Twitter Comedy Club

At 8pm on the 8th June, the first online comedy club will be happening via the medium of Twitter. Nine comedians are taking part in the live gig which you can watch unfold from the comfort of your own sofa. No one, comics included, need to leave their houses and assuming you have broadband, it's totally free. Each act will spend ten minutes twittering a comedy set, within the boundaries of the 140 character limit.

9 comedians, 140 characters... can it be funny? Well I hope so as I'm planning to follow! Of course it's not going to have the atmosphere of a 'real life' gig; the bristling fear of being picked on, the smell of beer, the one man who sits stoney faced and cross-armed scowling up a storm, or that one irriating shrieker (mandatory comedy requirement), whose constant "arghhhahahahahahaha" shreds mirth into thin soggy strips. The events organisers have taken into account the crowd's likelihood to heckle though, and instead of laughter they encourage the concept of retweeting (RT to all twitter proficient bods).

Mark 'Stupid Magners Commercial' Watson (one of the famous names taking part) has described it as a 'defining moment', Steven Fry has settled for 'larky'. Either way, if you want to join in with the virtual hijinx then follow the #twitcom tag on twitter.

Comedians include:

• Mark Watson - @watsoncomedian

• Pappy's Fun Club - @PappysFunClub

• Mitch Benn – @MitchBenn

• Matt Kirshen – @mattkirshen (who I'm especially looking forward to, he's quite the exceptional twitterer, not to mention real life stand up comic)

• Rob Heeney – @robheeney

• Carl Donnelly – @carldonnelly

• Terry Saunders – @terrysaunders

• Gary Delaney – @garydelaney

As someone who regularly chuckles away when reading on trains (and of course lives in a stupid place with few ground breaking comedy performances), I have no problems with laughing uncontrollably at a screen... my flatmate may think I've gone off my chump, but she shouldn't be listening through our ridiculously thin walls! Mind you, like I say: Aberystwyth... you take entertainment where you can get it and wall listening has to be fun thing # 872.

For more information you can check out either @tweetcomedyclub or spoonfed, the event promoter's website.