In 2003 Jimmy was on his Charm Offensive tour, while appearing on TV (Your Face or Mine version 1), winning awards (here) and slogging up and down the UK (see 2003 posts listing, here).

For the second year Brighton had a comedy festival and, sponsored by Paramount Comedy Channel, it was officially the Paramount Brighton Comedy Festival. Held in October 2003 it ran from the 10^th to 25^th.

Jimmy’s gigs were on October 17^th at Brighton Dome (although a couple of newspaper articles said they were at the Corn Exchange). Even back then doing 2 (or more) gigs a night wasn’t daunting for our “hardest working man in comedy” and his shows were at 7.30pm and 11.15pm.

Tickets were £13 or £11 for the concessionary rate.

Some of the (more recognisable) other acts are listed below (full details, on Chortle, here).

The variance in ticket prices is sometimes dictated by the venue size – but may also indicate what people were willing to pay to see that person (back in 2003). I’ve included the normal ticket price, not the concessionary, just out of interest.

The people indicated as “USA” were billed as “Stand Up USA with…”

£11 tickets….

• Adam Hills
• Alex Horne
• Alonzo Bodden (USA)
• Chris Addison
• Danny Bhoy
• Dara O’Briain
• Flight of the Conchords
• Janet Street Porter
• Lucy Porter
• Maria Bamford (USA)
• Mark Steel
• Micky Flanagan
• Mike Wilmot
• Nina Conti
• Reginald D Hunter
• Rob Rouse
• Scott Capurro
• Sean Lock
• Todd Barry (USA)

£12 tickets…

• Linda Smith
• Rob Newman

£13 tickets…

• Andy Parsons
• Arthur Smith
• Daniel Kitson
• Dave Spikey
• Demetri Martin
• Ennio Marchetto
• Jimmy Carr
• Otis Lee Crenshaw (Rich Hall)
• Tommy Tiernan

£14 tickets…

• Ed Byrne (actually £14.50)
• Pam Ayres
• Rhona Cameron

£15 tickets…

• Jerry Sadowitz
• Julian Clary

£16 tickets…

• Al Murray (actually £16.50)
• Dave Gorman (also £16.50)
• Jo Brand

£17 tickets…

• Bill Bailey
• Johnny Vegas

Other 2003 festivals can be read about here.