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It's said that a picture says a thousand words. Thanks to our manager's omnipresent camera we're lucky enough to have around twenty six thousand pictures. By my reckoning this gives us about twenty million words to play with. Have a browse through this gallery of our choicest moments. Come to see a show and you might even see yourself immortalised here as well.
2008 We're not far into that really are we... on the 12th January we had our first of our regular monthly shows at the Comedy Store. We also began our new Stand Up Comedy workshop programme.
2007 This year we saw our move to the Manchester area cement itself even thicker with monthly shows at Salford Arts Theatre and weekly workshops at the Comedy Store. It saw new members Lou Conran, Ross Wagman, Tom Roche and Sean Mason join us. We also played on stage with Rowetta from X Factor at the Stand Up and Be Counted 24 hour Comedy Event in aid of Comic Relief, we played to packed houses in Edinburgh, we played the Comedy Store at the Manchester Comedy Festival, and Chris Tavner reffed his first match. We also had a visit in the shape and size of Andrew Muraszewski from Milwaukee Comedy Sportz. This year we played at the World Championship in Quad Cities, winning our match against Chapel Hill, before that we first hit New York. The year was also topped off with Brainne Edge and John Cooper playing in Milwaukee and Minnesota just before Xmas.
2006 2006 saw us without a regular venue. We played at the Frog and Bucket, which was Jolly fun, and then all around the United States, but we were still struggling. By October we thought the game was up, until Salford Arts Theatre came to our rescue for the Manchester Comedy Festival. We have played monthly there ever since. This year we said hello to players Daisy Connolly, Derek O'Brien, Leigh Jones, Chris Tavner, John Cooper, Ben Schofield and Sean Moran. We also said goodbye to Sean Moran, Sean Hargreaves, Emily Cookson, Nick Broadbent, Vicki Forrester, Paul Thompson and Ste Martin - with a very heavy heart. Jill Headen from Dallas ComedySportz visited us this year and played in our first Manchester show. Yes there is a picture of Sean Mason with no hair, he was in the audience that day. This year we played against San Jose at the World Championship, and once again won.
2005 2005 started off great, we were settled into our fortnightly shows at Chorley Football Club, and the odd show at Chorley Little Theatre. We were having good fun, until we lost the venue. We played a few matches at Chorley Community Centre, but that had to close to be refurbished. Vicki Forrester, Nick Broadbent and Chris Brooker joined the troupe, Chris introduced us to the Frog and Bucket. We played there as part of the Manchester Comedy Festival, to a great responsive crowd - yes there is a picture of John Cooper with no hair or beard, he was in the audience that day. Andre Washington from Chicago ComedySportz visited and played with us. We played at the Los Angeles World Championship this summer and won our match against New Orleans.
2004 In 2004 our monthly shows were going great at Chorley Little Theatre, Ed 'Pij' Tootell joined the troupe, we went to the World Championship in Milwaukee, we won our match against Milwaukee, we visited our CSz friends in Dublin and played over there, they played over here, Pij left the troupe and we lost the Theatre. So we moved into our new home, Chorley Football Club in September, fortnightly shows. We also said goodbye to Russell Ditchfield and Rachael Hilton.
2003 2003 welcomed new players Sean Hargreaves and Steph Threlfall. We were visited by some Madison ComedySportz players and by the end of the year we had recieved a grant to put shows on in the surrounding areas and we bought new shirts! We said a sorrowful goodbye to Tom Kirk - who actually remained in the programme for a further 2 years as he never officially told us he was leaving - loser ;) Steven Catterall reffed his first match and we played a one off version of ComedySportz Weakest Link fo Comic Relief. Brainne Edge went to the 2003 World Championship alone, and got to play in the All Stars match at the DC Improv!
2002 After the huge sucess of our first match in 2001, we decided in 2002 to try and make it a more regular thing. Russell Ditchfield, Darryl Fishwich and Steven Catterall all joined the troupe. Darryl had been in the audience earlier in the year and was so good we put him in the show... he's still with us! Unfortunately we lost Phil Melling to the world of Hotelliery that year. He was one of our most loved players, we were sorry to lose him.
2001 Back in 2001 a girl had a dream, that dream was to put on a show she'd seen years before when she lived in America. She approached Dick Chudnow the creator of that show, and he said "Go forth". That girl was Brainne Edge, I say a girl becuase at a mere age of 22 she started the UK's only ComedySportz troupe. The initial players were Brainne Edge, Rachel Wareing, Rachael Hilton, Phil Melling, Ste Martin, Tom Kirk, Paul Thompson, Emily Cookson and Katie Griffiths. They were nervous, weren't sure if it would work. At that point this show was going to be a one off in aid of Children In Need. Who knew?... we certainly didn't.
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