Phil has been getting better at comedy since March 1987. One of these days he may get it right. Until then Phil just keeps trying. If at first you don’t succeed, try and try your best.
This is a tour of Phil trying his best
Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner (Formerly Perrier) 2006
Priority booking until 15/7.
Hull is funny! Prepare for laughter as a selection of Hull’s comedy talent return for our annual “Hullarious” showcase, for one-night-only!
Come and join us for our showpiece event with Hull’s multi-award winning comedians to see what everyone is laughing about!
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Episode V: The Jest Star Rises
The galaxy is in peril as the evil Empire has unleashed its ultimate weapon – the Jest Star, a humour-sucking force threatening to destroy all laughter across the universe.
But hope is not lost. Multi award nominated double act, Jeddy Bear and Gary return with their fifth epic mission. With wit as their weapon and silliness as their shield, they must train a new generation of Jeddy Knights to fight back.
Join the rebellion. Restore the laughter… And may the pie be with you…
Running time 70 mins (no interval)
Age suitable: All Ages
Jody Kamali stars as Jeremy Irons in Ironing Board Man.
One man. Nine ironing boards. One unforgettable soundtrack. Get ready to be amazed as physical comedian Jody Kamali masterfully transforms everyday household items into the tools of a Hollywood-style, action-packed romance. With heart-pounding moments and emotional depth, this show thrilled audiences during its sell-out run at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe, earning numerous standing ovations.
There’s gunfire, there’s a wedding, there’s more gunfire, and there’s revenge—plus plenty of laughter along the way.
Ironing Board Man is a high-energy physical comedy that surprises audiences with unexpected emotional twists, captivating audiences from 12 to 80.
Priority booking until 15/7.
You’re invited: The Creepy Boys, are throwing their 13th birthday party. It will have everything. Games. Gifts. Possibly Satan. Probably Cake. Combining 2000s sexy songs, satanic rituals, and Willam Dafoe, these horny little boys do whatever it takes to make their birthday dreams come true.
This is one birthday party you’d be cursed to miss.
The twins recruit the audience to help them set up their party, with all the deference and direct eye contact you’d expect from attending a twin-teen birthday blast, before driving the show off a horror-comedy cliff – think the twins from The Shining meets My Super Sweet 16.
Through sexy dances, party games and reenacting their own birth, the Creepy Boys ramp up the chaos to the point of a blood sacrifice, all while interrogating the trappings of millennial nostalgia. From real-life-lovers-turned-identical-twins, Sam Kruger (Winner – Just for Laughs Comedy Award 2019) and S.E. Grummett (Winner – Best Theatre, Adelaide Fringe 2021) comes a bizarre comedy with just a splash of the occult.
Priority booking until 15/7.
Age guidance 14+
Hey cool cats! Hot on the heels of a sell-out 138 date tour of these green and groovy isles, The Guv will be back, baby, with a brand-new stand-up show for 2026. There’s no denying the world’s a mess daddio, but there is a glimmer of hope as the globe’s favourite Pub Landlord returns with his like-nobody-else Common Sense hot-takes for the masses, offering a much-needed truth tonic (pint for the fella/glass of white wine for the lady) for these whacked out and troubled times. With a fresh and frothing pint to hand, a barrel of laughs to pour from, and a flower in his heart, Guv is all you need.
And for the brave, bold, and plain straight crazy cats amongst you who want to be in on the action in the ‘Splash Zone’ book them quick and wear the damn ponchos!
★★★★★
“A supremely polished performer” – Mail on Sunday
★★★★
“Wickedly witty stuff” – The Telegraph
“It remains one of the great joys in comedy to see the Pub Landlord befriend and belittle the front rows” – The Times
Meet & Greet Available as an add on at checkout. Includes a photo before the show with The Pub Landlord and a signed photo postcard of Al Murray.
Lee Lard is the UK’s No.1 Peter Kay tribute act. The most popular comedy tribute in the UK today, a very funny comedian, with an hilarious one hour comedy show.
Now in his 18th year and with over 3500 performances under his belt, Lee Lard is still being voted the most popular comedy tribute
Jack Gleadows returns for a Comedy Special with Comedy Legends Paul Sinha and Terry Alderton and more
PAUL SINHA
The Chase, Taskmaster, QI, Radio 4
Paul Sinha is an award-winning comedian, broadcaster and champion quizzer, best known for his appearances on TV’s The Chase. Formerly a doctor, he left medicine to pursue a comedy career, and hasn’t looked back performing across the globe.
TERRY ALDERTON
Live at the Apollo, EastEnders, Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow
“A fantastic comedy mind” – Eddie Izzard
One of the most exciting comedians around, Terry has performed worldwide, including Just For Laughs, Melbourne, Edinburgh, and New Zealand Comedy Festivals. Also a recognisable TV actor, he’s starred in EastEnders and London’s Burning.
Hosted by Multi-Award Winning Jack Gleadow
Hull’s very own Jack Gleadow is a rising star in the world of comedy, known for his high-energy performances packed with physical comedy, razor-sharp storytelling, music, and audience interaction. His unique blend of old-school variety and modern stand-up has made him one of the most exciting acts on the circuit today.
