Wise-cracking acts set to raise a laugh at club

Birmingham's Glee Club welcomed Sean Meo and Andy Robinson Friday and Saturday while Ben Norrish and Steve Shanyaski will headline on Thursday.

Sean Meo has one of the most remarkable backgrounds in comedy – having switched to the stage from snooker.

He has been a stand-up comic since 1989 but was previously a full time snooker player and was a quarter finalist in the English Amateur Championships of 1987. He has risen to the very top of the UK comedy scene and regularly headlines at all the top comedy clubs.

In 1998 he won Time Out Comic Of The Year and has appeared at the Kilkenny, Cork, Edinburgh and Montreal Comedy Festivals.

Meo has won rave reviews and Time Out said: 'He can turn out intelligent and exciting new material with a speed that many other comics can only gasp at'. The Evening Standard called him 'Surreal, sexy... and very, very funny', while The Guardian Guide described him as 'Deliciously sardonic'.

He will be joined on the bill by Andy Robinson, who has worked as a warm up artist for loads of popular shows on television such as Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Shooting Stars, Later with Jools Holland and Jonathan Ross.

He has been performing for 15 years and plans to continue to do so, until he marries into royalty.

His foray into the world of stand up comedy began in the early 90s, when he played guitar in a band named The Carpetsweepers, often leaving both members of the audience in hysterics as his patter between songs gradually became longer and more entertaining than the music.

Andy commenced his meteoric trajectory into the glitzy world of show business from a pub in Dudley where he sharpened his trade compering a 'free and easy' night every fortnight.

Highly experienced and hugely well respected stand-up Ben Norris will star on Thursday. He's been performing comedy since 1993 and has developed an incredibly relaxed stage persona with an innate ability to improvise as well as deliver sharply crafted material.

He has performed at comedy festivals the world over and has a wealth of experience in the tricky art of TV warm-up. His TV credits include Never Mind the Buzzcocks, They Think It's All Over and Mock the Week.

Norris will be joined by Steve Shanyaski, who in 2003 stood up, unchained himself from his desk and walked out of a mind-numbing logistics job to pursue a career in comedy.

Within months of his comedic birth he made it through to the semi-finals of the BBC New Comedian of the Year, the North West Comedian of the Year Final, and later that year he had the honour of appearing on the BBC7 Radio Showcase Spanking New.

Since then he has been named the Holsten Pils Comedian of the Year 2005, and the Birmingham Comedy Festival's best breaking talent 2005.