The past few years has seen Danny Buckler travel the world entertaining the troops in Bosnia, Belfast, The Falkland Islands and Diego Garcia. He was also invited to support Victoria Wood on her national tour, which led to Danny being asked to participate in the show ‘Victoria Wood and Friends’ at the swanky Adelphi Theatre alongside Victoria and Imelda Staunton.

Danny is a much sought after TV warm-up artist, and you may recoginise him from many shows. He worked on various shows including the BBC series ‘Dead Ringers’ and ‘Dinner Ladies’ among others.

Quotes about Danny Buckler:

“It’s time we saw him on TV” – LBC RADIO

“He stole the show with his excellent impersonations and improvisations” – THREE WEEKS

He starred in his own hit show at the world famous Edinburgh Festival which later transferred to the West End of London.

His television credits include Saturday Night Live, and just about every chat show in the UK.  Keith is known in comedy clubs as the magician who gets more laughs than the average comedian, and his magic is pretty cool too!

Keith Fields is truly an international performer.  He was born in the Caribbean, brought up in England, and is now living in the USA.  He is a diverse performer with the ability to play to any audience.  One minute he is a stand-up comedian, the next a hilarious prop comic; then he will smack you in the face by producing a goldfish bowl from nowhere!  He is definitely not your average comedian or your average magician!  He is more a combination of Carrot Top and John Cleese, with a touch of Tommy Cooper thrown in for good measure.

And all this is delivered with a full dose of English style and sophistication that is guaranteed to hit your funny bone.

Keith is so versatile that he performs for corporate audiences, church groups and students on college nights – always providing clean comedy and lashings of laughter.

Keith is continually in demand.  So what is his secret to being such a successful performer?

‘Everything I do in my show is done to make people laugh.  Jokes, observational stories, visual gags, audience participation, juggling tricks and magic!  If it is funny then I will do it.’

In his career spanning 30 years, he has worked in almost every conceivable venue and is always seeking out new places to perform and new audiences to perform to.

Quotes:

“Delightfully wacky .. bordering on the manic” - Edinburgh Evening News

“A born entertainer” - Chortle Comedy Review

“See him for the way he handles an audience – he’s fast (and) he’s sharp – always entertaining” – TIME OUT

“Different Dramatic and Very Funny” – The Magic Circular

“There are tough audiences out there but Fields, because of his very strong material, handles them with aplomb” – THE STAGE

“An avant-garde performer… different, dramatic and very funny” – THE MAGIC CIRCLE

Associate of the Inner Magic Circle with Silver Star

“The digitally enhanced magic of the superb Mandy Muden” – Evening Standard

“Imagine a sexy Tommy Cooper minus the Fez” – Evening Standard

Stand-Up and Cabaret:

Mandy is one on her own. The only woman ever to combine Comedy and Magic on the UK Comedy and Corporate circuits. She has a striking personality with a razor sharp wit and so creates a fantastic rapport, offering a great line in audience participation. She can adapt her show to any type of event and audience. Having performed all over the world from Comedy Clubs to the most prestigious corporate event.

TV credits Include:

Faking It(Mentor)-Channel Four

Astounding Celebrities – ITV 1

The World’s Greatest Magic -Channel Four

When Magic Goes Wrong – Channel Four

Best magic Tricks Ever – ITV- 1

Heroes Of Magic- Channel Four

The Big Stage-Channel Five

The Big Stage Magic and Illusion Show-Channel Five

The Warehouse – Channel Four

Guest Presenter -QVC

“Mandy is a very clever funny magician” – Daily Mail

Close-Up Magic:

Mandy’s suprising sleight of hand blended with fast talking wit has taken her all over the world to perform at events and venues such as:

BT-Madrid, Cartier- Honk Kong, VW-St.Petersberg, The Ritz, The Hilton, The Dorchester, British Airways, Imperial Palace-Las Vegas, Faquara Country Club – The Lebanon, The Magic Castle-Hollywood, Virgin, Mercedes Benz, Glaxo, Hilton Group, Jameriah Beach, Kempinski Hotel, Mall Of the Emirates, Madinat Theatre, World Trade Centre -Dubai, Opel Cars-Sicily, Shell, Sony, Coca-cola, Price Waterhouse, Claridges, Nokia – Singapore, Cliveden, Glenegeles………And many more including the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Concerts – Buckingham Palace.

