SHAPPI KHORSANDI

From mental illness to opium dens, it’s all gone on in the Khorsandi household and in her latest show Shappi recounts it all the only way she knows how – with wit, warmth and hilarity.

A familiar face from Have I Got News For You, QI, and Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, the 41-year-old took a year off to have a baby in 2013.

Now back with the show Because I’m Shappi, she reflects on all the positives as she celebrates the haphazard, zigzag life is taking towards her dreams. She’s at Maidstone’s Hazlitt Theatre on Wednesday, March 11, at 8pm.

Tickets cost £14. Over-16s only. Visit www.parkwoodtheatres.co.uk or call 01622 758611.

ALUN COCHRANE

The Scot’s dulcet tones are frequently heard on the radio as he is a full time co-host on the Sony Award winning Frank Skinner Show on Absolute and also wrote and starred in his own series on Radio 4, Alun Cochrane’s Fun House.

Cheerfully miserable stand-up’ is his self-confessed style, so if this sounds up your street then see Alun’s show Me Neither at Canterbury’s Marlowe Theatre on Wednesday, March 11, at 8pm.

Tickets cost £12. Visit www.marlowetheatre.com or call 01227 787787.