Plus Support from Local Rising Stars Lucy Buckley and Chris Percy
We have a fantastic triple headliner show for you starting off with Sam Harland originally from Hull Sam is a cheeky happy with wit and timing uncompared followed by Big Lou from Manchester with his stories of family and work he’ll have you on the edge of your seat with laughter
And headling the whole show we have the Tik Tok star and BGT runner up Robert White with his musical comedy and great comedy backs this is a show not to miss
A monster’s guide to tolerance and temperance. Jess can feel herself becoming an emotional wildebeest right when her world (and the whole world, thanks) demands cool, collected ultra detached saint-like kindness and understanding. S**t.
She goes digging around in her DNA for answers and finds so many beautiful horrors. Witness her effort to become a brand new, mythical, mystical ‘coper.’ OR NOT. She gets cancelled, she gets touched and she gets a dolphin-based epiphany all in one show. The silliest of comedy for the scariest of days from Edinburgh Best Show Award Nominee.
You’ve seen Jess on BBC’s QI, Live at the Apollo, Celebrity University Challenge and Richard Osman’s House of Games. From Travel Man on C4 and World’s Most Dangerous Roads on Dave. You know her from her two BBC R4 series of Sturdy Girl Club plus podcasts The Guilty Feminist and Hoovering. And, of course, from new mighty smash hit Gladiator’s fan-podcast Contender Ready which Jess co-hosts with Olympic weightlifting superstar, Emily Campbell.
Have you ever been awake in the middle of the night and thought something so smart and astute that you couldn’t wait for the world to wake up so you could tell them?
THIS SHOW IS THAT THOUGHT.
In that it doesn’t make much sense and is a bit weird on reflection.
Sara Pascoe is a comedian and her children don’t sleep and her kitchen won’t clean itself and her husband “doesn’t want to be in it”.
As seen and heard on Taskmaster, Live at the Apollo, The Great British Sewing Bee, Last One Laughing UK, QI, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Mock the Week and co-host of Sara & Cariad’s Weirdos Book Club podcast.
‘First-rate confessional comedy’ ★★★★ The Times
‘Charming and open-hearted’ ★★★★ The Guardian
‘Gloriously funny’ ★★★★ Evening Standard
‘One of the most likeable voices in stand-up’ ★★★★ The Telegraph
Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Ian Smith (co-host of the Northern News podcast) heads back out on tour with a new show about stress, love and buying a magic spell off Amazon.
As seen on Live at the Apollo, Have I Got News For You and The Stand Up Sketch Show – and heard on The News Quiz, The Unbelievable Truth, Just A Minute and his own Radio 4 series, Ian Smith is Stressed.
His last show Crushing, was also shortlisted for the (ISH) Edinburgh Comedy Award, runner-up in Next Up’s “Biggest Award in Comedy” and nominated for a Chortle Award for Best Show. It was one of the Guardian’s Top 10 Comedy Shows of 2023 and featured on the British Comedy Guide’s Best Reviewed Shows of 2023.
“Effortlessly brilliant” ★★★★ Scotsman
“There are few fringe shows as purely funny as this” ★★★★ Guardian
“An outstanding and stressed-out hour of stand-up” ★★★★ Fest
“The hilarity just keeps coming… he has excelled himself” ★★★★ Beyond the Joke
“Ian Smith turns incredulity into an art form, confirming his status as the undisputed sultan of nerve-shredding stress” Rolling Stone
The all-new show from Scotland’s hilarious new international breakthrough stand-up star. A hit at the 2024 Fringe Encore Series as part of the New York Comedy Festival, Connor’s previous show “1994” also sold 10,000+ tickets in Edinburgh, toured 100 dates around UK and Australia. He’s supported Daniel Sloss in 3 continents and his debut comedy special gets its world-wide release this summer.
‘Burns has arrived’ ★★★★ – Entertainment Now
‘Brilliant… gags coming at you at a terrifying rate… Superb!’ – ★★★★ – The List
‘Hilarious… he is fearless and it is wonderful…!’ – ★★★★★ – The Scotsman
As a white, middle-class, straight male with an ok career, Jamie fits the current stereotype of a loathsome, over-privileged, toxic b*stard. However, purely because he’s blind , he’s constantly told he’s a role model.
FYI, he isn’t toxic. But surely he should have the choice to be without people continually telling him he’s a hero?
As seen on Live at the Apollo, Have I Got News for You, Celebrity MasterChef and QI.
Winner of Grierson Awards Best Presenter 2022.
“Completely Priceless”**** The Telegraph,
“MacDonald’s continued rise through the comedy ranks seems assured” **** The Scotsman
Puddle of Fools are a neurodiverse, northern-based new theatre company based in Hull. The company is made up of actor/writer Hannah Harquart and lighting designer/writer Jessica Brigham.
Puddle of Fools are focused on developing their own new work, including ‘How to commit a mattress heist’ and ‘Mumsplaining’, as well as helping other new writers to develop their work. They are currently producing ‘The End Of If’ by Alistair Coughlan and ‘Three Things’ by Christie Peto.
Puddle of Fools focuses on creating accessible work, for both audience members and creatives working with us. Their goal is to develop a new accessible way of working that means they can accommodate everyones access needs in a room, allowing each process to feel comfortable for any individual.
They’re also on a mission to find the best way to work collaboratively, which they believe will be bred by an open, kind and accessible room.
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