Tue 24 June 2025 7:30pm - 9:45pm

Rob Auton & Matt Winning - Edinburgh Previews

at The Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol

View tickets

£11.00

Add to your event list

What's On / Bristol / Standup Comedy

Please note: Info provided by the Event Organiser

6 weeks of fantastic comedy as stand-up stars premier their latest shows before they head to the largest arts festival in the world.

Be the first to catch these shows before they go on to comedy glory! Each night will feature two full length performances from some of the best comedians in the country.

ROB AUTON
Hello people of Bristol, Rob Auton here. I am taking my debut hour long story to the Edinburgh Festival and I am doing as many work-in-progress shows as possible to get it into shape. I will be reading from bits of paper and crossing things out.

Having written eleven shows on specific themes, I am now keen on telling you a story I have written about a man I made up called CAN. At one point in his life CAN was the world’s number one motivational speaker… and then something happened.

“A genuine original” Guardian

MATT WINNING
Solastalgia: noun (sol-a-stal-gi-a) the emotional, physical or existential distress caused by environmental change to your home. A portmanteau of the words solace and nostalgia. A new storytelling climate comedy lecture about saving ourselves in time and protecting what you love by Dr Matt Winning. Host of Net Zero: A Very British Problem (BBC Radio 4).

“Everything a Fringe show should be: hilarious, personal, inventive, and something that will stay with you for some time to come” Edinburgh Festivals Magazine

Rob Auton

Rob is a London-based performer, artist, writer, poet and comedian. He is a Dave’s Funniest Joke Of The Fringe award-winner and Glastonbury’s Poet In Residence. Every year he picks a subject that is important to him and writes an hour long show about it. So far he has done The Yellow Show, The Sky Show, The Face Show, The Water Show, The Sleep Show and the Hair Show. His work has been played on the radio by Jarvis Cocker, Cerys Matthews and Scroobius Pip and shown on the television by BBC1, BBC 2 and Channel 4. 'A genuine original' (The Guardian) 'A talent to watch' (The Independent).

See Rob Auton tour dates

Matt Winning

The Paisley boy is steadily making a name for himself in between studying for a PhD in the Economics of Renewable Energy. Mattis the co-creator (along with Lolly Adefope, Mat Ewins, Richard Gadd, Adam Hess and John Kearns) of the cult hit Bearpit Podcast (Podcast), which is available to download from no good retailers. Matt first appeared at the Fringe as part of renowned showcase The Comedy Zone in 2013, returning in 2015 with his debut solo show Mugabe and Me (3D), followed in 2016 by Ragnarok, which was recently recorded for comedy VoD platform NextUp. Finalist in the Chortle Student Comedy Awards, Matt's brand of humour is both intelligent and compelling. Winner Hilarity Bites New Act 2011. 'Distinctive one-liners... an inventive writer' (Chortle)

See Matt Winning tour dates