Saturday September 21st
Comedy Club Night - 7.30 doors for 8pm start
Featuring: Sol Bernstein, Simon Bligh, Mark Simmons & Matthew Baylis with compere Spiky Mike.

Sol Bernstein

Sol Bernstein is the comic creation of Steve Jameson, himself a top comedy performer.

Sol Bernstein has performed 2 solo show's. "ALMOST ALIVE" at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2003 winning a "Spirit of the Fringe award", and "ALMOST ALIVE 11" in 2004

"One part Alf Garnett, two parts Mel Brooks, and three parts like nothing you've ever heard" The Guardian

"An instantly winning creation" Evening Standard

"No age barrier to comic genius" Edinburgh Evening News

"Bernstein's the real deal, you'd better believe it" The Scotsman

Yes it's true! After 25 years of semi retirement, playing nursing homes, Sol Bernstein is back where he belongs, in smokey nightclubs performing to drunks.

The legend that is Sol Bernstein escaped the Pogroms in Russia, the Nazis in Germany, and went on to become the World's 1st all-round entertainer. He's a song and dance man, a comedian, a magician, an actor, a Jazz musician (Sol was rated "BEST TRIANGLE" player in the USA in the 50's by performers like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington ). Also rated the best impersonator EVER !!

He's performed all over the world at venues including The London Palladium, New York's Carnegie Hall, The Paris Olympia, Caesars Palace Las Vegas, and Scunthorpe Baths, but it's at night clubs where Sol really comes to life. His charisma, his style, his catch phrase "why don't you put on a tie" his chutzpah, put it all together and you see the magic that is Sol Bernstein.

He's the man who helped the career's of Elvis Presley. Marcel Marceau (and never even got a "Thank you") and even the Beatles were influenced. He's worked with, and been friends with, some of the worlds GREATEST performers, Elvis, Judy Garland, The Rat Pack, Lenny Bruce, Jack Benny, George Burns, Milton Berle, Doris Day, Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe, Eddie Large

Most young performers will mention Sol B as a major influence. A major influence to do what, we aren't sure, but an influence never the less!

What performers have said about Sol:

"Sol broke all the barriers" Lenny Bruce

"He's the greatest" Frank Sinatra.

"The man is what SHOW-BIZ is all about" Sammy Davis Jr.

(Website: www.comedycv.co.uk)

Simon Bligh

Simon Bligh has been a Comedian for over twenty years. He is a Perrier Award Nominee and former Time Out Comedy Award Winner. Born in Liverpool Simon has lived and worked in Tacoma USA,Tokyo and London. He now lives in a small village in North Notts. Before working as a comic he had many jobs including being a teacher a ,Karate instructor, a security guard at the Colombian embassy and an actor.

He works all over the UK and indeed the world, including Australia, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Dubai, Chile, the Falkland Isles, The USA, Afghanistan, and all over Europe. He has even been on German and Dutch TV!

He is a regular on the stand up circuit in the UK. Recently he has been performing at the Comedy Store Mumbai.

"A man in touch with his inner youth outrageously talented" London Evening Standard

"Always funny" Time Out

"A reliable pleasure, delivering well-honed, flannel free gags with a distinctive hyperactive approach" The Guardian

"A very funny man" Alan Davis "Alan Davis Teenage Revolution" Channel 4 (Thank you Alan)

(Website: www.simonbligh.co.uk)

Mark Simmons

Delivering an inventive stream of one-liners, Mark Simmons is quickly establishing himself as a young comic to watch.

With a strong, material driven set laden with quirky quips and slow-burners, his understated style is intelligent and full of laugh out loud gags. He also comperes for the Lonestar comedy clubs across the Kent area, at Highlight clubs throughout the UK and hosts for Brighton's Red Brick Comedy Club and Comic Boom at the Brighton Komdia.

"fiendishly clever" Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke - Feb 2013

"Positive, warm hearted comedy firmly rooted in stand up and not whimsy." Julia Chamberlain - Highlight Comedy Clubs

"Simmons raised the bar with an extensive collection of oblique one-liners ... a hit rate better than most in his genre" Chortle (2012)

"You were fantastic" - Tim Vine

(Website: www.jossjones.wordpress.com/mark-simmons/)

Matthew Baylis

Matthew has travelled the globe with his own unique brand of unashamedly middle class comedy, sharing stories of growing up and getting old in the leafy suburbs of middle England.

With more than half a decade on the comedy circuit Matthew has gigged with the great and the good of UK comedy including Harry Hill, Milton Jones, Andy Parsons, Reginald D Hunter, Kevin Bridges and many others. He has also performed at comedy clubs and festivals across the land as well as in South Africa, New Zealand and Australia.

As a father of six he draws much of his humour from tales of parenthood which ring true with audiences of all ages.

Matthew works as support act, and headliner and is a highly experienced Compere/MC both in comedy clubs and for charity and corporate events. In addition he has recently completed a television pilot in which he is the host.

He also runs various professional comedy nights – mostly in the South of England.

(Website: www.comedycv.co.uk/matthewbaylis/)

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