Dane Baptiste Headlines The Secret Comedy Club

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"It's an intimate, friendship-making, and entertaining experience." You'll be up close and personal with talented comedians from London and the south coast at the most welcoming and friendly venue in Hove. Welcome to the Secret Comedy Club! Shhhh....

Joining us is the talented MC Tom Toal and headliner Dane Baptiste, with support from comics Aidan Jones and Sarah Roberts.

Dane Baptiste has had a decade of dominance as a trailblazer, innovator and incendiary voice in the comedy community. In 2014, Dane was nominated for Best Newcomer at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and he was the first Black British comic to ever be nominated. This lead to Dane creating, writing and starring in ‘SunnyD’ on BBC Three, the first sitcom written by a black British writer with a Black British cast to appear on the BBC in over 20 years. Dane has appeared on number of TV and Radio shows, including appearing and hosting Live At The Apollo in 2015 and 2017 respectively, whilst also appearing on 8 out 10 Cats, Countdown, Mock the Week and Comic Relief.

Tom Toal is a comedian, writer and actor, hailing from the South East London town of Bexleyheath. One of comedy's rising stars he performed his debut show On The Scrapheap about the break-up of his 6 year relationship at the Edinburgh and Leicester Festivals in 2010 achieving widespread acclaim and reviews.

Aidan Jones has worked for over a decade as headline comic in Australia. In 2025 he relocated to London a performing at comedy clubs across the country. His show “Chopin’s Nocturne” was critically acclaimed at the Edinburgh Fringe, and was named as one of The Guardian’s ‘Best Shows of the Melbourne Comedy Festival’.

Sarah Roberts is a writer and comedian based in London. She is a graduate of Writing and Producing Comedy at the National Film and Television School. Sarah took her first split bill ‘Cake’ to Edinburgh in 2022 and debuted in 2024 with the critically acclaimed ‘Silkworm’. She is a recent BBC New Comedy Awards Finalist and has found huge success on the competition circuit.