Interest area: Comedy

Comedian, presenter and actor Ellie Taylor is coming to Liverpool Playhouse on her brand new stand-up tour in Spring 2025!

Star of Ted Lasso, Live at the Apollo and The Mash Report, as well as host of Bake Off The Professionals, Ellie is back with a new stand up show!

Covering everything from how to keep the spark alive in marriage (hint: it involves pressure washers), her new life with almost double the amount of ratbags (children) not to mention her stint as nation’s sweetheart on Strictly (very much her own words), it’s a show guaranteed to put a spring in your step and a laugh in your mouth which is almost certainly, not a phrase.

Head along to watch a nice lady giddily over-share because she’s thrilled to be out the house!

In celebration of the release of her hilarious memoir of the same name, comedian, novelist, and professional show-off Jenny Eclair comes to Liverpool Playhouse with a brand-new autobiographical show.

From drama school, (mostly drinking cider and eating sausage rolls), sleeping with men who looked like they lived under a carpet, punk poetry, anorexia, bedsit misery, waitressing and not really having a clue about anything, to being the first woman to win the Perrier Award, becoming a mother, author, grumpy old woman, podcaster and nana!

Still gigging to sell-out crowds forty years later, Jenny invites you to look back at what she can remember before she forgets everything. Warning, punk poetry, animal impressions and baritone nursery rhyme singing may feature.

The universe’s favourite novelty politician, Count Binface, is back on our planet, and just in the nick of time as he’s set to embark on a national tour this autumn to save us all from imminent disaster with his MEGA plans. (Make Earth Great Again!)

2024 is the biggest year ever for democracy, with elections all over the globe, and Binface has more than played his part. He recently ran in the London Mayoral Election and will soon be taking on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in the General Election (if Rishi makes it that far).

Hot off the back of the UK’s General Election, Binface will be invading a theatre near you with his brand new live comedy show, featuring his unique take on Britain, his special brand of sci-fi satire, and of course his unbeatable manifesto. Cheaper croissants? Check. The nationalisation of Adele? Check. The return of Ceefax? Check. Water bosses to take a dip in UK rivers to see how they like it? CHECK!

Count Binface is the intergalactic space warrior and novelty politician who has delighted millions with his unlikely tilts at power in the United Kingdom. First, he took on Theresa May in the 2017 General Election, cunningly disguised as ‘Lord Buckethead’, and went viral around the world (in a non-Covid way), appearing on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and at The Glastonbury Festival.

Then he challenged Boris Johnson in 2019, when he scored 69 votes (he’d love to say he’s the first life form to experience a surprising 69 with the Prime Minister in a sports hall during the small hours, but with Boris you just never know). In 2021 he first ran to be Mayor of London in a bid to gain control of the Earth Capital itself. He received a glorious 92,896 votes from the great British public that sent him soaring into ninth place. This year he won 24,260 votes and he got endorsed by a national newspaper and beat the fascists of Britain First.

A drag comedy about the ups and downs one person faces when the ‘Big C’ comes calling

Cal lives in their head, avoiding real life at all costs. What happens when real life comes crashing in, uninvited and invasive?Call in Edwardian drag performer Hetty King to help of course!

A journey of self-discovery, imagination, love, hate, cancer – and drag.

Cal and the Big C is a comedy of navigating the byways of life when the worst happens, the absurdities, tears and triumphs of facing down an unseen enemy.

Literature! Literature! Literature! It might not rhyme with anything but it’s still very important. Garry Starr is back and he’s hell-bent on saving books from extinction by performing every Penguin Classic novel ever written. In an hour. Mostly naked (but with flippers).

Comic wunderkind Starr takes us on a literary adventure through the world’s most iconic works of fiction. From The Little Prince to Moby Dick and everything in between, nothing is safe from being lampooned with the utmost nincompoopery.

Directed by Cal McCrystal (‘Britain’s funniest director’ – The Guardian) and Georgia Murphy

He’s a husband, a dad, a man in the middle of life frantically striving to stay relevant in the rapidly changing world around him.

He’s performed in war zones like Afghanistan and Bosnia, at 20,000 feet on an EasyJet flight full of non-speaking Italian tourists without a parachute, and he’s even endured a Megabus! Basically, he will go anywhere for a laugh. So, come experience award-winning comedian Phil Walker in his brand-new show for an unforgettable night of laughter guaranteed.

*Warning may contain jokes about allergies, so if you’re allergic to jokes about allergies please consult a doctor before attending.

Following a sold out Edinburgh Fringe run, multi-award-winning and trail-blazing comedian, Paul Foot, is back on tour with the critically acclaimed Dissolve.

This is his most personal, surprising and ground-breaking show ever.

The virtuoso ventriloquist, BAFTA nominee and British Comedy Award winner is back! Nina presents an unparalleled, unscripted brand-new show that delves deep into who we are, hijacking faces to spark a bold, hysterical reality warp.

Nina Conti (and Monkey) has regularly sold out shows all over the world with her widely acclaimed performances: in London’s West End, off-Broadway in New York, at Sydney’s Opera House, across the UK on tour and more – all without moving her lips!

As seen on BBC’s Live at the Apollo and many more. Her clips, live show special and In Therapy web series, have amassed several million views online.

Radio 4 favourite, comedy legend, and ‘the 42nd best reason to love Britain’ (The Telegraph). John Shuttleworth, is back with more hilarious stories and songs performed on his trusty Yamaha organ (with built-in auto accompaniment!)

Held: 11 February 2025, 7.30pm.