THE Comedy Club takes place at the Villa Marina's Promenade Suite tonight (Thursday).
Doors open for the over 18s event at 7.30pm and tickets are £15 for non members and £12.50 for members. They are available by ringing 600555.
The MC for the event is Mike Milligan, a popular and well-known face on the UK national and international comedy circuit.
He is the resident host at Newcastle's famous Hyena Comedy Cafe.
A former teacher, Mike knows all about dealing with fractious audiences and keeping them amused, having honed his unique interactive skills in the classrooms of the north-east.
A man of many talents, he has written and performed for numerous television and radio shows including Spender, Byker Grove and several Catherine Cookson dramas.
The first act is Bryan Lacey who is described as having a relaxed and cheeky - yet charming - personality.
His material guides the audience into his somewhat strange existence and lets them see the world as he sees it and as it sees him.
Since starting on the circuit he has become a club favourite and he mixes some slick material with quick wit and improvisational skills.
Bryan has written for and appeared on BBC radio and is currently writing and acting in a pilot sketch show for MTV.
The headline act is Paul Pirie who has been described as a "a brilliant natural comedian" by the Edinburgh Evening News.
Born in Dundee, Paul made the switch from acting to comedy in April 2004 in a bid, so the story goes, to improve his housing prospects, having just found himself living with his Nan after losing his flat in a pub quiz.
He is described as "mixing intelligent insights and observation with quality performance comedy, clearly honed in his acting days, it is all delivered with an intensity and ferocity that sets the great comedian apart from the average".
Within months of taking the comedy plunge Paul was performing at the 2004 Glasgow Comedy Festival and in Edinburgh with a show called "Rehab's for Quitters" where he first teamed up with comedy partner Keir McAllister.
2006 was the year Paul's hard work received national recognition when he was named as runner-up in the Scottish Comedian of the Year awards.
