FOR STAND UP SEASON
DAN & PHIL, Lowry, Oct 11 (£25) THE YouTube sensations mix up sketches, anecdotes and the audience. WOMEN IN COMEDY FESTIVAL (various venues) – launches Frog & Bucket, Oct 15 (£10) JO Enright (Phoenix Nights, Alan Partridge) kicks off 10 days of shows. DOUG STANHOPE, Lowry, Oct 16-17 (£30) EASILY our favourite philosopher, Stanhope is about as brutally opinionated and outspoken as they come – and all the more brilliant for it. TIFFANY STEPHENSON, MadLab, Oct 17 (£tbc, part of Women In Comedy Festival) SHE’S a writer, actor and stand up, beguiling and charming and so funny. KEVIN BRIDGES, Apollo, Oct 22-25 (£25) A very adult comedian and a genuine one of a kind – find out why in A Whole Different Story. SEAN HUGHES, Buxton Pavilion, Oct 24 (£15) THE ever brilliant Hughes presents Mumbo Jumbo, about common sense and being serenaded by Robert Smith. MICHAEL MCINT YRE, Manchester Arena, Oct 29-31 (£35-£50) CUDDLY stories in Happy & Glorious. BILL BAILEY, Apollo, Oct 30-31 (£25) LIMBOLAND explores the gap between how we imagine our lives to be and how they really are. With music, obvs! JASON BYRNE, Lowry, Oct 30 (£20.50) THE king of interactive live comedy present 20 Years a Clown celebrating two decades in comedy. CHRIS RAMSEY, Lowry, Oct 31 (£18.50) EVERYONE’S favourite young north east comic explores adulthood and all its terrifying downsides. LOST VOICE GUY, XS Malarkey, Nov 3 (£5/£5) THIS 2014 winner BBC New Comedy Award can disarm anyone with his mischievous routines. STEWART FRANCIS, Lowry, Nov 3 (£20.50) THE master of the pun returns with Pen Gent Tour. See. ALAN CARR, Apollo, Nov 5-7 (£30) (also Buxton, Aug 20-22) THE chatty man heads out with Yap, Yap, Yap! – a title that speaks for itself.
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Above, Vic and Bob; left, Kevin Bridges; top, Bill Bailey; below, Noel Fielding; opposite page, Milton Jones Nov 6-7 (£16) WE Are All in the Gutter, But Some of Us Are Looking at David O’Doherty, proclaims the Irish comic. DAVE GORMAN, Lowry, Nov 15 (£27) DAVE Gorman Gets Straight To The (Power)Point in another multimedia stand
up show. 25 YEARS OF REEVES & MORTIMER – The Poignant Years, Apollo, Nov 17-18 (£29.50-£35) A TRIP down memory lane, rebirthing all their great characters – from Morrissey the Consumer Monkey to the Stotts. HARRY ENFIELD & PAUL WHITEHOUSE, Apollo, Nov 20 (£32.50-£37.50) ONE night of the comedy duo’s best bits in Legends! Live Tour 2015. JASPER CARROTT & ALISTAIR MCGOWAN, Lowry, Nov 29 (£28.60) T WO stalwarts of comedy share the bill. NOEL FIELDING, Lowry, Dec 10 (£26-£41) THE star of The Mighty Boosh and Buzzcocks takes his Luxury Comedy on tour for the final time.