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Comedy’s greatest mad scientist of one-liners arrives back in town, armed with an enormous vessel of puns to be tested on selected members of the general public.

See Gary’s new jokes months before your friends and family do!

Age restriction 16+

British Comedian of the Year Alistair Williams and award-winning stand-up Tania Edwards preview the best of their new shows.

“Alistair’s urgent energy and compelling confidence make him stand out… a punchy set tore the roof of the gig so conclusively he seemed impossible to beat from the moment he stepped on stage.” Chortle
“outrageous humour… Tania Edwards has mastered her craft” ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Ed Fest Mag
“brilliantly dark jokes” ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Voice
“sharp and savage wit” ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ The Sunday Post
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ BBC Arts Desk

This is a blistering hour of razor-sharp stand-up from two comics at the top of their game.

EXTRA DATE ADDED: Now June 10 and 11, 2026

Seven years ago Tiny Tim decided to go on his own adventure navigating through adult life and posting about his calls on social media.

With over 120 million views on YouTube and over 10 million followers on all social media platforms, I’m sure at some point you have all seen the hilarious videos of the legend that is Tiny Tim’s Adventures.

Now it’s your turn to join the man behind the voice on his BIGGEST adventure to date.

Come along for a night with Tiny Tim LIVE. ON STAGE. IN PERSON.

There will be moderate swearing throughout the performance.

PLEASE NOTE: £38 tickets include a Meet and Greet before each show (6.30pm).

16+

“The best showcase of pure joke-writing skill” (Guardian).

Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Glenn Moore has written too many jokes again.

Expect a fast-paced whirlwind of punchlines from one of the greatest joke-writers of his generation. As seen on Live At The Apollo, Have I Got News For You, Mock The Week, Cats Does Countdown. As heard on The Dave Berry Breakfast Show on Absolute Radio, The News Quiz, Just A Minute, and his own Radio 4 series Glenn Moore’s Almanac.

Life can’t just be the humdrum, the mundane and the routine before the inevitable slide to disease, decay and death.

Why can’t we sneak in a bit of awesome, a tad of amazing and maybe a smidge of wonderful? A forest canopy opening onto a huge vista would be enchanting for some, but my ancestors wandered in the desert for forty years, I think we’ve been outdoors enough.

Others get their fix from the spiritual, but I’ve been harbouring a grudge against God since my mother stopped me going to Arsenal after my Barmitzvah.

Forty nine years ago. ’God will be watching’ she said.

Well, at least he got to see the game. The point is, life could be so much better so I’m on the lookout. Come and join me on the hunt.

Love, Ian

About Ian

Ian Stone is a hugely experienced broadcaster, podcaster and writer and a brilliantly funny comedian. He performs at major comedy festivals and venues globally. His popular posts and reels on social media have quickly earned him a following of over 60k across BlueSky, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook, amassing millions of views.

In the last three years, Ian has performed his one-man shows at the Edinburgh Festival to packed rooms and great reviews. In 2023, he won the prestigious Spirit of the Fringe Award. He took his last show on tour across the UK, finishing with a sold-out performance at London’s Comedy Store. Ian recently returned from making his debut at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. He will be returning to Edinburgh with Looking for the Wow before kicking off his UK tour.

Aside from stand-up comedy, Ian co-hosted the award-winning Rock ‘N’ Roll Football show on Absolute Radio for five years with Ian Wright. He currently presents a very popular (50k downloads per episode), twice-weekly Arsenal podcast, Handbrake Off, for The Athletic. A live version of the podcast recently sold out Leicester Square Theatre in London. Ian is also a regular contributor on Times Radio. His book To Be Someone was published in 2020 and has received nearly 500 four- and five-star reviews on Amazon.

Blending storytelling and stand-up, past and present collide in this tale of hijinks and resistance. Directed by Mark Thomas, this celebrates ordinary people still shaping history.

