Most Popular Comedy in Manchester
Wed 26 Feb - Sat 1 Mar 2025
Fri 15 Nov 2024 - Tue 16 Dec 2025
Sat 1 Feb - Sat 5 Apr 2025
Sun 2 Feb - Sun 11 May 2025
Tue 28 Jan - Tue 4 Feb 2025
Wed 19 Mar - Fri 6 Jun 2025
Sat 9 Nov 2024 - Fri 24 Oct 2025
Fri 20 Jun 2025 - Thu 5 Feb 2026
Wed 6 Nov 2024 - Sun 5 Oct 2025
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...
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...
Justin Moorhouse
Friday 27 June 2025
The hilarious Manchester comedian and Phoenix Nights star is back: still funny, yet middle aged. Stretch & Think is his new show, directed by Henry Normal, which may contain: Yoga, getting older, Madonna, shoplifters, Labradoodles, middle-a...
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, ...
2:22 A Ghost Story
Thursday 7 - Saturday 16 August 2025
Following seven West End seasons, a record-breaking UK and Ireland tour and twelve productions across the globe, the stage phenomenon 2:22 A Ghost Story now comes on a UK tour. Winner of BEST NEW PLAY at the WhatsOnStage Awards, this edge-o...
Derren Brown
Tuesday 2 - Saturday 13 September 2025
Prepare to be astonished! The multi award-winning master of mind control and psychological illusion, Derren Brown, returns with his brand new live show, ONLY HUMAN. The content of ONLY HUMAN is still under wraps, but we can guarantee you a ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Stephen Bailey
Friday 31 October 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, CRASS. From a working-class background in Manchester, six years working at Sainsbury's, m...
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 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, CRASS. From a working-class background in Manchester, six years working at Sainsbury's, m...
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...
Dara Ó Briain
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...
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...
Suzi Ruffell
Sunday 23 November 2025
It's hard to be good all the time. A good mother, a good daughter, a good partner, a good friend, a good person. To be ambitious but not ruthless; a success but not a sell-out. A gentle parent but not a pushover. To be smashing life and ...
Jimmy Carr
Tuesday 16 December 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...
Dara Ó Briain
Thursday 5 February 2026
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...
Josh Widdicombe
Sunday 19 April 2026
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...
