Tickets are now on-sale for Simon Munnery's two new Edinburgh Festival Fringe shows:

SIMON MUNNERY: FYLM-MAKKER

Experimenting with a tiny camera and big screen, Simon Munnery presents a new show. Stand-up, monologues, sketches and fylms. As recently seen on BBC2's Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle and heard on Radio 4's News Quiz. 'He’s nothing less than a genius' (Guardian). 'There are more brilliant ideas in one of Simon Munnery's shows than most comics will manage in a lifetime' (Times). 'A true original' (Scotsman).

The Stand, August 3 to 27 (not 13), 3.45pm

SIMON MUNNERY'S LA CONCEPTA

All the rigmarole of haute cuisine without the shame of eating. An exclusive non-dining restaurant experience for eight persons. Created by Simon Munnery. Chortle Innovation Award winner 2012. 'The fringiest Fringe experience of 2011' (Guardian). As seen on BBC2's The Culture Show. 'A delicious opportunity to enjoy a performance from a real pro, served directly to your table' (Independent).

La Concepta, Aug 4 to 25 (not 14) 12.10pm & 13.10pm

Simon has been awarded the award for Innovation by the Chortle Comedy Awards for La Concepta, a pop-up restaurant for four diners with non-existent dishes waited on by Simon. The Guardian critic Brian Logan described La Concepta as the "fringiest Fringe experience of 2011". Simon is currently on tour in Australia.

Simon Munnery takes his new show, Hats Off To The 101ers, And Other Material, around the UK this Spring 2012. Its an extravagant mess of foaming bubble hats, superlative jokes, bad guitar riffs, delightful monologues, hand-made engineering feats and an overly ambitious one-man punk musical about the R101 airship of the 1930s. All performed with a plum. Or some other fruit.

TOUR DATES:

