A stellar name has been added to the bill for Fairfield Halls' impressive comedy season this autumn.

Reginald D Hunter, Stephen K Amos and Milton Jones are already set to showcase their best jokes later this year.

Now Andy Parsons, one of the star names from the hit comedy panel show Mock the Week, is set to perform his new show, I’ve Got a Shed.

Parsons has already released two stand-up DVDs called Britain’s Got Idiots and Gruntled.

The bubbly character says his new tour will involve a lot of jokes at his own expense. One of the stories is about a time he fell off a routemaster bus.

In other parts of the show the comedian talks about current affairs and why, in his view, politics is at such a low ebb at the moment.

Parsons always aims to have a rapport with his audience, and he hopes to recreate the magic of previous tours on his latest round of the country.

He says: "On a hundred-date tour, if you had no interaction and you just did the show unchanged, it would soon become pedestrian.

"The best bits of any show are where you're interacting with the audience. The great thing is that with Twitter now you can carry on interacting after the show has finished.

"There are few better feelings than hearing a whole theatre laughing at something you’ve written. Sometimes a room just goes ‘Bang!’ When that happens, you can almost have a sit down and make yourself a cup of tea before coming back thirty seconds later.

"It’s an extremely enjoyable thing."

He adds: "’I’ve Got a Shed’ is more about me and my feelings. I'm not getting out a big mallet and whopping people over the head with it.

"I start off the show by getting off my soapbox and being introspective, which is unusual for me.

"I am a news junkie and politics will always come into it. In the show, I discuss why politics is at such a low ebb at the moment.

"People are saying we should regulate journalists, but in fact now the public trust journalists more than they trust politicians. That's a pretty sad state of affairs."

Andy Parsons: I’ve Got A Shed, Fairfield Halls, Park Lane, November 15, 8pm, £15, call 02086889291 or visit Fairfield.co.uk.