Event type: Comedy

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  

Georgie Carroll is best known as the UK born, Australia based Nurse turned comedian. She grafted for 20 years on the healthcare front line before swapping the pen torch for the spotlight!

Nurse Georgie has now retired from nursing but has taken with her an unparalleled comedy voice and a staunch online medical following that have made her viral, in the best way, many times over. The most viewed of her viral clips is the ‘3 stages of nursing’ – the terms dolphin, penguin, and orca used in the clip are now ingrained in international nursing vernacular!

Georgie is an undeniable live comedy powerhouse, having sold in excess of 75,000 tickets, selling out her debut Edinburgh Fringe Festival, touring four countries, and woinning the Best Comedy Award at the Adelaide Fringe. A versatile and dynamic performer, Georgie has swapped operating theatres for the London Palladium, the Sydney Opera house, and the Hammersmith Apollo.

Not shy of the camera, Georgie has released two comedy specials on Australian television and is a regular on the box, having been seen on ‘The Project’, ‘Would I Lie to You?’, ‘Have you Been Paying Attention?’, ‘Just for Laughs’ and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Allstar and Oxfam Galas. She recently stormed her UK TV debut by reaching the live semi-finals of Britain’s Got Talent and was adored by audiences and judges alike.

Georgie also has a podcast because who doesn’t? Her hit podcast, The Swab, is now in its 3rd Season with over 125,000 listens and a nomination for Best Comedy podcast under it’s belt. Georgie said “The podcast didn’t set out to be funny, it was just me chatting to everyday nurses, staff room banter style. Turns out that this format is never not funny’’.

Georgie is also an acclaimed and best-selling author and wrote the best-selling nursing bible ‘Off the Charts’ (Pan Macmillan), which was nominated for the Russel Prize for humour writing.

Everything Georgie does is a genuine, hilarious, riotous celebration of the big hearted, no bullshit nurses that sooner or later play a part in all our lives.

“Very Funny…….Just Brilliant.” – Simon Cowell, BGT

★★★★★ “Nurse Georgie Carroll proves that laughter is the best medicine & you cannot miss your dose!” – Lost in Theatre Land UK

★★★★★ “Exceptional” – Mervyn Stutters Pick of the Fringe, Edinburgh 2023

★★★★★ ”Sublime comedy” – Glam Adelaide

★★★★★ “Rollicking, riotous comedy” – The Age, Melbourne

Age 14+.

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! 

Guidance 14+

Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.

The country’s best comedians are coming to Liverpool for a spectacular all-star festive show! Catch a huge all-headline bill with Simon Amstell, star of his own wildly acclaimed global Netflix and BBC stand-up specials.

Joining is a mega line-up featuring Taskmaster icon Lucy Beaumont, Live At The Apollo and Have I Got News For You star Phil Wang, fast-rising Sharon Wanjohi, and viral phenomenon Sarah Keyworth as host. 

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 production values than Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, but funnier and with more references to tea.Josh co-hosts the hugely popular podcast Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett, which has somehow become so popular that they undertook a live arena tour in 2023 and released a book which topped the Sunday Times Bestseller Charts. He’s co-hosted in over 30 series of the multi-award-winning Channel 4 series The Last Leg, is a team captain on Sky Max’s Rob Beckett’s Smart TV and co-hosts Sky’s Hold The Front Page. And he has an almost complete collection of Panini football sticker books.

Age guidance: 14+ (Includes strong language)U16s must be accompanied by an adult.

Have you ever been awake in the middle of the night and thought something so smart and astute that you couldn’t wait for the world to wake up so you could tell them? 

THIS SHOW IS THAT THOUGHT. 

In that it doesn’t make much sense and is a bit weird on reflection. 

Sara Pascoe is a comedian and her children don’t sleep and her kitchen won’t clean itself and her husband “doesn’t want to be in it”. 

As seen and heard on Taskmaster, Live at the Apollo, The Great British Sewing Bee, Last One Laughing UK, QI, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Mock the Week and co-host of Sara & Cariad’s Weirdos Book Club podcast.

Are You Good? A question that I think is fundamental to our humanity. In this show I will be helping you, the audience, find out if you really are thoroughly good or maybe quite evil, but in a fun way.

I always start out with the assumption that people are born good and then life happens. So, let’s pull back the curtain and see where your morals truly lie. Are you as virtuous as you think? With lots of audience participation (don’t worry, no one leaves unscathed) and a few silly songs we’ll have an entertaining evening and come out with our core values completely in tatters. Is it more important to be good or to be right?

It’s time to update what is a virtue and what is a sin. No biggie.