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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.

Join ordinary housewife extraordinaire Barbara for a laugh-out-loud joyful get-together as we reconnect with what makes life worth living.

Barbara says “In these dark days, we need to find fun whenever we piggin’ can”. Expect Barbara’s unique comic insights into the current state of play on how we are all getting on.

This smashin’ show is suitable for anyone aged from fourteen to four score & ten, guaranteed to lift the spirits and put a spring in your step.

Edinburgh Festival regular and comedy circuit headliner Barbara Nice brings out the hidden joy in all of us.

Age: 14+

A message from Barbara about fun & laughter: “Laughter is the noise we make when we make connections. It’s like a two live wires meeting. Me and Vera and were talking about laughter and why we make the noise – we came up with idea that it’s when two opposing forces or ideas meet head on and the energy of the clash between them makes a thunderclap of laughter. Is this a new idea?” #BarbarasBigBangTheory.

Laughter is loud and attracts attention, it’s a signifier to tell others there is something good and important going on – Fun! Fun increases the production of positive hormones, namely oxytocin, serotonin and dopamine. These are neurotransmitters that improve your brain activity. So, Fun! is guaranteed to make you feel better.

Barbara Nice is a loveable force of nature. Hilarious and uplifting, she’s the perfect antidote to doom and gloom and if you’re in need of a comedy pick-me-up Barbara’s your woman – like your favourite aunt at a family wedding she’ll get you going with her unique comic insights and her celebrations of daily life.

Her husband knows nothing of her burgeoning comedy career – he thinks she’s either at bingo or dog sitting. Having supported comedians Johnny Vegas and Peter Kay on tour in the past, Barbara Nice is a circuit headline act in her own right, as well as being one of the most experienced comperes in the country.

In a smash hit audition for ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent in 2019, Barbara wowed the judges with her humour and eccentric style, which saw her reach the semi-finals.

“You are a comedy whirlwind. Everything was funny. I felt like tonight we watched as a star was born.” David Walliams
“A warm and wonderful act, an enthusiastic, livewire force of nature it’s hard not to love.” Chortle
“I have a feeling the public are going to love you.” Simon Cowell

***** The Independent
***** Chortle
***** Edinburgh Eve News
**** The List

“Brilliant Life affirming Comedy“ The List

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

 

 

A brand new stand-up show from Angela Barnes, star of Mock The Week and Live at The Apollo.

Angela is a worrier. Whatever it is, she’ll worry about it. But don’t let that worry you – she’ll worry enough for the both of you.

This hilarious show has some stories of success and sound logic, but mostly features stories of unmitigated failure, a distinct lack of wisdom, a little bit of German and loads of jokes.

Award winning comedian Angela’s last tour Hot Mess received critical acclaim and was filmed as a special available on ITVX. Angela has also appeared on Channel 4’s 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, BBC’s House of Games and is a regular guest on Radio 4’s The News Quiz. Angela also co-hosts the popular comedy history podcast We Are History.

“She’s just a gloriously down-to-earth, straight talking and extremely funny comic”
– The Guardian

If you know, you know. Don’t miss three laugh-out-loud comics fearlessly taking to the mic in front of what’s sure to be a sell-out audience.

Book early to make sure you don’t miss out…

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Stafford’s legendary comedy night has finally made it . . . to the BIG room baby!

Yes, for one night only we’re moving upmarket and upstairs – from the snug and cosy MET to the sheer luxury of the Main Auditorium; deep comfy seats, great sightlines, brilliant acoustics and, most importantly, a second bar.

So join us where the carpet tiles are paved with gold for a superb night of lols with a superb line-up to match; legendary MC Andy Robinson, award-winning Josh Jones and the head-in-the-clouds hilarity of Paul F Taylor.

The fun starts at 8.00pm sharp and the price remains a paltry £15.00 for a fun night out to get your weekend off to a superb start. Enjoy, you lovely people, you deserve it!

