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Angelos Epithemiou

• Thu 12 Sep London, Swimmer at the Grafton Arms Good Ship Comedy Angelos Epithemiou, Jacob Hawley, Jenny Tian, Ben Van Der Velde View tickets
• Fri 20 Sep Halstead Empire Theatre Halstead Comedy Club Nick Helm, Angelos Epithemiou View tickets
• Wed 25 Sep London, Four Thieves Pub Laugh Train Home Angelos Epithemiou, David Morgan, Amelia Hamilton, Robyn Perkins View tickets
• Thu 3 Oct St. Albans, Maltings Arts Theatre Mostly Comedy Angelos Epithemiou, Bec Hill, David Ephgrave View tickets
• Sun 17 Nov Birmingham, The Castle & Falcon Funny Beeseness Angelos Epithemiou View tickets
• Fri 29 Nov Nottingham, The Old Cold Store Live Wrestling hosted by Angelos Epithemiou View tickets
• Sat 30 Nov Oxted, Barn Theatre Oxted Comedy Night Angelos Epithemiou, David Ward, Wendy Wason, Nick Byard, Daniel Ruiz Tizon View tickets
• Sat 30 Nov March, Doddington Village Hall Doddington Comedy Club Nick Helm, Angelos Epithemiou View tickets

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Angelos Epithemiou

Unwitting star of Shooting Stars (BBC Two), Dave’s One Night Stand and Channel 4’s The Angelos Epithemiou Show , this cult favourite takes a giant leap into the spotlight yet again. Shambolic, weird and wonderful; think Little Britain meets Vic and Bob meets a smattering of Ivan Brackenbury, then lower your expectations and get on board.

The creation of Dan Renton Skinner – a member of the Dutch Elm Conservatoire Sketch group – Angelos Epithemiou is the owner of a burger van who wants to break into show business.

He got his break in 2009, when he became a permanent team member on the revival of Shooting Stars , replacing Johnny Vegas on Ulrika Jonsson’s Team B, before becoming the scorer.

Dan was nominated for the breakthrough award and best sketch or character act at the 2010 Chortle awards. In December 2011 Skinner won the Best Comedy Breakthrough Artist at The British Comedy Awards .

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In other work, Angelos he has been heard on Fubar radio and seen touring with Barry from Watford, in the Barry & Angelos Show . y & Angelos Show .

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Unwitting star of Shooting Stars (BBC2), Dave’s One Night Stand and Channel 4’s The Angelos Epithemiou Show, cult favourite Angelos Epithemiou takes a giant leap into the spotlight yet again in this shambolic, weird and wonderful show.

Angelos Epithemiou is the creation of critically acclaimed performer, Dan Renton Skinner, who has starred in such blockbuster films as The Spy Who Dumped Me, High Rise, and Swallows and Amazons for BBC Films and such TV serial-classics as The Tracy Ullman Show, Friday Night Dinner, and The Wrong Mans.

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Angelos Epithemiou on Tour 2022

Fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe,  Angelos Epithemiou  is on tour doing his stuff and standing in front of people for about a month, maybe more if he can get time off at the stables. Come and see him talk and prepare his speech for the UN.

Unwitting star of  Shooting Stars  (BBC2),  Dave’s One Night Stand  and Channel 4’s  The Angelos Epithemiou Show , cult favourite  Angelos Epithemiou  takes a giant leap into the spotlight yet again in this shambolic, weird and wonderful show. Think Little Britain meets Vic and Bob meets a smattering of Ivan Brackenbury and then lower your expectations and get on board.

Angelos Epithemiou  is the creation of critically acclaimed performer,  Dan Renton Skinner , who has starred in such blockbuster films as  The Spy Who Dumped Me ,  High Rise , and  Swallows and Amazons  for BBC Films and such TV serial-classics as   The Tracy Ullman Show ,  Friday Night Dinner , and  The Wrong Mans .

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An Interview with Angelos and Barry

By Victoria Holdsworth

It was a Saturday afternoon I shall never forget. Arriving at the venue to meet tonight’s act, I was a little taken aback that no one had mentioned the Comicon was in full swing.

