You Should've Been Here Last Week

Sometimes a promoter will tell a comedian that their booking depends on them not doing other performances within a certain area or at other nearby promoters gigs - it's called a Barring Clause! Steve Gribbin and Paul Ricketts discuss the variations and the validity of this sometimes contentious practice.

Guy Thomas runs successful comedy nights for over the last decade in North West England. He talks to Steve Gribbin and Paul Ricketts on what he thinks is crucial in putting a great comedy show.

To paraphrase Rihanna sometimes comedians have to '"find laughter in a hopeless place". Comedians Steve Gribbin and Paul Ricketts list their 5 favourite and 5 most hated venue spaces to perform comedy. From theatres, hotels, night clubs, pubs, hairdressers or the top deck of bus.

Multi-award winning comedian and UK TV fixture, Ria Lina, is not only very funny, but also extremely media savvy. Here she talks to Steve Gribbin and Paul Ricketts about how to tour a show around UK theatre venues. Something which comics, even without her TV credits are now doing in greater numbers.

Adam Bloom is one of the UK's most respected comedians. You might've seen him perform on stage, screen and radio, or heard other famous comics use material he's written over the last 30 years. No better person to produce the ultimate guide to the art of stand up and talk to Steve and Paul on how to find you comic genius.

Andrew O'Neill, vegan, transvestite, nonbinary, occultist, guitar welding, award winning comedian... and promotor of fellow weirdo performers on nights in London and Oxford. Andrew, Steve and Paul talk about acts who are strangely entertaining - from the past, present and future.

''Ring out the old and ring in the new' with the annual experience of New Year's Eve comedy gigs. You get paid more and suffer more too! Steve Gribbin and Paul Ricketts raise a glass to old acquaintances and countdowns to 'Big Ben's bongs'.

Steve Gribbin and Paul Ricketts send reports from the Christmas comedy gigs front line. Interviews with UK comedy favourites Tom Wrigglesworth (BBC R4), Alan Francis (BBC R4), Cerys Nelmes (BBC), Abigoliah Schamaun (Comedy Central), Steve N. Allen (BBC 1), Neil McFarlane (Channel 4), Mat Reed (BBC) and Chris Kearns.