Most Popular Comedy in Manchester
Thu 12 Mar - Fri 24 Apr 2026
Sun 15 Mar - Fri 22 May 2026
Wed 21 Jan - Fri 13 Feb 2026
Fri 20 Feb 2026 - Wed 17 Feb 2027
Thu 19 Feb - Wed 18 Mar 2026
Sun 18 Oct 2026 - Sat 1 May 2027
First Thursday Comedy
Thursday 5 February - Thursday 5 March 2026
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. ...
Bridget Christie
Friday 6 February 2026
Described by The Independent as "One of the brightest and best around," Bridget Christie hits the road again with a brand new show, Jacket Potato Pizza. A kidney stone. A stray cat. An eye-themed fetish. The Edinburgh Comedy Award, Rose D'...
Horrible Histories - The Concert
Friday 6 - Sunday 8 February 2026
For the very first time, your favourite songs and actors from the BAFTA Award-winning CBBC TV series will be appearing live (and dead!) on stage in a very special production! When William Shakespeare is asked to create the greatest show on ...
Manford's Comedy Club
Friday 6 February - Friday 2 October 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.. ...
Chorlton Comedy Club
Friday 6 February 2026
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...
OUTSIDE THE BOX COMEDY CLUB - 6TH FEBRUARY - STOCKPORT GARRICK
Friday 6 February 2026
MICHAEL AKIDIRI - Michael?s natural charm and cheeky, observational style has already seen him make an impact on the UK comedy scene. He?s the inaugural winner of the Komedia New Comedy Award and starred in the London finals of the BBC New ...
Sue Perkins
Saturday 7 February 2026
You may know her as Bake-Off Sue, Taskmaster Sue, Just A Minute Sue, or the Sue that gives you travel envy - but stand-up Sue is full of surprises. In this brand-new show, she shares the unlikely happenings from a career in the spotlight. W...
Manford's Comedy Club
Saturday 7 February - 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.. ...
Sam Nicoresti
Saturday 7 February 2026
Sam Nicoresti returns with a glorious new hour of stand-up about losing your mind, finding it again, and the hunt for the perfect skirt suit. Baby Doomer is the follow-up hour to their 2024 comedy special Wokeflake, "One of the definitive d...
Justin Moorhouse
Sunday 8 February 2026
Get ready for an unforgettable experience as Justin returns with "The Greatest Performance of My Life". After a successful and extensively extended tour of his 2022 show Stretch and Think (which you can catch in full on YouTube), he's back ...
Marcus Brigstocke
Sunday 8 February 2026
Vitruvian Mango is the new stand-up show from multi award-winning comedian Marcus Brigstocke. What are men for? Most heavy things can be lifted by machines and most problems can be solved by computers and most puddles can be crossed with...
Mark Watson
Sunday 8 February 2026
Comedian and novelist Mark Watson's 12-year-old son has just got a phone. His 70-year-old dad has been through the most frightening experience of his life. Both a dad and a kid himself, around the midpoint of his life, the Taskmaster star a...
Connor Burns
Sunday 8 February 2026
Gallus is 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 Ed...
XS Malarkey: Sam Lake
Tuesday 10 February 2026
Don?t you just love a laugh? Well, get into this new stand-up hour from ?a rare gem of a comic? (Rolling Stone), Sam Lake. Feeling like life and his career has become repetitive, Sam is asking himself ?are we really doing this again??. Has ...
Jack Rhodes
Wednesday 11 February 2026
From finishing runner-up on last year's Britain's Got Talent, Jack Rhodes is bringing his debut comedy magic show to Lowry! With a background in close-up magic and stand up comedy, Jack has amassed over 150 million views online with his 'c...
Jason Manford
Friday 13 February 2026
Jason Manford is back with his brand-new live show, A Manford All Seasons. The Manchester comedian has been busy since his last smash-hit stand up show but fans of his Absolute Radio show will know this nationally acclaimed comedian hasn't...
Tom Davis
Friday 13 February 2026 - Saturday 13 February 2027
Tom Davis is back on the road, firing out his freshly cooked observations on life's hot topics with his new show Spudgun. Co-host of the mega-hit podcast Wolf and Owl with Romesh Ranganathan, star of BAFTA and Royal Television Society aw...
Road
Friday 13 February - Saturday 14 March 2026
By Jim Cartwright, featuring Lucy Beaumont, Shobna Gulati, Johnny Vegas, and with special guest Sir Tom Courtenay on film. 'Road's coming round us!' It's 1986. Your rumbustious chaperone Scullery guides you down the road, picking up the rau...
Mark Simmons
Sunday 15 February 2026
Winner of Dave's Funniest Joke of the Fringe Award 2024 and as Seen on Mock The Week, BT Sport and ITV, 'Master of one-liners' Mark Simmons had a groundbreaking 200+ date sell out debut tour lasting two years, spanning the UK, Ireland...
