Stand Up & Slam!

Performance poetry: comedy’s boring cousin, right? Stand up: poetry’s idiot relation, yes? Let's find out. For the first time, the very best of London’s spoken word scenes go head-to-head as comedy and poetry collide.

CHATBACK COMEDY CLUB and Canterbury’s poet laureate DAN SIMPSON are proud to announce the first London run of their brand new format show STAND UP & SLAM! Six phenomenal acts from the worlds of comedy and poetry go face-to-face for your approval in three killer rounds of Stand Up Comedy Vs Performance Poetry.

The winners? Whoever the audience decide are really, truly the best art form of the night!

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TEAM CAPTAINS:
PAUL SWEENEY (Doc Brown Tour Support, 'intriguing and memorable' - Chortle, bursting with talent' - FFF)
DAN SIMPSON (Canterbury Poet Laureate, 'clever, frequently amusing' - Broadway Baby, 'erudite wit' - The Flaneur)

TEAM COMEDY:
JOHN HASTINGS (WINNER: JUST FOR LAUGHS Best Newcomer 2010, ***** Cream of the Fringe)
ANIL DESAI (**** Hairline, **** Edinburgh Guide, ‘Tour-de-force of impressions …side-splittingly funny’ - Edinburgh Guide)
& more tbc!

TEAM POETRY:
ROB AUTON (WINNER: DAVE Award for Best Joke of the Fringe 2013, 'Charming, eccentric & uplifting' The Independent)
KEITH JAY (WINNER: UK Comedy Slam, FINALIST: World Cup Slam (Paris), Runner up: Radio 4 Slam Finals)
& more tbc!