Balham Bowls Comedy Club with Ivo Graham

Following four sold out shows, Balham Bowls Comedy is back on Wednesday 8th May with headliner Ivo Graham!

Despite extensive grooming for more serious careers at Eton and Oxford, Ivo (now 32) has spent his entire adult life on the stand-up circuit, winning So You Think You’re Funny? aged 18 in 2009 and since establishing himself as, if not the UK’s poshest, then certainly its most apologetically posh comedian. With a bumbling charm to snare audiences of all ages, he’s detailed the various developments in his relationships/neuroses over seven sell-out solo shows, including 2019’s The Game of Life, which received nominations for Best Show and Best Joke at that year’s Edinburgh Fringe. He’s appeared on TV comedies including Have I Got News for You, QI, The Last Leg, Mock the Week, and Live at the Apollo, quizzed with varying degrees of success on Pointless, House of Games and University Challenge, and toured the country with Fern Brady and Darren Harriott for Dave’s six-part travelogue British as Folk in 2021. He’s earned his parents’ respect with appearances on Radio 4’s The Now Show, The News Quiz, Just a Minute, and the drama Unite, and shoehorned Swindon Town references into many an episode of 5 Live’s Fighting Talk and BT Sport’s The Football’s On.

Opening the show is Alex Kealy!

Alex is a stand-up comedian who reached the final of the prestigious So You Think You're Funny competition in his first year of performing and is now a "rising star of the British stand-up scene" (The List).

He has taken five hours of stand-up to the Edinburgh Fringe, the latest being 2022's Winner Takes All, which played to packed rooms and critical acclaim, with The Daily Telegraph calling him "sharply witty, almost sexily cerebral" and The List praising his "breakneck pace with surprising turns in eloquent comic’s wonderful new hour".

His writing work includes BBC Two's Mock The Week, and Radio 4's The News Quiz and The Now Show.

In the middle, we have the fantastic Arielle Souma, who was described by Frankie Boyle as "what the industry needs."

Line-ups subject to change but we will always replace with another brilliant comedian.