Locally Grown Laughs Talent Night

Come along to a night of fresh, homegrown hilarity at our Locally Grown Laughs Talent Night a comedy showcase that proves the funniest stuff doesn't come from far away! 

From stand-up and sketch to poetic punchlines and musical mischief, this talent-packed night features the best local performers serving up laughter in all its forms. It’s unfiltered, unprocessed and 100% organically funny. 

Come for the comedy and stay for the unexpected!

Hosted by Victoria Hancock

Victoria Hancock also known as Jeu Jeu La Foille will be hosting the evening as well as performing sections of her show Testy Manifesto. Victoria Hancock is a poet, clown and semi-retired burlesque maverick, who trained in mime, acrobatics and Lecoq-based physical theatre at the London International School of Performing Arts and Arthaus Berlin, when she was already a bit too old to run away with the circus.

Line up

PG Trips - Infusion (excerpts)
PG Trips is one of Hampshire's most upstanding comedy poets and MCs, and one of life’s late starters.

Zach Brookes
Zack is an autistic comedian sharing unique stories and observations of personal experience of being on the autism spectrum.

Rob Stewart - Rob Stewart Gives You Rickets
Robert Stewart is a standup comic based in Hampshire. Rob's witty wordplay and unique world view will literally cause you to contract rickets.

Charly Armstrong
A work in progress piece of feminist stand up comedy, tackling issues which span generations of women and somehow still exist today.

Gary Paul Nicholson - Leonard Cohen's Advertising Jingles, And Other Songs and Stories
Gary Paul Nicholson brings you the previously unknown story of Leonard Cohen's early career as a writer of advertising jingles, interspersed with songs about ducks, socks, meerkats, trousers, wrongful canine arrest and giraffe-themed weddings.

Line up subject to change.