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                                 Sara Pascoe 
                            
                            
                                 
                                
                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                     Saturday 28 March 2026 
                                                                        Have you ever been awake in the middle of the night and thought something so smart and astute that you couldn't wait for the world to wake up so you could tell them? Sara Pacoe's new stand-up show, I Am a Strange Gloop is that thought. In t...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 Justin Moorhouse 
                            
                            
                                 
                                
                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                     Saturday 28 March 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 ...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 Shaparak Khorsandi 
                            
                            
                                 
                                
                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                     Saturday 28 March 2026 
                                                                          One of Britain's most beloved and most scatterbrained stand-ups lets you back into her mind! Shaparak Khorsandi is here to walk you through her life as a Scatterbrain... Having reassessed her life through the prism of an ADHD diagnosis,...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 Crown Comedy 
                            
                            
                                 
                                
                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                     Saturday 28 March 2026 
                                                                        A fantastic line up of top talent on the UK comedy circuit. Click for line-up. ...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 Foil Arms & Hog 
                            
                            
                                 
                                
                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                     Sunday 29 March 2026 
                                                                          Irish trio Foil, Arms and Hog are back with their brand-new show, Skittish, a mix of sketch comedy, audience participation and improvisation. With over one billion views you may know the lads from their online videos, but their live sh...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 Darren Walsh 
                            
                            
                                 
                                
                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                     Sunday 29 March 2026 
                                                                        ʞɔǝɥ ←flippin' heck! Witness a pun Goliath in person, as Darren Walsh brings his 8ft frame and award winning act on the road with his new tour, Do You Like Puns?.  From appearing on Comic Relief to his 'Jokes on the street' series on ...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 Murder, She Didn't Write 
                            
                            
                                 
                                
                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                     Thursday 2 - Saturday 4 April 2026 
                                                                        Don your deerstalker, grab your magnifying glass and get your 'finger of suspicion' at the ready because Edinburgh Fringe favourites, Degrees of Error, are bringing back their multiple sell-out show for your sleuthing pleasure. They'll crea...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 Amy Mason: Behold 
                            
                            
                                 
                                
                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                     Thursday 2 April 2026 
                                                                        A silly yet razor witted examination of digital dependency, friendship and community....
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 Russell Howard 
                            
                            
                                 
                                
                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                     Friday 3 - Sunday 5 April 2026 
                                                                        Russell Howard is back with a brand-new stand-up tour in 2026. After breaking records with sold-out shows across the globe, 'one of the world's top comedians' (The Sunday Times) is inviting you back into the room: no phones, no distractions...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 Omid Djalili 
                            
                            
                                 
                                
                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                     Sunday 5 April 2026 
                                                                          The Persian Comedy Powerhouse performs his critically acclaimed new show NAMASTE where Omid peacefully bows to his inner anger and unleashes a torrent of comedic vitriol upon the current state of this dangerously messed up planet. No gov...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 Simon Evans 
                            
                            
                                 
                                
                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                     Tuesday 7 April 2026 
                                                                          Simon Evans is Back! Waaaay back with his show Simon Evans is Staring at The Sun... With growing evidence that we are living in a Computer Simulation - and a pretty glitchy, off-brand simulation at that - and the approaching watershed of...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 Jen Brister 
                            
                            
                                 
                                
                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                     Wednesday 8 April 2026 
                                                                        Jen Brister is Reactive - or so she's been told. Apparently you don't have to respond to every little thing around you. Finding herself in a constant state of exacerbation at the state of the world and people in general, Brister has been to...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 Rob Auton 
                            
                            
                                 
                                
                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                     Thursday 9 April 2026 
                                                                        Multi award-winning writer, performer and actor Rob Auton presents his debut narrative show. Having written 11 critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe Festival shows on specific themes, including the colour yellow in 'The Yellow Show', sleep ...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                                    
                                                                                                                            
                                                        
                                 Pete Firman 
                            
                            
                                 
                                
                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                     Thursday 9 April 2026 
                                                                        Pete Firman is one of the UK's most popular magicians and he's back on the road! You've seen him on television, now experience his trademark blend of laugh-out-loud comedy and jaw-dropping magic live on stage. As seen on ITV1's Tonight at ...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 Jon Udry is Having a Ball 
                            
                            
                                 
