Most Popular Comedy in Manchester
Thu 17 Oct 2024 - Tue 16 Dec 2025
Thu 2 May - Sat 12 Oct 2024
Fri 10 May - Fri 18 Oct 2024
Sat 28 Sep - Thu 31 Oct 2024
Wed 11 Sep - Sat 5 Oct 2024
Thu 6 Jun - Fri 1 Nov 2024
Sat 7 Sep - Thu 10 Oct 2024
Rhod Gilbert
Thursday 2 - Saturday 4 May 2024
Rhod is embarking on a full UK & Ireland tour playing more than 90 dates, and running until October 2025. Previously, Rhod was dealing with some pretty pungent life citrus, and an idiot called John. Little did he know that things were about...
42 Balloons
Thursday 2 - Sunday 19 May 2024
2nd of July 1982. Using a lawn chair and approximately 42 helium-filled weather balloons, truck driver Larry Walters defied all the odds (and FAA airspace regulations!) to make his lifelong dream a reality and fly sixteen thousand f...
Little Shop of Horrors
Thursday 2 - Saturday 18 May 2024
The mean green monster musical explodes into Bolton! Downtown on Skid Row, weedy flower shop assistant Seymour is down on his luck until he stumbles across a mysterious new plant with killer potential. Fame and fortune follow but will this ...
First Thursday Comedy
Thursday 2 May - Thursday 1 August 2024
Comedy in a Van present an hilarious evening of top quality comedy on the first Thursday of every month. Click for acts on specific dates. ...
Sometimes I Think About Dying (12A)
Thursday 2 - Thursday 9 May 2024
★★★✭ Based on Kevin Armento's play "Killers", Daisy Ridley finally gets to show off her full acting talent in this mental health story served up as a romantic comedy. ~ ManchesterTheatres. com --- Daisy Ridley stars in Rachel Lambe...
Swede Caroline (15)
Thursday 2 - Thursday 9 May 2024
★★★✭ This funny British mockumentary about dirty tricks in the competitive veg growing world has plenty of laugh-out-loud moments. ~ ManchesterTheatres. com. --- In this British Mockumentary, the competitive giant vegetable growing...
The Fall Guy (12A)
Thursday 2 - Thursday 9 May 2024
★★★★ Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt dazzle in this delightful action comedy, a loving and supremely entertaining ode to stunt work based on the 80s TV series. ~ The Guardian. --- Inspired by the hit 1980s TV series, a new hilarious, ...
Poor Things (18)
Thursday 2 May 2024
★★★★✭ Expect Oscars all around again as the team behind The Favourite deliver another period drama which is one of the best - and maddest - comedies in many a year. ~ ManchesterTheatres. com --- From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and...
Manford's Comedy Club
Friday 3 May - Friday 6 December 2024
Bringing the best comedians to a theatre near you. Every show has a different line-up of four top comedians, all chosen by Jason Manford! Many comedians from TV plus the best of the UK and International comedy circuit. Live at the Apollo.. ...
Howerd's End
Friday 3 May 2024
Frankie Howerd was one of Britain's most loved comedians for half a century. But he had a secret. And the secret's name was Dennis. This hugely acclaimed play by Mark Farrelly (Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope, Jarman) takes you to the heart of F...
Octagon Comedy Club
Friday 3 May - Friday 19 July 2024
After sell-out shows, the Octagon Comedy Club is back for even more laughs! Join us one Friday a month and enjoy a hilarious night of live stand-up from some of the best names in comedy. To see who is performing, more details can be found h...
Kate Smurthwaite : Fire Snake
Friday 3 May 2024
Kate Smurthwaite invites us to contemplate whether being foot soldiers in the death march of disaster capitalism is really as much fun as we hoped. Join the comedian and activist for a brilliant (achievable) alternative future. With punchli...
Bassem Youssef
Saturday 4 May 2024
After a long career as a respected heart surgeon, Bassem Youssef has become one of the most influential and poignant satirists and political commentators from the Middle East. He shot to fame after treating the wounded during the Arab Sprin...
Manford's Comedy Club
Saturday 4 May - Saturday 30 November 2024
Bringing the best comedians to a theatre near you. Every show has a different line-up of four top comedians, all chosen by Jason Manford! Many comedians from TV plus the best of the UK and International comedy circuit. Live at the Apollo.. ...