After dodging some Daleks, salivating over some Lego Stormtroopers which were around three feet high, and marvelling at the starved version of Deadpool , whose lycra seemed to drip from him, running around like a mad man, I wondered if my day could get any more surreal…. But it was about to!

Meandering through the overweight Blade doppelgangers, I met one half of the duo performing this evening, Mr. Alex Lowe, or as some know him, Barry from Watford. Striding through some dubious looking Arrow sorts, and a few Walking Dead fanatics comes his partner in crime, Dan Renton-Skinner, otherwise known as Angelos Epithemiou . It does make me chuckle, that with so many geeks in the room, that none of them can recognise these alternative comedy legends mingling amongst them.

“Genuine appreciation”

Handshakes and introductions over with, we make our way through to the theatre. Deciding that all of us being sat in a row is not a good seating arrangement for an interview, Dan skips up the stage steps, closely followed by Alex and we head up the back stairs to the VIP area. Well, I say VIP, it was a room with a few sofas in, and a travel kettle.

“We love this sort of place!” Dan exclaims, as he throws himself onto one of the humongous 1970s sofas. “It’s such a dramatic place, isn’t it?”

“We love playing places like this,” replies Alex, as he dithers with his phone, speaks to some loved ones, then gets told off by Dan to pay attention. If I did not know any better, it was like being in the middle of a Terry and June episode, such is the affection and intimacy of this partnership. You can see from the off set, that there is a genuine appreciation and respect of two great friends here, and it kind of restores your faith in humanity a little just witnessing it.

Dan Renton-Skinner and Alex Lowe in character, as Angelos and Barry

“We love all these old music halls”

So how has the tour gone so far gentlemen? A: It’s gone really, really well. We have absolutely loved it! We have been all over the country again, as we did another tour last year. Without any nonsense, honestly, thus far Whitby has been our favourite place to play. D: We also loved playing at City Varieties in Leeds though. We love all these old music halls and theatres. We love it if they’re a little run down or quirky, because it just seems to suit our characters.

You both started doing these two characters for quite a while before teaming up, as a double act. Just how did Barry meet Angelos? A: Oh well… there are various stories. We like to try and keep things a bit vague. It has been in the bookies, in the toilets, also at MENSA, where it saw them being too stupid to even get through the front door. We like to keep it vague because we like the idea that they have such a ridiculous back history, so that when we do our podcasts we can dip in and out of it and give people a little bit more each time.

“We aren’t fussy!”

I do actually listen to your podcasts. A: Oh excellent! I hope you enjoy it. We love doing them. D: The other way, was that Barry was doing a show on the radio which was about three hours long. As you can imagine, that is a lot of time to fill, so Barry rang up Angelos, and asked him to speak to him. There was one time that Angelos was talking to Barry from the back of a police van, after being arrested, and they had a good chat for about half an hour. Then when he was finally released, he went to host the show with Barry. That’s the true story. A: No, it is true that we did an internet show together, but we left it because they owed us a lot of money, and we started our own podcast, which we don’t get any money for.

So you now have full control over your act? D: Yeah, absolutely.

Both of you have done some serious acting in the past, especially you Alex. Is it hard to accept serious roles sometimes as a comedians? D: Nope! A: Nah! We’ll do anything! [laughs] D: As long as there’s money coming in, we aren’t fussy! [laughs] A: Yes, it’s true… I was a child actor. D: [laughs mockingly in a luvvie way] A child star!

A: Then I did my degree in drama. At the age of about thirty I started to do more comedy, and attempted more comedy than anything, but I mean Dan and I are both actors anyways. D: Basically, the characters that we do are just acting anyway. First and foremost, it is just an acting role because it’s not like us doing stand-up. So the acting remains the same, it is just the genre that changes? D: Yeah, it’s just writing funny things for them, as you still have to embody them as a character. A: I do think there are times when we just get away with blue murder, because of [slipping into Barry’s voice] some funny vocal tricks, or a funny face, or just something that is unique to that character.

