Clwb Comedy @ Clwb Y Bont - January

Clwb Comedy is taking on  a new format for 2023, bringing you two double headline shows in one night, one at Clwb Y Bont, Pontypridd and one at Yr Hen Lyfrgell, Porth.

Each show will feature two top comedy circuit headliners, one opening the show in Pontypridd, then closing the show in Porth with the other opening the show in Porth then heading off to close the show in Pontypridd!

Hosted by our regular hosts, Drew Taylor and Phil Cooper with a hand picked line up of up and coming Wales and South West based support acts, this is a local night out  of hilarious stand up comedy not to be missed!

Joining us in the headline spots this month are...

LOUISE LEIGH

Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year nominee (2022) Louise Leigh is living proof that a midlife crisis doesn’t have to involve a Harley Davidson and an underwear model (yet).

Since starting to do stand-up aged 43, she’s performed at The Savoy Theatre (Monmouth), the Palladium (Bideford) and the Bristol Hippodrome (actually a giant theatre so shut up!) as well as countless pubs, village halls and comedy clubs throughout the country.

Catch Louise’s show, “Louise Leigh Amused” at Edinburgh Fringe and in various forms of completeness on the way.

NICK PAGE

With some comics there’s a moment where you ask yourself ‘I wonder how much of this is true?’, with Nick Page you might hope it isn’t true, but somehow know that it is, mostly. His shows are full to bursting with stories from a life lived on the edge of (self inflicted) disaster.

In his shows there are no songs, props or padding, just stories packed with jokes from start to finish. The Guardian Newspaper described him as ‘ A bear like man with a host of barely believable stories about life, love and brushes with the law’.

In the last few years he has won the prestigious title ‘English Comedian of the Year’, performed at comedy festivals in 3 continents and been awarded the Operational Service Medal by the British army for numerous gigs in warzones, doing everything from shows in Camp Bastion and Kandahar for 5000 troops at a time, to being helicoptered to perform for 20 soldiers in a patrol base in the desert.

He’s reached the live finals of Britain’s Got Talent despite having never watched the show. A typical week in the UK might see performances in pubs and theatres before a weekend run at a comedy club. Between cruises and expat bookings he’s now performed in over half the world’s countries, and even kept busy during covid lockdown performing over 100 online gigs from a studio in his garage.

This show will be hosted by Philip Cooper

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