He’s an excellent standup himself, delivering a sharp, honest comedy with an arsenal of finely tuned vocabulary. In 2015, he appeared at the Edinburgh Festival as part of a lunchtime special in the great comedy show Funz & Gamez: The Close Knuckle Childrens Show. For the impressionable youngsters who attended last year’s success story in Edinburgh, they will know Bonzo Dog Foster, who sat on the judging panel of the award-winning show.
He checks in with the audience at the beginning to see if everyone agrees, after giving us an insight into his life and what comes to his mind at the end. While other young comedians wear their plaid jeans and wolf woolly jumpers, nude T-shirts and sneakers, Duggan seems the rarest thing: a nice guy. In his predicament, he seems like a sad sack, suggesting that the leaders of the free world are waiting.
Will Duggan has been performing comedy since 2009 and has established himself as a dynamic and interesting performer in comedy clubs across the country. He supported Justin Moorhouse, Hal Cruttenden and Gary Delaney on the tour and recorded an episode of the Turtle Canyon Lectures comedy tour. After eating grass as a young lad, the delightful Will Duggan impressed everyone around him with his debut album Man Gathers Fish in Edinburgh in 2016 and cemented himself in the comedy world.
As previously reported, DLT Creative Director Darren Smith and comedy writer Hillyar Mayes were commissioned by DLT to develop comedy content in podcast format and produce it to test ideas and talents that have the potential to be adapted to other media. This has become an organic growth area for the company, and in addition to working with an existing talent base, the DLT team has several projects and partnerships in the pipeline with a wide range of talent from across the industry. Stand-up comedians Duggan, Funz and Gamez recently returned to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with their Best Solo Show.
With pre-recorded social dissociation, you can accompany the comedians home to spend their day at some of the nation’s finest attractions. This event is sponsored by Furth Sea Derby Live and I am happy to act as a ticket agent.
I have a great site called Patreon where I exchange your money for podcast content, exclusive content, guests and recipes. It has been two weeks since the last time we came to see the Black Prince for a comedy night in his garden with comedy boxes. That’s a long time away from live comedy, so it was a pleasure to return for the show last night.
I worked out the ideal seating position for the show, and last night we sat at four tables, and on closer inspection it was a bit too far away from the performers for an optimal atmosphere. Our table was full, Mrs. Chrisparkle with gluten-free beer, Lord and Lady Prosecco Prince and Mark von Koln hid in drinks and delicacies offered at the bar.
I tried to chat without fighting, and a guy said to me: I think you’re doing a great job, but you’re a cunt and you’re not going to shut up. They have hot dogs wrapped in hash browns and they have some of the best food in the world. Mystery Rock is a bar where you’ll find retired sleepers, a bartender trying to settle his bill, a down-to-earth lounge singer solving puzzles over drinks and cocktails.
During the four-week suspension, Duggan took a job at Ford’s Dagenham plant. He built it for SDI in Basingstoke, and the drive to Walthamstow took an hour. There was also a brief stint chauffeur-driven colleague Mark Watson, who did drive-in comedy gigs and couldn’t drive himself.
My first show in Edinburgh was called Man Gather the Fish and every decision I’ve made in my life has taken me to this room to do this show.
Despite his big name on television, Duggan refers to the show as part of his plot, which is the extent of what he is doing at the time.
The problem for Duggan is that his four old friends haven’t spoken for 25 years. At a strange and tumultuous time in recent history, Duggan questions some of his bad decisions and what he has said and done.
In the case of Will Duggan, he makes you believe every single word. It is a conviction he expresses with every angry syllable, to his dismay, and it is perfectly logical that he should regularly be an unsuspecting victim of such circumstances.
When I was four years old, it was not unusual to have imaginary boyfriends in childhood. And I had a shit job in my parents “house, so it was absolutely normal in my under 35 days.