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Last year I pootled along to the Brighton Comedy Festival and saw a lovely Liverpudlian chap do his set in the Pavilion Theatre on New Road. That chap’s got rather more bums on seats this year. He’s playing the Brighton Centre. His name was John Bishop. Yup, that fella off of weekend telly.

Although this year’s Brighton Comedy Festival isn’t until October, now is definitely the time to start booking tickets. We’ve all heard of the Jimmy Carrs and the Frankie Boyles that fill out the Dome Concert Hall come the autumn, but there are cracking comics playing the smaller sites too. Kevin Bridges – of C4’s Stand Up For The Week and the BBC’s Michael McIntyre Roadshow – is playing the Corn Exchange on 12 October. Baggsy seeing that engagingly thoughtful, Glaswegian early-twenty-something!
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Local talent is one of the things Brighton is most proud of. Which means that every comedy club has to meet a certain standard. There are too many other quality nights around for a below average show to survive. The Prince Arthur Comedy Night, the third of our local new act picks this month, is certainly no flash in the pan. It’s run by Richard Sawyer and Aidan Goatley, who gives us the lowdown…

Why should we go to Prince Arthur Comedy?
Because it’s the loveliest venue and has a very laid back approach. Lots of new acts mixing with the not so new.
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In the second of our series on local new act oasis we have a chat with Jim Holland,who, with Kerry Herbert, runs the monthly local fundraiser Charity Chuckle. With a headliner accompanying booked new acts raising money for local charities, it’s an opportunity to catch hand-picked comics with promise brushing shoulders with a proven circuit regular. Jim has a word with us.

Why a charity night?
Nobody else was doing it! We wanted to give stage time to newer comics and at the same time help raise much-needed funds for local charities.
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This is the first in our August series looking at the buzzing local new act comedy clubs that have given our city such a good name in the comedy world. New act nights nurture homegrown talent and give you a chance to see the big acts on their way up – plus the gems that make you laugh loud but don’t always make it onto the larger comedy circuit. Jaq Bayles has been running the popular free comedy night Walks Into A Bar for two years. She’s compere and booker, and just the right person to set the tone for the first in this month’s series looking at some of the lovely new act nights in Brighton.

Why go to Walks Into A Bar?
It’s a friendly, relaxed, quite intimate gig in a newly refurbished Harveys pub. It’s all new acts so there’s the chance to see the next big thing before they even know they’re it!
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