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2024: 2. Wales and West - Pontypridd
We’ve travelled to the heart of the south Wales valleys to Pontypridd and Y Muni, a multipurpose, fully accessible live music and comedy venue. Louie McLean, Suri Ashish, Sarah Roberts, Paul Hilleard and Josh Harvey as Bernard Guff will take to the stage in a bid to impress our judges and book their place in the final.\n\nWelsh comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean is our host for this heat. Joining her is our panel of judges, actor and comic Spencer Jones, and Hannah Moulder, producer of the award-winning Juice on BBC Three. Head judge Babatunde Aleshe completes the trio.\n\nIt’s not going to be easy for them to pick a winner from the five new comics performing. With only five minutes of stage time, the sets are jam-packed with jokes and cutting-edge material, but only one can go through to the grand final in November at Birmingham’s historic Alexandra Theatre.
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