Red Herring Comedy Club – Sept 9th

We can’t wait to be back at The Drill to bring you more fantastic comedians from the UK circuit!

EDDY BRIMSON

Eddy is an award winning comedian with over 20 years experience as a professional live performer. Well established as one of the countries most sought after headline acts. Eddy has also performed comedy in clubs and at Festivals throughout the world, from Shanghai to Auckland, Edinburgh to Oslo, The French Alps to Yangon.

​Eddy also has numerous TV and Radio credits to his name, including appearances on BBC RADIO 4 Specials and BBC SCOTLAND’S COMEDY UNDERGROUND.

Despite being English, Eddy was nominated for BEST HEADLINER by The Scottish Comedy Awards panel in 2018, and for BEST EVENT at the Edinburgh Festival in 2019.

KUAN-WEN HUANG

Kuan-wen Huang is an emerging comedian, writer and actor from Taiwan, with major breakthroughs on the UK circuit in the last two years.

He was runner up in Frog and Bucket The World Series in 2019. With a unique voice and his trademark quirky persona, Kuan-wen is an alumni of the Soho Theatre Young Company and performed for Comedy Central at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2020 and recorded Comedy Central Live in 2022.

Kuan-wen is an increasingly recognisable face amongst performers of East Asian heritages in the UK. For three years in a row, Kuan-wen performed as part of Yellow Xmas comedy show, which “showcases the top East Asian Stand-ups”, sharing the bill with Phil Wang, Evelyn Mok, Nigel NG, Ken Cheng and Yurijo Kotani.

Kuan-wen is also a proud queer performer, having been featured in various pride events and 21 Soho’s LGBTQ+ History Month line up.

Kuan-wen is currently writing his first solo hour.

JACOB HAWLEY

Jacob Hawley is a comedian.

​He’s in BBC sitcom Ladhood, featured on The Stand Up Sketch Show, and did stand up on The Russell Howard Hour.

You can watch the clip here.

He has written for The Sunday Times, The BBC, and is a regular columnist for The Metro (said columns can be read here.)

Jacob (it’s hard to know which bits to embolden) has two hit podcasts, Jacob Hawley: On Drugs, and Jacob Hawley: On Love, both on BBC Sounds. The series have had over half a million downloads and earned Jacob a SILVER ARIA AWARD FOR BEST NEW PRESENTER and can be listened to here.

He has created two Radio Four stand-up specials, Welcome To Britain, and Class Act, which broadcast to rave reviews and features in The Guardian and The Independent.

MC LLOYD GRIFFITH

Lloyd Griffith is a comedian, actor, presenter and classically trained singer. You may have seen him most recently in Ted Lasso (Apple TV), Nolly (ITVx), Everyone Else Burns (Channel 4), It’s A Sin (Channel 4), The People We Hate at the Wedding (Amazon Prime), House of Games (BBC 2), Not Going Out (BBC 1) & Jonathan Ross’ Comedy Club (ITV). Lloyd also fronted a documentary on BBC called ‘Can You Beat The Bookies?’ which received rave reviews. He was also co-host of Soccer AM on Sky Sports and was co-host of FLINCH on Netflix.

Other TV credits include 8 Out Of 10 Cats (Channel 4), Comedy Central Live at The Comedy Store (Comedy Central), Pointless Celebrities (BBC 2), Undeniable (Comedy Central), Comedy Games Night (Comedy Central), Roast Battle (Comedy Central), Songs of Praise (BBC2) and many more. He recently supported Jack Whitehall on his UK arena tour and had previous supported Rob Beckett on his UK tour.