Simon Munnery

Simon Munnery: Hats Off for the 101ers, and Other Material

Fringe institution is ever-innovative

23 Aug 2011

There aren’t many acts that can fill The Stand on a weekday afternoon, but then Munnery is a Fringe institution. Ever-innovative via daft songs, silly props and monologues, absurdist highlights include his punk rock homage to the R101 airship of 1930…

Simon Munnery's La Concepta at 2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe

World’s first conceptual restaurant doesn’t involve food

16 Aug 2011

Comedian Simon Munnery is presenting the world’s first conceptual restaurant – a dining experience that doesn’t involve food. Niki Boyle samples the menu Ever wanted to sit down to a nice meal, but can’t really be bothered going through the rigmarole…

Interview: Simon Munnery

Surrealist comedian on theft, referring to previous answers and things yet to happen

15 Mar 2011

First record you ever bought Cassette! Simon and Garfunkel’s Greatest Hits. First I stole – Buddy Holly: Legend. First film you saw that really moved you That has yet to happen. Last lie you told I refer you to my previous answer. But I still…

Simon Munnery set for Edinburgh show at Stand

The comedian on Malcolm Hardee poetry and being friends with Banksy

9 Feb 2011

1: Munnery was vice-prez of Cambridge Footlights in the academic year 1987/88 and performed in a show entitled Sheep Go Bare alongside Mel Giedroyc and Tom Hollander, and directed by future author/playwright Jonathan Myerson. 2: After a series of…

Simon Munnery

A comfortingly familiar Fringe fixture

18 Aug 2009

With his erudite allusions and penchant for the silly, Munnery’s AGM has become a comfortingly familiar Fringe fixture. This year, the comedian switches from family stories to a supermarket-themed mini opera, before delving into the bucket of…

Mini Profile: Simon Munnery

29 Jul 2009

He's been a fringe regular for 15 years, and lauded by Stewart Lee amongst others, but he's yet to break through into the mainstream. Just who is this hidden talent?

Go Faster Stripe

14 May 2009

Every November time an onslaught of comedy DVDs hits the nation’s shops and online retailers, almost as though there was some big occasion around the corner that stand-ups and their representatives wished to capitalise upon. Yet one wholly independent…

Simon Munnery - Festival veteran

14 Aug 2008

Simon Munnery shares his lessons learned from 21 years on the Fringe

Johnson and Boswell – Late But Live

16 Aug 2007

We’re presented with a modern day chat show starring James Boswell, whose guest is none other than his revered Dr Johnson. He gives an account of the pair’s Highland tour of 1773 quite at variance with Boswell’s. We might speculate about the question of…