Presenting:

Mandy is also in demand as a presenter and compare at trade shows, award Ceremonies and corporate events. She is also the first and only woman to host the Magic Circle.

Guest Presenter QVC.

“The lovely Mandy updates Magic with a camp bitch slant she’ll win you over in a flash” – Attitude Magazine

THE CROOKED CROUPIER™

• Worried your event may be secretly boring?

• Want to avoid guests glued to their seats or chatting about work at the bar all night? (A sure-fire way to kill the mood at any event)
Then The Crooked Croupier is the perfect inside man for the job. An expert at breaking the ice, he gets his audience from work mode to party mood quickly so they’re relaxed, at ease and ready to be entertained..
Then, he systematically rips them off at his casino table with exciting scam-games, hustles and cons in a fun, engaging and embarrassment-free way.

This is a sure-fire bet to a winning event that’s buzzing with animated chatter and BIG reactions from start to finish.

His razor-sharp wit and jaw-dropping sleight of hand are what keep The Crooked Croupier in constant demand to perform for clients such as:

Moët Hennessey
Mastercard
Hitachi
Deloitte
Barclays

Madness, mime, magic & mirt

Otiz Cannelloni combines the illusion of magic and the wit of stand up to produce a hybrid comic creation. With a mind more suited to testing crash helmets, his performance fluctuates between sheer genius and downright stupidity. Just when you suspect he doesn’t have a clue, Cannelloni removes all doubt.

When this man is on stage the dressing room empties, as the rest of the comics rush to watch and learn from his mistakes. It’s taken years of practice to make something so simple look so difficult.

Despite various television appearances – The Stand Up Show BBC 1 – Stuff The White Rabbit BBC 2  – producers are prepared to forgive and forget, mostly forget. Still, there’s always the alloment – if it stops raining!

QUOTES

“Master of Mirth and Minimalist Magic …Delightful.” – TIME OUT

“A magical Wag. Bewitching.” – THE GUARDIAN

“Sheer hilarity that clearly no one wanted to see end.” – THE STAGE

“A laugh a minute.” – THE AGE. MELBOURNE. AUSTRALIA

“Don’t we have laws against this sort of thing?” – SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST

“The highlight of the night….the downbeat patter is exemplary, full of self-deprecating asides and splendidly daft one-liners.” – CHORTLE

He has literally hundreds of television appearances to his name including three top-rating hour-long one-man specials on Channel 4 and one on ITV. Paul is probably the UK’s busiest stand-up corporate entertainer, performing after-dinner entertainment, link-presenting and hosting awards ceremonies at events worldwide. In the last year alone he has appeared in Paris, Cannes, Nice, Monte Carlo, Dubai, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Manila, Mauritius and Tokyo.

Paul’s TV ‘street magic’ shows Turning Tricks, Tricky Christmas and Trick or Treat have been screened worldwide and are amongst Channel 4′s highest-ever rating specials. Other recent TV appearances have included White Magic with Paul Zenon (self-produced one-hour one-man special, ITV), Magic (2 episodes, BBC2), Crafty Tricks of War (BBC2), Countdown (special guest, 10 episodes, C4), Are You Telepathic? (C5), The Chris Moyles Show (4 appearances, C5 and Radio 1), Crime Team (C4) It Shouldn’t Happen to a TV Performer (ITV), World’s 50 Greatest Magic Tricks (C4), Greatest Magic Tricks in the Universe…Ever (series, C5), Best Ever Magic Tricks (ITV), Secret History – Magic at War (C4), Jane Goldman Investigates (Living), The Test (ITV), Ready Steady Cook (BBC), Richard and Judy (C4), Terry and Gaby (3 episodes, C5), RI:SE (C5), Live Floor Show (BBC), Loose Lips (Living), Good Food Live (2 episodes, UK Food), Stupid Punts (BBC), The Wright Stuff (2 episodes, C5) and This Morning (2 episodes, ITV). Paul recently hosted twenty-two hour-long episodes of Worst Case Scenario on Bravo.

