NARBERTH’S Queens Hall is set to host another evening of world-class comedy on Thursday, October 10.

After a very successful evening in September, Span Arts has booked a man considered “a comic genius” by those who know, alongside two unusual companions.

Nick Doody’s esteem is so great that he was personally requested by the acerbic US comedian Bill Hicks to support him on his final UK tour before Hicks’ death in 1994, and has since been commissioned by Random House publishers to write a study of the late comedy legend.

Doody himself was worryingly described in the Independent as “a drunken, gagged-up Richard Dawkins, brilliantly shooting down superstitions with songs and sucker-punchlines.” Having written and performed for the BBC, Channel 4, ITV, and Radio 4, his confrontational humour obviously works.

Joining him will be perhaps the world’s only goth, vegan, lesbian, transsexual comedian, in the shape of Bethany Black, who was described by the Guardian as “dark-tinged but magical.” Perhaps it’s no surprise that she worries about being pigeonholed!

Meanwhile the winner of the 2010 the Scottish Comedian of the Year Award, Ro Campbell will be on compere duties. NME called him “the biggest laugh of the Rockness festival.”

Doors open at 7.15pm and the show starts at 8pm. Tickets cost £10 (£8 members and concessions)