thursday 27th NOVEMBER 2025

grinstock comedy club @ EAT CENTRAL

- SUSSEX UNIVERSITY -

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award-winning comedy comes to Sussex University

@ eat central

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A PRIVATE SHOW FOR STUDENTS, STAFF & GUESTS OF THE UNIVERSITY

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“Award-winning energy, on campus convenience”

Thursday 27 November, Eat Central flips into a comedy hotspot. With Grinstock Comedy curating the night, you’re getting a four-act bill led by an expert MC exactly how a pro club runs it. Grinstock have been delivering award-winning nights for 16 seasons and counting, bringing TV names and national headliners to packed rooms across the South East.

Grinstock Comedy have been twice nominated by Dave TV & Absolute Radio for Comedy Club of the South. so yes, you’re in very experienced hands. Our booking policy is simple: only comics who smash it on the UK touring & television circuit. Think tight writing, big energy, and the kind of punchlines you’ll quote in seminars.

Make it a house-night: jump on the group deals including deals for societies, meet us early when doors open, grab a drink and some food, and settle in. Eat Central’s central spot in Bramber House means maximum laughs with minimal effort—no taxis, no FOMO, just pure campus-night chaos (the good kind).

It’s a fantastic line-up as always, and one not to be missed. So grab tickets quickly. Don’t forget we’ve got cracking deals, including food & drink, on advance tickets for 2 / 3 / 4, 5, and 6 people. We’ve also got fantastic society deals for groups of 8 people. Guaranteed a fantastic line-up at every show, that would rival even the biggest of the big smoke comedy clubs. Our hand-picked line-ups are always packed full of acts from the TV and national touring circuit.

CHECK OUT THE OUTSTANDING LINE-UP OF ACTS BELOW

the 4 Award-Winning comedians

TIM FITZHIGHAM

MC
Perrier Nominated Comedian
Multi-Award Winner
Chortle Award Winner
Winner Spirit of the Fringe Award - Edinburgh Festival
As Seen on After Life - (Netflix), Zapped Season 1 & 2 (Dave TV), Comedy Cuts Season 1, 2 & 3 (ITV)
TOUSSAINT DOUGLASS

OPENER
Tour support for Russell Howard & Paul Chowdry
Multi-Award-Winning Comedian
As seen on Late Night Mash (Dave), Outsiders (Dave), Comedians Giving Lectures (Dave), The Stand Up Sketch Show (ITVX) and many more.
★★★★★ Broadway Baby
★★★★ The Guardian
★★★★ The Times
CALLUM MACKENZIE

MIDDLE ACT
Former Broadway Comedy Club resident comic (NYC)
Max Turner New Act Competition Runner Up
Chuckle Mania Comedy Competition Runner Up
OLIVIA LEE

HEADLINER
Multi-Award-Winning Comedian
As seen on Balls of Steel (C4), Olivia Lee’s Naughty Bits (C4), and a regular on ‘The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (NBC), ‘Olivia Lee: Dirty, Sexy, Funny’ (Comedy Central)
Olivia Lee is very very funny - Time Out
‘Fearless, sexy, with razor sharp wit’ ‍- Daily Star

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MC

tim fitzhighamm

Perrier Nominated Comedian
Multi-Award Winner
Chortle Award Winner
Winner Spirit of the Fringe Award - Edinburgh Festival
As Seen on After Life - (Netflix), Zapped Season 1 & 2 (Dave TV), Comedy Cuts Season 1, 2 & 3 (ITV)

Tim FitzHigham is a Perrier nominated multi-award winning comedian, explorer, quadruple world record holder, historian, archaeologist, film maker and author. A regular on the corporate circuit, Tim can deliver after-dinner speeches, hold workshops, host award ceremonies and conferences, and he is also an experienced auctioneer (often the most difficult job of any successful evening but a vital one!).

Among numerous TV credits as a comedian, he has presented several documentaries for BBC1, and Super Human Challenge for CBBC which followed him around the world as he met the humans who defy science.

Tim has written and performed in two series of The Gambler for BBC Radio 4 based on his hugely successful 2011 Edinburgh Fringe show which centres on the ten greatest bets in history; Tim has toured the UK with his live version of the show. In the same year he starred in Channel 4’s royal family satire, The Windsor's. He currently hosts the monthly BBC Radio Norfolk New Comedy Show.

Tim has been invited to speak in London at the renowned Moth series which has presented thousands of live stories told worldwide.

Tim is a regular performer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He has also made many stage and film appearances, including Wolfman with Sir Anthony Hopkins, Booked Out and Hereafter, both directed by Clint Eastwood.

Tim has performed at comedy clubs and festivals worldwide, both as an MC and in headline slots. He is one of the UK's most in-demand MCs.

