buxtonian Dr Andy Mycock joyously details life with an unfortunate surname in I Am Mycock. Locals will love this.
There is plenty more comedy on offer at Buxton Fringe. Just pick up a programme, see www.buxtonfringe.org.uk or download the free Buxton Fringe App.
The Fringe wishes to thank High Peak Borough Council, its Fringe Friends and the town’s many Fringe supporters and venues.
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