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The best in Stand up Comedy
1st Monday of the month
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Great acts, big laughs, good ales / wines & a bit of music
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Feb 1st: 1st BIRTHDAY Gig!!
Mick Sergeant. Take a roller-coaster of a ride through the troubled mind of a very British eccentric who is fast becoming a cult anti-hero on the UK Comedy Circuit.
Steve Shanyaski. A bucketload of charm and some surreal and silly material coupled with his brilliant comedy songs
Plus Sarah Millican & Max Dickins
 
Mar 1st:
Steve Harris is guaranteed to have you breathless with laughter, a master of the obvious and a Ninja of the not so obvious, you’ll be hit so hard by a punch line you won’t know where it’s come from.
Joe Lycett is a hugely talented up-and-coming comedian with an unaffected, relaxed and effortless stage presence.
Plus Gordon Smith
 
Apr 5th:
Martin Bigpig Mor is an entertainment juggernaught having worked all over the world. Supported Frankie Boyle on his 2008/9 UK Tour. "Explosive visual comedian who should carry a Government health warning." City Life.
Ben Davids has a barrage of non-stop gags and one-liners that range from the silly to the very silly indeed.
Plus Katie Mulgrew.
 
Apr 17 & 18th:
Zoe Lyons ‘Miss Machismo’ Tour As seen on "Mock The Week" (BBC 2), The Paul O’Grady Show (ITV) and at Latitude Festival, and heard on "Jo Caulfield Won’t Shut Up" (Radio 4), "Clive Anderson’s Chatroom" (Radio 2) and "4 Stands Up" (Radio 4).
"One of UK comedy’s fastest rising talents…Her force of personality is enough to overpower anyone in the audience still labouring under the delusion that women aren’t funny." The Guardian
£9/£7 (adv)
 
May 3rd:
Ian Cognito is a comedy circuit legend. 20 years in the business and still prodding and provoking the audience with topical and challenging and hilarious material. 'Blazing talent as a stand-up, you know he will never prostitute what he does just to play the game, he is a comedian through and through' Time Out.
Plus tbc’s
 
June 7th:
Anthony J Brown, like a dapper and dandy funeral director cuts a unique on-stage presence with humour blacker than a raven that has slammed it's claw in a coffin lid. 'A truly unique performer…superb' - Reece Shearsmith ('The League Of Gentlemen')
Jim Smallman's act touches on his odd life, his obsession for knowledge and his downright childish silliness.
 
July 5th:
The Boy With Tape On His Face. Shoes sing, empty dresses dance and electrical tape blossoms into roses. The Boy With Tape On his Face creates a world of possibilities where the only certainty is laughter. "charming, mischievous and engaging... an agreeable series of well-executed set pieces with a touch of vaudeville and a neat gimmick tying them together" Chortle
Plus tbc’s
 
Aug 2nd: Edinburgh Preview
Dave Longley
Markus Birdman
 
*Tickets £4.50 avdance / £5.50 Door unless otherwise stated (see tour shows).
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