Edinburgh Preview: Molly McGuinness and Phil Ellis

Stand up comedian and Salford’s number one slob Molly McGuinness brings a work in progress show about Meat Loaf, working in a sex shop and being in a coma.

Molly was a finalist in the BBC New Comedy Awards and has done tour support for Joe Lycett, Rachel Fairburn and Danny McLoughlin.

“Molly is a brilliantly dry and very funny comic with super confident stage presence and woefully off-centre killer gags.” Joe Lycett

Phil Ellis is an award-winning comedian who has entertained audiences of all ages with his amalgamation of off-beat observational material and physical comedy. Most recently, he was nominated for the prestigious Sky Best Comedy Show at the 2023 Edinburgh Comedy Awards and won The Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality for Phil Ellis’s Excellent Comedy Show. The show was ranked in the top 20 best-reviewed shows of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2023.

He starred and co-wrote three series of his own BBC Radio 4 sitcom Phil Ellis is Trying, co-starring Johnny Vegas, Lolly Adefope, Amy Gledhill, Alexei Sayle, Sindhu Vee, Jack Dee, Lee Mack, Mark Lamarr and Sean Lock. The series was nominated for a BBC Audio Award in 2019. Phil’s TV appearances include The Russell Howard Hour (Sky), Roast Battle (Comedy Central) There She Goes (BBC Two), Drunk History: UK (Comedy Central), as well as writing and performing credits on BBC Three’s The Tapeface Tapes and co-writing 3 comedy shorts for Dave.