Connor Burns and Sophie Duker join New York Comedy Festival

Rare Brits on the line-up

Connor Burns and Sophie Duker have joined the line-up of the New York Comedy Festival.

The Scottish stand-up will be reforming his Edinburgh Fringe show 1994 at the SoHo Playhouse from November 12 to 17 as part of the prestigious venue’s Fringe Encore series.

And former Taskmaster contester Duker will be performing her latest tour show But Daddy I Love Him at the Union Hall on November 9.

Both comics are also touring the UK this autumn and next spring (Connor Burns tour dates | Sophie Duker tour dates)

They are the only Brits with their own shows at the New York festival except – rather incongruously – a live version of The Rest Is History podcast with historians Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland.

Meanwhile, UK-based Norwegian Viggo Venn will be at the Bell House on November 15.

A number of American Edinburgh Fringe shows will also be reprised for the festival, which runs from November 8 to 17, including Ian Lockwood’s Farewell Tour, Shitty Mozart, Chloe Radcliffe: Cheat and Amadeo Fusca as The Conductor

Big-name headliners across the ten days include Judd Apatow, Tracy Morgan, Bill Maher, JB Smoove, Gabriel Iglesias and Dave Attell.

The full New York Comedy Festival line-up is here.

[Duker's date was originally announced as November 11, but subsequently changed]

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Published: 13 Sep 2024