Hilarity Bites presents Bridget Christie, Harriet Kemsley, Ignacio Lopez & Host Brennan Reece

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Bridget Christie

2013 Edinburgh Comedy Award - Best Show Winner

With five awards, fourteen hit solo comedy shows, and her critically acclaimed Channel 4 sitcom The Change recently receiving a BAFTA nomination and longlisted for the TV Choice Awards, Bridget Christie is a renowned comedian, actor and writer

Bridget’s show A Bic For Her (which broke box office records at Soho Theatre) won many awards including, the Foster’s 2013 Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show, the 2014 South Bank Sky Arts Award for Best Comedy, the 2014 Chortle Award for Best Show and a 2014 Hospital 100 Club Award for Performance and Theatre.

In 2015, Bridget won a Marie Claire Woman at the Top Award and a Red Woman of the Year Award. Her hugely critically acclaimed 2016 show Because You Demanded It (about Britain’s decision to leave the European Union), was The Guardian’s No 1 Comedy of 2016, won the Chortle Award for Best show 2017 and completely sold out its Edinburgh and West End runs. Also in 2016 Bridget’s debut live stand-up special, Stand Up for Her, was streamed on Netflix, making her the first British female comedian with a stand up special on the streaming service.

Bridget’s third critically acclaimed radio series, Bridget Christie’s Utopia was a finalist in the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2018 for Best Comedy (longform) and her fourth series, Mortal won this award in 2022.

In addition to these accolades, Bridget has appeared in various TV and radio shows including Have I Got News For You, QI, Harry Hill’s Alien Fun Capsule, The News Quiz, Dilemma, and Taskmaster Series 13 which won her a legion of new fans. She has headlined the comedy stages at Latitude, Leeds, and Reading Festivals amongst many others.

Bridget’s star-studded, critically acclaimed comedy drama series The Change (Channel 4) was longlisted for the 2023 TV Choice Awards and nominated in 2024 for both an RTS Comedy Writing Award and a BAFTA Award for her Performance in Comedy. The Guardian proclaimed that “[this] super-cool menopause comedy is like nothing else on TV”. Series Two, which is also co-directed by Bridget, aired in 2025.

“Christie has been a comedy scene golden girl for nearly two decades. With her signature stream-of-consciousness style, she blends her artfully mundane observations with mock-furious political rants and bold bits of physical comedy.” - The I

“It’s another cracking show from the current queen of crusading UK comedy” - ★★★★ - The Guardian

“One of the funniest things I’ve heard this August” - ★★★★ - Daily Telegraph

 

Harriet Kemsley

As seen on LOL: Last One Laughing UK (Amazon Prime) and Live at the Apollo (BBC)

Harriet Kemsley is an award winning comedian, writer and actress. She starred in the Viceland reality sitcom Bobby and Harriet: Get Married which she co-created and co-wrote with her husband Bobby Mair, to huge critical acclaim. She can also be seen on Dave's Hypothetical, ITV's Hey Tracey, Comedy Central’s Roast Battle, and is a recurring guest on 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and 8 Out of 10 Cats.

Harriet's other credits include hosting the BBC Radio 4 Comedy Club, The Radio 1 Comedy Lounge, BBC3’s Comedy Marathon, The One Show (Edinburgh Special) and Kevin’s Hart’s LOL Live.

Harriet’s awards include the Leicester Mercury New Act of the Year Finalist, Funny’s Funny Winner, Up The Creek New Act of the Year Winning and Leicester Square New Act of the Year Finalist. She has been described by Time Out as ‘a very funny rising star’ and as one of Rhod Gilbert’s ‘Ten Comics to See’ in the Mail on Sunday.

“You can feel the funny bubbling up inside her... and it is joyful” - The Scotsman

“A quirky, refreshingly charming comedian” - Radio Times/strong>

“Packs in high calibre jokes” - ★★★★ - The Guardian

“A masterful hour” - ★★★★ - The Skinny

 

Ignacio Lopez

As seen on Live at the Apollo (BBC) and Have I Got News For You (BBC)

Ignacio Lopez is a Spanish & Welsh comedian based in Cardiff. His parents are Welsh/Irish & Moroccan/Spanish, and he has a German sister; family get-togethers are like a meeting of the U.N.

As well as hosting TV shows, headlining top comedy clubs all over the U.K and Europe, and taking the piss out of British people directly to their faces, Ignacio writes sketches, sitcoms, and tweets. Every few months something he tweets will go viral and he'll gain a few thousand followers before they realise he doesn't just tweet witty observations about public transport and songs about hating the UK - then they unfollow until the next tweet goes viral. The fickle bastards.

Ignacio has performed for the Wales football squad, opened for James Dean Bradfield of Manic Street Preachers, and hosts comedy and corporate events around the World.

At last count (probably this morning) Ignacio's videos have received over 20 Million views in total across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. TikTok will not remove videos of Ignacio that other people have stolen and posted themselves.

“Hilarious” - The Scotsman

“Charismatic with a waspish charm” - Chortle

“Unique and hilarious” - BUZZ Magazine

 

Brennan Reece

Best Newcomer (nominee), Edinburgh Comedy Festival 2016
English Comedian of the Year 2015
Best Show (nominee), Fringe World Australia

As seen on Live At The Apollo (BBC), Celeb Coach Trip (E4), and Roast Battle (Comedy Central), and supporting Joe Lycett on his 2022 UK Arena tour.

Brennan is a multi award winning working class wordsmith (Edinburgh Best Newcomer Nominee and English Comedian Of The Year Winner). A stand-up, a storyteller, and self confessed mummy’s boy, his boyish cheeks recently cropped up on Survival Of The Fittest (ITV), The Stand Up Sketch Show (ITV) Live At The Comedy Store (Comedy Central) and racking up over 6 million YouTube hits for his stint on Top Gear (BBC).

A true Northern voice, with family close to his heart. Your Mum is going to love him! Not like that, you dirty little perve.

“A powerfully entertaining, unstoppable force” - Chortle

“A teenage Alan Bennett” - The Skinny

“Beautiful, raucous and touching” - The Independent

“Absolutely incredible” - Phoebe Waller Bridge

 

Note: Line-ups are subject to change in extreme, and unavoidable, circumstances.

Show may contain strong language and adult themes.

 

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Timings

Doors open: 6:30pm
Show starts: 7:30pm

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Buy tickets:

Tickets for this show can be bought online at www.darlingtonhippodrome.co.uk, in person from the Darlington Hippodrome box office in the Cornmill Centre, or telephone 01325 405405.

Tickets for this show are £22 each, with doors opening at 7pm and the show starting at 7:30pm.