New tours for Michelle Brasier and Pierre Novellie
And London dates for Bassem Youssef and Jo Koy
Michelle Brasier and Pierre Novellie have announced tours for 2024 – as international comedians Bassem Youssef and Jo Koy announce London dates.
In her first UK tour, Aunty Donna co-star Brasier will be taking her Edinburgh Fringe hit Reform across the UK and Ireland from May.
She describes it as a true story about ‘seeing the best in people even though they’re probably, mostly shit’ as it revolves around her encounters with an online scam artists – which ends up not with the comic taking down the swindler, but instead befriending him.
The show includes musical backing from her real-life partner Tim Lancaster.
Meanwhile, Novellie will be taking his latest show Why Are You Laughing? on tour next autumn, following a a ten-night run at London’s Soho Theatre in March and April. The show covers UK drinking culture, fantasy novels and how a dog stopped him learning the saxophone.
Egyptian satirist Youssef, drubbed the 'Jon Stewart of the Arab World, will be playing the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith on Saturday, April 6.
Youssef gained fame during the 2011 Egyptian revolution as the host of Al Bernameg, the first political satire news program in the Middle East, while a heated exchange he had with Piers Morgan over possibility of peace between Israel and Palestine went viral, surpassing 21 million views on YouTube within days of its upload.
Promoters Live Nation say that conversation ‘sparked a global dialogue about the current dynamics in the Middle East which this tour will address’.
And American-Filipino comic Jo Koy brings his live show to The O2 on Friday May 3.
He last year released his fourth Netflix stand-up special, Live From The Los Angeles Forum as well as starring in the movie aster Sunday, and in 2021, released his first autobiography, Mixed Plate: Chronicles of an All-American Combo.
Tickets for both shows will be widely available from Friday.
Published: 6 Dec 2023
