Most Popular Comedy in Manchester
Tue 1 Apr 2025 - Wed 18 Feb 2026
Wed 30 Apr 2025 - Fri 13 Feb 2026
Sun 25 May - Sat 22 Nov 2025
An Evening With Jimmy Tarbuck
Thursday 8 May 2025
After more than 60 years at the very top of his profession Jimmy Tarbuck OBE relives many of the most iconic moments of a life on stage and screen. Featuring a huge collection of anecdotes and video clips highlighting a fabulously glitterin...
Trygve Wakenshaw - Silly Little Things
Thursday 8 May 2025
Trygve Wakenshaw brings his hilarious mime-clown-comedy show. Light and silly, absurd and Dada, and a sort of autobiographical, introspective look at all the silly little things that can make or break a friendship. Ranked in the top 5 of be...
Joe Kent-Walters is Frankie Monroe
Thursday 8 May 2025
Here he is! Yorkshire's biggest bastard. For 1 night only! Join owner and MC of The Misty Moon (working men's club in Rotherham/portal to hell) for a slap-up feast of laughs, tricks and mucky bitter. Can Frankie save showbiz? Can he protect...
Mark Normand
Friday 9 May 2025
Dubbed by Jerry Seinfeld as the "best young up and coming comic," New Orleans stand-up comedian and actor Mark Normand is quickly becoming one of the most talked about touring comedians on the scene. Normand's one-hour Netflix special, Sou...
Zakir Khan
Saturday 10 May 2025
In Hindi. To say that Zakir Khan is just a popular stand-up comedian would be to miss his larger impact entirely. His is the most unlikely of stories - a college drop-out from Indore whose preferred medium is Hindi, breaking into an English...
Zoe Lyons
Saturday 10 May 2025
If life is a journey, Zoe's has had more than its share of potholes and diversions: from diving with sharks, to sitting in a shed in Vietnam with a former health secretary (and discovering that MPs aren't the only parasites she has to wo...
Chris McCausland
Sunday 11 May 2025 - Wednesday 18 February 2026
A brand-new show for 2025! You might have seen him on Strictly Come Dancing, Scared of the Dark, Would I Lie to You, Have I Got News for You, The Royal Variety, QI, Blankety Blank, The Last Leg, and tons more as well. He's been called an "o...
Austentatious - An Improvised Jane Austen Novel
Sunday 11 May 2025
The award-winning smash-hit comedy, as seen in the West End every week since 2022, and heard on BBC Radio 4, comes to you on a strictly limited tour. For one delightful evening only, the all-star Austentatious cast will improvise a hilariou...
Irish Annie's
Sunday 11 May 2025
Starring Ricky Tomlinson as Scouse Jim and Catherine Rice as Irish Annie, Asa Murphy's new musical play celebrates the best of Irish culture, from the music to the comedy. Meet landlady Annie and her regular madcap customers for a fun nigh...
Rory Scovel
Monday 12 May 2025
South Carolina comedian and actor Rory Scovel returns to Europe to perform his sometimes completely improvised style of comedy with his new show "Should I Live Here." Rory's stand up has been featured on Comedy Central, Conan, and Late Nigh...
A Northern Tr*nny Hootenanny
Tuesday 13 - Saturday 17 May 2025
An uplifting queer parody musical and the story of Hunter's transition, set in the Wild Wild (North) West. Join Hunter King in his gender journey of self discovery and explore themes of dysphoria, joy and discovering your authentic self. Th...
Irish Annie's
Wednesday 14 May 2025
Starring Ricky Tomlinson as Scouse Jim and Catherine Rice as Irish Annie, Asa Murphy's new musical play celebrates the best of Irish culture, from the music to the comedy. Meet landlady Annie and her regular madcap customers for a fun nigh...
Cancelled Podcast
Wednesday 14 - Thursday 15 May 2025
EXTRA! EXTRA! Cancelled is hitting the stage live. Now an International Disaster! Get up close and personal for a discussion with your favourite co-host besties, Tana Mongeau and Brooke Schofield, in these unfiltered, uncut, interactive li...
