NOW here's an opportunity not to be missed for Star Wars geeks. Headlining at The Other Side Comedy Club at City Screen on Sunday is ... one of the heads of the two-headed pod-race commentator from The Phantom Menace.

Yes, that really was stand-up comic Scott Capurro - and he really is coming to York on Sunday.

Comedy Club MC Dan Atkinson can scarcely contain himself at the thought of sharing a stage with the great man - though to be fair to Dan, it is more Scott's comic talents than his brush with Star Wars greatness that he admires.

"Camp and outrageous, provocative and controversial, catty and hysterical, Scott Capurro is a breath of fresh air in the increasingly samey and stale world of stand-up," Dan says.

"Constantly operating on the boundaries of good taste - and often straying some way over the line - Scott is a challenging comedian in the best sense of the word. He is so comfortable dealing with topics that other comics would never touch that he forces audiences to ask themselves why they should feel so uncomfortable about some of his subject matter."

If all this makes Scott sound a bit like the Heineken of the stand-up scene - the comedian who reaches parts no other comic can - you can take reassurance from the fact he is a TV regular.

He may have been an Edinburgh Fringe favourite since his award-winning solo debut there in 1994.

But no one who has appeared on such shows as BBC1's The Stand-Up Show, hosted Is That It? for MAI United, and captained a team on the Channel 4 quiz The Staying In Show can be that outrageous, surely?

Also appearing at the Comedy Club on Sunday is Caimh McDonnell, who is fast building a reputation as the white-haired Irishman whose name nobody can pronounce, and Josie Wicks, who MC Dan describes as "a bundle of energy, physical impressions and vivid imagery".

Scott Capurro, Caimh McDonnell and Josie Wicks with MC Dan Atkinson, The Other Side Comedy Club, City Screen Basement Bar, Sunday. Doors open at 7:30pm, show at 8pm. Tickets £7/6, available in advance from City Screen Box Office in person or on (01904) 541144

Updated: 09:00 Friday, May 13, 2005