Part stand-up, part storytelling and part conversation with himself (and with you), this new live show sees Lenny return to the experiences that shaped him while also exploring the ideas, challenges and creative sparks driving him today.
From the unforgettable days of The Lenny Henry Show and Chef! to acclaimed dramatic performances in Othello and, more recently, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Lenny traces the roles, characters and moments that have defined his remarkable career – and shares what continues to inspire him now as he reflects on a life lived out loud.
Expect big laughs, heart and a celebration of the many versions of Lenny: the actor, the impressionist, the comedian, the fundraiser and the Stand-Up Anecdotalist
You’ve looked behind a Wizard’s Curtain. You’ve visited a sausage factory. Do you dare to gaze inside a cartoonist’s pencil case? Leave your preconceptions about comedy/illustration at the door and expect to find them in an absolute state on the way out. As heard on Three Bean Salad podcast.
As seen on The Last Leg and Russell Howard’s Good News. Cartoons as seen in Joe Wilkinson: My Autobiography and Kay’s Anatomy.
henrypaker.com
Presented by Little Wander
You may know her as Bake-Off Sue, Taskmaster Sue, Just A Minute Sue, or the Sue that gives you travel envy – but stand-up Sue is full of surprises.
In this show about stigma, humiliation and misunderstanding, Sue shares hilarious stories from behind the TV cameras.
What’s the fallout when your pituitary gland goes haywire on live TV? How do you convince the public you didn’t really fall onto that hoover attachment? And when intimate photos get splashed all over the internet, how do you switch the shame to dignity and joy?
sueperkinslive.co.uk
You probably never stopped to think about what your favourite orange thing was, but you’re damn sure thinking about it now. Maybe it’s marmalade, or maybe it’s Garfield, or maybe it’s the album ‘Channel Orange’ by Frank Ocean. There’s just so many to consider. And no one on earth has considered more of them than Ivo Graham.
Ivo Graham has always been a fan of orange things. Baked beans. Sriracha mayo. The Tiger Who Came To Tea. But in 2025, a series of emotional days in his favourite colour prompted Ivo to commit harder than ever to the bit: colour-coordinating his life for his daughter, for his mother, for his football team, and, he desperately hopes, for your entertainment. Come and help this orange lunatic make his orange list, in a show about hats, haters, hometown heroes, and whether Hare Krishnas are better than Hobnobs.
www.ivograham.com
There’s the sound of somewhere else and the permanence of a plant pot and the ubiquity of a phrase and the heartbreaking brevity of a very long time. There’s figs and worms and an old dog rejecting a blanket. There’s a woman, on a train, wearing a badge. There’s the first beep of a smoke alarm and there’s a daffodil in December and there’s the condition of fruit. There’s a hand in bed and there’s stuff on the stairs and there’s a mark on my jumper and there’s a massive tree in storage on a farm in Kent. There’s nothing to say and there’s the thought of rotting and there’s the name of a feeling and there’s the smell of tobacco. There’s the twelfth floor of a hotel and the far end of a platform at Tamworth train station. There’s a duty to act and there’s a resistance to growth and there’s a new place up the road and there’s a completely redundant volume control. There’s a toilet in Hong Kong and a coffee shop in Melbourne and the passage of light through a building and deliberately making things much more difficult than they actually need to be.
And.
There’s music, more or less throughout, at least two funny voices and upwards of three jokes.
danielkitson.com/thrum
YAWN Fest is back at Future Yard with another all-day event celebrating the sonic world of YAWN Studios curated by Bill Ryder-Jones.
Off the back of their upcoming 5th album release ‘Hum’, Swim Deep headline YAWN 2026. Their boldest record yet, a defiant cut of alternative rock: roaring with clouds of distortion that bring a bite and rawness to its chiming melodies. After a sold-out tour across Thailand and China and an unexpected lineup change, Hum is the band rejuvenated, sounding more confident than ever, maintaining their grassroots indie sound with sprinkling in nods to ‘90s grunge and alternative rock.
The Slow Country are a seven-piece band, each member with something to bring. Blending three guitars, bass, violin, keys, drums and rich vocal harmonies, the band fuse alt-folk warmth with alt-rock drive to explore themes of modernity, nostalgia, longing and fracture.
Wojtek The Bear – an indie pop band hailing from Glasgow.
Amy Scott Samuel – Liverpool-based alt-folk artist, with a tender, melodic + viseral sound.
+ PLUS MORE TBA
“All women joke about is periods and bras!”
Have you ever wondered what happens to a poo after you flush it down the loo? We have!
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.
So basically expect a taster menu of government and personal mayhem, jokes, rants and a personal state of the nation broadcast as he tries to turn ‘what the f*ck is going on’ into a cogent hour of stand-up.
markthomasinfo.co.uk
It’s been staring him in the face the whole time, in a mirror held behind his head. If he can ignore his own problems for long enough, he might just be able to solve yours.
A fast, forensic show of big ideas and gag-dense overthinking from one of the nation’s sharpest stand-ups.
Star of TLC’s Mock The Week and BBC Radio 4’s Rhysearch, also seen furrowing his brow on QI, Live At The Apollo and his viral U&Dave lecture, ‘I Stalk Strangers Online’.
rhysjames.co.uk