Paul has spent a lifetime dedicated to deceit. He pulled off his first sting aged just eight, selling fake raffle tickets to the residents of his street for a non-existent prize. As a teenager he worked in a Blackpool joke shop before setting off to travel the Mediterranean as a street magician, fire-eater and phoney fortune-teller.

After a short spell as a casino croupier in Scandinavia he was fired for cheating and returned to the UK where he began performing in summer shows and comedy clubs. He went on to host tours for the British and U.S. Forces in locations as far afield as Belize, Bosnia, Croatia, Germany, Gibraltar and the Falkland and Ascension Islands.

In the early Nineties Paul presented four series of children’s programmes – Tricky Business and Tricks ‘n’ Tracks – on BBC1, produced and presented Magic You Can Do, a retail-release teach-yourself videotape, and he was the creator, writer and associate producer of Crazy Cottage, an ITV game show which reached number one in the ratings in each of its three series.

In recent years, in addition to his corporate and TV work, Paul has appeared in Australia, Dubai, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, the Philippines, Spain, Sweden and the United States, had sell-out runs at the Edinburgh and Brighton Festivals, and toured the UK to rave reviews with a one-man show Paul Zenon – Off the Street, On the Road. For three years he was the resident in-flight video presenter for Britannia Airways.

Quotes:

“A Natural Star.” – The Times

“His deceptive self-deprecation belies the incentive precision of his stunts and the sharpness of his warm wit..seeing will be believing.” – The Guardian

“One of Britain’s best kept secrets….in severe danger of making magic hip” – Sunday Business

“What a show!” – The Scotsman

“Brilliant tricks, even better patter” – Time Out

“A contemporary master of his art” – The Times

“Swarthy and charismatic” – The Guardian

“The antithesis of the naff magician: he’s fast, the’s fresh, he’s funny as hell and he’s going to be massive.” – Comedy Review
Aliases

Paul has acted as magic and comedyconsultant on numerous TV shows including Crafty Tricks of War (BBC), Secret History – Magic at War (C4), Child of Our Time (BBC), Give Your Mate a Break (ITV), Crazy Cottage (ITV) The Test (ITV) and Eurotrash (C4). A number of effects created by Paul have been featured (without permission!) by American magician David Blaine in his TV specials.

Paul is an experienced pundit and dedicated skeptic with regard to matters ‘paranormal’ (ghosts, astrology, crop circles, UFOs, psychics, faith healing, etc, etc), voicing his informed opinions on programmes such as Are You Telepathic? (C5), Crimeteam (C4), Jane Goldman Investigates (Living), Earth and Space (Now) and Livewire (Carlton). He is also a leading expert on the subject of scams and conmen, appearing on This Morning (ITV), Terry and Gabby (C5) and Hard Cash (Cons R Us Special, BBC). Paul is the author of the best-seller One Hundred Ways to Win a Tenner, Paul Zenon’s Dirty Tricks and Street Magic (see above).

He is recognized as the U.K’s leading comedian/magician. Guest television appearances include BBC2’s ‘The Culture Show’, ITV1’s ‘Saturday Live Again!’ with Ben Elton, helping Justin Lee Collins become a conjuror on Channel 4’s ‘The Convention Crasher’ and also performing alongside Rihanna in ITV1’s ‘For One Night Only’.

Pete most recently starred in BBC1’s primetime magic show ‘Don’t Miss A Trick’, ‘Derren Brown’s 3D Magic Spectacular’ on Channel 4 and ‘Jason Manford’s Comedy Rocks’ on ITV1.

As well as his sleight of hand skills Pete is also in demand as a television presenter. He fronts the game shows ‘Stake Out’ and ‘Wait For It…!’ for BBC1.

