Jonny and the Baptists
Josie Long and Jonny Donahoe are putting on a show, for one night only, to learn all about parenting before they have a baby. Comedians Josie and Jonny are expecting their first child. Except they weren’t expecting to have a child now, and they are totally clueless. If you’ve not had
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February 22, 2018 // 0 Comments
Jonny Donahoe’s Thirty Christmases, which ran in Oxford last December, is coming to London for Christmas 2017. The festive comedy show with music stars Jonny Donahoe and Paddy Gervers (the duo otherwise known as Jonny & the Baptists) alongside Rachel Parris. After playing to
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September 19, 2017 // 0 Comments
Jonny and the Baptists are joining forces with Josie Long and Grace Petrie on a two week tour of the nation. Entitled Leftie Scum, the tour welcomes audiences of all political persuasion, but if you are a Tory, they will most probably take the piss out of you. After all, for all their glowing
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June 23, 2017 // 0 Comments
If you’re heading to Machynlleth Comedy Festival this weekend, we’ve got some TVO recommendations for you… Austentatious Ysgol Bro Hyddgen, Saturday 29th April, 2.15pm This quick-witted comedy troupe, including Cariad Lloyd and Rachel Parris, improvise a brand new Jane Austen
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April 24, 2017 // 0 Comments
So many podcasts, so little time. Here’s a handy list of British podcast episodes that feature the people we cover at TVO. The Comedian’s Comedian In this long-running podcast, stand-up comedian Stuart Goldsmith interviews fellow stand-ups about how and why they do comedy. Things
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April 21, 2017 // 0 Comments
The 6th annual LOCO Comedy Film Festival is coming to London in May 2017, with several TVO-connected films on the bill… Mindhorn + Q&A with filmmakers and cast Friday 5th May at 8.45pm In this comedy film from the minds of Julian Barratt and Simon Farnaby, has-been actor Richard
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March 27, 2017 // 0 Comments
Musical satirists and socialist comedic geniuses Jonny & The Baptists begin their latest UK tour next month, as their 2016 Edinburgh Fringe show Eat the Poor visits 37 towns and cities across 50 dates. As Jonny Donahoe and Paddy Gervers told TVO last summer, “Eat The Poor is all
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February 18, 2017 // 0 Comments
This week sees the long-awaited London run of Katy Brand‘s critically acclaimed I Was a Teenage Christian at the Soho Theatre, with shows every night from Monday 23rd to Saturday 28th January. But this is just the start of a long run of comedy across this Winter and early Spring for the
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January 23, 2017 // 0 Comments
Jonny and the Baptists are joining forces with Rachel Parris to create a festive show in Oxford this December. Yes, August has been and gone and as the Western World turns its eye towards talk of the tubby bloke in a big red suit, there’s another self-proclaimed ‘larger man’ in
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September 1, 2016 // 0 Comments
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