Filthy Fridays With Tony Law And Special Guest: Laura Lexx

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1st Friday every month. Two fantastic local comedians and our Fabulous headliner. Compered by radio broadcaster and confirmedvegan, Mr Guy Lloyd

Tony Law
Since Mr Tony Law's breakthrough in 2011 winning the Amused Moose Laughter Award with his Edinburgh Fringe sell-out show Go! Mr Tony! Go! he has grown to become one of the most in-demand live acts in the UK.

His 2011 success culminated in winning the Chortle Best Breakthrough Act Award. He sharply bettered this in 2012 with Maximum Nonsense which was nominated for the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award, won the Chortle Best Live Show Award (and helped Tony scoop the Chortle Best Club Comic Award to boot) and in Spring 2013 toured to sell-out crowds across the UK (including 2600 people in London alone at Soho Theatre and the Udderbelly Festival).

Relentlessly creative, a third solo show in as many years Nonsense Overdrive premiered to another total sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2013.

Nonsense Overdrive enjoyed a sell-out 60-date UK tour, including a sold out five weeks at Soho Theatre in December 2013 (playing to almost 4000 Londoners). In April 2014, Nonsense Overdrive returns to the capital as the headline comedy show of the Udderbelly Festival at Southbank Centre, where its expected to play to another 2000 fans of Tony's unique comedy.

Throughout all of Tony's solo show success, he has continued to be one of most in-demand and much-loved club comics, headlining comedy clubs and festivals all across the world. His recent TV and Radio credits include: BBC1s Have I Got News For You; BBC2s Never Mind The Buzzcocks, The Culture Show, Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe, Heading Out, Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle; BBC3s Russell Howard's Good News; Channel 4s 8 Out Of 10 Cats; Comedy Central's Alternative Comedy Experience; Sky Art's Set List Show; Radio 4s Tony Law's Surreal Guide to Surreal Comedy, Infinite Monkey Cage, Dilemma and many more.

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 Jrgen 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 guest appearances on The Football Ramble and The Anfield Wrap podcasts. Other podcast appearances have included RHLSTP with Richard Herring and Sarah Millicans Standard Issue podcast.

Lexx is very active on social media, with thousands of followers on Twitter and YouTube. During lockdown in 2020 she created frequent YouTube series, including "As We Know It Day", "The Lockdown Book Club" and "The Twelve Days of Kloppmas".