Most Popular Comedy in Manchester
Fri 24 Oct 2025 - Fri 13 Feb 2026
Sun 15 Mar - Fri 22 May 2026
Sat 22 Nov 2025 - Sun 19 Apr 2026
Sun 9 Nov 2025 - Sat 2 May 2026
Thu 20 Nov - Tue 16 Dec 2025
XS Malarkey - BEN POPE: The Cut
Tuesday 23 September 2025
Ben Pope: The CutBen Pope ('a total delight' - Fest) brings his brand-new UK stand-up tour to Manchester. Look, there's no easy way to put this. Last year, Ben got circumcised. On purpose, and as recommended by medical professionals. This s...
Laugh Therapy
Wednesday 24 September - Wednesday 29 October 2025
Ready for a dose of comedy to cure what ails you? Join us for a night where comedians become your "therapists," offering hilarious insights and advice to brave audience members who share their personal problems. Whether you're in the hot se...
Gary Delaney
Thursday 25 September 2025
There's something about Gary... and that something is he likes to write jokes. An awful lot of them. He also appears to have some jizz in his hair. There's that as well. Gary thinks a good joke should be like a drunk Glaswegian, short and ...
Su Pollard
Thursday 25 September 2025
A night of hilarious laughter, fabulous songs and wonderful stories. For 50 years the legendary Su Pollard has delighted audiences, starring in the nation's best-known TV shows and on stages around the globe in some of the world's most-l...
Manford's Comedy Club
Thursday 25 September 2025 - Thursday 25 June 2026
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.. ...
Glenn Moore
Friday 26 September 2025
Described by The Guardian as "The best showcase of pure joke-writing skill", Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Glenn Moore has written too many jokes again. With his new tour, Please Sir, Glenn I Have Some Moore, expect a fast-paced whirlwind ...
Manford's Comedy Club
Friday 26 September 2025 - Friday 26 June 2026
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.. ...
Aaron Wood
Friday 26 September 2025
Described as 'talent way beyond his time on the circuit' come and join award-winning North West comedian Aaron Wood with his latest show, More to Life! An upbeat, positive and heartwarming show that asks is there more to life than this? Fo...
Frog and Bucket Comedy
Friday 26 September 2025
Frog and Bucket Comedy Night returns to Fatbird this September...
Tiny Tim's Biggest Adventure
Saturday 27 September 2025
8 years ago Tiny Tim (Manchester comedian Tim Bradbury) decided to go on his own adventure navigating through adult life and posting about his calls on social media. With over 120 million views on YouTube and over 10 million followers on al...
Manford's Comedy Club
Saturday 27 September 2025 - Saturday 20 June 2026
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.. ...
Desi Central Comedy Show - Darwen / Blackburn
Saturday 27 September 2025
Get ready folks, Desi Central returns with another hilarious line up? so round up your friends & family and join us for an uplifting night of laughter with this infamous tour!ActsTez Ilyas (Mock The Week BBC, Comedy Central)Anuvab Pal (Gues...
Desi Central Comedy Show Darwen / Blackburn
Saturday 27 September 2025
Get ready folks, Desi Central returns with another hilarious line up so round up your friends & family and join us for an uplifting night of laughter...
Bleak Expectations
Monday 29 September - Saturday 4 October 2025
The story Charles Dickens might have written after drinking too much gin... Follow half-orphan Pip's extraordinary exploits with sisters Pippa and Poppy and best friend Harry Biscuit, as they attempt to escape the calculating clutches of th...
The Lady Boys Of Bangkok
Monday 29 September 2025
Now celebrating 25 years touring in the UK after first appearing at the Edinburgh Festival in 1989, The Lady Boys of Bangkok is now officially the largest and longest continuous touring cabaret show in the UK. Featuring a cast of 16 male Th...
Monday Night Comedy
Monday 29 September 2025
A night of comedy hosted by Adam Anwar (UKIP's Nightmare) at the intimate cosy Bar Three in Hindley. ...
King Arthur
Tuesday 30 September - Saturday 4 October 2025
Award-winning funny men, Le Navet Bete, return to the stage with a a brand-new laugh-out-loud show for theatre. This hilarious retelling of the Arthurian legends, suitable for the whole family, will have audiences crying with laughter and b...
XS Malarkey's 28th Birthday Spectacular
Tuesday 30 September 2025
Since 1997 XS Malarkey has been a Manchester institution, with compere Toby Hadoke bringing you the very best comedians at the lowest prices. And every year we have a big special show for our birthday (28 this year!), with multiple headline...