In 2007 Pete performed his debut solo show, ‘Hokum’ at Edinburgh’s Fringe Festival to critical acclaim. He has since taken 3 more one-man shows to the festival, ‘Flim-Flam’, ‘The Pete Firman Magic Show’ and ‘Jokes & Tricks’. Click on the posters to read what the press had to say.

His impressive debut show success led to Pete being invited to perform at the prestigious ‘2008 Just For Laughs Comedy Festival’ in Montreal, where he headlined the British comedy showcase ‘Britcom’ and performed in the festival’s televised gala.

Pete has toured the UK twice with his own show, in 2008 with ‘Flim-Flam’ and with ‘Jokes & Tricks’ in 2010. Sold out shows from Inverness to Dartmouth made them a resounding success.

Pete is also a published author and 2006 saw the release of his first book for the public, ‘Tricks To Freak Out Your Friends’. So successful was it in the UK it was also released in the USA and is about to go into its second printing.

Quotes:

“If you are partial to a bit of magic with your comedy Firman is the best of the bunch” -
The Evening Standard

“Simply fantastic” – Time Out

“as much a stand-up comedian as he is a master of sleight-of-hand…Hokum is over far, far too quickly” – Edinburgh Evening News

“one of the sweetest, most engaging performers on any Fringe stage…Firman is a delight” – The Independent

“A rollicking hour without a dull moment” – Chortle

“A debut solo Fringe show that will enhance an already impressive reputation” – The Herald
“A gob-smackingly talented magician” – Metro

“The audience is caught between guffawing laughter and amazed gasps” – The Guardian

“See it to believe it” – The List

“The MySpace generation’s Tommy Cooper” – The Scotsman

Edinburgh Fringe Favourite, Piff the Magic Dragon is an award-winning stand up act, combining delightfully deadpan charm and stunning magic.

He has appeared in the West End as part of La Soiree (formerly La Clique), embarked on a sell-out run in Australia, and is currently on a fifty-date UK theatre tour as part of An Evening of Burlesque, selling over 30,000 tickets at venues including the O2 and Blackpool Grand. Piff’s recent appearance on Penn and Teller: Fool Us was an instant hit, going viral and racking up half a million views on YouTube in three days. He returns to Edinburgh this summer with his new show Last of the Magic Dragons.

A staple of the UK cabaret scene, Piff is a former Hackney Empire New Act of the Year finalist and has performed at The Comedy Store. He has supported some of the biggest names in comedy including Simon Amstell, Jessica Hynes and Stephen Merchant. In 2010 he was handed his own residency, Brunchtime at Piffanys, at Circus in Covent Garden.

Piff’s debut show, Piff-Tacular, scooped Buxton Fringe Festival’s Best Comedy award and broke the Edinburgh Free Fringe record for highest box office take in a single night. He returned the following year with PIFF-TACULAR 2: Get Rich or Die Trying at Just the Tonic, awarded ‘Top Three Picks of the Fringe’ by The One Show, BBC.

Every hero needs a sidekick, and it was during 2009 that Piff acquired Mr Piffles, the World’s First Levitating Chihuahua. Inseparable ever since, little Piffilicious now earns his kibble charming damsels up and down the country and relieving himself on any microphone stands that get in the way.

Piff is the creation of John van der Put, The Magic Circle Close-up Magician of the year 2011 and an award-winning contemporary magician for the past fifteen years. The hit of the party, according to Sir Ian McKellen, John is one of the youngest magicians ever to lecture at The Magic Circle, and was crowned IBM Close-Up Champion in 2009. He has also created magic for David Blaine, Heston Blumenthal and the National Theatre.

QUOTES

‘Unbelievable‘ – BBC1

Top Three Picks of the Fringe – The One Show

‘Gloriously Grumpy!‘ – Chortle.co.uk

‘The last of his species: a card trickster who is funny.‘ – The Skinny

‘One of our favourite discoveries of 2009‘ – Three Weeks

‘A great act, very funny‘ – Jonathan Ross

‘One of the most magical things we’ve ever seen‘ – Penn & Teller

‘Genuinely side-splittingly funny… lives up to its hype… go see it!’ – ArtsHub