The dates for Southport Comedy Festival 2022 have been announced – as well as the first two headline acts!
This year’s event was a huge success with 16 shows across 17 days in a luxury marquee at Victoria Park in Southport.
Organisers Bren Riley and Val Brady are already planning next year’s showcase, with tickets for the first acts already on sale – Milton Jones and Maisie Adam.
They said: “We are thrilled to announce that the Southport Comedy Festival 2022 will return to Victoria Park Home of the Southport Flower Show next year from the 30th September to the 16th October, 2022.
“The festival will be staged once again in a luxury heated and seated marquee courtesy of Elite Marquees.
“While we are in the early stages of planning we are delighted to announce our first two headline shows – Milton Jones on Saturday 8th October and Maisie Adam on Tuesday 11th October.
“This year’s festival was hugely popular with audiences and artists loving the new setting at Victoria Park, which lends itself to a great festival vibe.
“Neither Milton Jones nor Maisie Adams have performed at our festival before so we can’t wait to welcome them next year!”
For tickets and details of more Southport Comedy Festival shows please visit: southportcomedyfestival.com
Milton Jones in Milton Impossible
Saturday 8th October 2022
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Tickets: £25
Age Restriction : Universal
One man. One Mission. Is it possible? No, not really.
Milton reveals the truth about being an international spy, before being given a disappointing new identity which forced him to appear on Mock the Week, Live at the Apollo.
But this is also a love story with a twist, or even a really bad sprain.
Just gloriously daft nonsense or is there a deeper meaning? Every man has his price. Sainsburys, where good food costs less.
“He’s fast, absurd and very Funny” Radio Times
‘No-one can touch Jones when he hits his stride’ The Guardian
Maisie Adam in Buzzed
Tuesday 11th October
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm
Tickets: £15
Age Restriction: 16+
Fresh from Live at The Apollo, Mock The Week, and The Last Leg, Best Newcomer nominee Maisie Adam is back with a brand new show for 2022, ‘Buzzed’.
Rammed with witty observations, high-octane energy and some right good jokes. This high-energy show promises to be better than whatever else you had planned (unless you had plans to go dancing with Cher).
“Her jokes were spot on, her stories magnificent and magnificently told.” Bruce Dessau
“There’s no denying that Maisie Adam is phenomenal.” The Scotsman
Milton Jones
Most people know Milton Jones as the comedian with the loud shirts and messed up hair, however his stand-up is built on much more than a funny appearance. Radio Times said that the “wild-haired Jones has raised wordplay to the level of fine art”, while The Guardian stated “no one can touch Jones when he hits his stride”.
Born in 1964 as Milton Hywel Jones, he’s been a comedian since the ’90s. Although he won the prestigious Perrier Best Newcomer Award at the 1996 Edinburgh Festival Fringe for his first solo show, it wasn’t until 2008 when he joined the panel TV series Mock The Week that his career really skyrocketed.
In addition to television appearances on comedy shows like Live At The Apollo, Lee Mack’s All Star Cast, Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow and Dave’s One Night Stand, Jones starred in the 2012 Channel 4 sitcom The House Of Rooms, centred around a man and his mother who live together and rent out rooms.
Jones has also been a familiar voice across the radio waves. Among several BBC Radio 4 series, his third – Another Case Of Milton Jones – won him a silver Sony Award in 2011 and saw him nominated for a Writers Guild Award in 2012.
A man of many talents, Jones has even penned the books Ten Second Sermons, Even More Concise 10 Second Sermons and Where Do Comedians Go When They Die?.
Yet his first love has remained hitting the road and performing live in front of audiences. Among his biggest UK tours were 2013’s On the Road, 2015’s Milton Jones And The Temple of Daft and 2017’s Milton Jones Is Out There. All his shows have been characterised by twists of surreal logic and clever one-liners, plus as a Christian he intentionally avoids using profanity in his routines.
Milton Jones will be bringing his latest show Milton in Milton: Impossible to the Southport Comedy Festival 2022 in which he reveals the truth about being a former secret agent (before getting the disappointing new identity that forced him to appear on Mock The Week).
Maisie Adam
Maisie Adam is a comedian from Yorkshire. Her comedy career kicked off in 2017, when she entered the nationwide So You Think You’re Funny? competition (which has previously been won by many of her comedy heroes, including Peter Kay, Aisling Bea, and Tom Allen). Before she knew it, she found herself with a place in the Grand Final, held at the Gilded Balloon up at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and on 24th August she won the competition, becoming only the 4th woman to have done so in its’ 30-year history. The following year, Maisie was nominated for the Best Newcomer award at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards for her debut show ‘Vague’, where she also won the Amused Moose National Comic Award.
Maisie’s anecdotal material and witty charm have quickly won her praise up and down the country and she has since appeared on Mock the Week, Have I Got News for You, QI, Roast Battle, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Hypothetical and The Stand-Up Sketch Show. She also hosts the podcast ‘That’s A First’ alongside fellow comedian Tom Lucy.
“Adam exudes an appealing, quirky energy, and is clearly a natural wit” – Steve Bennett, Chortle.
“There’s something incredibly watchable about Adam – whether it’s her effervescence onstage, finding jokes in the minutiae of life or her fantastic physicality. Inevitably she’ll be compared to a young, female Peter Kay, except her jokes and performance are far more eccentric.” – THE SKINNY.
“This is a name to watch!” – Official Buxton Fringe Review
‘Go see Maisie now and have bragging rights for years to come’ – HERALD
For tickets and details of more Southport Comedy Festival shows please visit: southportcomedyfestival.com
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