Award-winning theatre maker and “Fringe legend” (Time Out), Victoria Melody joined a historical re-enactment society… because we all deal with divorce differently! Spending weekends as a Musketeer trying to get her head straight, she uncovered the story of a bunch of 17th-century radicals called The Diggers – and everything changed.

What started as a personal search for happiness turned into a quest to find the Diggers of today.

She didn’t expect to find them far from the battlefield, right on her doorstep. Blending storytelling and stand-up, past and present collide in this tale of high jinks and resistance. Directed by Mark Thomas, this celebrates the ordinary people still shaping history.

In celebration of the release of her hilarious memoir of the same name, comedian, novelist, and professional show-off Jenny Eclair comes to Stafford 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.

Award winning comedian Tom Lucy is embarking on his biggest solo tour with his brand new show ‘Golden Boy’.

Tom is one of the most exciting young comedians in the UK. He is the host of smash hit podcast ‘Private Parts’ and has appeared on many TV shows such as ‘Roast Battle’, ’Stand Up For Live Comedy’, ‘Dating No Filter’, ‘The Lateish Show’ and ‘Stand Up Central’.

As Tom approaches the end of his 20s, he reflects on the previous decade in all its exciting and wild glory and expresses his anxieties for life moving forward.

Tom has toured the world opening in arenas for Jack Whitehall and as a writer he has worked on shows such as the ‘BRIT Awards’.

Winner – The Sun Best New Comedian
Winner – Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year
‘Believe the hype. This guy is hilarious’ Jack Whitehall
‘Watch him live and you’ll understand the excitement’ The Guardian

Would you like to have some FUN! with Queen of Comedy Barbara Nice?

With her Over-60s bus pass tucked safely into her bestest handbag, the nation’s favourite housewife is preparing to tour the country, bringing joy and laughter to every destination.

5-star award-winning entertainment from the tip-top Queen of Comedy
Semi-finalist of ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent 2019
Comedy creation of Janice Connolly BEM (perhaps best known as Holy Mary in Peter Kay’s Phoenix Nights)
North West Comedy Awards Legend Award winner 2024

Are you ready to have the best damn night of your effing life? Well don’t worry, the man with the golden larynx is back – and he’s aiming high.

On his last tour Nick Helm promised you a Super Fun Good Time Show and, except for one man in Hull, no one could say he did anything other than more than deliver. This time, the International Treasure-in-Waiting is going to give you the best damn night of your miserable lives whether you want it or not.

Nick Helm is the greatest living all-round entertainer of his or any generation, living or dead, and he’s coming to a town near you. What are you going to tell your grandkids? That you were busy that night? Well get ready for your grandkids to stare at you with a complete lack of comprehension. You’ll be considered, locally, an idiot. From now on, every time you catch your own reflection in a car window or the back of an old DVD, you’ll think yourself a wally.

So chill the eff out, wind your effing neck in and buy an effing ticket. They’re affordable and there’s an interval to buy refreshments and to look at your fellow audience members with a cocked head asking “Did he just change our lives?” Relent to him. He. Is. Your. New. God. You can run and you can hide, but no one gets out alive.

Since starting stand-up comedy in 2007, Nick quickly gained attention from across the industry for his hilarious blend of one-liners, stories, poems and songs. He’s been twice nominated for an Edinburgh Comedy Award, released two successful albums, and was nominated for a BAFTA for short film Elephant, which he co-wrote, directed and starred in. As also seen on Uncle, Loaded, Nick Helm’s Heavy Entertainment, Live at the Apollo, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and many more.

‘Genuinely exciting’ ★★★★★ Telegraph
‘Terrific’ ★★★★ Times
‘It ain’t pretty, but it is hilarious’ ★★★★ Chortle
‘Brilliant one-liners and magnificent set pieces’ ★★★★ Independent
‘Helm is a comic tour de force, and then some’ ★★★★ Mail on Sunday

Age Guidance 16+ (strong language)
Presented by Plosive Live in association with Sophie Chapman Talent