MICK Ferry will make it back to Blighty from Mumbai in time for his Hyena Lounge Comedy Club engagement on Sunday in an Edinburgh Preview double bill in the Basement at City Screen, York.

Ferry puts his talent as a lugubrious surrealism to use as both a compere and headline act, performing regularly at the Comedy Store in London and Manchester, where he is a member of the topical Cutting Edge Team.

He has appeared on Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow and is lead writer for John Bishop’s Britain, both on BBC1, and in 2009 he made his silver-screen debut in Ken Loach’s Looking For Eric.

That year he played the Edinburgh Comedy Festival for the first time, returning there last summer with The Missing Chippendale (Body Issues).

In 2011, he is counting down to extinction, with prizes, in Sod It!, as he takes in the news that the end is nigh, asks if you are panicking or beyond caring, and says: “Here’s your final chance to be petty or gain karma points”. The final curtain will fall at the Gilded Balloon Teviot from August 3 to 28, so at least he will survive a Sunday night in York.

The 7.30pm show has a touch of magic about too, courtesy of comedic conjuror Pete Firman, who first burst on to the nation’s television screens as cheeky northerner Tufty in Five’s Monkey Magic.

“Since then he has traveled the world meeting his magic heroes and performing his own brand of anarchic magic in Sky One’s The Secret World Of Magic and amazed viewers with his ability to perform disgusting tricks with animals, cigarettes and big spiky things in Channel 4’s Dirty Tricks,” says Hyena Lounge promoter, Toby Clouston-Jones.

After previous solo appearances at the Edinburgh Fringe with Hokum, Flim-Flam, The Pete Firman Magic Show and Jokes & Tricks, he returns to Scotland next month with Jiggery Pokery, the new show he will be road-testing in York on Sunday.

Doors open at 7pm. Tickets cost £8 on 0871 902 5726 or thebasementyork.co.uk