Ten new specials coming to Amazon's Prime Video

The next series of Soho Theatre Live stand-up specials are to be released on Amazon’s Prime Video on May 6, it has been announced.

As Chortle revealed in December, the ten comedians lined up for the new season are Mark Watson, Felicity Ward, Spencer Jones, Luisa Omielan, Suzi Ruffell, Michael Odewale, Olga Koch and Natalie Palamides, Alfie Brown and Anuvab Pal .

It is the third season of specials recorded at the London comedy hub to be released on the streaming platform.

The first, released in 2020, comprised Aditi Mittal, Dane Baptiste,  Jen Brister,  Jessie Cave, Joel Dommett, Josie Long, Lazy Susan, Nish Kumar, Panti Bliss, Rhys James and Shappi Khorsandi.

And the second, from November last year, comprised Jordan Brookes, Jessica Fostekew, Janine Harouni, Kai Samra, Sindhu Vee, Sarah Keyworth, Catherine Bohart, Nina Conti, Desiree Burch and Kieran Hodgson.

Here are the blurbs for the new season’s shows: 

ALFIE BROWN: SENSITIVE MAN

Sensitive Man will explore whether emotion helps us make moral judgements or gets in the way of logical decision making? Does a rush of blood to the head make the knee-jerk and the back-lash for the right or wrong reasons? He’s going to be addressing this question using jokes. Jokes that often disguise their true meaning, jokes that might be traps and jokes that are just a bit of old fashioned clean fun. These jokes will weave together to create something greater than the sum of their parts, answering a question about emotion and its complicated relationship to morality. You can disagree, but you must laugh. Alfie Brown most recently won Best Show at the Chortle comedy awards with Sensitive Man.

ANUVAB PAL: EMPIRE

The British Empire gave Anuvab a colonial accent and British values, and suddenly left. Now he lives in contemporary India – a billion confident humans fed on social media and American consumerism and way past their colonial hangover. How does a man still under the British influence survive in ‘New India’? Nobody knows… least of all him.

FELICITY WARD: BUSTING A NUT

Comedian Felicity Ward is busting a proverbial nut. Following her nomination for the most prestigious award in live comedy, Best Comedy Show, at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018. With no theme, no lessons, and no heart felt epiphany, Busting A Nut is just jokes, bebes. Big ole, gut busting nut busting jokes.

LUISA OMEILAN: POLITICS FOR BITCHES 2022

Politics for Bitches is the latest critically acclaimed stand up show from Luisa Omielan. It recognised her with a Bafta Breakthrough award; the first comedian to ever receive one,a BBC mini series of the same name and it was regarded as one of the most important stand-up shows at the fringe in 2018. That was back in 2018. Obviously not a lot has happened politically since then…. Its been pretty quiet on that front. But Soho Theatre came knocking and so we searched high and low, and did what we could with what little updated material was available in UK politics. Politics for Bitches 2022 - because humour, access and empathy is needed now more than ever, to help it all make sense.  There's no one better to show you around a circus than a clown.

MARK WATSON: THIS CAN'T BE IT

What should we be doing with our time on earth, and how can we do it better? Watson has made a lot of strides towards happiness and fulfilment over the past few years. But there’s one problem left: and it really is a big one. The popular but all-too-mortal Radio 4 figure, star of ‘Live At The Apollo’ and House Of Games’ (which he won, but it’s not all about that) wrestles with some of the fundamental questions of life, with unusually high levels of benign audience involvement and the gag rate of an already fast-talking comedian who’s been imprisoned his house for more than a year.This show has been some time in the making, thanks to all that unpleasantness with the virus. He’s rarely looked forward to anything in his life. All those 41 years of it to date.

MICHAEL ODEWALE: BLACK BEARS MATTER

In a world full of seemingly endless socio-political issues and protest movements, Michael Odewale is struggling to find what he believes in. #Blackbearsmatter is about figuring out what we care about and what we are actually willing to do about it. He guides us through his relationships and deepest fears, our collective attitudes and misplaced stereotypes… and even your favourite cartoon bears will be tackled with his sharp, slick and beautifully executed stand-up. Join the fast-rising star as he tries to decide what really matters and what's just noise.

NATALIE PALAMIDES: LAID

Do I raise my egg or do I eat it? Natalie Palamides explores this age-old question in a beautifully stupid portrayal of a woman who lays an egg every day. An absurdly silly, melodramatic journey of motherhood filled with physical comedy, yolks, and funerals. This stunning, critically acclaimed debut show won the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer in 2017 – the show that laid the way for her global smash hit follow-up Nate.

OLGA KOCH: HOMECOMING

What does it mean to belong, and where is home? With her new passport in hand, Homecoming sees Olga try to figure out who the hell she is as an immigrant and certified teen drama queen. Fresh from a UK national tour, this is a bold and outrageous hour packed with razor-sharp jokes from the Edinburgh Best Newcomer nominee and Writers' Guild Award-winning comic.

SPENCER JONES: THE THINGS WE LEAVE BEHIND

The double Edinburgh Comedy Award and BAFTA-nominated professional idiot shows us his work room, where he creates his comedy. A mash-up of visual comedy, music, stand-up and audience interaction. This special follows two series of Spencer’s hit BBC Two comedy, The Mind of Herbert Clunkerdunk, and Spencer has also had another scripted series greenlit for ITV.

SUZI RUFFELL: DANCE LIKE EVERYONE’S WATCHING

TV quiz shows, an overbearing mother, a wedding, a neighbour that looks like a serial killer, some pigeons, a smear test, parenting and a trip to New York World Pride. Suzi's hilarious show has everything (in this list). The last twelve months have been massive for Ruffell; a smash hit UK tour, heaps of television appearances including; Live At The Apollo, Hypothetical, 8 Out Of 10 Cats and she has learnt how to make the perfect lemon cake.

Published: 6 Apr 2022