Manchester Improv Wednesdays
Wednesday 14 May 2025
An evening of fully improvised comedy - every Wednesday at 33 Oldham StreetThe Line Up.... Wet Skeleton is one performer, zero script, and infinite possibilities. Watch as her 206 soggy (and slightly wonky) bones become all manner of charac...
Sophie McCartney
Thursday 15 May 2025
After a phenomenal debut tour, award-winning comedian Sophie McCartney is back! A new decade beckons and she DOES NOT BELIEVE IT! What does life look like when you're too old to be young, but too young to be old? Grab your glow sticks and j...
Modi
Thursday 15 May 2025
Voted one of the top 10 comedians in New York City by The Hollywood Reporter, Modi is one of the comedy circuit's most sought after performers. Featured on HBO, CBS, NBC, ABC,Comedy Central, Howard Stern, and E! Entertainment, Modi has rece...
Murder, She Didn't Write
Thursday 15 May 2025
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...
Rob Copland
Thursday 15 May 2025
Gimme the thrills, gimme the spills, gimme a man with a microphone in his hand and careless abandon in his heart, gimme the winner of the Comedians Choice Award for Best Show, gimme Rob Copland trying his best despite everything. ...
Women Aren't Funny
Thursday 15 May - Thursday 3 July 2025
"All women joke about is periods and bras!" Well, at Shakespeare North, they love a "Period BRAma!" Get ready for a glorious night of standup comedy that's here to prove one undeniable truth: women are in fact hilarious. Featuring a stellar...
Paul Chowdhry
Friday 16 - Saturday 17 May 2025
Renowned as the most successful British Indian stand-up comedian in British history, Paul Chowdhry's career is marked by numerous accolades and groundbreaking achievements. He returns with his biggest tour to date, Englandia. In a remarka...
Laura Belbin
Friday 16 May 2025
The comedian behind the blog Knee Deep In Life is known as Laura Belbin, she's the perfect tonic in a world of perceived perfection and filtered happiness. She says the things everyone is thinking but probably doesn't often dares to say. H...
Manford's Comedy Club
Friday 16 May - Friday 5 December 2025
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.. ...
Holly Redford Jones - I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar
Friday 16 - Saturday 17 May 2025
Manchester-based Chesterfield musician turned stand-up comedian Holly Redford Jones is dancing in a Lesbian Bar and you're invited... Set in an imaginary Lesbian Bar, this bold new show is a sonic love letter to sapphic institutions of a by...
Henning Wehn
Saturday 17 May 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...
Roy Chubby Brown
Saturday 17 May 2025
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...
The Lancashire Hotpots
Saturday 17 May 2025
There's only one thing more satisfying than a visit to the chippy and that's an evening with The Lancashire Hotpots. St. Helens' finest are the undisputed kings of the Northern "knees up" with banging comedy folk anthems such as "Chippy Te...
Nish Kumar
Sunday 18 May 2025
In this election year - with the country in turmoil - there's only one comedian who can kill the mood even further... Nish Kumar - one of The Guardian and The Telegraph's 50 Best Comedians of the 21st Century - is back on tour with his bran...
Russell Peters
Sunday 18 May 2025
Comedy hero Russell Peters says "Relax* It's Not That Serious World" Recently named as one of Rolling Stone's 50 Best Comics of All Time, he started doing stand-up at the age of nineteen at open mics in his native Toronto, and spent the ...
Benji Waterhouse
Sunday 18 May 2025
Described by The Times as "the Adam Kay of mental health care", NHS psychiatrist, award-winning comedian, and Sunday Times best-selling author Benji Waterhouse - is going on his first book tour! Through a mixture of stand-up and chapter...
Sam Tallent
Sunday 18 May 2025
Sam Tallent is an American comedian, novelist and the host of the Chubby Behemoth podcast. ...
