A full house saw an evening of comedy showing the two extremes of the profession - an experienced professional and a new-bie.

Opening act was Christian Reilly. Formerly a member of Otis Lee Cranshaw's backing band - now going solo. This guy is going to go far

Newbie comedian, Katie Clark. She had very good stage presense ie no nerves, but we recommended to her afterwards to try to make the gags shorter and punchier. Every comedian has to start somewhere, and unfortunately its normally at gigs were the audience remains quiet. We urged Katie to keep at it, since she definately has talent. A few more gags and this time next year she could win the BBC New Comedy Awards

compere: Geoff Whiting

Professional comedian, Susan Murray, paid us a visit to test out new material

The pro - Colin Cole. Colin showed how it should be done. Short snappy clever gags. Even the most ardent heckler would be quitened by him