He has also developed several award-winning solo shows, and an award-winning show featuring the work of 50's and 60's musical legends Flanders and Swann.

opener

toussaint douglass

Tour support for Russell Howard & Paul Chowdry
Multi-Award-Winning Comedian
As seen on Late Night Mash (Dave), Outsiders (Dave), Comedians Giving Lectures (Dave), The Stand Up Sketch Show(ITVX) and many more.
★★★★★ Broadway Baby
★★★★ The Guardian
★★★★ The Times
New York Times: "What to Watch – Edinburgh Festival 2025"
‘Birds, emotional baggage and big laughs in a show that soars.’ — ★★★★★ Broadway Baby
‘He’s a one-off, a goofball, a charmer. The lad’s got funny bones.’ — ★★★★ The Telegraph

Multi-talented award-winning comedian and writer, Toussaint Douglass, is one of comedy’s most exciting and talked about names and is making serious waves across the industry. Harnessing his neurodivergence his innovative brand of oddball comedy mixes the personal with the political whilst adding a uniquely absurdist slant to brilliant comic effect making it accessible for all.

Toussaint’s social media green screen creations and guerilla documentary-style clips consistently capture the attention of the best in the industry and catapult him to the top of everyone’s must-have list, rewarding him with appearances on Comedians Giving Lectures (Dave), The Stand Up Sketch Show (ITVX), Late Night Mash (Dave), Richard Osman’s House of Games (BBC), Outsiders (Dave) and many many more!

A talented writer, James Acaster recognises Toussaint as one of the best new writers, working together on multiple projects including James Acaster’s People Person and Springleaf Podcast, The Island (Dave) and The Unofficial Science of Home Alone (Sky), and this exposure has also opened doors to Toussaint becoming a regular writer on The Russell Howard Hour (Sky), Dead Ringers (BBC R4), 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown (C4), Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV), Have I Got News For You (BBC) to name a few.

In 2025, Toussaint made his hotly anticipated Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut with a critically acclaimed hour of stand-up that blended the surreal, the heartfelt, and the pigeon-obsessed. The show earned him a Best Newcomer nomination at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, a NextUp Biggest Award in Comedy nomination, and a place on the ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards Longlist. Hailed by the New York Times as one of the "must-watch" shows of the festival, the show sold out its entire run, prompted an added extra performance, and due to overwhelming demand, led to an additional week being added to his Soho Theatre run. His debut firmly cemented him as one of the most original and exciting new voices in UK comedy.

Seriously talented, joyfully absurd and charmingly awkward with deceptively subversive writing, Toussaint Douglass really is the next big thing!

MIDDLE ACT

callum mackenzie

Former Broadway Comedy Club resident comic (NYC)
Max Turner New Act Competition Runner Up
Chuckle Mania Comedy Competition Runner Up

Endearing and energetic, Callum Mackenzie is an award-winning comic from the depths of the English countryside who looks at life outside his tiny village with puppyish enthusiasm.

He’s fast rising on the UK stand-up club scene in the UK and it’s no wonder why. Observational comedy is in store whenever he takes to the stage and gets behind the mic.

HEADLINER

olivia lee

Multi-Award-Winning Comedian
As seen on Balls of Steel (C4), Olivia Lee’s Naughty Bits (C4), and a regular on ‘The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (NBC), ‘Olivia Lee: Dirty, Sexy, Funny’ (Comedy Central)
Olivia Lee is very very funny - Time Out
‘Fearless, sexy, with razor sharp wit’ ‍- Daily Star

Olivia Lee is a multi award winning writer, stand up comedian and actress, with a long track record of creating, writing and starring in her own TV shows. She has many scripted projects in development with UK & US production companies and broadcasters.

A well known face of TV comedy, Olivia started her career on Channel 4’s hit comedy show ‘Balls of Steel’ with her own slot called ‘Prank TV with Miss Lee’. She created her own vehicle for Channel 4, ‘Olivia Lee’s Naughty Bits’. This led to her own series on Comedy Central; ‘Olivia Lee: Dirty, Sexy, Funny’. The USA came calling and Olivia was invited to regularly appear on NBC’s ‘The Tonight Show With Jay Leno’ where she wrote and starred in her own regular comedy slot. That led to truTV giving Olivia her own comedy pilot, ‘The Olivia Lee Show’ – which Ben Stiller produced with his company Red Hour. As an actress, she has starred in many BAFTA-nominated shows.

Recently she created and starred in her own pilot ‘Make Me A Misogynist’ for which she played all men for Channel 4. She also launched her first album with Universal records; ‘Mindful Mum; How Not To Lose Your Total Fuc*ing Sh*t’ a unique spin on mindfulness, this was a hit and Olivia has turned it into a one woman show ‘Olivia Lee; Losing Her Total Fuc*ing Sh*t’ playing homage to female anger and toxic femininity. A tour of this is now in the works.