Flo & Joan
Plus Jayde Adams + Ania Magliano
Flo & Joan are the multi-award winning British musical comedy duo, and sisters, Nicola and Rosie Dempsey. The piano/percussion pair have headlined and played to sold-out audiences across the UK, North America and Australia, and their hour-long special is now streaming in over 200 countries on Amazon Prime. In 2019 they debuted at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the JFL Montreal Comedy Festival.
A hugely acclaimed live act, their fourth Edinburgh show, Before the Screaming Starts, completely sold-out its run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, added extra shows to keep up with demand, and is now touring nationally ahead of a run at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Their previous shows are Victory Flaps, The Kindness of Stranglers and Alive on Stage. The pair’s accolades include Top 10 Show of the Edinburgh Fringe at the Amused Moose Comedy Awards, Chortle’s Best Music and Variety Act, Leicester Comedy Festival’s Best Musical Act, Montreal Sketchfest Best of the Fest Selection and Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival’s Now Magazine Audience Choice Award and Best of the Fest Selection.
The pair have had high-profile television appearances on Live at the Apollo (BBC2) and The Royal Variety Performance 2019 (ITV) and their songs regularly go viral online, most notably with their ‘2016 Song’ which has to date received 50 million views across social media. They have written and performed songs for shows including Horrible Histories (CBBC), Rob Delaney’s Stand Up Central (Comedy Central), BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show and Fresh From the Fringe and This Hour Has 22 Minutes (CBC)
Jayde Adams
Jayde Adams is co-host of BAFTA nominated series Snackmasters, as well as well as Channel 4’s TV Choice award nominated show, Crazy Delicious, with guest judges Heston Blumenthal, Carla Hall and Niklas Ekstedt. She has featured on Strictly It Takes Two (BBC Two) and has toured nationally with the celebrated 5 star Edinburgh show ‘The Ballad of Kylie Jenner’s Old Face’. Building on the momentum of the hit Edinburgh show, Jayde recorded her first special for Amazon Prime which was released worldwide in January 2020. A regular on our screens, has also featured as a guest on CelebAbility (ITV2), Roast Battle, Live At The Comedy Store, The Chris Ramsay Show (Comedy Central), 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (Channel 4), 8 Out of 10 Cats (E4), Dara O’Briain’s Go 8 Bit (Dave), Good Omens (Amazon Prime), and Russell Brand’s Stand Off for Comic Relief (BBC) and Alma’s Not Normal (BBC2).
Ania Magliano
Ania is a 22 year old comedian and writer based in London. She has written for Frankie Boyle’s New World Order (BBC2), Newsjack (BBC R4), The Now Show (BBC R4) and is one of the 4 regular writers on the Have I Got News For You Twitter account. She is a writer on Amelia’s Cooking Show, a new webseries by Amelia Dimoldenberg which features guests such as Maya Jama and Romesh Ranganathan. She is also the presenter of HSBC’s Level Up campaign, a 6 part YouTube series teaching Gen Z how to handle their money. Ania has a growing social media following, including 20k followers on Twitter, and over 1 million views on Youtube with over 20k subscribers. She’s recently branched out into TikTok.
Ania is a regular at gigs across London, including the Lol Word, 21Soho Presents and Canned Laughter. She is currently developing her debut comedy hour, Ania Magliano: Absolutely No Worries If Not, which she previewed to sold out rooms at VAULTS Festival in February 2020. Her previous shows received 5 stars from Diva Magazine, and have been recommended by Comedy Central as a ‘show not to miss’. She was a Funny Women Finalist 2020, 2Northdown New Act of the Year Finalist 2019 and Chortle Student Comedy Award Finalist 2018. She is a former member of the Cambridge Footlights as one of the first Access Officers, and a founder of Stockings Comedy, a comedy collective for female and non-binary comedy performers.