For its 8th edition the Festival welcomes Shappi Khorsandi, star of Live At The Apollo, Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, and Have I Got News for You. She’s back with a brand new show for 2014. She’s feisty, flirty and effortlessly funny she handles every subject with a razor sharp wit, softened only by her deliciously dizzy delivery and endless charm. Shappi, the daughter of an exiled writer and comic from Iran, her upbringing has been in no way conventional. From mental illness to opium dens, it’s all gone on in the Khorsandi household and now she recounts it all the only way she knows how, with wit, warmth and hilarity.

‘She has plenty to say, and says it with pointedness and potency.’ The Guardian