This Sunday’s double bill of Andrew Lawrence and Lloyd Langford is the last in the Hyena Lounge Comedy Club’s nine-week season of Edinburgh previews at City Screen, York.

Lawrence will be returning to the city where he launched his career in 2004 by winning the York Comedy Festival New Act Of The Year, the award that went to Rhod Gilbert the previous year.

Lawrence has performed five consecutive all-new solo shows at the Edinburgh Fringe – two of them being nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Awards – and this weekend he will be testing out next month’s Edinburgh outing, The Best Kept Secret In Comedy Tour.

His bleakly dark comic world is not that much of a secret. Last year, his self-written and performed series What To Do If You’re Not Like Everybody Else was aired on BBC Radio 4, leading to his sold-out debut tour, Andrew Lawrence: Too Ugly For Television, whose dates included a Hyena Lounge gig in York last December.

Sharing Sunday’s bill will be Lloyd Langford, a regular panellist on BBC1’s Ask Rhod Gilbert, as well as Gilbert’s support act at Hyena Lounge and Grand Opera House shows over the past few years. He has appeared on Russell Howard’s Good News and Grumpy Young Men and is the head writer for BBC2 pop quiz Never Mind The Buzzcocks.

Langford is heading up to Edinburgh with Lloyd Langford: The Cold Hard Facts Of Life, a new show with jokes about mice and cling film. “Finally, a comedian unafraid to tackle the big issues,” he says of himself.

Doors open at 7pm for Sunday’s 7.30pm start in the Basement. Tickets cost £8 on 0871 902 5726 or thebasementyork.co.uk