Most Popular Comedy in Manchester
Thu 12 Mar - Fri 24 Apr 2026
Sun 15 Mar 2026 - Thu 25 Feb 2027
Sat 18 Apr 2026 - Wed 17 Feb 2027
Thu 30 Apr 2026 - Fri 28 May 2027
Sun 18 Oct 2026 - Sat 1 May 2027
Sun 26 Apr - Sat 23 May 2026
Lucy Darling
Thursday 16 April 2026
Award-winning performer Carisa Hendrix stars as charming socialite and cocktail enthusiast Lucy Darling as she continues her vivacious vagabond voyages with Simply Darling - a touring variety show featuring her razor-sharp wit, unquestion...
Thomas Green
Thursday 16 April 2026
One of Australia's best exports, Thomas Green storms back onto the stage to electrify audiences with a brand new hour, Brainstorm, following his sell-out debut tour. After a significant self-discovery, Green realises his life is a whirlwi...
Max Amini
Friday 17 April 2026
Step into the electric world of Iranian American comedy sensation Max Amini!Since bursting onto the scene in Los Angeles in 2002, he's captured the hearts of tens of thousands of fans worldwide. Thrilling audiences as a headline act, Max is...
Matt Parker
Friday 17 April 2026
Matt Parker talks a lot of maths. He's a NYT best-selling author and sold-out stand-up performer. But now it's time he does the maths. Really gets in there and gives the maths a good doing. It's time he programmes his own Christmas tree lig...
Bingo Lingo
Friday 17 April 2026
Taking bingo, shaking all the dust-out and turning it into one mad, confetti-filled, party-bingo night of mayhem, this is Bingo like you've never experienced before. You'll be sat at a table with all of your friends playing bingo in a f...
Leila Navabi - Relay
Friday 17 April 2026
A bold, joyful punk-musical one-person show about making a queer family on your own terms, written and performed by award-nominated comedian, writer and composer Leila Navabi. The critically acclaimed show was included in The Guardian'...
Laura Ramoso
Saturday 18 April 2026
Sketch comedy sensation, Laura Ramoso, returns with her brand-new show, Calm Down, featuring all your favourite characters and more. Laura is a German-Italian comedian best known for her live sketch specials and viral impressions on socia...
Scott Bennett
Saturday 18 April 2026
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...
Looking For Me Friend - The Music of Victoria Wood
Saturday 18 April 2026
A funny and touching tribute to this much loved and sorely missed national treasure. Written and performed by BBC1's All Together Now star, Paulus, ('King of Cabaret', The Stage) this brand-new show sees him in a fresh light as a lifelong...
Emma Doran
Saturday 18 April 2026
Smash hit Irish comedian, best-selling author, podcast host and viral online star Emma Doran hits the road once again taking her brand-new stand-up show Emmaculate across the UK and Ireland in 2025/26. There's no such thing as a perfec...
Josh Widdicombe
Sunday 19 April 2026
Josh Widdicombe is back on tour, not again! By now he has almost certainly mastered the art of stand-up, either that or he has wasted the last 15 years of his life. Come along and decide for yourself. Expect it to be shorter and with lower...
Mark Steel
Sunday 19 April 2026
Multi award-winning, BAFTA-nominated writer and comedian Mark Steel returns with his new tour The Leopard in My House. The topic? His battle with throat cancer. A battle he is winning (thankfully) and which only his rapier wit could fash...
Vidura Bandara Rajapaksa
Sunday 19 April 2026
VIDURA BR is a Sri Lankan comedian, writer, and director based in London, via Malaysia and Berlin. His dead-pan style puts audiences at ease while challenging conventional wisdom with a unique tone that is often irreverent, at times poig...
Looking For Me Friend - The Music of Victoria Wood
Sunday 19 April 2026
A funny and touching tribute to this much loved and sorely missed national treasure. Written and performed by BBC1's All Together Now star, Paulus, ('King of Cabaret', The Stage) this brand-new show sees him in a fresh light as a lifelong...
COBO Comedy Shutdown
Sunday 19 April 2026
Comedy of Black Origin's Comedy Shutdown is back, bringing the joy of laughter to a venue near you! Gather your crew and come on down for an unforgettable evening of hilarity! COBO promotes comedy from the top black comedians in the country...
COBO : Comedy Shutdown Manchester
Sunday 19 April 2026
Bring your friends, family or crew and get ready for an unforgettable evening powered by some of the sharpest comedians in the game....
The Fit Prince
Tuesday 21 - Sunday 26 April 2026
The Fit Prince (who gets switched on the square in the frosty castle the night before [insert public holiday here]) Following the sold-out, award-winning shows Gwyneth Goes Skiing and Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story, Awkward Produ...
