In 2002, Fulton's show Angry Rant was brilliantly received. He returns with a new show full of satire and cynicism. A fantastic comedian at his peak. Starts 9.15pm. Tickets £12/£11. Call 01273 709709
Moran brings his distinctive worldweary brand of humour and trademark shaggy hair back to Brighton. But don't be fooled by this gentle Irishman's unkempt appearance, benign expression and softly spoken brogue. With incredible dexterity, Moran can traverse
What often may seem like an uninspiring topic is always brought brilliantly to life by this talented comic. Starts 7.30pm. Tickets £13 or £11, call 01273 709709.
The cheeky Irish chappie and Celebrity Love Island presenter is reknowned as one of Northern Ireland's most fearless voices in comedy. Starts 9.30pm. Tickets £13.50 or £11.50, call 01273 709709.
A very stylish comic offering a truly delightful set for those prepared to be bewitched by his charisma, charm, and warm-hearted humour. Starts 9.30pm. Tickets £13.50 or £11.50, call 01273 709709.
Bored of jokes about IKEA and ginger people? Genocide, suicide, cancer (and other words that make you wince) hits such ennuie firmly on the head. Starts 7.30pm. Tickets £12/£11 Call 01273 709709.
Like most comics the world over, Ross Noble went to Scotland this summer. But unlike the rest of them, he didn't go anywhere near Edinburgh. Instead he toured the Highlands with his new show Randomist, travelling as far afield as Oban, Skye and Orkney
It's a difficult trick to make stand-up look this easy but this comedian's array of deftly delivered smart observations make it all seem so effortless. Starts 7.30pm. Tickets £13.50 or £11.50, call 01273 709709
He might have done some dodgy work on the telly but Ed Byrne remains one of the strongest observational comics around. Starts 9.30pm. Tickets cost £13.50 or £11.50, call 01273 709709.
With as much explosive energy as a medium-sized thermo-nuclear device, Byrne unleashes a non-stop tirade of indignant fury that steamrollers his audience into joyful submission. He rages against everything, seamlessly incorporating off-the-cuff comments
The other half of Mel and Sue and Celebrity Big Brother Contestant, this is Ms Perkin's first ever one-woman show. Enjoy a tour round Britain's first online Romany community, see the prototype of the Pentagon's Gay Bomb and find out why wearing spectacles
Among other things, Nichol will be looking at gay spiders, turkey camps and Rohypnol. A twisted and hilarious rollercoaster of filthy ideas. Starts 7pm. Tickets £12/£11. Call 01273 709709.
It's hard to know where you are when Harry Hill has finished with you. His stage shows pick you up, spin you around and leave you in a confused heap, feeling very dizzy. Entering the stage to the beats of The Harrys - lookalike musicians wearing fake
Famously starting out as a psychiatric nurse, the daily parade of drug addicts, alcohol abuse and the clinically depressed gave Jo the sense of humour to deal with any comedy audience. A pioneer of the alternative comedy scene, she started performing
Comedy With Sad Bits cheerily inspects what is supposed to make us laugh or cry and what really does. A gentle but funny show. Starts 9.15pm. Tickets £12/£11. Call 01273 709709
Yet again, I see the phrase "award-winning library" in your pages. Surely you mean the building rather than the service it houses, because that resource is now in sensational disarray. It's online catalogue often states there are, say, 20 items of a particular
The star of Father Ted and My Hero, Ardal O'Hanlon returns to his stand-up roots for his fourth UK tour. Turning 40 this year, he laments his lost youth and searches for meaning in his life. With wide-eyed wonder, surreal flights of fancy and robust observations
Highly political and highly amusing, Newmans anticapitalist, anti-imperialist and anti-war brand of comedy is satirical and fiercely funny. Starts 7.30pm. Tickets cost £13.50 and £11.50, call 01273 709709.
