Hastings Fringe Comedy Festival 2022: The Electric Palace, Hastings, 2022
Jeddybear & Gary’s Fiesta of Fun: Leicester Comedy Festival 2023 – The Big Difference, Leicester, 2023
Hastings Comedy Festival 2023: Jeddybear & Gary’s Fiesta of Fun: OWENS, Hastings, 2023
Hastings Comedy Festival 2023: The Norman Award Newcomer of The Year 2023: The Crypt, Hastings, 2023
Hastings Comedy Festival 2023: The Late One at The Nest: The Nest, Hastings, 2023
Humber Comedy Festival: South Ferriby Village Hall, 2023
Hull Comedy Festival 2023: 1-2 Pier Street, Hull, 2023
Leicester Comedy Festival 2024: Jeddy Bear & Gary’s Chemistry of Chaos: Peter Pizzeria, Leicester, 2024
Jeddybear & Gary’s Chemistry of Chaos: Hastings Comedy Festival 2024: Observer Building, Hastings, 2024
The Norman Award Newcomer of The Year 2024: Hastings Comedy Festival 2024: The Crypt, Hastings, 2024
The Late Show hosted by Gary Jennison: Hastings Comedy Festival 2024: The East Hastings Sea Angling Association and Social Club, Hastings, 2024
Hull Comedy Festival 2024: Big Night of Variety: The Edge Hub, Hull, 2024
Hull Comedy Festival 2024: Cottingham Comedy Club, Hull, 2024
Jeddy Bear and Gary Save The World: Hastings Comedy Festival 2025: The Observer Building, Hastings, 2025
The Late Show hosted by Gary Jennison: Hastings Comedy Festival 2025: East Hastings Sea Angling Association and Social Club, Hastings, 2025
RSPCA Comedy Panel Show for Charity: Cats vs Dogs: Hull Comedy Festival 2025, Jubilee Central Hall, Hull, 2025
Quip Spice: Hull Comedy Festival 2025: 1-2 Pier Street, Hull, 2025
Kingswood Laughs: Hull Comedy Festival 2025, Kingswood, Hull, 2025
Directors of Hull Comedy Festival, Gary Jennison and Jed Salisbury saved the day when a billed act was unable to perform at the Hastings Fringe Comedy Festival. The magic of any Fringe festival is discovering a new talent. When Jennison asked if everyone was okay and had anything to say, I shouted out that I had been eating two packets of crisps for the last thirty years and wondered why I had diabetes. To take a sentence based on my love of crisps, run with it and produce the funniest twenty-minute ad-lib all year was a joy to behold. As I watched Jennison develop the comedy routine, it got funnier and funnier, and I was crying with uncontrollable laughter, and made me want to see Jennison perform an hour-long comedy set.
Nominated for Best Kids Show at the Leicester Comedy Festival & UK Kids’ Comedy Festival in 2021, Hull’s comedy duo Jennison & Jed Salisbury (‘Jeddybear’) performed a new children’s show Fiesta of Fun at the Leicester Comedy Festival that I watched in February 2023. Full of comedy, mischief, fun, games, music, dancing and custard pies, this show was wonderfully constructed from two great comedians.
Jennison is one of the friendliest and funniest people I know. Today, He worked so hard performing three shows all day at the Hastings Comedy Festival 2023 making us all laugh uncontrollably. In the morning, he performed as part of Jeddybear & Gary’s Fiesta of Fun with Salisbury. I was invited on stage as a stooge where Jennison clowning around, dressed me a knight in tinfoil, which got a lot of laughs from the child-friendly audience. In the afternoon, he hosted the Newcomer of the Year show. I was very honoured to be a judge at the event (which was won by Ben Harding). His compering skills were fantastic and because of his dancing, I will never listen to AC / DC’s Thunderstruck in the same way again! In the evening, Jennison hosted the Late One at The Nest, effortlessly bantering with the audience, bringing them up on stage and asking them any funny questions he thought of.
In November 2023, I went to my first Hull Comedy Festival. Jennison introduced most of the acts that I watched over my five days, and very kindly appointed me to a judge (along with comedian Jack Gleadow and Hull 107FM Breakfast Show host Janine Gosling) for the What’s On Comedian of The Year Final on my last night. Jennison also hosted the Humber Comedy Festival at South Ferriby Village Hall. I had never been to Hull before, and it was so great to spend time in Jennison’s company. He was always looking for new routines to make an audience laugh and it was like having a bonus show. I had one of the best weeks of the comedy year and I plan to return in 2024.
Jeddy Bear & Gary’s Chemistry of Chaos was my first show at the Leicester Comedy Festival in February 2024. The double act of Salisbury and Jennison worked so well as they tried demonstrated hilarious science experiments resulting in pie throwing, audience interaction, attempted rocket launching, and the two comedy stars being the butt of the joke. Working so hard to entertain the audience, the families and especially the kids loved the show, and it was once again nominated for Best Kids Show at the Leicester Comedy Festival & UK Kids’ Comedy Festival in 2024.
Jennison again appeared in three shows for the Hastings Comedy Festival in June 2024. I watched the kids show, Chemistry of Chaos again. Then he hosted for the second year the Norm Award Newcomer of the Year show. Again, I was a judge and the unanimous vote between the three of us went to Lucas Jefcote won the award. The nominees were Dave Wilder, Stefania Licari, Ollie Fox, Daniel McKeon, Abi Cole, Madeline Bee, Travis Booth-Millard, and Josh Faulker. Jennison then hosted (and took over) The Late Show, demonstrating his amazing comic skills and timing, fearless with an audience and exceptionally funny.
He also made an excellent compere for the Big Night of Variety at the Hull Comedy Festival 2024, and together with Jed Salisbury, made a wonderful comedy compere double act for the Cottingham Comedy Club as part of the festival in November 2024.
The comedian made a very welcome return to Hastings Comedy Festival 2025, appearing in the children’s show, Jeddybear and Gary Save the World and then taking over the room in his own inimitable style, as host of The Late Show.
Jennison worked so hard to produce another amazing Hull Comedy Festival that I attended in November 2025. Appearing in three shows that I saw – Quiz Master for the RSPCA Charity Quiz: Cats vs Dogs where I ended up on stage belly dancing, appearing in Quip Spice Comedy including everything from stand-up to outright mayhem, and Kingswood Laughs – a monthly comedy night with Jennison brilliantly comparing. It is so much appreciated how much time and effort he puts into entertaining audiences every year and I am so grateful for all the laughter.
Jennison is a master comedian, one of the friendliest people I know, and he deserves so much success. He has made me laugh so much over the years, and it’s a pleasure to know him as a great comedian and a great friend.