We book well known acts for big events as well as managing its own stable of breaking acts. We know which acts like the mountain and we know which acts the mountain likes.

We also offer a full service with respects venue and event managment, corporate do’s, weddings, anniversarsies, birthdays or bar mitzvahs.

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Have a look at some of our acts past present and future.

If you are interested in putting on a comedy night, please get in touch to discuss your requirements.

Jen Brister

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After performing in front of the legendary Spike Milligan and receiving the luminous and prestigious title of having ‘a great pair of Bristols,’ Jen knew that comedy was the way forward. So with the help of two jokes and a push up bra she was on her way…

Since that heady day Jen has performed stand up in clubs all over the country (literally) as well as sketch comedy  in numerous  groups including the Loose Connection. She appeared for Taking the Piste in 2011 at the Varsity Festival in Val Thorens and was truly impressive… and was instantly rebooked!

Brister recently returned from Australia where she performed her new stand up show, ‘Jen Brister is British(ish)’ at the Adelaide & Melbourne Comedy Festivals to a raft of great reviews. She will be taking this show to the Edinburgh Festival in August where she will be performing at Just the Tonic Caves at 8pm every night.

“Outrageously Funny”
Metro

“Gorgeously talented”
Tim Arthur, Time Out

 

James Acaster

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James Acaster is the only comedian to have ever been nomiated 3 Times for the main Ed Fringe award (2012, 2013, 2014) add to that a long list of TV credits he is fast becoming one of the most sought after British comedians. Luckily for us he still hasn’t mastered skiing, meaning he has unfinished business in the Alps!
His set often features storytelling, dazzling audience interaction and routines about not being particularly cool. He is from the town of Kettering but is based in London. They are both cool in their own way.

James has appeared on Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Daves One Night Stand, 8 out of 10 cats, Mock The Week, basically all the TV in the UK and hosts his own BBC radio 4 show. He is also a Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominee 2014.

 

Ivan Brackenbury

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Top Ten Fosters Comedy God

Best Established Comedian Nomination Adelaide Fringe 2010

Chortle Top 50 Most Memorable Gigs of the Decade 2000-2010

Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominee 2007

 

“If laughter is the best medicine, Ivan Brackenbury should be a real hospital radio DJ. Ivan’s Hospital broadcast, Disease Hour, is the most deliciously enjoyable I’ve spent on the Fringe. His poorly judged dedications, like everything else in this chock-full show, come thick, fast and funny. And that pregnant pause, as we wait to hear which song Ivan selects for which ailment, gets more tantalising every time.” THE GUARDIAN ★★★★

“I’ll let you go to the show and find out which patients and what ailments elicit the playing of Solid as a Rock, Secret Smile and the rather excellent Mary McGregor’s hit Torn Between Two Lovers and I am sure Joan Arkwright’s gynecological problem is all the better for Ivan’s thoughtful record choice. I laughed so much I nearly suffered the same thing. Special in every sense of the word. Wonderful, pitch-perfectly performed silliness from which you emerge still giggling.” THE SCOTMAN ★★★★

“For simple laugh-’til you ache humour, Ivan Brackenbury is the hit of the Fringe” THE EVENING STANDARD ★★★★

“_e whole room was in hysterics from the word go, endorphin-filled laughter indeed proving the best medicine. Brackenbury is absolutely utterly hilarious – I can’t recommend this enough. Go see it.” THE AGE ★★★★

“laughs per minute the funniest show at the Fringe” TIME OUT ★★★★

“Ivan’s prime gag is to play the least suitable records possible for the listeners to his Disease Hour. Binns just lets him get on with being brilliantly, beautifully bad. You’ll spend an hour glorying in the stupid ways we find to keep ourselves amused, and then you’ll leave, still chuckling at them.” THE TIMES ★★★★

 

 

Howard Read

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Howard is an award-winning stand-up comic, writer, animator, song-writer and creator of TV and Radio programs.

Howard is best known as the other half to the animated six-year-old virtual stand-up comic Little Howard.  Together they have appeared on some of the biggest TV shows on three continents, performed in front of (and insulted) The Queen, been nominated for The Perrier Award, and had three series of the award-winning and critically acclaimed Little Howard’s Big Question on BBC1, BBC2 and CBBC.

Their unique live shows, adaptable to both adult and family audiences, have toured the land, and the comedy festivals of the world.  They also create unique bespoke events for charity events and corporate clients.

Howard is also a much-loved stand-up, award-winning song-writer, and has created critically acclaimed characters on TV and radio for the likes of Richard Briers, Rik Mayall, Mark Gattis, Una Stubbs, Rula Lenska, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Richard Briers (we did two characters for him).

 

 

Henning Wehn

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INTRODUCING THE GERMAN COMEDY AMBASSADOR HERR HENNING WEHN!

