Whitchurch's Civic Centre will play host to nationally-acclaimed comics this summer as Gary Delaney comes to town.

Delaney, who is a Mock The Week regular and has appeared on Live at the Apollo, will star on a bill alongside two more TV comics in Larry Dean and Rob Rouse, who features in Upstart Crow.

They will form a triple headline bill of stand-up as part of the latest Live At The Civic on Friday, June 12 with tickets on sale now and expected to go quickly.

Delaney, regarded as the best joke-writer in the country, is a one-liner king while fast-rising Dean is a former Scottish Comedian of the Year who has also appeared on Live At The Apollo and Mock The Week.

The show will be hosted by resident MC Wayne Beese, from Dudley, and he is delighted with the line-up.

“This is a fantastic line-up and we’ve been delighted to see a number of tickets have been snapped up already from our mailing list," he said.

“They are all headline acts in their own right who would normally be topping bills across the country on a Saturday night, so it’s extremely rare to have the three of them together on the same show.

“Our shows at Whitchurch are always fantastically supported and I am sure this one will be no different, so we’d urge people to get in quick and snap up tickets before they are all gone.”

The shows have been running in Whitchurch for nearly 18 months with the likes of Milton Jones, Omid Djalili, Rich Hall, Angelos Epithemiou, Seann Walsh and Tom Binns taking to the stage so far.

Before the June show, two other TV comics will headline at the Civic – Reginald D Hunter on Friday February 7, and Paul Sinha on Friday March 7.

Tickets for all shows are available at www.funnybeeseness.co.uk, where people can also sign up to the mailing list for special offers and to find out first about future shows.