From delivering his first punchline to becoming a fixture on the comedy scene, Steffen Peddie’s journey has been anything but ordinary.
His initial foray into comedy led him to support roles on children’s TV, but the lure of professional wrestling took him down a path of high-flying antics and theatrical showdowns for a decade. A momentous performance at Viz Magazine’s 25th- anniversary celebration marked his pivot back to comedy, leading to a successful re-entry into stand-up.
His return to the spotlight was met with acclaim, most notably through a starring role in the BBC sitcom “Hebburn”, which won hearts domestically and internationally. Steffen’s dynamic presence extends beyond acting, having hosted on radio and participated in numerous TV adverts and short films.
Comedy superstar Chris Ramsey headlines our very special launch event for this year’s Hull Comedy Festival.
The 2024 festival will launch with our biggest ever show at Connexin Live, Hull on Friday, 1 November to celebrate our 18th Festival.
Chris Ramsey will be joined by Chloe Petts and a number of other performers to be announced soon.
Chris Ramsey is a regular face on TV. As well as Taskmaster (Channel 4), Chris is a recurring guest presenter for the One Show (BBC One) and hosted two series of his very own show The Chris Ramsey Show and Chris Ramsey’s Stand up Central (Comedy Central). In 2019, Chris was a semi-finalist of 2019’s Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One).
He has also appeared on TV hosting I’m a Celebrity: Extra Camp (ITV2) as well as appearing on the Royal Variety Performance (ITV) and Live at the Apollo (BBC1), Never Mind the Buzzcocks (BBC Two), A League of Their Own (Sky Max), 8 Out of 10 Cats, Celebrity Gogglebox (Channel 4) Celebrity Juice, (ITV2), to name a few.
Alongside his wife Rosie he is also the co-host of the award winning no.1 podcast Shagged. Married. Annoyed. Following the incredible success of their podcast with over 100 million downloads, the husband and wife duo have taken the show from their living room to arenas around the country with their domestic wit in 2021. The pair performed two sold out shows at Connexin Live in 2023.
Roy Walker is a legendary Irish Comedian and Former ‘Catchphrase’ Presenter. Comedian Roy is well known to TV viewers for presenting the top ITV game show, Catchphrase. His lugubrious style of humour his dead-pan expression and his approach to entertaining, has paid handsome dividends.
Flying in from Tenerife the Fantastic Kevin Isaac as Comedy Elvis
You are all invited to join A’lad’in Ull and his friends as they try to get a rub…of his lamp.
This year’s spectacular production is packed full of all the traditional panto ingredients, with an added twist!
There’ll be witty one-liners, innuendo aplenty and of course a lot of laughs.
The award-winning, viral sensation is hitting the road with a brand-new tour bringing together her sell-out fringe 2023 hit and its much anticipated 2024 follow-up.
As the year 2000 approached Sooz was about to turn 15 and the PlayStation 2 was about to launch…it was a new beginning for the world. But with the Millennium Bug was the world also about to end!? Now, almost a quarter of a century later, things feel eerily similar… Sooz is looking at class through the lens of doing her GCSEs in 2000 at a state comp…while knowing all about dressage. Politics, horses, EastEnders and the Millennium Bug. A show for anyone who remembers the year 2000 or had big dreams as a kid.
Sooz is an award-winning comedy performer, singer, writer, and actor who has written and performed eight solo stand-up hours at the Edinburgh Fringe. She is a regular collaborator with Richard Thomas (Jerry Springer the Opera, Made in Dagenham) and hosts two podcasts, Mystery on the Rocks and QueenPod, the official podcast for the band Queen. In Spring 2023 it was announced that Sooz has been cast as Doom in a major new multi-platform Doctor Who spin-off series. Additionally, she will be playing a lead guest role in an upcoming US sitcom for Amazon Prime and CBS.
The award-winning comedian Alfie Brown is back with his first show since the fabric of his reality disintegrated. In this show Alfie separates his failures from his misfortunes and arrives at the conclusion that ‘life is beautiful’. Captivating and subversive stand-up from one of the very best in the country.
Tom’s funny and today’s funny don’t always see eye to eye, but that’s cool; it’s not Tom’s way to follow the herd. He much prefers to take the path less travelled (some smart guy once said that).
Join this independent spirit and irrepressible force of nature, as he airdrops his ingenious and unflinching comedy into an ever-changing minefield.
It’s a risky business navigating the tightrope of today’s times but Tom’s approaching it with his usual gusto. Without risk there is no reward.
An evening of different, original, ironic, surreal, dark, and hilarious comedy.
Jay Mack: The Gypsy Comedian. Live. Laugh. Loathe. Leeds-based and a regular at Comedy Unleashed. He’s appeared in Hull and Yorkshire at A Carload Of Comics, Drunken Moose and Cottingham Comedy Club.
Multi-award-winning super loon Tony Law returns with a new show of nonsense and absurdity. Some weird history and ghosts, and cats and dogs and wars and ducks and Britophilia.
The older man with a childish mind and a naughty streak is always entertaining and original and naturally funny but not afraid to do simple shouty silly voices. A whirlwind of surreal farm boy hardcore whimsy.
“Genius”. – The Telegraph.
5-time Chortle Award winner
Edinburgh Award nominee
Melbourne Comedians Choice Award – winner.
One of the most celebrated stars in British comedy is back with his brand new work-in-progress hour for one night only!
