Ricky Gervais announces first dates in Mortality tour

Show will also become a Netflix stand-up special

Ricky Gervais has today announced the first set of UK dates for his new stand-up show Mortality – which will also be filmed as a Netflix special.

Kicking off this October, Gervais has initially announced 11 theatre and arena venues in York, Oxford, Newcastle, Manchester, St Albans, Brighton, Nottingham, Liverpool, Cardiff, Ipswich and Birmingham.

The shows run from October to January, but eventually the show will run through to the end of 2025, including major arena venues across the UK, Europe and North America.

Gervais said: ‘We’re all gonna die. May as well have a laugh about it. Mortality looks at the absurdities of life. And death. Bring it on.’

The shows come on the back of 80 work-in-progress shows that the comic has performed so far this year,

Gervais’s last stand-up special Armageddon won a Golden Globe, and earned comic the world record for the highest grossing comedy gig of all time, taking £1.41 million from fans for a single stand-up performance at the Hollywood Bowl last year.

Tickets go on general sale on Friday, although people who have a subscription to Dutch Barn Vodka, which Gervais co-owns, have. access pre-sale tickets from Wednesday.

As with previous tours, a portion of the proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to charity. Just under £2million was donated to worldwide animal charities at the end of his Armageddon tour in 2023.

» Ricky Gervais: Mortality tour dates

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Published: 23 Sep 2024