Most Popular Comedy in Manchester
Sun 17 Jan - Fri 28 May 2027
Fri 23 Oct 2026 - Wed 1 Sep 2027
Sun 21 Mar - Sun 25 Apr 2027
Tue 26 Jan - Sat 6 Feb 2027
Murder Inc presents: THE LAST CHAPTER
Wednesday 16 September 2026
The North's finest improvisers return with another comedy murder mystery for you and your friends to solve, this time set at a book club...
Piff and Pop's Magic Shoppe
Thursday 17 September 2026
Bringing together two icons of magic for the first time in the UK for an unmissable stage spectacular. This unique show is the result of the pairing of legendary magician Penn Jillette, of world-renowned duo Penn & Teller, (who will tour t...
Vinny Peculiar
Thursday 17 September 2026
Described as 'The Tony Hancock of pop' by UNCUT magazine, Salford-based singer-songwriter and poet Vinny Peculiar (aka Alan Wilkes) grew up in Worcestershire and trained as a nurse before signing to Manchester cult label Ugly Man records. ...
Danny Beard
Friday 18 September 2026
Descibed by Graham Norton as "high fashion, hilarious and hairy! What's not to love?", the Liverpool-born, Manchester-living winner of RuPaul's Drag Race U.K. is hitting the road again! Multi-award winning cabaret artist Danny, one half o...
Off The Hook - Daz and Will Unhooked
Friday 18 September 2026
Daz Black (Daz Games) and Will, of the successful fishing, adventure and travel YouTube channel Off The Hook, are hitting the road for the first time, bringing their Unhooked show to a theatre near you! Expect laughs, audience participatio...
Henry Paker
Friday 18 September 2026
Pencil Case is a brand new comedy show from Henry Paker, featuring live illustration. You've looked behind a Wizard's Curtain. You've visited a sausage factory. Do you dare to gaze inside a cartoonist's pencil case? Leave your preconceptio...
Larry Dean
Friday 18 September 2026
 Thrice Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominee and two-time star of Live At The Apollo, returns with a hilarious brand new show, Hellbent. Recently married, emotionally feral, the Gallus Glaswegian Goon returns with a riotous show about refus...
Manford's Comedy Club
Friday 18 September 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.....
Manford's Comedy Club
Friday 18 September - Friday 18 December 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.....
Sashi Perera Pear Tree Creatures Comedy Club
Friday 18 September 2026
Pear Tree is a stand up comedy show about pear shaped events between Sri Lanka and Australia. It's about family, love, homes, knives, kids and cats....
Jonathan Pie
Sunday 20 September 2026
 Jonathan Pie, the UK's angriest news reporter returns for a brand-new Live Show, This is The End of The World according to Jonathan Pie. Jonathan Pie is coming to terms with the horror of Keir Starmer's Labour and the fact that he vote...
Larry Dean
Sunday 20 September 2026
Thrice Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominee and two-time star of Live At The Apollo, returns with a hilarious brand new show, Hellbent. Recently married, emotionally feral, the Gallus Glaswegian Goon returns with a riotous show about refusing...
Jazz Emu
Sunday 20 September 2026
Musical meteor Jazz Emu was born to please you. Total and Utter Audience Satisfaction is his middle name - finally, after a long and financially ruinous Deed Poll process. Â But he's feeling uneasy. A review described his last show as 'a ...
Aoife Dunne
Sunday 20 September 2026
Aoife Dunne is one of Ireland's most exciting new comedy voices, known for blending razor sharp stand-up with painfully relatable storytelling. In just over a year, she has quickly made her mark on the Irish comedy scene, performing at El...
John Cleese and The Holy Grail
Monday 21 September 2026
This once-in-a-lifetime event features a special screening of the beloved cult classic, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, followed by an uproarious conversation and audience Q&A with Cleese himself, where he'll share behind-the-scenes stori...
Ricky Gervais
Tuesday 22 September - Tuesday 13 October 2026
Ricky Gervais will tour the new show, Legend, from autumn 2026 through to the end of 2027, when it will be filmed and become his fifth in a string of globally successful Netflix specials. "This is my most personal show so far and because...
Paul Foot
Thursday 24 September 2026
 Pioneering alt-comedy hero and star of Cats Does Countdown Paul Foot is back on tour with a brand new stand-up show, The Future.   Remember when people were excited for the future? With visions of jetpacks, friendly robots wheeling ...
Manford's Comedy Club
Thursday 24 September - Thursday 26 November 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.....
A Dinner with the SLTS Creatures Tour Show
Thursday 24 September 2026
Join Amelia Fritz & Laura Moss for a delectable hour of comedy. Expect naughty laughs & INTERACTIVE ADVICE on being your best, sluttiest self...
