Career

Bio

Ashley Frieze is a musical comedian, currently performing support and headline slots at clubs all around the country. His likeable, electric onstage persona and hilarious songs make him the perfect act to add variety and energy to any line up.

Ashley also regularly MC's, and with his endless enthusiasm, dynamism and charm, can warm up and entertain any audience.

Ashley has been performing on the UK stand-up comedy circuit since the beginning of 2003. In that time he has performed extensively across much of the UK, as far north as the Highlands of Scotland and as far south as Penzance. He has made people laugh in comedy clubs, rock festivals and on moving buses.

While many guitar-based acts use their musical skills to show off to an audience, Ashley has a unique angle: he cannot play the guitar especially well. To distract from such mediocre musicianship, his songs are rich with jokes, wordplay and audience interaction: he has brought many a heckler down with a jaunty melody. Ashley's musings on love songs have resulted in some of the most unusual ballads ever written, and his tongue-in-cheek musings on life and love are as ridiculous as they are heart-felt.

With an infectiously joyous style of delivery and the energy to bombard the audience with quick-fire lines, Ashley's self-effacing and jolly persona will lift any room.

Edinburgh Fringe appearances 2003-2009 include various stand-up sets, The Seven Deadly Jokes (with Hannah George), The Great Big Comedy Picnic comedy showcase (Laughing Horse @ Canons' Gait, 2005 & 2006, Counting House 2007, Meadow Bar 2008) and co-starring in the highly successful comedy play The Musical! (Underbelly, 2004), which he also co-wrote.

CV also on ComedyCV.co.uk.

Clubs Played

A selection of clubs played includes:

  • London - Comedy Pub
  • London - Laughing Horse - Headlines most venues
  • London - Setup Punchline - Closing act
  • Cradley Heath - regular MC and ringmaster
  • Southampton - Comedy Bar (Resident MC)
  • Taunton - Brewhouse
  • Brighton - Providence
  • Brighton - Komedia (Comic Boom)
  • Coventry - Phoenix Bar
  • Birmingham - The Newt
  • London - Downstairs at the King's Head, Crouch End
  • Southampton - Talking Heads
  • Eastbourne - Oi Oi
  • Manchester - XS Malarkey
  • Manchester - Buzz
  • Manchester - Frog and Bucket

  • Manchester - Zumeba

  • Liverpool - Rawhide

  • Salford - University
  • Sunderland - Laughing Gas
  • Newcastle - Laughing Gas
  • Newcastle - Funny Bones
  • Hartlepool - Funny Bones
  • Stockton - Funny Magnet
  • Stockton - The Arc
  • Edinburgh - The Stand
  • Edinburgh - Capital Comedy
  • Glenrothes - Capital Comedy, regular MC
  • Bridlington - The Other Side
  • Blackburn - Lock n Load
  • York - The Other Side
  • London - Laughing Horse
  • Crewe - Ribbed
  • Derby - Funhouse (Blessington Carriage)
  • Penzance - Duck Egg

Other Festivals

Brighton Fringe
Leicester Comedy Festival
Glasgow Comedy Festival
  • 2005 - The Musical!
  • 2004 - Stand-up at Haha Comedy
Nozstock
  • 2009 - Resident MC, Comedy Tent

 

Edinburgh Fringe

2010
2009
  • Laughing Horse Free Festival - The Seven Deadly Jokes
  • Laughing Horse Free Festival - The Great Big Comedy Picnic
  • Laughing Horse Free Festival - Shaggers
  • Laughing Horse Free Festival - Cabaret Gone Wild
  • Laughing Horse Free Festival - Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe
2008
  • Laughing Horse Free Festival - The Great Big Comedy Picnic
  • Laughing Horse Free Festival - Bringing In The Sheep
  • Laughing Horse Free Festival - Rogues Handbook Bumper Book of Sketches
  • Laughing Horse Free Festival - Late and Leith (Resident MC)
  • Laughing Horse Free Festival - Journey Central - **** Three Weeks
  • Laughing Horse Free Festival - Shaggers
  • Laughing Horse Free Festival - Late Show @ Meadow Bar
  • Laughing Horse Free Festival - Pick of the Fringe @ Edinburgh City FC
  • On a roll - The Comedy Bus (stand-up on a moving bus, of course)
2007
  • Laughing Horse Free Festival - The Great Big Comedy Picnic - **** Three Weeks
  • PBH Free Fringe - Amateur Pro Celebrity Karaoke - *** Scotsman
  • Laughing Horse Free Festival - Hastily Thrown Together Impro Show
  • Laughing Horse Free Festival - MySketch
2006
  • Laughing Horse Free Fringe @ Canons' Gait - The Great Big Comedy Picnic - **** Three Weeks
  • Laughing Horse Free Fringe  - Late Show and Pick of Fringe.
2005
  • Laughing Horse Free Fringe @ Canons' Gait - The Great Big Comedy Picnic - *** Three Weeks
  • Nicol Edwards - Adult Comedy Show
  • Laughing Horse @ Lindsay's - Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe and Late Show
2004
  • Underbelly - The Musical! - **** Three Weeks, **** British Theatre Guide, *** The Scotsman
  • Nicol Edwards - When Hedges Attack
  • Cowgate Central - Searching for Harry

  • Nicol Edwards - Capital Comedy Late Show

  • The Lighthouse, Leith - Late show
2003
  • Pleasance 5065 Lift - Claustrophobia Cure Extreme
  • C Venues - The Establishment
  • Nicol Edwards - Comedy Cave

Other Work

Manchester Comedy Festival 2005

Competitions/Awards

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