Chortle Award Nominee 2008 – Breakthrough ActChortle Award Nominee 2008 – Best ShowChortle Award Winner 2008 – Innovation in Comedy
Terry Saunders is often told he's a storyteller by people that write about him. This is mainly due to the fact he tells stories for a living and isn't really that friendly with punchlines or one-liners (though he does have one, and it is a fucking corker). Doing his schtick in stand-up sets tends to see him telling stories about his own life and his own rubbishness at dealing with life’s mainly pathetic challenges. Fast becoming an Edinburgh Fringe stalwart, 2007 saw him do his third show, Missed Connections – a story show about a girl obsessed with the adverts people write to try and track down the strangers they've seen. 2006 was his first proper story show, Pulp Boy, about a teenage boy who spoke only in the lyrics of Jarvis Cocker. 2005's show was a bit rubbish. There'll undoubtedly be another show about loneliness in 2008, and it might be about Elliot Smith. Terry is also the co-creator of laughterinoddplaces, the comedy thing that takes comedy from some of the best and most interesting comedians in the country out of beery pubs and puts them in strange places, like charity shops, the museum of london and Bruce Dessau's living room. Terry is getting more arrogant as the years wear on, catch him before he peaks and then invariably disappoints.
“amazingly accomplished comic storyteller … sublime” TimeOut "effortlessly funny … a gentle but genius hour" **** Metro “Saunders is certainly a skilful exponent of beguiling, whimsical comedy” Chortle "a first class storyteller and raconteur … Saunders creates entire worlds of whimsy that an audience falls into only to emerge, as if from a gorgeous dream, an hour or so later … brilliant and heartwarming" TimeOut "Saunders is successfully carving his own stand-up niche, and one that all romantics and emotional cripples should shyly gravitate towards" The Scotsman "A fulfilling, grown up piece of comedic artistry" Chortle “What could be fey or indulgent in someone else’s hands is poignant and funny in his” Metro “An hour of unapologetic, melancholic whimsy” The Scotsman “Complex and witty, fast-paced and heartwarming” Such Small Portions “Saunders seems a bit like some kind of renegade Jackanory revivalist” National Student Magazine Live WorkFigure 8 January-April 2009 / national tour Figure 8 August 2008 / Edinburgh Fringe Missed Connections January-April 2008 / national tour Missed Connections August 2007 / Edinburgh Fringe Stories Of A Lovelorn Idiot January-February 2007 / national tour Pulp Boy August 2006 / Edinburgh Fringe Romantic Comedy August 2005 / Edinburgh Fringe
Brighton Fringe 2007, 2008 Brighton Comedy Fringe 2007 Buxton Fringe 2007, 2008 Henley Fringe 2008 Leicester Comedy Festival 2006, 2007, 2008 Manchester Comedy Festival 2006, 2007, 2008
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