PUNDEMIC at The Playwright

Date: Fri 4th Nov
Time: 21:00

After his first full run at the Edinburgh Festival, one liner and pun merchant Iain MacDonald brings a new hour show for all lovers of wordplay.

From running an online pun show gaining hundreds of thousands of views to the culmination of an appearance on Britain's Got Talent, a lot has happened over the last two years for this prolific pun-producing comedian from Glasgow. Now he presents the best of his puns as written all through this Pundemic. Nobody will leave the show particularly any smarter or more enlightened but with over 150 gags, they will leave with a smile on their face.

After having done single 1 hour performances at The Glasgow Comedy Festival (for the last 5 years) and The Great Yorkshire Fringe (2019), the time came to do a full run at The Edinburgh Fringe. Joke writing and producing the online ‘UK Pun Off’ show has been a great stress reliever during the pandemic and has kept several comics upbeat and with a sense of purpose during the most challenging times. This show doesn’t discuss those times but the jokes that came from them. The show will be very light on preamble and filler- it is designed to be a full hour of jokes.

Starting comedy in 2009 from a stand up comedy course, Iain has developed a strong local following which has seen him become UK Pun Championship finalist (2017, 2018, 2020, 2022), ChampiPUNship runner-up 2019, UK Pun Off Puntest of Champions runner up 2021 and a Britain’s Got Talent contestant in 2022 as well as having writing credits on BBC Scotland’s Off The Ball and Breaking The News programmes. He has also recently released his own joke book entitled ‘Mispunderstood’ and runs a comedy workshop at Men Matter- a local men's mental health charity.

“Scotland’s Prince of Puns” Johnnie Beattie, BBC Radio Scotland

“Understands the importance of a clean, clear setup as well as the killer pun-chline” Sally Jack, Sabotage Reviews

Live show- Playwright. 38 Shakespeare St, Nottingham. NG1 4FQ

Dates - Friday 4th November
Time - 9pm (1hour duration)
Tickets- £5
Suitable for 12+
Wheelchair accessible room
https://www.wegottickets.com/event/550553/

The Playwright

38 Shakespeare St
Nottingham
Notts
NG1 4FQ

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PUNDEMIC

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