Martin Davis

Your Compere: July 1st, July 15th and July 22nd

"Davis Is Good, Very Good And, As Host, Held The Show Together"
Graham Greer, The Other Mag

Looking like some bizarre marionette tug-of-love struggle between Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, Martin Davis skids and bounces across the stage, strung up and tugged around by unknown forces, firing off a relentless rapid-fire assault that hits every corner of the room and kills 100% of all known hecklers stone dead. Going where mere joke-tellers fear to tread with his characteristic kamikaze bravado ("Go on, heckle me!") he walks the razor edge of audience participation, daring them to pick him off it.

"Electric, Sharp, With A Sympathetic Face That Looks Like It Was Carved By A Polynesian Shaman" Iain Macdonald, Cape Argus

His skill in warming up the chilliest rooms and turning the stoniest punters into soft putty in his hands makes Martin Davis the comics favourite MC. With enough nervous energy to power a small city, Martin is the Jolt Cola of the circuit. Advice would be: connect up the microphone, shout "Clear" and stand well back!

"The Star Of The Evening, For My Money, Was Compere Martin Davis, A Cockney Stuffed With Mercurial Welsh Genes (Surely?), Who Had Abrasive Wit, Tons Of Energy And An Unparalleled Ability To Talk Dirty Without Causing Too Much Offence" The Mercury

"On The Ball, Davis, a consummate professional, never dies." - Cape Times, 1999

With residencies in the Comedy Café and Comedy at Soho-ho and regular appearances at the Comedy Store, Banana Cabaret and Up the Creek, Martin has built up a regular following in London. Martin's talents are recognised across the country, in the Glee Club, Birmingham, Jesters, Bristol, Buzz, Manchester to name a few. In Ireland, Martin has made regular appearances at Murphey's Laughter Lounge, Dublin, The Empire, Belfast, and clubs in Galway and Cork. However, giggling does not stop there. Martin has wowed audiences in the 1997 Kilkenny International Comedy Festival, The Smirnoff Mule Comedy Festival in Durban and Cape Town, South Africa, (October 1997, 1998 and 1999 and will be performing in 2000) and the 1998 Lowlands Festival, Holland. 1999 ended with a sell-out one-man show in Grahamstown and Ratanga Junction, Cape Town, South Africa.

2000 began with the Lucky Strike Comedy Tour in Holland, The Dutch Diligentia Festival and Martin's Dutch TV debut on "The Comedy Factory". Martin also appears as the cameraman in the BBC production of Bulla, starring Ricky Grover.

"Rising Star Martin Davis Took The Audience By Storm With A Frantic Mix Of Jokes And Improvisation" The Herald

"Like A Marmoset On Speed, Mc Davis Specialises In Small Leaps, Quick Changes Of Direction And A Lot Of Natter. His Bony-Fingered, Red-Nosed, Animated-Kneed Presence Is High Comedy In Itself, And Then He Opens His Mouth. The London Lad Loves His Audience And We Were Very Soon Loving Him" Peter Frost, Tonight.