Big Laugh Boutique
Sean Collins
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Big Laugh Boutique
Everything in one place — the UK run, Canada, Hometown, the audio, and the money side. Dates first, then the short list of things I need from you.
— JR
Good To Be Here · 22 Jan → 28 Feb 2027. In date order.
Nothing is on sale yet — we announce every date together once you're happy. Two have come off: Leeds, where the only room they could offer was a 45-seater in early January, and the Isle of Wight, which I've swapped for Gosport.
Seven things. Answer them in any order and I'll run with it.
This is the big one — it settles fourteen dates at once. We supply our own support rather than take the house act, and I'd use a different local comic in each town (no travel cost, and they bring their own crowd).
Do you want to name your own openers, shall I find them town by town, or a mix? And anyone you'd particularly want — or not?
My one suggestion so far is Tony Marrese on the West Country nights — he's down there anyway. Nobody is approached until you've said.
I've swapped the Island for Gosport on Sat 23 Jan. Your own patch, sits right after your Southampton night, no ferry.
Is St John's the right room? And is it one you book yourself, or do you want me on it?
Fri 5 Feb, Scotland — The Stand give no Fridays, so it needs another room. Òran Mór, Monkey Barrel and Glee Glasgow are the obvious ones.
Sat 27 Feb, south-east — somewhere between Brighton and London. Tunbridge Wells, Canterbury, Guildford, Portsmouth, Reading, Croydon all in the frame.
Any town you always go down well in, any room you love, anywhere you'd rather not play — say so and I'll chase it.
Straight yes or no. Stand-up is normally exempt from PRS, but walk-on music changes that — and both The Stand and Komedia need it answered before they'll settle.
I'm putting every agreement and every settlement in the name of SCJ Entertainment Ltd rather than any individual. It's your company, so I'd rather you said yes before I give the details to venues.
Fri 22 Jan at The Attic is your own booking. Just confirm it's still happening before I print it on anything.
The Halifax audio — first cut is done, 22 tracks, each bit kept whole. Have a listen and mark it up before I master it.
The Canada posters — all four ready (below). Give me the nod and they go out.
Autumn 2026 · Wafik Nasralla on support · Ottawa already on sale.
All four done, every size — print, Facebook, Instagram. Wafik credited throughout, QR straight to live tickets. New photo and page copy have gone over to Yuk Yuk's too — the one they had up was small and the wrong shape.
Built round the Neptune in Halifax — a 400-seat theatre, in the city where you shot the special. Enquiry is in, waiting on dates. Bigger rooms than the club run, and it sets up a push down into the northern US after.
Some fire service work has come in from Alberta — an appreciation night and a training conference. Nothing booked yet, but they'd be paid dates, and I'd build a western leg around whichever lands rather than fly out for one show.
Two separate trips, not one — Halifax and Alberta are 2,500 miles apart. Most of the enquiries coming in through your site lately are western Canada, which is partly why the second one is worth doing. Say if you'd rather just do the one.
The recorded hour, and turning old sets into things that sell.
Your recorded special — separate from the live tour. Done bar the intro/outro music and credits. Then it goes up for sale on your site.
First audio release. Cut into 22 tracks, each joke whole. Waiting on your listen-through before mastering.
Once a release is live it goes to the US comedy stations. A word from a comic already on there would push it to the front.
Cut-downs off both, driving the special and the ticket sales.
£6–10k range, like the NHBC one. Steady and repeatable.
The collab and sponsor approaches keep coming — I filter them so only the real ones reach you.
The Tiverton promoter wants to talk about a monthly night down there. Worth a look — could be a regular thing.
FB 920K · IG 150K · TikTok 82K · YouTube. Roughly 1.15M altogether — that's what shifts the tickets.
Ticket prices are £20 full / £16 concession outside London, £25/£20 in London, and £18 at Tiverton — his room, his price. All subject to each venue's own booking fee.