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“The cheeriest
show in town … a laugh-a-minute session”
The Telegraph
“Charmingly twisted, articulate and witty”
The Sunday Times
“Measured and winning … You will be smiling constantly, laughing
regularly and will leave happy”
The Independent
“The pick of the crop of emerging female comics … Lucy has the elfin
charm and killer delivery of a young Felicity Kendal”
The Herald
“Petite, fresh-faced, barefoot and jolly, Porter’s inspired silliness
puts a smile on everyone’s face”
The Guardian
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She's written for Johnny
Vaughan, Adam and Joe and Griff Rhys Jones.
She's starred in TV shows including BBC1's The Stand Up Show and
C5's Comedy StoreShe acted with Christian Slater in the West End an
on BBC2's Broken News.
She's even written for Jimmy Tarbuck, interviewed porn legend Ben Dover,
and flexed her TV pop quiz muscles with Noddy Holder.
A respected, in-demand scriptwriting talent and columnist off-screen,
skilful and hilarious on-screen she can be heard regularly on the hit
Radio 2 show 'Parsons and Naylor's Pull-out Sections', where she
delivers a winning mixture of topical and observational stand-up.
Lucy has performed stand-up comedy at venues all over the country
including some of London's most prestigious clubs. She has regularly
featured on the Comedy Network playing to student audiences nationwide,
and also to many normal people. In 1997 Lucy did a three week run at the
Edinburgh Festival in 1997 with Martin Bigpig and Robin Ince at the Café
Royal and received excellent reviews for her performance. In that year she
was also a finalist in Channel 4's "So You Think You're
Funny?" and the "Bell's Whisky North West Comedian of the
Year" competitions. In '99 Lucy returned to Edinburgh for the
sell out show "The Comedy Zone" nightly at The Pleasance.
In 2002 Lucy performed her first solo Edinburgh show at The Gilded
Balloon. The hour long show featured observational stand up, characters
and a topical material. She received two 5 Star reviews and television
coverage on the BBC show "24 Hours in Edinburgh". Off the
back of her performance in Edinburgh Lucy was invited by NBC in America to
perform at a showcase Theatre in New York. (see reviews at bottom).
Lucy took her second solo show to Edinburgh in 2003. She did another hour
of stand-up about lying, in a show which promised to tell the truth. This
show was a total sell-out and she received glowing 4 and 5 star reviews,
including a 5 Star from the Guardian.
Lucy was asked to support the UK Tour of Puppetry of The Penis, she
performed at large venues throughout Britain on the 40 date tour. She also
supported Ardal O'Hanlon on tour. Her 2005 show "Happiness"
was a total sell out. She is taking it on the road in 2006 to 40 venues.
Lucy also appeared at the HBO Comedy Festival in Las Vegas in
November 2005.
Lucy starred in the critically acclaimed, box-office record-breaking run
of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in Edinburgh and London's West
End, alongside Christian Slater. Ian Shuttleworth in The Financial Times
described her performance thus:
"Lucy Porter proves shockingly good at
self-effacement here as timid Nurse Flinn... a stark contrast with her
comedy show in which she proves congenitally (and endearingly) unable to
stop herself from chatting with all and sundry"
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Lucy Porter has appeared
on the following shows
Have I Got News for You BBC 1
The Personality Test Radio 4
Clive Andersons Chat Room BBC Radio 2
Broken News BBC
The Powder Room BBC Radio 2
Parsons and Naylor BBC
Comedy Cuts ITV2
The Blame Game BBC1
Edinburgh and Beyond Avalon
The New Armando Iannucci Show R 4 Pozzitive Productions
Absolute Power BBC 2
Richard & Judy Ch 4 / Cactus
The History Of Advertising Ch5/RDF Media
100 Greatest TV Moments Ever! YTV / Ch 4
Live Floor Show BBC 2
Brain Candy... Baby Cow / BBC 3
The Sandi Toksvig LBC Radio
The Matthew Wright Show LBC Radio
Live Floor Show BBC Scotland
The Comedy Store Open Mike / Paramount
24 Hours in Edinburgh BBC Scotland / BBC
Shoot the Messenger Open Mike / Paramount TV (2 Series)
100 Great Sporting Moments Ch 4
I Love the 80's BBC 2
Please Sir! Ch 5
The Treatment Radio 5
Bedrock ITV2
The Stand Up Show BBC1
The 11 O'Clock Show Ch 4
Parson's and Naylor's Pullout Section BBC Radio 2
The Stand Up Show BBC Radio 2
The Comedy Store Five
Absolutely True Ch 4/ Paramount
Gas Channel 4
Net.Comedy Carlton Digital
Consequently Carlton Digital
The Last Laugh Show Granada TV
Funny Business ITV
Flat Earth GMR
Noddy's Electric Ladyland GSKYB
The Loafers BBC Choice
Elvis Has Just Left The Building GSKYB
The Comedy Show GMR
At The Store BBC Radio 4
Edinburgh 2003
'You have got to have talent and not a little cheek to carry off Mary
Tyler Moore innocence while taking gags off into the wild blue yonder -
and Porter has bags of both' Guardian
'From the moment she bursts on, with her infectious smile and
ridiculously cheery outlook, she has the audience eating out of her
hand, feeling as if they've just been hit with the innocence of a doey-eyed
deer.' Metro
'Lucy Porter combines a themed set about lying (especially about sexual
matters) with a bouncy-girly appeal that it is rather like watching a
Blue Peter presenter in a porn marathon.' Financial Times
Lucy won the coveted Fringe Report award for ‘Best Stand-up’
for her fourth solo show ‘Lady Luck’ in 2004 which also
garnered critical acclaim and full houses.
Her writing has bought her BAFTA and RTS nominations and she also won
the 2004 New York Television Festival’s Grand Prize for a
children’s show written for Disney.
EDINBURGH 2004
“… Her bubblegum comedy comes wrapped in a sharp and savvy wit with
a dollop of smut on the side … female comedians are lucky to have a
role model like Porter.”
METRO
“… Porter is charming company, with a likeable line in audience
flattery and impish self-deprecation”
THE GUARDIAN
“…She entirely disproves the theory that aggression is the root of
all stand-up and shows that women can be funny without resorting to
blokey hectoring … she’s so lively and smiley that her responses to
the audience seem entirely unforced and spontaneous.”
THE OBSERVER
EDINBURGH 2005
“…articulate and witty..this woman has raised her
game since last year…” SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE 4/5
“… inspired sillyness…” GUARDIAN 4/5
" Porter is one of the best nights out at the fringe…a magnetic
character…” METRO
“… the slickest hour on the fringe” SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
“… supremely structured…perfectly paced..” EDINBURGH EVENING
NEWS
EDINBURGH 2006
“…the cheeriest show in town…” a laugh a minute
session DAILY TELEGRAPH
“…Charmingly twisted, articulate and witty …” SUNDAY TIMES
“…A tiny, cheery permanently smiling bundle of joy …” EDINBURGH
EVENING STANDARD
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