HAL CRUTTENDEN | Star of Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow and Perrier Award nominee
“He takes the personal, the surreal, the ridiculous and the political, and whizzes them into a delicious comedy smoothie that is sweet with a hint of sharpness. And it’s really good for you.” THE SCOTSTMAN
Hal Cruttenden is one of the top comedians working in the UK today, as well as being a highly accomplished writer and actor. Recent television appearances include ‘Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow’ (BBC1), ‘The Royal Variety Performance 2009 (ITV),‘Comedy Rocks’ (ITV) and ‘The Rob Brydon Show’ (BBC2) for which he also worked as a writer. He has also just completed his first national solo tour 'Hal Cruttenden Lively’.
“An hour of comedy that can’t fail to delight” METRO
Internationally, Hal has travelled across Canada on the Just For Laughs 2008 Comedy tour, which played to over 40,000 people. This followed rave reviews for his appearance at that year’s Just For Laughs Gala in Montreal hosted by Joan Rivers. He has also done shows at the Kilkenny Cat Laughs Festival 2005 and Just For Laughs Montreal again in 2004. Other international comedy tours include the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jakarta, Bali, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Bermuda. For the British Armed Forces he has played gigs in the Falkland Islands and Cyprus
“Cruttenden takes his own world of the cosy English middle classes, rummages around it and pulls out some remarkably dark humour that he finds lurking at the bottom.” THE HERALD
