My Time Capsule

Major-General Chapman joined the British Army in September 1980. He joined 2nd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment (2 PARA) and fought in the Falklands campaign, including the Battle of Goose Green. He stayed with 2 PARA until May 1985 which included his first Northern Ireland tour. In 1994 he returned to 2 PARA as a company commander for an 18 month operational tour in Belfast, prior to becoming 2I...

Suzy Perry is best known for covering MotoGP for the BBC for 13 years, The Gadget Show on Channel 5 for 9 years and the first permanent female anchor for BBC’s Formula One coverage. Her other sports presenting includes Wimbledon, the Boat Race, the London Marathon, Royal Ascot and the Great North Run. She also helped to present the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Suzi has recently reunited with he...

Anesti Danelis is an award winning comedian, musician, writer, and filmmaker from Canada whose work has been featured on VICE, People Magazine, AV Club, Daily Mail UK, Extra TV and other radio and TV shows across the globe. He has an hour-long musical comedy special streaming worldwide on Next Up Comedy, has taped multiple television sets for CBC as part of the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, and has be...

As seen on Live at the Apollo, Liam Farrelly is a Scottish Comedian of the Year Award winner. He started performing stand-up aged 17 whilst still in High School and immediately went into comedy full-time after graduating. A meteoric rise through the ranks has seen him nominated for and winning a raft of awards including So You Think You’re Funny? Runner Up, Best Newcomer nominee Scottish Comedy Aw...

Archie Henderson is an award-winning writer, actor, musician, and creator of viral comedy character Jazz Emu, whose videos and songs have garnered over 50 million streams. He was named as the 26th out of 50 funniest comedians of the 21st Century by The Telegraph. His musical character comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2022 (Jazz Emu: You Shouldn’t Have), was included on The Telegraph’s “Top S...

Eric Rushton won the prestigious 'Leicester Mercury Comedian of The Year' award in 2020 - an award that was previously won by the likes of Romesh Ranganathan, Jason Manford and Jonny Vegas on their way to stardom. Before that he was a Chortle Student finalist in 2016 and So You Think You're Funny? finalist 2017. He is a regular performer at the UK's biggest comedy clubs and festivals. Since his co...

Sumukhi Suresh is an award-winning writer, showrunner and stand-up comedian from India. She created, wrote and starred in two seasons of Pushpavalli, an Amazon Prime original series, which won various awards, including Best Actress at the 2020 Filmfare OTT Awards and Istanbul Film Awards. Sumukhi has created and starred in productions for various streaming platforms, including Beauty and the Feast...

Elvis McGonagall is a stand-up poet, comedian and broadcaster. Two series of his sitcom “Elvis McGonagall Takes A Look On The Bright Side” have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 where he appears regularly as well as popping up occasionally on the television. Elvis is the 2006 World Poetry Slam Champion, the compere of The Blue Suede Sporran Club and performs at literary and music festivals, comedy and...

Mustafa Algiyadi is a stand-up comedian, originally from Lybia, who now lives in Germany. He is the co-founder of the first weekly and longest running English Stand Up Comedy Club in Munich and performs all over the world, including at this years Edinburgh Festival where he’ll be performing his show Almost Legal Alien throughout August, a show about how he longs to be part of the European way of l...

Mumbai based stand up comedian, Rahul Subramanian, is one of India’s most versatile comics who has, in a very short time, garnered a huge global following with over 900k followers on Instagram. He has Amazon Prime specials including releasing India's first crowd work special - Rahul Talks To People, and performs sell out shows across the world. But he’s never been to Edinburgh before. He is perfor...

Juliet Cowan is an actor and comedian who is returning to Edinburgh 25 years after beating Jimmy Carr, Russell Howard and Andy Zaltzman in the '99 final of So You Think You're Funny?. As an actor she recently played Amy Winehouse’s mum in the biographical film, Back to Black. She guest-starred in over 20 episodes of The Bill and starred in "The Wench Is Dead", the penultimate episod...

Chelsea Birkby's highly-acclaimed debut comedy hour No More Mr Nice Chelsea won Best Debut at the Amused Moose Awards, was nominated for Best Show at the Comedian's Choice Awards, was listed in the funniest jokes of the fringe in The Times and The Telegraph and transferred for a sell-out run at London's Soho Theatre. She is a regular at many of the UK's top comedy clubs and theatres and...

Reginald D. Hunter is a comedian who’s TV appearances have included Never Mind The Buzzcocks, 8 out of 10 Cats, Live at the Apollo, QI and Have I Got News For You? He also filmed two series of the BBC2’s hugely popular Reginald D Hunter’s Songs Of The South & Songs of The Border, documenting his epic road trip through 150 years of American popular song. He reached the final of So You Think You...

