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
The Adult Pantomime - Dick Whittington
Thursday 12 June 2025
The Adult Pantomime is back for its 7th year with the pantomime paved with gold... Dick Whittington - Adults Only! Dick is trying to seek fame and fortune in the city of London with his faithful feline friend Tommy. While there, they manage...
Larry Dean
Friday 13 June 2025
Thrice Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominee and two-time star of Live At The Apollo, returns with a hilarious brand new show, Dodger, about identity, heroes and the benefits of being a dafty. Larry has been spending a lot of time with his gran...
Nanna Mo's Botox and Bum Lifts
Friday 13 June 2025
From MaD Theatre Company, the producers of "Nanna's OnlyFans Film", "Nanna Mo's Botox and Bum Lifts" promises to be a hilarious look at how the baby boomer generation is trying to keep up with the modern world. After doing an online course ...
Jeff Dunham
Saturday 14 June 2025
 Record-breaking, global comedy superstar, Jeff Dunham, is bringing his cast of characters back to Europe. America's favourite ventriloquist is very popular and has a huge following, with his delightfully irreverent cohorts, Peanut, Walte...
Roy Chubby Brown
Saturday 14 June 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...
LAUGHING HORSE WEEKEND (2 DAY) COMEDY COURSE
Saturday 14 June 2025
Learn the skills and art of stand-up comedy on this 2-day (9 hour) comedy course, led by professional comedians and comedy tutors, plus graduation show Sunday Night - full course info on http://www. laughinghorsecomedy. co. uk/comedy/course...
An Evening With Crissy Rock - From Bedlam To Benidorm
Wednesday 18 June 2025
Best known for appearing on TV shows such as Benidorm, I'm A Celebrity and Celebrity Masterchef, Crissy Rock is better known to her fans as one of the most outstanding and outrageous stand up comedians of her generation. To celebrate over 3...
James Allen - Thanks For The Memories
Wednesday 18 June 2025
Thanks for the Memories Podcast with James Allen revisits cringey teen Facebook posts with guests & audience memories. Laugh, cry & cringe your way forward. James Allen takes a deep dive into his past Facebook statuses as a teenager to laug...
Manford's Comedy Club
Thursday 19 June - Thursday 2 October 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.. ...
Dara Ó Briain
Friday 20 June 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...
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical
Friday 20 - Saturday 21 June 2025
Spontaneous musical comedy at its absolute finest - direct from the West End - this smash-hit 2016 Olivier Award-winning improvised show brings something new to life at each and every performance! Transforming audience suggestions into al...
Manford's Comedy Club
Friday 20 June - Friday 3 October 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.. ...
The Showstoppers Kids' Show
Saturday 21 June 2025
An improvised musical show for kids of all ages (5+), from Olivier Award-winning West End improvisers, The Showstoppers. If your children could create their very own dream musical - where would they start? The Showstoppers' Kids Show ta...
Reverend Richard Coles
Tuesday 24 June 2025
Seen and heard on BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live, Would I Lie To You?, Have I Got News For You and QI, Reverend Richard Coles is often described as Britain's most famous vicar. He is the only British vicar to have had a number-one hit single...
Scratch - Spoken Word Night
Tuesday 24 June - Tuesday 16 December 2025
Shakespeare North Playhouse's quarterly spoken word night is an inclusive, welcoming community space for both performers and audience alike. For Scratch we are looking for seasoned performers that are looking for opportunities to showcase t...
Clinton Baptiste
Wednesday 25 June 2025
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 ...
Tim Minchin
Friday 27 June - Sunday 13 July 2025
Get ready for an evening packed with unforgettable songs and stories, as the Northampton-born, Australia-raised award-winning actor, comedian, author and music virtuoso looks back on how a Perth cabaret pianist ended up building one of the...
Justin Moorhouse
Friday 27 June 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 ...
Barbara Nice
Friday 27 June 2025
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, ...
Manford's Comedy Club
Friday 27 June - Friday 28 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.. ...
Dale Elliott Jr
Saturday 28 June 2025
Jamaican-born comedian Dale Elliott Jr. brings his highly anticipated "Son of an Immigrant" World Tour to stages across the globe! Drawing from his experience as a child left behind while both parents ventured to "foreign," Elliott masterfu...
ComedySportz
Saturday 28 June - Saturday 13 September 2025
You've seen football. You've seen tennis. But have you seen Comedy as a sport? Then you don't want to miss this all ages, all action, all improvised competitive comedy show! Two teams battle it out for laughs with quick-witted gags, games, ...
Rhys Darby
Sunday 29 June 2025
The Kiwi icon returns to the stage with a brand new stand-up show for 2025. In a world full of AI and Robot tech can a simple dad with slightly tight jeans stay relevant? Ancient Astronaut Theorists say yes! Rhys hopes to prove that right n...
