Lewis Schaffer Is Free Until Famous

About the Event

Pronounced "Shay-fer", Lewis Schaffer combines the comedy genes of Joan Rivers and Jackie Mason with the relevance of the freshest British comedians.

The New York comic now based in the UK comes to Derby.

The award-winning New York comic takes on England. Lewis Schaffer isn't a tourist. He isn't here on business. He's a hostage.
Lewis Schaffer was one of the top comics in the home of stand-up comedy, New York City. But a short visit to London in 2000 went very wrong when love and marriage took him from his beloved New York and gave him children, divorce and heartache in the UK. Now trapped in Nunhead, a suburb of Peckham, Lewis Schaffer is making the worst of a bad situation.

Lewis Schaffer's free-wheeling style, often described as "jazzy", makes every show different and thrilling. Fasten your seat belts.
Lewis Schaffer was the house compere of the Comedy Cellar and the Boston Comedy Club in New York.

In London, Lewis Schaffer has the longest-running residency at the prestigious Leicester Square Theatre; he is the regular MC of Peter Cook's Establishment Club; and is the star of Nunhead American Radio on Resonance FM London.

A bloody good laugh Time Out
Disconcertingly terrific Bruce Dessau of the Evening Standard
An hilarious, cathartic, exhilaratingly appalling experience The Scotsman
Who better to give it to us straight than this New Yoiker? The Independent

Free Admission. A voluntary collection will be made at the end of the show.

Lewis Schaffer website

Reviews

A bloody good laugh Time Out
Disconcertingly terrific Bruce Dessau of the Evening Standard
An hilarious, cathartic, exhilaratingly appalling experience The Scotsman
Who better to give it to us straight than this New Yoiker? The Independent