Send in the Clowns - Tw*ts
Saturday 4 - Sunday 5 May 2024
Send In The Clowns is a raucous, wild, and tantalising drag revue show celebrating the magic and madness of musical theatre. This time the Clowns are taking on the Lord himself, with a celebration-cum-assassination of the work of Andrew Llo...
Best of Buzz Comedy
Saturday 4 May - Saturday 7 December 2024
Waterside's legendary monthly comedy night showcasing new and established talent upstairs in the Old Courtroom Chambers. Buzz Comedy is a long-running, well-respected, and award-winning comedy night fronted since 1989 by the veteran wit...
Rachel Fairburn
Sunday 5 May 2024
Co-host of International smash hit podcast All Killa No Filla, Manchester comedian Rachel Fairburn is back with a brand-new tour, Show Girl, in which she'll be casting her acerbic eye over everything from your children to her pretentious ...
Shelf - Teenage Men
Sunday 5 May 2024
This new show from the "easy to fall in love with" (Scotsman) double-act features anecdotes, songs, jokes about performing for kids, the Instagram algorithm, confronting your toxicity, and more. In their last show, Hair, comedy duo Shelf jo...
Alun Cochrane
Sunday 5 May 2024
Alun Cochrane's new national tour Stuff and Nonsense is a mixture of stand-up material (Stuff) and of his high quality on the spot frippery, improv, crowd work (Nonsense). There could be stuff on funerals, free speech, or feminism, and mayb...
The Lavender Hill Mob (U)
Sunday 5 May 2024
★★★★★ Alec Guinness shines in this hilarious British comedy. ~ Empire. --- Ealing's classic 1951 comedy has now been given a glorious 4K restoration. Henry Holland (Alec Guiness) has worked faithfully for 20 years as a bank transf...
Julian Clary
Tuesday 7 May 2024
Julian Clary, renowned homosexual and national trinket, is fixing to saddle up and head on out for his 2024 UK tour. "Yes, it has a Western theme," the old buckaroo confirms, sipping Bourbon from a pint tankard. "It was only a matter of tim...
Horrible Histories - Rotten Royals
Tuesday 7 - Wednesday 8 May 2024
We all want to meet people from history. The trouble is everyone is dead! So Horrible Histories is back in 2024 with revolting rulers and mad monarchs from Britain'sbarmypast! Would you be wooed by Richard the Lionheart? Are you ready for a...
Xs Malarkey With Rob Rouse
Tuesday 7 May 2024
Since 1997 XS Malarkey has been a Manchester institution, with compere Toby Hadoke bringing you the very best comedians at the lowest prices. This week:ROB ROUSEJACOB NUSSEYMARIE GOULBOURNEBOBBIE JONESMC TOBY HADOKEA minimum of just ?3 for ...
90s Baby Show
Thursday 9 May 2024
Are you ready to relive the glory of the '90s with the decade's most evocative conversationalists? Prepare for an unforgettable journey with the creators of the award-winning podcast, the 90s Baby Show. Fred Santana, Temi Alchemy, and VPIn...
Help I Sexted My Boss
Friday 10 - Friday 17 May 2024
Life is full of personal calamities. Thankfully, William Hanson and Jordan North are here to help you navigate the daily struggles of modern life. Well, most of the time... William and Jordan's lives couldn't be more different. One's more B...
Ed Byrne
Friday 10 May 2024
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. A TV household name, appearing on Mock The Week (BBC), Top Gear (BBC), QI (...
Manford's Comedy Club
Friday 10 May - Friday 13 December 2024
Bringing the best comedians to a theatre near you. Every show has a different line-up of four top comedians, all chosen by Jason Manford! Many comedians from TV plus the best of the UK and International comedy circuit. Live at the Apollo.. ...
The Adult Pantomime - Cinderella and The Two Ugly S!*@S
Saturday 11 May 2024
The Adult Pantomime is back with an invitation to the Prince's Ball for all you bigger boys and girls (aged 18+). Be prepared to laugh your adult socks off with this hilarious take on Cinderella. With a fun and filthy laugh a minute script,...
COMEDYSPORTZ
Saturday 11 May 2024 - Saturday 22 February 2025
You've seen football. You've seen tennis. But have you seen Comedy as a sport? Then you don't want to miss this all ages, all action, all improvised competitive comedy show! Two teams battle it out for laughs with quick-witted gags, games, ...
