MARK THOMAS

50 THINGS ABOUT US

In his new show 50 Things About Us, Mark Thomas combines his trademark mix of storytelling, standup, mischief and really, really well researched material to examine how we have come to inhabit this divided wasteland that some of us call the United Kingdom.

Stand Up For The Weekend with SULLY O'SULLIVAN & CO

Sully O’Sullivan is a seasoned international headliner who has performed all over the world. He has built up a reputation as one of the most dynamic and daring performers on the circuit.

DALISO CHAPONDA

BLAH BLAH BLACKLIST

In his hilarious, daring new show, Malawian comic Daliso Chaponda looks at disgraced, blacklisted celebrities and historical figures we're ashamed we once admired.

Stand Up For The Weekend with SEAN COLLINS & CO

High in demand Canadian Sean Collins has 25 years experience in stand up comedy. Since residing in the UK, he has quickly established himself as a consummate headliner with his self-assured delivery and confidence.

GARY DELANEY

GAGSTER'S PARADISE

Due to exceptional demand and an array of sold out dates all over the UK, Britain's leading one-liner comic extends his brand new 2018 tour with even more dates for 2019 and 2020, returning to the road with another onslaught of lean, expertly crafted gaggery.

MAISIE ADAM

HANG FIRE (UK Tour)

2018 Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee, Amused Moose National New Comic 2018 and So You Think You’re Funny? winner Maisie Adam embarks on her debut UK tour, working out who is to blame and for what. As seen on ITV2's The Stand Up Sketch Show, 8 Out of 10 Cats and Mock The Week.

PHIL WANG:

PHILLY PHILLY WANG WANG

Phil Wang has made a name for himself (that name being Phil Wang) exploring sex, romance, politics, and his mixed British-Malaysian heritage with shows that delight in his unique Wang brand of smart and silly. This one is about morality and the modern sense of self. Swell!

JAMALI MADDIX

STRIP CLUB EINSTEIN

Critically acclaimed comedian and host of Vice’s Hate Thy Neighbour and Channel 4’s Adventures in Futureland, Jamali Maddix is heading out on tour again after his incredible 2018 World Tour. The new show reflects on tales from the front line of social change and uncomfortable home truths.

FERN BRADY:

POWER & CHAOS (Tour Extension)

As seen on Live from the BBC, Live from the Comedy Store, The Russell Howard Hour, and Live at the Apollo, Fern Brady is one of the UK’s hottest comedy stars.

Stand Up For The Weekend with SARA BARRON & CO

Sara Barron is a relentlessly honest and desperately funny comic, relating brutal and sometimes filthy truths in a warm and welcoming way. She parades her sex life, friendships and militant subjectivity across the stage.

ALFIE BROWN

IMAGINATION (UK Tour)

After a sell out Edinburgh Festival run which garnered incredible reviews, Alfie Brown is taking his brand new show on tour. This year he is focused on family, friendship and inherited belief. Truly subversive and almost torridly honest.

STEPHEN BAILEY:

CAN'T BE BOTHERED

Stephen Bailey has made a name for himself for being a little gossip – but this year he’s grown up and decided to have a conversation with you (but a funny one – he’s still Channel 5’s darling) - about everything that is going on in the world.

Stand Up For The Weekend with ANDREW RYAN & CO

Irishman Andrew Ryan is one of the most exciting talents in recent years; he is in demand at the biggest comedy clubs across the UK & Ireland. Andrew’s quintessentially Irish storytelling abilities and cheeky, friendly demeanour make him a natural stand up.

IVO GRAHAM:

THE GAME OF LIFE (UK Tour)

The time for faff is over: has Big Daddy Graham got the skillz (anecdotes/ banter/ topical asides) to pay da billz (gas/ water/ electric)? More hilariously anxious blather from one of the most hilariously anxious blatherers in the business.

Stand Up For The Weekend with MATT RICHARDSON & CO

Matt Richardson is a multi-award winning stand-up comedian and one of the most exciting names in Comedy, on Television and in Radio. He has firmly established himself as one of the UK’s most reliable young performers and presenters.

Stand Up For The Weekend with PIERRE NOVELLIE & CO

One of the UK's finest up-and-coming comedians, Pierre Novellie is a correspondent on BBC2’s The Mash Report hosted by Nish Kumar and performed on the most recent series of Stand Up Central on Comedy Central.

MARK WATSON:

THE INFINITE SHOW

Cluster-bombed with yoghurt on Taskmaster, half-killed on Bear Grylls' Celebrity Island, Mark Watson returns to what he's best at: being indoors.

SIMON MUNNERY

ALAN PARKER - URBAN WARRIOR FAREWELL TOUR

Multi award-winning comedian Simon Munnery reprises his notorious alter ego, the bedsit anarchist Alan Parker Urban Warrior. Once the most radical, now the only radical, Alan returns with the old gold, the old truths, and some new truths (based on the old truths).

SIMON EVANS

THE WORK OF THE DEVIL

Simon Evans’ new show raises the stakes, with his usual excoriating views of a world on fire given a perspective shift from personal revelations that turned his world upside down this year.

PAUL McCAFFREY:

LEMON (UK Tour)

In this hilarious new stand up show, Paul McCaffrey struggles to get to grips with technology, being spied on by the Chinese, idiotic self-help books and setting fire to his oven gloves. The man is an absolute Lemon, funny though.

Stand Up For The Weekend with SEAN McLOUGHLIN & CO

Sean McLoughlin is an acclaimed stand-up comedian and writer based in London, described as “The best comedian you haven’t heard of” by Time Out and “an impassioned and uniquely brilliant talent” by The List.

