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Holly Walsh - The Hollycopter (3 stars)

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Holly Walsh - The Hollycopter

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Last August, Holly Walsh jumped off a 40ft pier in a homemade helicopter. She then spent four days in hospital. And wrote this show. ‘Gutsy little so and so’ (Dailymail.co.uk). A debut hour of stand up from the Chortle Best Newcomer winner. As seen on Mock the Week, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, You Have Been Watching and 8 out of 10 Cats. ‘An excellent comic, with a flair for lateral-thinking gags and an offbeat stage presence that makes her like a slightly nerdy, very friendly and intensely funny older sister’ (Guardian).

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Holly Walsh - The Hollycopter

17 Aug 20113 stars

A brave and bittersweet recollection

When her fellow comics were padding about the Fringe in August 2010, Holly Walsh was clowning around on Worthing Pier. Unfortunately, her charity leap into the West Sussex sea resulted in a shocking injury that led to national media coverage for the…

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