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The next Tombola of Fun will be taking place on Wednesday 20th July 2011 at 8pm (Doors 7:30pm), downstairs at The Camden Head. Go here for more details of the show. (more…)

Over the last decade Nathaniel Metcalfe has wasted his life indulging his obscure minor obsessions and now he needs to justify it to you and himself.

Nathaniel Metcalfe has been doing stand up since May 2007, and got through to the semi-finals of the So You Think You’re Funny? competition after only five gigs. In 2010 he got through to the semi-final of the Laughing Horse New Act of the Year and the final of the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year. He is the only resident act at Josie Long’s Lost Treasures of the Black Heart club and supported her on the Manchester date of her current UK tour in January 2011.

Here’s what some people have said about him:

“”brilliant and unusual and very funny”
-Josie Long

“Nathaniel Metcalfe is particularly engrossing with a surreal, meandering line of dry observations, delivered in an perfectly unsettling manner. His Sugar Puffs/Honey Monster comment is the stuff of dreams”
-Thomas Meek, The List Magazine

“…there was only one that really stood out. That was Nathaniel Metcalfe, an unassuming dude who had just one joke which he stretched out to five minutes, about the theme song to a movie called The Barefoot Executive, starring Kurt Russell and a monkey. It was a doozy.”
-Tracer Hand, freakytrigger.co.uk

“There is a touch of the Stewart Lee about his delivery as he employs long pauses, and a great deal of repetition to emphasise his points, but it’s Lee on ecstasy. A friendly, jovial enthusiastic fellow, he did well to take the show to an interval on a high note.”
-Corry Shaw, Chortle

“…a brilliant act with some strong, dry yet surreal observations. Thoroughly enjoyable.”
-Red Redmond, gigglebeats.co.uk

“…his zany, entertaining and sharp yet silly style.”
-Zoe Coutts, freecomedy.co.uk

This is a work in progress show.

Venue name & Address:
Hen & Chickens Theatre,
109 St Paul’s Road,
London N1 2NA
Admission Price:
£5 (£4 concessions) including £1.50 membership
Date:
Thursday 1st December 2011
Starting Time:
9.30pm
Nearest Tube:
Highbury & Islington
Contact Number:
020-7704-2001

But tickets here

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Here’s a couple of new Spiked Furies, both courtesy of regular contributor and “aces gal”; Hayley Campbell.
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Well I’m back from Edinburgh. That was fun. One of my gigs was chronicled by Sarah McIntyre on her blog. See the above image. That cartoon was a lovely treat. (more…)

Hello gang,

My two preview gigs in Southend have both been cancelled, so myself and Chris Boyd are doing another Edinburgh preview in Camden on Friday (details below). Also here’s the Time Out page for the next Tombola of Fun. Also please click ‘attending’ on the page for the event. This boosts the event to the top of the Time Out page online making it the first thing people see when they hit the comedy pages.

Here’s a list of my upcoming gigs:

Friday 15th July 2011
Hatty Ashdown: Nan Child & The Best of Boyd & Metcalfe,
The Camden Head,
100 Camden High Street,
London
NW1 0LU
8pm
Free
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With Chris Boyd & Hatty Ashdown

Tuesday 19th July 2011
Richard Sandling’s Perfect Movie,
The Green Man,
36 Riding House Street,
London
W1W 7ES
8pm (Doors 7.30pm)
£6
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With Richard Sandling, Sarah Bennetto and Nick Helm. I will be introducing video recreations of some of my favourite scenes from films.

Wednesday 20th July 2011
Tombola of Fun,
Positively 4th Street,
119 Hampstead Road,
London
NW1 3EE
8pm (7.30pm doors)
£5
With Brett Goldstein & Chris Boyd.

Sunday 24th July 2011
New Cross Turn Left: A Comics and Art Garden Party,
The Old Police Station,
114-116 Amersham Vale,
Deptford,
London,
SE14 6LG
7.30pm
Free

6th-27th August 2011 (Except 16th and 23rd)
The Best of Boyd and Metcalfe,
Royal Mile Tavern,
127 High Street,
Edinburgh
EH1 1SG
8.30pm
Free
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With Chris Boyd

Thursday 22nd September 2011
Lonestar Comedy,
Raffles in Cranbrook,
St Davids Bridge,
Cranbrook,
Kent,
TN17 3HL
Website

Thursday 29th September 2011
Stand Up Hastings,
Venuu,
10 George Street,
Old Town,
Hastings,
East Sussex,
TN34 3EG
8.30pm (7.30pm doors)
£7/£5 conscessions
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Thursday 6th October 2011
Downstairs at the King’s Head,
2 Crouch End Hill,
London,
N8 8AA
8pm Doors
£4/£3
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The next Tombola of Fun will be taking place on Wednesday 20th July 2011 at 8pm (Doors 7:30pm), downstairs at Positively 4th Street. Go here for more details of the show.

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The second of David Trent‘s Spiked Fury sub-set Trolley Fury. (more…)