Ha Ha at the Hockey Club

Date	Saturday 27th November 2021
Time	8:00 PM
Doors Open	7:15 PM
Venue	Berkhamsted & Hemel Hempstead Hockey Club

Here's another one of our amazing annual comedy gigs in the brilliant setting of the Cow Roast club house.
Join Kevin Perkins as he hosts a wonderful line up including Ninia Benjamin, David Whitney and Jarlath Regan.

Kevin Perkins

Legendary South African comedian and high profile corporate speaker: Kevin Perkins has wowed audiences around the world for 14 years. Kevin is a cancer survivor and lives every day with an infectious passion for life. Adaptable comedic form, razor sharp wit and astute observation have made Kevin Perkins a crowd favourite amongst a wide variety of audience groups. Creator of the original South African comedy legend: Michael Naicker™. Kevin has produced two audio CD’s and two live show DVD’s. Having recently emigrated to the United Kingdom with his family, Kevin is based in London but will continue working around the globe. Kevin has received standing ovations and SOLD OUT shows in every city he has visited. Kevin has toured to United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia, and has a busy annual show schedule. Focussing  on his more natural generic comedy delivery style Kevin has officially “retired” his famous Michael Naicker™ character in order to focus his efforts on expanding his global empire...but to warm the hearts of South African expats in the UK, Ireland and Europe, Kevin has promised to bring out “Iron Mike” for South African expats who are missing home.

Becoming recognized as a world class entertainer but also a serious corporate presentation expert and speaking coach, Kevin plans to expand his market and continue to build on his global brand. England is now my HOME, and home is where the heart is.

Kevin’s new project “Stand and Deliver” is a corporate speaking workshop aimed at encouraging corporate personnel to maximise their effectiveness when presenting to audiences. Communication is key and nobody does it better than a professional comedian.

Dull presentations can be yesterday’s news when Kevin imparts his years of high profile entertainment experience and knowledge to those wishing to see real returns from their time spent in front of an audience. So when the next opportunity comes for you to present to clients and colleagues, don’t duck your head but leap forward, stand proud and deliver!

Ninia Benjamin

Ninia Benjamin is one of the UK’s hottest female comedians with a wealth of television, stage and live stand-up experience.

Ninia was catapulted to stardom as one third of BBC3′s 3 Non-Blondes, which later transferred to BBC2 and BBC America before going to a second series, shown internationally. From this, her talents have been showcased across all the major UK channels in a variety of roles, as a presenter, studio guest, actress and reality TV star.  Ninia was crowned the Winner of Celebrity Scissorhands 2007 (BBC3) in which she and a host of celebrities cut and styled their way through two weeks in a televised salon, raising thousands of pounds for Children in Need.  She was also a contestant on the hit Living programme, The Underdog Show in which celebrities were paired up with rescue dogs which they had to train in preparation for a number of obedience tests and she has made two hilarious appearances on BBC1′s Hole in the Wall.  With an infectious sense of humour and effervescent screen presence, Ninia is a favourite guest and commentator for many popular discussion shows, for example Sky Comedy Close Up.  Other recent television appearances include Total Wipeout and Celebrity Masterchef whilst her vocal talents can be heard in CBeebies’ Tinga Tinga Tales from February 2010.

Jarlath Regan

Jarlath Regan is an Irish comedian, writer, illustrator creator and host of the Irishman Abroad podcast.  Since the age of 24 he has made his living performing standup across Ireland, the UK and the rest of the world including the Edinburgh, Montreal, Chicago, Melbourne, New Zealand and Dubai Comedy Festivals. In 2013 he moved to London to perform standup. 6 months later he created the award winning Irishman Abroad podcast series.  The collection of in-depth, long-form interviews with will known Irish emigrants and people of Irish heritage has earned rave reviews from The Guardian, Telegraph and Irish Times, and has featured Hozier, Sharon Horgan, Brian O’Driscoll, Chris O’Dowd, Sir Terry Wogan, Glen Hansard, Aidan Gillen, Sonia O’Sullivan, Boy George, Dylan Moran, Lisa Hannigan, Graham Linehan and many many more. It is listened to by more than one million people worldwide. Jarlath has staged live episodes of the podcast at the Dublin Film Festival, Dublin Comedy Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, Cork International Film Festival, Body & Soul Festival, London Irish Comedy Festival as well as a residency at the Museum Of Comedy in London.

“Could turn out to be the biggest thing since Ricky Gervais picked up a laptop” The Telegraph

David Whitney

Born in Aberdeen to a military family, David’s formative years were spent all over the world in various army camps. David went to a military school Gordons in Surrey, where he learnt the bagpipes and ironically an English accent. The plan was to join the British Army, until the last minute when he chickened out and went to drama school instead. The bagpipes have served David well. He has piped at many events including the Royal Tournament, The Queen Elizabeth Hall and Gwen Stefani’s wedding. He also busked in London to fund his training at Drama Centre.

David trained at the Drama Centre from 1998 to 2001. He was very lucky to be in the last intake year to be trained by the two genius mentors Christopher Fettes and Yat Malmgren. He was there at the same time as both Tom Hardy, Michael Fassbender and Russell Brand.

After graduating David spent the following years pursuing his love of theatre and Shakespeare.

Fast forward a few years… David is in America, and after telling a string of lies he found him self in a position where he had to perform his first ever stand up comedy gig at the Friars Club in Beverly Hills. He hasn’t looked back, and now regularly plays some of the biggest clubs in the country.

David is still an active actor. He was involved in the BAFTA wining comedy Fonejaker and is acting in many films.

“The silver-tongued warrior”  – The Spectator