With exquisite command of the grotesque, Chris Lynam has been feverishly subverting stand-up comedy traditions for over thirty years. His reputation as an unpredictable comedian has taken him to the farthest corners of the world, leaving audiences everywhere both amazed and horrified by his outrageous stage antics and TV appearances.

Chris’s wild comic style was born over 45 years ago when he was a student in Zimbabwe, Africa. His first apprenticeship began at the age of fourteen, when he spent the summer working in a funfair to learn the basic skills of clowning. There, he teamed up with a group of RAF men on annual leave, who guided him through his early experiences performing in front of an audience. Then, at the age of twenty, he woke up one morning and said, “I want to be a clown!”—and from that moment on, he never looked back.

Since then, he has remained devoted to a life on stage. Chris Lynam’s clown style is far removed from traditional circus clowning and certainly stands out from the ever-growing crowd of conventional stand-up comedians who simply throw words at the audience. Chris throws much more: from chocolate and ice cubes to confetti—and sometimes even his entire body! His style draws from years of experience as a street performer, resulting in a general air of barely contained madness that defines all of his shows.

Jaime Pastor is a Spanish actor, musician, and theatre director.
He began his career at a young age working with Teatro Real de Madrid, and later received a scholarship to study theatre at The Second City in Chicago while completing his degree in Audiovisual Communication at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. He went on to earn a Master’s in Physical Theatre at the Nouveau Colombier.
Pastor has worked as a contributor and writer for El Hormiguero, Comedy Central, and as a street performer at the Edinburgh FRINGE. He is the creator of the mime theatre shows Tentenelaire, Frido, and Tuca-Tuca. He currently lives in Paris, after graduating from the prestigious École Philippe Gaulier. He collaborates with Le Moulin Jaune—artistic laboratory of Slava Polunin—as well as with Patch Adams on humanitarian projects, and with the Compagnie Mangano-Massip.

Nomads and Fools is a performance blending clowning, physical theatre, contemporary circus, live music, comedy, and deep audience interaction.
With a surreal and ragged quality that elevates its humor, and a hypnotic physical narrative, the two characters roam—like nomads—through physical and creative landscapes, embracing the ever-changing nature of their craft: clowning.