                                
                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                     Thursday 9 April 2026 
                                                                        There are jugglers. There are comedians. And there is Jon Udry. Jon combines the two to such a brilliant effect that his unique performance has his audience roaring with laughter from entrance to the final curtain. Formerly the British Youn...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 Tom Houghton 
                            
                            
                                 
                                
                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                     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...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 Jim Davidson 
                            
                            
                                 
                                
                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                     Friday 10 April 2026 
                                                                          In a world where comedy is being reshaped by cancel culture, highly controversial former TV star Jim Davidson OBE remains defiant. Returning in 2026 with Last Man Standing ... Just!, Jim brings his trademark firepower back to the stage-...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 Hannah East 
                            
                            
                                 
                                
                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                     Saturday 11 April - Sunday 8 November 2026 
                                                                        Hannah East's brand-new show is a hilarious deep dive into the highs and lows of parenting. With millions of views across her viral comedy reels, she brilliantly captures the chaos, joy, and absurdity of mum life. From pregnancy and labour ...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 Parody of the Rings 
                            
                            
                                 
                                
                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                     Saturday 11 April 2026 
                                                                        A Hilarious and Epic Adventure! What happens when a cinema's Lord of the Rings marathon goes terribly wrong? At the local cinema, all hell breaks loose when the ushers misplace the DVDs of The Lord of the Rings trilogy - every single copy! ...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 Aisling Bea 
                            
                            
                                 
                                
                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                     Sunday 12 April 2026 
                                                                        BAFTA and British Comedy Award-winning Irish stand-up Aisling Bea is finally hitting the road. With tales of travel, home, immigration, history, sex, babies, music, lovers and enemies. She will even answer your big life questions. It's not...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 Pierre Novellie 
                            
                            
                                 
                                
                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                     Monday 13 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...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 Mike Wozniak 
                            
                            
                                 
                                
                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                     Tuesday 14 April 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...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 Waiting for Godot 
                            
                            
                                 
                                
                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                     Wednesday 15 April - Saturday 2 May 2026 
                                                                        Matthew Kelly and George Costigan star in a new staging of Samuel Beckett's classic play - in which absolutely nothing happens.    Set in a shifting, timeless landscape, Waiting for Godot follows two men, Vladimir and Estragon, as they wa...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 Danny Baker 
                            
                            
                                 
                                
                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                     Wednesday 15 April 2026 
                                                                          Aye Aye! Ahoy Hoy! The Unstoppable Talking Panjandrum is back in town celebrating 50 Years afloat on the Showbiz Seas! Dead men tell no tales - so might as well get 'em all told now! Avast! Two thundering hours guaranteed! As seen on BBC...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 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...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 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...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 Barbara Nice 
                            
                            
                                 
                                
                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                     Friday 17 April 2026 
                                                                        Join Stockport housewife, cleaner to the stars, Take a Break reader and Britain's Got Talent star Barbara Nice for all the best bits of her 25 years of delighting live comedy audiences, as well as new stuff she wrote on the bus. A playful, ...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                                    
                                                                                                                            
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 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...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 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...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 Matt Forde 
                            
                            
                                 
                                
                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                     Sunday 26 April 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...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 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...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 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 ...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 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...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 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...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 Manford's Comedy Club 
                            
                            
                                 
                                
                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                     Thursday 7 May - Thursday 6 August 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.. ...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                                    
                                                                                                                            
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 WiFi Wars 
                            
                            
                                 
                                
                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                     Saturday 9 May 2026 
                                                                        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 ...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 Kate Butch - Choose Your Own Cabaret 
                            
                            
                                 
                                
                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                     Sunday 10 May 2026 
                                                                        Hot on the heels of her smash hit Wuthering Shites tour, Kate Butch is back with her trademark wit, campery and vocal stylings. Join the star of RuPaul's Drag Race UK, Celebrity Mastermind, The Power of Parker, and at least three episodes o...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 Tom Rosenthal 
                            
                            
                                 
                                
                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                     Sunday 10 May 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 ...
                                                                        
                                 
                             
                         
                                                                    
                                                        
                                 Clinton Baptiste 
                            
                            
                                 
                                
                                                                                                                                                                                        
                                     Wednesday 13 May 2026 
                                                                        Hot on the heels of his fourth sell-out UK tour, the nation's favourite clairvoyant medium, from Peter Kay's 'Phoenix Nights', Clinton Baptiste is back with a new live show for 2026 and beyond! In a rudderless world, mankind needs an envoy ...