THERE’S a side-splitting line-up of entertainment at the Electric Palace in Bridport next month.

The Comedy Network is there on Friday, January 9, featuring Jarlath Regan, Mark Smith and Adam Hess.

Jarlath Regan is an award winning comedian and writer for Russell Howard’s Good News and hit Irish panel show The Panel.

Adam Hess (winner of Chortle Student Comedy Award 2011) is well-known for his surreal one-liners, having written for TV regulars such as Sean Walsh and Chris Ramsey.

Adam has also become widely known for his unique brand of comedy on Twitter and in the last two years has accrued tens of thousands of followers from the jokes he posts.

Mark Smith (Russell Howard’s Good News, MTV) has been performing stand-up regularly since 2008 and has rapidly established himself as one of the most interesting and exciting comics on the circuit.

Doors open at 7.15pm and the gig starts at 8.15pm On Saturday, January 17, Sara Pascoe will be taking on history.

Star of Stand Up For the Week and Campus (C4), Live at the Apollo, QI, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Mock The Week and Twenty Twelve (BBC), Sara presents her first ever UK tour show.

With a comedy brain that leaps from stimulating arguments onto abstract confabulation with lumpy doses of openness, honesty and earnestness, Sara shares her romantic history, existential theory and cultural insights.

The past contains wars, witches, Kim Jong-il and your ex.

Your brain can recall being a child, while your body remembers being a monkey.

Everything that has happened shapes who we are today…

Jess Fostekew will be supporting and doors open at 7pm for an 8pm start.

On Thursday, January 22, set sail for a stormy voyage with the National Theatre’s Treasure Island.

Robert Louis Stevenson’s story of murder, money and mutiny is brought to life in a thrilling new stage adaptation by Bryony Lavery, broadcast live from the National Theatre.

Doors open at 6pm for a 7pm start.

On Friday, January 23, the Comedy Network is back with Gareth Richards, Phil Wang and Kieren Boyd.

Kieran Boyd was a semi-finalist in So You Think You’re Funny? (2009), Amused Moose Laugh-Off (2010), and part of Fringe favourites WitTank, Kieran has been performing his inventive, high-energy stand up across the country for five years. They will be joined by Phil Wang, winner of the 2010 Chortle Student Comedian of the Year Award and the Comedy Central Live Funniest Student Award 2011.

Phil is rapidly making a name for himself as one of Britain’s funniest engineering graduates, with his deadpan charm. Doors open at 7.15pm for an 8pm start.