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Asian championing comedy night brings the sauce
JAMES WALSH has his expectations unceremoniously brushed aside by an assorted bunch of inspired wits
Sharlin Jahan on stage

Brown Sauce
2Northdown, London

 

DO YOU ever get sick of going to a comedy night, and finding your entertainment for the evening is largely interchangeable guys called Dave?

Sharlin Jahan sure did, particularly as she’d find herself on alongside them as the token non-white performer.

So she set up her own night, the excellent Brown Sauce, to provide a platform for the best south Asian performers and “other Asian friends.”

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