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The Comedy Rooms in Worthing celebrate second anniversary
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24/03/2025
The Comedy Rooms are celebrating their second birthday at their Worthing show on Friday, April 4.
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Good morning, my name is Phil Hewitt, Group Arts Editor at Sussex Newspapers. Lovely to
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speak to Adam Scott again. Now, you've achieved something in Worthing, haven't you? You are
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celebrating two years of the Comedy Rooms, and as we were saying, you started it at a
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difficult time, people are maybe going out less, there's not so much money around, yet
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you have survived and you are doing well, with regularly 130 people there, that's pretty
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good. How come you've done so well? We've just been quite consistent with the level
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of comedy that we like to put on. You know, we've got TV-credited acts every show, we're
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very thankful to our regulars, and we also try to keep the ticket prices, you know, affordable
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for everyone. How do you manage to do that? That can't be easy. Yeah, so we try and, we've
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got a group of four tickets, you know, so essentially then you're buying three tickets
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and get the fourth one free, but that fourth person means a lot to us, you know, we'd rather
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you come in a group than, you know, one or two of you, and naturally over time we've
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built up quite a good mailing list, so people get to know about what we've got coming up,
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and they do come back. And you've got your regulars, you were saying? Exactly, yes, I
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do like to really get involved with who I'm meeting, who's coming to the shows, and yeah,
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I like to get to know who's coming along. And the core of it is a monthly meeting, an
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MC, three comics. Exactly, yes, that. Yeah, we have, we go for very high quality MCs to
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really make the, you know, hold the show together. We have an opener who's always strong, middle
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act we try and get locally, so we'll try and, you know, find someone who's up and come in,
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someone from Brighton, someone from, you know, nearby who's doing very well on the circuit
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but maybe needs a bit of promotion. And it's a good way for audience members to find new
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acts as well.
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That sounds brilliant. And what about the type of comedy? Obviously, comedy encompasses
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so much, doesn't it? Did you go for the broad range? Are you the sort of family end? Is
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it a bit raunchy? What kind of comedy are we talking?
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We definitely get a mixture. I work very hard on making all the lineups very different.
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You won't get two one-liner comedians in the same show. We've had a few, you know, theatre
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style comedians, you know, very cabaret. We've had very straight edge. We've had a real mix
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of, you know, comedians. So there's a bit of a bit of something for everyone.
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And the more you do this, does it get easier to find the comedians?
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It does, yeah. We also, obviously, naturally, where we've been doing it for over two years
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as well. Certain, you know, different comedians will approach us, which is always nice. It's
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always a lot easier when they come to me. But yeah, we always work with a lot of top
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agents as well. So, you know, people like Laura Lex, we've come down from her work
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and progress show in April. You know, that's something that I've built that relationship
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with her agent over time. And they're like, yeah, we'll use your venue.
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Fantastic. Well, congratulations on surviving. Well, more than surviving, doing well for
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two years. That's a considerable achievement to speak to you, Adam, and best wishes for
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year three when that begins. Thank you. Thank you.
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