SATIRISTS have shown their support for their fallen colleagues across The Channel and say they won’t be cowed by recent events in Paris.

Writers and performers with the much-loved Treason Show took time out of an extraordinary writers’ meeting ahead of their latest performance to show solidarity with their slain comrades in pens at French magazine Charlie Hebdo.

The long-running comedy show will be appearing at its new home at the Rialto Theatre, Dyke Road, Brighton, on Thursday from 8pm.

Founder Mark Brailsford said his team were keen to show that it was “business as usual” and that they refused to self-censor in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.

He said: “The current anguish over what is free speech and the right to offend has always been a movable feast for satirists but this, to me, equates to the squeamish aftermath of the death of Princess Diana and the September 11th attacks of 2001.

“But out of this, the tragedy transmutes into somehow finding a catharsis for the difficulty in comprehending such events.

“Laughter is the best medicine and the best way of defending our cherished enlightenment values, comedy can assuage the discomfort and laughter is what makes us human.

“So if ever there was a time for satire to make itself relevant, it is now.”

For more details on the show visit www.rialtotheatre.co.uk