Russell Kane

Russell Kane

It took Russell Kane ten years to muster the courage (and Imodium supply) to walk out on stage and perform the ego equivalent of a bungee jump. He finally exploded onto the scene in autumn 2003 and has enjoyed a meteoric introduction to the London and national comedy scene. He was performing paid twenty-minute sets within three months, and, as far as Malcom Hay can recall, no other new act has had a Time Out preview page article about them in so short a space of time. Audience members have described his act as "electric hilarity", "breath-taking", "scary-funny", and "phenomenal to watch" - ...

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Russell Kane News

Updated August 22, 2012
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Our beloved Utter Shambles star Josie Long has been nominated for the 2012 Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award for the ...
Russell Kane is set to host a new BBC Three comedy show intriguingly titled, Look At The State Of You. The show ...
Comedian Russell Kane is to host a brand new live comedy show called Live at the Electric. No-one has told us what the ...
Josie Long is among those nominated for this year’s Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award for her show ‘The Future is Another ...
Adrian Edmonson started and ended his performance in familiar style, with his comedy partner Rik Mayall hitting in the ...
Tim Minchin leads this year’s Chortle Awards nominations with a total of three nods. Tim is up for best music or ...
Josie Long has been nominated for a Funniest Woman award at the 2011 Loaded LAFTAs. In the category she’s up against ...
Russell Howard is not leaving the show, but has other filming commitments including a new series of Russell Howard’s ...
The Frank Chickens have been declared Edinburgh’s ‘Comedy Gods’ beating the likes of Michael McIntyre, Russell Howard ...
This afternoon Russell Kane was announced as the winner of this year’s Edinburgh Comedy Award! ...
Russell Kane will be unleashing his sell-out Fringe show Smokescreens & Castles on the public in a new nationwide tour ...
Josie Long has been nominated for this year’s Edinburgh Fringe comedy award! ...
An autumn of comedy festivals is almost upon us: with Brighton, Manchester, Birmingham and Reading all hosting ...
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Full Biography

It took Russell Kane ten years to muster the courage (and Imodium supply) to walk out on stage and perform the ego equivalent of a bungee jump.


He finally exploded onto the scene in autumn 2003 and has enjoyed a meteoric introduction to the London and national comedy scene.


He was performing paid twenty-minute sets within three months, and, as far as Malcom Hay can recall, no other new act has had a Time Out preview page article about them in so short a space of time.


Audience members have described his act as "electric hilarity", "breath-taking", "scary-funny", and "phenomenal to watch" - one Japanese punter said it was like watching a twisted human cartoon.


His act is a turbo-charged, unhinged, 'reverse-misogynistic', self-loathing, stalking, dribbling, lethally twisted brand of humour that goes hyper-thyroid style for the jugular, tackling everything from psycholinguistics to anal tapeworm disorder... and all delivered with a neurotic, almost Parkinsonian, twitchiness.


Click here to check out his original sketches, written and performed exclusively for us!


"Many comics feign weirdness, but this is the closest to the real deal: a breathless, raging, feral act..."

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