Diane Spencer and Maff Brown present new work-in-progress Edinburgh comedy festival preview show as part of an Outside the Box double bill.

Tickets available here: www.outsidetheboxcomedy.co.uk/show-listings.htm?id_club=1002

May include adult themes and strong language

UK comedian Diane Spencer delights audiences worldwide with her cheeky, dark and often edgy stand-up comedy. A dazzling performer, Diane captivates the crowd with her charming demeanour, cutting wit and skilfully crafted material.

Starting in November 2006, Diane quickly showed promise as a comedian, being a highly commended finalist in the Raw Comedy Quest competition 2007. Although British born, Diane was living in New Zealand at the time, and began shaping her comedy skills in Auckland, eventually being nominated for Best Female Comedian by the NZ Comedy Guild in 2009, notably for her solo hour “Wit, Charm and Filth” (2009). Before emigrating back to the UK, Diane wrote an entire new hour long stand-up show called “Lost in the Mouth Specific” and embarked on a breakout solo tour to Adelaide Fringe, Melbourne Comedy, Sydney Comedy, New Zealand International Comedy and Edinburgh Fringe festivals. This show not only enabled Diane to break into the UK comedy circuit, it also won her the Chortle Best Newcomer.

Since then Diane has been a working comedian, performing in clubs up and down the UK, but also internationally. She is the “Comedy Angel” of the Aarhus Festuge in Denmark, tours to Luxembourg, Italy and most recently Norway, her natural gift for storytelling but with universal themes and biting punchlines appealing globally.

Diane draws inspiration from her own life and social concerns, and in total has written 6 stand-up comedy shows, each critically acclaimed and available to watch on Youtube. Steadily amassing an online fanbase,

Maff Brown began performing stand-up comedy in November 2005. He is the founder and resident MC for Outside the Box, and is responsible for bringing comedians such as Jimmy Carr, Lenny Henry and Robin Williams to the club.

Maff also tours with his own material and has had success everywhere across Britain and as far as America.

He has done TV warm up for ITV, BBC and SKY and has written on BBC shows ‘Mock The Week’ & ‘Shooting Stars’

‘I think Maff Brown is very funny, but if you don’t agree you can still laugh at his stupid hair’ – Stephen Merchant

‘Brilliant stand up, great material’ – Bill Bailey

‘Jokes fall out of him like gold coins from a pirate’s chest’ – Frank Skinner

‘The love child of Leo Sayer and a performing seal.’ -Jack Dee