Next Level Sketch
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Next Level Sketch’s 5th Birthday Show with Julia Masli, Luke Rollason and Jamie Mykaela
We are five! It was a splendid evening at Hoopla, our first Thursday show and a sold out room to boot. We prepped a greatest hits set – pimped up with Josephine’s wonderfully bizarre sketch about being a sofa in a nightclub toilet, alongside Ben’s pleasing anti-Dyson rant. And I rebooked some of our favourite… Read more
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Next Level Sketch with Lorna Rose Treen, Joz Norris, and Grubby Little Mitts
Our final show of the year was one of our very best, despite the loss of Susan Harrison to “double booking” and a a smaller than expected crowd for such a banging lineup. Fortunately those that did attend were WELL UP for a bit of alternative comedy, and they were repaid for their enthusiasm with… Read more
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This Machine Kills Wasps Halloween Special with The Roebucks, Mark Silcox, Leslie Bloom, Victoria Melody, The Highchurches, and Next Level Sketch
Another lovely night at my quarterly-ish alternative music and comedy night, headlined on this occasion by local blues-rock band The Roebucks, celebrating their recent signing to Goo Records. Everyone was brilliant and lovely, but I made probably one mistake: being in half the acts. Thank god I got the brilliant Leslie Bloom to host, otherwise… Read more
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Next Level Sketch with Jamie Mykaela, Mikey Bligh-Smith, Michael Brunström and The Mayor and His Daughter
Hello! I did the Treason Show for the first time, and am back in London with some cats. I sometimes find it difficult to sleep after a show, and so after a few aborted attempts at no longer being conscious, I thought I’d write a short post about last week’s Next Level Sketch, which was… Read more
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Next Level Sketch at Bristol Improv Theatre with Up The Antics and The Artist Formerly Known As Banana
I wrote this post yesterday and accidentally hit “discard” before publishing, sending it down the nothingness pipe into the memory hole of forever. So writing about our show again feels very strange – like anything I say here will be a mere shadow of whatever it was I wrote yesterday. And of course, whatever I… Read more
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Next Level Sketch with Katie McCleod, Chuck ‘n’ Jeck and Rob Duncan
There has been a lot going on with me recently, more on this to come in future blog posts. A lot of you out there already know what I’m talking about. So my own personal desire for the last Next Level Sketch before our summer hiatus was to get through it without falling over or… Read more
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Spooky Baby: A Next Level Sketch
Cheers once again to Alex and the team at Orca Comedy for expertly filming another sketch from our bulging oeuvre. We’ve had assorted Halloween specials at Hoopla since 2020, and this sketch is one of my favourites because it’s just so winningly stupid. And I think the extra lines added about The Cure and new… Read more
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Next Level Sketch with Will Sebag-Montefiore, Jen Zheng, and The Awkward Silence
I dashed off to Istanbul straight after our show, and so didn’t have time for my usual, far-too-long write-up. But I wanted to write down a few things, as it was another fabulous night at Hoopla Impro, with some of my favourite people. Self-criticism corner first: I probably should have prepared better for hosting. I’m… Read more
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Some days you’ve just got to get in a bin
I wrote before about how Next Level Sketch are filming a few sketches, and how I feel about that. Having missed the first batch of filming due to cat commitments, Dan asked me to play the non-speaking role of “furious neighbour” in his sketch about a man who is really, really, really obsessed with the… Read more
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Next Level Sketch with Mark Silcox, Nikola McMurtie and Thick ‘n’ Fast
One of the best shows. I go on far too long in these post-show blog posts, so I’ll just share some personal highlights via that last refuge of the feckless, the bullet point: Read more
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