As seen on: Live at The Apollo (BBC Two), The Last Leg (C4), Mock the Week (BBC Two), Comedians Giving Lectures (Dave), Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled (Dave), Comic Relief’s Big Night In (BBC One), Live from the BBC (BBC Two), The Chris Ramsey Show (Comedy Central), Live from the Comedy Store (Comedy Central) and Sunday Times best-selling author (Secret Diary of a British Muslim Aged 13 3⁄4)
★★★★ The Guardian ★★★★ The Times ★★★★ The Telegraph
Alun Cochrane has been performing somewhat observational, somewhat topical, somewhat curmudgeonly comedy for decades. He has done comedy clubs, some television, some radio, and many festivals.
Nowadays eschewing the Edinburgh fringe, Alun instead is going to record Comedy Specials for YouTube every year, until he has run out of jokes, or of life.
Come see a master of topical observational curmudgeonly comedy ascertain which jokes will one day work on tiny screens for people with even tinier attention spans.
Award-winning stand-up comedian Alun Cochrane has appeared on numerous TV shows including Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, Russell Howard’s Good News, Mock The Week, Dave’s One Night Stand, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Have I Got News For You and 8 Out Of 10 Cats. He was featured as series regular ‘Sam’ in the Sky Living sitcom Trying Again, alongside Chris Addison and has appeared in Coronation Street, Boomers and Russell Howard’s Christmas film A Gert Lush Christmas.
Alun was the co-host of The Frank Skinner Show on Absolute, for which he received a 2012 Arqiva Award nomination for Best Newcomer. The show also won a Sony Award in 2011 for Best Entertainment Programme and was nominated again in 2012. He regularly features on BBC Radio 4’s The Comedy Club. Other radio credits include The Now Show, Just A Minute, Dilemma, Loose Ends, Lee Mack And Friends and Listomania. Alun wrote and starred in the Radio 4 series Alun Cochrane’s Fun House, offering listeners a room-by-room stand-up tour of his home.
‘The Greatest Performance of My Life’, a poignant exploration of comedy intertwined with the essence of life’s ups and downs. Justin’s unparalleled ability to blend side-splitting humour with touching insights offers a rare glimpse into the human condition through the lens of a comedian. This performance is more than just a series of jokes; it’s a heartfelt journey through the joys, sorrows, and hilarity of life, delivered with Justin’s characteristic charisma and warmth. Prepare to laugh, reflect, and connect deeply with every story, making this evening an unforgettable highlight in your cultural calendar.
He’s not just Young Kenny – the one with the Tiger Face from Phoenix Nights.
Justin has been seen recently on ‘Richard Osman’s House of Games’, ‘Qi’, ‘Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled’ and ‘Live At The Apollo’, and is also a new firm favourite in Dictionary Corner on C4’s’ Countdown’.
You’ll hear him regularly on Radio 4’s ‘The News Quiz’ and as a Champion of Champions on BBC 5Live’s Fighting Talk, as well as his weekly contributions to the Warm Up on Talk Sport with Max Rushden and Barry Glendenning guessing attendances every Sunday morning.
His podcast About 30 Minutes No More than 45 has been a firm favourite with fans for over two hundred episodes and over a million downloads and He continuously tours theatres across the UK.
“The amount of first-rate comic craft that goes into his routines is worthy of admiration.” – THE GUARDIAN
Larry Dean and Brennan Reece have doubled up for an exclusive evening of brand-new comedy
Larry Dean: Some New Jokes
Three-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee tries some new jokes.
As seen and heard on ‘Live at the Apollo’, ‘Mock the Week’, ‘Michael McIntyre’s Big Show’ and ‘Shared Baggage’.
Brennan Reece – Me Me Me
Live at the Apollo. Roast Battle. Over 100 million views online. Everything was going perfectly for this cheeky Northern gobshite, until he got fired for telling a joke. A reeeeally bad one. Only joking. Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominee. Joe Lycett and Micky Flanagan Tour Support.
Jokes, rants, politics, play and the occasional sing-song.
If you don’t know what he does ask your parents.
In his time he has won awards (current total is now officially ‘loads’), forced a politician to resign, changed laws on tax and protest, became the Guinness Book of Records world record holder for the number of protests in 24 hours, taken the police to court 3 times and won, walked the length of the Israeli Wall in the West Bank and generally mucked about trying to have fun and fuck the right people off.
This show is more of the above.
Following a sell-out UK and Ireland Spring tour, and after announcing a third run in London’s West End at The Gielgud Theatre, comic legend Frank Skinner adds extra tour dates in Autumn 2024 for his critically acclaimed new stand-up show,’30 Years of Dirt’.
WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING ABOUT ’30 YEARS OF DIRT’
“A comedian so funny that it’s almost obscene. 30 Years of Dirt is a sparkling tour de force from a craftsman with exquisite control of his art.”
★★★★★ Dominic Maxwell, The Times
“he’s still got it… a comedy master… a masterclass in crowd work, with Skinner getting spontaneous laughs off every interaction…exquisite one-liners”
Steve Bennett, Chortle
“Skinner is never less than beadily alert…you come away happy that after 30 years Frank’s still dishing his dirt, and happier still that he can dish plenty more besides.”
Brian Logan, The Guardian
“immaculately constructed…Skinner’s crowdwork is as sharp as ever…he can spool out a yarn every bit as entertainingly as prime-era Billy Connolly.”
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard
