Lucy Porter
Since 2001, Lucy Porter has been a huge hit with comedy audiences up and down the country with her distinctive, bouncy, feel-good comedy. There’s always a philosophical element to her shows, and ‘The Bare Necessities’ is Lucy’s least fluffy, most thought-provoking show to date. She talks about the things that matter in her life: The erosion of our civil liberties, the rise of surveillance society, , the reason why so many comedians are depressive alcoholics and the ingredients for a really excellent dirty martini.
Bouncy
Feel
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Comedy
As a writer and performer, Lucy has continued to contribute to panel and sketch shows on BBC Radio 2 and 4. She authored a documentary celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Mills and Boon in which she talked to authors, addicts and Mills and Boon rejects such as Bridget Jones author Helen Fielding.
On TV, Lucy has added much to the store of human knowledge by appearing on yet more '100 Best things’ shows, has guested on 'Never Mind The Buzzcocks' and offered herself up for humiliation on Rob Brydon's BBC show 'Anually Retentive'. A self-confessed pub quiz addict, in June 2007 Lucy came second only to Rob Deering in the comedy special of 'The Weakest Link' and appeared on 'Have I Got News For You' with Ann Widdicombe and Danny Baker.
In 2008, Lucy further developed her skills as a gagsmith. She remains amongst the most sought-after comedy writers in Britain and was one of the lead writers on ITV1’s prime-time Sunday night satirical animation series ‘Headcases’. She’s been responsible for turning Dames Helen Mirren and Judi Dench into mouthy Croydon girls, Robert Mugabe into a West Country farmer, and Angelina Jolie into an evil sweatshop gangmaster.
In the summer of 2008 she also performed at the prestigious Kilkenny festival, as well as other mud-soaked festivals such as Latitude. Lucy has also written for Johnny Vaughan, Adam and Joe, Griff Rhys Jones and even Jimmy Tarbuck.
Lucy is also developing a drama series (working title ‘Good Girls’) for BBC1. For ‘Comedy Demon’, she is making ‘Lucy Loves You’ - a series of mini sitcom episodes about her bizarre home life. The show features puppets, live bands, and Lucy having intimate relations with a bear.
Lucy supported Puppetry of The Penis on the 40 date tour as well as the more socially acceptable Ardal O'Hanlon.
Lucy played Nurse Flinn, in the critically acclaimed, box-office record breaking run of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in Edinburgh and London's West End, alongside Cristian Slater. She also acted in BBC 2's Broken News.
Lucy has continued to travel internationally with her stand-up – taking in the far East, Switzerland and Paris. She was also invited to Miami to take part in NBC’s ‘Last Comic Standing’.
The hugely likeable Lucy Porter has recently completed a UK tour of her sell out Edinburgh show ‘The Bare Necessities,’ her seventh solo show - a stripped-down hour of nakedly funny stand-up.
Last year's show 'Lucy Porter’s Love In' subsequently sold out nationwide on a 40 date tour.
On TV, Lucy has added much to the store of human knowledge by appearing on yet more '100 Best things’ shows, has guested on 'Never Mind The Buzzcocks' and offered herself up for humiliation on Rob Brydon's BBC show 'Anually Retentive'. A self-confessed pub quiz addict, in June 2007 Lucy came second only to Rob Deering in the comedy special of 'The Weakest Link' and appeared on 'Have I Got News For You' with Ann Widdicombe and Danny Baker.
In 2008, Lucy further developed her skills as a gagsmith. She remains amongst the most sought-after comedy writers in Britain and was one of the lead writers on ITV1’s prime-time Sunday night satirical animation series ‘Headcases’. She’s been responsible for turning Dames Helen Mirren and Judi Dench into mouthy Croydon girls, Robert Mugabe into a West Country farmer, and Angelina Jolie into an evil sweatshop gangmaster.
In the summer of 2008 she also performed at the prestigious Kilkenny festival, as well as other mud-soaked festivals such as Latitude. Lucy has also written for Johnny Vaughan, Adam and Joe, Griff Rhys Jones and even Jimmy Tarbuck.
Lucy is also developing a drama series (working title ‘Good Girls’) for BBC1. For ‘Comedy Demon’, she is making ‘Lucy Loves You’ - a series of mini sitcom episodes about her bizarre home life. The show features puppets, live bands, and Lucy having intimate relations with a bear.
Lucy supported Puppetry of The Penis on the 40 date tour as well as the more socially acceptable Ardal O'Hanlon.
Lucy played Nurse Flinn, in the critically acclaimed, box-office record breaking run of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in Edinburgh and London's West End, alongside Cristian Slater. She also acted in BBC 2's Broken News.
Lucy has continued to travel internationally with her stand-up – taking in the far East, Switzerland and Paris. She was also invited to Miami to take part in NBC’s ‘Last Comic Standing’.
The hugely likeable Lucy Porter has recently completed a UK tour of her sell out Edinburgh show ‘The Bare Necessities,’ her seventh solo show - a stripped-down hour of nakedly funny stand-up.
Last year's show 'Lucy Porter’s Love In' subsequently sold out nationwide on a 40 date tour.