I was driving westbound on the A259 at Roedean, approaching the first set of traffic lights by the Pitch and Putt, when my car windscreen was hit by a golf ball coming straight at me. Someone must have hit the ball with considerable force towards the
I am writing in reply to the letter from the lady in Woodingdean regarding the smashing up of the phone and bus shelters there. She asked if anyone had seen these people. Of course we've see them. There are gangs of girls and boys who walk along Warren
Hundreds of messages of support for The Argus campaign to secure justice for a Guantanamo detainee have been delivered to the Home Secretary. Reporter Miriam Wells travelled to Westminster to hand over more than 200 coupons and more than 150 emails backing
At last New Labour does something that makes me feel as though I can really take the party seriously again - banning junk food in schools. It's been a long time coming but thanks to a high-profile campaign by Jamie Oliver, the Government has realised
A parent campaigning for the reintroduction of hot school dinners in West Sussex has rubbished plans to deliver aeroplane-style meals to schools. Richard Symonds, from Ifield, Crawley, said West Sussex County Council's proposal to prepare hot meals in
Piers Gough's comments about the King Alfred development drawing millions of visitors to Hove may be true (The Argus, September 28). Sure! Who won't want to come and laugh themselves silly at the biggest architectural freak show on Earth? It'll be funnier
I would like to thank Mr L Hill for his letter (Letters, September 21) regarding my late husband Peter Drew-Bear's time as owner and manager of the Duke of York's cinema in Brighton. They were happy days for both of us and it gave us great satisfaction
There are lots of "oohs" and "aahs" about the "maternal instincts" of Jessie the cow, who successfully lactated to feed her adopted calf (The Argus, September 29). "The psychology must have kicked in," said the farm manager. I hope those who found this
Matt Jones insists his development plan for East Grinstead is bang on course. Grinstead followed their first win back in the top flight of English hockey with a disappointing 3-0 reverse at home to Canterbury on Sunday. The defeat - a second 3-0 loss
I am not a disabled driver but I abhor the misuse of disabled badges and I applaud Sylvia Merris-McDonald (The Argus, September 30). I am a resident of Windsor Street in cental Brighton. The street has double yellow lines down both sides but disabled
The young brigade have got Hove thinking of promotion after a great start to the season. But just don't start calling it The Tom and Adam Show. A squad featuring 12 products of their renowned youth set-up beat fellow pacesetters Old Elthamians 24-10 to
Sussex off-spinner Mark Davis is to retire from playing to concentrate on his new career as the county's second team coach. As expected Davis, who is 34 next Monday, landed the job ahead of three other candidates who included former Sussex batsman Tony
A marketing agency has been chosen to help promote tourism in Brighton and Hove. Designate Communications will work alongside the council's tourism body, VisitBrighton, on two internet campaigns to promote small hotels and winter breaks. The company,
British Airways' new chief executive Willie Walsh assumed sole charge of the flag carrier yesterday following the departure of his predecessor Sir Rod Eddington. The former Air Lingus boss, 43, faces a tough challenge as the company continues its battle
While greengrocers, butchers and bakers were once the main victims of supermarkets encroaching on to their patch, other small retailers are also feeling the pinch. Years ago, supermarkets stuck largely to food. Now they sell everything from microwave
A man accused of murder has denied he turned into a violent drunk after too much alcohol. Andrew Goss, 24, told a jury that alcohol made him relaxed and not aggressive. Goss, of Monarch Close, Crawley, and Aadeel Virani, 21, of Jewel Walk, Crawley, have
Disadvantaged neighbourhoods are to get £5.5 million to cut crime and antisocial behaviour. Brighton and Hove is to get £3.9 million of neighbourhood renewal funding between 2006 and 2008 and £1.6 million from the Government's Safer And Stronger Communities
Soccer hooligan John Mack faces jail after he was convicted for his part in a violent brawl between rival supporters. Former pub landlord Mack, 49, was among 15 people arrested after Brighton and Hove Albion fans attacked Leeds United supporters in Brighton
The family collect vintage slides from garage sales and turn the lives of strangers into a pop musical expose. Starts at 9.30pm. Tickets cost £12 or £10, call 01273 709709.
Smartypants and Perrier Award nominee Chris Addison presents, a trawl through the very fabric of the Universe with his latest show, Atomcity. Starts 7.30pm. Tickets £12/£11. Call 01273 709709
Grand Royal is an assured hour of straight, funny and ungimmicky stand-up, given by one of the art form's most instinctively skilled performers. Starts 9.15pm. Tickets £12/£11. Call 01273 709709.
A great topical comedy show that brings out the best of Zaltzman's towering intellect and Oliver's sneery cynicism. Starts 9.30pm. Tickets £12-£10. Call 01273 709709
The bitchy, overly made-up air hostess that's all lipstick and white gloves, who has an inflight menu so thick with innuendo you can spread it on toast. Starts at 7.30pm on the Friday and 9.30pm on the Saturday. Tickets cost £14.50 and £12.50, call 01273
Behind this amiably lacksadasical facade hides a brilliantly inventive comic mind that never rests on its laurels. Audiences can't help but warm to Graffoe's gloriously laid-back manner. But then, when suitably lulled, he'll whack them with a genuinely
Good-looking, chatty, relaxed, confident - yet unassuming enough to stay the right side of smarmy. Bhoy is an incredibly easy comedian to listen to. Starts 7.30pm. Tickets cost £13 and £11, call 01273 709709.
