EVENT CANCELLED – Taunton Comedy Club – Stand-up Comedy Night – Sat 8th Jun

It is with regret that this event has been cancelled. We apologise for the inconvenience.  

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 – Robin Grainger

As seen on The One Show (BBC One), BBC News, The Comedy Underground, The Nine, The Edit (BBC Scotland), and as heard on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio Scotland, Heart, Forth One Featured in The Telegraph, The Scotsman, Metro, British Comedy Guide, Chortle.

“It’s dope… it says a lot about what your future will be… as a comedian, you have no choice but to shine.” – Kevin Hart.

‘It was every good thing it should be’ (Kate Copstick, Scotsman).

Sell-out, Fringe 2022/23.
Recommended by Kevin Bridges and Iain Stirling.
Support for Kevin Bridges, Milton Jones, Larry Dean, Adam Rowe, Tom Stade, Carl Hutchinson, Paddy McDonnell, Gary Meikle.

“You can’t fake this level of likability. A magic hour of comedy.”
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (therealchrisparkle)

“This is an excellent way to spend an hour.”
⭐⭐⭐⭐️️️️.5 (One4Review)

“he’s a brilliant stand-up… Grainger’s is predominantly observational humour but what lifts it above is his glorious turn of phrase and larger than life visual adornments… he effortlessly blends poignancy in with the laughs”
⭐⭐⭐⭐️️️️(The List)

Middle Act – Rob Perry

Rob Perry aims to make even the most reasonable person enjoy a corporate training session. Armed with a flip chart and a sharply written routine, Rob has been delighting audiences with his unique brand of comedy in the format of training sessions.

Winner of Stand Up For Cider 2019 and has entertained audiences throughout the UK.

Opening Act – Joseph Emslie

Joseph Emslie is a comedian, writer and actor, hailing from Stratford-Upon-Avon, now residing in South West London.

Since starting gigging in 2016, Joseph has been the number one go to gluten free comic on the circuit. His easy conversational manner, anecdotal, and sometimes self-deprecating, style of comedy has helped him secure him some early critical acclaim by taking the runner up place in the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2021, twinning this with his other final successes he really is “definitely a name to keep tabs on.” (Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke) In Edinburgh 2019 Joseph took a work-in-progress show, ‘In Bread with Joseph Emslie’ to the Edinburgh Fringe. The sold-out show received extremely positive feedback and featured on the front page of The Scotsman.

“Definitely a name to keep tabs on.” Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke

“Radiating comic innocence and making great play on his schoolboy looks” Chortle

MC – Sandi Smith

Sandi is a firm favourite with audiences around the UK. She has an acerbic wit, yet manages to maintain a warm connection with her audience. She was a semifinalist for the Funny Women Awards and was shortlisted for the BBC New Comedy Awards.

Deceptively spacious, she must be seen to be appreciated.Sandi is a breath of fresh air to stand up comedy, she’s very very funny and see her now before you have to wait for returns to her future sell out shows!