Big name comics will line-up alongside up-and-coming talents during a packed spring line-up at Birmingham’s Glee Club.

The venue will welcome performers like Richard Herring; Mike Gunn and Sean Collins, who are stars of Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow; Dave Spikey, Josh Widdicombe, Rich Hall, Simon Munnery, Chris Ramsey and double Briitsh Comedy Award nominee Isy Suttie.

There will also be headline slots from Steve Williams, Adam Bloom, Ben Norris, Kevin McCarthy, Mike Bubbins, Tommy Campbell, Simon Clayton, Jason Cook, Pierre Hollins, Carey Marx and Dan Nightingale.

A host of fast-rising comics will also line-up in support of their big-name headliners, including Marion Davis, Danny ‘Slim’ Gray, Mickey D, Ian Moore, Gordon Southern, Des Bishop, Michael Fabbri, Ian Cognito, Steve Harris and Andy Askins.

Richard Herring will line-up on February 1 as part of his What is Love, Anyway? tour.

Herring has previously tackled religion in Christ On A Bike, politics in Hitlers’ Moustache as well as starring in his award-winning podcast As It Occurs To Me and Radio 4’s Richard Herring’s Objective.

The show will ponder whether Richard’s dry cleaner genuinely loves him, by exploring how a romantic gesture involving Ferrero Rocher got dangerously out of control.

Sean Collins and Mike Gunn will feature on February 17 in Still On The Roadshow. Laid back Canadian Collins first took to the stage 20 years ago while Gunn is best known for his deadpan delivery and funeral director routines.

Mick Foley, meanwhile, will perform on February 28. The former WWE champion is a hard core legend and New York Times best-selling author who had an unrivalled resume as a professional wrestler.

A Glee spokesman said: “Mick made his debut as a stand-up comic in 2009 at the world famous Improv in Los Angeles, California.

“Since then he’s shared his anecdotes and observations with audiences across the length and breadth of America.”

Dave Spikey will headline the Glee Club on February 29. The star of 8 Out of 10 Cats and Phoenix Nights is on his Words Don’t Come Easy tour.

The spokesman added: “Inspired by the fantastic audience response to his deconstruction of song lyrics in his 2008/09 Best Medicine Tour, and his fascination with the vagaries of the English language, this hilarious new show examines many of life’s situations where words really don’t come easy.

“These include tongue-tied parents explaining the facts of life, ridiculous newspaper stories, magazine poems, adolescent chat-up lines, weird hospital speak, learning a foreign language and an extended selection of song lyrics that range from the lazy through surreal to the ridiculous.”

Other highlights of coming months include Josh Widdicombe on March 2, The Boy With Tape on his Face on March 4, Henning Wehn on March 8, Rich Hall on March 14, Simon Munnery on March 23, Chris Ramsey on May 3 and Isy Suttie on May 11.

Details are at www.glee.co.uk/birmingham-comedy