Two stars who have risen in the comedy galaxy during the past few years are Glenn Moore and Adam Hess.

Television is a rabid beast when it comes to gobbling up new talent and Adam has successfully cooked up the right recipe for Tonight At the Palladium, Live Form The BBC, and The Chris Ramsay Show. Glenn is one of the staff writers on Russell Howard’s Good News, he also writes for CITV’s Scrambled, Play To The Whistle and The Mash Report, as well as making his debut appearance on Mock the Week.

Now the comedians have got together to create a theatre show, made up of the best bits of both their sets, honed at the Edinburgh Festival, which they are touring throughout the UK.

Glenn said that he will be bringing the basis of his show, The Very Best Of Belinda Carlisle, on their UK tour and stopping off in Swindon.

“It is about me living at my grandfather’s and solving a murder mystery. They seemed to like it at the Fringe,’’ he said.

Adam’s section of the show is a more personal account. “It is me talking about my previous years of life, about me and my fiancee breaking up, and moving back to live with the parents,’’ said Adam.

Glenn is no stranger to Swindon as he was here a few weeks ago with his other comedy cohort, Matt Stevens, in their project Thunderbards, which is a comedy sketch show.

The comedians have a number of tour bus tales, including the classic drunken man who laughs in all the wrong places.

“He was having a good time,’’ said Adam. “In Newcastle there were these two girls who were laughing so hard at Glenn, clinking their glasses and screaming about so much they were asked to leave.’’

Glenn says that Mock The Week was his favourite TV show when he was growing up, so it was quite daunting to be asked to appear on the panel.

“It was crazy, it came out of the blue. You go to the Fringe hoping to be offered Mock The Week, but it was a real surprise, so special. I did more prep than I needed, writing a whole bunch of jokes for sharing. The TV people and the rest of the panel were supportive, but I felt inexperienced alongside them. It does make you step up your game,’’ said Glenn.

The comedians met when they were both starting out in 2011. They were competing in the Chortle Students Comedy Awards.

“Adam came first and me second. It was good place to start,’’ said Glenn. “It helps when the audience is your own age. It is easy, and a good way to start before being released into the wild. After a while you learn to centre your jokes and they work for any age. You go on stage and immediately have a look, hoping that the first two rows are representative.’’

Adam has done a bit of acting alongside his comedy but says that in general comedians are not actors, despite what their agents seem to think.

“I have done a bit, I was in Count Arthur Strong with Roy Kinnear. He was lovely, he kept telling me how good I was and I thought he must be joking! I’m bad at acting. I am scared of auditions.

“I’m dyslexic and I turned up at this audition and was given a script I had never seen. It was nerve wracking, it was for a big sitcom. As I got my glasses from my case, out fell a tuna sandwich which flopped on to the floor.

“I read, through tuna-covered glasses, a piece all about pottery. They said that’s very good Adam, now could you read us the piece on poetry! So I am obviously the next James Bond.”

Glenn is very much in demand on radio and can be heard on the Christian O’Connell Breakfast Show on Absolute Radio, and BBC Radio 4.

Glenn and Adam will be having a laugh at Swindon’s Arts Centre, Old Town, on Thursday May 3 from 8pm. Tickets are £14.50 from 01793 524481 or visit www.swindontheatres.co.uk - Flicky Harrison