An enigma maybe, unfathomable possibly, belly achingly silly and delightful most definitely – one of the finest and funiest acts working in stand-up today

Henning’s TV and radio appearances include: World Stands Up (Paramount UK), Rob Brydon’s Annually Retentive (BBC 3), The Unbelievable Truth (BBC Radio 4), The Now Show (BBC Radio 4).
‘Gloriously unreconstructed comedy.’ The Guardian

‘Glory lies ahead’ Time Out

‘Ridiculous and disarmingly funny’ Taking The Piste

2016 Dates:

22/3 – Bubble Bar, Courchevel 1650

23/3 – Lodge du Village, Meribel Village (PISTE BASH FESTIVAL)

24/3 – Meribar, Meribel (PISTE BASH FESTIVAL)

 

Eric Lampaert

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Eric Lampaert finally grew tired of the stagnant confines of his mother’s womb on the 4th October 1986. He wanted out of that amniotic hell and began using his umbilical cord as a set of primitive reigns to direct her hapless body. Catastrophically, even at that age Eric exhibited a shockingly limited attention span and became distracted, causing his mother to deposit his gangly form in the tiny French town of Hirson.

Appearing in the Alps between the 9th – 12th of March 2015.

As soon as Eric could crawl, he found himself clawing at the white cliffs of Dover. Eric immersed himself in everything Britishand no sooner has eric learned to walk (albeit with a chaotic, ambling gait), he fell in love with the likes of Eddie Izzard and Christopher Morris. With adolescents came a ‘look’ if that’s what you can call an absence of a ‘look’ he began to resemble the lovechild of Tim Burton and Alice cooper. Eventually, recognizing that making a tit of himself was to be his only source of attention in life, Eric decided that the stage must be his destination

 

“This is exactly what you want: gusto, affability and the ability to whip up an air of playful havoc” – THE FEST

Since 2008, Eric’s play-dough face and weird grasshopper legs have been used on the stand up comedy circuit. And sometimes his face gets on the television, which can cause quite a stir. Some people think his face is CGI. It’s not. That’s his actual face and he loves it.

TV Credits:
Splendid (Pilot) – Magician Pictures
The Antidote (Pilot) – Brown Eyed Boy

Film:
Burke & Hare – Dir John Landis, Burke & Hare Productions

Eddy Brimson

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Eddy Brimson is one of the UK circuits most in demand headline acts working regularly with all the leading clubs and festivals.

Eddy is a regular of the taking the piste comedy tours, invited back every year and is consistantly a big hit with venues and audiences alike. He is a natural and affable entertainer, with an uncanny skill for story telling. Every word in Eddys set has fought for its place in furthering the narrative and helping the scene unfold in its ridiculous and often surprising climax. Its always a great pleasure to see an Eddy Brimso’s set and to witness the appreciation of the whole audience.

Eddy is equally in demand worldwide. He played the first ever Altitude Festival in the French Alps in 2008 and the Sydney Cracker Festival in Australia. Eddy has also taken his comedy to such far flung places as Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Bahrain. He once even played a gig naked.

Ed Byrne

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As an observational stand up Ed Byrne is unrivalled.  He has played in major comedy venues across the UK and Ireland, including the Vaudeville, Riverside, and New Ambassadors theatres in London, and the Gaiety, Olympia, Ambassador, and Vicar St. theatres in Dublin.

His UK tours are always hugely popular and well received by the critics.

“His wit won deafening cheers and feet stomping” The Guardian
“Delightful lead performance from Ed Byrne” The Scotsman
“Dazzling”The Sunday Times

Ed often appears as a guest on television panel shows including the BBC’s Mock the Week andHave I Got News For You, and he has been a presenter on such shows as RTE’s Ed Byrne’s Just for Laughs, which ran for four series. He has also made memorable appearances on shows such as the BBC’s Graham Norton’s Bigger Picture and Never mind the Buzzcocks. Ed is also developing a radio show for the BBC.

Dylan Gott

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A Canadian comedian newly arrived in the UK and new to Taking The Piste Comedy tours. Dylan Gott has performed at prestigious comedy festivals all around the world such as Just For Laughs, North By Northeast and had numerous TV and Radio appearances back in Canada and which would mean very little to you to list here… However Dylans instantly infectious joyous style belies no holes barred subject matter and hard hitting punchlines and we’re very certain he’ll go down a storm here in the Alps!

 

David Trent

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David Trent is a phenomenon.

If you have never seen interactive video comedy in the Alps then you should come and watch this man

But don’t take our word for it, this is just how good he is (taken from his bio….)

David Trent has lost every major comedy competition in the first round apart from the 2008 North Essex comedian of the year competition where he was a finalist. David’s progress in this competition was somewhat hindered by his decision to watch “The Orphanage” at the Duke Of York cinema in Brighton on the night of the final.

“You’ll need more than that to win you know,” A man from the audience, first round, North Essex Comedian Of The Year competition.

“I thought you were funny but then because nobody else was laughing I thought I’d better stop.” A man from the audience, Mostly Comedy.

“First to take to the stage was David Trent – whose act proved as cringeworthy as his near namesake in ‘The Office’.” Neil Welch, Online reporter, Newbury Today.

“The guy who owns the land and was helping run the festival got on stage and did some poetry which was good. But then these comedians started who were pretty average and killed the mood I’d say” – Winning Sperm Party Blog.