Quite a lot of the newer comedians these days, tend to act more like rock stars. Do you think that these personas help or hinder the profession for other comedians, who are more focused on their careers, rather than perfecting their acts? D: Good question. Recently, the more peoples’ posters that you look at they do tend to be going for the Rockstar vibe. But to be honest all that matters is if they are funny, and if they are funny and believe what they say then I don’t see it as being an issue.

“Insincere nonsense”

A: I think that from doing stand-up, especially in a room above a pub somewhere, it used to make me be so nervous, I would feel sick all day. So, if you have gone from all that to larger stadiums, then fair play to you, and I don’t begrudge any one getting a bit rock starry. Touring like that is really hard. Good luck to ‘em.

Alternative comedy has suffered some major blows over the last decade. Most recently with the death of Sean Hughes. Unlike some musicians and actors who may only work together a few times in their careers, comedians seem to be a little tighter knot as a community, and supporting each other more as a collective, so how does it affect you when a significant member disappears from the dynamic? A: Well I would say, that personally speaking, I straddle so many different fences, with acting, writing, comedy, stand-up. I even have these card ranges that I write that are in the shops, that I never feel as though I belong to a specific group. I always say to Dan, when we have comedians come along and do stuff with us, they’re often just talking about this promoter and that promoter, and I always think, I really don’t feel part of any particular community. I’d say in general, I find that actors are more generous than stand-up comedians, even if it’s all insincere nonsense, there is something about being on stage with lots of other people, or in a dressing room filled with other actors being together, it just feels like a team sport.

“We love real physical comedians”

D: The difference is that with comedians, it’s just one person, and it is all about them, but you work with a group of people and the whole unit has to work. There need to be a complicity there. There needs to be that team mentality there or it just doesn’t work. A: I really love doing this double act. Apart from anything [slips back into Barry’s voice and takes Dan’s hand on the couch, playfully slapping the back of it, just like a Nan would] he’s a very dear friend of mine. [Back to Alex now] When you’re on your own, knowing that you are going out, and you have to step on the stage, hearing the sound of your own footsteps, it can be tough, so it’s so lovely to have someone there with you. We have great fun and a great laugh together.

The great Barry Cryer has a dictum that jokes are not owned but rented. If this is the case, what would be the longest loan you have had from the comedy library? A: Oh! Really! Are you wanting us to tell you whose jokes we’ve nicked? [laughs] D: [laughing] I think Mr Cryer might be right about that. You just seem to find your own thing though. You could say that we borrow from those old-school acts like Tommy Cooper. We love real physical comedians that really make you laugh. You seem to gravitate towards what you find funny. You do really go out of your way to not nick jokes, cause it’s just not good. Besides, as you said, it is a very tight knit community, and if people hear that you borrowed a joke from here or there, then they’re pretty quick to let you know about it.

The poster for Angelos and Barry’s tour, ‘The New Power Generation’

“It’s a craft”

A: Having said that… D: [switching straight into Angelos] Yeaaaaaaaaaah? A: There are a couple of jokes I do as Barry, which I think are just old classics. D:[still as Angelos] Do go on! A: They are just so old, that there is something endearing about them.

With the rise of social media and YouTube revolutionising comedy output to the masses, is there much room left for good live stand up? D: Blimey! Oh yeah! There is still plenty of room for good live stand up. It’s completely different if you are performing for YouTube or even on a podcast. It’s like chalk and cheese. Someone that might make a YouTube video, may find that by the time they get out on stage they can’t do it, or they don’t know how to react to a live audience. It’s a craft, from working up from ten minutes at a local club or open mic and progressing from there really. I think people love live. Live music, live comedy, live anything. People like being in front of people and coming out to see a show, and being made to laugh in a massive group. It’s a real event.