James Acaster
Wednesday 22 - Saturday 25 April 2026
"One of comedy's most original voices" (Evening Standard) has written a new show. He's very proud of it. That being said, you are allowed to ruin it. Fill your boots. --- "A comedy genius at the peak of his powers" - Guardian "a remarka...
Matt Rife
Friday 24 April 2026
From Columbus Ohio, Matt Rife has exploded as one of the fastest growing comedians through his viral content and remarkable engagement on TikTok, where he has amassed over 5 Million followers, and more than 260 million views globally. One o...
John Mulaney
Friday 24 April 2026
John Mulaney is a two-time Emmy and WGA award-winning writer, actor, and comedian. John Mulaney is a four-time Emmy Award, Critics Choice award and WGA award-winning writer, comedian and actor. Most recently, Mulaney can be seen as the...
Al Murray
Friday 24 April 2026
Hey cool cats! Hot on the heels of a sell-out 138 date tour of these green and groovy isles, The Guv will be back, baby, with a brand-new stand-up show for 2026. There's no denying the world's a mess daddio, but there is a glimmer of hope a...
Manford's Comedy Club
Friday 24 April - Friday 10 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.. ...
Ray Bradshaw
Friday 24 April 2026
1 in 6 adults in the UK will lose their hearing in their lifetime; two of those are Ray Bradshaw's parents. The multi award winning comedian is back on tour with a brand-new show all about growing up as a CODA; A Child of Deaf Adults. Hi...
Nurse John
Saturday 25 April 2026
Nurse John presents The Short-Staffed Tour John Dela Cruz's (a.k.a Nurse John's) comedy is like talking to your work bestie; you trauma dump, cry, scream, and laugh together through all the high and the lows of working in the service indus...
Jerk Meets Jollof
Saturday 25 April 2026
Top tier comedy back at the MCR lounge for a brunch like no other . Two of the country's most in demand comedians entertain , with authentic food ....
Rachel Fairburn's Trying It On
Sunday 26 April 2026
'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 ...
Matt Forde
Sunday 26 April - Saturday 23 May 2026
In Defying Calamity, his biggest live tour to date leading political comedian Matt Forde (The Royal Variety Performance, Spitting Image, HIGNFY, British Scandal) finds positivity in life despite all the evidence to the contrary in politic...
Bryony Gordon
Tuesday 28 - Wednesday 29 April 2026
An evening with Sunday Times bestselling author, journalist and mental health campaigner Bryony Gordon as she discusses her debut novel People Pleaser - a fiercely funny, instantly relatable, and utterly feel-good novel about the pressures...
Pierre Novellie
Wednesday 29 April 2026
It's time for Pierre to do stand-up! It's time for you to watch! Why not just embrace that, for God's sake? All earthly glories fade! You Sit There, I'll Stand Here is a mixture of high-brow and low-brow references from the five-star recei...
Gary Delaney
Thursday 30 April 2026
Gary Delaney's last UK tour ran for two and a half years across 378 dates. People laughed a lot and kept coming back. His videos have hundreds of millions of views. So now he's doing it all again with a brand new show. All new jokes and utt...
Crippled With Laughter
Thursday 30 April 2026
A disabled-led comedy night curated and hosted by Wheels and the Legman Get ready for a groundbreaking disabled-led comedy event that challenges stereotypes and pushes the boundaries of humour. By putting disability at the forefront of thei...
Ninja Sex Party
Friday 1 May 2026
American musical comedy synth rock duo Dan Avidan and keyboardist Brian Wecht are better known as Ninja Sex Party characters Danny Sexbang, an idiotic, exuberant, hypersexual Jewish man who tries to hit on women with varying degrees of suc...
Justin Moorhouse
Friday 1 - Saturday 2 May 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 ...
Manford's Comedy Club
Friday 1 May - 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.. ...
Chorlton Comedy Club
Friday 1 May 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...
Bank of Dave The Musical
Saturday 2 - Saturday 16 May 2026
"If there's one thing we can all agree on, it's this: everybody hates bankers." Bank of Dave: The Musical is a home-grown, brand-new British musical - bursting with northern grit, laugh-out-loud humour and what Dave himself calls "the best ...
MC Hammersmith
Sunday 3 May 2026
The multi-award winning freestyle rap comedian is the world's leading gangsta rapper to ever emerge from the ghetto of middle class west London. He presents his latest show "Hippity Hoppity Get Off My Property" - an evening of improvi...
Paul Foot + special guests
Sunday 3 May 2026
Slomanmusic and Fog Box proudly presents:PAUL FOOTstandup set that leads us into the ineffable, and dares to leave us there.' The Guardian...
Teechers
Tuesday 5 - Saturday 16 May 2026
New Year. . . same problems! It is the end of term and Godber's hilarious comedy masterpiece has been reset for our post Covid times. bristling with teenage swagger and outlandish imagination, Salty, Gail and Hobby use their B. Tech Perform...
