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And finally, in week 12, we held our second annual Winter Showcase. This year we were raising funds for UEA Headucate. The night consisted of a stand-up, brand new sketch material, and 

Sketch cast: Emma Hampton, Merlin Seller, Kieran Devlin, Kate Lawton, Tom Eagle

Sketches contributed by: Will Turner, Merlin Seller, Tom Eagle

Stand-up performances from: Nelson T Gombakomba Jr, Tomas Eagle, John Jewers, MC Fedor Tot

Improv players: Will Turner, Merlin Seller, Michael Champion, John Jewers, Victoria Rawlins, Andrew Stitt

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As of this November, every second Thursday of the month we'll be hosting a night of comedy at Gringo's bar (Prince of Wales Rd., Norwich). The next show will be on January 29th. Line-up TBC.

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Our first venture of the 2014-15 academic year was our second annual Norwich Fringe Festival show. This year, we retrospectively decided to name it 'Admit One' - for (hopefully) obvious reasons. It was half 'best of' sketch material, half improv games, all performed by the cast as listed.

As always, a big thank you to everyone who came down to support us, to the Puppet Theatre staff for being so helpful, to UEA TV and Concrete for their coverage of the night and to the people at the Fringe for letting us do this.

Cast: Daniel Finch, Kate Lawton, Emma Hampton, Merlin Seller, Will Harragan, Michael Champion, Victoria Rawlins, Fedor Tot.

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This is happening TOMORROW NIGHT.

If you’re in the area do come down and see the show; it’s only £5 if you buy in advance or £6 on the door, all that money goes to UEA Nightline, and you get a support set from us at UEA Headlights and a full show from the very brilliant Bad Bread.

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Our revue show, with headline act BAD BREAD, is exactly one week today! Here's a small taste of something we've got in our show... You can follow "Paro-D" on Twitter: @Official_Paro_D. And, of course, you can buy tickets online here: http://www.ueaticketbookings.co.uk/events/bad-bread-presented-by-head-lights-comedy-society---uea-lcr--20-03-14-.aspx Photos by @RiArtiste.

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Hi. This is my campaign video in which my friends eat lettuce whilst I discuss serious policies on improving, changing, and saving our Union and our UEA experience. Please spread this around, and get in touch if you want to discuss policy.

Thanks.

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We now have a poster for our show "YOUR AD HERE" with a headline slot from the brilliant sketch act Bad Bread! Bad Bread are a seasoned Edinburgh act who've received rave reviews across the board, including these snippets: “A 60 minute sledgehammer set. If we were facing an impending apocalypse, I know who I’d want to spend my last laugh with” --The Sunday Express “The fringe as it should be!” --Chortle “The obvious comic chemistry oozes off the stage and filters into the crowd, who left with stitches in their sides and coos of ‘that was brilliant’.” --Cream of the Fringe All information regarding the night should be contained above, but feel free to drop us a question if you want to know anything else about the night or alternative ways to get tickets. Hope to see as many of you there as possible, it's going to be a great night, and all for a good cause - all money raised is going to UEA Nightline.

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A few snapshots from some of the Quizmas 2013 rounds, including the infamous ‘Meat Text’ and ‘Fig Game’. It’s not worth trying to make sense of too much, but BBC Look East’s Mike Liggins has a good stab at explaining the rules to The Fig Game here...

In addition to Mike Liggins outlining the rules of The Fig Game, we also viewed 'Merry Quizmas' videos from the likes of Late Night Gimp Fight, Pappy's Fun Club, Paul F Taylor, and Juliet Meyers!

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QUIZMAS 2013

A big thank you to everyone who came along, and especially to Elliot, Keeley and Harlock for hosting, and of course to Will for masterminding the whole thing. Some more photos will follow in the next few posts - some of them take a lot of explaining, and that can't really be done justice over Tumblr, so if you really want to know what it's all about, make sure you come along next year!

Photos by Victoria Rawlins.

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This Friday is Headlight's infamous QUIZMAS night, this year being dubbed 'The Office Quizmas Party'! Led by Will Turner, this is no ordinary quiz. There will be games, videos featuring surprise guests, prizes for all who take part, and much silliness. Think Shooting Stars, but more crazy. And, remember, this is a party so: - Bring food! - Bring drink! - Dressing up (from festive to formal) is encouraged! Anyone and everyone is welcome; bring guests, bring housemates, workmates, coursemates, whoever you can get hold of! There's a Facebook event set up, on which a series of video clips are being posted by Will to get you in the mood. Click: HERE. Hope to see you there - it's going to be a wonderful night!

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A massive thank you to everyone who came along with this, and of course to everyone who performed and helped out last Thursday for our 'Night of Comedy' in The Hive!

The night featured performances from our 'New Blood' and 'Half Beam' sketch troupes, some stand-up sets from new Headlights members, and several rounds of improv from the Headlights Players - based off of some fabulous suggestions from the audience.

It seems a good time was had by all, but most importantly we managed to raise over £260 for Stop the Traffik.

Keep an eye out for photos, and possibly even video material, from the event and for news of other upcoming shows. We've definitely got plans for a few more in the near future, so watch this space!

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My apologies for the lack of colour/slightly low quality - hopefully someone more tech-savvy will come along and sort that - but this contains all you need to know about our upcoming 'Night of Comedy' in support of Stop the Traffik!

