Following the success of their sellout stage adaptations of the Cheeky Guides to ‘Brighton’ and ‘Love’, the Cheeky comedy team returns this December with a hilarious slant on the festive season. The Cheeky Guide to Christmas Stage Show promises to revive the old, much-loved Brighton tradition of giving grown-ups something Christmassy to see that isn’t just for the kiddies. With their unique blend of lectures, slide-shows, monologues and sketches, the comic team will tackle such burning Yuletide issues as:
*How to deal with your family on Boxing Day and where to bury them afterwards
*Why three purportedly wise men thought myrrh would be a suitable gift for a baby
*Everything you ever wanted to know about egg nog but were afraid to ask
Starring Brian Mitchell (It's That Jo Caulfield Again), Joanna Neary (Pans Person), Clea Smith (Summer Rain), Guy Venables (Joker Basement) and, Mr. Cheeky himself, David Bramwell, The Cheeky Guide to Christmas Stage Show promises a real 'cracker' of a night out for all the family. Just don't bring the kids!
‘Wicked’ - The Daily Telegraph
‘If you fail to laugh, you must be dead’ - This Is Brighton
‘I don't know anyone who would not find this show funny’ - The Argus
‘Hip, entertaining and in-depth’ – NME
Cheeky Guides have been featured in The Daily Telegraph, The Evening Standard, Travel and Leisure Magazine, on Radio 4’s The News Quiz and BBC1’s The Holiday Programme. This summer, author and performer, David Bramwell, was even interviewed live on Radio 2, by the legendary, hairy-faced sex-god Noel Edmonds.
David Bramwell is the author of The Cheeky Guide to Brighton and co-founder of Cheekyguides Ltd. He performed in The Cheeky Guide Brighton stage show at the Komedia in 2001 and 2002, has made appearances on Radio 2 and Radio 4 and is kind to most animals.
Brian Mitchell has written a sting of plays and shows for television and is a co-founder of and contributor to Brighton’s legendary Comedy Dairy. He is currently head writer for ‘So Radio’ on Jo Caufield’s Radio 4 show and future plans include a second musical with Philip Reeve and a tour of the highly acclaimed ‘Cheeky Guide To Love Stage Show’.
Guy Venables is a cartoonist, stand up comedian, male escort, yacht deliverer, journalist and debt collector. He is the host of Komedia’s off-the-wall comedy night, "Joker Basement", but is perhaps most notorious in Brighton for having taken a skinny dip in the shark tank at the Sealife Centre and living to tell the tale.
Joanna Neary is not your average stand-up act. She has developed a range of comedy characters that have attracted a wide following and her annual one-woman show has been one of the undisputed ‘must-see’ events of the Brighton Festival. She has been a regular at ‘The Comedy Dairy’ and ‘Voodoo Vaudeville’, and has won praise for her performances in both ‘The Cheeky Guide To Brighton’ and ‘The Cheeky Guide To Love’ stage shows. Joanna has recently recorded ‘I Deal’, a pilot show for Steve Coogan’s ‘Baby Cow’ Productions.
Clea Smith is an actor of wide range, having won high praise for convincingly portraying a nine-year-old murderess, a monkey, a re-animated corpse, a Sixties’ glamour stooge and Margaret Thatcher. After success as Miranda with Simon Merrills in ‘The Tempest’, she went on to devise ‘Frisk’, ‘Shuffle’ and ‘Gin and Trickery’, in which she displayed a rare talent for physical comedy. Despite acclaim for ‘straight’ roles in ‘Spy’, ‘The Country Wife’, ‘Summer Rain’ and ‘People Who Don’t Do Dinner Parties’, Clea has continued to perform comedy, regularly appearing with ‘Mitchell and Mounfield’ and ‘The Treason Show’. She will soon be touring the country in ‘The Cheeky Guide To Love Stage Show’.
