STAND UP COMEDY IN MANCHESTER
STAND UP COMEDY IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Stand Up Comedy in Manchester
Tue 1 Apr 2025 - Wed 18 Feb 2026
Wed 30 Apr 2025 - Fri 13 Feb 2026
Sun 25 May - Sun 9 Nov 2025
Fri 21 Mar - Fri 6 Jun 2025
Babatunde Aleshe
Friday 19 September 2025
Join the multi award winning star of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! & Celebrity Googlebox, Babatunde Aleshe on his second hilarious new stand up tour, High Expectations, as he guides us through family life, his new found fame...
Harry Hill
Sunday 21 September 2025
The Badger Parade is back on! Join Harry Hill on his Diamond Jubilee lap of honour as he celebrates 60 Glorious Years of fun, laughter and low level disruption! Marvel! As he offers new insights into the hot topics of the day such as the d...
Sam Avery
Sunday 21 September 2025
Back with a bang, award-winning comedian Sam Avery returns with his electrifying new show, Thunderstorm! In his trademark punchy style, Sam takes you on a whirlwind journey through the chaos of the modern world - from parenting disaste...
Andy Powell's Monday Matinee Cabaret
Monday 22 September 2025
Stockport's premier live entertainer Andy Powell returns once again with another Monday afternoon extravaganza of live entertainment featuring some of the UK's finest performers. Andy's special guests include comedian Justin Moorhouse, Bill...
Aaron Wood
Friday 26 September 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...
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 with this infamous tour!ActsTez Ilyas (Mock The Week BBC, Comedy Central)Anuvab Pal (Gues...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
Stephen Bailey
Friday 31 October - Friday 28 November 2025
Comedian, presenter, actor and writer, Stephen Bailey is a fiercely proud Mancunian, working class, gay man and he's back with a brand new live show, TART. From a working-class background in Manchester, six years working at Sainsbury's,...
Russell Kane
Saturday 1 November 2025
Whirlwind, FitBit-breaking comedian, presenter, actor and author Russell Kane is out on the road again, setting it on fire with his unique recipe of sharp wit and "storming physical comedy" (Mail on Sunday). Hyperactive, his brand-new tour ...
Stephen Bailey
Saturday 1 - Thursday 27 November 2025
Comedian, presenter, actor and writer, Stephen Bailey is a fiercely proud Mancunian, working class, gay man and he's back with a brand new live show, TART. From a working-class background in Manchester, six years working at Sainsbury's,...
Ardal O'Hanlon
Sunday 2 November 2025
Oh, it's all there! All the trademarks are in evidence in Ardal's latest show. Beautifully crafted stand-up comedy? Yes. Celebrated use of language? Tick. Lateral thinking, surreal flourishes, sharp observations? Of course. As for the occas...
Josh James
Sunday 2 November 2025
One of the most exciting names to breakout in UK comedy, viral comedy star Josh James presents his highly anticipated debut tour Doin' Alright. Join Josh as he guides audiences through the life of a 'Essex Man', the uniqueness of English c...
Matt Green
Sunday 2 November 2025
Following his debut sell-out national tour, online comedy star Matt Green returns with brand new jokes about the state of politics, the world and himself in his new show Legitimate Concerns. Matt has moved house and the world has moved i...
Jason Manford
Tuesday 4 November 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...
Alan Davies
Thursday 6 November 2025
He thinks he's Marty McFly but he's older than Doc Brown. He spends more time in the pharmacy than the gym. Subject to relentless eye rolls from his kids. What is he? A late middle-aged stand up on tour for the first time in a decade. Funni...
Jason Manford
Friday 7 November 2025 - Friday 13 February 2026
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...
Jason Manford
Saturday 8 November 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...
Henning Wehn
Saturday 8 November 2025
With his new show, Acid Wehn, award-deserving German Comedy Ambassador Henning Wehn takes an unbiased look at climate change, a topic sure to delight audiences and no surprise. After all, everyone loves talking about the weather. Rain or sh...
Justin Moorhouse
Sunday 9 November 2025
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 ...
Josh Jones
Sunday 9 November 2025
After his 2023/24 sell-out smash tour Gobsmacked, this marvellous Manc is back with his best show yet, I Haven't Won the Lottery so here's another show. A TV favourite, and now an aspiring doctor's wife, Josh Jones is now knee deep into his...
Urzila Carlson
Sunday 9 November 2025
Multi award-winning South African-New Zealander Urzila Carlson is back with her brand-new show, You Don't Say. Urzila's chart-topping premiere podcast That's Enough Already! sees her discussing everything that frustrates her guest, and...
Ross Noble
Tuesday 11 November 2025
Roll up, roll up! Or use a more conventional form of transport to get to the show. It's entirely your choice. Unless you accidentally become trapped in a barrel*. Should that happen, then just find an incline and start rolling to see the on...
Alan Davies
Wednesday 12 November 2025
He thinks he's Marty McFly but he's older than Doc Brown. He spends more time in the pharmacy than the gym. Subject to relentless eye rolls from his kids. What is he? A late middle-aged stand up on tour for the first time in a decade. Funni...
Emmanuel Sonubi
Wednesday 12 November 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...
Dara Ó Briain
Friday 14 - Saturday 15 November 2025
Dara O Briain is one of the UK & Ireland's favourite stand-up comedians and television presenters. He is best known for hosting Mock The Week, Robot Wars, Three Men in a Boat, Dara and Ed's Great Big Adventure, Stargazing Live, Dara O Briai...
Stephen K Amos
Sunday 16 November 2025
How good's a laugh? My joke book is overflowing, so let's get talking about what gives me the ick and what makes me tick. It's time to get down to the nitty gritty. No filter, no limits. The gloves are off and I'm packing a punchline, so le...
Ria Lina
Sunday 16 November 2025
Following her killer debut tour, Riawakening (Top Ten Best Stand-up Shows of 2024 - Telegraph), the wickedly funny Ria Lina realised she wasn't just awake, she was ready to rebel. In her new stand-up show Riabellion, expect a relentl...
Josh Widdicombe
Saturday 22 November 2025
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...