Our Edinburgh Month continues with Alexis Gay - a New York-based stand-up comedian, viral video comedian and former tech employee and is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe to perform her first full solo show, Unprofessional, about working in tech. Alexis has accrued many thousands of followers for her short comedy videos on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, which she writes and directs herself . Alexis G...

Mumbai-based Anirban Dasgupta is a stand-up comedian and screenwriter with a distinct comedic style. A former corporate salesman, Anirban has performed extensively in India and across the world including the prestigious Just For Laughs in Montreal and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. His first stand-up special Take It Easy was released on Amazon Prime Video to wide acclaim, as was Afso...

Sophie Duker is a comedian and writer who won the 13th series of Taskmaster and is a regular guest on Frankie Boyle’s New World Order. She has also appeared on Live at The Apollo, Mock the Week, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, The Last Leg and Hypothetical on Dave. Her Edinburgh Fringe Show, Venus, saw her nominated for the Best Newcomer award and gained critical acclaim and five star reviews, le...

Edinburgh Month Continues with Comedian Sara Barron who has starred on shows including Live at the Apollo, Would I Lie to You? and Frankie Boyle’s New World Order. Sara has taken 3 critically acclaimed stand-up hours, For Worse (2018), Enemies Closer (2019), and Hard Feelings (2022) to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and had multiple runs in London’s Soho Theatre. Her shows have received rave review...

Continuing our Edinburgh Month... Canadian comedian Michelle Shaughnessy fast made a name for herself across North America. She’s had numerous appearances on television and her debut album “You Know What You Did” hit number one on the iTunes comedy charts. Her sophomore album “Botoxic” received a coveted 5 star review from Toronto’s NOW Magazine. In 2017 she was a finalist in Canada’s “Top Comic”...

Colin Hoult is best known for his work with Ricky Gervais on Derek (Channel 4), After Life (Netflix) and Gervais and Merchant’s Life’s Too Short (BBC). His acting credits include Ghosts (BBC), Trying (Apple), Almost Never (CBBC), Four Weddings and a Funeral (Hulu), This Time with Alan Partridge (BBC), Being Human (BBC) and BBC3’s award-winning Murder In Successville. Colin is a successful characte...

Garrett Millerick’s breakout television performance was on the hit US late-night talk show Conan. His live show Sunflower became one of the best reviewed and most talked about shows of 2018, both at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and subsequently at London’s Soho Theatre. The show was Time Out London’s No.1 Comedy Pick and saw Garrett receive a nomination for ‘Breakthrough Act’ at the 2019 Chortle...

Chloe Radcliffe is a NYC-based comedian, actor, and writer who was a staff writer on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, has a comedy feature in development with Sony, and was named a TBS Comic To Watch at the New York Comedy Festival. She starred in COMMAND Z from Steven Soderbergh alongside Michael Cera, and was nominated for a Writers Guild Award award for also writing on the series. She has be...

Jessie Cave is probably best known for playing ‘Lavender Brown’ in the Harry Potter films. She is also a comedian, author and illustrator. She played a lead in Buffering on ITV2 and also starred as regular ‘Heather’ in Sky One's Trollied. Her drama credits also include Black Mirror (Netflix), The Baby (HBO), Miss Scarlet and the Duke (Alibi), Call the Midwife (BBC 1) and Glue (E4). Jessie is a tal...

Steve Bugeja is one of the circuit’s most exciting comedians. Steve hosted the BBC Radio 4 series Economics with Subtitles and has made numerous appearances on TV shows including The Russell Howard Hour (Sky One), Love Island: Aftersun (ITV2), Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central (Comedy Central) and Zoe Ball on Saturday (ITV1). Steve is the co-creator and star of ITV2’s hit sitcom Buffering in which...

As seen on BBC’s Live at the Apollo, Spring Day is an American stand-up comedian, writer and actor living in London. Spring’s uniquely acerbic and sassy style of comedy is always a crowd pleaser, or shocker... A fluent Japanese speaker and a mild cerebral palsy haver, Spring began her career headlining at the Tokyo Comedy Store whilst based in Japan. She has written, produced, directed and perform...

Jason Manford is one of the biggest comedians in the UK as well as a hugely successful actor, presenter and singer. He’s had multiple sell out area tours, presented and appeard on some of the biggest shows in the UK such as Children In Need, QI, team captain on 8 Out Of 10 Cats, one of four judges on ITV's Starstruck and he came in second place as the Hedgehog on The Masked Singer. He has also sta...