“An audience will enjoy watching you fail”

A: In terms of it being a different thing. When we did our podcast, we initially wanted to take it out on the road. We were trying to do exactly what we did on the podcast, but we soon realised that it’s alienating. If you’re sort of squished up together doing an Alas Smith and Jones type thing, it doesn’t work and you can’t really do that as characters. It took us a while to kind of realise that and to open out and really engage the audience. Then people would think it was a live event rather than…. [Dan interrupts] D: But did you tell people to come and see two people perform a live podcast though? A: Yes! D: Well that’s the thing. If people know what a podcast is, then they know the deal. Our podcast’s are completely improvised for half an hour. There will be some stuff which makes you think, where is it going? It seems to work. An audience will enjoy watching you fail. [laughs]

“No one else is doing this”

On a recent ‘Richard Herring Leicester Square Theatre Podcast’ or RHLSTP as some of the cool kids are calling it, Dan said he was inspired to write a comedy based on The Wrestling by Simon Garfield, only to be told by the author that it had already been done, by none other than the man sitting next to you on the couch, Alex Lowe. Is it hard to visit something that hasn’t already been touched upon? D: No, I don’t think that is necessarily true. Alex, do you want to answer this one? A: I think what we do, and I might be wrong here, is pretty unique. No one else is doing this. An old aged man meets another bloke, which has a nod to traditional old music hall stuff and a nod to some of the more slightly surreal stuff, a bit of a traditional double act, even a bit of panto. Even though we have nodded to those, I think it has created its own genre of nonsense. D: Having said that though, if you haven’t bought into it from the beginning, then it probably won’t be for you. [laughs]

“More drunken men without shirts”

Comedy seems to be creating a bigger profile for itself on the festival circuit these days, and you performed at Latitude festival this year. Does performing in an environment like that change your delivery, material, or the style of your act? D: Not really for me. We just go out there and do out show. It’s… a bit…. [Alex cuts Dan off and they both start giggling again] A: There is one slight difference! There are more drunken men without shirts [laughs]. D: Yeah but Latitude was a good festival.

“Benchmarks”

A: We did do some festivals over the summer, [laughs] where there was no attention given to the venues they were being hosted in. It was like we’ll just get any old venue and stick some comedy on in there, and call it a comedy festival. You just get there and think, this is so unconducive to what we are trying to do here. D: There needs to be certain, basic benchmarks that allow comedy to thrive. A: We went down to a place on the south coast, and we won’t go back there. It was so not catered for us. They couldn’t even turn the spinning disco ball off! At least learn the basics! D: It was a group that had taken over a pub/bar and they thought, we’ll just put on a comedy festival. The acts all had to be on for an hour! We had to do an hour. The poor audience, same old hour repeated. By the time we came on stage, they were all smashed. A: Which I don’t mind. [laughs] D: I know, and that’s fine, but think about the audience. I know I’d be knackered!

The duo backstage at Whitby Pavilion

“Backstories have to correlate”

Both of you have vast experience working within radio. Do you think that writing for, or performing on radio shows grants you more carte blanche to be able to express your abilities or opinions? A: I have done lots of Radio 4 and 2, and I would say that neither of those would allow you to have even a little bit of carte blanche. I often do Steve Wrights show, and I’ll think something is funny and Steve will say, just don’t go there with that. Radio 4 never really seem to push the envelope that much. The only thing that it provides is a more descriptive writing backdrop as you don’t have to produce everything.

You are currently writing a sit come together. When will it be finished, and can you tell us anything about it? D: That is right! A: Damned right! D: Well, we don’t know when it’s going to be finished. We can’t really tell you anything about it at the moment because, it may change, and keep changing until we bring it out. We want it to be bang on. A: But we are trying very hard with it! D: Writing a sitcom is about solving problems, like how’s and why’s and everyone’s backstories that all have to correlate. Once you have learnt how to do that, then you can just crack on.

“I’d smash his face in!”

Finally, just going back to, The Wrestling . If the fight promoter Eddie Hearn was to offer you a celebrity wrestling match, who would win? Angelos or Barry? [laughter from both] A: Well…Barry is an old man! D: He’s an 82 year old man! I’d smash his face in! [laughs] He’d probably scratch my eyes out though. A: [as Barry] I learnt a thing or two in my national service! D: Not really though. [laughs] A: He is quite a big lad, Angelos. D: Nah, I’d belt him!

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Angelos Epithemiou And Friends review

Shooting Stars made an unlikely icon of Angelos Epithemiou. So it's perhaps unsurprising that Vic and Bob's anarchic daftness provides the template for this patchy but enjoyable show from the former burger van owner.

