Avalon Edinburgh Previews 2025
Avalon presents a staggering line-up of comics, previewing new stand-up shows ahead of the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Be the first to see this hilarious material due to set the Fringe alight.
Mon 21 Jul: Matt Forde & Joe Kent-Walters
Tue 22 Jul: Glenn Moore & Johnny White Really-Really
Wed 23 Jul: Rob Auton & Huge Davies
Thu 24 Jul: Chloe Petts & Pierre Novellie
Fri 25 Jul: Sophie Duker & Bella Hull
Sat 26 Jul: Andrew Doherty & Matt Winning
Avalon Promotions in association with Park Theatre.
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Evenings
19.00
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Tickets
£15
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Genre
Stand-up comedy
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Age guidance
14+
In the press
"An outstanding hour"
The Times on Matt Forde's The End of an Era Tour
"The hottest newcomer ticket is Joe Kent-Walters"
The Guardian on Joe Kent-Walters Is Frankie Monroe: LIVE!!!
"The best showcase of pure joke-writing skill"
The Guardian on Glenn Moore's Just the Tonic
"Delighting audiences at the Fringe for a decade"
Evening Standard on The Rob Auton Show
"One of the most accomplished stand-ups"
The Scotsman on Chloe Petts' How You See Me, How You Don’t
"A remarkably enjoyable show"
Evening Standard on Pierre Novellie's Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things?
"Extremely funny"
The Scotsman on Sophie Duker's But Daddy, I Love Her!
"You can’t help but love him"
The Guardian on Andrew Doherty's Gay Witch Sex Cult
Upcoming line-up
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Matt Forde
Matt Forde
Matt Forde is one of the country’s most in-demand satirists. Described as ‘our foremost satirical stand-up’ by The Sunday Times, Matt Forde has toured critically acclaimed shows nationwide including most recently Clowns To The Left of Me, Jokers To The Right in 2022 and Inside No. 10 in 2023.
Matt’s hit live podcast The Political Party transferred to the West End’s Duchess Theatre in 2021 after over 70 sold out shows at Westminster’s The Other Palace, for a twice extended fortnightly residency continuing in to 2024. His television credits include: Have I Got News For You, Mock The Week (BBC); Question Time, Rory Bremner’s Coalition Report and Rory Bremner’s Election Report (BBC); 8 out of 10 Cats (Channel 4) and Hypothetical (Dave).
★★★★ ‘An outstanding hour’ The Times on The End of an Era Tour
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Joe Kent-Walters
Joe Kent-Walters
Joe Kent-Walters is a multi-award winning comedian and actor from Huddersfield. He has been delighting audiences up and down the country with his idiosyncratic style of outrageous character comedy, most notably with his comic creation Frankie Monroe.
His ‘mesmerising and unpredictable presence’ (Chortle) performing as Frankie saw him win the 2023 BBC New Comedy Award after a ‘barn storming’ (Ibid) set at Glasgow’s Kings Theatre Joe is now in development with the BBC and is one of Jiksaw’s 2024 ‘Faces of Comedy.’
Winner of Best Newcomer at The Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2024
★★★★★ ‘The hottest newcomer ticket is Joe Kent-Walters’ The Guardian on Joe Kent-Walters Is Frankie Monroe: LIVE!!!
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Glenn Moore
Glenn Moore
Glenn Moore’s 2022 Fringe show sold out with rave five star reviews from The Mail on Sunday, Chortle and The Courier. His critically-acclaimed stand-up show Glenn, Glenn, Glenn, How Do You Like It, How Do You Like It was nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award.
His television credits include Live At The Apollo (BBC), Have I Got News For You, Mock The Week (BBC), 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown (Channel 4) and The Russell Howard Hour (Sky). He also has his own Radio 4 comedy series Glenn Moore’s Almanac.
★★★★ ‘The best showcase of pure joke-writing skill I’ve seen on the fringe’ The Guardian on Just the Tonic
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Johnny White Really-Really
Johnny White Really-Really
Johnny White Really-Really is a stand-up comedian, writer and musician from Sheffield. Described by Chortle, in their five-star review of his most recent stand-up hour Catland, as ‘a truly singular mind and talent’, his unique brand of comedy is ‘taking the artform in a genuinely modern direction’.
He has appeared on Starstruck (BBC); The Paddock (Channel 4), Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared (Channel 4) and cult web series Year Friends (Blink Industries).
★★★★★ ‘There’s never been another performer quite like Johnny White Really-Really’ Chortle on Catland
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Rob Auton
Rob Auton
Rob Auton released his book I Strongly Believe in Incredible Things with Harper Collins in Autumn of 2021 to critical acclaim.
He has written seven five star rated Edinburgh fringe shows, The Yellow Show, The Sky Show, The Face Show, The Water Show, The Sleep Show, The Hair Show, The Talk Show (the second best reviewed show at the Edinburgh Festival 2018) and The Time Show, which was one of the best reviewed shows at the Edinburgh Festival 2019. He then took The Time Show on a UK tour.
He has performed his unique brand of comedy on The Russell Howard Hour (Sky One) and on Rob Delaney’s Stand Up Central (Comedy Central).
