Events Archive | Matt Winning

Norwich Science Festival

The Garage

Feb 21st, 2025

7:30 pm

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Tickets for Hot Mess must be booked directly with The Garage. Book online at thegarage.org.uk

What is climate change, who’s to blame, and what can we do about it? Award-winning comedian and climate change researcher Dr Matt Winning offers his unique take on the climate emergency in this witty and enlightening show.

From his quest to save proper big chips to the reality show Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ Plans for Loft Insulation, Matt shares his hilarious insights on how we can work together to stop the end of the world.

Tickets £15 / Conc £12.50

The Garage

Recommended for adults and ages 14+

Newcastle

The Stand

Apr 27th, 2025

4:00 pm

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Work in Progress show with Phil Ellis

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.

Dr Matt Winning is a London-based Scottish comedian and environmental economist who performs live climate change comedy.

Matt has a PhD in climate change policy and is still an active researcher, combining his two worlds of comedy and environmental issues in an attempt to help save the planet. In 2021 he published his book Hot Mess which encompasses these two worlds. Adam Kay described it as ““a very funny, important and only moderately terrifying clarion call of a book”. He performed his latest stand-up show of the same name across the UK and was awarded Pick of the Fringe at Bedford Fringe Festival.

On TV Matt appeared as the environmental correspondent on Dave’s Unspun with Matt Forde and has also featured in BBC Scotland shows The State of It and Scot Squad. On radio, he has most recently presented BBC Radio 4’s Net Zero: A Very British Problem which is a 4 part series. Previously he was a guest on BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show and BBC Radio Scotland’s Breaking The News.

Mach Comedy Festival

The Old Pizzeria

May 4th, 2025

2:00 pm

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Matt Winning: Solastalgia (Work in Progress)

“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’.

Dr Matt Winning brings a new theatrical comedy show about change to Machynlleth. The best place. Matt is a climate change comedian and academic who hosted ‘Net Zero: A Very British Problem’ (BBC Radio 4), is author of the comedy book “Hot Mess: What On Earth Can We Do About Climate Change”, and has performed several sell-out Edinburgh Fringe shows, as well as a show at COP28 for BAFTA. He is a Lecturer at University College London with recent work cited by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Tickets £10

Newcastle University

Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University

Feb 25th, 2025

5:30 pm

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Hope Not Heat event at Newcastle University

This lecture blends comedy and informative content to encourage audiences to think about climate change in a more engaging and accessible way. The approach helps to break down barriers and encourages audiences to think critically about their own behaviours and the societal issues surrounding climate change.

This event is part of Newcastle and Northumbria Universities Hope not Heat 2025 conference, for more details please visit: conferences.ncl.ac.uk/hopenotheat2025

Brighton

The Wundabarn @ Brighton Fringe

May 21st, 2025

7:30 pm

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Join Matt Winning and Glenn Moore as they present a double bill of previews ahead of the Edinburgh Fringe! Two of Britain’s finest jokesmiths have spent months working up brand new material, and now are ready to share it with the Brighton Fringe. Some lines will be instant classics, others… less so. But that’s the joy of it – watch two of the most dynamic comedians around hone their craft live on stage.

Glenn Moore delivers “classy gag-driven comedy at it’s funniest” – Chortle

Matt Winning “fizzes with energy” and “rages like a fire” – Fest Magazine

All in all, not something to miss.

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Work in Progress show with Phil Ellis