Star of Taskmaster, Ghosts and The Great British Sewing Bee, Kiell Smith-Bynoe is heading out on tour along with his smash hit improvised comedy present – Kool Story Bro. With an all–star solid of comedians and a few very particular friends becoming a member of him, the present will see the solid taking tales from the viewers and turning them into fully improvised comedy scenes. Kiell visits Glasgow at The Glee Club on seventh May, and followers can sign-up for early entry tickets at koolstorybro.co.uk. General sale begins 10am on Friday seventh February.
Fresh from sold-out reveals in Edinburgh, London and Brighton, Kool Story Bro is the unmissable improv present that spins unscripted sketches out of the viewers’s weirdest and wildest anecdotes. Together with a shock superstar co-host, these “world-class improvisers” (Corr Blimey) are about to create a very distinctive and completely ridiculous present from scratch.
Kiell mentioned right this moment: “I’ve been trying to push the slogan Make Improv Kool Again but apparently that “doesn’t have a ring to it”. I’m very excited to take Kool Story Bro on tour across the nation and convey the viewers’s tales to life, joined by the most effective improvisers on the world (it’s on, give it some thought) and a few big particular visitor hosts from the world of TV. I’m additionally simply actually wanting ahead to sleeping in several Premier Inn’s. Lenny Henry makes it look correct comfy.”
Heading out throughout the UK Kiell will likely be joined by members of Kool Story Bro’s rotating solid of improvisers. This consists of Starstruck favourites Lola-Rose Maxwell and Nic Sampson, Afterlife and Austentatious’s Graham Dickson, Big Boys’ Robert Gilbert, Mock The Week’s Emily Lloyd-Saini, Shadow and Bone’s Anna Leong Brophy Taskmaster’s Emma Sidi, with extra to be introduced.
Previous particular visitor hosts have included Lily Allen, Jamie Demetriou, Mo Gilligan, Charlotte Ritchie, Mathew Baynton, Rose Matafeo, Julie Adenuga, Guz Khan, and Munya Chawawa.
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Kiell Smith-Bynoe is an actor and author most identified for his good comedy work in BBC One’s Ghosts, Channel 4’s BAFTA profitable Stath Lets Flats and BBC’s Three’s Man Like Mobeen. Ghosts, for which he performed the lead, had had 4 profitable sequence and two Christmas specials. Kiell’s different tv roles embody these in Merman comedy Dreamland reverse Lily Allen, BBC Three’s hilarious Enterprice, BBC’s vastly widespread Horrible Histories, Ellie & Natasia sketch present and Channel 4’s a lot cherished Friday Night Dinner. As of final yr, Kiell hosted The Great British Sewing Bee after beforehand showing as a contestant on the Celebrity particular sequence in 2021. Kiell has appeared on widespread TV reveals reminiscent of Taskmaster, Would I Lie To You and Celebrity Catchphrase. Kiell’s Channel 4 blap, Red Flag, wherein he co-wrote and starred in, aired in 2022 to large crucial acclaim.
Lola-Rose Maxwell is an actor, author and director from Croydon. Series common in all three seasons of BBC/HBO’s Starstruck, singled out in evaluations as ‘Hilarious’Mashable) and ‘merits spin off’ ( Evening Standard). She has additionally starred in The Now Show, Screentime, Down From London, Doctors, Kevcoin (The Movie), Deloping and most not too long ago, Nick Moorcroft’s new dramedy function movie Mother’s Pride out in cinemas in 2025. Lola-Rose might be most well-known for her sketches with Stevie Martin which have amassed over 45 million views on social media. The pair have been headhunted and now direct commercials for Chief productions. Lola-Rose additionally directed her personal quick Attack of the Coat in Jan ‘25. She’s written sketches for Radio 4, two episodes of Channel 4’s Rude Tube and quick movie Office Manager however now largely writes horror function movies, largely. Unconventionally for a Brit, Lola-Rose began her profession doing long-form improv and has grown to be one of the wanted improvisers within the UK. She’s carried out in promote out reveals throughout London’s West End and LA. Most notably her personal present The Improvised Play which began at The Royal Court and grew right into a 5 night time run at The Arcola reaching Lyn Gardener’s choose of the week.
Nic Sampson is a comic, actor, improviser and author initially from New Zealand.. He is without doubt one of the co-writers of BBC3/HBO Max’s Starstruck, wherein he additionally appeared, and has featured in movies together with Netflix’s The Breaker Upperers and Baby, Done, which was govt produced by Taika Waititi. Previously, Nic was a core author and performer on the New Zealand sketch sequence Funny Girls for TV3, and co-creator of the sitcom Golden Boy. In 2024, he voiced one of many bears in Paddington in Peru, and has additionally written on Taskmaster Junior (Channel 4). At the New Zealand International Comedy Festival, Nic gained Best Newcomer in 2014; the following yr, his present was nominated for Best New Zealand Show (Fred Award), the best honour on the competition, making him one of many quickest rising stand-ups in New Zealand. Aside from his solo stand-up, Nic is a founding member of the acclaimed improvised comedy collective SNORT, who’ve been promoting out weekly dwell reveals since 2013 and not too long ago had a TV model of the present air on New Zealand’s TV3.