Created by Dan Renton Skinner , sometime member of Perrier-nominated sketch troupe Dutch Elm Conservatoire, the title of the plastic bag-clutching misfit's debut tour is a misnomer. Not only has Glasgow been denied Nick Mohammed , his support act elsewhere. But Epithemiou's psychotically oddball friends are mentioned only in passing. Filtered through his dismissive anecdotes instead of crowding the stage, they exist in grim, projected slides and in one case, as a particularly creepy ventriloquist's dummy.

Yet from the moment he shuffles on to the ragga braggadocio of Mr Boombastic, Epithemiou commands the stage, albeit in his own ill-coordinated fashion. He may complain that he doesn't want "to do this blinking show", eager as he is to hasten home for The 30-Stone Teenager . He might confess to having only three jokes in his 90 minute repertoire and quickly abandon his pretence at breakdancing. The section described as "Entertainment Time" is especially underwhelming. Yet like many aspects of this ragtag performance, it's all the more compelling for that.

For all his outward reluctance and sham amateurism, typical in many respects of the vaunted new breed of anti-comedian, Epithemiou can lay claim to a couple of impressive set-pieces. His impressions are surprisingly good, even if his Nelson Mandela is both incongruous and disarmingly slick. What's more, despite confessing to an inability to banter, he's more than capable of responding to the audience with witty comebacks.

Elsewhere, he borrows straight from Shooting Stars and Vic Reeves Big Night Out , from the impossible to answer quiz to his use of household objects to fashion bizarre props, notably his faithful dog on a stick Tinned Tomatoes. Or take the catchphrase "What's in the bag, Angelos?", sung back at him with enthusiasm by the crowd. Similarly his music desk, from which he offers a rendition of Chris Rea's Driving Home For Christmas , is plastered in Vic and Bob layers of junk but also redolent of Tom Binns ' hospital radio DJ Ivan Brackenbury for the fluffed cues.

Still, if the tone of the show and the consistency of the Epithemiou character are all over the place, they tend to be endearingly, ridiculously so. Skinner can elicit laughs by creeping around in a silver bodysuit or simply by urging "don't muck about" in Angelos' flat, no-nonsense deadpan. The character is never going to find new depths, so just appreciate what can be wrung from this shambling, anorak-sporting weirdo in the moment.

The Garage, Glasgow, 16th December 2010

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Angelos Epithemiou

The creation of Dan Renton Skinner – a member of the Dutch Elm Conservatoire Sketch group – Angelos Epithemiou is the owner of a burger van who wants to break into showbusiness.

He got his break in 2009, when he became a permanent team member on the revival of Shooting Stars, replacing Johnny Vegas on Ulrika Jonsson's Team B, before becoming the scorer.

Nominated for the breakthrough award and best sketch or character act at the 2010 Chortle awards.

Angelos And Barry: The New Power Generation

Note: This review is from 2017

Review by Steve Bennett

They are both marginalised characters on the edge of society – either from bored self-destruction, or simply by being old and forgotten. So when Angelos Epithemiou and 82-year-old Barry From Watford team up for a podcast a couple of years back, it made perfect sense.

Though be very aware that ‘perfect sense’ is a relative expression when it comes to these two malodorous outsider oddballs.

The men behind the personas, Dan Renton Skinner and Alex Lowe , each perform with a stylised dour and deadpan delivery that requires an audience to get on board of be baffled by their inconsequential shenanigans. 

Though their low-energy delivery, sometimes bordering on ‘anti-comedy’, feels like a very contemporary style, there is something timeless about the underlying hopelessness of the characters and the co-dependency between them. In the week the comedy world lost the genius of Alan Simpson, it’s hard not to think of Steptoe and Son.

And that’s even before they add their peculiar set pieces that owe more of a debt to the music hall. They even do Flanagan and Allen’s walk for one promenade song, and with this grubby, insalubrious duo  – Angelos especially – you could genuinely believe they have slept underneath the arches. That said, laboriously repeating the word ‘tit’ or crafting a pair of home-made testes is a twist on the peculiar variety turns of old worthy of Angelos’s old mukkers, Vic and Bob.

