Coventry comic Guz Khan has told fellow funnymen Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe to 'get down the Rialto'. He appeared on their popular Parenting Hell podcast and name-checked many places in the city.

They spoke about how he is going to be hitting the West End, at the Harold Pinter theatre, later this month with his first stand-up show in three years. Rob Beckett asked about where Guz Khan normally plays his 'homecoming' gigs as he said that whenever he gigs in Coventry it is at Warwick University.

Rob Beckett then asked what the big theatre was in Coventry. Guz Khan replied: "They are nice people at the Warwick Arts Centre, but it ain't Warwick, that's a different place, it's in Cov."

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He went on: "You have got the Belgrade, you have got this place. It's not a massive room, about 600 people, it's called the Rialto and it is proper in the 'Ends.

"So you get all of the mad lads, all of the crazy biscuits, they all come together. If you can, the next time you are in Cov, do the Rialto."

Rob Beckett then googled the Rialto - only to confuse it with the Rialto in California. "The California one is unbelievable, the Coventry one is all right, it is decent," he joked.

During the interview the former teacher Khan spoke of his love for the city and how he and his family still spend two to three days a week at the first family home in Coventry, next to his mum's.

The Man Like Mobeen star also spoke about how he stays grounded by taking his kids to 'Hilly' - in reference to Hillfields. "It means a lot to me that they (his children) remember where they are from," he said.

"Where we spend time, there is a place in Hillfields, where I used to go with my cousins and get in mad trouble but was conversely still part of the most fun part of my life growing up. We still go back there regularly, once or twice a week. Hilly's is a rough place but I tend to do that, as they get older, I never want to take them somewhere and show them somewhere and they (his children) say 'Oh dad I am not really into that'.

"But they really enjoy it, theynreally enjoy me talking to my aunties and uncles who I grew up with. They put a hand on their shoulder and my shoulder and give us a reminder and good advice."

The Coventry born and bred comic and TV star will be at the West End theatre from September 21, 22 and 23, with tickets priced at £20.

"We are doing tickets at the most competitive and most affordable," he said.

"The people I represent, I am giving them the opportunity to feel a little slice of the West End," he said. The Parenting Hell podcast can be found online.

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