GB Comedy Quiz: May’s prizes revealed

Think you know your comedy? Like pub quizzes? Then the inaugural Giggle Beats Comedy Quiz – Monday 6 May at The Hancock, Newcastle – is the perfect night for you.

Similar to a normal pub quiz night (except you don’t need to know what year James Joyce wrote The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man), there’ll be a general knowledge section, a music round (with a difference), an intriguing picture round, a caption competition and a few other bits and bobs. All good fun.

The quiz itself kicks off at 8pm, but we advise you arrive for 7.30pm; you get to listen to some banging tunes before the show and, since we only have a limited amount of space, you won’t be the person we have to turn away five minutes before the quiz starts.

And the prizes? Here’s a taste of what we’re giving away, courtesy of The Stand Comedy Club, comedy distributors Go Faster Stripe and the Comedy Advertising Network:

• Tickets for Reginald D Hunter’s new show at the Mill Volvo Tyne Theatre in June.
• Gary Delaney tour tickets for his performance at The Stand Comedy Club, Newcastle.
• £25 bar tab redeemable at The Hancock.
• The latest comedy releases from Go Faster Stripe, including Fist of Fun series two and Robin Ince: Happiness Through Science.
• Annual memberships for The Stand Comedy Club, Newcastle.
• Tickets for the next comedy quiz on 3 June.
• A ‘special’ wooden spoon prize (which is definitely crap…)
  

We also have a short stand-up section from So You Think You’re Funny runner-up Jonathan Pelham, who’ll be making your face ache (with laughter) while we count up the scores. In a review earlier this year, Giggle Beats described him as “an act to watch out for in the future.”

The review went on to say: “Darting between tales of tongue-tied adolescence and observational cracks about text speak, his jokes rarely fail to land, but it’s the material of a more delicate, potentially humiliating nature that marks Pelham out. Taking advantage of his amiable stage presence to lull the crowd into a false sense of security, Pelham closes his set with a chancy twist about a prom date – which pays off in spades.”

And now to the boring bits; entry is £2 (you really are getting all this for two quid), the maximum amount of people you can have in a team is six, and if you’re caught cheating we reserve the right to stick you in the corner and shoot peas at you.

Yup, think that’s everything.

The inaugural Giggle Beats Comedy Quiz takes place on Monday 6 May – at The Hancock in Newcastle. Click to book tickets. Otherwise, it’s £2 on the night.