January 11 to 14; Soho Theatre, LONDON – Tickets

January 25; Rondo Theatre, BATH – Tickets

January 26; Phoenix Theatre, EXETER – Tickets

January 27; Crucible Theatre, SHEFFIELD – Tickets

January 29; The Lowry, SALFORD QUAYS – Tickets

January 31; The Stand, NEWCASTLE – Tickets

February 4; Arts Depot, NORTH FINCHLEY – Tickets

February 5; The Picturehouse Basement, YORK – Tickets

February 6; The Hi-Fi Club, LEEDS – Tickets

February 10; Harlow Playhouse, HARLOW – Tickets

February 11; The North Wall Arts Centre, OXFORD – Tickets

February 12; Curve Theatre, LEICESTER – Tickets

February 14; Unity Theatre, LIVERPOOL – Tickets

February 15; Chapter Arts, CARDIFF – Tickets

February 16; The Old Market, BRIGHTON – Tickets

February 18; Colchester Arts Centre, COLCHESTER – Tickets

February 25; Kettering Arts Centre, KETTERING – Tickets

February 28; The Stand, EDINBURGH – Tickets

March 8; Black Box Arts, BELFAST – Tickets

March 9; Forest Arts Centre, NEW MILTON – Tickets

March 11; Glee Club, NOTTINGHAM – Tickets

March 18; Tobacco Factory Theatre, BRISTOL – Tickets

March 20; The Stand, GLASGOW – Tickets

March 21; Paisley Arts Centre, PAISLEY – On Sale Soon

March 22; West End Centre, ALDERSHOT – Tickets

March 23; Glee Club, BIRMINGHAM – Tickets

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At the Banshee Labyrinth in Edinburgh over eleven nights, from Wednesday 18th August- Saturday 28th August 2010, I put on a series of cabarets which raised a total of £2033.45 for the disasters emergency committee Pakistan flood appeal. Many thanks to all those who attended and gave money, and to those who did not attend but gave money anyway. Less thanks to those who attended but gave nothing. And massive thanks to all the acts that performed: Ian Mcpherson, Mike Wozniak, Sean Hughes, Chloe Philip, Ed Byrne,Norman Lovett, Danny Bhoy, Stewart Lee, Andy Zaltzman, Kevin Eldon, Carl Barron, Tim Turnbull, Roy Hutchins, Carey Marx, Shazia Mirza, Hannah Gadsby, Stephen Carlin, New Art Club, Rob Rouse, Max Dickens, Miles Jupp, Paul Zenon, Mikelangelo, Paul Sinha, Tiffany Stephenson, Dag Soras, Zodiac, Tom Adams, John Hegley, Lara A King, Josie Long, Andrew Bird, Janey Godley, Jollie, Shappi Kohsandi, Mathew Hardy, Daniel Kitson, Steve Larkin, Pete The Temp, Lewis Schaffer, Tara Flynn, Carl Donnelly, Mike Hayley, Tim Wells, Gordon Southern, Arthur Smith, Phil Jupitus, Heathcote Williams for the poem, David Burns for publicity. Thanks also to PBH free fringe and Rich who's surname I forget – it was something beginning with M and Spanish sounding, apologies apologies ooh my brain, for running the room and performing.

KEVIN ELDON, SIMON MUNNERY & ANDREW BAILEY STAR IN THIS RADIO PLAY. SEE THE SHOP

Tickets on sale here for this years Edinburgh show www.edfringe.com/whats-on/comedy/simon-munnery-self-employed Reviewed here: http://entertainment.stv.tv/edinburgh-festivals/shows-were-lovin/192062-simon-munnery-the-stand/ and here: http://fringe2010.dracos.co.uk/22/moments/

abaat it.. http://filmlondon.org.uk/best_of_boroughs/the_tunnel/

Why Bedford? You ask. Why not? As Arnold Brown used to say. It’s civilised, cosmopolitan, and romantic. Oh no, that’s Paris. It’s local, that’s it, it’s near where I live. So I sent off thirty letters, to every venue I could think of, and got two replies, and in the end managed to book four gigs; The Pad, Lurke Street; The Shed, Castle Road; The George and Dragon, Mill Street; Bedford Rugby Club, Goldington Road. I put an advert in The Times and Citizen - the local free paper, though not to advertise in sadly, made some flyers and placed them in pubs and cafes around the town. And the result? Well the gigs all went well, thanks for asking. But apart from the first, at The Pad, which was an established comedy/indie disco night and full, numbers were low, not enough to reach critical mass. I know this from experience; if there aren’t enough people in, then word of mouth is not sufficient. And no matter how well a gig goes, there is an awkwardness to being part of a small audience; you may laugh all the way through but you wouldn’t recommend a friend to go to the next one, and even if you did how many friends have you got and would they all come? It’s worth noting Eugene Cheese of London’s long-running Chuckle Club will cancel if there’s less than thirty.

So now I am mentally regrouping… I’ve realised my flyer was rubbish, and also that I am terrible at flyering. I walked round Bedford in the rain with a handful of flyers but couldn’t bring myself to stop anyone and flyer them. Likewise sticking them through letterboxes; I don’t like things being stuck through my letterbox so I couldn’t do it to someone else. But I haven’t given up. I’ve applied to the council to set up a market stall. I’m planning to do two pieces of street art in the town, and I shall book another gig and make a better flyer for it. Bedford has so far remained indifferent to me, but I am indifferent to Bedford’s indifference. Thus I win. More news later.

Also known by his stagenames of Alan Parker: Urban Warrior and The League Against Tedium, Simon Munnery is a comedy writer and experimental standup comedian.The Observer newspaper called Simon, ‘One of the most original and talented comedians in the country’. He’s recently released two DVDs of his work and one of his songs, Grey Clouds – a take-off of The Orb’s Little Fluffy Clouds- was featured on Annie Nightengale’s CD Y4K.

Kevin Eldon will be recognised from comedy projects such as Brass Eye, Black Books, I’m Alan Partridge, Spaced, Big Train, Fist of Fun and Hyperdrive, and appeared as Sergeant Tony Fisher in Hot Fuzz alongside Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. He also appeared in Simon’s surreal comedy series Attention Scum. Have a look.

Brian Cox invited them out to Geneva for a tour of CERN and they proved to be extremely informed and interested in physics and the work being done at CERN. And, it goes without saying, they were very funny, too.