This tour show is purportedly a recruitment drive for their self-started spiritual movement The New Power Generation. Nothing to do with Prince nor, they insist, is it a cult. Although they accidentally keep referring to it as such.

There are a few gentle pokes at meaningless mantras and the faddish mindfulness movement, but this is but a flimsy prop for another flimsy premise: an old-school sitcom-style storyline that octogenarian ‘guru’ Barry – whose surname, we learn, is St Michael – won £3,000 on the horses, but in his decimated mental state has forgotten where he put it 

Anything attempting a plot creaks pretty heavily, but it exists only as a framework for their set pieces, from the insane hilarity of Angelos dancing with a Chinese dragon head on, to the least convincing Kenneth Williams impersonation you’re likely to hear, or from Barry lamenting in song the impact of the 5p plastic bag levy on his pensioner’s income to Angelos going on a date with a remarkably game member of the audience.

There’s a Knockabout spirit slightly reminiscent of the old Bottom tours, though the pair anchor the anarchy in surprisingly credible performances (despite Barry’s bizarre glottal exertions, doing for his voice what Les Dawson did for the piano) which restrains the madness.

The pair will probably always remain cult figures, a favourite for some – one punter guffawed especially Ioudly last night before leading a one-man standing ovation – baffling for others. But they are an extension of a rich comic tradition, offering a generous handful of hilarious moments in this show, even if carrying an hour does expose some limitations of creations who usually transcend their novelty.

Published: 10 Feb 2017

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Angelos Epithemiou: Can I Just Show You What I've Got?

Edinburgh Fringe 2022

Misc live shows.

Angelos & Barry: The New Power Generation

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The Angelos and Barry Show

By Angelos Epithemiou and Barry from Watford

REWIND: Penis Colada and the Duck's Arse

Newsreader plastic surgery xxx special, bum balaclava xxx special, love island xxx special, never write off the germans - returns, fire and fury live xxx special, big ben xxx special, in brighton with brian gittins xxx special, door to door facelift sex special, organ harvest ping pong xxx special, superhero xxx sex special, elvis presley xxx special, beamed up sex special, radiation sickness special, royal household squits special, moments from history sex special, prison break sex special, xxx sexbot special, steakout special, near death experience special, czechoslovakia sex special, celebrities getting away with rubbish jokes special, talking behind peoples' back special, space station titty accident special, oochie goochie special, euro '16 liposuction special, domesticated pet monkey special, hubble bubble toilet trouble special, sex special xxx, one direction mucky special, chelsea flower show king dong special, bum worm special, massive fat burg special, the kardashian sex tape special, pull your pants up special, sonia, the grannies, and the coded messages special, s**t we've sold to itv, cirque du sausage and the back fat special, xxx offal special, xxxmas markets, our special gift to you xxx special, live in camden - xmas special, xxx warm up one-two, barry and doner, soap on a rope dusseldorf special, massive breast xxx special, live from ware, jose mourinho xxx special, triple x house of lords special, chinese halloween xxx special, live at the guanabara club, covent garden, barry's bathtime bubbles, plastic gooch-box special, barry's ticket hotline, xxx coma special, triple x bbq special, xxx phone call special, outside the taj mahal, fingered by mi6 special, the live seance, geri halliwell and cannibal special, snp and the area 51 special, the binky bonk special, radicalization special, watford falls, charity appeal special, alan hitler goes through the keyholes, an audience with doctor kewembe, a message for the living, lucinda lusardi and the desert island dicks, dragon den spanking machine, some of them greenham birds, mango chutney, poppadoms and tim rice, celebrity bullshit special, duncan goodhew in his pants, penis colada and the duck's arse, north korea stinks of muck, ken hom raised by snakes (live), kim jong merrily on high (live), elton john's turtle back, flaps, broken glass and boxes of wine, michael flatley and the turkey gun, the 12 chefs of christmas, david van day and the bishops finger, fatty neck and gunter the bavarian, loving family blah blah blah, 40 shades of halloween, sex on the beach and the nuclear bums, boutros and banky, the ghost of boris johnson, nobstradamus and the deli lama, rihanna sh**ts herself on the big wheel (scotland votes no).