After two hugely successful national comedy tours, Dan Nightingale (host of the ‘Have A Word Podcast’) is doing something a little different in 2024: he’s hosting a run of shows with some of his favourite comedians on the bill.
With Dan doing what he does best and some of his very funny stand-up friends (or fiends) smashing sets… you won’t want to miss out; these shows will be the very best type of comedy mayhem.
Multi-award-winning comedian Ray Bradshaw is forever being told “you look just like my mate…” wherever he goes. It’s been happening for years and he’s worried about it. Either someone is cloning generic bald men or, there’s a ginger bearded bald man out there who’s doing a bad job of stalking Ray. In his brand-new show Doppelginger, Ray is going to use the latest in genetic research (the internet) to try and put an end to this once and for all. He’s on a quest to find the person who looks most like him.
Doppelginger is a funny heartwarming comedy show about a silly search for a man with an orange beard who’s follicly challenged. If you have a bald, ginger-bearded friend in their 30s (true at time of writing), then bring them along. You never know – they could be The One.
Ray’s last show Deaf Com One was a huge success and sold-out theatres across the world. The show was all about growing up with deaf parents and as a result every show of Doppelginger will have a BSL interpreter. Ray has previously supported John Bishop on his UK arena tour after John described him as ‘one of the best comedians in the country’.
Ian Smith (as heard on BBC Radio 4’s ‘The News Quiz’, ‘The Now Show’, ‘Just a Minute’ and co-hosting the ‘Northern News’ podcast) presents a show about stress, love and driving a tank with your hairdresser. Three classic and timeless themes.
Fresh from a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe, Ian Smith brings his critically acclaimed and multi-award-nominated show on tour.
Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show Nominee 2023
Next Up Biggest Award in Comedy Runner-up 2023
Jay-Z famously said, ‘Once a good girl goes bad, they’re gone forever’. Irish comedian Mike Rice was a good girl, and he’s gone bad.
Mike Rice is embarking on the debut tour of his hilarious new show, where he explores how a once-good Catholic boy has taken the devil as a dance partner.
Mike has millions of views online and has been featured on the BBC, RTE, and Radio 1.
‘The best new comedian I’ve seen in years’ (Karl Spain).
Currently living in London, Mike Rice regularly headlines clubs around the UK and Ireland, Including Top Secret, The Glee Clubs, and the Laughter Lounge (Dublin) Mike has performed stand-up comedy twice on Irish National Television (RTE) as part of ‘The Ray Darcy Show’ (Dec 2019) and ‘Laughter in the Eyre’ (Feb 2020), and on BBC3 (BBC New Comedy Award 2022), and was recently nominated for Channel 4’s Sean Lock Comedy Award. Mike brought four separate solo shows to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2018, 2019, 2022, and 2023. He has a successful podcast called “Mike and Vittorio’s Guide to Parenting,” which has been in existence since January 2023 and is regularly ranked on the Irish and UK podcast charts.
A stand-up comedy show in English about failures in relationships and love with the most hilarious comedians in Europe!
Laugh along as the mischievous Victor Patrascan and his hilarious friends take you through their lives, romantic adventures, dating successes, but mostly failures, and much more…
Victor Pãtrãşcan is a pretentious stand-up comedian and outrageous social commentator who was born in Romania. Since he started performing stand up comedy in 2012, he has told his jokes in front of a crowd of people in the United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Turkey, Sweden, Denmark, France, Serbia, Switzerland, Finland, Belgium, Iceland, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Gibraltar, Norway, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, United Arab Emirates, Bulgaria, Hungary, Ukraine and Romania.
In 2022, he performed in front of over 16.000 people, in 70 cities from 27 countries on 2 continents. Since April 2021 he’s been touring with his self-produced stand-up comedy shows in English throughout Europe.
In 2019 and 2020, he travelled through Europe with his show called “The Trouble with Being Born Romanian” in over 30 cities. During the same years, he topped the charts at No. 1 in the rankings of ”Roast Battle London”. Victor was also a special guest on the Romanian TV show iUmor where he provoked with his brash humour.
Double Emmy Award winner and star of ‘Smack The Pony’ is doing her first-ever show.
Like most working mums, since her children were born, she didn’t have a moment for herself. Now free, she has tried new hobbies, new places, even attempting to get fit.
Difficult when your spirit animal is a sloth. With nowhere left to turn, she went on the road as a stand-up.
A show about family, marriage, and things that truly annoy her. It’s a show for everyone, even those passive-aggressive school mums.
“Her candid and relatable humour creates an atmosphere of shared laughter, making the entire performance an enjoyable comedic hour” EdFest Reviews
“Allen makes for confident and appealingly barbed company” The Guardian
“Punchlines delivered with a wicked, cutting execution” The Scotsman
“Every woman in this audience cheers her on and secretly males plans to jump into a suitcase and join her!” The List
“Allen sets to her her job with unrelenting fluency, she is thoroughly professional” Times
Star of 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Have I Got News For You and QI, Kiri Pritchard-McLean has had a busy few years. As well as hosting Live at the Apollo, fronting the Radio 4 panel show Best Medicine and starting a comedy school, she’s become a foster parent.
Didn’t know that about her? Well, until now she hasn’t been able to talk about it on stage, she hasn’t even told the kids in her care that she’s a comedian. Oh, and she uses a different name – she’s the Bruce Wayne of comedy but without the mansions.
However, this year something changed and after a couple of the eggiest gigs of her career in boardrooms to social workers a show about becoming a foster carer has been signed off! So, come and join “Louise” as she lifts the lid on social workers, first aid training and what not to do when a vicar searches for you on YouTube.
Join the co-creator and co-host of cult hit podcast All Killa No Filla for a joyous and uplifting show from a comedian known for making “powerhouse stand-up from the thorniest of subjects” (The Guardian.)
