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 he took out regional honours in a 1984 Michael Bolton look-alike competition, this fanciful funny man does boast a do to rival Bolton's former foolish thatch strand for strand. But all comparisons end beyond the barber's chair. Bill Bailey is droll, pleasantly irregular and a little bit bookish. Bolton is, well, Bolton.

Bailey's become something of a household name in recent years, thanks to his portrayal of man-child Manny in Black Books and his regular role as a team captain on TV music quiz show Never Mind The Buzzcocks.

Stand up, though, is where Bailey started out, first making a splash with his live show Bill Bailey's Cosmic Jam, a mix of surreal stand-up and musical comedy pieces, which won him the Edinburgh Festival Critics' Award in 1995.

He was winner of the Best Live Stand Up in 1999 and 2001 at the British Comedy Awards.

Still perfectly balancing male pattern baldness with long locks, which he habitually flicks to make a point, our favourite English eccentric continues to be in a perpetual state of bewilderment and excitement.

Most comfortable in the permanently baffled on-stage persona that, you suspect, is not that far removed from his own, he is, apparently, unfocused at times. Don't be fooled, though.

He's an erudite talker who flatters his audience with scholarly flotsam, delivering a show which is cleverer than it might at first appear.

Coming across as oddly innocent you can't help but be moved to tears of laughter once he gets going and wraps you in infectious weirdness.

Starts at 8pm. Tickets cost £20 or £18. Call 01273 709709.