"Sketch comedy at its finest" ****
Radio Forth, Edinburgh

"The audience love them."
Fringe Report
"one of the strongest and most innovative groups around...a terrific duo."
Time Out
The Sunday Defensive: Friend and Foe.

The bespectacled comedy double act made their long-awaited Edinburgh Fringe Festival debut in The Attic, Pleasance Courtyard
From the unbreakable bonds of brotherhood to the backstabbing of bitter adversaries, The Sunday Defensive escort you through an eclectic foray into the friendship and rivalry of a comedy partnership. ‘Friend and Foe’ is a hugely entertaining portrayal of the frailties of friendship and grievances of life as two halves of a working double act. Avoiding traditional sketch comedy, The Sunday Defensive have developed a careful knitting of audience interaction, character comedy and classic double act banter.

The Sunday Defensive are Jacob Edwards and Phil Gilbert, who met in a taxi on its way to A&E when they were lowly tea-making runners on Channel 4's Popworld – Phil had somehow managed to slip a disc within his first five minutes on the job. In 2006 they hit the London circuit, performing frequently at the comedy showcase ‘Sketchatron’ at the Pleasance, Islington, before hosting their own monthly residency, ‘The Sunday Defensive’s Monday Offensive’, at the legendary London comedy venue Lowdown at the Albany throughout 2008.

They’ve played to some fairly strange audiences in their time - from a group of pyjama clad students in Kingston, to an underground dungeon in Budapest, where confused Hungarians solely enjoyed their sausage-based material.

Did you know..? Jacob played the back end of a horse for Harry Hill, while the teacher character Mr Gilbert in the ‘The Inbetweeners’ is actually named after Phil? Probably not… As actors they’ve featured in Channel 4’s ‘Peep Show’ and ‘The IT Crowd’.