Taskmaster Champion, Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer Nominee and retired sugar daughter Sophie Duker is back with a brand-new 2026-2027 stand-up tour, ‘Hot Beef Injection’.
In her latest hour, Sophie dares to get both sexy and political, reflecting on hypermasculinity, heavy-handed handymen and that old-chestnut Would You Rather: ‘Man or Bear?’.
Hot Beef Injection reckons with the primal fear driving Duker’s distrust of heterosexual he/hims, and out of a challenging comedy club encounter a new question emerges: what would she say if she spoke to men, instead of shutting them out?
“Obscenely good… Charisma to burn”
Rolling Stone
“extremely funny” ★★★??
The Scotsman
“she is clearly going places” ★★★??
Evening Standard
What?! Mark Thomas has been ‘standing up’ for 40 years? Impossible!! But how old does that make you…? Alas it is true; one of our oldest surviving alternative comics celebrates 40 years at the mic as he takes his brand-new show on the road this autumn.
So, here’s what he has done so far in numbers; performed comedy for 40 years, won 8 awards for performing, 4 for human rights work and 1 he invented for himself, made 6 series of the Mark Thomas Comedy Product (Channel 4), written 6 books and 5 play scripts, made 5 series of the Manifesto for Radio 4, made 3 Dispatches for Channel 4, sued the police (and won) 3 times, curated and authored 2 art exhibitions with artist Tracey Moberly and had 1 Guinness World Record for holding 20 protests in 24 hours.
If that’s not enough, he’s also walked 724km around the length of the Israel Wall in the West Bank, been credited with changing the law on tax avoidance, started a comedy club in Palestine with Dr Sam Beale and campaigned successfully for things like trade union recognition for cinema workers and getting multinationals to change their practices. You’re right, there’s more, but your attention is running out and we’re running out of space. So, let’s just say he’s generally mucked about trying to have fun and upset the right people…which he is really, really good at.
This is a taster menu of political and personal mayhem, jokes, rants and a state of the nation broadcast as he tries to turn ‘what the hell is going on’ into a cogent evening of stand-up.
Now a staple of the festive season Downstairs at the Everyman presents a Christmas party not to be missed.
Following last Christmas’s festive delights, Nana Funk, Liverpool’s favourite all singing, all dancing Nana (me), will be lighting up Downstairs at the Everyman once more with some slightly dusty Christmas Sparkle.
Join her for an evening of chats, songs and laughing. It’ll be like Wogan, if Wogan was a Nana with a questionable hip and mysterious past. And that’s not all! There will, of course, be some very special guests…to be announced nearer the time. This is one not to be missed.
Ed just wants to live a life free of hassles or drama. He feels he’s earned it, but the world has other plans for him. Come, hear the conquistador of petty gripes air his grievances with a world hell bent on irritating the bejeezus out of us all and, who knows, perhaps it will make you feel better about your own bouts of impotent rage.
edbyrne.com (link opens in a new tab)
A passenger wakes up on a ship with no idea who they are or where they are going. Their seemingly simple quest for answers becomes increasingly difficult as they discover that no one else on the boat knows where they are going either, but they don’t seem to care. A serious comedy, Unity are delighted to be collaborating on this R&D. A Work in progress sharing
7:30m
Rob Auton performs a story he has written about being an estate agent on the planet Jupiter. ‘A genuine original’ (Guardian).
Straight off the back of Taskmaster, A League Of Their Own, and Last One Laughing, Maisie Adam is back with her brand new show Whatsherface.
Join the “tall, chaotic one with the weird hair”* as she returns with her trademark wit, firecracker gags, and probably a few angry outbursts along the way.
*A genuine description given by her best friend’s Mum at a wedding this year.
maisieadam.com
A fragmented, digressing portrayal of a 38-year-old man’s life, alluding to books he hasn’t read, touching on the modern condition. Plus VAT! More allusive and bleak as ever, it is unreal the comedian you become. And for who? Decent craic with the right crowd. A show for those who have read about but not committed to the Guinness Nitrosurge.
Seen bewildered on Taskmaster (Channel 4), terrified on Live at the Apollo (BBC), getting through Never Mind the Buzzcocks (Sky), and implicating others on his Sky stand-up special The Varnishing Days. More comfortable on pods but comes alive on stage, for your pleasure!
johnkearnscomedy.co.uk
Lee shares his stage with a tough-talking werewolf comedian from the dark forests of the subconscious who hates humanity.
The Man-Wulf lays down a ferocious comedy challenge to the culturally irrelevant and physically enfeebled Lee. Can the beast inside us all be silenced with the silver bullet of Lee’s unprecedentedly critically acclaimed style of stand-up?
Stewart Lee (“The world’s greatest living stand-up comedian” The Times), is in danger of being left behind. He’s approaching sixty with debilitating health conditions, his TV profile has diminished, and his once BAFTA award-winning style of stand-up seems obsolete. But can Lee unleash his inner Man-Wulf to position himself alongside comedy legends like Dave Chappelle, Ricky Gervais and Jordan Peterson at the forefront of side-splitting stadium-stuffing shit-posting?
One of Australia’s best exports, Thomas Green storms back onto the stage to electrify audiences with a brand-new hour, following his sell-out debut tour. After a significant self-discovery, Green realises his life is a whirlwind full of tangents of his own making, navigating through the impulsive, random and stupid.
Due to phenomenal demand the tour has been extended several times since it began in August 2025, selling over 20,000 tickets to date including 15 dates at London’s Leicester Square Theatre and runs added across Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
“Incredible comic. One of my favourites to watch live!” – Mo Gilligan
“Seriously funny f***er” – Russell Kane
“One of a kind” – Fest Mag (2024)
★★★★½ ‘Green will have you in stitches.’ – The Advertiser (AUS)
★★★★ ‘…he’s proof you don’t need a gimmick to be great.’ – The List (UK)
Age Restriction 16+
