Taunton Comedy Club – Pro Stand-up Comedy Night – Sat 1st Feb

Doors 7.00pm. Start 8.00pm.  Adv ticket £15 online. £19 OTD.

Brought to you by CICCIC and Genius Events (the people who bring you Stand Up for Cider) this bi-monthly comedy club will exercise your chuckle muscles and deliver a great night out at CICCIC’s amazing Memorial Hall.

You’ll get the chance to 4 professional comedians on the night along with some amazing talent from known comedians. It will be unadulterated, full of surprise and have you laughing all the way through the weekend.

So why not relax in comfort, enjoy a drink or three, while we take you on a few hours journey of forgetting your worries while you dose yourself in laughter. Tickets are limited and booking is advised.

YOUR COMEDY LINEUP

Headliner – Dan Antopolski

Dan Antopolski exploded onto the comedy scene in 1998, winning the BBC New Comedy Award and reaching the finals of the Daily Telegraph Open Mic Award and Channel 4’s So You Think You’re Funny. Over the next three years he was nominated for the Perrier Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Festival for his debut hour Second Coming and received Perrier Award Nominations for both his solo show Antopolski 2000 and for sketch show Lee Mack’s New Bits with Lee Mack and Catherine Tate.

Dan has performed extensively around the UK and Europe and at international festivals including Just For Laughs in Montreal and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. His sketch group Jigsaw were series regulars on Live at the Electric (BBC3) and made two series for Radio 4. Dan is known to younger viewers as the title character in The Dare Devil on CBBC and he played Jesus in blockbuster The Da Vinci Code. He recently appeared in Paddington 2 and Good Omens (BBC).

• “Master of the surreal and natural heir to Bill Bailey…The daftest, silliest and most uplifting show I’ve seen, a happy reminder of how the best comedy can leave you smiling for the rest of the evening.”
  The Observer
• “Intelligent, thoughtful standup…Hilarious, imaginative and wonderfully cheap.”
  The Independent
• “Mr Antopolski’s world-view is so uplifting, you’ll leave wishing you could stay in his head for your summer holidays.”
  The Times

Middle Act – Alexis Coward

Alexis’s comedy is based on her awkward stumbles through adult life. Alexis has performed across the UK, Australia and once in a pub in Canada. Alexis’s disarming story telling style is “adequate” according to her family. And “quite funny…not Gervais” man in a blue polo shirt, Reading UK.

• “Cowards ability to connect with such casual grace makes you feel like you know her. Punch lines: effortlessly funny.” – Hop Comedy
• “Alexis’ whimsical approach to the comedy in her life is both charming and hilarious. Always a pleasure to have her on the bill at Barking Toad Comedy.” – Barking Toad Comedy

Opening Act – Wayne Beese

Wayne Beese has quickly cemented a reputation as one of the most exciting up-and-coming comics in the Midlands. Born and bred in Dudley, he is demand both as an act, where he has performed at top comedy clubs such as the Glee in Birmingham and Manchester’s Frog and Bucket, and increasingly as a host and compere.

Renowned for his banter, quick wit and improvisational skills, Wayne is resident MC at the award-winning Fitz of Laughter Comedy Club in Stourbridge and Comedy At The Court House in Dudley. He is also host of Live At The Civic at Brierley Hill Civic Hall, where he has introduced the likes of Ross Noble, Joe Lycett, Joel Dommett, Mark Watson, Seann Walsh, Gary Delaney, Doc Brown and Tom Stade to near-1,000 crowds in the last two years.

• “One of the sharpest comperes I have ever had the pleasure of working with. Fantastic gags paired with split-second wit, an enviable combo” – Joe Lycett
• “One of the best MCs I’ve seen this year….audiences frickin’ love him” –Tom Stade

MC – Tom Rodgers

Tom is one of the country’s rising stars of the comedy circuit, having placed in the final of many prestigious competitions and gigged all over the country, he has asserted himself on the scene as a solid act anywhere on a line-up. Tom turned pro at the beginning of 2023 after just a few short years. He is high energy, with fresh observations and hilarious tales on Cornish life and living with ADHD. You have likely seen him as the resident MC on one of the many comedy nights and festivals across Cornwall and beyond.
He has featured in The Guardian, The West Briton and Cornwall Live.

Please note: Online tickets close 45 minutes before the event. On the door tickets may be available. Call 01823 337477.