A POPULAR comedy night returns to the Electric Palace tomorrow (24) - with three up and coming comics taking to the stage.

Naz Osmanoglu, Steve Bugeja and Mark Smith will headline the event - fresh from performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last summer.

Star of BBC Three's Live at the Electric and winner of the Amused Moose Laugh-off competition, Naz has hit the London comedy circuit running. The Chortle Best Newcomers Nominee 2010 is already a fringe veteran - with acclaimed, irreverent sketch trio Wit Tank.

He is now diverting his angry Anglo-Turkish energy to stand-up as well as his sketch comedy.

Naz recently finished filming part of the main troupe on the sixth series of the award-winning Horrible Histories for CBBC, which is due to air next year. He has also appeared in an episode of Plebs for ITV. In 2013, he filmed a series of shorts for BBC Online called Flat News - an idea he is currently developing with the BBC for television.

Naz was selected to be one of the new stars of Laughterstock for BBC Three - a hybrid stand-up and sketch comedy, and returned to Edinburgh in 2010 as a performer in The Comedy Zone - the fringe's longest-running new talent showcase.

Steve was crowned the 2013 BBC Radio New Comedy Award winner. He was also a finalist in the Amused Moose and Laughing Horse new act competitions, making him one of the stand-out new acts of the past few years. He supported Russell Kane on his 2014 national tour smallness as well as gigging at comedy clubs across the country.

A prolific writer, Steve has contributed material for Mock The Week, 8 out of 10 Cats and Russell Howard’s Good News. In 2012 he won the BBC’s Funny on Three sitcom competition, which resulted in him and his writing partner developing a pilot script with BBC Comedy North.

Steve has also contributed material to Radio 4’s The Show What You Wrote and Radio 4 Extra’s topical sketch show Newsjack. He is currently developing a pilot with BBC Radio Comedy.

Mark 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.

Since reaching the final of So You Think You’re Funny in 2009, Mark has gigged all over the UK, and has broken into television to present for MTV2 and written and performed for Dick and Dom’s Funny Business on BBC 2.

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