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Eddy Hare: This One's On Me
Thu 1 May - Grub - 7pm - £12
Eddy Hare (BBC New Comedy Awards Nominee) serves up his debut hour. “A special talent” Rolling Stone.
Title Fight
Wed 7 May - GRUB - 7pm - £3/6
Manchester's most inventive comedy night comes to a head as all of 2024's winners face off for a final battle royale!
Joe Kent-Walters is Frankie Monroe LIVE!
Thu 8 May - FSC - 7pm - £15
Multiple award winning comedy creation Frankie Monroe is bringing his debut tour to GRUB in March of 2025! Extra show added due to phenomenal demand!
Josh Jones & Sikisa: Double Preview
Wed 14 May - GRUB - 7pm - £8
Join us for a midweek double bill of new work in progress shows from two of the best comedians in the country: Josh Jones & Sikisa!
Rob Copland: Gimme (One With Everything)
Thu 15 May - FSC - 7pm - £15/16
Rob Copland brings his Edinburgh Comedy Award winning show to Fairfield Social Club. The smash hit of the Fringe!
Marc Jennings: Marc'sism
Fri 16 May - Grub - 7pm - £12.50
Scottish Comedian of the Year winner and host of the Some Laugh podcast Marc Jennings is coming to Manchester on his 1st UK tour.
Double WIP: Alex Stringer & Dean Coughlin
Fri 16 May - Grub - 7.30pm - £8
Chortle Hotshots winners Dean Coughlin and Alex Stringer double up for a night of their new shows ahead of taking to the Fringe in August.
Rachel Fairburn's Trying It On
Sun 18 May - FSC - 4.30pm - £12
The first instalment of Rachel Fairburn's new character comedy night featuring performances from Rachel, Chris Cantrill and Barbra Nice.
Rural Concerns at the London Podcast Show!
Tue 20 May - BDC - 8.30pm - £18.60
Join comedians Chris Cantrill, Sunil Patel and James Shakeshaft for a highly anticipated live edition of their cult podcast about countryside affairs.
Katie Norris: Farm Fatale
Wed 21 May - Cultplex - 7pm - £14
The smash-hit, critically-acclaimed debut solo show from an agricultural icon comes to Manchester for a special filmed performance.
Jamali Maddix: Aston
Thu 22 May - Fairfield Social Club - 7pm - £22
Critically acclaimed comedian Jamali Maddix (Taskmaster, ViceTV) is back on the road with a brand new tshow: Aston. Extra show added due to demand.
Russell Hicks: Notes (WIP)
Thu 22 May - GRUB - 7pm - £6
Russell will be trying out new ideas out of his notebook for his upcoming Edinburgh Fringe show about the time he got stranded on a cruise ship...
Amy Annette: Thick Skin
Wed 28 May - Grub - 7pm - £12/10
Fresh from a SOLD-OUT RUN at the Edinburgh Fringe, with EXTRA DATES added, Amy Annette’s debut show ‘THICK SKIN’ is on tour.
Harry Stachini: Grenade
Thu 29 May - FSC - 7pm - £16
Harry Stachini serves up an hour of relatable, honest, and hilarious stand-up, shining a light on the Grenades we all carry.
George Zach: Greek Comedian Of The Year
Sun 1 Jun - FSC - 7pm - £12
George Zach returns off the back of his debut UK tour with a brand new show. Grab your tickets now for an unforgettable night of comedy from Europe’s best.
Josie Long: Work In Progress
Thu 5 Jun - FSC - 7pm - £12
Josie Long helps us kick off A Lovely Weekend a day early with a special work in progress of her new show 'Now Is The Time Of Monsters'.
A Lovely Weekend 2025
Fri 6 - Sun 8 Jun - FSC
Join us for a three day festival of new comedy shows from some of the best in the country. Let's have a lovely weekend shall we?
Joz Norris & Sooz Kempner: Double Preview
Thu 19 Jun - GRUB - 7pm - £10
Two Edinburgh Fringe previews coming from two of our favourite acts! Come on down in June to see their brand new shows...
Kim Blythe: Cowboy WIP
Fri 20 Jun - FSC - 7pm - £8
After five sold out shows in Glasgow’s Oran Mor, plus a successful Edinburgh Fringe debut, the Tik Tok sensation returns with brand new show ‘Cowboy’.
Tom Lawrinson: Buried Alive (And Loving It!)
Sun 29 Jun - The Lowry - 7.30pm - £22.50
Everything is awful but that’s okay, argues Tom in his ridiculously entertaining show about family and growing up in a Spanish subterranean cave.
Ian Smith: Edinburgh Preview
Sat 5 Jul - GRUB - 1.30pm - £6
Ian Smith returns with a preview of his new Edinburgh Fringe show all about stress, love and almost certainly, a third thing.
Molly McGuinness: Slob
29 Jul - 24 Aug - Cabaret Voltaire - 2.55pm - £5-10
Join BBC New Comedy Awards finalist Molly McGuinness for her highly anticipated debut show about what it means to be a slob.
Stuart McPherson: Crisps & a Lie Down
29 Jul - 24 Aug - Cabaret Voltaire - 5.15pm - £5-10
Stu returns to the Fringe with his highly anticipated new show about settling down, growing up and how he’s being controlled by his step-dog.
Chris Cantrill: Rewilding (WIP)
15 - 19 Aug - Cabaret Voltaire - 12.05pm - £8
Join Chris Cantrill (BBC Radio 4’s Icklewick FM) as he works on a new show about community, mushrooms and bloodlust.
Esther Manito: Slagbomb
Sat 27 Sep - GRUB - 7pm - £17
Star of Live At The Apollo, Esther Manito, brings her brand new show to MAnchester as part of her biggest UK tour yet!
Stevie Martin: Clout!
Thu 2 Oct - Fairfield Social Club - 7pm - £20
Stevie Martin (Taskmaster) has been doing online comedy for a while (45 million views worldwide) but is now returning to live comedy with her latest show!
Elliot Steel: Soft Boi Core
Fri 3 Oct - Fairfield Social Club - 7pm - £15
Elliot Steel returns with more of his biting wit and trademark dark sense of humour about the hellish year he, and humanity, has had.
Rory Scovel: Should I Live Here
Sun 5 Oct - FSC -6.30pm - £22
U.S. comic Rory Scovel comes to Manchester as part of his limited European tour with his only English date outside of London. Can't wait for this.
Kieran Hodgson: Voice Of America
Thu 9 Oct - Fairfield Social Club - 7pm - £18/20
Join one of Telegraph’s 50 funniest comedians of the 21st Century as he explores how a scared world feels about the USA.
The Screen Rot Podcast: Live
Sat 25 Oct - Fairfield Social Club - 7pm - £19
Jacob Hawley & Jake Farrell present Screen Rot, the podcast where they discuss the weirdest & worst content that has been rotting their screens & minds.
Rural Concerns: Live!
Sat 22 Nov - Fairfield Social Club - 7pm - £15
Comedians Chris Cantrill and Sunil Patel haul their long-suffering producer James to the mighty red-bricked Kingdom of Manchester!