So, if you're about next Thursday, please do come along... Rehearsals are well underway and I'm confident in saying this will be worth a watch. As always, get in contact if you would like an advance ticket and we'll arrange for one to get to you, or feel free to buy one at the door on the night. Don't forget, every bit of money raised goes straight to Stop the Traffik, so it's all for a very good cause.

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UEA Headlights is proud to present A Night of Comedy, with all proceeds going to Stop the Traffik!

Thursday 21st November 2013 The Hive, UEA 7:30 pm (doors 7pm) £3 (£2 adv.)

Our members will be showcasing their talent across a range of comedy styles, including:

Improv: 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' style comedy games, with a chance for the audience to get involved and throw out some suggestions.

Stand-up: a few short sets from some up-and-coming Headlights talent.

Sketches: not only will we be debuting a selection of brand-new sketches, the show headliner will be 'Half Beam' - a truncated version of 'Full Beam', our 'best of' sketch show which premiered last month as part of the Norwich Fringe Festival to great success. It's 'the best of' our 'best of', if you will!

Tickets can be obtained in advance in the following ways:

Next week we'll set up a stall in The Hive where you can buy tickets. We'll let you know what times this will be open as soon as possible.

We'll be selling tickets at both the writers' meetings (Thursdays) and weekly meetings (Fridays).

Tickets will also be sold on the door at the night.

Feel free to drop us a message here if you would like an advance ticket but can't make it to The Hive or a meeting and I'm sure we can get a ticket to you!

It'd be great to see as many people as possible. It's bound to be a really fun night: there's lots going on, the bar will be open, and it's really good value for a night out. And of course it's all for a really good cause.

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Tonight is Headlight’s comedy screening social. I may or may not have coerced people into show some Alan Partridge. We are a Norwich-based comedy society, after all. This is clearly what we should be doing.

Big screen Alan was too good.

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SCREENING SOCIAL Friday 8th, Congregation Hall 01.20

Straight after the weekly meeting (which starts at 7pm, same room), we’ll be holding a comedy screening social. All members/want-to-be members are welcome; we hope this will be a good way to expose people to a range of classic comedy as well as being a very social night.

On our Facebook group, we’ve been taking recommendations of what to show. So far, requests have included Brass Eye, I’m Alan Partridge, Blackadder Goes Forth and Dad’s Army. It’s likely that an episode from each of this lot will get a showing at some point, alongside a load of individual sketches from YouTube. If you have any more suggestions of what you’d like to see, drop us a message here, on the Facebook group, or on any other of our contact addresses!

So, feel free to bring drinks (alcoholic or not), DVDs, snacks, food, and if you wanted some money because we’re thinking of ordering takeaway too! It’s going to be a fun night…

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Norwich Comedy Events

By tomorrow we'll have an as-extensive-as-possible list of comedy events happening in Norwich throughout November up on the blog for anyone's who's interested! But in the mean time, Norwich Playhouse have sent us some details regarding some Edinburgh fringe acts who are performing in Norwich early next year:

- ROB BECKETT - 30th Jan 2014 - FESTIVAL OF THE SPOKEN NERD - 7th Feb 2014 - DAVID BADDIEL - 12th - 13th Feb 2014 - DAVID O DOHERTY - 22nd-23rd Feb 2014 - THE HORNE SECTION - 1st March 2014 - AUSTENTACIOUS - 6th March 2014 - RICHARD HERRING - 15th March 2014 - RICH HALL'S HOEDOWN - 17th - 20th March 2014 - GARY DELANEY - 21st - 22nd March 2014

As far as I can see, booking links aren't up yet, but watch this space! Like with most Norwich based comedy events, it's probable that lots of Headlight-ers will be in attendance. So if you're interested in coming to any of these shows, it's often worth coming along to one of our meetings (or to the bar after the meetings), seeing who's up to what, and tagging along!

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To open up our sketch writers’ meetings, we usually play a couple of rounds of a game called ‘consequences’. You write a character/famous person at the top of your paper, fold the paper, and then pass it on to the next person in the circle. You repeat this with a few more elements (more characters, location, dialogue, conclusion) and then everyone unfolds a sheet and reads out the story. They can range from the impossibly surreal to the eerily plausible, but here are a couple from this evening:

One day, a lollipop man and Penn & Teller met up at the London Eye. “Hey, didn’t I see you working at the hug factory?”, the lollipop man asked Penn & Teller. “Stop throwing pencils at me!" they screamed in reply. And then upon realising they were merely fictional characters from a game of ‘consequences’ their reality imploded and they ceased to exist.

Sherlock and Winston Churchill decided to meet up in the catacombs beneath Paris. “Just put the revolver down. And then sit on me. SIT ON ME!” demanded Sherlock. “Shut up you incompetent fool!, yelled Churchill. This situation was of course resolved by bears. Lots of bears! Bears everywhere!!

As always, if you’re in the UEA/Norwich area and would like to join up and take part in our weekly routine of playing ‘consequences’ and then bouncing sketch ideas about, please do come along! We meet in UEA Congreation Hall room 01.12 at 5pm on Thursday evenings. Doesn’t matter how much/little experience you have, it would be great to see you.