THIS Sunday’s show will be the penultimate Edinburgh preview night at the Hyena Lounge Comedy Club in York – and the last one with tickets available after next week’s finale by Reginald D Hunter sold out.

Jon Richardson joins Pete Firman on the 7.30pm bill, both of them destined for next month’s Edinburgh Fringe ahead of British tours this autumn.

Richardson has appeared on Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow and Have I Got News For You and hosted his own radio show on BBC 6Music. He is in the middle of writing his debut novel, as well as working on his hour-long Fringe show, Don’t Happy, Be Worry, in which he continues to express dissatisfaction with everything he feels is wrong in the world.

Comedian/magician Firman burst on to the nation’s television screens as cheeky northerner Tufty in Five’s Monkey Magic and has since displayed an ability to perform disgusting tricks with animals, cigarettes and big, spiky things on Channel 4’s Dirty Tricks.

He made his Edinburgh debut with Hokum in 2007, followed up with Flim-Flam in 2008 and The Pete Firman Magic Show in 2009 and returns north this summer with Jokes And Tricks.

Doors open at 7pm for Sunday’s show in The Basement at City Screen, York; tickets cost £8 on 0871 902 5726 or on the night.