Bromley Comedy - CHRISTIAN RILEY

Since 2004 Bromley Comedy has presented some of the world's finest comedians from Russell Howard Reginald D Hunter, Russell Kane, Sarah Millican, Jack Whitehall, Micky Flannagan and many more.

In around 1999, I started playing guitar and singing for the American comic polymath, Rich Hall. Some high points were: winning the Perrier Award in 2001 for "Rich Hall is Otis Lee Crenshaw", being on subsequent CD and DVD releases, seeing the world, appearing on stage with Seinfeld star Michael Richards and getting on Late Night with Conan O' Brien. This was about 4 years of my life.

In the gaps between touring, I worked on my own stuff and in 2003 I did a BBC radio show with the hugely-talented Richard Herring, called That Was Then, This Is Now (or TWTTIN as all the cool kids called it). If you missed it, here's a taste of TWTTIN. This lasted for three series and gave me the great gift of an assembled audience to foist my songs onto.

And it was the gift that kept on giving, for in 2009, the prolific Mr Herring asked me to be in his groundbreaking podcast, As It Occurs To Me (or AIOTM as all the cool kids called it).

The podcast lasted about 3 years. High points included being paid £85.11 per episode, winning the Chortle award for best internet comedy and the discovery of cumpkins. You can get all the episodes of As It Occurs To Me here. Or if you think it might make a nice gift for somebody here

Extra curricular stuff

I have a *mint* covers band, Novalounge. Me and long-time mate Damian Coldwell (Alvy Ronson from the Black Liars) started Novalounge in Nottingham in the 90s. Book us for your wedding/bar-mitvah/funeral. We're ace.

I also played guitar in Bill Bailey's band - Beergut 100 - for a bit, which was great.

BROMLEY COMEDY:

So... Each week you will see a terrific group of 4 - 5 comedy acts including a professional MC. The Opening (1st) and Closing (Last) acts will be the kind you would see open or headline any top professional club on the circuit. The acts in the middle will be newer acts either hand picked by us after discovery at the Edinburgh fringe or competition winners or recommended by others in the industry as up-n-coming act.