“expect sequins, social commentary, and massive laughs from the renaissance woman of UK comedy” – Rolling Stone
A delight to have comedian Hayley Ellis back with us this Spring.
Sharp, clever and very funny, with warmth, quick wit and the ability to ad-lib means she is one of the fastest-rising women in comedy.
It’s a show full of silly stories, observations and audience interactions. Including body confidence when ageing, family holidays, and dinosaurs.
As seen as Tour support for Sarah Millican, Jason Manford, Ellie Taylor and John Bishop
After selling out 110 dates across the UK and Europe, Simon Brodkin, the world-famous prankster, Lee Nelson creator and most-watched British stand-up comedian on TikTok, brings his outrageous stand-up show to Hull City Hall.
In ‘Screwed Up’, Simon rips into celebrity culture, social media, the police, Putin, Prince Andrew and God! Nothing is off limits in this critically acclaimed show, including his own mental health, his family, his five arrests and how he once found himself at an underground sex party.
“No show has made me laugh more” ★★★★
The Times
“Screwed Up is a full-on rat-a-tat gag fest” ★★★★
The Mail on Sunday
From the quote attributed to Mark Twain, humour is defined as Tragedy Plus Time. Come and join Ed as he tests that formula by mining the most tragic event in his life for laughs.
Edinburgh Fringe 2023 was a bumper 5-star review year for Ed. They came in thick and fast alongside outstanding critical acclaim for this exceptionally funny, “Best Reviewed Stand Up Show at Edinburgh 2023” (British Comedy Guide).
As seen as hosting Live At The Apollo and regular appearances on QI and Mock The Week (BBC).
Voted ‘Comedians’ Comedian of The Year 2022’, Jo Caulfield is “quite simply, a damn funny woman.” (The Guardian)
Jo has appeared on Mock The Week, Have I Got News For You, The John Bishop Show, Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, The Royal Variety Performance, and Richard Osman’s House of Games.
A prolific comedy writer Jo worked for many years as a writer on So Graham Norton on Channel 4. She has also written for Ruby Wax, Joan Rivers, Denise Van Outen and Ant & Dec.
Nominated as “the best female Stand Up in the country” (Chortle) and “one of the Top 100 Comedians” (Channel 4), Jo is a regular on Radio 4 and a returning guest on Breaking The News. Jo’s first book, “The Funny Thing About Death” was published in August 2023.
Here Comes Trouble is 90 minutes of razor-sharp observations and scandalous one-liners, as Jo gets her claws into everything (and everyone) that annoys her.
From stories about arguing with strangers on trains to dealing with over- enthusiastic supermarket staff, and trying to recapture the magic in a long-term relationship to “helping” organise her newly divorced friend’s dating life, this is pure stand-up, delivered with nothing more than a microphone and a bad attitude.
Packed with brilliant lines, embarrassing anecdotes and hilarious insights, Here Comes Trouble “will have you absolutely helpless with laughter.” – The Herald
“Sharp-witted urban comedy that goes down a treat… like a sociology textbook but with jokes” – The Times
“One of Britain’s smartest comics. She never fails to nail the laugh.” – Scotsman
“The laughs keep coming, thick and fast. She’s an expert.” – Bouquets & Brickbats
“One of the finest female comedians at work” – The Observer ★★★★★
“An evening of perfect comedy” – The Metro ★★★★★
“One of UK’s smartest comics” – The Herald ★★★★★
Nick Helm – the man with the golden larynx and greatest living all-round entertainer – is BACK!
After years and years of therapy, pills, personal growth and being a living legend the nation’s favourite Uncle and International Treasure-in-Waiting returns to the road to mesmerise a new generation of thrill seekers in his all new, brand new, box fresh show. Come and see your Golden Emperor shake his ass and give you the only thing you’ve ever wanted… the best damn night of your fragile lives.
Since starting stand-up comedy in 2007, Nick quickly gained attention from across the industry for his unique, powerful and above all hilarious blend of one-liners, stories, poems and songs. His previous shows enjoyed sell-out runs at Edinburgh Fringe, and he has been twice nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Awards.
He has also released two successful albums, played lead roles in hit TV sitcoms Uncle and Loaded, fronted two of his own TV shows Eat Your Heart Out (Dave) and Nick Helm’s Heavy Entertainment (BBC), and was nominated for a BAFTA for short film Elephant, which he co-wrote, directed and starred in. As also seen on Live at the Apollo (BBC), 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (Channel 4), The Reluctant Landlord (Sky) and many more.
‘Genuinely exciting’ ★★★★★ Telegraph
‘Terrific’ ★★★★ Times
‘A true comedy daredevil’ ★★★★ Time Out
Do you like comedy? Do you like shows? What are your thoughts on excellence? If you like all three, then Edinburgh Award-nominated Phil Ellis’s Excellent Comedy Show is the excellent comedy show for you.
One of the top 20 best-reviewed shows of The Fringe, this is an hour of hilarious stand-up and fun from the North West’s most punctual working-class comedian.
Nominee: Best Comedy Show – Edinburgh Comedy Awards.
Winner: The Malcom Hardee Award for Comic Originality
This February 14th, treat your other half to a night of love and laughter at The Comedy Lounge on Valentine’s Day Comedy Special!
Triple Headliner special 2-4-1 Cocktails 2-4-1 Burgers plus we will have our normal menu.
Betty Bangs has 25 years experience as a vocalist. She is a mean and witty adult comedy drag queen with a really big personality!!
This is being billed as not for the easily offended – and is definitely for over-18s only.
Come and join us in a… world of pure imagination!
Join in the chaos and commotion in our new Easter Eggstravaganza: Willy W*nka!!
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