Calling all Brighton residents, there are some great shows coming to Komedia this month, so those looking for a guaranteed laugh should take heed.

First up – tonight at 8 o’clock, in fact – we have So You Think You’re Funny?, a highly prestigious stand-up comedy competition whose previous winners include Peter Kay, Dylan Moran and Lee Mack. Don’t be misled, though: the majority of participants are amateurs, trying to make their way up that slippery comedy ladder. This is a qualification stage, and the final will be held at the Edinburgh Festival in August. Tickets are available for £6 online.

Tomorrow, there will be a performance by the celebrated Bo Burnham, the 20 year-old American comedian who – after establishing himself as an internet meme and performing a phenomenal stint at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2010 – has become something of a cult hit. Producing gently satirical songs with a stream of intricate wordplay, Burnham has been hailed ‘the most exciting young comedian in the world’, and his appearance in Brighton is not to be missed. Tickets are available for £15 online.

Finally, we have Popcorn Comedy on 22nd June, which features a line-up of great comedy films from talented filmmakers around the country. The event will be dotted with live acts from local performer Nicholas Cooke – who got through to the finals of the Chortle Comedy Awards in 2011 – and sizable sketch group Broken Biscuits. Tickets are available for £7 on the door, or £5 in advance online.

Right now your probably going to think we are pretty smug here at TNC for we get to bring you not only news of one of Edinburgh Fringe’s best shows by a Guardian Weekend writer and comic who has gone down a storm but also news of us getting an interview with her. Shazia Mirza’s brings her show “Multiple Choice” to Brighton’s Komedia comedy club on the 10th March 2011 and is bound to sell out quick.

For tickets you can go direct to their website HERE. Our interview takes place in the 2ns March and will be live on 3rd March.

For comedy in London it does not get ANY better than Leach On Society Comedy Club. Already in a unique position in offering some of the hottest and newest acts on the scene the comedy club also boast some of the UK’s most popular, and attractive, stand up comics. Wednesday’s will never quite be the same again, and the 16th is a date to make free!

Followed is the traditional blurb that accompanies these things and as you can see the line up is out of this world. TNC Music Editor Mark Allen will be at this Wednesday show and will be bringing us all the fun, laughs, and jokes of the night.

LEACH ON SOCIETY COMEDY CLUB
AT PARADISE BY WAY OF KENSAL GREEN
19 KILBURN LANE, LONDON, W10 4AE

£5 CHEAP LIST entry for anyone who replies with FULL NAMES. Also for GROUP BOOKINGS, with every 5 people, 1 comes FREE!

SHOW STARTS 8:00PM

ALEX ZANE

Star of Rude Tube, MTV, Popworld, Xfm and numerous other fantastic on air offerings Alex Zane is smashing his way through the world of stand up once more with a sell out solo show in Edinburgh Festival 2010 and will be gracing us with his presence on wednesday!

HOT BREW

Hot Brew are Oona and Crispin Wheatflake; a folk duo who worship The Big White Radish. They have taken to the stage, after eight years absence, to bring their own blend of nonny song and New Age ‘wisdom’ to the people once more. Watch the short film, Roots (made by Jackal Films www.jackalfilms.co.uk) written by Antony Elvin and Alice Lowe, which introduces us to husband and wife, Oona and Crispin and, of course, the Big White Radish.

JEFF LEACH

Jeff Leach (star of Big Brother’s Big Mouth / BBC Switch / Virgin Media On Demand / Current TV) bares his soul and reveals all in this unrelenting and gratuitous insight into his sordid private life. Cultivating the habit of laughter, sharing stories of his heart break, drink and drug follies, piles, fear of female ejaculation and violent attacks! One of the most exciting new stand-up comedians on the circuit this show is not to be missed!

“comedic tour-de-force” ★★★★★ – Three Weeks
“Watch this Face!” – FRONT Magazine
“black-clad Svengali-like presence” Daily Mail, “last summer’s favourite festival stand-up” – Esquire

PAUL F TAYLOR

Paul F Taylor is a one of a kind comedian. An instantly watchable performer, whilst onstage he exhibits a lost playful vulnerability. This coupled with his hilarious and surreal observations never fails to leave audiences crying with laughter, gasping for air and wondering “What the F?… It’s Paul F. Taylor!”. Paul is a superb writer with a keen eye for the absurd in everyday life, he creates wickedly funny and astute observational comedy which is totally captivating and utterly hilarious. Certainly one for the future!

“Beautifully crafted one liners… astute observational comedy” Comedian of the week GQ Magazine
“nicely off-beat lines” Chortle
“Gleeful and insistent silliness” Three Weeks

with SPECIAL GUEST COMPERE…

TANIA EDWARDS

Latitude New Act of the Year Finalist 2009
Amused Moose Finalist 2008

One of the shows we really wanted to see at Ed Fringe was Simon Amstell’s Do Nothing but everytime we where told we could go the show clashed with another one we where reviewing.  In the press area, a private club type place inside Edinburgh Union, we rubbed shoulders with Simon but didn’t have the balls to go up to him and say hi.

So now is our chance to get to see the show that had everyone talking in Edinburgh.  Simon as you all know was on Popworld for a hundred years and was frankly the best thing about the show, when he left teh show died!  Then came his stint on Nevermind the Buzzcocks once again proving to be a class act and his stand up has been going from strength to strength

Brian Logan from The Guardian said:

“If I can be in a room with Keanu Reeves,” says Simon Amstell, “then nothing is real any more.” This new show from the ex-host of Never Mind the Buzzcocks keeps worried vigil at the border between fantasy and reality. It develops the theme of Amstell’s last show – the construction of the self – and adds what many have long craved in his standup: a little passion to supplement the thought. Erudition was already in the bag. But the greater Amstell’s emotional investment, the better he becomes…. ****Four Stars

Much of the the attention Amstell got up there is well deserved and it becomes apparent you see him walking about talking to people acting very unlike the TV comic type man he is.

Simon Amstell will be appearing at Brighton Dome Concert Hall

8pm Sunday 11th &  Monday 12 £20 (£18 Conc)