Jon Richardson announces new tour

The Knitwit hits the road this September

Jon Richardson has announced a major autumn tour.

The comic will play at least 35 dates with his new show, The Knitwit, starting in Chester on September 8. Promoters Off The Kerb say more dates will be added over the coming months.

The news comes just before his new sitcom Meet The Richardsons hits TV screens. In the six-episode comedy, which starts on Dave on February 28, he stasrs alongside his wife and fellow stand-up Lucy Beaumont offering a fictional window in to their life in Hebden Bridge.

Richardson’s last tour, Old Man, toured the UK for 18 months between 2017 and 2018and was turned into a DVD to follow the earlier releases Funny Magnet in 2012 and Nidiot in 2014.

Tickets for The Knitwit go on general sale from 10am on Friday.

Here are the dates so far:

Tuesday 8 September: Chester Storyhouse
Thursday 10 September: Bradford St George’s Hall
Saturday 12 September: Wolverhampton Grand Theatre
Sunday 13 September: Blackpool Grand Theatre
Thursday 17 September: Buxton Opera House
Saturday 19 September: Douglas (Isle of Man) Gaiety Theatre
Wednesday 23 September:Reading Hexagon
Thursday 24 September: Stockport Plaza
Saturday 26 September: Cambridge Corn Exchange
Sunday 27 September: Norwich Theatre Royal
Friday 2 October: Brighton Dome
Saturday 3 October: Northampton Royal and Derngate
Thursday 8 October: Harrogate Royal Hall
Saturday 10 October: Aberdeen His Majesty's Theatre
Sunday 11 October: Dundee Caird Hall
Monday 12 October: Dunfermline Alhambra
Friday 16 October: Stoke-on-Trent Regent Theatre
Saturday 17 October: Cheltenham Centaur Centre
Thursday 22 October: Newcastle 02 City Hall
Friday 23 October: Coventry Warwick Arts Centre
Saturday 24 October: Croydon Fairfield Hall
Wednesday 28 October: Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
Thursday 29 October: Blackburn King George's Hall
Friday 30 October: Watford Colosseum
Thursday 26 November: Halifax Victoria Hall
Friday 27 November: Oxford New Theatre
Saturday 28 November: Eastbourne Congress Theatre
Sunday 29 November: Southend Cliffs Pavilion
Tuesday 1 December: Canterbury Marlowe Theatre
Friday 4 December: Nottingham Royal Centre
Sunday 6 December: Sheffield City Hall
Friday 11 December: Coventry Warwick Arts Centre