One of the UK’s finest-ever comics is back on the stand-up circuit in the biggest way in 2023, as Frankie Boyle spoils us with three North East stops on his journey around the country for the ‘Lap Of …
Comedy: Doug Stanhope at Tyne Theatre, Newcastle
Recalling the sardonic humour of classic performers like Bill Hicks, Doug Stanhope is not for the faint-hearted. In an era where comedians find themselves under increased scrutiny for what they say, S…
Comedy: Axel Blake at Tyne Theatre, Newcastle
Axel Blake will be at Newcastle’s Tyne Theatre with his new show ‘In Style’ on Thursday 15th September, a fresh new set from the winner of the 2022 iteration of long-running TV staple, Britain’s Got T…
Comedy: Dylan Moran at Tyne Theatre, Newcastle
One wonders whether Dylan Moran ever considered that he’d still be performing comedy aged 50. The Irishman first started performing professionally in South Wicklow Street, Dublin, in 1992 in a small c…
Comedy: Flo & Joan at Gala, Durham and Tyne Theatre, Newcastle
Anyone who has spent any amount of time on social media is almost certain to have run into Flo & Joan’s dry, sometimes vulgar comedy songs taking over the internet. Whether you agree or not on the…
Comedy Review: Jack Dee at Tyne Theatre, Newcastle – 28/04/2022
After waiting two years for the Off The Telly tour to be actualised, the Newcastle crowd poured into the venue with an energy that will inevitably not be matched by the veteran grump. Notoriously piss…
Comedy Review: John Shuttleworth at Tyne Theatre, Newcastle – 14/04/2022
Playing to what would be called in football terms a ‘home’ crowd, there’s pretty much belly laughs from the moment Shuttleworth steps onto the Tyne Theatre stage tonight. Yet whilst such an unadultera…
Comedy: Jack Dee at Tyne Theatre Newcastle and Middlesbrough Town Hall
For over three decades, the miserable curmudgeon has been regarded as one of the country’s true tour de force comics. Appearing on all the essential panel shows, from QI to Shooting Stars, as we…
Culture Spotlight: Tyne to Stand-Up at Tyne Theatre, Newcastle
Local comedy fans are in for an evening of side-splitting humour as a comedy gala is set to take place in aid of charity next month. The all-female comedy gala will take place in aid of Rape Crisis Ty…
Comedy Review: Omid Djalili + Boothby Graffoe at Tyne Theatre, Newcastle – 09/02/2022
Support act Boothby Graffoe illuminated the room tonight. With a short set comprising of directionless ramblings, incoherent tangents and baffling trains of thought, the routine was as sprawling and l…