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OFF THE KERB PRODUCTIONS ANNOUNCES ITS EDINBURGH LINE-UP

For their 30th Edinburgh Festival in a row, Off The Kerb Productions will be promoting the following shows this year:

Andy Parsons: Gruntled
Assembly Hall
20th – 28th August
9pm
Box Office 0131 623 3030
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Comedy Gala 2011 in Aid of Waverley Care
Festival Theatre
16th August
7.30pm
Box office 0131 529 6000
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Dead Cat Bounce: Caged Heat
Pleasance One
3rd – 28th August (Not 15th August)
10.30pm
Box Office 0131 556 6550
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Des Bishop: My Dad Was Nearly James Bond
Pleasance Beyond
3rd – 14th August
9.10pm
Box office 0131 556 6550
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Jon Richardson: It’s Not Me, It’s You
Pleasance Ace Dome
20th-28th August
2.30pm
Box Office 0131 556 6550
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Josh Widdicombe: If This Show Saves One Life…
Pleasance Hut
3rd -28th August (Not 15th August)
7.15pm
Box Office 0131 556 6550
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Neil Delamere: Divilment
Pleasance Above
3rd – 28th August (Not 15th August)
7.40pm
Box Office 0131 556 6550
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Phill Jupitus: Stand Down
The Stand
3rd – 28th August(Not 15th or 22nd August)
8.15pm
Box Office 0131 558 7272
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Rich Hall
Pleasance Grand
3rd-28th August (Not 15th August)
9.40pm
Box Office 0131 556 6550
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Rich Hall‘s Hoedown
Pleasance Grand
3rd – 28th August (Not 15th August)
11.15pm
Box Office 0131 556 6550
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Seann Walsh: Ying and Young
Pleasance Beneath
3rd-28th August (Not 15th August)
8.15pm
Box Office 0131 556 6550
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Shappi Khorsandi
Pleasance Beyond
3rd-28th August
7.50pm
Box Office 0131 556 6550
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BIOGRAPHY

Shappi Khorsandi

‘Don’t be fooled by her innocent looks, she packs a deceptively powerful punch’ – Evening Standard

The daughter of an exiled writer and comic from Iran, Shappi’s upbringing has been in no way conventional. From mental illness to opium dens, it’s all gone on in the Khorsandi household and now she recounts it all the only way she knows how, with wit, warmth and hilarity.

Feisty, flirty and effortlessly funny she handles every subject with a razor sharp wit, softened only by her deliciously dizzy delivery and endless charm.

Shappi Khorsandi

‘Britain’s best young female comic by any yardstick’ – The Guardian

Shappi took her one women show Carry on Shappi to the 2008 Edinburgh Festival and then on to The Soho Theatre.

In 2007, Shappi won Best Breakthrough Act at the Chortle Awards. That same year, she took her show Carry on Shappi to the Fringe when she was eight months pregnant, enticing at least one critic to plead ‘go and see her before her waters break!’ She was back in early 2008, taking Carry on Shappi to the Soho Theatre in London.

Shappi’s 2006 show, Asylum Speaker was an Edinburgh sell-out, followed by an extended run at The Soho Theatre.

‘Asylum Speaker is both adorable and daring, a rare combination… Khorsandi has star quality’ – The Independent

Shappi Khorsandi

TV and radio

Shappi has appeared on Have I Got News For You, on BBC1′s Lenny’s Britain and BBC4′s Never Mind the Full Stops. She’s a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4 programmes such as Quote… Unquote, The Now Show, Just a Minute, and also contributed to From Tehran With Laughter. Shappi has also taken part in BBC4′s The Big Read.

Shappi is a sought after cultural commentator appearing on ITV’s Sunday Edition, BBC Radio 4′s Woman’s Hour, Radio 5 Live, BBC World Service & LBC and also in The Guardian, The Independent, Metro and on BBC News website. She was also a panellist on BBC’s Question Time. Shappi has presented a series for Open University and is a regular roving reporter for BBC South’s Inside Out.

She has gigged internationally in the United States, the Middle East, Singapore, Australia and Amsterdam.

Comedy is a family business for the Khorsandi’s. In Los Angeles, Shappi performed in a seven week sell-out run with her brother in a show called How to be Iranian as well as starring in her own one hour show. Other work in America included a month-long tour supporting her father in his extremely popular stand-up show.