Laugh Yer Rocks Off!

Kemp Town's newest stand-up comedy event, live at the Rock Inn on the last Thursday of every month! Neil McFarlane is the MC for November's gig, with guest comedians Andy Fox and Charmian Hughes as headliner. Charmian Hughes had a fun start in Clowning under French Maestro Philippe Gauliere, which gave her the ridiculous stage presence she exudes today. Now a regular MC at Glastonbury Festival and with 10 Edinburgh fringes under her belt, she has travelled the world with her stand up, including multiple performances at New Zealand fringe festivals, the Melbourne Comedy Festival, Dublin Comedy Festival and Adelaide Festival. She was a comedy tutor at the legendary Jackson’s Lane Comedy Workshops, where she taught a young Micky Flanagan, as featured in his recent documentary Peeping Behind The Curtain. Andy Fox is Maidstone’s own Cheeky Chavvy. He speaks of life growing up on a council estate with a criminal-adjacent working class family, offering an exciting mix of clever punchlines and authentic charm. Using observation and quick wit to deliver a fast paced, gag heavy set, ‘he certainly deserves to be elevated into comedy big time, and soon’ (Chortle). Neil McFarlane is a comedian who’s been at it in every sense for a distressingly long time. From Glasgow but unfeasibly well spoken, he was a regional finalist in the BBC’s inaugural New Comedy Awards oooh way back when. He’s had all his jabs and he increasingly keeps his clothes on, at least in public life. Allow him to divert you from the horrific truth of your own existential plight, and occasionally to say the word “seepage”.