One of our best-loved performers, Growing Up Before Your Very Eyes proves just how magical Pattern's ability is to turn radiant imagination loose. Starts 7.30pm. Tickets £12/£11. Call 01273 709709
He's back! Landing in Brighton fresh from a sell-out run of the Odd Couple at Edinburgh, this is a brand new stand up show for Bill Bailey, who has been the fastest selling comedian at the Paramount Comedy Festival for the past two years. Contending that
Tony Haase, writer and comedian and now singer of popular dirges combines with multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer Andy Roberts for an evening of words and songs from their new comedy concept: This Is Tony Haase and Andy Roberts. Because that
Tim Vine returns with lots of new and very funny stupidity in his latest show, Current Puns. Starts at 9.30pm. Tickets cost £13.50 or £11.50, call 01273 709709.
Nominated for a Perrier at this year's Edinburgh Festival, Rhod Gilbert's 1984 is a simple collection of weird and wonderful stories from Gilbert's vivid and unconventional imagination. It's not so much stand-up comedy - although there are a few cursory
The Big Brother EForums host witters on about sex, death, and the manufacture of consent. Using elaborated personal anecdotes and a skilled use of language, he examines how sexual behaviour, both culturally and individually, is used to assuage our constant
For the latest of his inventive high-concept shows, Horne has decided he wants to help stem the decline in Latin use in Britain. Plenty of fun to be had. Starts 7.30pm. Tickets £12/£11. Call 01273 709709
Herring's new show Someone Likes Yoghurt sees him defend himself against the malicious yoghurt-based rumours that have been blighting his life. Starts 9.15pm. Tickets £12/£11. Call 01273 709709.
Find it too hard to make a decision which of those myriad of brilliant comedians to go and see over the festival? Chill out! Brighton's biggest comedy show Best Of The Fest does all the work for you. The perfect way to enjoy a host of comedy talent right
Lion takes you on a magical journey of learning in What's the Time Mr Lion! A talking cow! The Teddy Bears Picnic! Lager! The birds and bees! Starts 9.15pm. Tickets £12/£11. Call 01273 709709.
Brendon Burns remains an acquired taste but for the unacquainted, All My Love, All My Rage means there's never been a better time to catch him. Starts 9.30pm. Tickets £12/£11. Call 01273 709709
Long before he became famous as (by far) the funniest man on Have I Got News For You, Paul Merton was one of the founder members of Britain's top improvisation troupe, the Comedy Store Players, alongside a then unknown Canadian comic called Mike Myers
To mark the 20th anniversary of Marillion's rock masterpiece Misplaced Childhood, Smith examines how childhoods have changed since 1985. Starts 7.30pm. Tickets £12/£11. Call 01273 709709
As a member of various groups supporting disabled people, I deal with negative attitudes towards disabled people on an almost daily basis. However, the blatant discrimination shown towards Suchi Chatterjee when she requested help from the fire service
Following a two-year hiatus, Omid Djalili brings his latest show No Agenda to Brighton. The show marks something of a departure for this comic, for alongside the powerful showmanship, playing up the jolly ethnic minstrel, Djalili now talks more about
A brilliant stand-up, writer and actor, Dave Spikey is a double British comedy Award Winner and Bafta nominee. With a distinctive style and approach to comedy, he is adept at walking the tightrope between the comedy of the everyday and the surreal. These
A couple of years ago, I wished to purchase a raincoat in Brighton. I visited all the large stores in the "city" and several of the remaining men's outfittersm to be told it was the wrong time of year for the item or they were waiting for fresh stock
Watson anticipates decline and death's icy grip in 50 Years Before Death And The Awful Prospect of Eternity. Starts 7.30pm. Tickets £12/£11. Call 01273 709709
In response to Mr G Cosgrove (Letters, September 27) regarding Brighton, Hove and District trolleybuses, readers may like to know that the last day of Brighton Hove and District trolleybuses was March 24, 1959, and No 342 (CPM 53) was the last to run
Read returns with animated six-year-old comic Little Howard. Little Howard is seriously ill and if the show isn't funny, he will die. Help him! Starts 7.30pm. Tickets £12/£11. Call 01273 709709
A GP surgery has revamped its web site so patients can book an appointment online. Pound Hill Medical Group in Crawley is one of the first surgeries in the town to offer the service but others are expected to follow shortly. The e-appointments facility
Same-sex couples will soon be able to tie the knot when civil partnership ceremonies become legal. East Sussex County Council and West Sussex County Council's register offices yesterday announced plans to offer the service to gay and lesbian couples from
More than £34 million will be spent trying to solve East Sussex's chronic bed-blocking crisis. Care Services Minister Liam Byrne today announced a sum of £34.7 million to build four care centres for the elderly to stop frail patients taking up crucial
