Stand-up Polska

Who is Pete and what is he presenting?
Pete Szumowski perfomed stand-up around the world for 409 days across 5 continents in 3 languages in over 30 countries at more than a dozen comedy festivals. There is a lot of numbers in that sentence. But hey! wh0 car3s!?

"Pete presents" is a new monthly English comedy event where Pete Szumowski invites comics from all around the world to the land where it all began- Warsaw city! Last Wednesday of every month at 8PM in NiePowiem!

Performing for You; top local comedians and BRENDON BURNS...

If we were to use one word to describe Burns' career it'd be "interesting". This is not your everyday comic. Older, wiser, calmer - Brendon's energy is still enticing. His turn of phrase is coarse yet oddly eloquent, whilst remaining fully accessible and intensely loveable. Never pompous and ever self-deprecating he just somehow seems to get away with murder. His influence is ubiquitous throughout the stand up world.

We could bore you with TV credits, but what about being the first white comic to perform at Nelson Mandela's ANC University in South Africa? How about the time he handed out ten kilos of magic mushrooms at the Glastonbury festival in an attempt to do stand up to the audience's collective unconscious? (It did NOT work!) Or how he was banned from the BBC for five years for kissing a goat live on air?

Sure he's critically acclaimed, a comic's comic and something of a cult figure. But, above all, he's... well... interesting.


"Not only has he been pushing back the boundaries of taste for decades, I'm quite certain he has no idea where they are"
Jimmy Carr

"Only Vincent Van Gogh gave more of himself for his art."
Paul Provenza

"Check out this Aussie Gobshite, he's more offensive than me"
Ricky Gervais

*****
"Honestly the best thing I have seen in ages"
The Guardian