Comedy @ The Fort (#25) - The Raymond and Mr Timpkins Revue Headline
Award-winning live comedy, artisan pizza and amazing drinks - all in the very heart of historic Fort Cumberland!
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The Portsmouth Distillery Co
Fort Cumberland Fort Cumberland Road Southsea PO4 9LD United KingdomRefund Policy
About this event
- Event lasts 4 hours 30 minutes
Spend a few hours with us at the Portsmouth Distillery; experience our bar, the Rum Shack, and enjoy a night of amazing live comedy - right in the heart of historic Fort Cumberland.
Presenting... Comedy @ The Fort #25!
We are opening up our Bars for this event - serving fresh cocktails as well as our delicious spirits, throughout the whole night... And, we will have our very own pizza oven cooking up fresh, handmade artisan pizzas, which will be on sale until from 1800 to 2000 (arrive early to avoid queues!).
Doors open at 18:00, with the acts commencing at 20:00.
We're delighted to announce our line up and our headliners will be The Raymond and Mr Timpkins Revue. Back by popular demand, the hilarious duo headline all the biggest and best comedy clubs around the world and have been recently voted best comedy act by the industry too! They'll be supported by Graeme Collard, a great rising star on the circuit, and Laura Lexx as seen on Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week, Roast Battle, Celebrity Mastermind and Hypothetical returns!
With appearances ranging from national TV series to live shows, and many awards between them find out a bit more about them below.
Local hero and star of the "Back to the Eighties" Podcast, James Alderson is, as always, MC-ing!
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All these fantastic comedians, with James Alderson, once again as MC, delicious drinks, artisan pizza and an amazing location - this is the event to be at (even if we do say so ourselves)...
We look forward to seeing you there!
Please note drinks & pizza are to be purchased separately. Not included in the ticket price.
The stage and seating is in a marquee. Heating is provided but please dress appropriately.
Acts may change without notice due to TV commitments beyond our control.
The Raymond and Mr Timpkins Revue
Lightning fast choreography meets uber swift editing in a fantasmagorical collision of quality entertainment. An overload of velvet, sandals and multi-hued wool provides a startling accompaniment, the whole effect being that of a slim man and a fat man putting their bums in your face.
Headlining at venues from the Falklands to Ashby De La Zouch, they’ve circumnavigated the planet, spurting amusement in concentrated twenty minute bursts but now an hour show is gestating, due to arrive bloody and screaming at some point, if not slightly before.
If you like music and let’s face it, who doesn’t, you’ll like it. If you like silliness, middle aged men dancing and unsavoury acts, you’ll probably love it.
Cutting their teeth compering and performing in Comedy and Variety nights at The Wedgewood Rooms in Southsea, they watched the nineties as it wafted gently past until, eventually and not before time, London called. With the fledgling post-fix, "Revue", added, they blasted the clubs with their Guitar and Stylophone stylings, wowing rooms with super slick prop manipulation, dazzling jaded eyes with sandal based choreography that remains inimitable. Now, this terpsichorean twosome tour the country, even venturing as far afield as The Falklands and Oman, to provide spiritual uplift to the brave boys and girls of the armed forces. Their latest foray is into radio comedy/drama. A 1930s murder mystery based in Brighton and a frankly silly retelling of the Jack the Ripper tale, (too soon?) have so far been forged in the red hot fires of their imaginations.
“Ridiculous - quite bonkers funniness” VOICE MAG
“A runaway train of brazen daftness” THE LIST
“A hell of a fine act” THE WEE REVIEW
“A thing of brilliance” CHORTLE
“A world class British variety act. A masterclass. The best I’ve seen” CELEBRITY RADIO
“The British masters of prop and pun comedy” CELEBRITY RADIO
The imagination, timing and preparation that has gone into this act is almost frightening”
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“Different, original, hilarious, fast-paced, surprising, mad, cheesy, slapstick”
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“Sublime. It’s so slick and stylised, you wonder how they can keep it up” THREE WEEKS
“If you find a more inventive and joyful hour than one spent with ‘The raymond & Mr Timpkins Revue’, do let me know… they are utterly charming.” FIFE TODAY
“If you only see one act at the Edinburgh Fringe this year, then make sure it’s ‘The raymond & Mr Timpkins Revue’. FRANK SKINNER, ABSOLUTE RADIO
Laura Lexx
Laura performed Tyrannosaurus Lexx at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2016 and was a finalist at the 2016 Amused Moose Comedy Awards. Lexx's profile rose in 2016 when her on-stage putdowns of a sexist heckler went viral online. Lexx was nominated for Best Compere at the 2016 and 2017 Chortle Awards. Her 2018 Edinburgh show, Trying, discussed her attempts at starting a family and the effects on her mental health. She hoped her honesty would help lift the stigma around these issues.
Laura won Best Performer in the Comedian's Choice Awards and was in the top 10 of the Funniest Joke of the Fringe 2018. The show transferred from the Edinburgh Festival for a successful run at London's Soho Theatre. Lexx's 2019 Edinburgh show was called Knee Jerk and dealt with political topics associated with the fallout from the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum.Lexx won the Comedians' Choice award at the 2019 Chortle Awards.
Her television appearances have included Roast Battle,Hypothetical, Live at the Apollo and Mock the Week. Lexx landed a book deal after a series of tweets during the lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic imagining life with Liverpool F.C. manager Jurgen Klopp went viral online, amassing over 5.6 million views. The idea was expanded into the book Klopp Actually: (Imaginary) Life with Football's Most Sensible Heartthrob, released in autumn 2020. The company, Two Roads, also bought the rights to a second story, Pivot, a novel about an amateur women's netball team, which they released in 2022.This led to guesting on The Football Ramble and The Anfield Wrap podcasts.Other podcast appearances have included RHLSTP with Richard Herring and Sarah Millican’s Standard Issue podcast.
Graeme Collard
After starting out on Brighton’s new act circuit, Graeme now performs at clubs and festivals around Britain. Graeme is noted for his slightly off the wall laid back style which usually features a mix of observations and one liner’s. Recent accolades include finishing runner-up in South Coast Comedian of the Year 2021.