Urzila Carlson
Friday 25 September 2026
 Multi-award-winning South African-New Zealander Urzila Carlson is one of Australia and New Zealand's biggest comedy stars. In 2026 the fan-favourite comedian returns to the UK with even more understated punchlines and her signature dead...
Little Shop of Horrors
Friday 25 September - Sunday 29 November 2026
We are thrilled to announce a bold new revival of Alan Menken and Howard Ashman's Little Shop of Horrors, is coming to Manchester in Autumn 2026. This cult classic musical will be brought to life in a major new production, continuing th...
Tom Rosenthal
Friday 25 September 2026
Arctic Monkeys' album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, hit the shelves in January 2006. Tracks like 'I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor' and 'When the Sun Goes Down' became anthems, showcasing Alex Turner's sharp lyrics...
Manford's Comedy Club
Friday 25 September - Friday 27 November 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.....
Manford's Comedy Club
Saturday 26 September - Saturday 28 November 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.....
Crown Comedy
Saturday 26 September 2026
A fantastic line up of top talent on the UK comedy circuit. Click for line-up. ...
John Kearns
Sunday 27 September 2026
 Tilting at Windmills  is the brand-new stand-up show from Taskmaster alumni and double Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner,John Kearns.  A fragmented, digressing portrayal of a 38-year-old man's life, alluding to books he hasn't read, t...
Mike Rice
Sunday 27 September 2026
There's a cruelty to Mike Rice, a wickedness. In his latest show, Cruel Little Man, the Irish stand-up talks about doing psychedelics with his brother, an entanglement with a Spanish Sausage Dog named Nino, and many other such rotten adven...
Matt Winning
Sunday 27 September 2026
Acclaimed climate scientist, Dr Matt Winning (LLB, MSc, PhD), has been given an ultimatum: save the world by lunchtime tomorrow or sell his soul for a slice of Rockefeller's fortune. But right now, he's busy: his son is being born and he's...
Susan Calman
Thursday 1 October 2026
Scottish comedian Susan Calman hasn't been on tour in ten years, but now she's back with a brand-new show. A decade older, but not necessarily wiser, Susan has found herself in some improbable situations over the years. Tall Tales is a sho...
Morgan Rees
Thursday 1 October 2026
The softly-spoken acclaimed Welsh stand-up and online sensation Morgan Ree is back on the road with his new show What a Bummer. After Morgan and his partner went on separate holidays - one to a Mathematics Forum in Coventry and the other t...
Sam Serrano: Mars Creatures Comedy Club
Thursday 1 October 2026
The debut tour from star of comedy central Sam Serrano. In 2020 Sam was the victim of a hate crime and in 2026 they're monetizing on it through comedy...
Chris Ramsey
Friday 2 October 2026
Chris Ramsey is a critically acclaimed Stand Up Comedian and regular face on TV. He has hosted two series of his own show The Chris Ramsey Show on Comedy Central as well as Chris Ramsey's Stand Up Central and the panel show Virtually Famou...
Manford's Comedy Club
Friday 2 October - Friday 4 December 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.....
Grace Petrie
Saturday 3 October 2026
Folk singer-songwriter and stand-up comedian Grace Petrie performs a stripped-back solo set followed by a full band retrospective. For a decade and a half, Grace Petrie has been one of the UK's most urgent and passionate songwriters. Her p...
Nish Kumar
Sunday 4 October 2026
 The UK's leading political comic Nish Kumar - co-host of hugely popular podcast Pod Save the UK, former host of axed BBC show The Mash Report, and one of Taskmaster's greatest losers - is back on tour with a formidable batch of pass...
Jason Byrne
Sunday 4 October 2026
Jason Byrne is back and "Byrning" brighter than ever, celebrating 30 glorious years of stand-up with his brand-new show, 30 Years Byrning. Byrne delivers a riotous night of high-energy storytelling, surreal tangents and unstoppable laughte...
Susan Calman
Sunday 4 October 2026
Scottish comedian Susan Calman hasn't been on tour in ten years, but now she's back with a brand-new show. A decade older, but not necessarily wiser, Susan has found herself in some improbable situations over the years. Tall Tales is a sho...
Robert White
Sunday 4 October 2026
'THAT' Gay Autistic Keyboard Tanktop Comedy Guy! is going on tour with a brand new show!Whether you're a fan from his series of Britain's Got Talent, or you're one of his millions of online viewers but only just realising that Robert is '...
Serena Terry
Tuesday 6 October 2026
Join Serena Terry, creator of online sensation Mammy Banter, on her biggest UK & Ireland stand up tour to date, Therapy. Over the last 6 months, Serena has tried and tested 22 different types of therapy in a bid to improve her physical and...
