Over 18s only. Our monthly Comedy Club with three great comics performing in the theatre for a cabaret experience.

Tickets £12 in advance or £14 on the door. Doors from 7pm, Bar and set menu available on the night served between 7-8pm.

February Line-up:

Tom Allen
Nick Dixon
Simon Munnery

Tom Allen
In 2005 Tom Allen won the competition So You Think You’re Funny in Edinburgh and went on to win the BBC New Comedy Award later that same year.

Since then he has performed at Montreal’s Just For Laughs, on tour in the US with Eugene Mirman and Reggie Watts and in the last three years has made his debut at Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne Comedy Festivals. After a three-year hiatus he returns to Edinburgh this year with his 7th Fringe show.

He has just returned from supporting Sarah Millican on her UK tour.

In 2010 Attitude Magazine called him a gay role model.

His live chat show Tom Allen’s Society has seen him bring his own inimitable comedic stylings to spur whimsical conversation with such greats as Margaret Cho, Sarah Millican, Ed Byrne, Mark Gatiss, Jack Whitehall, Amy Lamé and Matt Smith.

Tom plays the protagonist Pip in the Sony Award winning Radio 4 series Bleak Expectations.

As a presenter, he covered the Edinburgh Festival for BBC2’s The Review Show. He has also hosted The World’s Greatest Bodyshockers on E4, reported on Big Brother’s Big Mouth and covered the British Fashion Awards for Net-A-Porter where he interviewed Christopher Kane, Olivia Palermo and Victoria Beckham.

He wrote and performed Dictionary Corner for Channel 4’s late night satirical TNT Show and has made his own documentary ‘Who Is Tom Allen?’ where he was regressed to his previous life (a secretary in 1970s California) and was featured in the BBC documentary about legendary stand up show, Late and Live.

As an actor he guest starred in the most recent series of Comedy Central’s Threesome and has also appeared in BBC’s Sensitive Skin and Fear of Fanny. Film includes Colour Me Kubrick with John Malkovich, Starter for Ten with James McEvoy and the Stephen Frears film, Tamara Drewe.

“One of the funniest acts on the circuit…he has continued to storm every gig he does” GQ Magazine

“Gives the tradition of camp comedy a firmly 21st century twist” The Guardian

Nick Dixon
Promising newcomer Nick Dixon is steadily rising on the UK circuit, and is held in high regard by his contemporaries and industry officials alike. He has recently recorded his first televised stand- up performance for the new series of The Comedy Store on Comedy Central.

Nick’s unique style combines acerbic wit and intelligent, edgy writing with vulnerability and self-deprecation to winning effect. A natural comedian, he reached the final of The Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year after performing stand-up for only three months.

Within a year, he was one of a select few (chosen from over 800 applicants) to perform in BBC Radio 2’s prized New Comedy Awards. In 2012, truly cementing his status as a dynamic newcomer, Nick reached the final of the prestigious So You Think You’re Funny? competition at the Edinburgh festival.

“Delightfully offbeat turn of phrase…elegantly constructed writing” Chortle

“Well worth looking out for” Jason Manford

Simon Munnery
Simon Munnery, also known by his stagenames of Alan Parker: Urban Warrior and The League Against Tedium, is an English comedy writer and experimental stand-up comedian. He performs mainly to an alternative audience but has pierced the mainstream both with his BBC Radio 1 show in 1997 and his BBC2 television series, Attention Scum! in 2001.

Munnery’s experimental style is reified through his sartorial appearance: his tragically unfashionable glasses, homemade clothes (or clothes apparently donated to him by comedian Jeff Green), makeshift props, and dramatic facial hair. As ‘The League’ he often dons a hat crafted from a kettle and one of his stand-up shows is performed entirely with a metal bucket over his head.

His stand-up is perhaps best described as often satirical, often political and almost always surreal. Munnery plays harmonica and his dialogue is full of quotable remarks, inviting comparison with Oscar Wilde, (“If you’ve only ever read one book in your life… I strongly recommend that you keep your mouth shut”).

“One of the most original and talented comics in the country” – The Observer

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Quay Arts works with Off The Kerb Productions to bring you the best in comedy and entertainment. In short Off The Kerb are serious about comedy. With over 30 years’ experience in the business and their internationally renowned artists have won numerous prestigious awards ranging from the British Comedy Award to the coveted if.comedy Award (previously the Perrier Award).

The monthly Comedy Club delivers three comics who will make you belly laugh at a price you can afford.

Performances contain adult themes and strong language.