© Aemen Sukkar at Jiksaw Kerry Godliman announces a new tour
As does Scott Bennett, Benji Waterhouse, Stuart Mitchell and more
Kerry Godliman leads a host of comedians announcing tour dates today.
The comic and actress – star of Afterlife, Whitstable Pearl, Taskmaster, and more – has announced 16 dates of her new show, Bandwidth.
Publicity for the show reads: ‘While parenting teenagers, bogged down with knicker admin and considering dealing HRT on the black market, Kerry's lost her mum bag but can’t remember what was in it as she’s outsourced her memory to her phone. Updates on wellness, influencers, robots, fashion, fermentation and small talk? This is the life of a middle aged woman who hasn't got the bandwidth for any of this.’
Her tour kicks off at Poole’s Lighthouse Theatre on Wednesday March 5 and tickets go on sale at 11am on Friday
Scott Bennett is going on tour with his stand-up show Blood Sugar Baby, about how his daughter fell ill with a rare genetic condition, congenital hyperinsulinism.
The comic – who was today also announced as being part of the Royal Variety Performance line-up– tells of how he and his wife Jemma fought to get the right diagnosis and were plunged into months of bewildering treatment, sleepless nights, celebrity encounters and bizarre side effects
Tickets go on sale at 10am on Friday 22nd November at 10am
NHS psychiatrist and comedian Benji Waterhouse is going on his first book tour, tied in with his bestselling medical memoirs You Don’t Have To Be Mad To Work Here. The ten-date tour starts on May 10 at Leicester’s Big Difference club.
He said: ‘The response to my book has been very surreal. From being No.2 in The Sunday Times best-seller list to being enjoyed by national treasures like Jo Brand. But most special has been the response from patients who have said things like "Dr Waterhouse should you really be using full names, date of births and NHS numbers?"
‘Joking aside, it’s been incredible and I can’t wait to connect with readers in person on my first tour. The show will be a combination of stand-up, storytelling and chapter readings followed by a Q&A which is probably your best chance to speak to an NHS psychiatrist, without the 12-month waiting list’..
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Stuart Mitchell has announced his debut tour across Scotland and the North of England next year.
His show is called Tips Not Included – a reference to the fact he lost his fingertips own a childhood accident.
The show, which tours in the siring, also covers the loss of his parents and how laughter is sometimes the only way to make it through difficult times, how he played serial killer Bible John in a ITV drama, the arrival of his daughter and how both joining social media and moving to the countryside have changed his life.
Mitchell, a regular on BBC Scotland’s Breaking The News co-created the Glesga Da podcast with Raymond Mearns, with the pair amassing 50million views on TikTok.
Extra dates have been added to Irish comedians Emma Doran’s latest tour Dilemma, which on sale on Friday,
Having emerged via social media, she has appeared in Prime Video’s LOL: Last One Laughing and written an Irish bestseller Mad, Isn’t It?
He show imagines a post-apocalyptic world in which there is only one contraceptive pill left and asks: Do you give it to your 19-year-old daughter or keep it for yourself? Is it better to be a 40-year-old grandmother or a 40-year-old new mum.
Lee Kyle has announced that he will be taking his next show Bottle It on tour throughout the North of England and into Scotland in early 2025. The comic has been throwing messages in bottles into the sea and asking people to repy. This show recounts what happens 'while revealing so much more about himself than even he is strictly comfortable with', the publicity blrb says.
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Published: 20 Nov 2024