JaackMaate's Happy Hour
Sunday 12 May 2024
A live podcast recording of the YouTube channel hosted by JaackMaate, Stevie White and Robbie Knox, with 730,000 followers and 189 million views, with plenty of shenanigans and fan favourites like Martin the Guinea Pig Centipede, Creepy Lib...
Ed Byrne
Sunday 12 May 2024
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. A TV household name, appearing on Mock The Week (BBC), Top Gear (BBC), QI (...
Punt and Dennis
Monday 13 May 2024
Hugh Dennis and Steve Punt are back on tour for the first time in 10 years. Older but not really much wiser, Punt and Dennis are returning to what they do best. What have they learned from a decade of following the news for Mock The Week an...
Mind Mangler - Member of the Tragic Circle
Wednesday 15 - Saturday 18 May 2024
Henry Lewis and Jonathan Sayer, the multi award-winning team behind the sold-out global smash hit The Play That Goes Wrong and the BBC TV series The Goes Wrong Show, star in this hilarious new comedy by Mischief. Join the "Mind Mangler" as...
Rhod Gilbert
Thursday 16 May 2024
Rhod is embarking on a full UK & Ireland tour playing more than 90 dates, and running until October 2025. Previously, Rhod was dealing with some pretty pungent life citrus, and an idiot called John. Little did he know that things were about...
Peter Kay
Friday 17 May 2024 - Saturday 20 September 2025
One of Britain's best loved comedians, Peter Kay is finally returning to stand-up comedy with his first live tour in twelve years - a tour which still officially ranks in the Guinness Book of World Records as the biggest selling comedy tour...
Jamali Maddix
Friday 17 May 2024
As seen on Taskmaster (Channel4), Frankie Boyle's New World Order (BBC2) and his critically acclaimed series Hate Thy Neighbor for Vice, comedian Jamali Maddix is heading out on tour. With his new show, King Crud, the stand up comedi...
Manford's Comedy Club
Friday 17 May - Friday 29 November 2024
Bringing the best comedians to a theatre near you. Every show has a different line-up of four top comedians, all chosen by Jason Manford! Many comedians from TV plus the best of the UK and International comedy circuit. Live at the Apollo.. ...
Jessica Fostekew
Saturday 18 May 2024
Comedian, actor, writer, star of BBC's Motherland BBC and Cuckoo, host of The Hoovering Podcast and regular co-host of the behemoth The Guilty Feminist, Jessica Fostekew returns with her latest stand-up tour Mettle. ...
Simon Munnery
Sunday 19 May 2024
"One of the all time great British stand-ups" (Stewart Lee) performs a truly unique stand-up show. Using William Blake's poem Jerusalem (B-side to the English national anthem) and The Fall's take on it as a springboard, Simon endeavours to ...
That'll Be The Day
Monday 20 May 2024
Celebrate the golden age of Rock 'n' Roll and Pop from the '50s right the way through to the '80s from Trevor Payne and an exceptional cast of who combine hilarious comedy sketches and impersonations with brilliant vocals and superb musicia...
Xs Malarkey With Avital Ash
Tuesday 21 May 2024
Since 1997 XS Malarkey has been a Manchester institution, with compere Toby Hadoke bringing you the very best comedians at the lowest prices. This week:AVITAL ASHJUSTINA SESELSKAITEBALTHAZAR DARKMICHAEL THORNTONMC TOBY HADOKEA minimum of ju...
Peter Kay
Thursday 23 - Friday 24 May 2024
Legendary comedian Peter Kay will open Manchester's state of the art venue with his current record breaking tour when it first welcomes fans in April. The 23,500-seat arena is the largest in the UK and will offer an unparalleled fan experie...
The Eric Andre Show Live
Thursday 23 May 2024
Eric Andre is a comedian, actor and, not least, host of Adult Swim's hit series, The Eric Andre Show, an American sketch comedy television series which had aired since 2012. Throughout its lifetime, the parody series has taken the internet...
Testmatch
Thursday 23 May - Saturday 1 June 2024
Cricket's past & present collide in this compelling new play It makes the whole of western history make sense, this weather. If I had to live in this, I'd get off this island as fast as I possibly could, And take over whatever land I came a...
Ashley Blaker
Thursday 23 May 2024
The star of BBC Radio 4's hit comedy 6.5 Children takes to the road in a new stand-up show, NORMAL SCHMORMAL based on the best-selling book of the same name, about the joys of raising children with special needs. Between endless meetings, c...