ALEX EDELMAN:

JUST FOR US

Alex Edelman's Just For Us was nominated for the Barry award at Melbourne International Comedy Festival, earning the prestigious Herald Angel award as well as being nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show, it’s about gorillas that can-do sign language and tribalism. Come.

Stand Up For The Weekend with CAREY MARX & CO

Carey Marx is an unapologetic gagsmith. The jokes are short and sharp, often uncomfortably so, as any morality is sacrificed on the altar of quick laughs. And there’s no better way of guaranteeing a reaction than storming headlong into decidedly dodgy territory.

DANE BAPTISTE:

THE CHOCOLATE CHIP

Join one of the nation’s most exciting stand up stars as he presents another brilliantly hilarious and boldly provocative show. Star of hit podcasts Dane Baptiste Questions Everything and Quotas Full. As seen on Live at the Apollo, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Sunny D, Live at the Palladium… pretty much all over your TV screen.

Stand Up For The Weekend with STEPHEN GRANT & CO

Stephen Grant possesses an energy and intellect which, when combined, make for dynamite comedy. His speed and dynamism create a magical energy which has audiences rapt and hanging on his every word. “Consummate comedian” Time Out.

CLINTON BAPTISTE

THE PARANORMALIST RETURNS

As seen on PETER KAY’S PHOENIX NIGHTS... Join paranormal sensation Clinton Baptiste as he takes you on a hilarious yet touching journey through his life, out the other side and beyond the Celestial Curtains.

ALEXEI SAYLE

Following the huge success of his popular Radio 4 show Imaginary Sandwich Bar, alternative comedy legend Alexei Sayle is returning to stages across the UK in 2020 with his first stand-up tour in 7 years.

Stand Up For The Weekend with OMID SINGH & CO

Born to an Iranian mother and Indian father, Omid Singh is one of the top multicultural comics working today. Now making his home in Los Angeles, Singh is one of the Sunset Strip Comedy Store's regular top talents.

KIRI PRITCHARD-McLEAN

EMPATHY PAINS

Multi award-winning comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean (Have I Got News for You, Live at the Apollo, 8 out of 10 Cats, Frankie Boyle's New World Order) is back with her fourth full length show.

JOHN SHUTTLE WORTH'S BACK

John Shuttleworth's Back... is giving him trouble. But – ever the trouper – he returns to regale audiences with an evening of his classic songs (plus new ones and hilarious 'back' stories), pausing only to reapply his Deep Heat rub!

SIMON BRODKIN

100% SIMON BRODKIN

After three hugely successful BBC series as Lee Nelson, multiple sell-out tours and various court appearances following world-famous stunts on Theresa May, Sepp Blatter, Donald Trump, Kanye West and Britain’s Got Talent, the award-winning comedian Simon Brodkin unleashes his funniest creation yet… himself!

TOM STADE

YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHING YET

Following his last smash-hit UK tour and direct from the Edinburgh festival Tom is back on the road with a brand-new show. The kids have moved out and it’s the dawn of a new era! Tom’s embracing change with his usual spirit and irrepressible sense of mischief.

JAYDE ADAMS

THE BALLAD OF KYLIE JENNER'S OLD FACE

In 2019 if you want to be a 'successful independent woman person' you better have something you want to say and you better be wearing a Serious Black Jumper™. In her SBJ™ Jayde Adams will rifle through all the noise and self-promotion and figure out what's actually going on.

MATT FORDE

BREXIT PURSUED BY A BEAR

Join Britain's leading political comedian as he once again promises his last show as an EU citizen (maybe). As seen on Have I Got News For You, Mock the Week, The Royal Variety Performance and Unspun.

ANDREW MAXWELL:

REALITY (UK Tour)

Andrew Maxwell is out of the jungle and back with his creature comforts. He’s washed the ants out of his undies and is ready to do what he does best: perform stand-up comedy across the country. He’s the winner of The Time Out Award for Best Live Comic, and Chortle’s Best Live Comedian.

LUCY PORTER: BE PREPARED

(UK Tour)

TV favourite Lucy Porter returns with another fantastic stand-up show. Her recent TV includes Would I Lie to You, QI and Impossible, and she’s a regular on Radio 4’s News Quiz and The Now Show

ELLIE TAYLOR

DON'T GOT THIS

Fresh from her debut Netflix stand-up special, the star of The Mash Report, Live at the Apollo and QI, Ellie Taylor is back with a brand new stand-up show. Join Ellie as she bangs on about life, love and what will happen if one more person tells her “you got this”.

JOSIE LONG

TENDER

Three-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and very-hard-to-pin-down-indie-underdog-nightmare Josie Long is back with a brand new show after a brief hiatus, during which she had a baby and so on.

STEVE HUGHES

ARE YOU SERIOUS?

Returning to the UK for his first full length tour in six years, Australian (and adopted Brit) comedy legend Steve Hughes is known the world over for his hard hitting, take no prisoners stand up.

KERRY GODLIMAN

BOSH (UK Tour)

Kerry’s back on tour after what she thought would be a little 'she' time. No chance. Her bosh-like nature will never let her rest. All will be explained.

SOFIE HAGEN

BUMSWING

One of British comedy's most exciting talents (although she's Danish), winner of the prestigious Edinburgh Best Newcomer Award, a cult podcaster, and now the author of the hugely successful book Happy Fat, Sofie Hagen returns to Bristol with a brand new show.

KAE KURD:

THE SPOKEN KURD TOUR 2020

The unstoppable Kae Kurd is back with a brand-new show for 2020! Smart, sharp and brilliantly astute, the young British-Kurdish stand-up is making a serious name for himself. Join one of the UK’s fastest rising comedy stars.