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Jackie Clune, Leicester Comedy Festival (0116-255 6507) 8pm

This year's Leicester laugh fest continues with tonight's self-styled lesbian and gay comedy cabaret extravanganza. Nashville dragster Tina C, the Queen of Country comedy, is the hostess (trolley?) with the mostest, juggling such talents as gingham diva Chloe Poems, arguably the world's leading socialist transvestite poet. Move over Joaqun Cortes as Spanish siren Ursula Martinez hits town promising flamenco fun and frolics and, I suspect, a hundred things to do with a pair of Cuban heels. And then there are the talented tonsils and top-notch tonsorial tips of taste-patroller Jackie Clune who does for Karen Carpenter what Fanny Craddock did for doughnuts. Fresh from dancefloor success with her flawless cover version of Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft, Clune crowns an evening with (we hope) excerpts from her Edinburgh and London success Chicks with Flicks, an entirely educational evening of harmony and hairspray.

David Benedict