“Wickedly funny”
Henley Standard
Do you need a stand up who knows how to talk to a corporate audience and can wow women’s networks? My material perfectly fits the bill as I grab life by the lapels and ask: “Why are you doing this to me? WHY?!
What my stand up is about
A background in IT and 10 years spent at Microsoft, means that I understand the absurdity of scorecards and the pain of the Annual Review. As well as performing stand up, I’m still a freelance writer to the tech industry which means I’m current with what’s going on. I’ve even got jokes about AI!
“What a great session, had some fantastic feedback and the audience LOVED your poetry.”
Emily Stewart, SAP
But it’s not all work, work, work. I cover ‘real life’ too. With two children and two decades of marriage under my belt, I’ve got plenty of material on parenting and relationships. And don’t even get me started on camping.
Where I perform
Give me a stage and a mic and I’m all yours! I’ve performed stand up in pubs and at parties, for corporates and for charities, in the afternoon and after dinner. Whatever the setting, I’ll make myself comfortable, and make sure your audience feels that way too. For bookings, contact me.
“Toni, you were f***ing awesome!”
Carrie, audience member, Corn Exchange Newbury
Material I cover (click the links to watch some clips)
- Social mobility
- Marriage and parenting
- Life in a corporate
- Technology
- Surviving in the workplace
- Quitting the town for the countryside
- The female experience (or “Why Fashion and Society in General is Colluding to Make My Life More Complicated Than My Husband’s).
“Thank you for a wickedly funny set at our SAP Business Women’s Network event today. Unbelievably funny – and who’d have thought those topics could be?”
Claudia Belardo
Performances include
- ARISE 2019
- C&C Comedy Nitro
- Compton Curry & Comedy Club
- Hampstead Norreys Beer Fest
- Henley Literary Festival
- Hungerford Comedy Club
- Hungerford Literary Festival
- In the Frame at Ace Space
- Live & Lyrical – Corn Exchange Newbury
- Masonic Ladies Festival Dinner
- Newbury Con Club
- Newbury Soroptomists
- Prospect Union at Harwell
- Reading Fringe Festival
- SAP Business Women’s Network
- Smart Works Reading Gala Ball
- Tummies Comedy Night
Pricing and bookings
Costs vary from £100 – £750, depending on the venue, set length and whether you’d like material tailored to your event. Please email me for a quotation at toni@tonikent.co.uk.
SAP Business Women’s Network 
Hampstead Norreys Beer Fest 
New Greenham Arts 
Reading Fringe Festival 
Compton Curry & Comedy 
Ace Space Newbury 
Masonic Ladies Festival – Reading 
That Comedy Thing – Basingstoke
“An edgy Pam Ayres”
Newbury Weekly News
Skills to pay the bills
I’ve acted as compere for the Sister Sister Network, Smart Works Reading, and delivered talks for Adobe and Prospect Union. The other services I offer include speaker, writer and panel host.