Most Popular Comedy in Manchester
Sun 11 May 2025 - Wed 18 Feb 2026
Wed 30 Apr 2025 - Fri 13 Feb 2026
Sun 25 May - Sat 22 Nov 2025
Wed 25 Jun 2025 - Fri 22 May 2026
Wed 30 Apr - Sat 10 May 2025
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Pablo Bloom
Sunday 5 October 2025
The King of Benidorm, Pablo Bloom brings his One Man Show of comedy and live music back to the UK. ...
Jack Dee
Wednesday 8 October 2025
Culture wars, the environment, British foreign policy and social justice: these are just a few of the topics that comedian Jack Dee spectacularly fails to address (or even mention for that matter) in his brand-new show Small World. Instea...
Emmanuel Sonubi
Wednesday 8 October 2025
Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee and Best Show nominee, Emmanuel Sonubi is back on tour with his new show Life After Near Death, following sold-out performances at the Edinburgh Fringe, his Curriculum Vitae European Tour, and hi...
Snake in the Grass
Thursday 9 - Saturday 25 October 2025
A darkly comic thriller about family, secrets and manipulation. Annabel returns home after the death of her cruel father. Reunited with her sister Miriam, the siblings bicker as buried truths resurface. Tensions grow when his former nurse ...
Nick Helm
Thursday 9 October 2025
Are you ready to have the best damn night of your effing life? Well don't worry, the man with the golden larynx is back - and he's aiming high. On his last tour Nick Helm promised you a Super Fun Good Time Show and, except for one man in Hu...
Kieran Hodgson
Thursday 9 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...
Aunty Donna
Friday 10 - Saturday 11 October 2025
Australian YouTube, podcast and Netflix surrealist comedy superstars - Broden Kelly, Zachary Ruane and Mark Bonanno - bring their wonderfully riotous sketch comedy show Drem to Europe. Featuring a 75ish minute live show, with all new ...
Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein - The Musical
Friday 10 October - Sunday 30 November 2025
From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation, The Producers, comes this monster musical comedy. The comedy genius, Mel Brooks, adapts his legendarily funny film into a brilliant stage creation - Young Frankenstein! Grandson...
Kae Kurd
Friday 10 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...
Thomas Green
Saturday 11 October 2025
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...
Dead Ringers
Sunday 12 October 2025
To mark its 25th anniversary, BBC Radio 4's legendary, multi-award-winning topical satire show takes to the road with a full UK tour for the first time. Starring long-standing cast members Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Lewis MacLeod, and Dun...
Josie Long
Sunday 12 October 2025
Three-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and very-hard-to-pin-down-indie-underdog-nightmare Josie Long is back with Now is The Time of Monsters, a new show about extinct gigantic, charismatic, megafauna. ★★★★★ The Skinny "Riot...
Listen Very Carefully - The 'Allo 'Allo Podcast
Sunday 12 October 2025
Attenzion! You will listen very carefully. I shall say this only once. Following the success of their hit podcast, 'Allo 'Allo! stars Kim Hartman (Helga!), Guy Siner (Lieutenant Gruber!), and Richard Gibson (Herr Flick!) are now ...
Trigger Happy TV
Sunday 12 October 2025
It's been twenty-five years since Trigger Happy TV burst onto our screens, transforming the hidden camera format with its surreal universe of characters and unforgettable pranks. Now, to celebrate a quarter-century of chaos, Dom Joly is bri...
Dirty Dusting
Monday 13 October 2025
An evening of pure theatrical Viagra starring Crissy Rock (Benidorm) and Leah Bell (Stage Award Winner) plus Vanessa Karon and Paul Dunn. Gladys, Olive and Elsie are three "vintage style" cleaning ladies who, threatened with redundan...
Nick Mohammed is Mr Swallow
Tuesday 14 - Wednesday 15 October 2025
After a sell-out 2023 UK tour and extended run in London's West End, Taskmaster loser Nick Mohammed returns as his critically acclaimed alter-ego Mr. Swallow with a brand new show. Show Pony has been described by Mr. Swallow as "payback ...
