SCOTT BENNETT After starting comedy in late 2009, Scott is a stand-up comedian and writer whose star is most definitely on the rise. His last two shows Leap Year and Relax were nominated for Best Show at the Leicester Comedy Festival and has been named by Chortle as One To Watch for 2018 and 19. His debut hour stand up show About a Roy was nominated for the highly acclaimed Amused Moose Comedy Award and was selected as one of the top ten shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2015. In 2021 he recorded his debut for Live at the Apollo BBC1. You will have heard him as a regular guest on BBC Radio 4s The News Quiz, The Now Show, The Likely Dads and Elephant in the Room with Sarah Millican. He also appeared on The Summer Festival with Daliso Chaponda, The Comedy Club with Arthur Smith, and Knock Knock with Helen Lederer. In 2018, he also featured on the BBC One show, Live from The Edinburgh Fringe. He also features on the new Nationwide adverts, released in 2020 and 2021. During the lockdown of 2020, Scott pioneered the viral hit, Stand up from the Shed, a weekly topical live streamed stand up show from his actual garden shed. The show achieved national coverage in the press, Sky News, BBC News and Five Live. At the end of 2020, in the Comics Comic awards Scott was voted Best Act a prestigious award decided by comedians and promoters in the industry. Previous winners include, Mick Ferry, Zoe Lyons and Ian Stone. In 2022 he was nominated as Best Club Comedian in the Chortle awards. In 2017 and 18 Scott supported his comedy hero, Rob Brydon on his National UK tour dates for his latest show I am Standing Up and was selected to do a support slots for Jason Manford and John Bishop. He also worked alongside Michael McIntyre as part of his work in progress shows at the Duchess Theatre in London with Keri Godliman, Russell Kane and Ed Gamble. In addition to his stand up work Scott is also a talented writer. He was a programme associate on First and Last with Jason Manford for BBC One, a writer for The Chris Ramsey Show on Comedy Central. Hes written stand up for big touring acts including Jason Manford and Rob Brydon and has worked extensively for BBC Radio 4, with writing credits including The News Quiz, and Citizen of Nowhere with Daliso Chaponda. He was also one of the main writers on the prime time BBC One Show, Little Mix The Search hosted by Chris Ramsey. As a filmmaker and writer of comedy shorts Scott has had his work officially selected for The Beeston Film Festival 2019 and the New York City Comedy Shorts Festival 2020. Without doubt live comedys best kept secret The Evening Standard Great material, great delivery, a very funny man Rob Brydon Brilliantly funny, a joy to watch Chris Ramsey Clearly has a big future, flashes of Peter Kay, Jason Manford and John Bishop Bruce Dessau, Amused Moose Finals Review 2015 The highlight of the evening, naturally hilarious Broadway Baby Edinburgh Fringe KATE SMURTHWAITE Kate Smurthwaite is a left wing, feminist, atheist, polyamorous comedian and activist. She is also the host and star of the News at Kate video series. She performs stand-up comedy at all the major clubs in the UK and around the world. She was most recently touring her 14th one-woman show Bitch which previewed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In 2013 she won a Three Weeks Editors Choice Award naming her One of the Ten Best Things about the Edinburgh Fringe. In 2014 she was nominated for the Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize for campaigning against violence against women. Kate has appeared as a panellist on Question Time, The Big Questions, This Morning, BBC News, Sky News, Womans Hour, The Today Program, The Moral Maze and Newsnight. Kate has written for a huge range of publications including The Guardian, The Independent, The Telegraph, The Mirror, Cosmopolitan, Stylist, New Statesman and New Internationalist. Kate has also written for TV, radio and web series including Have I Got News For You and BBC3s BAFTA-winning The Revolution Will Be Televised. She was a finalist in 2015s SitCom Mission Competition. Internationally she is probably best-known as the star of a viral video circulated under the name Atheist Bitchslap. In 2012 she made a program for BBC Radio 4s Four Thought series on sexism in comedy and in the comedy industry. "Fun, energetic and full of ideas" John Cleese "When it comes to political comedyKate is the cream of the crop" Broadway Baby "There are no airs or graces about Kate Smurthwaite. From the off, she is gloriously mobile as she stalks the stage, mind and mouth effortlessly working in a whirlwind of ideas and joke lines" Morning Star SEAN HEYDON Sean Heydon has been performing in some of the worlds most prestigious venues for A-list celebrities and blue chip companies for over 15 years now with his unique style of madcap comedy and magic. Sean has many television credits to his name including Soccer AM on Sky One and for three seasons he was the resident magician on The Paul O'Grady Show on Channel 4. Sean is a multi-award winning entertainer. Sean has won numerous awards for his headlining appearances at Comedy Clubs and Corporate events including Specialty Act of the Year. This was awarded by some of the finest agents and talent bookers in the UK. Sean and his creative team are often requested to design and perform custom magic effects and illusions to help promote companies and events. These unique effects included making team members float on stage and making managing directors appear on stage. In 2020 Sean was engaged by GOOGLE to headline their sales conference in Birmingham UK Britains Got Talents Most Jaw-Dropping Magician London Evening Standard Magic Is Real! You Literally Turned back Time! Simon Cowell