Meet the finalists in Manchester club's Beat The Frog contest

The finalists have been announced for this year’s Beat The Frog World Series, the gong-style open mic competition run by Manchester’s Frog and Bucket comedy club.

They are:

• Liverpuddlian Sian Davies who took a working-class comedy show to the Edinburgh Fringe this year.
• The deadpan Mamoun Elagab, who was a finalist in the BBC Comedy Award this year,
• James Heath, who grew up in Venezuela but has lived in Manchester since 2000. 
• Chloe Levi Joyce, who works behind the bar at the Frog and Bucket and is in her third year of a comedy degree at Salford University. She won Beat the Frog on her first ever gig.
• Michael Mannion, who lives and works in Manchester as an editor and has only been performing stand up since February this year.
• Romanian comedian Victor Patrascan, who performed a solo show at the Edinburgh Fringe this year.
• Ben Silver, who works in a pathology lab in the daytime and comes from Heywood just north of Manchester,
• Anna Spark, an Australian comic who is currently resident in Manchester.
• Newcastle comic Louise Young, currently an office worker but has been performing stand-up for three years.

The final will be held at the club on Monday, hosted by Dan Nightingale, pictured.

This will be the 15th final of the annual competition to find the best of the new acts who have come through the Beat the Frog amateur show across the past year.

Previous winners include Brennan Reece, Sam Gore, Benji Waterstones and, last year,  Kathryn Mather, who will also be performing on Monday,

Published: 24 Oct 2018