Comedy Grove presents Brixham Comedy Grove

In partnership with Comedy Grove, who successfully promote Comedy Clubs across the West Country, Brixham Theatre stages another night of quick fire wit and humour, directed by resident compere, Cerys Nelmes.

With her first comedy gig being at the Leicester Comedy Festival, Cerys soared to the semi-finals of So You Think You're Funny 2011. She is fast becoming one of the best female MCs in the country. 

On the UK comedy circuit since 2010, the virtually unknown comic Tom Glover has avoided the bright lights of TV panel shows in favour of the best and worst (in fact, any) clubs, tents, pubs, theatres and fields that Britain has to offer.

Growing in the dark depths of the South West,Tom has developed a knack of winning over any crowd with his tales of life on the outside and wickedly funny, beautifully timed observations on the minutiae of the everyday. 

“going to be a comedy monster”(Matt Price, Comic) “deserves to go a long way”(Steve Hall, We Are Klang) 

Matt Price is officially the UK's first ‘New Deal’ comedian, having received help from the Government’s ‘New Deal’ scheme to launch his stand-up career.

He’s worked in a fish factory, he’s trained as a boxer and been a ghost writer for some of Britain’s most notorious gangsters. Among his fellow comics Matt Price is known for having some of the most extraordinary and outrageous stories drawn from the wilder side of life. 

Yet this self effacing comic brings real warmth and heart to his tales - as well as finding some audacious laughs in the most unexpected places. 

Headliner, Dave Johns is an English stand-up comedian, writer and actor. He has appeared on Never Mind the Buzzcocks (four times), 8 Out of 10 Cats, Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive, 28 Acts in 28 Minutes and as God on Harry Hill. In 2009, he and Owen O'Neill dramatised Stephen King's Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption for the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin

In 1989, when alternative comedy was still a novelty, he started a comedy club in the Tyne Theatre bistro on Westgate Road. Dave certainly needed his sense of humour when Cheeky Chappie’s Comedy Cafe opened for the first time. To get around the licensing laws, anyone buying a ticket also got soup and a bun.

Having got the place up and running, Dave was thrown into the deep end as compère, introducing in those early days some up-and-coming comedians like Jo Brand, Jack Dee and Bill Bailey, then performing in a duo called the Rubber Bishops.

Then in 1991 Dave bit the bullet and went on stage as a stand-up himself, taking the name Ben Cauthen after a jockey who, he suggests, is now probably “a big fat bloke”.

Bill Bailey and Sean Lock have put their admiration on record, the former calling him “one of the most naturally talented stand-up comics you’re ever likely to see”.

One comedian who used Dave’s comedy club as a springboard was Ross Noble who, as a 15-year-old, did an open mic slot. But there are lots of new young comics on the circuit now.

Dave works abroad a lot, appearing last year at the Comedy Store in Mumbai. “Indian audiences absolutely love comedy,” he says. “After every punch line you get a round of applause. You feel like staying on forever.”

Brixham audiences will be as welcoming.