Huge Davies (born Hugh Davies) is a musical comedian known for
deadpan delivery whilst wearing a full sized
Yamaha keyboard strapped to himself.
Born with the first name Hugh, he performed as ''Huge'', an old nickname, when first performing in
Aberdeen, for the sake of anonymity.
Davies was nominated for the
Best Newcomer award at the 2019
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (also referred to as The Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe, or Edinburgh Fringe Festival) is the world's largest arts and media festival, which in 2019 spanned 25 days and featured more than 59,600 performances of 3,841 dif ...
for his debut solo show ''The Carpark''
which was described as "well-crafted, well-structured and well-performed" by
Chortle.
The keyboard was described in
The Scotsman as “more like a bank of special effects, rather than merely a musical instrument.”
Davies was a semi-finalist in the
BBC New Comedy Award in 2017.
Davies has appeared on Comedy Central Live at the Comedy Store,
and as a writer and performer on BBC flagship satirical radio programme ''
The Now Show''.
Davies acted in
BBC Two
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comedy series ''
The First Team
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''. Davies has appeared on celebrity game show
Guessable alongside host
Sara Pascoe,
Alan Davies and
Nish Kumar amongst others.
On 16 December 2021,
Channel 4 commissioned a new three-part short form scripted comedy series, ''The Artists'', created, written by and starring, Huge Davies. The series premiered on Channel 4 Comedy
YouTube from 30 December 2021 and is available through the
on demand service
All 4.
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British male comedians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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