CV
Paid MC:
Laugh Function, Watford. RHP Comedy Club, Louth. Comedy Caf,Canterbury. Art 31, Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury. Toys In The Attic, Cantebury. Monkeyshine Comedy Club, Canterbury. Ravenous Hedgehog, Rochester. Comedy In The Vaults, Rochester. Comedy Mash, Folkestone. Underground Comedy Club, Dover. Young Farmers Comedy Club, Hackforth. Kent Dance Showcase, Canterbury (2015, 2016 and 2017). Norwich Vegan Festival, Norwich. Lincolnshire Vegan Festival, Horncastle. Grosvenor Casino, Thanet.
Opening 20s
Wild Cabaret, Glasgow. Laugh Function, Watford. The Cocked Hat, Scunthorpe.
VegFest UK, Brighton.
Paid middles:
Comedy Station, Blackpool. Laughing Horse. Corky's Comedy Club, Irlam. Morti-fied, Tamworth. Old Brewery Comedy Club, Faversham. Winegums, Cambridge. Rob Riley's Didsbury gig. Wise Crack Comedy, Cambridge. Lee Kyle's Kids show at The Stand, Newcastle.
Headlined (small rooms only):
Shoe Cake Comedy , Teeside. Deal Comedy Club, Deal. Gillingham Comedy Club, Gillingham. Toys In The Attic, Cantebury. Maidstone Vegan Festival, Maidstone.
I also have performed one of my hour shows at many festivals:
Swindon Fringe Festival 2016-2017, Hastings Fringe Comedy Festival 2016-2017, Canterbury Comedy Fringe festival. Glasgow International Comedy festival 2017. International Youth Arts Festival 2016.
(I did a small run at Edinburgh Fringe 2016 with my show in C Soco).
Awards:
Winner of the 2015 Eric Barker award.
3rd place in Hastings Fringe New Act of the Year 2016.
Finalist of Edinburgh's Fringe's Got Talent 2015 a Nominated Best Show of Swindon Fringe 2016 (with debut show: Vegetari-Man)
Youngest ever person to give an academic conference paper at the British Stand-Up Comedy conference.
Quotes:
'Swindon Fringe Fan Favourite’ ' The Ocelot (2017)
'Intrinsically the framework to his performance is sound. He delivered his material well, he
was skilled at manipulating audience reactions and his closing routine was nicely different
and had a lot of potential. I'd like to see Hoss again’ NottsComedyReview
'Matt Hoss gets the crowd pumped’ Inquire Newspaper.
"Comic fans are in for a treat" Canterbury Times
'An Instantly likeable persona… One to watch for the future’ Paul Tingey, Stand and Deliver
Comedy Club
'King of Comedy’ ' Chocolate Comedy Club, Kent.
[Vegetari-Man is] a unique show with a lot of laughs’ ' The Vegan Apprentice (website)
Clips:
Slightly old ' but jist of my persona :
https://youtu.be/1PUAsF-qeZg?t=56s
Clip of my crowdwork skills:
https://youtu.be/6iD9S6cQRnw
Has worked on:
- Two of my own podcasts: The Drunken Comedian Podcast and Gig Antic.
- Podcast Engineer for A History Of Comedy (in several objects).
- Wheelbarrow Town with Mark Simmons and Danny Ward
(watch me in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjaC4TPB8oE )
- Comedian's Comedian Podcast with Stuart Goldsmith
- Partly Political Broadcast Podcast with Tiernan Douieb
- The Best of Enemies: Documentary series studying the cultural differences between Germany and Britain, airing on German National TV (ARD-Alpha) in October 2015. Starring anthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota.
- The Act of Laughter ' Comedy documentary by Troy King
- Trespass and The Red Shed by Mark Thomas
View a range of my clips and projects on my website:
http://www.matthosscomedy.com/new-gallery-1/
