Hull Truck Theatre’s theatre-making group for retired adults, bring you a witty, thought-provoking, and uplifting comedy about community and compassion.
In the centre of a fictional down-on-its luck northern town, next to the car park and just left of the Tesco express…sits a serene garden. Planted and pruned and by a team of green-fingered and gossipy volunteers.
The council want to demolish Mick McGill’s house but they haven’t reckoned on the West Hull Irregulars, Mick’s own private army. The self-styled ‘Major’ McGill is willing to use all of his resources to prevent his family being uprooted from their home and moved to a new housing estate. These resources include his troops, several heavy-duty vehicles and even a tank.
Will Mick convince the council to back down? Can he save his home from the bulldozers? How is a bloke from Hull allowed his own army division? All of these questions and more will (hopefully) be answered.
A new comedy by Dave Lee definitely not based on real-life events.
After 5O years in show business Roy Chubby Brown has proven himself time and time again!
Thirty different DVDS in 3O years, thousands of live shows worldwide, four books, countless original songs and millions of fans are testimony to the fact that he is … Britain’s King Of Comedy.
If easily offended ……. please stay away!
Please note – no alcohol will be permitted into the auditorium for this event.
Always fancied trying your hand at stand-up comedy but never got around to it? Or maybe, you’re thinking stand-up would be a great way to boost your presentation skills, improve the business of public speaking or add a comedic aspect to your writing?
Well now’s your chance to get stuck in.
The 7-week course is designed to be a comprehensive introduction to writing and performing stand-up comedy and culminates with each participant getting the opportunity to perform their first gig.
Participants will develop methods and techniques for generating self-authored comedy material; combined with the ability to deliver the material in front of a live audience.
Best-selling author and social media comedy sensation Laura Belbin is on a mission to make people laugh.
Laura is no stranger to getting down to the reality of womanhood. This show is the brutally honest take on being that awkward woman who says all the wrong things at all the wrong times and what it’s like to be in the weird world of online influencing and how not to be a plonker with it. Expect some filth and the most light-hearted look at the confusing world of adulting in 2023.
They have two series of their own Channel 4 TV show, an iTunes-chart-topping podcast and now they’re tuning up their instruments once more to tour the country: it’s the Horne Section’s Hit Show!
“Britain’s Funniest Band” (The Guardian) have made appearances on The Last Leg (Channel 4), Peter Crouch’s Year- Late Euros (BBC One), they are Dictionary Corner regulars on 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and the only band to ever host Never Mind The Buzzcocks. Separately, members of The Horne Section have performed with recording artists including Robbie Williams, Madness, Florence and the Machine, Amy Winehouse, George Ezra, Basement Jaxx, Disclosure and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.
Unruly, ridiculous, and surprisingly satisfying, the six-headed comedy band includes five outstanding musicians and one non-musical stand-up. There’ll be comedy, songs, enthusiastic dancing, and a lot of mucking about. A brand-new show from the hugely talented band and Alex Horne, the creator and co-host of the BAFTA and National Comedy Award winning Taskmaster.
“We can’t recommend The Horne Section highly enough”
★★★★★ Time Out
“endlessly charming, offbeat humour”
★★★★ The Independent
“funny and delightful… this is a welcome escapist treat”
★★★★ Heat
This Disability History Month the Northern Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA) invite you to explore the experience of sight loss through an entertaining and amusing show, DOUBLE VISION, from their Visually Impaired Performers (VIPs), including two guide dogs! There will be an opportunity to meet the cast and ask them questions after the show.
This event will be staged at the Gulbenkian Theatre, University of Hull.
Mick Miller is one of the hardest working comedians in the UK. He is in constant demand for corporate functions, cabaret performances and global cruise work.
He was the stand out star of the 2011 Royal Variety Performance and won the hearts of the nation in the ITV show, “Last Laugh in Vegas”.
3’3″, Tanyalee is the Ferrari of comedy – low to the ground and kind of racy. Tanyalee Davis is currently the Guinness Book of World Records holder for the shortest comedian. Originally from Winnipeg, Canada, Tanyalee now makes her home in the USA. In just a short time Tanyalee has become ‘TikTok Famous’ with over 3.2 million followers, 4 mill with all the other platforms. Tanyalee Davis will appear on TV in the USA summer of 2023 on Judge Steve Harvey show as well as the All Access TV show in Canada.
Tanyalee was featured on BBC’s The John Bishop Show which led to her being featured on BBC’s Live At The Apollo, The Blame Game is BBC Northern Ireland’s top rated panel Show and Tanyalee was a guest panelist. Previously Tanyalee did a 6 month run of her own show “Little Comedian, BIG Laughs” just off the Las Vegas Strip.Tanyalee is part of Abnormally Funny People, an ensemble show, performing throughout the UK as well as a writer.
The creator and star of ITV2’s hit sitcom, Buffering, is back on the road following a sell-out 2022 tour and a critically acclaimed run at the 2023 Edinburgh fringe festival. He’s appeared on Stand Up Central (Comedy Central), Zoe Ball On Sunday (ITV), Love Island: Aftersun (ITV2) and hosted BBC Radio 4’s Economics With Subtitles. This year he’s discussing babies, eye tests and the time he went on holiday with 20 women.
