Comedy festival set to celebrate 10th anniversary

Hastings Comedy Festival was founded in 2015

A comedy festival in an East Sussex town is celebrating its 10th anniversary.

Hastings Comedy Festival kicks off on Monday with dozens of performances over seven days including Seann Walsh, Lucy Porter and Robin Ince.

The event "showcases a large variety of professional comedians and emerging comics from around the UK and the world", organisers Chris Young and Jake Alexander said.

The two friends who founded the festival in 2015, said it "united their passion for live comedy and the community of Hastings".

They added: "Finding, supporting and promoting new comedy talent is at the core of our ethos of running the festival.

"If you're looking for the future bright stars of stand up comedy then Hastings is the festival showcase you really shouldn't miss out on.

"It promises to be an explosion of laughter."

Dozens of shows will be performed at 15 different venues in Hastings and St Leonards throughout the week.

The festival runs until 15 June.

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