BE warned! Mark Steel is on his way to turn Pocklington from a market town to a mock-it town.

If you have heard the Swanley socialist columnist, author, comedian and presenter's BBC Radio 4 series Mark Steel's In Town, then here is the live version as he takes to the road to take the michael in Mark Steel's Back In Town.

His 2014 autumn tour will stop off at Pocklington Arts Centre on December 2, when the rapier Steel wit will be piercing all things Pock and Pock-marked at 8pm.

Let Mark explain himself: "The Mark Steel's In Town show, based on the Radio 4 series, in which I write a show centred around each town, has now been to at least five million places. It's a sparkling verdict on humanity that I've mocked them all and somehow am still alive.

"For the Back In Town show, I've found dozens more towns to humiliate, as well as pledging to discover what makes your own town ridiculous. There will be pictures, and ranting; some people will call things out, and you'll be a far better audience than the miserable arses from down the road."

Aside from steeling yourself for the Steel assault, you can look forward to plenty more comedy in the Pock autumn and winter season.

Maverick Irish comic Tommy Tiernan is booked in for October 30, with a second Yorkshire show the following night at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds.

Yorkshire is but one destination on his global travels that have taken him to the United States, Europe, Canada, New Zealand and Australia, where he played two sold-out shows in one night at the Sydney Opera House, as well as a run at the Soho Theatre in London's West End.

Tiernan is noted for his comedic risk-taking in shows that combine story telling with a non-apologetic demeanour and bags of energy in the tradition of a Billy Connolly.

Pock Arts Centre's regular Punchline Comedy Club will bring together the debut Edinburgh Fringe shows by two of Britain's fastest-rising talents, Hull's Lucy Beaumont and Welshman Tommy Rowson, on November 27.

BBC Lucy is the Hull Truck Theatre actress-turned comedy turn who has starred in BBC Three's Live At The Electric and the Silver Sony Award-winning monologue Crush en route to drawing comparisons with Victoria Wood. This year she wrote and performed her first pilot show for BBC Radio 4, To Hull And Back, in which she starred with Johnny Vegas.

Tommy Rowson, meanwhile, creates a quirky, oddball world full of detailed anecdotes, a style that brought him the So You Think You're Funny prize at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Fringe veterans the Noise Next Door will deliver explosive doses of their trademark off-the-cuff comedy at the Christmas Punchline Comedy Club gathering, where side-splitting scenes, mind-blowing songs and finely tuned anarchy will be on the festive menu on December 11, and the club will meet for comic business again on January 29 for a night of Gary Delamey's one-liners. "Expect: jokes," says Gary. "Don't expect: Narrative, themes or a voyage of self-discovery."

Tickets can be booked on 01759 301547 or at pocklingtonartscentre.co.uk