Gilded Balloon presents Elvis McGonagall

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The Gilded Balloon has become synonymous with comedy in Scotland and continues to showcase the cream of the comedy circuit's up-and-coming talent, taking the hits from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe on the road for a brilliant evening of top comedy.

Headliner for the night will be Elvis McGonagall, supported by Bruce Morton and compered by Jo Jo Sutherland.

Stand-up poet, armchair revolutionary and recumbent rocker, Elvis McGonagall is the sole resident of The Graceland Caravan Park somewhere near Dundee where he scribbles verse whilst drinking malt whisky and listening to Johnny Cash.  Elvis is the 2006 World Slam Champion, the compere of the notorious Blue Suede Sporran Club and is one of the poets occasionally in residence on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live.

"If poetry is the new rock 'n roll then Elvis….is Elvis"  Hammer & Tongue

Glaswegian comic Bruce Morton came onto the comedy scene in 1988, winning the first ever So You Think You're Funny? new act competition at the Edinburgh Fringe. Scotland ’s acclaimed comic, storyteller and social commentator was a founder of the Funny Farm Comedy Collective which in 1989 helped kick-start the Scottish stand-up scene.

“Gesture and commentary of the highest class" The Observer

"Supremely talented and imaginative" Time Out

"He can tell a story as entertainingly as Billy Connolly, but the sting in its tail is in a class of its own" Times
 

Jo Jo Sutherland, charismatic mother of four, is taking the comedy world by storm. She is a regular at most clubs in Scotland including The Stand comedy club where she alternates between her regular set and compering. Her "healthy neglect" approach to parenting forms the backbone to her material interspersed with everyday grievances and motherly advice, delivered to her audience with hysterical results.

She recently spread her wings to play clubs in Northern England and is planning an assault on London following her performance at 'The Comedy Store' where she was one of ten finalists at the Funny Women Comedy Awards 2003.

"Far funnier and more inventive than anyone had the right to expect" Evening News

"Plenty of attitude and a good ear for a punchline" Chortle

Website: http://www.gildedballoon.co.uk

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