Outside The Box Comedy Club
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Outside the Box is a comedy club
Comedy club
A comedy club is a venue, typically a nightclub, bar, or restaurant where people watch or listen to performances, including stand-up comedians, improvisational comedians, impersonators, magicians, ventriloquists and other comedy acts...
located in the backroom of The Fighting Cocks pub in Kingston-upon-Thames. It was opened in November 2006 by comedian Maff Brown
Maff Brown
Maff Brown is a British comedian and MC who is known for his mischievous style of joke-telling and is the founder of the award-winning Outside The Box Comedy Club.- Football :...
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Three months after attending a comedy course in the summer of 2006, Brown established the club in order to test his own material before it taking around the comedy circuit.
Over the years, the comedy club has extended to various locations in and around London, and there are now regular shows in Kingston-upon-Thames, Sevenoaks
Sevenoaks
Sevenoaks is a commuter town situated on the London fringe of west Kent, England, some 20 miles south-east of Charing Cross, on one of the principal commuter rail lines from the capital...
, Hampton
Hampton, London
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, Surbiton
Surbiton
Surbiton, a suburban area of London in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, is situated next to the River Thames, with a mixture of Art-Deco courts, more recent residential blocks and grand, spacious 19th century townhouses blending into a sea of semi-detached 20th century housing estates...
and Windsor
Windsor, Berkshire
Windsor is an affluent suburban town and unparished area in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire, England. It is widely known as the site of Windsor Castle, one of the official residences of the British Royal Family....
The club is currently used by celebrity comedians to road test newly written work. Notable comics who have performed include:
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The Kingston club holds 100 people and runs on a weekly basis. All other nights, such as the Sevenoaks club, hold 300-400 people but run monthly.
Awards
- Chortle AwardsChortle AwardsThe Chortle awards were set up in 2002 by the comedy website Chortle to honour the best of established stand-up comics currently working in the UK....
2005 Best London Venue (Small) - The GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
The 4th Best Comedy Club in the UK