Refugees will be offered a personal buddy to teach them how to get a home and benefits. Brighton and Hove has been selected to join the £3.6m Time Together Project, which will pair successful asylum seekers with volunteers for five hours a month. The
The owner of one of the first Tex Mex restaurants in Britain has been killed in a plane crash, along with his girlfriend. Brighton restaurant and bar owner Tony Baker, 52, was flying to Devon from Shoreham Airport with his partner Elaine Parry when the
More than 100 pensioners have been left without hot water and heating for a week. Maisie Inkpin, 80, and her husband Alfred, 85, have been forced to wrap up in blankets to keep warm and boil a kettle when they want to have a bath or wash up. The couple
Of one thing we can be certain. The apologies and contrition from Blair, Straw and co have little to do with genuine feelings of regret at the appalling treatment Walter Wolfgang received. Their main concern, as always, is the effect of the bad publicity
World Cup football legends Diego Maradona and Ossie Ardiles could be coming to Brighton and Hove Albion. The wealthy Argentinian duo are interested in investing if the Seagulls get permission for a stadium at Falmer. Maradona and Ardiles are keen to be
Jon Cook conceded the best team won as his battling Eastbourne Eagles slipped to a 97-83 aggregate defeat at Belle Vue Aces in the second leg of the Knockout Cup final last night. Eagles took a slender twopoint lead to Vue after edging a 46-44 victory
I am of small stature and have had two major back operations, which have left me in constant pain but I still manage to live a full life and work full-time for Sussex Police. I work shifts and, like everyone else, find parking in my area very difficult
Sussex off-spinner Mark Davis is to retire from playing to concentrate on his new career as the county's second team coach. As expected Davis, who is 34 next Monday, landed the job ahead of three other candidates who included former Sussex batsman Tony
Retailers across Sussex have been urged to make better use of the internet after a key survey predicted sales would remain in the doldrums for the foreseeable future. Employers' body the CBI said sales in September fell at their fastest rate since its
An application to extend opening hours at a nightspot has been refused. Management at Waves, in George Street, Hastings, wanted permission to open until 5am at weekends. But Hastings Borough Council rejected the application after crime and disorder fears
A trust which helps community groups has grants on offer of up to £2,000 to small organisations in the Brighton and Hove area. The Scarman Trust Can Do fund is offering the grants to anyone who would like to help to set up a new group that benefits the
Unafraid of taking stand-up into seriously uncomfortable areas, Lee is one of the most fearless, audacious and challenging comedians working today. Starts at 9.30pm. Tickets cost £13.50 and £11.50, call 01273 709709.
Despite constantly being billed as comedy, this is not what former Royal Philharmonic cellist really Rebecca Carrington does. She is a mildly entertaining presence, sweetly introducing her pieces with elegance and erudition - that's a long way from rip-roaring
Jimmy Carr, urbane and caustic host of 8 Out Of 10 Cats, prince of the epigrammatic one-liner and architect of altogether new boundaries of questionable taste is back in town. Although Jimmy's profile is more as a television personality he started out
We're all familiar with urban legends. The scary ones, the silly ones, some we're sure are made up and others we're convinced happened to someone we know. Perrier nominee Jason Manford sets out to explore the myths and nonsense surrounding urban legends
Two shows for the bad boy of comedy - the first, a stand-up routine and the second, a magic show. Born in the States but brought up in Glasgow, Sadowitz has a well-deserved reputation of the bad boy of comedy. An aggressive stand-up and accomplished close-up
It doesn't take much to spot Carr's comic influences but then again, he hardly does much to hide them. He deals in that peculiarly British form of suburban camp pettiness; two parts Larry Grayson to one part Frankie Howerd. Conspiratorially, he gossips
Ideally there would be no need for a woman only show. The idea that comic talent is somehow linked to your genital set-up not so much outmoded as just plain wrong. Still, if the world was perfect there probably wouldn't be much need for comedy, either
Bespectacled, dog-loving, poetic type John Hegley is widely known as one of the country's most innovative comic artists. Expect entertaining verse delivered in his unmistakable rhythm, with the odd song thrown in. Starts at 6.30pm. Tickets cost £13.50
Lucy Porter has to be one of the loveliest acts on the circuit. It takes just a few seconds of her gossipy, effervescent charm before everyone wants to be her friend. But "lovely" only gets you so far in comedy. Thankfully, Porter has the substance to
Daniel Kitson won the Perrier Award in 2002 and has been living it down ever since. He professes to hate acclaim and is a man who longs to take headlong flight from success. Thank God, though, that he keeps coming back. As brilliant as ever in his latest
