Eastbourne’s longest running alternative comedy night returns this autumn with a stunning line up including Robin Ince, Seymour Mace and Phil Kay. Kicking off for September, it’s a brilliant stand up show fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe, ’THEOLOGIST’ - Oli Riordan (pictured)

Raised Catholic and at one time considering priesthood, Oli Riordan has studied Catholic theology for a decade for the same reason every other bisexual atheist studies Catholic theology. You have to know your enemy.

Join Oli (Dublin's Next Top Comic Runner Up 2019, Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian of the Year Semi Finalist 2025) for his debut hour as he delves into the world of Catholicism and the Bible as only he can, pausing only to point out the silly, interesting and thoroughly relatable aspects of the world's best-selling, but least read, book.

Plus Dyball & Kerr ,Eastbourne’s favourite sketch and character comedy duo, Jo Neary and possibly a very special guest TBC….

Booking essential, this is Eastbourne’s best comedy night (Est 2009) and has brought such stellar acts as Joe Lycett, Zoe Lyons, Bridget Christie, Josie Long, Isy Suttie, Angela Barnes, Jim Bob, Bella Hull and more to a small room above Eastbourne’s best loved and oldest pub, and still, tickets remain from around a tenner…

Line ups are always subject to change due to circumstances beyond our control but we’ve only had two changes in line ups in the last few years, one because an act put the date in their diary using another countries time zone...