Most Popular Comedy in Manchester
Wed 26 Feb - Sat 1 Mar 2025
Sun 2 Feb 2025 - Wed 18 Feb 2026
Sat 24 May - Tue 16 Dec 2025
Fri 20 Jun 2025 - Thu 5 Feb 2026
Sat 1 Feb - Sat 5 Apr 2025
Thu 16 Jan - Sat 29 Mar 2025
Tue 24 Dec 2024 - Sat 11 Jan 2025
Wed 19 Mar - Fri 6 Jun 2025
Tue 28 Jan - Tue 4 Feb 2025
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
Austentatious is saddling the horses for a Grand Tour of the United Kingdom! Austentatious is an improvised comedy play starring a cast of the country's quickest comic performers. Every single show the cast conjures up a brand new 'lost' Ja...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
Abi Clarke
Tuesday 20 May 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 - ...
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...
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 ...
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...
That'll Be The Day
Saturday 24 May 2025
Celebrate the golden age of Rock 'n' Roll and Pop from the '50s right the way through to the '80s from Trevor Payne and an exceptional cast of who combine hilarious comedy sketches and impersonations with brilliant vocals and superb musicia...
Justin Moorhouse
Sunday 25 May 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 ...
Come Fall in Love
Thursday 29 May - Saturday 21 June 2025
Change all your plans! Come Fall in Love, the hilarious, heart-winning new musical comedy from the co-writer of Legally Blonde and lyricist of Mean Girls - and based on a record-breaking Bollywood phenomenon - makes its UK premiere at the M...
Kane Brown (comedian)
Thursday 29 May 2025
Come and laugh yourself into hysterics as the Man Like Mobeen star and force of comedy delivers his brand new one man show, Don't Listen To Me, I Talk Sh*t. Guaranteed to have you rolling around in your seats! Kane's not holding back for t...
Sophie McCartney
Friday 30 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...
Jarlath Regan
Saturday 31 May 2025
The Brand New Standup Comedy Show From "Yer Man" off Instagram. After 2 years of making us laugh out loud into our phones, hundreds of millions of views, thousands of seats filled across America, Ireland and the U.K. - "The jewel in the...
Irish Annie's
Saturday 31 May 2025
Starring Ricky Tomlinson as Scouse Jim alongside his Royle Family co-star, extra special guest Sue Johnston, and Catherine Rice as Irish Annie, Asa Murphy's new musical play celebrates the best of Irish culture, from the music to the comed...
Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial
Monday 2 - Saturday 7 June 2025
A story stranger than fiction that blurs the boundaries of tabloid scoop, court case and soap opera, The Wagatha Christie Trial explores privacy and celebrity in modern Britain. On 9 October 2019, Coleen Rooney publicly accused Rebekah...
Pride & Prejudice
Thursday 5 - Saturday 28 June 2025
Jane Austen?s most iconic love story is brought dazzlingly to life on stageWhen it comes to the subject of marriage, headstrong Lizzy Bennet is determined to resist the mounting pressures and expectations from society. But can she resist lo...
Blindboy
Friday 6 June 2025
The Blindboy Podcast Live returns on its biggest tour yet, with Irish satirist Blindboy Boatclub, Limerick's own polymath, bestselling author, screenwriter, songwriter, musician, producer and academic. Described as a "cultural phenomenon" b...
Morgan Jay
Friday 6 June 2025
A musician and comedian based in Los Angeles, Morgan Jay has made appearances on MTV's Wild'N'Out, NBC, and Comedy Central. He has carved out his own genre of performance art and comedy creating a show built on imperfection, authenticity, r...
Rob Beckett
Friday 6 June 2025
Yes! Bobby Beckles is back on tour. Smashing the life out of the M25, M1, M5 and any other road that's in his way. From Bromley to Brisbane, Rob Beckett's new show Giraffe is going worldwide. Expectations on Rob: put on 3 stone from takeawa...
Rory Bremner
Sunday 8 June 2025
What happens when Britain's sharpest political impressionist steps out from behind the masks? For four decades, Rory Bremner has been the voice of our times - quite literally. Now, in this intimate new show, the master mimic & satirist comb...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 Ultimate Irish Hooley
Saturday 16 August 2025
Join Ireland's No.1 Folk 'n' Roll band Keltic Storm and an all-star cast of award winning musicians and singers for "The Ultimate Irish Hooley" direct from the Emerald Isle performing iconic Irish songs and party anthems from legendary acts...
The Lancashire Hotpots
Friday 29 August 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...
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