★★★★ ‘Delighting audiences at the Fringe for a decade… Nobody does whimsy quite like Yorkshire stand-up Rob Auton.’ Evening Standard on The Rob Auton Show
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Huge Davies
Huge Davies
Combining his confident on stage presence, dark humour, surreal material and his one-of-kind customised keyboard, Huge has quickly risen to become one the most unique acts in the UK.
After reaching the finals of the Leicester Square Comedian of the Year, Amused Moose New National Comic Award, Hackney Empire New Act of the Year and the Musical Comedy Awards in 2018, Huge debuted his first show The Carpark at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2019. A complete sell-out, it received multiple five-star reviews and an Edinburgh Comedy Award Nomination for Best Newcomer. The show transferred to the Soho Theatre and was featured as Time Out’s No.1 comedy show to see. It was given three extra runs following excessive demand and has been filmed by LA based production company 800 Pound Gorilla Records to be released as a special. His most recent Album for My Ancestors (Dead), was on at the Edinburgh Fringe, 2024 and is on tour Feb – May 2025.
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Chloe Petts
Chloe Petts
Chloe Petts’ is ‘one of the most compelling young comics’ (The Guardian) and ‘clearly a rising star whose name will soon be in lights’ (The Evening Standard). This has established her as one of the most exciting up & coming acts on the circuit.
Chloe returned to the Edinburgh Fringe in 2024 with her third stand up show How You See Me, How You Don’t. The show was lauded as her best yet, with multiple four- and five-star reviews, with the Evening Standard telling audiences ‘don’t mess with Petts and don’t miss her either’, and Chortle stating that ‘Petts is thriving as a front-foot stand-up’.
Chloe’s television and radio credits include: Have I Got News For You, Richard Osman’s House of Games (BBC); The Frank Skinner Show (Absolute Radio) and Bake Off: An Extra Slice (Channel 4).
★★★★ ‘One of the most accomplished stand-ups working in the UK today’ The Scotsman on How You See Me, How You Don’t
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Pierre Novellie
Pierre Novellie
Pierre Novellie is a stand-up comedian, writer, radio host and podcaster. He is co-host of the Frank Skinner Off the Radio podcast and the hit Budpod podcast alongside Phil Wang.
One of the UK’s most acclaimed live acts, Pierre‘s latest show Must We? saw a sold-out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and was his fourth show to have been placed in the top 20 best-reviewed comedy shows across the entire festival.
His television credits include: World’s Most Dangerous Roads (Dave), The Mash Report (BBC2), and Stand Up Central (Comedy Central. Pierre’s first book Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things?: A Comedian’s Guide to Autism was published by Bonnier in 2024.
★★★★ ‘A remarkably enjoyable show’ Evening Standard on Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things?
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Sophie Duker
Sophie Duker
Sophie Duker is a comedian and writer whose favourite things include breaking hearts, taking names and telling jokes with the confidence of a cis straight middle-class white man. Her Edinburgh Fringe Show, Venus, saw her nominated for the Best Newcomer Award and gained critical acclaim and five star reviews, leading to a two week sold out run at Soho Theatre.
Sophie is a regular guest on Frankie Boyle’s New World Order (BBC). Other television credits include: Live at The Apollo, Mock the Week (BBC), 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (Channel 4) and Hypothetical (Dave). Sophie is the winner of the 13th series of Taskmaster (Channel 4).
★★★★ ‘Extremely funny’ The Scotsman on But Daddy, I Love Her!
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Bella Hull
Bella Hull
Bella Hull is a stand-up comedian and writer, and one of the UK’s most exciting young comedians. Her television credits include: Stand Up for Live Comedy (BBC); The Stand Up Sketch Show (ITV) and Comedy Central Live.
She has taken two critically-acclaimed shows to the Edinburgh Fringe, Babycakes in 2022 and Piggie in 2024 and has supported Phil Wang, Russell Howard and Paul Chowdhry on tour.
Bella also co-hosts the Rats of the Roundtable and Last Night Ever podcasts and as a writer, Bella is working on a script commission with the BBC and has been featured on BBC Radio 4’s Newsjack and Flux Magazine.
12 stand-out shows of the Edinburgh Fringe 2024 The Rolling Stone on Piggie
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Andrew Doherty
Andrew Doherty
From Andrew Doherty (writer/performer of Gay Witch Sex Cult) comes a new horror comedy: 20 years ago, actress Nicole Hereafter starred in two series of hit legal drama, Woman Lawyer, until her time on the show ended in bloodshed and horror. 20 years on she invites fans to a screening of the mysteriously unaired Halloween episode I Breast My Case, in celebration of the legacy of a groundbreaking show that dared to ask the question; What if lawyer… was woman?
★★★★ ‘You can’t help but love him’ The Guardian on Gay Witch Sex Cult
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Matt Winning
Matt Winning
“Solastalgia”– noun. [sol-a-stal-gi-a] the emotional, physical or existential distress caused by environmental change to your home. A portmanteau of the words ‘solace’ and ‘nostalgia’. A storytelling climate comedy lecture about our saving ourselves in time and protecting what we love by Dr Matt Winning. Host of Net Zero: A Very British Problem (BBC Radio 4). Author of Hot Mess. Several previous sell-out Edinburgh Fringe shows, as well as at COP28 for BAFTA. ‘Everything a Fringe show should be: hilarious, personal, inventive, and something that will stay with you for some time to come’ ★★★★★ (Edinburgh Festivals). Directed by Ben Target.
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