Hello All You Comedy People
We have got a lot to talk about this week, what with a load of free tickets to give away, some tour dates on and some pretty special announcements including our new club and Rich Hall doing Setlist with us. We have been given a pair of tickets for Jerry Seinfeld in Birmingham to give away, Russell Kane in Nottingham and we thought we'd give away a few Glenn Wool tickets for this Thursday as well. Competitions below... but first...
WE'VE GOT A NEW COMEDY CLUB IN LEICESTER
 Woo Hoo! for the Leicester based and surrounding area type people of the Midlands. We are expanding to Leicester. We are taking over the former 'highlights' venue above Walkabout. It is all ready to go, all we have to do is get the advertising out, get the acts and get the people in. If you live in and around Leicester please help us get the word out. Forward this, or email me and let me know how you could help. It is going to be brilliant. We promise reasonably priced drinks and tickets! Launches early March.
IT'S GOOD FOR NOTTINGHAM AND LEICESTER
 We can now offer comedians 2 gigs a night. So, we have Milton Jones in March at both venues, Sean Hughes and Tom Stade at both venues. We will be having a few other things like that. So, it's good news all round. Brilliant. Leicester launches 1st weekend in March CLICK HERE for what we have confirmed so far. Just the Tonic is getting better and better!
NOTTINGHAM THIS WEEK
Tuesday 17th January
Josie Long - The Future is Another Place
IF you are into comedy then you owe it to yourself to see this tour show. This is waht some press said about the show in Edinburgh: 'strikes and adroit balance between fun, moral outrage and indignant mockery of our hideous powers-that-be' The Guardian. "It's honest, intelligent, funny, and it's exactly what Britain needs right now... Josie Long is poised to become the most important voice in British comedy" THE SKINNY
I really can't recommend Josie enough. Just brilliant
Click here for info and tickets
Thursday 19th January
 Glenn Wool - No Land's Man
Glenn is one of the finest comics working o nthe circuit. A true legend. Take a punt and come and see him. He's working all over the world at the moment, so it's a rare chance to see him. To have a chance to see him for free, enter the competition at the end. There wil lbe 2 pairs of tickets at half price as runners up prizes. Read on...
THIS WEEKEND... 2 NIGHTS OF MONSTROUS FUN!
Friday 20th Jan and Saturday 21st Jan we have gone totally overboard on the booking and got 3 very strong headline to fill the bill. Thankfully leaving little work for the compere
 Mick Ferry - Northern bloke that's done loads of TV. (admittedly this is a crap picture)
Proper jokes,proper comedian. A total stormer whenever he is here.
Piff The Magic Dragon - as seen on Pennand Teller last year.
Where he stole the show. Did a Sunday night for us in October that sold out. Come and see him do a short set. Bloody marvellous
 Nige - Scouse dole merchant, druggie and all round bad sort brings his charm and songs to Nottingham. We love him here at Just the Tonic and have been looking forward to his return for ages.
Tickets for Friday here
Tickets for Saturday here
RICH HALL IN SETLIST COMING TO NOTTINGHAM
 We have managed to bag the cult hit show from last years Edinburgh Festival. it's called SETLIST and is with us on 1st February. It was at our venue in Edinburgh and had people like Frank Skinner, Dave Gorman, Jimmy Carr, Phil Jupitus lining up to do it. Here's the official blurb:
A Whose Line Is It Anyway?-style challenge for stand-up comedy! Comedy pros are handed an original, never-before-seen set list of topics, partially written by the audience. From this they create spontaneous, original stand-up on the spot. Each new set list is projected onscreen, so the audience follows along and gets inside the minds of comedians to see how each crafts their own particular style of comedy right in the moment of creation. A playground for the comedy brain! Performers include Rich Hall with more added over the coming days. Read all about it
Tickets for this are only £12 at the moment, but will go up a bit when we confirm any massive names, so book em early! Click here for tickets
TICKETS TO GIVE AWAY
Jerry Seinfeld
 Here's a quote from the press release: - Following his critically acclaimed, sold out show at London’s O2 Arena earlier this year, America’s premier comedian, Jerry Seinfeld, is returning to the UK in May 2012 to play his first ever shows outside of London in Birmingham and Manchester.
Hailed as “the master stand-up comic of his generation” and “the best comedian of our time” in a Washington Post article by Tom Shales, Seinfeld has an uncanny ability to joke about the little things in life that relate to audiences everywhere.
We've got a pair of tickets to give away for Friday 11th May at the Birmingham NIA.
To win this pair of tickets email us [email protected] with Jerry Seinfeld as the subjext and answer this question 'What was the name of the famous TV show starring Jerry Seinfeld'. The clue is in the question.
Russell Kane
 Russell is appearing at the Theatre Royal on 6th Februaryand we've bagged a pair of tickets to give away as well. To get the To win this pair of tickets email us [email protected] with Russell Kane as the subject and answer this question:
'If you slightly mispelt Russell's surname and used him against someones backside would it a) tickle b) hurt a lot c) bring back discipline to the unruly young d) a mixture of a, b and c. The best answer wins. It is totally up to my discretion
Glenn Wool
Glenn is appearing on Thursday 19th January and I really want everyone to come and see him. This competition has a 1st prize of a pair of free tickets and a runnres up prize of half price tickets. To win this pair of tickets email us [email protected] with Glenn as the subjext and answer this question:
Does Glenn look to you like someone that might hire a chainsaw and chop through your house and then just go to the local pool bar, rack up a game and swig a load of whisky while laughing about it all. Yes or No?
CONDITIONS FOR ALL COMPETITIONS
Entries before midday Wednesday 18th January. We will announce winner on website on Friday 20th (except the Glenn one, we will email late Wednesday)
FUTURE STUFF
Please be aware of our future things coming up:
Adam Bloom 10th / 11th February, Henning Wehn 12th February, Rufus Hound 17th / 18th February, Milton Jones on 16th / 17th March, Boy With Tape On His Face on 18th March, Doug Stanhope on 20th March plus loads more. Look here for full listings
Big Value Returns
Our free night of comedy returns to Nottingham on Thursdays next week. Book tickets now!
I think that really is enough.
Thanks again to all of you that made last weekend brilliant
Darrell and the JTT expansion posse |
