Comedy: Days Out From The Seaside

Just because we live right on the coast, don’t neglect taking days out to see great shows

The sun is shining, the smaller venues in town (and some of the bigger ones too) have shut up shop for the month to take their holidays and scout around for the next season’s highlights, but that’s no excuse for you not to see some of the best shows around. All you need is a train ticket and a sense of adventure.
This week you can hop over to Eastbourne and catch the Chatty Man himself, Alan Carr with his brand new show ‘Yap, Yap, Yap!’. The BAFTA and British Comedy Award winner is returning to his roots with a nationwide tour that will return to the South Coast with three dates at the Brighton Dome’s Concert Hall in November. Catch him early in the tour now and get the playful jester in full force with a spring in his step and material fresh to his heart.

If you’re after more vintage material Richard Herring is spending his first August away from the Edinburgh Fringe running through every show he’s ever played up there over at the Leicester Square Theatre. From his early ‘Christ On A Bike’ show, through to ‘Twelve Tasks Of Hercules Terrace’, and on through the attention-grabbing ‘Hitler Moustache’, right up to ‘What Is Love Anyway?’ and his most recent and current show ‘Happy Now?’, it’s the full back catalogue with each tour represented by a single performance. Plus the other refugees from the Northern festival, including one exchange this week from Scotland’s enfant terrible Limmy performing ‘Daft Wee Stories’ on Thursday night.

Take a look online for what might tickle your fancy further into the month too, there are some real gems. Bill Bailey has three nights running through a work in progress mid month, with tickets only priced at £15, up at the Leicester Square Theatre. Over in Eastbourne Joe Pasquale’s in town at the end of the month. In addition to this, if you fancy something really different make a note that the furry one of childhood years Basil Brush is popping up in Worthing on 21 August too.
There’s plenty to tempt you up to the station and not too far away. Why not take a mini summer holiday and get away from the sea?
Alan Carr – Yap, Yap, Yap!, Wednesday 5 August, 8pm, £32, Congress Theatre, Eastbourne, 01323 412000, www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk
www.leicestersquaretheatre.com