BAFTA award-winning writer, actor and singer Phil Mealey, co-creator and star of the BBC’s Early Doors and co-writer of The Royle Family, invites you to a warm, funny and heartfelt celebration of his work and the people, places and moments that inspired it.
Featuring behind-the-scenes stories, fan-favourite clips and a few moments that never made the screen, Phil lifts the curtain on the world behind Early Doors, exploring friendship, family, and finding humour in the everyday.
Raise a glass “To the Regiment” and share an evening filled with laughter, music and memories including a few live performances from Phil himself.
‘It’s a Small World’ so don’t be ‘Half the World Away’ come and be a part of it.
Meet and Greet tickets include a signed, personalised photo with Phil and his BAFTA.
Horror author Nick Steen is having visions… A sinister Black Steeple; eerie lights in the sky that look like a Catherine wheel but are not remotely a Catherine wheel… Plus a giant skeleton with a moustache. Are they omens? Auguries? Portenderings of things to come? (Spoiler – yes, they are).
For Nick Steen’s imagination is bursting out of his brain and threatening to burst in turn the entirety of Stalkford.
Can Nick stop the aforesaid bursting? Or have things already slightly burst regardless? And will there ultimately be a grand finale to this three-book series (aka a trilogy) or a more open-ended conclusion in order to leave potential room for further sequels? (That, btw, will ultimately be Garth’s decision.)
From the fevered imaginata of Horror Fiction’s Grand Frightener Garth Marenghi, author of Sunday Times-Bestselling Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome and Garth Marenghi’s Incarcerat, come three freshly rancid tales of…
…THIS BURSTED EARTH…
Hardback copies of This Bursted Earth will be available for purchase on the day. Be warned: signings are strictly time-limited. You’ll get no more than one minute with the world’s greatest Frighternerman, Darkscribe, Doomsage (plus Man-Shee) before you’re moved on and/or manhandled.
Age 14+
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 to gather solutions from the all-knowing, all-seeing Afterlife. But who should it be?
Of course, there’s only one man for the job – Clinton Baptiste.
Receiving the audiences’ queries and earthbound dilemmas, Clinton will then reach out to spirits for answers. Fear not. He will probe sensitively.
Spiritual connection. Mystical congress… Spectral Intercourse.
Reviews
“The funniest man alive!” – Joe Lycett
“Such a funny man, I love him!” – Rob Brydon
“Absolutely hilarious” – Chris Moyles
Age 14+
WINNER Dave’s Funniest Joke of the Fringe 2024
As Seen on Mock The Week, BT Sport and ITV, ‘Master of one-liners’ Mark Simmons had a groundbreaking 200+ date sell out debut tour lasting two years, spanning the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
Mark is back on tour in 2026 with Jest To Impress, a brand new show packed with even more expertly crafted one-liners, alongside his trademark off-the-cuff jokes based on random audience suggestions.
Mark is enjoying further success with his podcast, Jokes With Mark Simmons, where he invites a fellow comic, such as Gary Delaney, Sarah Millican, Milton Jones, and Penn & Teller to discuss jokes that they’ve written but for whatever reason couldn’t get to work.
Age 14+
Little Wander in association with PBJ Management presents…
A kidney stone. A stray cat. An eye-themed fetish. Bridget Christie hits the road again with a brand new show. Creator and star of Channel 4’s The Change. Taskmaster S13 legend. Annie in BBC’s Ghosts.
Age guidance 14+, Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.
THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR
To mark its 25th anniversary, BBC Radio 4’s legendary, multi-award-winning topical satire show takes to the road with a full UK tour for the first time. Starring long-standing cast members Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Lewis MacLeod, and Duncan Wisbey the show will take you on a trip through a quarter century of classic sketches & unrivalled impressions, alongside the razor-sharp topical humour which has become the series’ trademark.
Tale as old as time? Not this one!
Beauty’s looking for love — but instead finds herself trapped in a castle with a beast with a very big… personality. Packed with outrageous innuendo, dazzling drag, and more sass than you can shake a candle stick at. This is a laugh-out-loud, adults-only twist on the fairy tale you thought you knew.
Starring CHERYL (Drag Race UK S1), ICESIS COUTURE (Canada’s Drag Race Season 2 Winner), PAIGE THREE (Drag Race Season 7) and ELLE VOSQUE (Drag Race Season 7).
Expect saucy jokes, outrageous antics, and enough cheek to make even Mrs. Potty blush. Will Beauty break the spell before the last rose petal falls, or will she end up the wildest of them all?
Leave the kids at home and be our guest — this one’s strictly for the adults!
Ages 16+
Demagogue? Iconoclast? Dilettante? Virtuoso? Ok, these words have nothing to do with the show but they do make it sound clever and that’s what it’s all about.
Shooting from the (new) hip, still alive and kicking, the nation’s favourite octogenarian and hit of Radio 2’s Steve Wright in the Afternoon and Sky Atlantic’s Common Ground returns with his stand-up show armed with fierce one-liners, biting satire plus some effing and that sort of thing for the teens. A rip-roaring, fast-paced hilarious show.
‘Top quality character comedy’ (Guardian).
‘Alex Lowe’s stunning creation’ (Time Out).
‘Wonderfully observed … poignant and very funny’ (Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard).
92 year old Barry from Watford was first brought to public consciousness when he became a cult star on Iain Lee’s LBC 97.3FM phone-in show. London listeners loved Barry’s sunny outlook and joie de vie and followed him to Iain Lee’s show on Absolute Radio. He was also a regular feature in the form of the “lifestyle guru” on Steve Wright in the Afternoon on BBC Radio 2.
His viral hits about ‘Minty Biscuits’ and ‘Carpetright’ have amassed 100s of millions of hits whilst his Channel 4 game show with Noel Edmonds “Cheap Cheap Cheap” had literally 100s of viewers.
…And now he’s back!
Mark Watson: Before It Overtakes Us
20 years in stand-up for the ‘Taskmaster’ cheeky texts icon, multi-award-winner, YouTube cult figure, Radio 4 favourite and recently ‘Baby Reindeer’ actor: Watson returns after seasons at the Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Edinburgh comedy festivals. A recent encounter with a stranger caused Mark to spend some time pondering the uncertain future facing humanity. He explores this – along with equally pressing matters like the worst word he has ever said in public, the current state of the UK sausage industry, and much more – in a typically frantic and fun-packed new show.
Age 14+
★★★★★ ‘A genius-level comic doing what he does best’ Time Out Melbourne
★★★★★ ‘Quite unlike anything else I’ve seen in almost 20 years of covering the Fringe…witty, warm, perfectly judged’ Telegraph
★★★★ ½ ‘An hour or two of our limited span on Earth in his uplifting, witty company is time excellently spent’ Chortle
★★★★ ‘One of the most genuinely joyous presences in comedy’ The Times
★★★★ ‘This is a stand-up operating at the very top of his game’ Independent
Following critically acclaimed seasons in London and Edinburgh, Paul Merton and Suki Webster, two of the UK’s leading improvisers, present an evening of wonderfully unscripted cutting-edge comedy.
Expect a show full of fast, fabulously funny improvised games, scenes, stories and laugh out loud surrealism as these two masters of Comedy Improvisation join forces with their very special guests to create cascades of laughter and joyful silliness.
Age 14+
