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Also, this weekend it’s a night out in Jongleurs and we get a new bed and sofa delivered!
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This enables you to get big discounts (such as a comedy evening with three-course dinner at Jongleurs for £5 instead of £40) – provided you can get enough friends to agree to take it up.
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The chain faced a bleak future last year when its indebted parent company, Regent Inns, went bust but the Jongleurs name and rights have now reverted back to founders Maria Kempinska and John Davy.
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• Comedy club founders set to open clubs in six UK cities• Jongleurs joins forces with Novus Leisure for £2m rollout
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She said Jongleurs had been an innovator in standup and that it came as no surprise that comedy was doing well in harsh economic times.
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Jongleurs said it was seeking to capitalise on a "comedy boom" in the UK after sell-out arena tours from standup comedians Michael McIntyre, Ricky Gervais and Chris Rock and booming DVD sales.
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Regent Inns emerged from what was a pre-pack administration as Intertain and has renamed the venues that previously traded as Jongleurs, Highlights.
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Kempinska, who started Jongleurs over a pub in Battersea, London in 1983, joined forces with Davy two years later and they built the Jongleurs brand, with its comedy nights playing host to then unknown performers, including the likes of Paul Merton and Mike Myers.
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Jongleurs, the chain of comedy clubs that gave a host of comedians including Graham Norton and Ben Elton their big break, is to open six venues after its founders regained control of the brand.
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King, powerful in all the craft of Troubadours and Jongleurs, is held in peculiar esteem for conducting mysteries, and other of those gamesome and delightful sports and processions with which our holy Church permits her graver ceremonies to be relieved and diversified, to the cheering of the hearts of all true children of religion.
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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