Zoe Lyons - Miss Machismo

If.Comedy Best Newcomer nominee Zoe Lyons brings her all new show to The Bloomsbury Theatre for one night only.

In 2008 Zoe was awarded the inaugural DAVE award for Best Joke at the Fringe for a gag that Germaine Greer described as 'astonishingly vicious'. Zoe is, of course, grateful for the compliment and has since appeared on Mock The Week (BBC2), Four Stands Up (Radio 4), Clive Anderson's Chatroom (BBC2) and PMQ with Andy Parsons (Radio Five Live).

'Miss Machismo' is an hour of punchy comedy that explores amongst other things, arming the elderly, human soup, and the Pope's remarks about the blurring of the genders. Zoe thought this was a curious comment from a man who insists on wearing a frock with pretty red shoes but then people do say the strangest things. According to one audience member she encountered this year all lesbians pee standing up and you need balls to be a comedian. Well... OK then, Ladies and Gentlemen please welcome... Miss Machismo.

"Enthusiastic, likeable, a razor-sharp talent"
The Scotsman

"Genuinely funny... her comic timing is excellent and her jokes intelligent and insightful"
Edinburgh Fest Mag

"Razor-sharp"
Observer Magazine

Plus support from Seann Walsh

WINNER LEICESTER MERCURY COMEDIAN OF THE YEAR 2009

WINNER CHORTLE BEST NEWCOMER AWARD 2009

Seann has impressed critics, promoters, judges and audiences around the country with his assured delivery and self-depreciating silliness. Seann has a genuine buzz about him, he has that spark, that exciting unquantifiable quality that makes audiences and critics sit up and take notice and has had him heralded as one of the most exciting new talents of the last 10 years.

Tickets £14, concessions £12