Comedy
Henry Paker: Pencil Case
Henry Paker combines razor-sharp stand-up with live illustration, drawing on a cartoonist's pencil case as he takes an inside look at his work. For fans of offbeat comedy and drawing.
Key information
- When
- Friday 5 February
- Where
- Exeter Northcott TheatreStocker Road, EX4 4QBMore at this venueMap
- Price
- £25.50
Performances
- 7:30pm

About this event
A new genre-defying show from Henry Paker, combining razor-sharp stand-up with live illustration.
You’ve looked behind a Wizard’s Curtain. You’ve visited a sausage factory. Do you dare to gaze inside a cartoonist’s pencil case?
Leave your preconceptions about comedy/illustration at the door and expect to find them in an absolute state on the way out.
Henry Paker is an award-winning comedian, writer, podcaster, illustrator and cartoonist whose work spans television, radio, books and animation.
As heard on Three Bean Salad podcast.
As seen on The Last Leg and Russell Howard’s Good News.
Writer for Would I Lie To You?, 8 Out Of 10 Cats, Mock The Week & many more!
Cartoons as seen in Joe Wilkinson: My Autobiography, Kay’s Anatomy, The Times, The Observer, The Spectator and Prospect.
Praise for Henry Paker:
“He pulls laughs out of the air like a magician pulls rabbits out of a hat” Evening Standard
“Wonderfully ingenious” The Times
“A natural born comedian” Michael McIntyre
“[He is] a genius… funny falls out of him” Romesh Ranganathan
“One of the best stand-up comedians I have ever seen” John Robins
“combines Daniel Kitson’s romanticised notion of introversion with Gary Larson’s comic-strip absurdity” Chortle
★★★★ The Guardian
★★★★ The Times
★★★★ Chortle
★★★★ The Skinny