The Power of Comedy
Over the years I have been fortunate enough to have booked a lot of comedians to deliver stand up sets at awards dinners and conference dinners. However we also work with a number of speakers from the comedy world who deliver more motivational/business talks all around the power of comedy and what you can learn from comedy and use in the corporate world.
With the Edinburgh Festival coming soon, these a just a few of those speakers if you looking for something both entertaining and inspiring.
Neil Mullarkey is the co-founder of the world famous improvisation group The Comedy Store Players and is an engaging speaker on improving communication and building high-performance teams.
Neil is a talented and skilled orator and improviser, whose TV credits include Have I Got News For You, Whose Line Is It Anyway, Austin Powers (International Man of Mystery and Goldmember), I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, Lovejoy, Saturday Live, Carrott Confidential, Paul Merton The Series, Spiceworld The Movie and QI.
Using his ability to improvise, he has grown a reputation for using this unparalleled on-stage expertise to inspire people and businesses to embrace their creativity and enhance their communication skills. He has helped a string of prestigious corporate clients in developing innovation and agility in the workplace, including Barclays Capital, Google, Deloitte, GlaxoSmithKline, Microsoft, Vodafone, the NHS, Saatchi & Saatchi, and Deloitte.
Cally Beaton is a keynote speaker, awards host, comedian, business leader, podcaster, writer and entrepreneur. Well-known for being a natural storyteller, full of intelligent, distinctive and insightful material, Cally is one of the UK’s most sought-after names for corporate, broadcasting and live comedy work.
Cally Beaton has held senior management positions at some of the biggest media companies in the world. Early in her career she headed an independent television production company that was bought by ITV, and went on to find herself the youngest and only female member of the board. She left to set up an award-winning creative consultancy company, Road Trip Media, and went on to do a ten-year stint as Senior Vice President at the US studio giant ViacomCBS. There, Cally oversaw a multi-million dollar budget for brands including Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central and Paramount. If you want someone to blame for bringing South Park and SpongeBob SquarePants to the world, you need look no further.
In her talks, she looks at –
- How to engender change (both personal and organisational),
- How to Inspire teams and develop a positive, agile and inclusive environment.
- The Millennial Generation – what are the working priorities and expectations of the so-called millennial generation
- How to be creative whilst keeping an eye on the bottom line.
Em Stroud is the Comic Coach and is a keynote speaker on the Secret to Happier Teams and Building Teams that Actually enjoy working together. Em has spent 20 years in business and in comedy. She has worked with business leaders and their teams helping them create more impact in their businesses and life. Working with clients such as Bloomburg, Airbus and Barclays.
Em has performed theatre and comedy shows across the UK and her new one woman show “The Em Show Tales from a Little Laughing Lesbian” will be tour across the UK in 2025 and OZ in 2026.
A two time TEDx speaker (one as a banana!), Em’s first book: Lessons from A Clown is a number one best seller and her podcast The Comic Coach Podcast is streamed worldwide. Her second book Pizza Life will be out in 2026.
Tim Reid is a speaker on inspiring creativity and innovation and probably best known for co-creating and co-writing the BAFTA-winning BBC One sitcom, Car Share, and more recently Dave’s Meet The Richardsons.
When he is not writing comedy for TV he still preaches what he practices and delivers talks and trains teams across the world in how to up their creativity and land bigger, better ideas. Tim spent over 25 years working with some of the world’s most creative organisations, including ?What If!, McCann Erickson and the BBC, as an inventor, writer, planner, and leader.
Tim’s aim is to inspire teams to think differently, to be more audacious, more agile in their thinking, and he shares stories of where he has helped teams work together better to reinvent their businesses.
Tim talks on the importance of humour at work, what laughter does to our brains, and why we have our best ideas when we’re having fun.
Sam Carrington is a former sales controller at ITV turned professional comedian and communication coach.
He understands both sides of the fence — the commercial pressures, and the performance skills needed to cut through. Via is Smirk Experience Sam offers two types of talks –” Harnessing the power of Comedy to transform business communication” & “Helping Sales teams become unmissable in every conversation”
Through Smirk experience, Sam’s worked with leading financial and media firms — showing teams how to stand out in meetings, pitch with confidence, and make even complex products sound clear and engaging. His sessions blend the science of influence with the art of comedy — helping people sound like humans, not brochures.
We also work another comedian call Bennett Arron who shares his story on Identity Theft and what impact it had on him when his identity was stolen
Bennett Arron is an award winning writer, and stand up comedian and speaker on Identity Theft, Fraud and GDPR and Mental Health. Several years ago, Bennett was in serious debt. He owed thousands of pounds to phone companies, banks and department stores. Only it wasn’t him. Bennett was the first major victim of Identity Theft in the UK. The crime left him penniless and homeless.
Years later, Bennett wrote, directed and presented the Channel 4 Documentary How To Steal An Identity in which he stole the identity of the Home Secretary. The Documentary was described as ‘Fascinating and Disturbing’ and was ‘Pick of The Week’ in all the major press. Bennett was subsequently shortlisted for a BAFTA – and taken in for ‘questioning’ by Scotland Yard! As a result of the programme, the Driving Licence Application Form had to be changed.
Bennett now tours the world telling his disturbingly true yet funny account of what it’s like to have your identity stolen and revealing the devastating consequences of making a documentary ‘in the public interest’
For more information on any of these speakers please do call us on 020 8854 7274 or email enquiries@scampspeakers.co.uk