Roundhouse Comedy Festival & Berk's Nest present
with Lily Du & Grant O’Brien, plus special guests Ivo Graham, Jenny Eclair, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, and Stevie Martin
Dropout’s Dirty Laundry is a game show where host Lily Du brings on four guests to anonymously air their dirty laundry. Together, they must guess whose secret is being shared while enjoying drinks served by the show’s bartender, Grant O’Brien. Audience members may be asked to share some of their own secrets as red herrings to throw our guests off the trail.
Joining Lily & Grant for the first ever live Dirty Laundry show outside of the US are special guests (and Taskmaster stars) Ivo Graham, Jenny Eclair, Kiell Smith–Bynoe, and Stevie Martin.
Lily Du is a Chinese-American writer and actor based in LA. She got her start improvising at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York, on Harold Night and with their Touring Company. She is a former cast member at CollegeHumor. As an actor, she has appeared in television shows such as New Amsterdam, FBI, Broad City, and Happy! Lily has written shows for Snapchat and Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls, as well as punch-ups on “PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie” and for Megan Thee Stallion.
Grant O’Brien is best known for his work on Dropout, including Game Changer, Breaking News, and Total Forgiveness. He studied acting at NYU, where he trained at the Stella Adler Studio. He studied improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade, where he performed on Harold Night. He studied bartending at a sketchy “licensing” agency in a basement in Columbus, Ohio.
Ivo Graham is has spent his entire adult life on the stand-up circuit, winning So You Think You’re Funny? aged 18 in 2009 and since establishing himself as, if not the UK’s poshest, then certainly its most apologetically posh comedian. He’s appeared on Have I Got News for You, QI, The Last Leg, Mock the Week, and Live at the Apollo, and quizzed with varying degrees of success on Pointless, House of Games, Mastermind, and University Challenge. In 2023 Ivo competed, energetically if not not successfully, on the fifteenth series of Channel 4’s Taskmaster, alongside Kiell and Jenny.
Jenny Eclair was the first woman to win the Perrier Award – the UK’s top comedy award – in 1995. Since then, Jenny has taken multiple shows on tour around the country, most recently Sixty! (FFS) which was extended twice due to its popularity. Alongside Ivo & Kiell, she starred in Season 15 of Taskmaster, and currently hosts the spin off podcast Taskmaster: The People’s Podcast. Jenny’s other TV appearances include Richard Osman’s House of Games, The Great Pottery Throw Down Festive Celebrity Special, Room 101, Loose Women, Pointless Celebrities, Alan Davies As Yet Untitled, and QI.
Kiell Smith-Bynoe is the star of the BBC’s Ghosts, Channel 4’s Mitchell & Webb Are Not Helping and the BAFTA winning Stath Lets Flats. Appearing in Taskmaster’s 15th Season and its’ third Champion of Champions season. He’s hosted The Great British Sewing Bee, the prestigious British Independent Film Awards and the Edinburgh TV Awards. His hit improv show Kool Story Bro is currently touring the UK, and has featured guests including Jamie Demetriou, Munya Chawawa, Mo Gilligan, Guz Khan and Lily Allen.
Stevie Martin competed in Season 19 of Taskmaster, finishing second. Her recent tour Clout was extended multiple times due to phenomenal demand. She has appeared on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Guessable, The Mash Report, and as an actor in Rose Matafeo’s Starstruck. Alongside Kiell, she starred in Mitchell & Webb Are Not Helping,
ABOUT DROPOUT:
Dropout was born out of the hugely successful comedy website College Humor and produces a wide variety of shows as a completely independent streaming service. They have quickly amassed a large audience through titles like Dimension 20, Game Changer, Very Important People and more, utilizing formats that mix razor-sharp comedy with gameplay.
Friday 8 May 10am General Public Booking
Thursday 7 May 10am Priority Booking for all members
Wednesday 6 May 10am Advance Priority Booking for Champion, Icon and Legend members
Starts: 7:30pm
Running Time: 1h 35 minutes in total, including one interval
Curfew: 11pm
Please note: Stage times are subject to change and published where available.
Fees are 7.5% + a £3 restoration levy* per ticket
Latecomers will be admitted at a suitable break in the performance
Age guidance: 16+
Content warning: Haze and strong language
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