ONLY 30 tickets are still to be snapped up for Saturday's Hyena Lounge Comedy Club show at The Duchess, York.

Promoter Toby Clouston-Jones says the 8pm bill of Geordie Jason Cook, headliner Steve Harris, compere Barry Dodds plus A.N. Other North-Easterner definitely will sell out, and it would be even more sure to do so if only he could reveal the identity of the mystery man in the middle slot.

"Filling this spot is a a very special secret guest who'll use the gig as a warm-up for his best bits of material ahead of recording his headline slot on BBC1's Live At The Apollo at the start of October," says Toby.

"Well on his way to comedy super-stardom and a familiar face to York, having played the Hyena Lounge many times over the years, this Geordie comic goes out on the second leg of his UK tour next month and will no doubt be on every TV panel show going. We've agreed with this act’s management to not announce his appearance publicly, only to our mailing list."

Without in any way making a connection, What's On has simultaneously received news of this autumn's second leg of the national tour by a certain Chris Ramsey, Jason Cook's co-star in two series of Hebburn, the BBC2 Geordie sitcom written by Cook, in which Ramsey played the lead role of Jack, drawing two million viewers at its peak.

Ramsey's hit touring show, Chris Ramsey: The Most Dangerous Man On Saturday Morning Television, will be visiting the Harrogate Comedy Festival at Harrogate Theatre on October 15 and Leeds City Varieties Music Hall on October 20 as part of a 35-date autumnal trek.

Ramsey's original five-month tour sold out, prompting him to extend his travels with his stories of being thrown off Sky Sports' Soccer AM for what he thought was an innocuous comment. Pondering whether he might actually be "the most dangerous man on Saturday morning television", he discovers what happens when you say the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Ramsey, who piloted his own show for the Beeb about the world of social media, has 278,000 followers on Twitter and has made his mark in such such TV shows as Mock The Week, Celebrity Mastermind, 8 Out Of 10 Cats, ITV2's Celebrity Juice and E4's Virtually Famous.

So, whoever the virtually anonymous special guest may or may not be at The Duchess this weekend, A.N. Other North-Easterner will be in cracking company. Opening the show will be the aforementioned Jason Cook, alias the 3ft-high baker in the Jacob's Cream Crackers adverts, who has spent the past month at the Edinburgh Fringe piecing himself together after therapy in his new stand-up show, Broken. And just to be clear, there is no link between Broken and Crackers.

Tickets for Saturday are on sale at £14 on 01904 641413 or at hyenalounge.com and probably not on the door from 7pm, if Toby's hunch is right.

Harrogate tickets for Chris Ramsey can be booked on 01423 502116 or at harrogatetheatre.co.uk; Leeds, 0113 243 0808 or cityvarieties.co.uk; both shows, chrisramseycomedy.com

P.S. Saturday's mystery man at The Duchess, York, will be in mystery mode there once more on September 27, but What's On didn't tell you.