Matt Coyne is the Sunday Times Bestselling author and creator of parenting blog ‘Man vs Baby’.
On his ‘Trolls and Tribulations’ comedy tour he tells the story of how ‘Man vs Baby’ began, how he copes with online trolls, the story of a lady called Brenda.. and all about his run-in with Halle Berry.
Jonathan Pie: Hero or Villain?
A question often asked and one that Pie hopes to answer in his brand-new live show. Join him as he celebrates the UK’s greatest heroes (Nurses / Gary Lineker / 24-hour off license proprietors) and takes a verbal blowtorch to its villains (The Tories / Cyclists).
Marvel in wonder as he kicks in The Establishment’s back doors and rifles through its kitchen cupboards.
Tommy Tiernan’s brand-new show tommedian is a fun-fuelled trip through the comic imagination of one of the best comedians in the world.
This is a wild, uninhibited and fiercely physical display of stand-up. A madcap parade of characters, memories and ridiculous flights of fancy. Theatrical, poetical and slightly unhinged… Don’t you dare miss it!!!
Tiernan’s legendary record-breaking ticket sales extend across the world. He’s the star of Channel 4’s hit show Derry Girls, appeared on Live at the Apollo (BBC) and is the host of his own critically praised improvised chat show on Ireland’s RTE 1.
Star of Live at the Apollo, Have I Got News For You and QI, Kiri Pritchard-McLean is back with a brand new tour, her funniest and most personal to date.
“Prepare for a joyous and uplifting show from a comedian known for making powerhouse stand-up from the thorniest of subjects” (The Guardian).
“Expect sequins, social commentary, and massive laughs from the renaissance woman of UK comedy”
Rolling Stone
The house band – The Blank Canvas Ensemble – Liverpool – will play “free, ensemble, improvised music” using the music system, “System 50:50 for improvisers ” the result is the sound of free improv shaped with silence. This session may also feature a main act made up of experienced improvisers from the North of England circuit and beyond.
Expect:
A diversity of sounds, shifting foregrounds led by changing personalities sprinkled with timbral melds, unexpected silences, melodies and kitchen clatter.
New members, interested
New members are welcome. There is no formal audition. New members are required to attend one performance as a member of the audience, then we have a discussion.
For more and very detailed information please visit the website and web link above.
All right, lasses. The Angels of the North on a UK tour? Oh, uh-huh.
Join drag superstars Ginger Johnson, Michael Marouli and Tomara Thomas for a heavenly brand-new live show.
Bilal Zafar, nominated for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe and winner of New Act of the Year 2016, is back with a brand-new show about how his usually stress-free house share took a turn and his housemate tried to get him arrested five times.
He has appeared on BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Radio 4 and built up his own online audience on Twitch as he plays an unhinged football manager in an ongoing improvised series.
Sofie Hagen is bringing her brand new stand-up show and her brand new book on tour.
The book, out in May 2024, ‘Will I Ever Have Sex Again?’ is a candid, hilarious and disarming attempt to explore our sexual landscape, through conversations with experts, therapists, sex workers, porn stars, comedians and public figures. Why are we not having the sex we want to have? Where is the sexual liberation we were promised? Part memoir, part exploration, Sofie attempts to figure out why she hasn’t had sex in over 3,000 days – and why this frustration is so relatable to so many people.
The brand new stand-up and storytelling show, Banglord, is ‘a banger of a show’ (Entertainment Now) about sexual frustration and world domination.
Come laugh at the stand-up, participate in the Q&A about ‘Will I Ever Have Sex Again?’ and get your book signed. A full evening of fun.
After a run of sold out shows up and down the UK, Hollie McNish is back with a brand new book, Lobster and other things I’m learning to love. A Sunday Times bestselling writer whose live readings are not to be missed, expect strong language and adult content, gift-wrapped in gorgeously crafted poetry.
In Lobster, Hollie brings her much-loved style to questions of friendship, flags and newborns, clocks, cocks and volvos, shining a ridiculous and beautifully poetic lens upon all those things we have been taught to hate, and which we might just learn to love again. Here, she will be joined by fellow poet Michael Pedersen reading from his latest brilliant books The Cat Prince and Boy Friends.
The gig will be followed by a book signing.
Content warning: 14+ contains adult content.
After dismantling a barge, doxxing himself in the Doubletree, and blanking on the 1992 Ipswich Town crest (Taskmaster, Off Menu, University Challenge), Ivo ropes his audience into more chaos against the clock.
“Humiliation’s your thing, right?” his brother asked him at Christmas, and, with the full existential ramifications of that still being processed, he’s lining up a show with more risk than ever before (NB: previous shows have broadly been quite low risk).
Expect quizzes, tangents, and fluster. Best Show/Joke nominee 2019. “Motormouthed finesse” – Times. “I could watch him natter all day” – Telegraph.
“Confident, exquisitely crafted and, most importantly, satisfyingly funny”
Evening Standard