A sketch show from…
The Ginge, The Geordie and The Geek
Written and performed by Graeme Rooney, Paul Charlton (Fringe First Award Winner 2009 for ‘Crush’) and Kevin O’Loughlin
Venue: Just the Big Room, Just the Tonic @ the Caves (Venue 88), 253 Cowgate
Box office: 0131 556 5375
Time: 4:45pm (1 hour)
Dates: 5th – 29th August (except 17th)
OFFICIAL 2010 TRAILER
‘The funniest reminder that Oxbridge has no monopoly on genius mucking about. All hail the new chiefs!’
***** JOHNNY VEGAS ‘10
After selling over 3000 tickets in their debut Edinburgh 2009 show the boys have had a great year selling out all of their Magner’s Glasgow International Comedy Festival, Live Theatre and Soho Theatre shows. On the comedy circuit, they’ve travelled the country gathering many more fans- including Johnny Vegas after headlining his St Helen’s comedy night. Now they return with a new show jam packed with great characters, silliness, surrealism and 80’s anthems as they continue their mission to put the fun back into comedy.
‘Seldom do you get a pair of comedians that work well together; it’s much rarer to find a trio whose talent and timing is so good.’
**** EDINBURGH GUIDE ‘09
The Ginge, the Geordie and the Geek take you on a hilariously surreal journey where bank robbers meet their match with an extremely committed charity fundraiser, a shameful puppet cheats on his ventriloquist and sheep make a stand against jumping fences leaving the world with insomnia.
‘Graeme, Paul and Kevin deliver such side-splittingly funny sketches that it seems a shame when they inevitably have to come to an end’
**** THREE WEEKS ‘09
Individual comedy credits include Little Britain, Simon Pegg’s Run Fat Boy Run, Skins and Rab C Nesbitt- not to mention 2 Fringe First Awards. So if you like your comedy served extremely funny then order a portion of Ginge, Geordie, Geek!
‘Our favourite sketch group of Edinburgh 2009. If you see one sketch show this year make it these boys. Hilarious!’
***** SPANK! ‘10
‘Fantastic! Every single sketch is funny. They’re the must see sketch group!’
JAMES MCAVOY ’09
For all press enquiries please contact:
Paul Charlton on 07841 679 478 or by email at paul.charlton@yahoo.co.uk
Notes:
All three members of the group studied acting together at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama graduating in 2004 and the boys now mentor graduating third year students.
Graeme Rooney appeared in ‘Rab C Nesbitt’ this year and has played memorable comedic characters in both Irvine Welsh’s critically acclaimed ‘Wedding Belles’ and the Award winning ‘Skins’ – appearing on the Baftas for the latter. He featured as a guest lead in the popular BBC series ‘Ashes to Ashes’. Other guest leads include ’Rebus’, ‘Taggart’, ‘Holby City’ and ‘Casualty’. He’s performed at The Globe, Royal Court, the Barbican and Dundee rep.
Paul Charlton winner of two Fringe First Awards for his comedy play Love, Sex and Cider in which he also starred and for the 2009 festival hit ‘Crush’ which has just finished a national tour. Paul has also written for Live Theatre Newcastle and contributed material to the Karen Dunbar series 2 (BBC SCOTLAND). He is now working with Kaye Mellor’s production company Rollem Productions developing two original comedy dramas entitled ‘Stacked’ and ‘Acorn House’. As a performer screen credits include ‘Little Britain’ (BBC1), ‘Live Girls present Dog Town’ (BBC3) and Sir Richard Attenborough’s feature film ‘Closing the Ring’.
Kevin O’Loughlin born and bred in Glasgow, his credits include playing a stammering policeman in ‘Car Thieves’ by Che Walker for Birmingham Rep, the critically acclaimed comedy ‘By The Way’ at the Pleasance Edinburgh and has also performed previously at the Glasgow Comedy Festival in ‘The Write Brothers’ sketch show (part of the writing team behind BBC’s ‘Chewing the Fat’). His first appearance on screen was as Sammy in ‘River City’ but more recently he acted with Simon Pegg in the film ‘Run Fat Boy Run’ directed by David Schwimmer. He will be appearing in ‘Taggart’ as Scott Clarkson later this year.