‘Steve’s a charming, likeable stand-up with a set packed with gags’ (Sunday Post). ‘An eye for comic detail that’s all his own’ (Guardian). ‘Plentiful jokes and compelling storytelling’ (Scotsman). ‘The punchlines come thick and fast as he makes the art of stand-up comedy look effortless’ (Ed Fest Mag).
The Varnishing Days is the heart-stopping, glasses-dropping, hard-rocking, wig-shaking, levothyroxine-taking, knee-knocking, boot-licking, justifying, teeth rattling, digressing new show from stand up comedian to the stars John Kearns.
Go silent as I walk on! Acknowledge when something funny happens! Leave discussing dinner plans! Others will be implicated. Points will be circled and missed. Hell, it’s a man trying his best! When I visit your town dogs will start barking, as will clergy. Your microwave will go haywire. The lights in your vestibule will flicker and the Bank of England will nervously look at interest rates. On the day I write this, the pound has hit an all time low against the dollar. Mark my words. This show will break that record again and again and again.
Somewhere in a parallel universe little Alfie’s natural comedic performance skills were recognised by his doting parents who encouraged and developed his blossoming talent. After several years as a stage school brat Alfie’s angelic face was launched on stage and screen and the rest is history.
Meanwhile, in this universe Alfie Moore was told to stop messing about in class before being ‘encouraged’ into the grinding, grimy world of an apprenticeship in the Sheffield steelworks. When recession hit he traded steel for copper by joining Humberside Police.
Thirty years of shift-work, initially in the Sheffield steelworks and then as a copper on the beat (where he was punched in the face quite a lot), has left him with ‘a face for radio’. A face not so much ‘lived in’ as inhabited by a settlement of squatters with little regard to property maintenance and repair.
In his 40s a surprising career shift turned middle-aged Alfie from street cop to BBC radio star. But when TV fame beckoned could he grasp it or was he past it?
Following a sold out Edinburgh Fringe run, multi-award-winning and trail-blazing comedian, Paul Foot, is back on tour with the critically acclaimed Dissolve, his most personal, surprising and ground-breaking show ever.
Life is a stress: full of rushed breakfasts, angry people, internal conflict, and Jacob Rees-Mogg. But what happens when everything you thought was important – your problems, grievances against others, your very identity – simply disappears?
In the year 2022 AD something momentous changed for Paul, and in this show he will reveal how he discovered the secret of life on the outskirts of Lancaster.* Inevitably he does get distracted by King Tutankhamun, the House of Lords, Sir Cliff Richard, officious lollipop ladies and what Jesus might have achieved if he’d been a plumber.
As seen on Would I Lie To You?, Never Mind the Buzzcocks and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.
*To be clear, Paul discovered the secret of life while he was located on the outskirts of Lancaster. Not the secret to living on the outskirts of Lancaster. There isn’t an answer to that.
Fresh from supporting Jack Whitehall on his 2023 UK arena tour, comedian Lloyd Griffith is back with a brand new show ‘Baroque and Roll’. It’s a big year for Lloyd, he’s turning 40 and with it, the impending midlife crisis – or ‘renaissance’ as he’s insisting it’s called; complete with body hair removal, head hair additions, teeth whitening and obviously the obligatory half marathon sign up. It’ll be funny and yes, there’ll be the odd song or two from that magnificent voice of his.
As seen on Ted Lasso (Apple), Nolly (ITV), Soccer AM (RIP), 8 Out of 10 Cats (Channel 4), Can you beat the bookies (BBC), Live at The Comedy Store (Comedy Central), House of Games (BBC).
‘What is evident from the outset is that Griffith is both bursting with talent. He is a funny, charming, self-effacing comic who very obviously gains great joy from making people laugh. It is evident in the way he feeds off the audience’ – joe.co.uk
‘useful idiot’ – the guardian
‘Lloyd bounces off the audience and has everyone laughing along with him. This is an hour of uplifting stand-up that’ll have you smiling for days. A warm, relatable and hilarious show’ The Sunday Post
Since Miles’ last tour finished at The London Palladium in 2017, he’s been in The Full Monty on Disney Plus, The Durrells and Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? on ITV, as well as a heap of episodes of Frankie Boyle’s New World Order and Have I Got News For You. He’s made an award-winning radio series and he’s published a novel. But for Covid, he would have played a lead at the RSC. Hey ho. Nevertheless he’s done a play in the West End and played the Emperor of Austria and Europe in a Ridley Scott film.
Yet one sunny day in the middle of all this, he suddenly suffered a brain seizure. This led to the discovery of a tumour the size of a cherry tomato, and a rather pressing need to undergo major neurosurgery. Obviously, one doesn’t wish to make a big deal of it, but the experience has left him with a story to tell and a few things that he’d like to share with the room. So that’s exactly what he’s doing in his new show On I Bang – a tale about surprise, fear, luck, love and qualified medical practitioners.
Rob Newman’s epic stand-up show goes from cave paintings to car-free cities, by way of Imperial Rome’s chariot ban, Rapper’s Remorse, and the dance steps of Homo Ergaster.
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