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Brighton Comedy Garden
Preston Park
DOES comedy make sense outside? This correspondent has a romantic idea of stand-up as an intimate, subversive thing, best suited to a sweaty room and an inkling that the usual rules of society have been temporarily suspended.
Which, understandably, is a difficult conceit to maintain in a fenced off bit of a public park festooned with corporate sponsorship.
Ah well. This is a really well-run event, with kind and friendly staff and a more interesting booking approach than most gigs of this size.
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