There's an easy way of finding out whether you are ready to enter Reginald D Hunter's world.

If you laugh at the title of his new show and the picture on the left then the box office number is below.

If you are horrified, then join the ranks of Viacom, which banned the tour poster from the London Underground.

"I try to make my show titles funny,"

Reginald says. "I am always surprised when people are upset or offended by it.

The idea is, if this made you laugh, there is more of this in the show!"

The American-born comic admits he thinks censorship and political correctness are important, if only to give artists something to rail against.

Perhaps it was this attitude which led to one reviewer calling him the "black Bernard Manning".

"It was an inordinately inaccurate review," Reginald says. "When I first saw that comment, I had to stand back in awe.

But once my initial shock was over I thought it was a striking image."

And soon enough the quote was on his promotional literature.

"It's a lazy thing, making Bernard Manning a poster child for racism in Britain," Reginalds says. "A lot of people are racist in Britain and not all of them are white.

"When I look at his stuff, pound for pound, he is a very good comedian, it's true. The man makes me laugh!"

What annoys him are the people who would never use a word like nigga but would still "prevent certain people getting jobs, or would walk across the street to avoid them".

"Political correctness is primarily concerned with language," Reginald observes. "You can still be as racist as you want, just don't talk about it."

Pride and Prejudice and Niggas was at last year's Paramount Comedy festival and won a Writer's Guild Award for Comedy at Edinburgh. Rather than racism, it takes as its theme the compromises people make through life.

"I was feeling compromised at the time, by my relationship, by work, my family," Reginald says. "I felt like a lot of people were trying to slip fine print under me."

Such compromises include losing contact with your friends when you start dating someone new, and having to deal with your partner's parents for an afternoon.

"If you are pretty steadfast about what you won't compromise on, then you are on your way to artistic integrity, but on the flipside you are going to be by yourself," Reginald says.

"You end up compromising because you want peace."

  • Starts 7.30pm, tickets £12/£10. Call 01273 647100.