April COMEDY NIGHT – Bank Holiday Weekend Special

Doors Open: 7.30pm

First Act On Stage: 8.00pm

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DALISO CHAPONDA”

Britain’s Got Talent Finalist – “A stand up comedian with raw Eddie Murphy confidence, cheek and super-polished style. – Nerve

TONY BURGESS

“Side-splitting stuff!” – Metro

TONY VINO

“Uplifting style, great delivery and consistently funny throughout” – BBC Manchester

For more details, check out the FULL LINE-UP BELOW!

TONY BURGESS

“Tony Burgess’s excellently written comedy is made up of one sharp line after the other.” – The Guardian

“Great, well crafted gags.” – The Times

“Wish he could have talked all night: side-splitting stuff!” – Metro

Tony was the winner of the prestigious City Life Comedian of the Year, came runner up in So You Think Your Funny and was nominated for best stand up and writer at the North West Comedy Awards.

He is also a founder member of the topical MEN at work team at the Comedy Store in Manchester, and has supported household names including Jenny Eclair and Johnny Vegas on national tours.

Tony is also a successful writer. He wrote on the first two series of cult BBC 3 sitcom Ideal, co-wrote a Radio 4 comedy, The Nightclass with Johnny Vegas “first rate acti…g…. great characterisation and clever wri…i”g….”, and penned his own seven part BBC sitcom The Visit, which played to much acclaim on both BBC3 and BBC1.

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DALISO CHAPONDA

2017 Britains Got Talent Finalist & Golden Buzzer winner, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqC4BpOREp4

Daliso Chaponda is a versatile writer and a comedian who regularly peforms across Africa and in the UK. He is a versatile comedian and in one week performed a set in Silhouettes Strip Club in Birmingham and then, two days later, did an all-ages one hour show about faith and family at the 2007 Greenbelt Christian Festival. ‘Everything is funny,’ he told a reporter from iafrica.com. ‘Why restrict yourself?’.

Daliso has also been known to jump on planes and tell jokes anywhere on the globe (even on the planes – whether the passenger next to him wants to listen or not). He has been part of the Melbourne, Montreal, Edinburgh and Cape Town Festivals.

In 2011 Daliso began a project called ‘Laughrica’, a one man show in Malawi and followed it up with appearances in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Nigeria. Daliso has also performed in countries as diverse as Singapore, Cambodia, Malaysia and Sri Lanka to Jordan, Australia, Belgium, Switzerland, Romania and the Czech Republic. Daliso also continues to dominate the African comedy scene. He recently performed in front of over two thousand people at the Stand-Up Africa concert in Johannesburg, South Africa as well as also recently performing at the sell-out Presidents Of Laughrica shows in Malawi.

It takes a special kind of act to work on both sides of the Atlantic (as well as across Africa), but it seems an easy transition as he compels the crowd with his socially insightful comedy. NEWS AND STAR, ENGLAND

One of the finest, funniest and most fair-minded comic commentators on race and post-colonial integration that I have seen. – THREE WEEKS, SCOTLAND

Full of extravagant gestures and impassioned speeches. He inspires whoops and cheers from his watchers. Highly recommended. – BBC TEES, ENGLAND

A stand up comedian with raw Eddie Murphy confidence, cheek and super-polished style. – NERVE, ENGLAND

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TONY VINO as MC

Preston’s very own funnyman. Tony Vino (**** The Scotsman) has been touring the comedy scene since early 2005. Well aware of social and political issues he mixes friendly well thought out observational humour with audience interaction and quick witted responses. A finalist in 2006 Funny Bones competition, Tony has enjoyed recognition as a comedian and comedy compere of renown. His life and interests are wide ranging and so is the subject matter he weaves together on stage.

“A Great Show the assured Tony Vino copes with a mixed audience really well” – Kate Copstic, The Scotsman

“Uplifting style, great delivery and consistently funny throughout” – BBC Manchester

“Tony is very funny, a class act and always comes up with the goods” – Darren Goddard, Greenbelt Festival Events

“Life Affirming Comedy” – BBC1 Heaven & Earth Show

“Such a class act” – Sorted Magazine

“Tony Vino makes me laugh on and off stage. He’s always funny and has some of the same letters as my name”. – Tim Vine

“Like my boots Tony knows how to give a joke welly!” – Jimmy Cricket

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