The Festival Club is a must attend venue during the MICF. Late-night and boozy, it is a proper comedy club. On any given night you will be offered a cornucopia of international and local comics, treading the boards and plying you with their snappiest material in bite size chunks. On weekends throughout the festival, the Club also features an early opening international headliner, this week’s was American Kevin Brennan.

Brennan is a solid gold, professional comedian, right down to the suit he takes to the stage in. Assuming the roll of an ill-informed American tourist to the hilt, “Do you guys have cows?”, he provided an unrelenting assault of jokes and observations. Aiming to offend in the most likable way, Brennan worked his way through local references before moving to a regular set of race and affront. Mercilessly bantering with the audience he offered some very sage advice, “Don’t sit in the front row if you can’t take a punch.” Every line from Brennan’s mouth resulted in laughter, demonstrating a pedigree of comedy performance honed across the American late night talk-show circuit and a stint writing for Saturday Night Live. Brennan provided an absolutely perfect set of American, deadpan arrogance and knife-edge wit.

Upcoming international acts at The Festival Club will include Al Madrigal (14 to 19 April) a rising star of American comedy and Bo Burnham (21 to 26 April). Or just turn up for the ever-changing late-night roster of comics dedicated to making you laugh.