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Cracking comedy coming to York in 2023

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York has seen some great comedians play the various stages around the city

And 2023 is no exception!

Comedy greats such as Frankie Boyle, Dawn French and Sarah Millican are heading to York next year. Mark your calendars and get booking — as these could sell out quickly.

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Comedy in York in 2023

Ricky Gervais

The creator and star of The Office, Extras, Derek, the critically acclaimed hit After Life, and award-winning stand-up comedian Ricky Gervais is coming to York Barbican.

  • York Barbican, Paragon St, York, YO10 4AH
  • 10 & 11 Jan 2023
  • 7:30pm
  • Website

David O’Doherty: whoa is me

Here he comes again, trotting on to the stage with all of the misplaced confidence of a waiter with no pad. There’ll be lots of talking, some apologising and some songs on a glued together plastic keyboard from 1986.

  • Grand Opera House York, Cumberland Street, York YO1 9SW
  • 5 Feb 2023
  • 8pm
  • Website

Rob Auton: The Crowd Show

‘The Crowd Show’ is a comedy/theatre/spoken word show about crowds by award-winning writer, actor and podcaster Rob Auton. ‘The Crowd Show’ is a show suitable for anybody who wants to be in the crowd for this show.

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Stewart Lee: Basic Lee

After a decade of ground-breaking high concept shows involving overarched interlinked narratives, massive sets and enormous comedy props, Lee enters the post-pandemic era in streamlined solo stand-up mode.

One man, one microphone, and one microphone in the wings in case the one on stage breaks. Pure. Simple. Classic. Basic Lee.

  • York Theatre Royal, St. Leonard’s Place, York, YO1 7HD
  • 20-22 Mar 2023
  • 7:30pm
  • Website

Phil Wang: Wang In There, Baby!

Hot off the heels of his critically-acclaimed Netflix special, David Letterman appearance, and role on Life & Beth with Amy Schumer, Phil Wang is bringing a brand new stand-up show to venues nationwide. He’s chatting race, family, nipples, and everything else that’s been going on in his Philly little life.

  • Grand Opera House York, Cumberland Street, York YO1 9SW
  • 21 Apr 2023
  • 7:30pm
  • Website

Sophie Duker: Hag

The sexy baby from Taskmaster is all grown up. Back in 2019 she was a Babybel – round, sweet, pure. Now she’s vintage cheddar – extra mature and hiding in your fridge. As seen on Live At The Apollo and literally everywhere else. Hag is her new stand-up show. Deal with it.

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Tim Vine – Breeeep!

It’s Tim Vine and he’s back with a brand new stand-up show! Come and enjoy a mountain of nonsense, daft one-liners, joyful songs, wobbly props and ridiculous humour. (Plus utter drivel.) Witness the stupidity. Then leave. Switched on the Christmas lights in Cheam two years on the run. All tickets non-repundable.

  • Grand Opera House York, Cumberland Street, York YO1 9SW
  • 27 May 2023
  • 7:30pm
  • Website

Frankie Boyle

Frankie Boyle’s on tour. Buy a ticket, because by the time he arrives, the currency will be worthless and you and your neighbours part of a struggling militia that could probably use a few laughs.

  • Grand Opera House York, Cumberland Street, York YO1 9SW
  • 11 Jun 2023
  • 7:30pm
  • Website

Russell Howard

As we reel from one global crisis to the next, join Russell, ‘the uplifting Comedy King’, as he puts the world to rights in his own uniquely hilarious way.

  • Grand Opera House York, Cumberland Street, York YO1 9SW
  • 22 Jul 2023
  • 3pm & 7:30pm
  • Website

Dawn French

A statement from Dawn French: “There have been far too many times I have made stupid mistakes or misunderstood something vital or jumped the gun in a spectacular display of twattery. I thought I might tell some of these buttock-clenching embarrassing stories to give the audience a peek behind the scenes of my work life… Roll up!? Book early to see the telly vicar lady be a total twat on-stage, live-in front of your very eyes. And ears.” 

  • York Barbican, Paragon St, York, YO10 4AH
  • 16 & 17 Sep 2023
  • 8pm
  • Website

Miriam Margoyles

From being escorted off the Today programme (for saying what we were all thinking) to declaring her love to Vanessa Redgrave; from Tales of the Unexpected to Graham Norton’s sofa, she is our most loved and most outspoken national treasure – and Oh Miriam! takes you both inside her head and her heart.

Reliably outrageous and always entertaining, join Miriam, in conversation, for a riotous evening as full of life and surprises as the actress herself.

  • York Barbican, Paragon St, York, YO10 4AH
  • 16 Oct 2023
  • 7:30pm
  • Website

Sarah Millican

When Sarah Millican was a bairn, she wouldn’t say boo to a goose. Quiet at school, not many friends, no boobs til she was 16. Now? NOW she is loud, with good friends, a cracking rack and goose booing all over the shop. In Late Bloomer, Sarah’s brand-new stand-up show, she explores how one became the other. Plus, lots of stuff about dinners and lady gardens. Come along, laugh at her, with her, beside her. 

  • York Barbican, Paragon St, York, YO10 4AH
  • 15 & 16 Nov 2023
  • 8pm
  • Website