STAND UP COMEDY IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Stand Up Comedy in Manchester
Fri 22 Sep 2023 - Fri 25 Jul 2025
Jimmy Cricket
Sunday 26 March 2023
One of the UK's most loved Irish Comedians, having made four series for Central Television in the mid 1980's, and his own BBC Radio 2 Series in the 1990's, alongside numerous television appearances and Royal Variety Shows over the decades c...
Micky Bartlett
Sunday 26 March 2023
The Northern Irish standup juggernaut is fast becoming an International name with his trademark mix of blisteringly quick jokes and stories that would make a therapist go part time. His new show Let Me Start From The Start is an hour of b...
Stewart Lee - Basic Lee
Monday 27 March - Saturday 1 April 2023
After a decade of ground-breaking high concept shows involving overarched interlinked narratives, massive sets and enormous comedy props, Lee enters the post-pandemic era in streamlined solo stand-up mode. One man, one microphone, and one m...
Jamali Maddix
Monday 27 March 2023
As seen on Taskmaster (Channel4), Frankie Boyle's New World Order (BBC2) and his critically acclaimed series Hate Thy Neighbor for Vice, comedian Jamali Maddix is heading out on tour. With his new show, King Crud, the stand up comedi...
The Comedy Store at Escape to Freight Island
Thursday 30 March - Thursday 18 May 2023
The Comedy Store, Manchester comes to Escape to Freight Island. Depot Mayfield will be overflowing with laughter with thisnew and exciting collaboration....
Octagon Comedy Club
Friday 31 March - Friday 30 June 2023
After sell-out shows, the Octagon Comedy Club is back for even more laughs! Join us one Friday a month and enjoy a hilarious night of live stand-up from some of the best names in comedy. To see who is performing, more details can be found h...
Henry Normal
Saturday 1 - Tuesday 4 April 2023
"Henry Normal - COLLECTED POEMS and other landfill" is the very latest and greatest poetry of the BAFTA-winning Nottingham-born writer, poet, TV & Film producer, founder of the Manchester Poetry Festival (now the Literature festival) and co...
Joe Wells
Saturday 1 April 2023
The writer for BBC1's 'Have I Got News For You' presents his new show, I Am Autistic; an hour of stand up comedy about carving out your identity in a world which wants you to be like everyone else. Joe is not a 'person with comedy', he's ...
Manford's Comedy Club
Saturday 1 April - Saturday 2 December 2023
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.. ...
Best of Buzz Comedy
Saturday 1 April - Saturday 3 June 2023
Waterside's legendary monthly comedy night showcasing new and established talent upstairs in the Old Courtroom Chambers. Buzz Comedy is a long-running, well-respected, and award-winning comedy night fronted since 1989 by the veteran wit...
Garrett Millerick
Sunday 2 April 2023
The world's angriest optimist returns for another bash at sorting out life's inexplicable complications. ...
Didsbury Comedy Club
Sunday 2 April - Sunday 4 June 2023
Sunday 6 June We don't know if the venue will be open by this date yet but, if it is, we will put a show on. Sunday 4 July Glenn Wool, Tez Ilyas, Alex Stringer, MC Justin Moorhouse On sale here soon with first refusal to mailing list memb...
Heatons Comedy Evening
Sunday 2 April - Sunday 4 June 2023
Sunday 2 May Mark Nelson, Glenn Wool, Tal Davies, MC Justin MoorhouseSunday 6 June Mick Ferry, Tony Law, Sarah Speare, MC Alex Boardman ...
Zoe Lyons
Tuesday 4 April 2023
Zoe Lyons has kept herself busy in the last couple of years by having what can best be described as a monumental midlife crisis. It involved buying a sports car, having a brief marital separation and running a 100k ultra marathon which real...
Myra Dubois
Thursday 6 April 2023
You are cordially summoned to the seance of the century. Rotherham's finest export since Paul Shane, the cosmically connected MYRA DUBOIS will summon spirits and spooks for your (and let's be honest; her own) entertainment. It'll spook you;...
First Thursday Comedy
Thursday 6 April - Thursday 4 May 2023
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. ...
Chorlton Comedy Club
Thursday 6 April - Friday 2 June 2023
2020 saw Chorlton's longest running comedy night move from the Irish Club in 2020 and change it's name to Chorlton Comedy Club in the process. We then had that pesky global pandemic! With the vaccine on it's way, they are hoping to relaunch...
Sooz Kempner
Saturday 8 April 2023
The Twitter sensation and BBC Radio 4 regular takes to the road in her debut UK tour Playstation, following a totally sold-out Edinburgh Festival residency which played to critical acclaim. In 1998 Sooz got a PlayStation, the first adult co...
