Best Comedy Tours Of 2025
The cream of the crop coming to your town. Or a town nearby.
Lou Sanders is set to tour in 2025 with her new show, No Kissing In The Bingo Hall. The tour will start on 20th February. Dates.
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). In RAISE THE OOF John celebrates 40 years in showbiz. Yes, it was 1985 when he met TV’s Clarinet Man - next door neighbour Ken Worthington who came last on New Faces in 73 (Tony Hatch crucified him). Tour dates here.
Sara Pascoe has announced a major tour of the UK and Ireland entitled I Am A Strange Gloop.
Her first tour since 2022 will begin on Saturday 21st June in Ipswich at the New Wolsey Theatre. She will perform at the London Palladium on Sunday 1st March 2026. Details here. Picture below by Matt Stronge.
At 30, Lauren Pattison (picture by Matt Crockett) wants to be less terrified of everything and embrace life more fully. The trouble is, a lot of things ARE scary: learning to drive, showing up for a colonoscopy, and pretty much everything in between. Still, here she is: bigger, bolder and blonder as she returns for a new national tour. Dates here.
Comedy legend Ross Noble is returning to UK theatres in 2025 & 2026 with a 56-date stand-up tour Cranium of Curiosities.
Following his hugely successful previous tour of ‘Jibber Jabber Jamboree’, the revered comic will be bringing his inimitable train-of-thought comedy and randomist wit back to UK stages for his 22nd solo stand-up tour from 22nd October 2025 – 22nd March 2026, stopping off for a three-night homecoming run at Newcastle’s O2 City Hall (18th – 20th February 2026) and two performances at London’s Palladium (27th February & 7th March 2026). More here.
Award-winning writer and comedian Mark Steel (picture by Jiksaw) is to tour in 2025 with The Leopard in My House. Opening on the 27th of February in Bracknell and closing on the 20th of June in Portsmouth. Ticket info here.
Elis James and John Robins are going on tour. John Robins explained: "We’re hitting the road in 2025 to share japes and banter and games and mad dads and all manner of theatre-friendly swear words."
The tour starts on September 3 at Norwich Epic Studios and currently ends on October 18 at Reading Hexagon. More details here.
Hal Cruttenden is going back on tour with a show that promises to stick it to ‘The Man’, as long as ‘The Man’ doesn’t stick it back to him. Hal says: ‘Move over Taylor Swift, Oasis and Paul McCartney! I’m back on the road in the Autumn of 2025 and fully expect to be selling out stadiums by 2026. Catch me in the more intimate venues before Wembley comes calling. This is not false advertising, it’s manifesting!'. Dates here.
Extra dates have been added to Greg Davies’ upcoming sell-out tour as he makes a highly anticipated return to stand up after seven years. The tour will now see six new shows added in March 2026 at London’s Eventim Apollo as well as shows at Nottingham’s Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff’s Utilita Arena, Newcastle’s Utilita Arena, Leeds’ First Direct Arena, Sheffield’s Utilita Arena and Liverpool’s M&S Bank Arena. More here.
Stewart Lee is heading out on a new tour. In this brand new show, Lee shares his stage with a tough-talking werewolf comedian from the dark forests of North America who hates humanity. The Man-Wulf lays down a ferocious comedy challenge to the culturally irrelevant and physically enfeebled Lee. Can the beast inside us all be silenced with the silver bullet of Lee's unprecedentedly critically acclaimed style of stand-up? The new show will tour to UK cities throughout 2025 – see stewartlee.co.uk.
Jenny Eclair is on a nationwide tour with her brand-new autobiographical show Jokes, Jokes, Jokes Live! This coincides with the publication of her memoirs. Buy tickets from jennyeclair.com
Following their onstage reunion in 2024 the original surviving Fast Show stars are set to go on tour in 2025. Dates here.
Miles Jupp has extended his acclaimed show On I Bang into 2025 due to demand. Dates here.
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