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Get to know these fresh comedy acts about touring the UK
These comedians are worth the hype – and coming to a venue near you
September is here, and if you thought that the world of comedy was ready for a breather after a summer of outdoor shows, festival spots and runs at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe then you simply must be having a laugh.
There are countless brand new comedy tours about to kick off across the UK from a range of acts so dynamic and diverse that it doesn’t matter if you bring your partner or your granny, you’ll all be in stitches. With so much choice, we’ve picked some of the comedic highlights hitting the road over the next few months to help you find a new favourite.
Eddie Kadi
For fans of: Mo Gilligan
Though the real ones know Eddie Kadi has been picking up huge acclaim on the comedy circuit since the late 00s and early 2010s – when the BBC called him “the most famous comedian you’ve never heard of,” before becoming the first Black British comedian to headline The O2 – it feels like it’s all been coming together perfectly for the stand-up and presenter in the last few years. As the host of BBC Radio 1 Xtra’s UK Afrobeats Show and a contestant on 2023’s Strictly, the British-Congolese entertainer is becoming a household name, but his debut show Let Me Land reminds us that stand-up is Kadi’s lifeblood, as he takes us on his journey from arriving in the UK as a child to becoming one of its most promising comedians
Eddie Kadi is touring Let Me Land in September & October 2025 – find tickets here
Get to know Eddie Kadi with our Stuck in a Lift interview
Emmanuel Sonubi
For fans of: Tom Davis, Romesh Ranganathan
Bouncer, IT guy… Emmanuel Sonubi tried his hand at all sorts of jobs before he began rocketing up the comedy ranks in the mid 2010s. This was the subject of his last show Curriculum Vitae, but in his brand new show Life After Nearly Death we get to know Sonubi even more candidly, as he details his on-stage heart failure and other troubling moments from his past and how they’ve affected his life and career. If that all sounds a bit heavy, don’t worry, we saw the show in Edinburgh: trust us, the laughs hit even harder too.
Emmanuel Sonubi is touring Life After Near Death September to November 2025 – find tickets here
Get to know Emmanuel Sonubui with our Stuck in a Lift interview
Georgie Carroll
For fans of: Sarah Millican
Comedy seemed to be the perfect medicine when Adam Kay began shedding a light on the life of junior doctors and the complications of the NHS with his wildly successful This Is Going To Hurt series. But what about the nurses? Enter Nurse Georgie Carroll, who boasts a bit more down-to-earth and straight-talking charm than the good doctor as she talks us through her night shifts and spares no detail. Grab a face mask – glowing reviews of her new show, Infectious, are rampant.
Georgie Carroll is touring Infectious September to November 2025 – find tickets here
Harriet Dyer
For fans of: Sarah Millican
Driven by an incorrigible, eccentric energy, Harriet Dyer is a Cornish comedian who wins her crowds over through surreal anecdotes while keeping an honest account of her mental health as an outspoken sufferer of bi-poplar disorder. Her new show Easily Distra…, which she previewed as a WIP at the Edinburgh Fringe, opens another door into her Dyer’s singular mind, promising to cover topics such as “wearing a wetsuit on a bus, jaunty social commentary on why couples don’t talk to each other anymore, and trying to get a cow to lick the top of your head.”
Harriet Dyer is touring Easily Distra… in October & November – find tickets here
Hannah East
For fans of: Ellie Taylor
Having graced our screens hosting huge sporting events such as BBC Sport Relief, the Commonwealth Games and the 2012 London Olympic Games, these days Hannah East is better known as a stand-up comedian and impressionist who will appeal particularly to mums. Her latest show, Express Yourself, explores the highs and lows of motherhood, developing on her skit style thas has become a hit on social media.
Hannah East is touring Express Yourself February to April 2026 – find tickets here
Joe Wells
For fans of: James Acaster, Josie Long
Joe Wells is a comedian who has a pure talent for illuminating the experience of neurodivergence, having kicked off his career as teenager publishing a book about suffering with OCD, and now, through his stand-up, delivers an honest account of what it’s like to be an autistic comic. His latest show, Daddy Austism, delves into fatherhood, wrapping mortality, politics and the state of the world within it. Expect some excellent callbacks.
