"Gareth Berliner...Worth looking out for." Evening Standard-Bruce Dessau
"He's cheaper than Prozac and, by the end of the show, you feel that you've made a new friend." Helen Razer / The Age Melbourne
"Gutless, takes its audience from sympathy to tears and then on to loud laughter...harrowing, yet hilarious, show ." Ian Aitch / The Telegraph
"One thing that's guaranteed is that by the end of his show you'll not only feel much better about life and all it's embarrassing side effects, you'll better understand why laughter is the best medicine. Definitely glad I got along to see this one. " Steve Jones / DB Magazine.com.au
"GARETH Berliner is an engaging guy... handles the klaxon-blowing motorist outside the door of the venue brilliantly" Kate Copstick / The Scotsman
I've been doing Standup Comedy for 5 years and have performed both Nationally and Internationally in Australia at the Melbourne Comedy festival and the Adelaide fringe festival both as an act and an MC as well as with my own solo Shows GUTLESS and Love....It's Not A Big Enough Word.
I'm also part of the ensemble cast of Abnormally Funny People and have done Corporate work with them and also in my own capacity as a solo standup.
At The Edinburgh Festival 2005,2006 I have performed sets at the following late night shows ; PHATCAVE, PHATSPANK, SPANK and Paul Provenza's Talk Of The Fest.
Some of the Clubs and Promoters I have perfromed at or Worked For:
Avalon, Mirth Control, GSOH Comedy, Purple Monkey Comedy, Lee Hursts Backyard Comedy Club, XS Malarkey,The Comedy Store Manchester, Just The Tonic, Liverpools Laughterhouse at Baby Blue, Bath University, Liverpool Metropolitan University, Huddersfield University, Nottingham Trent University, The Big Chill Festival, Black Cat Comedy, Endorse it in Dorset Festival,
Website
garethberliner.com
Gareth Berliner's Interests
General
Film, Bongo's, Conga's, Parkour or Urban Running, Comedy
Music
23-26,30-31 Jan; 1-2 Feb 2008
8pm
Tickets: £12 (£10)
Abnormally Funny People are back with more stand-up, sketches and random silliness.
All talented stars, the new team has four differently disabled acts and a ‘token’ non-disabled!
'Loud and proud... a hilarious night out' - 5 stars.
Three Weeks.
With Gareth Berliner, Paul Betney, Juliet Cowan, Liam O’Carroll and Caroline Parker.
Movies
MILLERS CROSSING (Look into your heart)
The Usual Suspects, Amelie, Cinema Paradiso, The Godfather 1 and 2, Things to do in Denver when your dead,The Shawshank Redemption, The Matrix, The Animatrix, La Haine, Il Postino, Kung Fu Hustle, The House of Flying Daggers, Little Big Man, Stand by Me, Time Bandits, Spinal Tap, Take the Money and Run, Sleeper, Almost Famous, The Sting, Sexy Beast, Whose Life is it Anyway?, La Femme Nikita, The Big Blue, Harold and Maude, Being There, 28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead, Bubba Ho Tep,
TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN
The Legend of 1900, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Being John Malcovitch, Run Lola Run, Dances With Wolves, Delicatessen, Dinner du Cons, The Sting, Field of Dreams, The Hudsuker Proxy, The Big Lebowski, Citizen Cane, Casablanca, Sleeper, True Romance, The House of Flying Daggers, Criminal, Old Boy, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, A Bronx Tale, Goodfellas, Casino, Dead Men Dont Wear Plaid, The Jerk, See No Evil Hear No Evil, Bugsy Malone, Go, The Believer, Kung Fu Hustle, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story,Donnie Darco,Shaun Of The Dead
Henry V : Great Speech
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This Dude Noah took pictures of himself every day for 6 years. Really cool little film.
Television
Spaced, Extras, Nathan Barley, The Office, Fawlty Towers, The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Oz, The Sopranoes, Family Guy, The Simpsons,
Books
Zen and the Art of Stand-up Comedy, The Alchemist, Stone Junction : An Alchemical Potboiler, A Prayer for Owen Meany, The World According to Garp, Misery,
Heroes
Richard Pyor, Bill Hicks, Lenny Bruce, Larry David, Woody Allen, Ghandi, Malcolm X, Warren Berliner, Kevin Smith, Steve Biko, Steve McQueen aka The Cooler King, Tim Robins, The Cohen Brothers, Sean Penn, Gene Hackman, Giueseppe Tournatore, Sam Beckett,
So what do I do.....I'm a comedian, my words are my medium, writing is
tedium when it's laughs your feedin them, feeling like a wanker when you
christian a joke "a banker", so it's at the end of your set and one night it fails
to even get, a laugh, you feel daft, like the ground should swallow you whole,
consuming your soul, with nowere left to go, this makes it sound cold and
empty, even hollow, you swallow your pride, it's still there inside
but......when it works..... its amazing, your confidence blazing a trail, on a
night where you can't fail, try as you might, theres no fight, when your that
good that it's flowing, your wit alone is blowling, their minds, the pattern of
your lines, the rhythm and the meter, the call-back and repeater, the tag on
the end that they'll tell their friends, it'll send them home happy and content,
for you it's a vent, a place to repent a chance to purge the serious or absurd,
to get it all heard and off of your chest, stop you getting obsessed or
depressed, you've confessed at your comedy altar, you didn't falter, you
raised the roof, shared some truth, released some stress, and, at the end
took a breath, to steady your stride towards the next gig, next cig, next
drink, new joke....lets think.....
LEANNE DIGGINS, JOSIE LONG, GARETH BERLINER, MIKE BELGRAVE, PAPPYS FUNCLUB, HEATHER BEVERLEY, AMPHLETT AND CANDY, LOUISA, ANTHONY DAVIES and MORE.
Who I'd like to meet: Mitch Hedburg (RIP), Audrey Tattout, Noam Chomsky, Green Lantern, John Irving, Bill Hicks (RIP), Joel and Ethan Coen, Al Pacino, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, John Tuturro, Spike Lee, William Goldman, Kevin Smith, Woodward and Bernstein, John Belushi (RIP), Angelina Jolie, Tim Roth, Sean Penn, Richard Pryor (RIP), George Carlin, Descartes (RIP), Owen Wilson, Ben Stiller, Abraham Lincoln (RIP), JFK (RIP), Nelson Mandela, Tenacious D, Nina Simone (RIP), Steve Zahn, Elvis Presley (RIP)