‘Andy Robinson is the best MC on the entire comedy circuit – and it’s not even close.’

‘Josh Jones continues to build an impressive reputation with his killer new material.’

‘Paul F Taylor might have his head in the clouds, but the belly laughs are what we’ll remember.Your MC Andy Robinson

Josh Jones and Paul Taylor (below)

EXTRA DATE ADDED DUE TO HUGE DEMAND

Viral YouTube comedy phenomenon, Andrew Lawrence, takes his hard-edged satire on the road.

The ‘Live at the Apollo’, multiple award-winning stand-up star, has spent twenty years touring comedy clubs and festivals around the world, honing his craft to perfection.

Having been ‘cancelled’ twice for his unflinching, uproarious political humour, Andrew Lawrence has come back stronger each time, unstoppable in the face of censorship, selling out venues wherever he goes.

Now at the top of his game, following on from the huge success of his online videos- where he relentlessly pokes fun at Britain’s clown show political establishment – Andrew Lawrence is bringing his funniest show yet around the UK, a night of guaranteed belly laughs from one of this country’s very best comedians.

Comedian Lee Hurst has had a varied life, a former cleaner, a van driver and labourer.
He became a comedian, did TV Warm Up work and then ended up on TV himself as one of the stars of the hit BBC comedy sports quiz They Think It’s All Over as well as numerous other TV shows. He then walked away from it all to open his own Backyard Comedy Club in Bethnal Green in London’s East End.
He also went to Iraq and Afghanistan to entertain the troops (ours).
In 2011 he knocked it down and built a 7-storey hotel reopening his comedy club on the ground floor. (Told you he’s had a varied life.)
Lee is now touring again with his new stand-up show ‘No Particular Order’.
A night where the audience is invited to choose the running order of the show by picking cards displayed on the stage.
Please bear in mind, some of the cards are not what they appear to be…

 

Jason Manford returns with his massively-successful live show, A Manford All Seasons.

After trying out new material at the Gatehouse last year, he’s coming back with the finished show – more polished, more jokes and funnier than ever.

A Manford All Seasons has been wowing audiences and critics alike, with his iconic ‘expert observational comedy’ (The Guardian) rated as ‘comic gold’ (Mail on Sunday).

Don’t miss the chance to see Britain’s brightest stand-up comic on your doorstep.

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This is not a musical. Milton Jones is tone deaf and has no sense of rhythm, but at least he doesn’t make a song and dance about it.

He has more important things to discuss. Like giraffes…and there’s a bit about tomatoes.

You might know him from Mock the Week, Live at the Apollo or Radio 4. Or that time he stood for the Scottish National Party, fought a hard campaign, but in the end had to respect the wishes of the people of Cardiff.

A whole new show of daftness. You know it makes sense.

WARNING: Contains jokes from the start.

‘He’s fast, absurd and very Funny’  Radio Times

‘No-one can touch Jones when he hits his stride’ The Guardian

★★★★ “A force of nature” – Daily Telegraph
Top 10 Best-Reviewed Shows Edinburgh Fringe 2024
“A punk rock Robin Williams” – Fringesider

New tour show for 2025! 90 minutes of improv, mayhem, gaming comedy, crowdwork and songs from the UK’s most manic comic on his first-ever stand-up tour! Best known for his high-octane improvisation and game show The Dark Room, come get played with!

First half: In this joyous anarchic geeky rant Mr Robertson unleashes 40 years of his love of videogames and geek culture and spares no sacred hedgehog or dorky incel in his quest to make fun of every niche interest he has. From the highest of platinum trophies to the lowest reaches of internet influencers, this is a history of gaming unlike any other.*

*In the sense that the man presenting it has social skills, limited though they be.

Second half: John presents his acclaimed EdFringe show The Human Hurricane – expect sex, crowdsurfs, crowdwork, songs, callbacks to the first half, and somehow even less structure!