Joe Wells is touring Daddy Autism in October 2025 – find tickets here
Josh Baulf
For fans of: Rob Beckett, John Bishop
Having entered our screens five years ago on Britains Got Talent, Josh Baulf’s painfully relatable social media skits about millennial life have snowballed him to viral success and now he’s ready for a show of his own. Expect a lot of home truths on Lovely Stuff, as the funnyman dissects the quirks of everyday life in the UK.
Josh Baulf is touring Lovely Stuff September to November 2025 – find tickets here
Josh Berry
For fans of: Russell Howard, James Acaster
Known primarily for his impressions and social media skits, in particular his Eton-educated political advisor character Rafe Hubris, Josh Berry is enjoying further success on stage. On Best Man, he recounts his recent step up to the infamous wedding role – with a few dos and don’ts (mostly don’ts) for you to come away with.
Josh Berry is touring Best Man in September & October 2025 – find tickets here
Kane Brown
For fans of: Aurie Styla
Loved for his raucous Rated 18 podcast, Kane Brown injects his stand-up shows with a similar level of naughtiness and unfiltered chaos that will leave you aching from laughter. He’s been performing his latest show, Don’t Listen To Me, to such resounding and often sold-out success that it’s continuing for a limited October. Don’t miss out on this “force of nature,” as Romesh Ranganathan calls him.
Kane Brown is touring Don’t Listen To Me in October 2025 – find tickets here
La Voix
For fans of: The Vivienne
You may have seen her on RuPaul’s Drag Race UK or Michael McIntyre’s Big Show, but have you heard her? While other queens may lip sync, La Voix is true to her name and belts out the musical and pop classics – just another feather to a boa belonging to one of the nation’s best. Indeed, La Voix was just announced as the first ever drag queen to be joining the cast of Strictly. Catch her before she’s unreachable.
Matt Green
For fans of: James Acaster, Jack Whitehall
UK politics is already comical, but Matt Green knows how to make it funny. Blending character work and crowd work, he tackles all the most ridiculous stories in current affairs – and still finds time to interrogate his audience about their dating lives. Expect a mix of political humour and personal anecdotes as he explores what we should all actually be concerned about.
Matt Green is touring Legitimate Concerns in October and November – find tickets here
Mike Rice
For fans of: Daniel Sloss
With an irreverent style and a combination of edge and heart, Mike Rice creates a space where any topic is fair game. His latest show, Cruel Little Man, is sometimes joyfully, sometimes fretfully chaotic, tracking Rice through acid trips and unorthodox encounters with sausage dogs. Audiences may also know him from Mike and Vittorio’s Guide to Parenting, his highly successful podcast that tackles the issues plaguing parents today from the perspective of two men who not only don’t have children but would rather not have anything to do with fatherhood.
Mike Rice is touring Cruel Little Man in November – find tickets here
Myra Dubois
For fans of: Trixie Mattel
Drag superstar and registered empath Myra Dubois is back, ready to investigate and challenge her deep capacity for compassion in her new show, Cosmic Empath. First gracing our screens on Britain’s Got Talent in 2020, Dubois went on to star in Death Drop on the West End, and since then has been entertaining audiences around the country with her sharp wit and fiery crowd work. No one is safe…
Myra Dubois will be touring Cosmic Empath this autumn – find tickets here
Schalk Bezuidenhout
For fans of: Rob Beckett
What’s cheaper than therapy? Touring! (Probably). South African comedian Schalk Bezuidenhout is hear to unpack his divorce with his audience in his usual high-energy, ten jokes a minute style. Fun and exuberant with wide-ranging appeal, Bezuidenhout has recently supported Trevor Noah on tour, and has featured on Netflix, Prime and Comedy Central.
