Most Popular Comedy in Manchester
Thu 17 Oct 2024 - Tue 16 Dec 2025
Thu 16 May - Sat 12 Oct 2024
Sat 28 Sep - Thu 31 Oct 2024
Thu 6 Jun - Fri 1 Nov 2024
Wed 11 Sep - Sat 5 Oct 2024
Sat 7 Sep - Thu 10 Oct 2024
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...
The Fall Guy (12A)
Monday 13 - Thursday 16 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, ...
42 Balloons
Tuesday 14 - 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
Tuesday 14 - 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 ...
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...
Help I Sexted My Boss
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...
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...
The Vivienne
Thursday 23 May 2024
The Vivienne emerged as the original champion of the first season of RuPaul's Drag Race UK for the BBC, before going on to star in Rupaul's Drag Race All Stars All Winners globally. Her brand-new show of comedy, music and audience participa...
Steve Bugeja
Thursday 23 May 2024
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 with his new show Self Doubt (I Think). He's appeared on Stand Up...
All Killa No Filla - Live
Friday 24 May 2024
The smash-hit true crime comedy podcast heads out on its biggest tour yet! To celebrate ten years of talking murder, oversharing, and rapidly veering off topic, Kiri & Rachel hit the road and head to some of their favourite venues in their ...
'Allo 'Allo Comedy Train
Friday 24 May - Friday 30 August 2024
'Allo! 'Allo! This is nighthawk calling! Listen very carefully, we shall say this only once! Renѐ was hoping for a quiet night in his humble little cafe in Nouvion, but things aren't quite going according to plan. The Resistance wants to u...
Manford's Comedy Club
Friday 24 May 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.. ...
Patrick Monahan
Friday 24 May 2024
Patrick Monahan works the room, makes an effortless connection and becomes everybody's favourite comedian with his new show Exclusively. He has toured 1,000 + venues, travelling more miles than NASA's Space Flights! Catch him now before his...
Rhod Gilbert
Saturday 25 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...
Pottervision - Harry Potter Parody Show
Saturday 25 May 2024
Four performers are all set to recreate Harry Potter and The Philospher's Stone but, when two of them drop out on the day (and take all the props and costumes with them), Tom and Lukas have to go it alone and make do with the limited resour...
Manford's Comedy Club
Saturday 25 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.. ...
Rude Science
Sunday 26 May 2024
The naughtiest, funniest, most revolting science show in the world. Brace yourselves for BBC Gastronaut Stefan Gates' revolutionary, high-tech, highly-explosive new show, packed with outrageous science stunts. On the surface it's a riot of ...
Rosie Holt
Sunday 26 May 2024
As seen on the Russell Howard Hour and heard on Radio 4, Social Media sensation and Chortle Award winner Rosie Holt returns with her second live tour, That's Politainment. The worse the political career, the more lucrative the subsequent en...
Ed Gamble
Wednesday 29 May 2024
Ed Gamble has minced a load of meat (thoughts), piped it into a casing (show) and it's coming to a bun (venue) near you!There will be all your classic Gamble ranting, raving and spluttering but he's doing fine mentally. Promise. Co-host of ...
Dylan Moran
Thursday 30 May 2024
How can it be you have spent a whole ten minutes staring at a banana? Why do you always do stuff like that? Why do you never do the other really great things where it's much, much better - and afterwards you don't want to saw off your own f...
Crooners
Thursday 30 May 2024
Packed with personality and humour, Crooners have been wowing audiences with their witty and exhilarating show full of hilarious one liners, laugh out loud silliness and superb musical numbers with the outstanding 9-piece The Mini Big Band ...
Georgie Carroll
Thursday 30 May 2024
As seen on Britain's Got Talent 2023, and winner of 'Best Comedy Show' at the Adelaide Fringe Festival, don't miss Nurse Georgie Carroll - she is just what the doctor ordered. Hospital-grade humour from everyone's favourite Mancunian nurs...
'Allo 'Allo
Thursday 30 May - Saturday 1 June 2024
"Listen very carefully. I will say this only once ..........." Barton Theatre Company present an amateur production of 'Allo 'Allo by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft. Based on the hugely successful British television series, which ran for se...
Sam Campbell
Friday 31 May - Saturday 1 June 2024
Basically, we keep him in a metal crate. Once everyone is settled and the house lights go down, we will let him loose on to the stage. It is our understanding that his comedy moments will DAZZLE you. His prefrontal cortex is larger than you...
Manford's Comedy Club
Friday 31 May - Friday 8 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.. ...
Count Arthur Strong
Saturday 1 June 2024
An unmissable night of unbelievable entertainment for all the family (no pets), as character comedian Steve Delaney returns as everyone's favourite elderly, pompous, mostly out-of-work, deluded thespian from Doncaster, in this never to be ...
Dear Billy: A Love Letter to The Big Yin
Saturday 1 June 2024
There's a guy. You know him. You know... big hair, wee beard, glasses, talks like that. You know? You know. The guy... The Big Yin. Billy Connolly needs no introduction. He is a national treasure. From the shipyards of the Clydeside to h...
Best of Buzz Comedy
Saturday 1 June - 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...
Mrs Kapoor's Daughter's Wedding 2 Mauritius
Sunday 2 June 2024
After an extremely successful run of the first show Mrs Kapoor's Daughter's Wedding, with over 57,000 people having seen it, AK Productions now proudly bring to you the sequel, as the Kapoors are back for their second daughter's wedding!. T...
Emmanuel Sonubi
Sunday 2 June 2024
The Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee presents a whistle stop tour through the jobs that have led him to become one of the hottest stand-ups on the circuit in the brand-new show, Curriculum Vitae. Emmanuel will take the audience on a...
Di and Viv and Rose
Tuesday 4 - Sunday 9 June 2024
"How do you want to live here? I mean we could come and go and lead separate lives. Or we could really live together. What do you think?" Three women are thrown together in their late teens. They are very different people but it isn't long ...
The Totally Improvised Musical
Wednesday 5 June 2024
Every night is opening night as the team of top improvisers, create a completely unscripted comedy musical from your suggestions. A brand-new show from the award-winning team behind ComedySportz (Best Alternative Act - North West Comedy Awa...
Opera della Luna - Sweeney Todd: The Victorian Melodrama
Thursday 6 - Friday 7 June 2024
The story of Sweeney Todd first appeared on the stage in 1847, in a melodrama at the Britannia Theatre in the east end of London. The String of Pearls, as it was originally called, was based on a popular "penny dreadful" serialised story. C...
Clinton Baptiste
Thursday 6 June 2024
Solo again, Britain's most celebrated clairvoyant medium psychic from Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights returns with his brand new hilarious one-man stand up show. As well as venturing into the audience to offer his unique spirit readings, Clinton...
