🍍 Mmm! London’s juiciest alternative comedy night presents a fresh squeeze of stand-up, surreal and deliciously different comedy, curated with love for you and your mates. This month we sail into Permitted Fruit’s second year with a momentous line-up of award-winning savagely funny talent.
Join the party for a genre-busting smoothie of big TV names and undiscovered peaches, served in our lush queer-friendly venue that warmly welcomes everyone.
🍌LINEUP JUST UNPEELED:🍌
✨SOPHIE DUKER✨
Edinburgh Fringe Best Newcomer Award Nominee, Star of Mock The Week, Frankie Boyle’s New World Order and Channel 4’s 8 Out of 10 Cats, cerebral-sexy comedy underdog Sophie is spinning sweet tornadoes of disarming hilarity with her silly, sexy, savage stand-up.
★★★★ “Laugh out loud funny” The Telegraph
★★★★ “A near-flawless hour packed full of humour and heartfelt reflection which many of the comedians that have been on the circuit for circa ten years would kill for.” EdFestMag
★★★★ “Bendy” Evening Standard
✨ALICE FRASER✨
Comic, podcaster, sometime banjo-player and all-round Swiss Army knife of award-winning talent, Alice Fraser blasts out silly, unpredictably meaningful, narratively unorthodox, gut-punch comedy.
★★★★★ “Poignant and gut-punchingly funny, Alice Fraser’s a total star” The Herald Sun
★★★★ “The best sort of contemporary stand-up” The Adelaide Advertiser
★★★★ “This is stand-up like you’ve never seen it before. Wonderfully funny and devastatingly poignant, Savage is a show that really could change the world, or at least the way you choose to see it.” Broadway Baby
✨JENAN YOUNIS✨
The regionality-defying 2017 Funny Women Regional Finalist and Southeast Comedian of the Year Finalist 2018 serves up fresh observational stand-up described as ‘a slap in the face… so don’t sit within arm’s reach’
✨SAM FLETCHER✨
Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated, uniquely quirky outings into surreal, stand-up and sketch comedy.
★★★★ “Very messy and very funny.” VoiceMag
★★★★ “Put simply no other show has made me smile so much this year" The Independent
✨ANDREA SPISTO✨
Joyful, fiery adventures into a queer border-smashing wonderland. Magical genre-defying performance artist, clown-comic and cabaret artist, Andrea Spisto creates soul-baring comedy that takes any little box you try putting it into and smashing that into oblivion.
★★★★ “Spisto provides a valuable reminder of the power of creativity when liberation is the goal.” The List
★★★★ “Unpacking what it means to be beautiful and a woman in the 21st century… the clowning, dancing and singing are all superb” ToDoList
MC: ✨SIÂN DOCKSEY✨
The UK’s number one Welsh-Armenian queer comedian from Belgium.
BBC New Comedy Award Nominee 2019, featured in The Telegraph’s Funniest One-Liners of the fringe 2017.
★★★★ “Joy and bewilderment in equal measure” The Skinny
“Silly, nonsensical, political, feminist and weird.” One4Review
🚀 Doors open from 6pm for 7pm takeoff🚀
🍍TICKETS: £8.00 Early Bird £10.00 General. £12.00 On the Door. If you aren't strapped for cash and like keeping DIY, independently produced live comedy alive, we'd love you to consider a Patron of the Punnet priced ticket that helps us keep our gig accessible while paying our acts a fair fee. 🍍 Fruits of all genders, sexualities and income sizes are welcome at the party - if you are on lo/no-income email us at permittedfruitcomedy@gmail.com for limited concession tickets.
🍎 The Apple Tree, Clerkenwell is an accessible, queer-friendly pub with gender neutral toilets. Our event takes place in the ground-floor main bar. Please contact us by email if you have any accessibility needs and want further info/ support.