Most Popular Comedy in Manchester
Sun 21 Mar - Sun 25 Apr 2027
Sun 28 Jun 2026 - Fri 28 May 2027
Tue 26 May - Sat 31 Oct 2026
Wed 22 Jul - Thu 22 Oct 2026
Cabbage The Clown: Cinemadrome
Monday 27 July 2026
Minimum wage cinema employee turned multi award-winning tragic fool Cabbage The Clown's debut comedy marries a buffet of genres in polygamous marriage...
Oh Zeus!
Tuesday 28 July - Saturday 1 August 2026
Kings of Comedy Le Navet Bete are back! For lovers of Fawlty Towers, Bottom and The Play That Goes Wrong, Oh Zeus! is a riotous, all-out hilarious ride through Greek mythology. When the stability of Olympus is threatened by the marriage of ...
In Pour Taste - A Comedy Wine Tasting Experience
Wednesday 29 July - Saturday 1 August 2026
Two of Melbourne's fastest-rising and extravagantly overdressed comedians, Sweeney Preston and Ethan Cavanagh, will be joined by an illustrious wine expert to guide you through tasting five wines and at least five jokes. Everyone from savvy...
Comedy Striptease
Thursday 30 July 2026
The best, most daring stand-up comedians from around the world showcase their skills but if they can't make you laugh... then they must Strip...
Aarian Mehrabani
Friday 31 July - Saturday 1 August 2026
Aarian is a triple threat. Brown, Blind and Bi. Arguably already too many things to talk about in a debut stand up hour. Then 2024 came, and he only had to go and get f**king brain cancer. The highly anticipated debut stand-up show from ...
Rosie Holt
Saturday 1 August 2026
As seen on the Russell Howard Hour and heard on Radio 4, Social Media sensation and Chortle Award winner Rosie Holt returns with her third live tour, The Illegal Aliens Have Landed. Rosie and her MP alter-ego are back, fighting their big...
Grindr The Opera!
Wednesday 5 - Saturday 29 August 2026
Grindr The Opera! puts the most notorious gay hook-up app into the exaggerated world of opera. With musical styles ranging from baroque to contemporary pop, Grindr: The Opera! is a daring, humorous look at the changing landscape of gay rela...
Manford's Comedy Club
Thursday 6 August - Thursday 12 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.. ...
Jack Carroll
Friday 7 August 2026
Britain's Got Talent Runner-Up, Star of BBC's Live at the Apollo, QI and Sky sitcom Trollied, as well as award winning movie Eaten by Lions, returns to the stage with his new stand up comedy show, Walking Funny. ...
Peter Kay
Saturday 8 August 2026
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...
Mick Miller
Saturday 15 August 2026
Guess who's back!?! Mick Miller, the bald Liverpool comedy legend with the long hair! One of the country's most treasured entertainers who has been at the top of his game for over 40 years. Mick first came to prominence in the 70's on th...
Kevin Bridges
Thursday 20 August 2026 - Friday 12 February 2027
Kev.I.n is back, and he's Here If You Need Him. Scotland's comedy powerhouse Kevin Bridges returns to the stage in 2026 with a brand-new stand-up show. After shattering box office records with Overdue Catch-Up (2022), Brand New Tour (2...
Rice and Peas vs Jollof
Saturday 22 August 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 ....
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Thursday 27 August 2026
Step into candlelit winter woods and discover the shadowy underbelly of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream To escape a society ruled by tyrannical law, four young lovers flee to the forest beyond the city walls. Unbeknownst to them, th...
The Schitt's Show - A Drag Celebration of Schitt's Creek
Friday 28 August 2026
A drag tribute to the classic sitcom. It's been 10 years since the Rose empire crumbled and our favourite well-to-do family were forced to become small-town simpletons... Over the following 5 years the people of Schitt's Creek carved a plac...
Faulty Towers - The Original Dining Experience
Saturday 29 August 2026
Interactive Theatre's globetrotting show is truly quite legendary, selling out at venues like Edinburgh Fringe, Raffles Singapore and Sydney Opera House. When the audience become diners in the 'Faulty Towers' restaurant and are served by Ba...
The Totally Improvised Musical
Saturday 29 August - Saturday 17 October 2026
The Totally Improvised Musical returns. Every night is opening night as these top Mancunian improvisers compose brand-new comedy musicals from your title suggestions. That's right; the story, songs, characters and "choreography" are all mad...
Swamplesque
Wednesday 2 - Thursday 3 September 2026
After taking Australia by storm and smashing box office records at Edinburgh Fringe in 2024 & 2025, everyone's favourite ogre-inspired burlesque and drag parody returns to the UK! Swamplesque is the award-winning, critically acclaimed, bur...
Austentatious - An Improvised Jane Austen Novel
Friday 4 September 2026
The award-winning West End smash-hit comedy Austentatious comes to you on a strictly limited tour. For a delightful evening, the all-star Austentatious cast will improvise a hilarious new Jane Austen novel, inspired entirely by a title from...
Jack Rooke
Friday 4 - Saturday 5 September 2026
BAFTA-winning writer and recovering spoken-word artist Jack Rooke (Creator of Hulu / C4's Big Boys) brings back his debut comedy-theatre show 'Good Grief', a decade on from it launching his career. Featuring the original show (co-written wi...
East is East
Friday 4 September - Saturday 3 October 2026
The 30th anniversary production of Ayub Khan Din's modern classic, a story about identity, generational conflict, and the messy, unbreakable bonds of family. Salford, 1971. The Khan family are living above a chip shop and on the fault line ...
Reuben Solo
Thursday 10 - Friday 11 September 2026
Australian stand-up and sketch comedian Reuben Solo rose to prominence via social media in 2020, becoming known for his use of self-referential and surreal humour. After months spent touring worldwide, Reuben returns with knives in his back...
Fin Taylor
Friday 11 - Saturday 12 September 2026
Men want to be him, Women want their boyfriends to stop showing them his videos. The King of the Internet Jungle is back where he belongs, doing stand-up in front of a live audience. After the whirlwind success of his chart-topping podcas...
LAUGHING HORSE WEEKEND (2 DAY) COMEDY COURSE
Saturday 12 September 2026
Learn the skills and art of stand-up comedy on this 2-day (9 hour) comedy course, led by professional comedians and comedy tutors, plus graduation show Sunday Night - full course info on http://www. laughinghorsecomedy. co. uk/comedy/course...
Mike Wozniak
Sunday 13 September 2026
New stand-up tour show from Mike Wozniak in which a story about a bench will be prominent. Previous experience of or strong opinions about benches not required. Let Mike worry about that. As seen on Taskmaster, Man Down and Junior Taskma...
Sindhu Vee
Sunday 13 September 2026
Born and raised in India, Sindhu Vee (full name Sindhu Venkatanarayanan) came to London in her 20s to begin a career in investment banking before shocking her parents and switching to comedy. Someone once asked Sindhu Vee a very stupid q...
Kanan Gill
Sunday 13 September 2026
Indian stand-up sensation Kanan Gill embarks on a UK tour with "What is This?", a show about nothing at all (so far...). But what does nothing mean? What is emptiness empty of? Are thoughts thieves in an empty house? Oh shut up dude, stop i...
