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Sunday 2nd November

Ian Smith

with Eli Hart and Jason Patterson

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Bar opens 6pm, starts 7pm.
Age advisory: 14 plus
Tickets: £12 or £10 for Friends

We are excited to bring you a monthly comedy club featuring the best of established and up and coming stand up talent in partnership with Off the Kerb comedy agency. 

Held on the first Sunday of each month the club will provide an intimate setting where you will be able to see rising stars along with some big names trying out new material. At only £12 a ticket (£10 for Horsebridge friends) this promises to be a great local addition to the comedy scene.

Sunday 2nd November at 7pm: Ian Smith

With Eli Hart and Jason Patterson

Ian Smith is an award-winning comedian, actor and writer.

As seen on Live at the Apollo, Have I Got News For You and The Stand Up Sketch Show – and heard on BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz, The Now Show, The Unbelievable Truth, Just A Minute and his own stand-up series Ian Smith is Stressed.

He is the co-host of the Northern News podcast, alongside Amy Gledhill – featured in The Guardian’s “best podcasts of 2023 so far” and nominated for Best Podcast at the 2024 Chortle Awards.

Ian’s 2023 Edinburgh Fringe show Crushing was nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award, shortlisted for the (ISH) Edinburgh Comedy Award, nominated for a Chortle Award for Best Show and runner-up in Next Up’s “Biggest Award in Comedy”. His sold out run transferred to Soho Theatre, where its run was extended and followed by a UK tour and run at New Zealand Comedy Festival.

His previous Fringe shows have received critical acclaim, an Amused Moose Comedy Award, ThreeWeeks Editors’ Award and seen him invited to perform as part of Best of the Edinburgh Fest at Adelaide and Melbourne Comedy Festivals. In 2015 he was also part of the hugely successful, multi-award winning Fringe show, Richard Gadd – Waiting for Gaddot.

Ian is also a talented actor – starting off as a lead in BBC2 sitcom Popatron and award-winning short film, Bonsai. He has gone on to star alongside Katherine Parkinson in Sky comedy, Officially Special, and have a leading role in major BBC1 drama, The Ark, starring David Threlfall – as well as a number of supporting roles including Siblings, Pls Like and BBC drama The Syndicate.

“An effortlessly brilliant stand-up show” ★★★★ Scotsman

“One of the best you will see” ★★★★★ The Mirror

“There are few fringe shows as purely funny as this” ★★★★ Guardian

“An outstanding and stressed-out hour of stand-up” ★★★★ Fest

Book Now

Book now

Bar opens 6pm
Age advisory: 14 plus
Tickets: £12 or £10 for Friends

Eli Hart

Hailing from the West Midlands, Eli Hart is a regular on pro line-ups around the UK, and was a finalist in 2024’s Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year and Komedia New Comedy Award 2025

“A remarkable astuteness about the minutiae of mundane existence” - Chortle

“An eye for a funny image and and ear for a funny phrase” - Beyond the Joke

“Imagine a Brummie, even gloomier young Jack Dee” - beyond the joke

“Eli Hart wears glum disappointment with pride, with a downbeat deadpan that suits his West Midlands accent so well.” - Chortle

Jason Patterson

Winner of the Laftas Rising Star Award, Jason Patterson is a versatile and engaging comedian. His material covers a range of topics, from celebrities and relationships to gang culture and his parents’ Saint Vincent heritage.

An audience favourite, Jason has performed at comedy clubs across the UK and his strong performances have seen him booked on the International circuit performing across North America, Europe and the Middle East. He’s also had appearances on BBC3 and MTV.

“Brilliant stage presence backed by a perfectly measured delivery” – Chortle

Next on: Sunday 7th December at 7pm

 

 

About Off the Kerb

Representing Comedy's Finest

Off The Kerb has established itself as one of the leading comedy agencies in the UK, discovering and managing some of the biggest and best names in comedyand entertainment since 1982. Throughout the past thirty-six years our globally renowned artists have won numerous awards ranging from BAFTAs, Royal Television Society Awards, National Television Awards, Sony Awards for Radio and Edinburgh Fringe Festival Comedy Awards.

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