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Welcome to the Laughout Loud Comedy Club....we have had one show to get the "club" off the ground and what a great show it was, see what you missed below......if you did come to the last one remember to book you ticket early and don't forget to use the FREE BEER VOUCHER when you come to the show - Our next COMEDY NIGHT is:
 Friday 11th June 2010, 7.45 for 8.15pm. All Tickets £10.00
THE LAUGHOUT LOUD Comedy Club present
Empire Comedy Night
Headliner: Eddy Brimson
Support: Andrew Watts and Jay Foreman
Compere: Jojo Sutherland
Eddy Brimson
Eddy Brimson is one of the UK circuits most in demand headline acts working regularly with all the leading promoters.
Eddy is equally in demand worldwide. He played the first ever Altitude Festival in the French Alps in 2008 and the Sydney Cracker Festival in Australia. Eddy has also taken his comedy to such far flung places as Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Bahrain.
He once even played a gig naked.
 Andrew Watts
Reading Comedy Festival New Act of the Year 2006
Finalist, So You Think You're Funny 2006
King Gong, the Comedy Store (London) November 2006
Laughing Horse New Act of the Year Finalist May 2007
Andrew Watts takes to the stage in a cheap suit and tie, looking every inch like a junior executive nervously about to present the annual accounts to he local Rotary Club, and he exploits the image of a socially stunted iddle-class professional meticulously, referencing Excel spreadsheets, emoaning the laddishness of stand-ups, complaining of his failures in ating and drawing heavily on a cricketing analogy when it comes to talking bout women's fashion. The staid, awkward image belies a touch of surprising ad taste and some subtle and inspired ideas, most notably in his xasperation with the etiquette of ending e-mails with kisses. So well is his constructed it can seamlessly soar into a rant invoking the rise of nazism, which seems entirely logical.
"Moments of observational genius" Three Weeks
"A nice, modest approach . his social awkwardness is what makes him funny" chortle.co.uk
"Pure genius, in both material and timing." Surrey Mirror
 Jay Foreman
Jay Foreman is a guitarist/comedian whose unique repetoire falls almost exactly halfway between live music and sit-down comedy. Flitting violently between subtle humour, catchy singalongs and mindless bad taste, Jay is drawing considerable attention even from people who aren't students anymore. Achievements include BBC New Talent Pick of the Fringe 2007 and Best Newcomer at the Tuborg Musical Comedy Awards 2009. One of his songs is covered and played regularly by musical comedy veterans Kit and the Widow. Jay can't decide whether he's happy about being known on youtube as the guy who wrote 'Moon Chavs'.
"Incredibly funny and a refreshing change" - Banks Basement
"Certainly one to watch." - The London Word
"Clever lyrics, good music and never ever dull.
This is a talented guy." - ThreeWeeks
Jojo Sutherland
Since bursting onto the scene in March 2002, Jojo Sutherland has climbed the comedy ladder at an alarming pace. She regularly plays at comedy clubs across the UK. As a regular at The Stand Comedy Club in Edinburgh and Glasgow, she alternates between her regular set and compering. Her "healthy neglect" approach to parenting forms the backbone to her material interspersed with everyday grievances and motherly advice.
This charismatic mother of four goes to great lengths to glean material, the most extreme example being her starring role in Channel 4's award winning series " Wife Swap" That experience not only features in her stand-up with hysterical results but has been made into a full length show called "Wife Idol - The Rivals" which she has written and performs with her own theatre company The OneHanded Women. Jojo was a finalist in the inaugural Funny Women Comedy Awards and was part of two world record breaking events - Stand Up 150 and One Big Laugh.
Jojo is a regular contributor for Radio Scotland's " Fred MacAulay Show"
" Proved once again that female comics don't take it lying down…. A genuinely great act" Edinburgh Evening News
" Plenty of attitude and a good ear for a punchline" Chortle
" All of her set delivered with an original storytelling slant" Manchester Online Previous show.... Friday 26th March 2010, 7.45 for 8.15pm, £10.00
Empire Comedy NightFREE WHISPERS WINE BAR DISCOUNT VOUCHER WITH YOUR TICKET Click Here for Details This is the first in a series of comedy shows being brought to Halstead Headliner: Nick Revell
Support Acts: Marc Lucero and Holly Walsh
Compere: Mike Manera
 Nick Revell
"A master craftsman back at work" (Time Out, 2003)
"Scalpel-sharp satirist" (London Evening Standard, 2002)
"Brilliantly funny" (Time Out, 1987)
"Satirically brilliant...travel miles see him" (Guardian, 1989)
"Easy delivery and a great stage presence" (The Times, 2003)
Nick Revell worked prominently on the comedy circuit from 1980-92, during which time he made numerous TV and Radio appearances in Britain, Canada and the United States, was a regular compere at the Comedy Store and was nominated for the "Perrier Award".