Graham Dickson is an actor, author and improvisor. His latest display screen credit embody his critically acclaimed efficiency within the function All My Friends Hate Me in addition to supporting roles in TV reveals reminiscent of Renegade Nell, Witchfinder, Afterlife and PLS Like. He is without doubt one of the most skilled improvisers within the UK. He is co-founder of the West End smash hit Austentatious in addition to the founding father of the UK’s main long-form improv college and theatre, The Free Association, the place he additionally performs often. Graham is at present writing a function movie for Film4, along with his collaborators Jim Archer (dir. Big Boys) and Liz Kingsman (One Woman Show). His solo present No One Deserves This More Than You acquired 4 stars in The Guardian: ‘Dickson’s expertise – for improv, crowd work, toothsome appeal, and measuring out only a teardrop of emotional significance into his silliness resolution – are amply on show.’
Anna Leong Brophy is a author, actor and comic. She is without doubt one of the stars of Netflix’s wildly widespread fantasy sequence Shadow and Bone, enjoying warrior Tamar Kir-Bataar as a part of the principle solid in Season 2. She appeared as Bryony in sequence 2 of Channel 4’s Back, alongside David Mitchell and Robert Webb, and in Netflix’s The Billion Dollar Code. Other tv consists of BBC 1’s Last Tango in Halifax and The Girl Before, Traces and Ragdoll for Alibi, and spy sequence Berlin Station alongside Ashley Judd. Her theatre credit embody Henry VI Part One (Royal Shakespeare Company), Pitcairn (Chichester Festival Theatre/Shakespeare’s Globe), and In the Night Time (Before the Sun Rises) (Orange Tree Theatre). In function movies, Anna starred as reporter Olivia Tan in Paradise War, which opened the 2019 Zurich Film Festival. She was the voice of Jin in 2021’s Shaun the Sheep Christmas Special: The Flight Before Christmas. Anna is one half of comedy duo EGG, who graced the quilt of Fest journal amid rave evaluations for his or her 2018 Edinburgh Fringe present Richard Pictures. In 2019 they have been returning friends on Channel 4’s Harry Hill’s Clubnite. Their BBC Radio 4 Comedy Special Scrambled EGG, in regards to the combined race expertise, was comedy of the week. EGG host the podcast Still Legit (the place they gleefully study the movies and TV reveals they grew up with and ask in the event that they’re nonetheless legit right this moment) and Wondery’s hit podcast, Terribly Famous, the place they inform the tales of our most iconic stars. Anna has written for CBBC’s Class Dismissed, Aardman Animation sequence Lloyd of the Flies, Mr Bean and Shaun the Sheep. She is a founding member of award profitable improv group BattleActs.
Rob Gilbert is an actor, author and comic. He has featured TV reveals and movies like Killing Eve, Big Boys, Big Mood, The Tragedy of Macbeth and the upcoming Bergerac. He is without doubt one of the managing companions of Soho Comedy Factory, and often performs improv on home groups at The Free Association.
Emma Sidi is an actress, comic and author for radio, stage and display screen. She has starred in hit TV reveals reminiscent of Taskmaster (Channel 4), Starstruck (BBC 3 & HBO Max), enjoying Jessie’s OTT flatmate Kate and as lead position Millipede in three sequence of Bafta-nominated comedy Pls Like (BBC 3). Other credit embody King Gary (BBC 1), W1A (BBC 1), Ghosts (BBC 1), Industry (BBC 1) and Stath Lets Flats (Channel 4), and in 2025 she stars in Brian and Maggie (Channel 4). Emma’s hit solo present Emma Sidi: Telenovela ran on the Edinburgh Fringe, Soho Theatre and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and in 2024 her new present Emma Sidi is Sue Gray offered out on the Edinburgh Fringe and on tour. She was chosen as Dancing Ledge’s Writer in Residence for 2023 – 2024, which is awarded to 1 proficient particular person every year. She is growing unique tasks with Dancing Ledge and Avalon.
Emily Lloyd-Saini is an actor, author and comic. She stars as sequence common Winnie in BBC Three’s sitcom ‘Juice’, DI Ryle throughout two seasons of Sky’s hit comedy ‘Code 404’ and is a sequence common in ‘Horrible Histories’. She has most not too long ago wrapped on a supporting position in upcoming comedy function movie ‘Mother’s Pride’.
Emily’s writing credit embody ‘Juice’, ‘The Stand Up Sketch Show’ on ITV2 and ‘Horrible Science’ on CBBC. Her debut Edinburgh stand-up hour, ‘Is This Part of the Show?’, was nominated for Funny Women’s Best Show. Emily has since gone on to carry out arise on BBC’s ‘Big Asian Comedy Night’ and ‘Rob Delaney’s Stand Up Central’ on Comedy Central UK in addition to guesting on ‘Mock The Week’
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