Portsmouth football club may be languishing in league two, but it can now claim the world record for hosting the longest ever standup gig. More than 60 comedians took to the club's aptly named Victory Suite to perform 80 hours 40 minutes of consecutive comedy between Saturday afternoon and Wednesday evening.

Though a long way from Los Angeles, Fratton Park forced the Laugh Factory in Hollywood to cede its comedy crown at 10pm on Wednesday night, beating the existing record set by 150 US stand-ups in 2010.

"We are all still making sense of it," said Joe Wells, the 25-year-old comic from Waterlooville who organised the marathon to raise funds for Sports Relief and Portsmouth's New Theatre Royal, which is currently undergoing major refurbishment.

"It's definitely given us back some local pride and I hope it has a knock-on effect on the city's standup scene. Portsmouth's got some great comedy clubs now – there's even standup at the top of the Spinnaker Tower. We want to be seen as a comedy city on a par with Brighton, Bristol and Manchester."

Among his highlights from the past four days, Wells cites half-Spanish, half-Welsh standup Ignacio Lopez performing at the "completely unworkable" time of 8am. "It's good to see people still smiling on a Monday morning."

For the record to count, there had to be at least 10 audience members in the crowd at all times. "There weren't many of them, but they laughed a lot," said Marc Burrows of his hour-long set to 15 people at 2am on Sunday. "Half of them were in onesies and blankets, the bar had shut ages ago and everyone had been awake so long the night had taken on a genuinely surreal edge. There was a feeling of everyone being in it together. It was weirdly fun."