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Bright Club is a number of events organised in the United Kingdom, which promote public engagement by specialists, particularly those based in universities. Bright Club is described by The Guardian as 'a "thinking person's" comedy night' and Londonist as 'where funny meets brains'.

Format
Bright Club is delivered in the style of a comedy club but most of the performers are scientists, academics or other specialists. There is a compere and musicians play a set half way through and at the end of the evening.

Development
Bright Club started at University College London, the brainchild of Steve Cross and Miriam Miller. The first event was held in May 2009 and a Bright Club now happens in London once a month. Bright Club Manchester held its first event in May 2010 and now hosts events every two or three months. Bright Club Wales held its first event, in Cardiff, in November 2010.

There has been a one-off Bright Club in Brighton and a 500-seater Bright Club in the Bloomsbury Theatre.

Steve Cross won the Joshua Phillips award for innovation in science engagement in a ceremony at the Manchester Science Festival in October 2010.