Operation Mincemeat
Monday 16 - Saturday 28 February 2026
Operation Mincemeat is the 2024 Olivier Award-winning Best New Musical. It's London's biggest hit with 77 Five-Star reviews making it the best-reviewed show in West End history. Now also a Tony-nominated Best Musical on Broadway! The year ...
Send in the Clowns - Unpopular
Monday 16 - Wednesday 18 February 2026
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 megamusicals of the 80s, 90s, and 00s in their biggest show yet, 'UNPOPULAR!...
Janine Harouni
Tuesday 17 February 2026
Two-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and 'unstoppably entertaining' (★★★★★ Times) Janine Harouni hits the road with This is What You Waited For, a brand-new hour of joyful, quick-witted stand-up. Fresh off a world tour - in...
Chris McCausland
Wednesday 18 February 2026
You might have seen him on Strictly Come Dancing, Scared of the Dark, Would I Lie to You, Have I Got News for You, The Royal Variety, QI, Blankety Blank, The Last Leg, and tons more as well. He's been called an "overnight success" - Even th...
Mike Rice
Wednesday 18 February 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 advent...
Priscilla Queen Of The Desert - The Musical
Thursday 19 - Saturday 28 February 2026
The Broadway and West End musical comedy sensation follows three friends on a hilarious and heartwarming road trip across the Australian Outback to stage the show of a lifetime. Priscilla Queen Of The Desert is a joyous celebration of unity...
The Useless Hotline
Thursday 19 February 2026
Max Balegde and George Clark are set to hit the road in 2026 with The Useless Hotline: Now Hiring! Live Tour, as they search for a new hire on their second tour. Known for their chaotic humour, outrageous dilemmas, and unfiltered advice...
Geoff Norcott
Thursday 19 February 2026
Basic Bloke 2 - There's No Bloke Without Fire is the latest tour from Conservative Party supporting comedian, author, podcaster and radio host Geoff Norcott. It's Geoff's first under a Labour government, so he's got plenty to get off his ch...
Dave Spikey
Thursday 19 February 2026
Life in a Northern Town is all about Dave's life in ..... well.... a northern town, so no surprise there. From his working-class childhood in the small, terraced houses round the mills in Bolton through passing his 11 plus and going to g...
Scott Bennett
Friday 20 February 2026 - Wednesday 17 February 2027
As heard on BBC Radio 4!As a society we love stuff, it's a statement about who we are and who we want to be. But apparently, this message is at odds with the looming environmental crisis. We're now struggling to balance these worlds, to foc...
Hal Cruttenden
Saturday 21 February 2026
One of the top stand up comedians working in the UK today, as well as being a highly accomplished writer and actor, Hal is back with a brand-new tour, Can Dish It Out But Can't Take It, that promises to stick it to 'The Man', as long as '...
A Northern Tr*nny Hootenanny
Saturday 21 February 2026
An uplifting queer parody musical and the story of Hunter's transition, set in the Wild Wild (North) West. Join Hunter King in his gender journey of self discovery and explore themes of dysphoria, joy and discovering your authentic self. Th...
OUTSIDE THE BOX COMEDY CLUB - 21ST FEBRUARY - STOCKPORT GARRICK
Saturday 21 February 2026
BEN SILVER - Ben is a northern comic, delivering tales of the human spirit through an absurdist kaleidoscope of impressions, mis-directions and sprawling vignettes.?Having been on the North West circuit for a handful of years and winning va...
Chloe Petts
Sunday 22 February 2026
Rising star and "very funny" (Guardian) "very gay" Kent comedian Chloe Petts returns with her latest tour, Big Naturals, and she's delving where she's never delved before: this is a show about sex. The problem is that she blushes every...
Schalk Bezuidenhout
Sunday 22 February 2026
South African comic Schalk Bezuidenhout is back with a brand new show, Hey Hey Divorce. His first and (hopefully, for the love of all things good) only show post divorce. Schalk hasn't checked in with you all in sometime and he wants to ta...
The Repromates
Sunday 22 February 2026
6 mates performing at one comedy show. Coming to The Fitzgerald 22/02/2026, what could possibly go wrong?...
Mean Girls
Monday 23 February - Saturday 7 March 2026
Winner of Best New Musical (WhatsOnStage Awards) and direct from the West End, MEAN GIRLS is the hilarious smash-hit musical comedy from an award-winning creative team including writer Tina Fey (30 Rock), composer Jeff Richmond (Unbreakable...
Stuart Mitchell
Wednesday 25 February 2026
Stuart Mitchell - one of the UK's finest comedians and TikTok stars with over 50M views online - commences his debut tour Tips Not Included. In this show, the Scot will be making us laugh whilst talking about the loss of his parents and how...
Chris Ramsey
Thursday 26 February 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 Famous...
