In 1998, Dan Antopolski won the BBC New Comedy Award and reached the finals of the Daily Telegraph Open Mic Award and Channel 4’s So You Think You’re Funny. He would go on to be nominated for the Perrier Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Festival for his debut hour Second Coming and receive Perrier Award nominations for both his solo show Antopolski 2000 and for the sketch show Lee Mack’s New Bits with Lee Mack and Catherine Tate.
He has performed extensively around the UK and Europe as well as at international festivals including Just For Laughs in Montreal and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. The Observer describes him as a ‘master of the surreal and natural heir to Bill Bailey’, while The Independent describes his shows as ‘Intelligent, thoughtful stand-up…hilarious, imaginative, and wonderfully cheap.’
Antopolski performs at The Forum in Darlington this month thanks to renowned North East comedy promoters, Hilarity Bites. The other fab comics on the bill are ‘sarcastic raconteur’ James Cook, ‘refreshingly candid’ Dee Allum, and the ‘off-the-wall surrealism’ of Andy Fury.
Tickets, priced at £12.00 in advance, are available from hilaritybites.co.uk.
