6th August 2019 By PRESS RELEASE
HowTheLightGetsIn, the world’s
largest philosophy and music festival that gathers Nobel Prize winners,
politicians and comedians together with the hottest music performers, has today
announced its comedy line up for this year’s festival, September 21st-22nd 2019.
Following a sold-out debut in
London in 2018, HowTheLightGetsIn returns this September to Hampstead Heath in
the idyllic setting of Kenwood Housegardens, for a packed weekend of
world-changing ideas, music, comedy and culture – right in the heart of our
capital city.
The full programme features
over 50 debates and talks with 100 of the world’s
leading thinkers, plus 40 music and comedy acts across 8
stages. This year’s comedy line up features some of the most exciting comedians
on the UK comedy circuit, with rising stars alongside established favourites.
Leading the bill is Tony
Law, simply the greatest surrealist stand-up of the past 10 years. He has
previously been nominated for Best Show at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, and
appeared on Have I Got News For You, Russell Howard’s Good News andNever
Mind the Buzzcocks. In 2017 he co-created ‘The Battle for Icetopia’ – an
experimental comedy opera on ice that won the Chortle Award for Event of the
Year. This is post-modern stand-up taken to dangerously funny new levels.
Over 100 events, with more
than 70 debates & talks from the world's leading thinkers across
philosophy, politics, science and the arts, plus over 40 music & comedy
acts. Our official trailer for #HTLGI London 2019 is now
here! See you in September...
http://bit.ly/2ItTgIl
The charismatic and completely
unique Olga Koch returns to HowTheLightGetsIn after garnering rave
reviews for her 2018 debut show Fight, nominated for Best Newcomer at the
Edinburgh Comedy Awards. She’s been described as “one to watch” by Metro,
listed as one of the Guardian’s “best new comics” at the Edinburgh Fringe,
and has appeared on The Now Show, Mock the Week and Pls Like. Also
featured is the provocative and dangerously funny Alfie Brown, whose
stand-up masterfully blends eye-watering confessionals, political commentary
and wild improvisational tangents. He’s been hailed as “quite simply the
future of British stand-up” (The List), and a string of ambitious shows to his
name continues to bear that out. “Brown’s is one of the boldest new voices I’ve
encountered… mapping a route to a different class of humour.” Guardian
Self-described “sexy-cerebral
comedy underdog,” Sophie Duker is fast establishing herself as one of
the most exciting new acts on the British stand-up circuit, and comes to
HowTheLightGetsIn fresh from her debut at the Edinburgh Fringe. A comedy writer
whose credits range from the BBC’s Famalam and Radio 4’s The
News Quiz, to Cartoon Network’s The Amazing World of Gumball, she
has also recently starred in a brand new comedy pilot for Channel 4
called Riot Girls. “Laugh-out-loud funny” The Telegraph
And let’s not forget Heidi
Regan, winner of the 2017 BBC New Comedy Award and So You Think You’re Funny.
Heidi’s quirky, absurd and philosophical brand of comedy has been acclaimed by
industry insiders and audiences alike, and has seen her star rise fast since
her first stage appearance just four years ago. She has been nominated for no
fewer than 12 comedy awards for her whip-smart writing and inimitable live
performances – though Regan is prone to make light of her success with her
trademark brand of deadpan Australian humour as she riffs on everything
from her love of shark B-movies to her coming-out story.
Also featured at
HowTheLightGetsIn 2019:
Rising star of the British
comedy scene Alex Kealy, “a reservoir of memorable gags” (The List) / acclaimed
live act Pierre Novellie, nominated for Chortle’s Best Club Comic for two
years running / Star of Radio 4’s The News Quiz and Where’s
the F in News? Eleanor Tiernan /writer, director and comedian Stuart
Laws, “fantastically funny” (EdFestMag)
Said festival director Hilary
Lawson:
“Rising star of the British
stand-up scene Alex Kealy has curated our comedy line up for the last six
years, and has a real talent for catching some of the UK’s most exciting
comedians, like Nish Kumar, Aisling Bea and Phil Wang, before they became
household names. With an indecently funny comedy line-up, we’re incredibly
excited that this year’s festival promises Edinburgh headliners rubbing
shoulders with some of the best up-and-coming talent on the comedy circuit.”
Speaker Highlights:
Philosopher, sociologist and
cultural critic Slavoj Zizek / former Lib Dem
leader Vince Cable / Conservative leadership
candidate and rising political star Rory Stewart / economist
and best-selling author Mariana Mazzucato / Astronomer RoyalMartin
Rees / former Green Party leader Natalie Bennett / best-selling
philosopher Julian Baggini / co-founder of Novara
Media and author of Fully Automated Luxury Communism Aaron Bastani / author
of The Precariat and founder of the Basic Income Earth
Network Guy Standing / BBC News presenter Joanna
Gosling / political theorist Chantal Mouffe / novelist,
poet, playwright and former Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo /
author and parapsychology researcher Rupert Sheldrake / writer,
critic and broadcaster Shahidha Bari / and
many more
Tickets for the full weekend
are available from £98. All students and under 25s are eligible for a 30%
discount.
For tickets and details please
visit howthelightgetsin.org/london
Twitter: @HTLGIFestival
Facebook: HowTheLightGetsIn
Festival
Instagram: @howthelightgetsinfestival
#HTLGI
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