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Now in its fourth year, it is still drawing a line up that must be the envy of many of the more established comedy festivals.

Palladium’s Jimeoin and for younger comedy fans, Edinburgh Festival sensation The Amazing Bubbleman, CBBC’s Little Howard and a welcome return for Comedy Club 4 Kids.

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Overall we think people will be pleased with the festival again this time round”.

Mark says this is a deliberate ploy rather than any quirk of fate as the aim is for the festival to have as broad an appeal as it can. He told us “We’re deliberately a pretty broad church when it comes to comedy, so for us stand up sits happily alongside children’s shows, theatre, cinema, spoken word and, well, anything really - the only proviso we put on something going into the festival is that it’s good quality and most importantly, it’s good fun”.

We think they will too as the line up includes Radio 4 and TV favourite Mark Watson, alongside Live at the Apollo’s Katherine Ryan, a return for Radio 4’s German Comedy Ambassador Henning Wehn, Mock the Week regular Gary Delaney, Sunday Night at the

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