Nick says: "My reviews often seem to pick up favourably on the satirical element in my material. While I'm pleased they do, I wouldn't like people to think it's a one dimensional act. I've always liked to put in as many topical jokes as possible, but there's broader stuff, stories and surreal bits in there too. And I certainly don't come from a consistent political angle - I'm too cynical. After a ten year break, working as a comedy writer, I started doing stand-up again in the summer of 2002. I have no real idea why. I like to say it was so that I could bring down the Bush Administration. That's partly true, but I think it boils down to the fact that however rewarding it is making TV and radio programmes, there's nothing quite like a live gig. Hopefully that cuts both ways - for the audience as well as the performer."
TV and Radio:
Nick Revell's credits as writer and performer include six series of The Million Pound Radio Show (BBC R4), two series of The Nick Revell Show (BBC R4), four series of Drop the Dead Donkey (Channel 4), four series of Sunday Format (BBC R4), Nick Revell (BBC 1 TV), Friday Night Live, (Channel 4)
and two appearances at the Montreal Comedy Festival Just for Laughs. (Channel 4). He has written for many other comedians including Dave Allen, Rory Bremner, Jasper Carrot, Bob Monkhouse and Michael Moore.
AWARDS:
Awards for the TV and Radio shows include various British Comedy Awards,
Sony Awards, BAFTAs and an International Emmy.
Marc Lucero
Marc brings a different comic perspective to a stand-up landscape dominated by twenty and thirtysomethings. Lucero finds himself mellowed by fatherhood and late middle age, venturing tentatively into the unfamiliar and cosseted life of vegetarianism, house husbandry and touchy-feely support groups. His is a well-defined persona, fully rounded and convincing and it's perhaps only a lack of ambition or the demands of fatherhood that mean he's not a damn sight better known. Marc certainly has the comic instincts and high-quality material that would shame many a more
successful act.
Holly Walsh
Chortle Best Newcomer, 2008
Finalist, Hackney Empire New Act of the Year, 2007
Finalist, So You Think You're Funny 2006
Finalist, Amused Moose Competition 2006
Finalist, Funny Women, 2006
Holly has been performing stand-ip comedy full time since 2006, after being a finalist in several high profile comedy competitions, and in a relatively short time has already made the leap into television and radio, with a number of performing and writing credits. Holly appeared at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2007, 2008 and 2009 as part of several multi-act bills, including compering at the Pleasance, and alongside Channel 4's Jack Whitehall. Walsh has since written for several TV and radio shows, and has made several appearances on radio and television, including Edinburgh & Beyond on the Paramount Comedy Channel, The Late Edition on BBC Four and Out To Lunch on BBC Radio 2 in 2008. Into 2009 Walsh has written for and appeared on The Now Show on BBC Radio Four, appeared on Winging It on BBC Switch, and made videos for Current TV. Walsh is also an occasional contributor to comedy podcast Answer Me This!. In January 2009, Walsh created a comedy film night called 'Popcorn Comedy', and in the summer of 2009 Walsh has been a co-host and writer of Channel 4's TNT Show.
Since 2008 Holly has presented for CBBC on both the CBBC channel and BBC1, and has also appeared as guest panellist on 8 out of 10 cats, Never
Mind the uzzcocks, Mock The Week and You Have Been Watching.
"She's warm and has an appealing style to her that's quirkily offbeat rather than out-and-out loony She's got some good gags, too: puns that are in turns clever and silly,sometimes both at once" - Chortle 
Mike Manera
"At over six foot five, and dressed like a renaissance gangster, you can't rally miss him" (London Metro). Mike Manera has been performing comedy in firetraps full of Guardian readers since 2001, and in that time he progressed from running and compering his own successful chain of comedy clubs (Upstairs Comedy), to becoming a regular compere at some of the largest clubs in the country, including extensive work for Jongleurs, Big Night Out, Laughing Horse, Mirth Control and many other countries the length and breadth of Britain, including solo shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Brighton Comedy Festival, the Brighton Festival Fringe and the St. Albans "Laugh a Minute" festival - not to mention numerous universities, corporate functions and, strangely, jazz clubs
Always impeccably attired, punctual and funny he boasts a very full head of hair, his own teeth and his own material. He is very funny, and requently rebooked by clubs he has played.
The press have said of Mike...
"A comedy force" - Time Out
"If most comedians jokes were as funny as Manera's real stories, then
the world would be a better place" - Kate Copstick, The Scotsman.
"Amazing stage presence" - Chortle
"As funny as he is clever. And he is very clever" - The Guardian
"Don't expect the usual comedy gumpf... Funny, original and thought
provoking" Three Weeks Edinburgh
"You will still be talking about this guy weeks after seeing him" NME
You may have seen him on TV in...
"The Joan Rivers Position" (2005 series - CH5)
"Take The Mic" (ITV1)
"Funny People" (CH4)
Various TV ads including "Birdseye Fish-Fingers" and "Heinz Baked Beans"
The Stone Roses "Sally Cinnamon" video
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