Schalk Bezuidenhout will be touring Hey Hey Divorcè in February – find tickets here
Sophie McCartney
For fans of: Aisling Bea
On her One Foot In The Rave Tour, comedian, best selling author and Tired and Tested podcast host Sophie McCartney gives a hilarious account from life when you’re too old to be young, but too young to be old.
Sophie McCartney is touring One Foot In The Rave in September & October – find tickets here
Stevie Martin
For fans of: Russell Howard, French & Saunders
After joining Durham University’s comedy sketch group alongside fellow alumni Ed Gamble and Nish Kumar during her time in higher education, Stevie Martin has been conjuring daft sketches ever since. A self-proclaimed fan of spoof classics like Airplane, Martin dragged sketch comedy into the internet age as one third of Massive Dad then alongside Lola Rose Maxwell, lampooning the increasingly absurd and bewildering happenings associated with daily life online. 45 million views later and having dipping her toes into the realms of podcasting and television, 2025 marked the year of Martin’s first IRL tour. Her show Clout is a tightly-knitted tech-based gag-a-thon that unravels her anxieties about the transition from online comedy to standing live on stage. Who knows, it may even help you pry yourself away from your phone. For an hour, at least.
Stevie Martin is touring Clout from October to December – find tickets here
Stuart Mitchell
For fans of: Kevin Bridges
The Glasweigan accent is renowned for being a wee bit of a tongue-twister. Stuart Mitchell relishes his native tongue’s reputation, crafting clever wordplay with whipsmart one-liners ‘n’ pelters that saw him praised as an “internet sensation” after first appearing on Frank Skinner’s Opinionated television show back in 2010. Since then he’s racked up on 100 million views as the longest running panellist from BBC Scotland’s Breaking The News, and announced his debut national tour Tips Not Included this year. “Please go and see Stuart Mitchell.” Not our words, but the words of Will Ferrell there.
Stuart Mitchell’s Tips Not Included kicks off in September – find tickets here
Thomas Green
For fans of: Mo Gilligan, Jon Richardson
Thomas Green – not to be confused with bonkers US comedian Tom Green – is heaps of fun. The only requirement for his live shows is that you keep up pace with the Australian funnyman’s chaotic, charismatic and tangential-as-you-like brand of comedy. Dubbed a “serious funny f**ker” by Russell Kane, there’s a method to his madness that resulted in a sell-out debut tour. Thankfully he’s back with brand new show Brainstorm which will undoubtedly set those synapses alight.
Thomas Green will be touring Brainstorm from September until May next year – find tickets here
Tom Houghton
For fans of: Rik Mayall, Jack Whitehall
Had enough of your brain turning to mulch due to endless doom scrolling? Then you’re exactly like Tom Houghton who ditched the trappings of the Western world – yes, that includes his appearance on Channel 4’s First Dates and hosting The Circle – in favour of his findings from a journey of self-discovery in Indonesia for his new tour, Deep. Delivered with his trademark classiness and down-to-earth charm, Houghton’s latest show blends profundity with pants-down hilarity. The Daily Telegraph believes he’s the long-awaited male answer to Bridget Jones. Make of that what you will.
Tom Houghton brings Deep to the UK from September through to May next year – find tickets here
Get to know Tom Houghton with our Stuck in a Lift interview
Urzila Carlson
For fans of: Jim Jefferies, Daisy May Cooper
You’d be wary of stepping into the same room as someone who classifies themselves as ‘slightly out of their mind’. But Urzila Carlson is such an irresistibly banter-ific force of nature you’d regret not getting whipped up in her whirlwind comedy stylings. At the very top of the current crop of comedians coming from Down Under, Carlson brings her effortlessly crass You Don’t Say Tour to the UK in 2025 before she embarks on a Hollywood career starring alongside Amy Schumer and Will Forte in Netflix’ rom-com Kinda Pregnant. See her in the flesh to ensure your sides are well and truly split.
Urzila Carlson’s You Don’t Say Tour comes to the UK in November – find tickets here