Inside No 9 Stage/Fright
Tuesday 14 - Saturday 18 October 2025
Welcome to a world of intrigue, as we invite you to step Inside Number 9 for a theatrical experience like no other. Expect the unexpected as the acclaimed BBC TV series comes to life on stage, fresh from a sell out West End run, weaving its...
Wankernomics
Friday 17 October 2025
After entirely sold-out runs in Edinburgh & London in 2024, Australia's favourite workplace w*nkers return with their brand new show, Just Touching Base.W*nkernomics are masters at skewering the buzzwords, bureaucracy and bulls**t of the mo...
Emmanuel Sonubi
Friday 17 October 2025
Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee and Best Show nominee, Emmanuel Sonubi is back on tour with his new show Life After Near Death, following sold-out performances at the Edinburgh Fringe, his Curriculum Vitae European Tour, and hi...
Myra DuBois
Saturday 18 October 2025
Described by Graham Norton as "bust a gut funny", with her passion for compassion and flair for giving care, Rotherham's finest export since Paul Shane, registered empath Myra DuBois returns to the stage with a brand-new show "Cosmic Em...
Two Mr Ps in a Podcast
Saturday 18 October 2025
Mr P has been a primary school teacher for over twelve years. He still works part-time in a school in Davyhulme and leads training in schools all over the UK and beyond. From sharing ideas and funny insights into life in the classroom, he h...
Cally Beaton
Saturday 18 October 2025
Namaste Motherf*ckers is the new show from TikTok favourite Cally Beaton (QI, Live at the Apollo) - a quick-witted, unexpected and unapologetic insight into life in midlife. Combining Cally's comedic and storytelling prowess with extracts...
Aaron Wood
Saturday 18 October 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...
Nina Conti
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Sunday 19 October 2025
The virtuoso ventriloquist, BAFTA nominee and British Comedy Award winner is back on tour with a new show, Whose Face is it Anyway? London-born Nina Conti (and Monkey) has regularly sold out shows all over the world with her widely acclaim...
Tom Houghton
Sunday 19 October 2025 - Friday 10 April 2026
After phenomenal, sold-out, international tour, the multi-viral social media sensation and former resident of The Tower of London, Tom Houghton - star of Netflix's The Circle and host of Very British Problems: Live and Bad Manors podcast...
Emmanuel Sonubi
Sunday 19 October 2025
Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee and Best Show nominee, Emmanuel Sonubi is back on tour with his new show Life After Near Death, following sold-out performances at the Edinburgh Fringe, his Curriculum Vitae European Tour, and hi...
Tom Houghton
Wednesday 22 October 2025
After phenomenal, sold-out, international tour, the multi-viral social media sensation and former resident of The Tower of London, Tom Houghton - star of Netflix's The Circle and host of Very British Problems: Live and Bad Manors podcast...
Jason Manford
Friday 24 October 2025
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...
Lewis Spears: Serial Pest
Friday 24 October 2025
Australian comedian Lewis Spears is infamous for his confident, dark and dangerous material....
Jack Dee
Sunday 26 October 2025
Culture wars, the environment, British foreign policy and social justice: these are just a few of the topics that comedian Jack Dee spectacularly fails to address (or even mention for that matter) in his brand-new show Small World. Instea...
Jason Byrne
Monday 27 October 2025
The biggest selling comedian at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Jason Byrne's inspired, original brand of high-energy intelligent lunacy ensures that there is no other comedian like him and his sell out shows have attracted accolades incl...
Garth Marenghi
Wednesday 29 - Thursday 30 October 2025
From the fevered imaginata of Horror Fiction's Grand Frightener Garth Marenghi - Channel 4's spoof pulp horror author created by English comedians Matthew Holness and Richard Ayoade - author of Sunday Times Bestselling Garth Marenghi's T...
