Comic Mark Simmons, Kent Sport Duty Officer, has received critical praise for his first solo show at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival.
Chortle magazine described Mark as ‘a talented comic with an artisan’s grasp of joke-writing’, while Time Out said that his act included ‘lines on par with the Tim Vines and Steven Wrights of this world’. Mark also had a joke featured in the Independent‘s top 60 and two jokes in The Mirror‘s top 100 jokes of the Fringe.
Mark said: ‘It was a very intense month. I had my hour show, ‘Mr’, every night and usually three or four other shows before that, doing shorter sets to attract audiences. It started very slowly, playing to small audiences but, after some nice reviews, I was playing to more and more people and the shows were really fun.’
Mark is already setting his sights on next year’s show and will be trying out his new jokes at local comedy nights around the county. He will also be supporting Seann Walsh (Mock the Week, Live at the Apollo) on his new tour.
To see when Mark is performing locally follow @MarkSimmonsHaHa on Twitter.