Comedy….Russell Kane Support Sadie Hasler……Edinburgh Preview - Doors Open 8:00 PM - £8 ticket advance or on door
Well what a treat we have for you tonight last year we had the big rising star of Rhod Gilbert who has gone on to clean up in the comedy world. Well we have the next rising star who looks like he is gonna get his mop out as well. Russell Kane has now pushed his way onto TV staring at the Apollo with Michael Macintyre and also been a star guest on Mock the Week and Never mind the Buzzcocks. His fast paced wit is setting the comedy world alive so get yourselves down to a rare treat.
Who is Russell Kane?
My family originally hailed from Leigh-on-Sea and Westcliff-on-Sea on the sunny Essex peninsula.
By the time I popped out of mum we were living in North London. I was raised, and at the same time paradoxically lowered, on the lovely councilly streets of Brimsdown, Enfield.
After uninspiring drug-assisted exam failures, I ended up working in a shop. Then I thought: “Sod this, what’s Nineteenth Century Realism like?” and went and got a gleaming First in English.
After that I worked in an office for bit - and that’s when it happened...
A dare. A curiosity. A one off. A ‘let’s see what’ll happen’.
And I had a go at stand-up comedy.
By 2006 I was out of a proper job and performing monkey antics all over the world. I’ve had three of those Perrier nomination thingies, I do national tours - I’ve even written a play which is going to the Soho theatre... and I’m writing a novel.
That’s f****d up isn’t it? Who taught chavs to read?
I live back where I belong, in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex with my partner Sadie Hasler, my cats Keith and Wayne and my dog Cooper.
I love cheese, anything curried, and the minimalist writings of Haruki Murakami.
My favourite word is defenestration.