Jock Night
Tuesday 20 - Saturday 31 May 2025
Following a critically acclaimed run at London's Seven Dials Playhouse, Hive North bring Adam Zane's uncut and extended version of his outrageous Offie-nominated comedy-drama back to Manchester. Welcome to Jock Night - Manchester's wildest...
Abi Clarke
Tuesday 20 May - Sunday 1 June 2025
Join stand-up comedian and online sensation Abi Clarke for her debut tour, "Role Model." Abi Clarke lived the modern-day dream. She posted a video online, went to bed a "nobody", then woke to thousands of followers. Four years later - ...
Rob Rouse
Tuesday 20 May 2025
Since winning Channel Four's prestigious 'So You Think You're Funny' competition at the Edinburgh Festival in 1998, an award previously won by Phil Kay, Dylan Moran, Lee Mack, Tommy Tiernan and Peter Kay, Cheshire comedian Rob Rouse...
XS Malarkey with Sharon Wanjohi
Tuesday 20 May 2025
Since 1997 XS Malarkey has been a Manchester institution, with compere Toby Hadoke bringing you the very best comedians at the lowest prices. A minimum of just ?3 for members and ?6 for normal people- we keep tickets as low as possible to k...
Jason Manford
Wednesday 21 May 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...
Katie Norris
Wednesday 21 May 2025
The smash-hit, critically-acclaimed debut solo show from an agricultural icon, likely to cause delight or distress to anyone who becomes involved with her, or her livestock. 'Tremendous... Wonderfully batty and unapologetic, a solo debut to...
Nathan Caton
Wednesday 21 May 2025
Nathan Caton is an award-winning comedian as seen on Live At The Apollo, Mock The Week, Russell Howard's Good News and BBC R4's Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing... He is back with his new show My Big Fat Blasian Wedding. It's offici...
XS Malarkey Presents John-Luke Roberts: It Is Better + Best Of
Wednesday 21 May 2025
In 2024 John-Luke Roberts remounted all ten of his solo shows, from over fifteen years of making and performing comedy. To celebrate the achievement, he?s taking a compilation of some of his favourite bits on tour, alongside the whole of hi...
Zach Margs
Thursday 22 May 2025
Brace yourselves, as Zach Margs is bringing his high-energy, laugh-out-loud comedy to town! A performance packed with his signature Jewish humour, quick wit, and outrageous characters. Whether you're a long-time fan or discovering Zach for ...
Crooners
Thursday 22 May 2025
Packed with personality and humour, Crooners have been wowing audiences with their witty and exhilarating show full of hilarious one liners, laugh out loud silliness and superb musical numbers with the outstanding 9-piece The Mini Big Band ...
Russell Hicks
Thursday 22 May 2025
Russell Hicks is back. Hot off the back of a starring role in an Amazon Prime show that nobody watched, and was cancelled immediately, American Stand Up comedian Russell Hicks, lives in the UK where he allegedly performs stand-up comedy....
Chelsea Handler
Friday 23 May 2025
Chelsea Handler is a comedian, television host, six-time New York Times best-selling author and advocate whose humour and candour have established her as one of the most celebrated voices in entertainment and pop culture. Now, she brings he...
Manford's Comedy Club
Friday 23 May - Thursday 6 November 2025
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.. ...
Mick Miller
Friday 23 May 2025
Guess who's back!?! Mick Miller, the Liverpool comedy legend with the long hair and bald head. A full night of entertainment support listing & band support ...
Northenden Comedy Club 23rd May
Friday 23 May 2025
Join us on 23/05 as we return to Northenden Social Club for a night of hilarious stand-up comedy, with our incredible headliner - Mick Ferry...
Jimmy Carr
Saturday 24 May - Thursday 20 November 2025
Star of the UK's most streamed Netflix comedy special of 2021, Jimmy is back on the road with a brand new show, Laughs Funny. Jimmy's show contains jokes about all kinds of terrible things. Terrible things that might have affected you or pe...
