Within minutes of getting up this morning, I had decided to set to work on putting together a press release for this month's Mostly, if only to make the most of a spare moment.
As I've moaned here countless times before, a backlog of admin always means I spend the tiniest amount of time working on my actual shows, so I was determined not to let this be the case today, hence the reason I was writing so early. It's all about using pockets of time that almost feel like they don't exist and thus making the most of them; so it was that I was busily Googling Davro over my Crunchy Nut Cornflakes.
See below for what I bought together, then why not book to come and see the show?
Press Release – 09.05.18
mostly comedy
a monthly comedy club,
at the sun hotel in hitchin
23rd
May’s installment of DOGGETT &
EPHGRAVE’s popular monthly club Mostly Comedy at Hitchin’s Sun Hotel features
a guest appearance from the legendary BOBBY
DAVRO alongside work-in-progress from local comic DAVID EPHGRAVE.
Davro - born Robert Christopher Nankeville - is a comedian, actor, singer and impressionist who’s been a familiar face in the UK since his major television breakthrough on the ITV variety show Live From Her Majesty’s in 1983.
His fame reached its peak in the mid-to-late 80s, when he appeared in his own primetime Saturday night shows Bobby Davro on the Box, Bobby Davro's TV Annual and Bobby Davro's TV Weekly, all for ITV, which topped the ratings for six consecutive years and made him a household name throughout the country. He then switched to the BBC in 1991 to make three more series: Public Enemy Number One, Rock with Laughter and the children’s game show Run the Risk.
In recent years, Davro has delved further into acting; most prominently, playing Terry Lonsdale in ITV’s Footballers’ Wives and Vinnie Monks in BBC1’s flagship soap EastEnders. His also no stranger to primetime reality TV, having competed on Celebrity Big Brother and Come Dine With Me for C4, and ITV’s Dancing on Ice.
DAVID EPHGRAVE is a comedian, actor and musician, whose material recently made it into the Daily Telegraph’s 20 Funniest One-liners of the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe and Comedy Central’s 35 Funniest Jokes of the Year.
Credits with Doggett & Ephgrave include eleven seasons with The Comedy Project at the Soho Theatre, plus countless shows on the Edinburgh, Brighton, Camden and Leicester Fringe. In 2013, they performed an episode of their sitcom Nick & Joe in London’s West End, alongside a cast that included Michael Barrymore and Norman Lovett (Holly in ‘Red Dwarf’)
Davro - born Robert Christopher Nankeville - is a comedian, actor, singer and impressionist who’s been a familiar face in the UK since his major television breakthrough on the ITV variety show Live From Her Majesty’s in 1983.
His fame reached its peak in the mid-to-late 80s, when he appeared in his own primetime Saturday night shows Bobby Davro on the Box, Bobby Davro's TV Annual and Bobby Davro's TV Weekly, all for ITV, which topped the ratings for six consecutive years and made him a household name throughout the country. He then switched to the BBC in 1991 to make three more series: Public Enemy Number One, Rock with Laughter and the children’s game show Run the Risk.
In recent years, Davro has delved further into acting; most prominently, playing Terry Lonsdale in ITV’s Footballers’ Wives and Vinnie Monks in BBC1’s flagship soap EastEnders. His also no stranger to primetime reality TV, having competed on Celebrity Big Brother and Come Dine With Me for C4, and ITV’s Dancing on Ice.
DAVID EPHGRAVE is a comedian, actor and musician, whose material recently made it into the Daily Telegraph’s 20 Funniest One-liners of the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe and Comedy Central’s 35 Funniest Jokes of the Year.
Credits with Doggett & Ephgrave include eleven seasons with The Comedy Project at the Soho Theatre, plus countless shows on the Edinburgh, Brighton, Camden and Leicester Fringe. In 2013, they performed an episode of their sitcom Nick & Joe in London’s West End, alongside a cast that included Michael Barrymore and Norman Lovett (Holly in ‘Red Dwarf’)
David’s solo acting credits include
playing John Lennon and Paul McCartney in the No. 1 UK tour of The
Roy Orbison Story, Buddy Holly in numerous UK / Ireland tours of Buddy
Holly and the Cricketers and Richard in the West End production of Dreamboats
and Petticoats. He took his first solo stand-up show, ‘…and
Ephgrave’ to the 2015 Brighton & Camden Fringe Festivals, his
second, Mostly David Ephgrave, to Brighton and Edinburgh in 2016, his
third, Now Who’s a Comedian?, to Edinburgh in 2017 – and is set to
take his fourth, David Ephgrave: My Part in His Downfall, to Edinburgh in August
2018. He has also kept a daily blog for five years.
The gig will be emceed by the “polished, natural comedians” (Camden Fringe Voyeur) DOGGETT & EPHGRAVE. The gig takes place at the Sun Hotel on Wednesday 23rd May. Doors open at 7:30pm, with the first act on at 8:00pm. Tickets are £11 and are available in advance via www.mostlycomedy.co.uk (where you can find information on forthcoming shows with HARRY HILL, RORY BREMNER, JAN RAVENS and SIMON DAY).
The gig will be emceed by the “polished, natural comedians” (Camden Fringe Voyeur) DOGGETT & EPHGRAVE. The gig takes place at the Sun Hotel on Wednesday 23rd May. Doors open at 7:30pm, with the first act on at 8:00pm. Tickets are £11 and are available in advance via www.mostlycomedy.co.uk (where you can find information on forthcoming shows with HARRY HILL, RORY BREMNER, JAN RAVENS and SIMON DAY).
Date: Thursday 23rd May 2018
Venue:
The Sun Hotel, Sun Street, Hitchin,
Hertfordshire, SG5 1AF
Time: Bar open all day. Doors at 7:30pm.
First act on at 8:00pm.
Admission:
£11.00, available in advance via www.mostlycomedy.co.uk