Chloe Petts
Sunday 9 April - Sunday 11 June 2023
The debut show of rising star and "very funny" (Guardian) "very gay" Kent comedian Chloe Petts touring the UK for the first time! A brilliantly sharp live performer and "compelling presence" (Steve Bennett, Chortle), she is one of the most ...
Rich Hardisty
Sunday 9 April 2023
Described by Simon Amstell as "Much more than funny... but also very funny", in his intimate and highly anticipated debut hour, Rich Hardisty (Channel 4, Netflix, BBC) takes us on a journey through the highs and lows of his unusual life. E...
Babatunde Aleshe
Thursday 13 April 2023
Join the multi award winning star of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! & Celebrity Googlebox, Babatunde Aleshe on The Babahood Tour as he talks family and fatherhood in this highly anticipated debut tour. Since bursting onto the main...
Paul Black
Friday 14 April 2023
Paul Black's brand new show 'Nostalgia' follows on from the Glasgow-born comedian's debut Edinburgh Fringe run, which sold out in minutes. With over half a billion views on his online comedy sketches and a cult following, Paul has cemented ...
Manford's Comedy Club
Friday 14 April - Friday 8 December 2023
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.. ...
Jayde Adams
Saturday 15 April 2023
Since her first stand-up special launched on Amazon Prime in 2020 it's received a huge amount of critical acclaim, amassing a staggering 60 million views across social media and longlisted for the Best Variety Special Emmy in the Hollywoo...
Clinton Baptiste
Sunday 16 - Monday 17 April 2023
From Bolton via Vegas..... to the stars! As featured in Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights... it's Clinton Baptiste from the massively popular Clinton Baptiste's Paranormal Podcast. Communicating with the Afterlife? What could be more min...
Nick Mohammed - The Very Best & Worst of Mr. Swallow
Sunday 16 April - Wednesday 17 May 2023
Double Emmy award-nominee and star of Ted Lasso Nick Mohammed takes his critically acclaimed alter ego on his first UK tour with the Very Best & Worst of Mr. Swallow a mix of new, old, very old and previously unusable material. Expect noise...
Emmanuel Sonubi
Sunday 16 April 2023
The Edinburgh Comedy Award nominated show Emancipated from North London stand-up Emmanuel Sonubi, who has only been on the comedy circuit for what feels like five minutes yet he's already garnering himself a reputation as the 'one to wat...
Phil Ellis
Sunday 16 April 2023
Edinburgh award-winning North Manchester comedian Phil Ellis takes to the road with his first ever UK tour, "Hedgehog". The star of BBC Radio 4's Phil Ellis is Trying, is back with his latest final stand-up show ever. Join him for his fir...
Suzi Ruffell
Tuesday 18 April 2023
Multi-award nominated comedian Suzi Ruffell likes things snappy: her stand up, her decisions and her suits. Suzi's brand new show, Snappy, is all about settling down (but not settling), becoming a mother (without becoming mumsy) and still w...
Roy Chubby Brown
Saturday 22 April 2023
Roy Chubby Brown's rude, crude and rip-roaring brand of comedy is world renowned. Performing his own unique style of stand-up since the 190s, Chubby's belly-busting banter has never held back from sharing his outlandish views on news, wome...
World Comedy Clash 2023
Saturday 22 April 2023
London's number 1 original and longest running comedy clash show returns to Manchester by popular demand with a star-studded, action-packed line up. COMEDIANS: Special Guest - RICHARD BLACKWOOD RUDI LICKWOOD (Guyana) CHRISTOPHER SAVAGE (Jam...
Kevin James Thornton
Saturday 22 April - Wednesday 29 November 2023
Nashville country artist turned queer comedian, from small town Indiana, Kevin James Thornton is a rising TikTok and Instagram star with over 1 million followers and 500 million video views. He has built a loyal following posting hilarious,...
Justin Moorhouse
Sunday 23 April 2023
The hilarious Manchester comedian and Phoenix Nights star is back: still funny, yet middle aged. Stretch & Think is his brand new show, which may contain: Yoga, getting older, Madonna, shoplifters, Labradoodles, middle-aged cyclists, The Me...
Sophie Duker
Sunday 23 April 2023
The sexy baby from Taskmaster is all grown up. Back in 2019 she was a Babybel - round, sweet, pure. Now she's vintage cheddar - extra mature and hiding in your fridge. As seen on Live At The Apollo and literally everywhere else. Hag is her ...