La Voix
Wednesday 1 October 2025
Direct from the West End, come and see the UK's best drag queen and Britain's funniest redhead swing into town with her most ambitious show yet. The UK entertainment sensation who proves that a killer voice and razor-sharp wit alongside ...
Shit-faced Shakespeare - Hamlet
Wednesday 1 October 2025
Sh!t-faced Shakespeare have toured the world, broken America, established themselves on London's West End, won numerous awards, and survived a zero-star review in The Times. In 2025, they will be celebrating 15 years on the wagon with one o...
Matt Richardson
Wednesday 1 October 2025
Being loud, brazen and a little bit lairy was all Matt Richardson needed to propel himself onto the comedy circuit aged 18 and be presenting national telly by 22. Matt has moved to the countryside, settled down, and is trying his hardes...
Manford's Comedy Club
Thursday 2 October 2025 - Thursday 6 August 2026
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.. ...
Kieran Hodgson
Thursday 2 October 2025
The four time Edinburgh comedy award nominee returns with his new show, Voice of America. America. What happened, man? Ever since he was a little loser kid in a little loser country (yes, England), Kieran Hodgson has been putting on an...
First Thursday Comedy
Thursday 2 October - Thursday 6 November 2025
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. ...
Just The Tonic Comedy Night
Thursday 2 October - Thursday 4 December 2025
Just The Tonic returns for their monthly Comedy Night at The Bowdon Rooms...
'Allo 'Allo Comedy Train
Friday 3 October 2025
'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 3 October 2025 - Friday 3 July 2026
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.. ...
An Evening with Ricky Tomlinson
Friday 3 October 2025
In conversation about his life and career, with BBC Radio Merseyside presenter and established singer and entertainer Asa Murphy, Eric "Ricky" Tomlinson is an English actor (and former plasterer) best known for his television roles as Bobby...
Chorlton Comedy Club
Friday 3 October 2025
Chorlton's longest running comedy night moved from the Irish Club in 2020 and changed it's name to Chorlton Comedy Club in the process. Brought to you by Comedy in a Van, you can expect the very best in live stand up from the UK and abro...
John Bishop
Saturday 4 - Sunday 5 October 2025
Comedian, TV presenter and actor John Bishop took a less travelled route into show business. Born and raised in Liverpool, the younger Bishop was a semi-professional footballer for Southport and Hyde United, following in the footsteps of ol...
Joe Gatto
Saturday 4 October 2025
Bringing his new tour Let's Get Into It to Europe, Joe Gatto is a comedian best known from the hit TV shows Impractical Jokers and The Misery Index. Most recently, he toured for two years with his stand-up solo show Joe Gatto's Night...
WiFi Wars
Saturday 4 October 2025
WiFi Wars returns with the live comedy game show where you all play along!Log in with your smartphone or tablet and compete in a range of games, puzzles and quizzes to win the show, and prizes! Hosted by comedian Steve McNeil (team captain ...
Comedy Unfiltered Live Podcast
Saturday 4 October - Saturday 6 December 2025
The Comedy Unfiltered Live Podcast in ManchesterA comedy show with a twist. Wild, raw, and unpredictable...
Joanne McNally
Sunday 5 October 2025
After the success of her record-breaking tour The Prosecco Express, Joanne McNally returns with her hotly anticipated new stand-up show Pinotphile. Hailed by Variety as One to Watch, McNally has been keeping herself busy by ruining men's...
An Audience with Nigel Planer: Young Once Live
Sunday 5 October 2025
Nigel Planer, beloved as Neil the hippy from The Young Ones and a founding figure of the 80s alternative comedy scene, brings his memoir Young Once to life in a warm, sharply funny live show of storytelling. From the wild early days at The ...
Rachel Fairburn's Trying It On
Sunday 5 October 2025
'Trying It On' is a brand new night showcasing the very best in character comedy from renowned stand-up, Rachel Fairburn (Live at the Apollo, All Killa No Filla). Having already conquered the world of stand up, Rachel is turning her sights ...
Nurse Georgie Carroll
Sunday 5 October 2025
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...
Kae Kurd
Sunday 5 October 2025
British-Kurdish stand up sensation and social media star Kae Kurd returns with his highly anticipated brand new tour: What's O'Kurd. Co-host of the hit podcast Aint Got a Clue, voice of ITV's Loaded in Paradise and star of Live a...
