One of the country's foremost topical comedians, Andy Parsons is familiar to the nation's TV viewers as a lynchpin of BBC2's light-hearted quiz show Mock The Week in which he gives the weekly news a sharp ribbing. Surprisingly for someone who has been performing stand-up comedy for years, he's only now going out on the road with a full solo show, appearing at The Glee Club (Oct 9, 2007) as part of the BRMB Birmingham Comedy Festival.