Tom Lawrinson
Sunday 29 June 2025
Everything is awful but that's okay, argues Tom in his ridiculously entertaining show about family and growing up in a Spanish subterranean cave. Buried Alive (and Loving It) is a show for siblings who shared a rubbish childhood and comedy ...
Living the Life of Riley
Wednesday 2 July 2025
Starring Vicky Entwistle, Living the Life of Riley is a heart-warming, heart-breaking and hilarious tale of a family, trying to negotiate their way through teenage tantrums, autism, and Grandma. Joanne Riley always knew there was something...
This is your tribute
Wednesday 2 - Sunday 6 July 2025
A brand new interactive cabaret show from the creators of 'An Evening Without Kate Bush' and 'Julie Madly Deeply'. 'Expect to laugh, sing and be merry!' (★★★★★ Quinntessential Review). Your sparkling host Sarah-Louise Young (Fasci...
The Lancashire Hotpots
Saturday 5 July 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...
Taylor Tomlinson
Sunday 6 July 2025
The New York Times opines, comedian and CBS After Midnight host Taylor Tomlinson "demonstrates tight joke writing, carefully honed act-outs and a ruthless appetite for laughs" in her second hour-long special, Look At You, now streaming on N...
Macclesfield Comedy Club
Friday 11 July - Friday 12 December 2025
Always with as seen on TV and award winning comedians - names you will know, and names you soon will, it's a night out like no other in Macclesfield. [Click Tickets for line-up]...
Jet Set Go!
Tuesday 15 - Saturday 19 July 2025
Jet Set Go! is a high-flying British musical comedy from Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary, the writers of 'The Great British Bake Off Musical' and 'The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 The Musical'. Join Nicola and her fun-loving tran...
Living the Life of Riley
Wednesday 16 July 2025
Starring Vicky Entwistle, Living the Life of Riley is a heart-warming, heart-breaking and hilarious tale of a family, trying to negotiate their way through teenage tantrums, autism, and Grandma. Joanne Riley always knew there was something...
Daddy's First Gay Date
Thursday 17 - Friday 18 July 2025
Is it selfish to leave someone you might love in order to find yourself? An uncomfortable restaurant break-up becomes a pressure-cooker first date in this brand-new comedy written by Sam Danson (BI-TOPIA) and Directed by the award-winning ...
Living the Life of Riley
Wednesday 23 July 2025
Starring Vicky Entwistle, Living the Life of Riley is a heart-warming, heart-breaking and hilarious tale of a family, trying to negotiate their way through teenage tantrums, autism, and Grandma. Joanne Riley always knew there was something...
Northenden Comedy Club 25th July
Friday 25 July 2025
Join us on 25/07 as we return to Northenden Social Club for a night of hilarious stand-up comedy, with our incredible headliner - Alun Cochrane...
The Lancashire Hotpots
Saturday 26 July 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...
Bouncers
Saturday 26 July 2025
Trio Entertainment Ltd present a new production of John Godber's legendary comedy classic starring Warren Donnelly (Shameless), Steven Arnold (Coronation Street), Darren Jefferies (Hollyoaks, Brassic), and theatre legend Rob Stuart-Hudson....
Chris Grace
Saturday 26 July 2025
Acclaimed actor and comedian Chris Grace (as seen in Superstore) brings his newest show to town for one night. Sardines explores the tragic, hilarious, and important questions of our time: Can we enjoy life if we know how it ends? Does ma...
Viggo Venn
Sunday 27 July 2025
Norwegian clown Viggo Venn moved to this country with one dream: to be a British comedian. The rest, you already know about. After blowing away the competition in an explosion of hi-vis jackets, balloons, and joyous idiocy, Viggo became the...
Catherine Bohart
Sunday 27 July 2025
Catherine Bohart's back and older than ever with her new show "Again, With Feelings." And adulthood frankly isn't living up to her expectations. Join this "effortless" (Chortle) "star in the making" (Skinny) for a hilariously twisted second...
The Last Laugh
Tuesday 29 July - Saturday 2 August 2025
Direct from a sell-out run at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Last Laugh is a brand-new laugh-a-minute play which re-imagines the lives of three of Britain's all-time greatest comedy heroes - Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe and Bob Monkhouse. F...
The Addams Family
Tuesday 12 - Saturday 16 August 2025
MAKE THIS SUMMER AN ABSOLUTE SCREAM! Following two hugely successful UK tours, and sold-out concerts at The London Palladium last year, everyone's favourite kooky family are back on stage this summer in THE ADDAMS FAMILY, the spectacular mu...
