PRESS RELEASE
IF.COMEDY WINNER EDINBURGH FRINGE 2007
BRENDON BURNS – UNDER EDUCATED
NATIONAL TOUR
SPRING 2008
Fresh from his triumphant run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last summer where he was awarded comedy’s highest accolade, The If.comedy award (formerly the Perrier Award), and due to a sell out autumn tour Brendon Burns is continuing his tour throughout the spring and summer with a fortnights run at London’s Arts Theatre in May. He starts the second leg of his national tour on February 1st at Warwick Arts Centre and tours through the spring until Sunday 27th July in Cambridge at The Junction. Please see below for full tour dates.
For the last sixteen years, Brendon Burns has stormed audiences the world over. His stage presence is electric, his material provocative and his insight surprisingly subtle. He uses his confrontational and up-front style of comedy to capture his audience with a proverbial slap in the face. He is neither politically correct nor incorrect making him a rare socio-political comic willing to oppose all schools of thought. With this in mind, it’s no surprise that Burns has been compared to such legends as: Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Sam Kinison and Bill Hicks.
Brendon has courted controversy wherever he’s been. He once got banned from BBC television for snogging a goat live on air, he handed out enough mushrooms at the Glastonbury festival to get a thousand people high because Bill Hicks and John Lennon talked about it but didn’t, he wrote a trilogy that sent him clinically mad and was committed to a mental institution, he walked off the set of “Help I’m a celebrity get me out of here NOW” live on air after just three days, and now Britain’s most controversial comedian embarks on his second UK national tour.
"You have only ever really toked on pure socio-political comedy. With Brendon you are mainlining, and the hit is a feeling I will never, ever forget, the smartest thing I have ever seen in the comedy section " ***** (Kate Copstick, The Scotsman)
"Damn funny, Will leave you gasping and awestruck... Go see" ***** (Steve Bennet, Chortle)
"The must see show from the Edinburgh fringe"***** (Dominic Maxwell, The Times)
“He's honestly the best thing I've seen in a long long time” ***** (The Guardian)
"talk of the fest genius" **** (Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard)
"It is a tremedous thrill to see a comedian who has been excelling at his craft for years reach a new peak, a fascinating show, extremely funny and very moving **** (The Stage)
Will heal your heart and tickle your funny bone, The stand out comic of the festival *****(Mickey Noonan, The Metro)
Overwhelming - comedy reimagined as mass therapy (The Fest)
Remains undiminished at his blasphemous best ***** The Herald
An exceptionally funny performer … an ode to the healing power of human spirit **** (Edinburgh Evening News)
You can’t miss … buy a ticket and watch a real master at work ***** (One4review.com)
Just occasionally a comedy show is so good it is like falling in love. You run out, punching the air, felling full to the brim with lust for life and joy. I ran out of mobile phone juice calling my friends and telling them to buy tickets, Loud brash, rude in your face and fantastically, laugh-out loud funny. This is really something special, a show that makes you howl with laugher, which takes you right up to the emotional edges and which draws its strength from something very deep and pure. Long live Brendon Burns. ***** (The Scotsman)
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