Initially a sports writer, Eddy Brimson has seven books to his name, plus the 1998 documentary Tear Gas & Tantrums about English football fans attending the World Cup in France, which became a video bestseller.

The following year, he started stand-up, and appeared as part of the Gilded Balloon Midnight Show at the 2001 Edinburgh Fringe. He made his solo debut with the Free Festival show Eddy Brimson Is Free in 2007.

He has also appeared in a number of TV shows as an actor, including EastEnders, where he played the villain who turned over Frank Butcher's car lot.

Outside of performing, he has also invented a board game, Initial Subject, is a qualified hypnotherapist and was press officer for the national anti-foxhunting campaign.

Brilliant and very funny stories.

Wayne, June 2010

Eddy is a very funny and very versatile act. He can do the rowdy rooms and can gag it up with the best of them, but he also tells fantastic stories. He's at the top of his game at the moment but is always developing something genuinely interesting. A top quality act.

Matt Price, April 2010

Brilliant, one of the best headliners Ive seen in a long time.

Barry Dodds, March 2009

Saw this guy in Hua Hin, Thailand last week, very funny

darren, March 2009

Not very good, I'm afraid

roger neal, August 2008

Absolutely hilarious, not for the faint-hearted but slick as they come and pushes all the right (well, purposefully all the wrong) buttons!

A.H. Gillett, November 2007